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Newspaper

The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Dec 07, 1915

Page

3

FOR RENT AT 200 S Scott Street and Chancery Notice

Notice lists a rental ad for a single part of a house at 200 S Scott Street and summarizes a Chancery case in Mobile Alabama No 11476 with defendants including Alabama Tennessee & Northern Railway and a long order detailing pleadings from Knickerbocker Trust and related firms with a publication directive. It also covers a collateral sale of forty five shares in The Item Publishing Company and shipping and cotton market items from New Orleans New York and Liverpool with futures and spot prices.

Mobile Ala D. H. Tolman Alabama, Tennessee & Northern Railway Court of Chancery Thirteenth Southwestern Chancery State of Alabama Knickerbocker Trust Company New York Trust Company Guaranty Trust Company of New York City of New York State of New York Girard Trust Company Baldwin Locomotive Works Philadelphia State of Pennsylvania F. J. Lisman & Company Frederick J. Lisman David N. Minzesheimer William Goodman William G. Edinburg Carl Holzborn Register Court House Item Publishing Company W. P. Cothran Peoples Bank OF Mobile Clarke & Brown, Attorneys New Orleans Liverpool Sms Se Clsinle Sac.c Deeh Canadian Pacific Allis-Chalmers American Can American Locomotive American Car and Foundry American Cotton Oil American Smelting American Sugar American Tel Tel American Tobacco Anaconda Copper Atchison Atlantic Coast Line Baldwin Locomotive Baltimore & Ohio Bethlehem Steel Brooklyn Rapid Transit Chesapeake & Ohio Chi Mil. & St. Paul R. I. & Pacific Consolidated Gas Crucible Steel Erie General Electric General Motors Great Northern Pfd Interborough Consol. Corp Kansas City Southern Liggett & Myers Ofd Lorillard Co Mexican Petroleum National Lead Southern Railway Southern Railway Ptd Tennessee Copper Texas Co Union Pacific United States Rubber United States Steel Virginia Caro, Chem Western Union Westinghouse Electric United Fruit Virginia Iron, Coke and Coal Gts Ntn Ore Wabash Pfd Missouri Pacific

Orphanage Thanks Railroad for Free Freight Carload

A carload of provisions for the Baptist Orphanage at Maplesville was shipped by the Mobile & Ohio railroad at no cost. Maplesville residents praised the carrier, with a letter from R. H. Brasher thanking the railroad officers and noting the inmates’ gratitude. Santa Claus matinees at Columbia Theatre are announced with gifts for children. Markets report mixed gains with many major stocks listed, and Savannah reports turpentine and rosin pricing and receipts.

Maplesville Mobile & Ohio Railroad R. H. Brasher Mobile & Ohio Brasher

Auto Parade on Satsuma Day Spectacular

Announcement of judges and prizes for Satsuma Day parade to be made by General Chairman W H Reynalds. Governor Henderson expected to attend. tickets available at Reynolds Music House and Cawthon hotel assembly room for citrus growers. The Item will publish a Satsuma Day edition focusing on Gulf Coast citrus and offer free copies nationwide.

Satsuma Day W. H. Reynalds Reynalds Reynolds Henderson E. M. Bailey Grand Ball Committee Reynolds Music House Cawthon Hotel Gulf Coast Alabama Mississippi United States

Campaign Begins for a Bigger Gulf Coast Fair

A corps of Mobile business leaders launched a three day drive starting Tuesday at 10 am to sell stock for a larger Gulf Coast Fair next year. Support for a bigger fair has grown since this year’s success and citizens with funds are urged to invest. Committees reported gratifying results as the campaign opened.

Corps of Mobile

Former L and N Vice President Vandenburg Visits Mobile

IN AND OUT OF TOWN Y. Vandenburg, a former vice president of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, who has been retired for some time, is in Mobile on a visit.

T. K. Jackson Caribbean & Southern Line New York

No clear article headline available

Fragmentary ad line mentions a distribution for boys and girls but provides no identifiable people, organizations, places, or dates to anchor a full news summary.

Waterways funds seek 46 million for rivers and harbors

Army engineers ask Congress to appropri ate $45,839,510 for maintenance and improvement of rivers and harbors for the year starting July 1 1916. The Mississippi leads requests with about $10,000,000 followed by the Ohio. Details list numerous Florida Alabama and Mississippi projects and related channel and harbor work.

Washington Army Engineers Congress Senate Mississippi Ohio Alabama Mobile Bar Coosa Montgomery Wetumpka Tombigbee River Demopolis Walker's Bridge Miss Mobile Bay Mississippi Sound Bilox Gulfport Pascagoula Big Sunflower River East Pearl River Pascagoula River Pearl River Rockport Wolf Jordan Rivers Yazoo River Florida St. Johns River Cumberland Sound Apalachicola Bay Hillsboro Bay Pensacola St. Lucia Inlet St. Petersburg Sarasota Bay Tampa Bay Channel Clearwater Harbor Apalachicola River St. Andrews Bay Anclote Blackwater Caloosahatchee’s Hillsboro Holmes River Indian River Kissimmee River Manatee River Oklawaha River Orange River Jacksonville Palatka Lake Ha

Nellie Grant Loss Reported After Ship Wreck

W F Roberts, a crew member, reports the fishing schooner Nellie Grant was driven ashore on the bar at Bocas Grande near Sanibel last Monday night. After clinging to the rigging all night, the crew was rescued by a surf boat. The vessel, built in 1873 by Whitcomb Haynes at Ellsworth, measured 95 feet long with 26 feet beam and 132 tons.

Nellie Grant W. F. Roberts Mobile Bocas Grande Sanibel Whitcomb-Haynes & Co Ellsworth Mass

VESSELS IN PORT LIST WITH DESTINATIONS AND DOCKS

A mixed ship list shows vessels the Verona Bertha G Oscar G Joseph P Cooper Clara C Scott Earl of Aberdeen Laura Haldt 500 Wm Summers Hildegard Cornelia Maria Procyon Schwanden and others at United Fruit Co Tropics and various docks. Entries include loading at Pier 3 Fruit Wharf and repairs at Ollinger Bruce Gulf Dry Docks and Municipal Docks. Ship positions include Harbor Barks and Clyde vessels with destinations Fairhope Magnolia Beach Daphne and more.

Vessel Verona Nor Ssescescescees Bertha Gnor Sescevarens Laguna Robebaceesedcues Ronen Seeg-Eecdade Oscar G waiiTht Cdcverese Joseph P. Cooper Clara C. Scott Earl of Aberdeen Aks ! & Bruce United Fruit Co Fruit Gllinger & Bruce Docks Arbor Harbor Ollinger & Bruce Gulf Dry Docks

VESSELS MOVING TO ORDERS AND PORTS LISTED

A compiled vessel list shows ships from Nor, Russ, Br and Am regions bound for orders or ports including Liverpool, Waterford, Progreso, Nassau, Genoa, Havana, Puerto Barrios, Coiba, and Co. Many entries name masters and companies such as Bay City Export Company, Vinegar Bend Lumber, United Fruit Co, and Munson Line.

Collingwood Nor Liverpool Eng Carradale Langstrom Sharpness Pampa Jansen Waterford Bay City Export Company Barcentines Ethel Clarre Oneghila TAT O Rose —Arks Duncrag Knudsen Marlborough Hill Tornquist Stirender Garnet Hill Lindquist Trio Pedersen Glasgow Scot Inger Olsen Carrie B. Look Gilchrist Domingo City James T. Maxwell, Jr Crabtree Paramaribo Margaret Genoa Italy Orlando V. Wooten Urquhart Neway Phillips M. Brooks Saunders Lizzie FE. Dennison Bodden Cardena Cuba Vinegar Bend Lumber Company M. A. Achorn Southard Cardenas Natale L Ital Huelva Spain van Hevingen Nordic Port Pirie Aus Mobile Ohio Corinto Tropics United Fruit Co Berwind Lamb Porto Rico Kylemohr Mobile Liners, Inc Vera Munson Dorothy T. G. McGonigal Alamo Mallory Line Bertha Puerto Barrios Oot At United Fruit Company Ar Aes McGowin Lumber & Export Company Douglas

Vessel En Route From Tan to Mobile With Telegraph News

The maritime report notes a schooner left on November 3 for Truxville en route to Mobile. The inn received the dispatch from McLellan & Brigham Co. of Boston, Mass. who request telegraphic updates on the schooner’s progress.

Local Notice to Mariners mobile bay light restored planned

Alabama Mobile Bay Mobile Channel Light No 10a knocked down December 4. It will be re established as soon as practicable with repairs and service returned.

Alabama Mobile Bay Mobile Channel

Citizens Endorse State Bond Issue At Mass Meeting

At a mass meeting in Mobile citizens voiced strong support for a state bond issue. Speakers argued funds would educate children, build roads, and honor the state, urging residents to back the governor’s plan and work for a large turnout.

A. S. Lyong Mobile John Craft James H. Webb James K. Glennon McDermott

Rentals list with multiple residences and features

A classified rental notice lists numerous residences for rent including one and two story frames and bricks. Properties feature 6 to 9 rooms with hall and bath, various streets such as Government Street Convent Saint Anthony and Saint Mary, and rental price 5300.00 noted for one. Sage-Burgett & Youll at 72 St Francis Street appear as the listing agents.

Bell Dauphin St Chamberlain Avenue Panama Auction Co St Francis Street Marx Grocery and Produce Co A. M. Bright Gro. Co Colin Hirshfield M Avenue Hall Bath Spring Convent Government Bt S. Ann St Ari Miami Augusta Deena N. W Old Shel Ann Street New St. I Street Ngton N. Brown New Hall W. Broad S. Kentucky Hall Vadvette St. Anthon Charleston Conti St St. Eman New St. Street

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Barryt Agnes Redlup Bell Phone Fuller Bros Dauphin Street Britton Shoe Store OH. Sales Co Francis Ave Hartford Conn Dunning Dauphin and Semmes_Avenue Lenin Semmes Satsumas Satsuma E. A. Smith Theodore, Ala Pine Street Willie Stone Church Street Dr. Hirshfield Lyons Park R. A Lambert W. J. Koral Sonesee J. R. Williams Southern Realty Company Mobile Plantation Co Theodore Government Shaw Electric Co Cathe Drate Imperial Underwood Graf Bae Phone Non Tea Co Home DIME City Electric Co Creola Frank Terrell Barrett Lumber Co Standard Equipment Co Victrola and Records Keane Summerdale Keane’s S. Scott Street S. Franklin Street Magnolia Avenue Oakdale St. Emanuel Street N. O Baker, Lyons & Co Bashinsky & Co Peerless Planters Cotton Company Clarke, Davis & Co Lott Produce Company F. M. Ladd & Co City of Mobile Grain and Provisions Chicago Sanuefy Wall Street Review New York Central Santa Claus Columbia Theatre Adv Naval Stores Savannah U. S Santa Claus Matinee Marine News Lampasas Tampa Selma Orr-Laubenheimer Steamship Co Belize U. S. Coast Guard Tallapoosa Caribbean & Southern Steamship Line Crathens Munson Line Guba John Quill The Item's Marine Department Hildegard Cornelia Eeeeee Barkentines Harbor Harbor Barks Harbor &Harbor N. O., M. and C. Ships Clyde Vyace S. Gen B. Holabird L. Heocksey Steamers Apoio Ceees Municipal Docks Daphne Municipal Docks Tace Fairhope Magnolia Beach Eee Mobile Coal Company St. Francis St N. Commerce St N. W. St. Joseph and Bloodgood Bienville Brewery N. E. St. Emanuel and Elmira Morrill & Lyons St. Francis Street Sage-Burgett & Youll Francis Street Zabanya Hill Ave Spring Hill Crichton Hyland Ave
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