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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1913
Page
11
George Brincat was acquitted in the inferior criminal court on the count of hunting on another’s lands due to insufficient evidence. The vagrancy case against Beat Rice Moore was nolle prosequi on motion by the state.
FOR SALE Modern cottage four rooms reception hall bath electric front yard good barn chicken house in desirable city section near two streetcar lines price 2500 and 1900 terms 500 cash balance 30 per month no interest ad dress W W D care Item Also FOR SALE furniture bed room suite wash stand dresser gas stove in good condition very low price Cozy Corner Conti and St Emanuel Sts Nearby bay front acres five acre lots bungalow pecan and orange groves small payments through K 18 care Item E M F automobile five passenger as good as new owner leaving city Central Auto Co Bell 2518
Dr Mary E Pennington head of food research for the department of agriculture told the House agriculture committee that frozen and dried eggs would solve the high price problem. She said frozen eggs could keep a year and dried and frozen eggs should replace cold storage eggs eventually. Nutritive value remains intact.
In U S district court Emmet Grace pleaded guilty to sending obscene material through the mails and a suspended sentence was set for a later term. John Blanks also pleaded guilty to raising a $1 bill to a $10 note and was remanded for trial.
David Carroll of Scott and Dauphin streets was arrested Wednesday afternoon by Detectives Burch and Pearson on grand larceny charges. He is accused of stealing a bicycle belonging to F. J. Gaston.
At a December 10 meeting at the Leo council hall corner Jackson and Dauphin streets, Young Men's Institute officers for the coming year were elected including Chaplain Rev J W Dunne President Arthur J Grove and first vice president C B Edwards Recording secretary Geo B McKnight and others with committees and physicians listed.
Witnesses on December 11 explored Dudley E. Van Wirt’s claim he was held up for 4500 in campaign contributions to the Democratic state committee linked to state contracts. The grand jury heard that contractors may be reimbursed for contributions via extra profit from contracts, suggesting a broader conspiracy among officials. The probe widened to graft avenues, with many witnesses expected to be called.
Rail timetable snippets show trains between Mobile and nearby lines with arrivals and departures listed in early evening and morning slots. References include Mobile & Ohio, Miss. & Texas, Bhm Cin Ltd, Mobile Bay Shore, and Louisville Nashville routes with daily and Sunday only services and varied departure times.
An old health ad claims meat irritates kidneys causing various ailments and urges a meat-free approach. It promotes drinking four scoops of water with a grape lemon acid salt mixture to flush and stimulate kidneys, preventing bladder and urinary issues.
London officials announce no strike by postal workers this Christmas after speculation that as many as 100000 government post office employees could walk out during the holidays.
Daniel and Evaniston Madero, uncles of the late President Madero, depart Havana for New York on the steamer Miami. The rest of the text shifts to unrelated witticisms about jealousy and politics, with a closing blurb about a raincoat on a wet day.
New Orleans reports a quiet steady session with modestUncertainty ahead of tomorrow's government crop estimate. Trading remained dull with bears rumored to act after the report, futures easing slightly from yesterday's close while spot demand stayed quiet.
New York cotton futures opened steady to down slightly with no major shifts in early activity. Spot prices remained quiet as Middling Upland and Middling Gulf quoted around 13.40 and 13.65 cents per pound, while traders await tomorrow’s government forecast on total bale output.
Cotton spot in good demand but prices ease with mid dling at 7.80 and good middling at 17.46. Sales total 10,000 bales including 7,800 American. receipts 26,000 with 24,600 American. Futures closed quiet with multiple month spread quotes.
Gaston Doumergue, newly chosen premier, outlined the cabinet policy in the French Chamber of Deputies. Applause from Radical, Radical Socialist and Socialist benches followed the expansion of the ministerial program, though opposition sarcasm interrupted the session.
President Seth Low of the National Civic Federation condemned government railroad ownership in remarks opening the federation's fourteenth annual meeting. Low led the federation's wage committee that recently settled the dispute between Eastern railroads and conductors and trainmen.
Wall Street opens steadier aside from New Haven slide after its dividend news. Trading broadens with Union Pacific Reading Amalgamated bid up then prices fall amid heavy liquidation. New Haven drops to 673-8 and Pennsylvan ia to 2 points lower.
Money on call firm at 2.5 and 3.5 percent. Ruling rate 6.5 percent, close 2.5 8-4 percent. Time loans firm with sixty days 6 1/2, ninety days 5 1/4, six months 6 percent. Mercantile paper 6 1/2 to 6 percent. Sterling exchange steady at 60 days 4.81, demand 4.85 15. Commercial bills 4.80 1/4, bar silver 67 7/8, Mexican dollars 44 3/4. Government bonds firm, railroad bonds irregular.
Mrs. Cynthia Buffum was arrested in Little Valley New York on a bench warrant charging her with murder in the first degree for poisoning her husband Willis Buffum. One child died under mysterious circumstances another is dying and three others are poisoned. Buffum is the only family member not poisoned.
A movement began in Milwaukee on December 11 to attract Ella Flagg Young the former Chicago school superintendent. The drive aims to lure her to Milwaukee to oversee local school affairs.
In Chicago December markets cash quotes show No 2 red at 97 1 2 cents, No 2 hard at 97 1 2, No 2 Northern at 91 92, No 2 Spring at 90 1 2 91, No 2 white at 72 1 2, No 2 yellow at 72 1 2. Oats standard at 41 1 2 to 42 1 4. Timothy seed hay 4.00 to 5.25, clover hay 10.50 to 10.75. Pork 21.15, lard 10.72 1 2, files 10.60 to 11.25.
St Louis market prices for cash wheat and corn on December 11 show No 2 red at 96.5 to 97 cents, No 2 hard red at 94.5 cents, oats at 41.5 cents, No 2 white at 42 cents.
New Orleans Mobile and Chicago show 31 bales total from multiple consignments. Railroad Weil Brothers report 14 bales, Southern Railway Train No Bevill Phillips 10 Towart and Quing Frank M Ladd 4, Baker Ly Moobge Commission Ce lard. Mobile Montgomery Train No 39 Towart and Farmers' Commission Co comp 39 Weilbuen 6 port 2 774 total ae Mobile and Ohio comp 730 bales.
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