Women Seek Dual Votes in Preference Overhusband Says
Some women desire two votes one for themselves and one for their husbands.
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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1915
Page
4
Some women desire two votes one for themselves and one for their husbands.
The Peerless arrives with a strong passenger list and freight of cotton cattle mules hogs and household goods. The Charles May also docks with 30300 staves 37 bales cotton and 165000 feet of lumber and will sail to Demopolis and points on the river. The Alamo from New York to Tampa ports, arrives and departs soon after. The Tree in quarantine at Fort Morgan awaits orders. Laura Haldt sails for Port Arthur Texas to load for Port of Spain Trinidad. Pampa enters harbor and will take on cargo. Carrier Strong begins loading lumber for Cienfuegos.
Mobile market notes cotton classifications and receipts for today and week, with prices for low ordinary to good middling and sales totals. New Orleans and New York futures show declines and recoveries, with spot values around middling 11.94 and varying open-close movements across sessions. London and Liverpool activity cited, including imports, exports, and seed oil quotes, plus Chicago grain and livestock highlights from Dec 13.
Savannah reports turpentine firm sales 58 with receipts 381 casks and resin firm receipts 1,467 barrels. Prices quoted across grades B through N plus WG WW range from 5.50 to 7.25 per unit.
A mass meeting led by the National Woman's Temperance Union urged Congress to submit a national prohibition amendment to the states for ratification. Prominent temperance advocates nationwide attended the gathering in Washington on December 13.
London December 13 the British government will purchase American dollar securities paying with five year 5 percent exchequer bonds. Chancellor Reginald McKenna announced in the house of commons the purchase at mid day American prices without brokerage or commission.
Funeral services for Chas F Gelbke were held at 2 30 pm from the family home on Eslava Street and at 3 pm at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception with Rev E J Hackett officiating. Delegates from the Mechanics Relief and German Relief Associations attended. Burial in Catholic Cemetery with pallbearers named. Sidney Douglas funeral held Monday morning from 111 South Conception Street and at Magnolia Cemetery with Rev H W DuBose and Rev Matthew Brewster officiating. Pallbearers listed. News from Mobile reports the death at Daphne, with details incomplete.
Sunday night E. L. Wilson a planter near Daphne died after a long illness. He was 60 years old and survived by his widow two sons Orrie and Elijah Wilson four daughters Dora Gabel H A Taylor Minnie Burton and Florence Scott of Daphne five sisters four brothers and several grandchildren. The funeral will be held at Daphne Tuesday.
Law and Equity Court listings show Judge Saffold Berney and Chancellor Thomas H. Smith presiding. Cases include bankruptcy like National City Bank of Mobile versus The New Battle House Company, jury trial grants, demurrers sustained, and calls for several Tuesday dockets with parties such as Bank of Bay Minette, Gulf City Boiler Works, and Maude Touart among others.
The lumber business with Windward Islands shows revival as Mobile Pensacola Gulfport and New Orleans report rising activity. Cuban trade remains brisk. Mobile firms say demand outpaces constrained ocean freight. McGowin Lumber and Export Company ships lumber from Pensacola to Cuba by barges towed by large tugs.
Shipping list shows numerous vessels in port and lines of orders at docks from Fort Morgan to Bay City. Entries include Italian Natale L and Veroni Nd. American Oscar G Joseph P Cooper. British Clara C Scott and Earl of Aberdeen. Uruguayan Maria and German Procyon with various masters and destinations. Several ships noted as loading repairing or laid up with directs to Bay CityEx or De La Miyar & Luce Lumber.
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