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The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Dec 14, 1912

Page

8

City Short Notes Highlight Local People and Meetings

H B Rouse the legless peddler is back in Mobile and social with friends while planning a furniture making venture. A joint rivers and harbor committee meeting is set for Monday at 11 a.m in the Pantors and Merchants Insurance office. The port investigating committee postponement due to chairman illness pushes likely to next Tuesday night. Legal docket in Law and Equity Court includes a dismissed case Leonard Seed Co v Mercantile Co of Citronelle and a trial in Sarah Sutton v Mobile Jackson and Kansas City Railroad. A crew notice on the British Steamship Asknow states the master owner or consignee not responsible for crew debts.

H. B. Rouse Mobile Rouse Rivers and Harbor BY. Cherney Pantors and Merchants Insurance Company Law and Equity Court Safford Berney Leonard Seed Company Mercantile Company of Citronelle Sarah Sutton Mobile Jackson and Kansas City — Railroad Company Asknow N. Carr

Notes of the Waterfront Sailings and Cargoes

The Borgium sails to Hamburg with 2 large cargo. The Oscar G carries 1 600 000 feet lumber 367 ash logs and 1 650 barrels resin to Bluefields. F C Lockhard heads for Cardenas with 276 613 feet lumber. George A Lawry to Neuva Gerona with 100 000 shingles and 68 184 feet lumber. Atlantic sails for West Indian ports with 699 000 pounds flour. Bertha sails to Cuban ports with 212 150 pounds flour and 280 000 pounds corn. Lillie to Bocas del Toro after fruit cargo discharged at L N docks. Mary S Blees and City of Mobile due. late arrival expected. Dorothea shifted to stream to complete cargo.

Borgium Hamburg Germany Oscar G Bluefields, Inc F. C. Lockhard Cardenas Cuba George A. Lawry Neuva Gerona Isle of Pines Atlantis Bertha Cuban Lillie United Fruit Company Bocas del Toro Mary S. Blees City of Mobile Dorothea N. O

New York Cotton Prices and Market Activity

New York cotton futures opened firm with a gain around 7.1 percent as traders covered short positions and brokers supported the market. Spot cotton closed steady with middling at 13.29 cents and middling Gulf around 13.75 cents. December through May quotations show varied actions amid heavy trading and intermittent selling.

New York Gulf Aubust Iy Tata Caeus Noi Sas Leek Sid

New York Stock List and Holiday Glove Ad

A stock list shows prices for Amalgamated Copper to Western Union and Texas Oil with bids noted. An advertisement for Feote gloves claims gift suitability for Xmas and promotes Level Best Shoe Store at 149 Dauphin Street with a 12 1 2 to 51 percent claim.

Amalgamated Copper Amercan Beet Sugar American Cotton On American Smelting and Refining American Sugar Refining American Tel and Tel Anaconda Mining Co Atheison Atlantic Coast Line Baltimore and Ohio Brooklyn Rapid Transit Canadian Pacific Chesapeake Interborough-Met Inter-Harvester Louisville Nashville Missouri Pacific Missouri Kansas Texas Lehigh Valley National New York Central Norfolk and Western Northern Pacific Pennsylvania People’s Gas Sioe Dauphin St

Sermon Emphasizes Life, Marriage, and Family Roles

Father Molyneaux at St Vinent Catholic Church urged Catholic girls to seek marriage, keep homes cheerful, and guard their tongues. He warned against mixed marriages and aimless courtship, urging women to win mates through kindness and propriety, citing St Paul and three states of life as holy.

St. Vin& Catholic Church Father Molyneux Father Molyneaux

Weather turns to sleet as freeze grips Hazlehurst

After 48 hours of rain in Hazlehurst Mississippi the temperature fell below freezing as sleet began overnight. Local rooftops and roads faced slick conditions while the rain shifted to ice late yesterday and into the night.

Hazlehurst Miss Dee

Skin care tips for a flawless complexion in social settings

An Aunt Sally column advises skin care steps to look flawless under bright ballroom lights. It promotes mercorized wax nightly for a clear, youthful look and a saxolite witch hazel solution to erase fine wrinkles, noting the approach avoids sticky aftereffects.

Sally

New Wood Imports Considered for U S Barrels

A new timber almacigo, light and strong for barrel staves, may be imported through Mobile. The Strathcona arrived from Nipe Bay Cuba with one round log for Bahama Timber Company, to be tested at Savannah by International Barrel Company. Other arrivals include the Askmoor from Genoa and Progress III from Portland, both to load lumber for Europe, while the Fjell carrying bananas was due.

United States Mobile Strathcona Nipe Bay Cuba Almacigo Bahama Timber Company Bahama Lumber Company International Barrel Company Savannah Pinto Dry Docks Askmoor Carr Genoa Progress III Portland Newport News Dolbear Export Company European Lumber Company Fjell Hubbard

Maurice Campbell Presents Theatre Monday Night

A note announces Maurice Campbell presents a theatre program on Monday night December 16 at a mobile venue.

Maurice Campbell

Crosman by Catherine Chisholm Cushing

The Most Delicious Comedy Ever Written plays at Crosman with prices from 50c to 1.50 and seats currently on sale.

Catherine Chisholm Cushing

Morning arrivals boost busy harbor activity

A busy morning at the harbor saw a large fleet depart the channel for sea. The Norwegian steamship Grib sailed to Guantanamo and other island ports carrying 160000 pounds of flour 280000 superficial feet of lumber and other goods. The fruiter Fort Morgan also departed for Bocas with a small cargo.

Grib Guantanamo Cuba Fort Morgan Bocas

River Levels Forecast to Drop Over Two Days

The Tombigbee river and branches will fall the next two days while the Alabama river continues to fall. Albert Ashenberger, Local Forecaster, Weather Bureau.

Tombigbee River Albert Ashenberger Weather Bureau

Earthquake Shakes Ocean View School and Nearby Barns

Two severe earthquake shocks rocked Ocean View school causing desks to overturn and books to scatter. Two barns nearby suffered damage though tremors were minor in the city of Oxnard.

Oxnard Cal Ocean View

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