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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1915
Page
9
The agriculture department estimates next year’s winter wheat at about 540 million bushels from 37,256,000 acres, down from last year’s 42,012,000 but above the 1909–13 five-year average. Rye sown on 3,058,000 acres shows a 3.0 percent fall. rye condition on December 1 stands at 91.5 percent of normal.
Leonidas L. Bracken formerly of Muncie Indiana is named secretary of the Federal Trade Commission. The position was vacant since the commission’s creation and carries a salary of five thousand dollars per year.
In the Chancery Court before Chancellor Smith the case Effie Marold versus John H Marold declares a decree pro confesso. The Saturday call includes Mary E Cothran executrix versus Item Publishing Co et al.
Patrick Kemple a native of Ireland aged 86 and long time Mobile resident died Friday after a long illness at the Home for the Aged. He had lived in Mobile for twenty years and was widely known in the community.
Funeral services for Mrs Marie Louise Zundell were held Friday morning from her sister Mrs Sigmund Schettler s home then at the German Lutheran church with Rev Henning officiating. Interment followed at Magnolia cemetery with many flowers on the grave. Pallbearers were Meslers Louis Schettler F Bitzer Sr Carl Jenne Otto Nack Charles Schimpf and John Jenne.
Miss Kate Adams of Chicago plans to enter a New York Bedford reformatory late this year. She will wear prison garb and spend a year scrubbing floors washing dishes to gain the prisoner's viewpoint. She will be a prisoner in Glenn Mills Darling Pa Sherwood New York and other women's institutions.
Mobile and New Orleans markets show mixed cotton prices with low to good ordinary ranks and steady to lower tones. Receipts and exports rise this year while New York and Liverpool reports reflect overall softness amid international liquidation and policy worries.
Cotton seed oil prices closed strong with spot at 8.32 and futures mixed from 8.25 to 8.52 as total volume reached 8,800 barrels. Liverpool weekly statistics show 73,000 bales moved to mills with 57,000 American bales. imports and exports figures listed. In New York, early gains faded as steel names lifted then declined on heavy selling. various industrials and bonds posted mixed moves.
W N Lipscomb Prince William examiner reports ambassador Joseph E Willard omitted intangible property valued at 1713500 from his tax returns. Willard to depart Madrid for Bordeaux and return to the United States aboard the Rocambeau. An Ottawa order blocks Canadian hay exports except to Britain and allies. Santa Claus matinee at Columbia Saturday with toy distribution to children.
Various ships and cargoes shift or load at the harbor. The British schooner Zeta unloads lumber before repairs at Gulf City Dry Docks, while the American schooner Carrie Strong and British Corinthia prepare to load lumber for foreign export. The Haskell launch brings resin barges for Taylor Lowenstein & Co. Target practice ends at Fort Morgan, with the General S. B. Holabird back in service for mail runs. Other vessels include the steamer Sunflower leaving for Louisville, and the Hildegard bound for Cardenas Cuba, plus the Clara C. Scott sailing for Gulfport. A Munson liner and other ships are due, with cargoes of slaves and blackstrap reported, though several details remain uncertain.
The Ovi News Agency reported via wireless that Russian warships months ago destroyed a building flying the American flag under United States government symbols. The Turkish government published statements alleging violations of international law and detailing actions around Ta Dorthnop, Seddul Bahr, and Karasi Arratic.
List of ships in port with owners and nationalities including Verona Mills Viator Brooklet Sunflower Oscar G Carrie E Evadne Corinda Fred Ayres Cornelia Bruce Hawkins Olin Bruce docks and wharves details on repairs quarantine and loading operations at various docks and harbors with destinations and orders noted for each vessel.
Ships listed include Ethel Clair Onegila Duncrag Blood Stirender Garnet Hill and Mary G Dantzler among many others bound for Cuba Mexico Italy and the Bahamas. The roster notes masters ports and carriers with engagements to Liverpool Newry Porto Rico and Mobile.
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