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Newspaper

The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Feb 10, 1916

Page

5

Mobile Cotton Market and Prices Across Markets

The Mobile market reports low to good ordinary cotton prices with opens near 8.50 to 12.00 in various grades. Futures show steady gains in New Orleans New York and Liverpool with spot steady amid moderate demand. US receipts and exports figures for the period are listed, including five day and seasonal totals.

Satsuma Japan Saibara Nurseries Mobile Semmes Ala Fairhope Citrus Nursery Irvington Nursery A. H. Daves Irvington Underwood Bell Jersey Wakefields P. O Evergreen Plant Farm Evergreen Eee Ata G. Brit New Orleans New York Liverpool AY Aes Close Isles

Stella's Counter Stella's Counter

Old Time hands every woman a wrinkle now and then to let her know she isn't being forgotten.

Butter and Eggs Prices Reported in Chicago

Butter firm in creamery trading at 24 31. Eggs receipts total 2 109 cases with varied grades at 22 23 1 2 and 20 23. Potatoes lower with 16 carloads from Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota and Dakota priced at 95 1.02. Poultry alive lower fowls 15 1 2 and springs 17.

Chicago Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota Dakota Ohio Springs Epicutas Tacoma New York

Fern Waist Debuts at Reiss Mercantile in Mobile

Reiss Mercantile Co shows New Fern Waist from New York Friday in Mobile. Jacob Reiss reports exclusive sale and big value with Seal Pac envelope never touched by hands, waists kept fresh and ready to wear. An old bachelor quip closes the item.

Reiss Mercantile Company Motile Mobile New York Jacob Reiss

Wall Street Opens With United States Steel and Copper Advances

United States Steel and metal shares led an active early market with steel and copper issues recording gains. Anaconda Copper, Utah Copper, and Butte Superior rose on demand, while Mackay Companies reached its best price since 1912. mixed results appeared across other major stocks and commodities.

Wall Street Review New York United States Steel and Metal Anaconda Utah Butte Superior Coppers Mackay Lackawanna Steel Mexican Petroleum Industrial Alcohol Allis-Chalmers American American Can American Car & Foundry American Locomotive 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 Canadian Pacific Chesapeake & Ohio Chicago Mil International Merc. Mar., Ptd Kansas City Southern Louisville & Nashville Liggett & Myers Lorillard Co National Lead New York Central N. Y N. H. & Hartford Norfolk & Western Northern Pacific Pennsylvania Reading Rep Iron and Steel Seaboard Air Line Seaboard Air Line Pfd Sloss-Shel Steel and Iron Southern Pacific Southern Railway Studebaker Corporation Tennessee Copper Texas

Compromise Reaches Sugar Duties Case at New Orleans

The government’s claim against American Sugar Refining Company for unpaid duties on sugar in New Orleans is settled for 652000 plus cents. The agreement, stated by the Department of Justice, avoids fraud findings and the suit alleging fraud is dismissed.

Washington American Sugar Refining Company New Orleans Department of Justice

Gabriel Jewelry Co Distributing New 1916 1917 Catalog

Gabriel Jewelry Co distributes advance copies of the 1916 1917 jewelry catalog. The catalog is issued by the Jewellers' Co-operative Buying Syndicate and offers low first costs and prices through cooperative buying. The 200 page embossed illustrated book allows distant customers to purchase jewelry as easily as in person. The firm is preparing for the season with a large stock of new offerings.

Gabriel Jewelry Company Gulf Coast Jewelers’ Co-operative

Supreme Court rules franchise licenses cover full year

The Alabama Supreme Court held that franchise taxes and licenses must cover January 1 through December 31. The decision, in the Price Williams case, overturns a nine month license and enforces a twelve month license for the Mobile Light and Railroad Company.

Montgomery Ala Supreme Court William L. Martin Price Williams Mobile County State of Alabama Mobile Light and Railroad Company Mobile Mobile Law and Equity Court Williams

Wilson Cancels Extended Southern Trip Plans

President Wilson will not undertake an extended speaking tour to the South to promote preparedness. He told Southern lawmakers today that he may give a few speeches but will not embark on a trip like his recent Middle West journey. He aims to visit cities without long absences from Washington whenever possible.

Washington Wilson Middle West

North Western Repairs At Ollinger Bruce Docks

The American steamship North western of Port Arthur has gone to the Ollinger Bruce Dry Docks for repairs after anchoring in the stream for days. The British steamship Sylvanian left port for Liverpool with a large cargo of cotton resin and naval stores loaded at municipal docks.

American Steamship Northwestern Port Arthur Ollinger- Bruce Dry Docks Leyland Steamship Line Liverpool Eny Colon Port Limon Municipal Docks Mobile Liners, Inc Tampico Munson Steamship Line Ollinger-Bruce Dry Pier 8 Havana Cuba

Shipping and port movements around the Tombigbee and Florida

The Banan of United Fruit ships 15000 banana bundles to a port Friday morning and will unload at M. O. docks. The Oban Bay to be raised and repaired at Santa Rosa Island. Frances V. Sawyer sails to Fort de France with 302904 superficial feet of pitch pine lumber. The Regina and Marti Cuban tanks due Friday with blackstrap. Several schooners and vessels are at Gulf Dry Docks or en route, with obstructions noted off the coast and navigational updates for Southwest Pass and Point Sur.

Banan United Fruit Company Barrios Oban Bay George J. Santa Cruz Santa Rosa Island Fla Frances V. Sawyer Pier 2 Custom House Fort de France Regina Marti Cuban Distillery Company Vera Ollinger-Bruce Dry Docks Santa Marta Scotland Coamo Barbour Lon Mendip Range Dickinson Carisbrook Calvert Denewell Br. As Carter Ion Delahanty H. R. Silver Point Sur Cal

Satiric Exchange on Suffragists and Hypothetical Questions

A collage of hotel lobby chatter features a druggist and others joking about suffragists, lawyers, and a Pink Whiskers figure. A traveling salesman recalls an Interstate Commerce Commission hearing, while a father endures a child's absurd hypothetical about Cock Robin. The piece closes noting people who complain of starvation wages still eat too much.

Interstate Commerce Commission Sezzee Sahara San Francisco Tenderloin Manhattan Cock Robin

VESSELS IN PORT LIST OF SHIPS AT DOCKS AND PIER NAMES

A port listing details numerous vessels including Edward W. Murdock City of Tampico taecea scesces Trip names such as Oscar G. and William 8. Sumner Carrie B. Look City of BaltimoreMargaret B. Roure Colwell Margaret B. Roper George M. Grant Widwad Irma Bentley Clara B. Scott Co. W. Milla Corinthia Waltham Thalassa Alldegarde S. Vessels Gen. G.B. Holabird Mall Lane N. Docks River Packets and various steamships and barkentines with destinations and owners noted among Lut. Ladd Mercedes to master Carrie A. Lane 703 Marston Martinique etc.

Oscar G William 8 A and M. Carlisle Nassau Cuba de la Miyar & Luce Lumber Compa Rebecca R Douglass Cam Ladd Mercedes Carrie A. Lane Marston Martinique B. W Florence Creadick Lank Philadelphia Josephine Magee New York Ser San Juan Evans

Harrison Mutual Burial Association Notice Receives Dues Reminder

Official notice warns that Assessments Numbers 390 and 392 are due by January 31 to avoid suspension. The 1916 Mobile society year promises growth with new members and inquiries from citizens and visitors spending winter in Mobile. Secretary available at Office 161 28 Conception Street.

Mobile Conception St. Harrison Mutual Burial Association

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