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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1915
Page
8
Davis Ave and Hospital St location lists items and prices for meats, flour, lard, eggs, and bread. Includes contact numbers 81 3813 BELL PHONES 3273 and specifies various weights and per unit costs in a compact storefront sale notice.
A Paris correspondent recounts a stark choice about a leg injury as Maurice plans to have his leg cut off to join the army of the mutilated. He refused doctors’ five month demands, choosing to endure pain rather than abandon the stage and his art.
The Mobile cotton market reports low middling at 6.75 and good middling at 8.88 with a steady tone. Sales reach 400 bales, receipts for the day and week listed, and stock figures noted along with weekly exports and year to date totals.
New Orleans market shows spot cotton quiet with no change in price. Futures for March through December trade with varied bid and ask levels, ranging from around 8.00 to 9.30 with daily adjustments and differing open high low close figures.
New York stock list shows Amalgamated Co 7 8, American Sugar 102, American Tel 118 3 8, American Tobacco 200 bid, Atlantic Coast Line 102 3 4, Chesapeake and Ohio 41, Chicago Mil and St Paul 55, Erie 21 3 4, General Electric 141 1 4, Illinois Central 105 1 2, Kansas City Southern 21 1 2, Louisville and Nashville 114 3 4, Liggett and Myers 205 bid, Lorillard 174 bid, Mexican Petroleum 64, Missouri Kansas and Texas 10 3 8, New York Central 82 1 2, Norfolk and Western 100 bid, Northern Pacific 101 1 2, Pennsylvania 196, Reading 141 3 4, Republic Iron and Steel 9 bid, Rock Island 1 1 4, Seaboard Air Line 12 1 4 bid, Seaboard Air Line pid 36 bid, Sloss Sheffield Steel and Iron 25, Southern Pacific 2 3 8, Southern Railway 15, Tennessee Copper 27 3 8, Texas Co 126 bid, Union Pacific 118, United States Steel 41 3 4, United States Steel pid 1 1 4, Virginia Caro Chem 19 bid, Western Union 62, Bethlehem Steel 65 3 8.
Germany and Austria charged that submarines were being built for Great Britain and shipped in parts to Canada, with complaints to the state department about assistance to Britain from American shipyards and firms.
New York publicada reports that marine insurance has inched up after Germanys war zone decree with rates to Rotterdam and French ports largely at 1 1 2 percent. River Plate premiums jumped from 1 1 2 to 2 percent after Kronprinzessin c wrecks. Six liners head to Europe, risking submarine waters, as 50 plus cargo carriers sail from port. Also a Creola Alabama obituary notes Miss Mary Bus News died Thursday and was buried Friday.
Forecaster Albert Ashenberg notes a falling pressure front from the upper I river area toward Black Warrior and Tombigbee with snow in the Rocky Mountain region. Warmer conditions rise east of the Mississippi as the low pressure moves east, bringing fair skies, slight warming at Mobile, and rain on Monday.
A fragmented timetable lists several routes and times including Birmingham to Cincinnati, Mobile to Chicago, and Selma to Birmingham. It notes daily operations with some Sunday exceptions and mentions connections via Nashville and New Orleans with varied departure hours.
Governor Charles Henderson urges legislature to address the state deficit and protect funding for old soldiers and state institutions. He proposes constitutional measures to allow the governor to retain a portion of revenues and adjust expenditures to match income, criticizing delayed relief despite prior messages. The message warns of rising floating debt costs and calls for swift action before adjournment to stabilize finances.
A Japanese admiral envoy arrived in Washington and planned a week long visit to New York featuring stops at West Point and the navy yard. Dissolution notices list changes in ownership of the Mobile Hog Company with partners Minton Everett and Boykin. Everett and Boykin have withdrawn. A levy in a Mobile County suit against Charles E. Gue for 144.14 is set for April, with Gue summoned to appear and defend.
Complaint filed January 9 1915 in an Alabama county case seeks $160 plus a mate and mechanic's lien on described real estate. Property described as the southwest corner of a 40 acre parcel in Section 7 Township West, with lines running northwest and parallel to the south line, and a lien claim against the premises.
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