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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1913
Page
10
The report notes a wait on price movements with yesterday's low rally fading. Demand for freight spots shows improvement but freight contracts remain unclear among steamship circles. Cotton Belt experiences rain and clouds while markets drift with a tentative spring recovery amid ongoing Wall Street selling.
The column notes six sizes of grapefruit for sale and prices driven by box size. Shrimp dominates the fish market with the fish man cooking and displaying them. California fruit not frozen shown by pears in half boxes priced 1 50 to 1 75. Porters in wholesale grocer business still roll barrels of flour. High priced roes near pompano among available fish.
Charles Meyer a Norwegian seaman from Mobile fruiters appeared at the city jail begging to be jailed. He reported five days of sleepless terror from the horrors and claimed someone is trying to harm him. Seamen's Union members accompanied him and said hospital admission had been denied.
City curbings on unpaved streets must be repaired at once, street work praised by Street Superintendent Joseph Heller to Commissioner Harry Pillean. Modern Woodmen of America in Moose Hall initiated eighteen new members and planned a 30 day recruitment campaign. Detective Warren Burch left for Beaumont to fetch two deserter suspects tied to a Theodore Alabama store robbery. Albert Capell pleaded guilty to stealing a suitcase of wearables and received two months hard labor. Robert L. Dawson admitted theft of various property from John Braun and awaits sentencing. Second forgery case against Chester Arthur Curtis postponed with pending clemency and nolle prosequi. Withers and Buchanan Camp Survivors No. 675 to purge camp and county pension rolls Saturday. Morris M. Meyer bankruptcy case continued with nine objections sustained and others referred for report.
Law and Equity Court notes show demurrers sustained in J E French Co versus Peoples Shoe Co and Bernard Fisher versus Harney Amusement Company with plaintiff not suing. Circuit Court motion docket includes multiple civil actions listed for Thursday.
Legal notice announces attachment against Emile Haas in Mobile Alabama for $100 with levy on shop assets including refrigerations, show cases and counters. Also seals bids for dredging of city wharves and for a sanitary sewer project with bid deadline dates and plan access.
L D May and wife of St Louis visit several days. Agnes McLean Foos and Lydia Foster of Chicago are here. S S Foshee and Miss Morris of Brewton stay at Cawthon. Urquhart, ex Mobilian now Florala resident, on business. A Clifton Powell of New Orleans arrives and visits. Captain Callaghan leaves for New York on customs business. Marriage licenses issued for Davison Harwell and Stell Lambert. Al Bryan of Cleveland arrives with wife at Battle House. C B Lawrence of Cleveland travels with them. K K Winslow of Pasadena tourists. Rollins of Des Moines visiting. Edgar Haaff and wife of Chicago stay several days at St Andrew. W Tompkins to New Orleans for throat operation. Clark of Corydon registered at St Andrew. Detroit visitors include John McVicar, Myrtle Louis, W F Hurd and wife at Pienville. J S Cox of Louisville Nashville RR, Birmingham, stays at Battle House with wife. A G Smith and wife J J Stokely and two children from Birmingham visiting. Walds join Chicago tourists. Doyle and wife from New York visit Mobile. Burton Holmes Panama travelogue interrupted by coughing. Foley's Honey and Tar Compound recommended. For sale by Van Antwerp Drugs Corp Mobile.
Mrs. M. Davis aged eighty two native of Baldwin county died Sunday at her home in Fairhope the eastern shore colony after a long illness. She helped found the colony and lived in the first house there. Survived by son Dan Davis sister Mrs Margaret Short Texas grandsons Frank and Will Davis Fairhope. Funeral was held Monday and burial in Fairhope cemetery.
Mrs Malizee Ducournau aged 83 a New Orleans native and longtime Mobile resident died Wednesday at 9 50 AM at her home 704 Dauphin Street after a long illness. A lifelong Catholic she received final rites. She leaves three sons Julius Leon and Joseph two daughters Mrs Rufus Williamson and Miss Mahizee Ducournau ten grandchildren seven great grandchildren and other relatives. Funeral will be at her home Thursday at 4 PM and at St Joseph Catholic Church half an hour later.
Postoffice inspectors moved to Beaumont Mississippi to question two men held there as suspects in robbing Joseph Bolton's safe at Theodore and blasting the Wilmer Alabama post office. An expert analysis linked both jobs to professional men using nitro glycerine. Sheriff Palmer received a long distance message from Beaumont that the men will first answer for carrying a ore.
Forecaster Albert Ashenberger reports the Black Warrior and upper Tombigbee will change little while the lower Tombigbee drops over the next two days. Alabama River at Montgomery falls tonight and may rise later. Selma shows a fall then possible rise by Thursday or Friday.
The British steamer Ferndere arrived in Newport News from Christiania after storms. One man is missing, one lifeboat lost, and two crew injured as huge waves battered the vessel. Awnings and the boat deck were ripped, the steering gear failed, and a temporary fix was improvised aboard.
Manuel Balladares, a well known Mobile resident, married Miss Aline Schneider last Monday at St Josephs Catholic Church with Rev Father Murphy officiating in the presence of relatives and friends.
The Bow, a Norwegian steamship formerly with United Fruit, is expected in Mobile harbor with bananas from Port Limon on Wednesday. The Bond may begin regular service to Mobile. No morning arrivals. activity shows slight on the waterfront with several vessels shifting. The Teresa, St Paul, and Golden R are at sea bound for Valencia, Spain Hava and Pascagoula respectively. The Kiora joins Munson line cargo to Cuba from New Orleans. Elmmoor has a loading berth at Tier-Hartwell docks. Venture moved to N. ., M. and C. docks and Ed W. Pickles hauled out for repairs.
Forecast warns of 16 degree protection for three hour shipments to the north, with 38 degree and 32 degree readings toward the east and west. Authorities urge temperature controls to safeguard cargo during transit.
Robert Beasley was fined one dollar or ten days in the Inferior Criminal court by Judge Chamberlain on Wednesday for a gaming charge.
A low barometer area centered over Colorado extends from the Mississippi Valley to the Pacific, bringing rain in Mobile tonight or Thursday. Brisk southerly winds shift through the gulf states and midsouth as a high pressure system dominates the Atlantic states. Another high area with subzero temps lies over the northern Rocky Mountains.
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