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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1914
Page
9
Farm demonstration agent George A. Maloney states no farmers meeting is called for Friday because Cyril G. Hopkins of Illinois cannot attend at this time. It is probable Hopkins can be brought to Mobile later and a meeting will be arranged then.
Gowns in Kinemacolor are featured today at the Empire, with Pathe weekly screening following. The reel promises stylish gowns and a current news reel in a busy cinema program.
Under court commission Judge Price Williams Jr. will auction public at 12 o clock March 23 1914 a block of Mobile real estate including several described parcels in Mobile City. The sale includes multiple lots on Water St St Anthony Davidson and Bayou streets with improvements and fences, plus a triangular lot bounded by State Franklin and Davis avenues. Purchasers pay cash.
No vessel arrived Thursday morning at the quarantine station. The American schooner General Whiting from Porto Rico was the only ship down the bay. The Oscar G sailed for Savannah Jamaica with pitch pine lumber. The Alice Lord shifted piers. Norwegian steamer Herald sailed for Puerto Cortez with general merchandise. Signe sailed to Cuban ports with flour and lumber. Four steamers from Hamburg Greenock and Cape Town are due in the coming days.
Gil Anderson drove car No 3 to lead the Vanderbilt Cup race after 120 miles in Santa Monica California on February 26 with a pace above 82 miles per hour. De Palma car No 12 was second Carlson No 10 third and Oldfield No 7 fourth.
Members of the New York American League baseball team left for a Houston training camp in Texas today. The players Hachem Quinn Ruddy and Maisel were in the group with trainer Charles Barrett and business manager Arthur Irwin accompanying the squad.
Deputy U S Marshal J H Gates arrested 16 year old Gilman Roberts of Bay Minette for sending obscene literature through the mails. He faces arraignment for a preliminary hearing before U S Commissioner Richard Jones at 3 pm Thursday. Roberts allegedly sent two pictures of the painting September Morn to a Bay Minette girl.
Kentucky shippers urged the Interstate Commerce Commission to revise freight rates on potatoes and onions from central Kentucky points to nationwide destinations. The Louisville and Nashville and most Central Freight Association railroads were named respondents in the case.
PAINESVILLE Ohio February 26 The family of George W McCarthy a railroad engineer is awaiting data from Secretary of State Bryan and Congressman Gordon to verify an old report that McCarthy was dragged from a Texas and Pacific train en route from Paso to Mexico City and killed He had left this area two years ago and was heard from in Texas
New Orleans Mobile and Chicago Railroad Export 24¢ bales and Southern Railway Export 143 bales. Mobile and Montgomery Railroad Train 142 details 1 bale. Mobile and Ohio Railroad Train 9$4 Planters' Cotton Company 15 Export 609 total 624 bales. Steamer James A Carney Lott Blacksher reported 1 bale.
New Orleans cotton opened steady with prices up 1 to 8 points on better cables. Midday quotes showed 9 to 10 points gains, late covering by shorts and buying for longs ahead of March spot. Spot cotton remained steady with middling at 180. Futures closed 5 to 7 points higher.
The New York cotton market opened steady as March futures drifted 1 to 2 points up or down with quiet trade and liquidation easing losses. Midday prices showed months like March hovering around 12.19, July near 11.88, and December around 11.64 amid scattered selling and early gains.
Liverpool February 26 Cotton spot in fair demand with prices unchanged led by middling at 7.69 and good middling 7.41 as 8,000 bales were traded including 7,200 American and 600 for speculation and export. No receipts. Futures closed very steady.
The indictment against R. A. Doug lass alias Richard Denton charging obtaining money under false pretenses was found improperly drawn and quashed with Denton to be re indicted by the next grand jury. A demurrer by W. Tompkins was sustained. Felix Gaiter was found guilty of robbing Dr. L. Ju. Duggar’s office and remanded for sentence later.
Jerry Kane, manager of Fort Smith, announced a meeting in Joplin Missouri Sunday to reorganize the Western Association Baseball league. Current outline lists Fort Smith, Joplin, Springfield, Muskogee, Tulsa, and Oklahoma City with Springfield possibly dropped and McAlester or Okmulgee added.
Active selling resumed in New York trading with declines extending from the prior session. Reading and Amalgamated were heavily dumped while Missouri Kansas and Texas preferred hit a new low near 53 and Amalgamated Copper moved to 73 1-4 as a broad list of industrials showed mixed to weak results.
The Merchants Exchange of St. Louis filed a complaint with the Interstate Commerce Commission urging restoration of the transshipping privilege for grain exports from St. Louis and East to points East. They argue inbound bills of lading should show origin is west of St. Louis to grant the privilege without proving origin.
Gambier Ohio February 2. In zero weather Brigades of male students helped rescue many girls from Lewis Hall the dormitory of Harcourt Seminary after a fire partially destroyed the building. The students wore scanty attire during the rescue.
Mac Chatman was arrested by Chief Field Deputy Dennis Lynch on charges of assaulting and beating his wife Goode Chat. The incident occurred a day after the alleged attack.
An advertisement-style passage urges readers to take salts daily to ease kidney discomfort. It claims relief for dull kidney pain, backache, sick headaches, rheumatic twinges, and bladder irritation by using a lemon grape mix with lithia. It promises morning urine cleansing and a fresher, easier start to the day.
Seeberg Steamship Lip Incorporated announces mobile sailing plans for 1914 with routes from Mobile to Jamaica Haiti and other ports in the Leeward and Ward Islands. The line reserves right to substitute steamers and alter calls as needed. City Bank Building Mobile listed in the notice.
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