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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1913
Page
7
A fragmented market note reports cotton crop progress with about 1,000 bales remaining to pick from 1,000 total bales and signals a price rise. A New York flash notes shifting market sentiment and urges welding and paste. It cites German manufacturers shifting to Liverpool as a cotton center with rising exports from 850,000 to 2,759,000 bales from 1910 to 1912.
A fragmented list shows railway and mercantile entities with numeric tallies such as 196 and 100, including Louisville and Nashville Railway and firms like 19 Farmers’ Ladd & Co and Rhodes Bros. The text references commissions and bales figures, suggesting a grain or goods tally likely from a shipping or customs ledger of the period.
In New Orleans on Jan 2 the cotton futures market opened quiet with a 4 to 5 point gain amid bullish orders for a new year. Prices slipped after early gains but by midmorning recovered and closed steady with net advances of 20 to 21 points as speculative squeeze fears and short covering influenced trading.
New York January 2 reports cotton futures steady with a one point gain or one point loss amid holiday suppression. Trading was sparse due to the open holiday with prices swinging within a narrow two to three point range. Wall Street buying showed some activity while New Orleans sellers remained moderate and anxious about the January 1 opening.
A fragmented OCR item lists various market prices and weights with unclear values. The readable bits mention a tub and price fractions but lack coherent context or complete details.
Prices drifted with orders split and a brief cover by January shorts pushing the delivery 8 points above Tuesday's late forenoon close. Spot positions grew nervous as the price rose, setting new season highs while overall business stayed quiet. Middling gulf at 13.65 with 18,900 barrels sold.
Vaudeville acts at the Lyric draw four capacity crowds with shows at 3, 7 45 and 9 15 p m daily. Beginning Monday January 6 musical comedy night features Overnight in Boston led by Edward Jolly and Winifred Wild plus a 12 song bill. Rainey African Hunt pictures return to Mobile Theatre with afternoon and night performances and a Richton bloodhound exhibit on the New Orleans Mobile and Chicago Railroad line.
The Bijou Theatre screens the powerful occult drama re inventing Karma the High Priest and Quinetta the Enchantress set fifteen hundred years after death in two parts. Vitagraph presents an extraordinary feature expected to draw large crowds. Pathe's Weekly features big international events. Admission is five cents for both features with clean moral pictures for families. An augmented orchestra enhances the program.
Dreamland's all feature bill continues to fill houses with New Year attendance well above average. The Alpine singers dancers and yodelers lead the bill and have earned repeated encores all week. Other acts rival the main attraction and the overall show is highly patronized. Three performances daily with good motion pictures and a harmonious Dreamland orchestra.
In the Chancery Court equity side Judge Berney handles matters including Walsh vs Lomax Anderson where amendments are allowed, Bethel removal of disabilities of non-age submitted, Lea M. Guernard estate final settlement report, and Emma Elizabeth Franklin vs Joseph H. Franklin where a decree grants right to remarry to both parties.
Semmes judge oversees Thursday session with murder defendant Dave Howard on trial. Friday's docket includes Joe Hart and Thurston Nicholas, gambling charges, John H. Jackson, Vicey Bradley, and Willie Overton for vagrancy and assault and battery. Joseph Nicholas faces firearm related charges in a public altercation.
Captain P. H. Stretton took Edward Grylander an English seaman into custody last September for assaulting the master of a British ship. Grylander was placed aboard the Drumcraim which will sail this week.
Naval stores note unclear text from page segment. readable elements suggest a place name and maritime term but details are fragmented and no complete event or action can be identified.
Dr R C Jones Thomas O Goodbrad and T M Kearne returned to the city Tuesday from a quail hunt in Wilcox county bagging the limit quail abundant in that county At Mobile Lodge No 9 officers for the year were installed by District Deputy Grand Master Albert D Bloch George W Turner past grand M H Lavelle noble grand Co EB Sibley vice grand Charles F Sheldon secretary D Dilling treasurer W A Ullmer inside guardian C G Hutchinson warden Ben C Rain conductor Albert D Bloch chosen representative in the grand lodge which will meet in Birmingham next May Contributions were made for the Odd Fellows Home at Cullman.
Fire discovered Wednesday afternoon around six in the Gale home caused severe roof damage before firefighters stopped the blaze. Water used inside the residence caused additional interior damage. Estimated loss set at $200. Alarm originated from Box 62 drawing a large crowd to the scene.
The Mobile Ecxise Commission granted Mose Heidelberger a wholesale license for 116 and 118 Government street after interviewing all applicants. Other actions included postponing Gustave Conzman’s Terre Haute Brewing agent license at 166 and 168 North Commerce, and several fire and crime incidents around the city. A fire at 253 North Claiborne caused slight damage from a pile blaze, and another at 806 Monroe damaged by chimney sparks. A revolver shooting near Canal and Jefferson streets drew police attention, with a bullet report from Mrs. Daniels. A break in at Hallett and Caroline avenue was reported Tuesday night. The board of revenue and road commissioners, with Dean Bondu rant of the University of Alabama medical department, inspected the state free dispensary. improvements and daily patient numbers were noted.
Chicago residents D. A. Tear and 8. A. W''son tour the South and stay several days at the Battle House. Birmingham’s P. R. Wood visits his brother Reid Wood, a Battle House day clerk. Decatur, Lil. C. R. England and family plan to winter near Mobile. Nashville’s B. H. Patterson visits ten days with relatives. Farnsdale’s Mr. and Mrs. G. Pegram stay at the Cawthon Hotel. State senator John P. Stokes arrives for a short business visit. Kansas City’s E. W. Pettus, a noted Mobile figure, welcomed here. Ben Windsey returns from Dallas after Christmas with relatives.
The Viceroy of India is making slow progress after wounds from a December 23 bomb attack during his official entry into the new imperial capital. An Indian fanatic threw the bomb eliciting the injury and contributing to delayed recovery.
Attorney George B. Cleveland for Capt. John A. Welch outlines in court filings that the mortgage on the Irma served as additional security for about 1000 dollars with a September note and that foreclosure attempts and bids were tied to boat profits. He asserts errors in prior reports and asks for correction to reflect the true motives behind the injunction and sale requests.
Funeral services for Thomas C. Neely Jr. were held Friday at 2:45 PM from his family home on Bt. Stephen's Road and at 8:00 PM from St. Xavier's Catholic Church in Toulminville with Rev. Father Shea officiating. A large attendance recorded and burial followed in the Catholic cemetery. Pallbearers named: Thomas Swenny, William Medicina, Emile Medicus, Matthew Laws, William Scott, Henry Sutton, Herbert Hartley, and William O. Haaa.
Funeral held Wednesday from the family home at 16 Mspejo Street for Pearl Denestel Brown daughter of Bron del D Brown. Rev RE A Donnelly of Government Street Methodist church conducted the service and the remains were laid to Magnolia cemetery.
Mrs Vertigo Letine aged 83 a native of Italy died Thursday morning at Providence Infirmary after an eleven month illness. She had lived in Mobile and previously resided in the Italian colony at Daphne for a number of years.
Albert Ashenberger of the Weather Bureau expects the Alabama River at Bigbee and upper Tom Bigbee to fall only slightly tonight with little change on Friday.
Leavenworth, Kas. Thirty union men convicted as dynamite conspirators began routine prison life. They slept in bare cells, except for Hockin noted as betrayer. After breakfast the new inmates were examined and assigned to different work lines.
In Los Angeles on January 3 a jury failed to reach a verdict in the Carl Riedelbach case known as the human bomb. The defendant feared conviction and warned of authorities, while his attorneys plan to prove insanity at the time of the threats.
The report describes shifting winds from the west to the east with cooler northerly flow. Snow is falling in the Mississippi Valley and upper regions while the coast faces changing barometer trends. Rain is expected at Mobile tonight, with fair weather and brisk west winds forecast Friday.
A brief note indicates shipments travel north for three hours amid 24 degree conditions with limited supply and moderate temperatures. No further details on origin, destination, or coordinating bodies are provided.
Sparse OCR note reports Yonkers car lines tied up Westchester County transit system. Details unclear due to garbled text.
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