Market News Reflects Mixed Cotton Pressure and Holiday Effects
Bearish sentiment dominates as New York and Liverpool quote prices ease while futures show small declines. Ginners report upcoming, with an assumed 400000 bales to yield 12825000 for the season, against 13769000 last year. Local cotton exchange notes tight trading and delayed offers amid quiet floors and rising inquiry from New England mills.
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Liverpool
New Orleans
New York
Frenchy
Wilson
Mitchell
New England Cotton Mills
Markets Feel Weather Shifts With Fruit and Produce Notes
Weather trends ease and hamper crops with Florida orange futures uncertain while California fruit suffers. Florida eggs and a crackly is valued at 2.75, cabbage and coconuts fluctuate, and potatoes and tomatoes show steady demand amid tight supplies. Congress moves to break a coffee corner as 700000 sacks are seized in New York.
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Florida
Congress
New York
London
Concord
Malaga
Sicily
Satsuma
Louisiana
Weber
New Advertising Plan Attracts Attention With Bald Head Display
A new advertising proposal from Mr Parkis outlines placing painted headlines on bald heads in front-row theater seats. The plan aims to create a striking, readable message across eleven consecutive seats in major venues like the Lyric theater, using vivid colors for visibility and lasting impact.
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Lyric
Parkis
Unclear Series of Intervals and Figures Document
The fragment lists a sequence of two month pairs with numeric values ranging from 6.82 to 6.27, interleaved with 1-2 indicators. The text appears as an OCR fragment without full context or identifiable subjects.
Freight bale totals across rail lines for Mobile shipments
The report lists bale counts and consignors for several rail lines including New Orleans Mobile and Chicago Railroad Mallory line with 130 bales and 50 export compressed, Southern Railway Train 107 Baker with 110 bales, Louisville and Nashville with 301 bales, Mobile and Ohio with 108 bales, and Eastern Shore Steamer James A Carney Davis with 4 bales from Mobile County by wagon.
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New Orleans, Mobile and Chicago Railroad
Southern Railway Company
Baker, Lyons & Co
Davis, Wilson & Gaillard
F. M. Ladd
Touart &Quinn
Louisville and Nashville Rairoad
Bevill, Phillips & Co
Lott, Blacksher & Co
Balyr, Lyons & Co
Mobile Mattress Company
Mobile and Ohio Railroad
Farmers’ Commission Company
Eastern Shore
James A. Carney
Mobile County
New York Cotton Opens Steady Before Midday Slide
New York cotton futures opened steady with a 6 to 11 point rise on Liverpool cables and weak South offers. Gains faded to 6 to 8 points as Wall Street selling and thin demand renewed liquidation. By midday prices slipped to near yesterday's close and later steadied with a small net afternoon loss as demand remained slack.
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Liverpool
South
Wall Street
Liverpool Cotton Market Sees Steady Prices and Strong Sales
Liverpool January cotton market reports steady prices across grades with strong sales. American middling fair bids 7.63, good middling 7.29, middling 7.09, with total sales 14 000 bales and receipts of 11 000 bales including 8 900 American. Futures opened steady and closed quiet.
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Gulf
Liverpool
Money on Call Rates Decline in New York Market
On January 8 in New York money on call eased to 2 3 4 percent with a ruling rate at 2 3 4 percent. Closing bid 2 7 8 and offered at 3 percent. Time loans showed weakness with sixty days at 4 percent, ninety days at 4 1 4 percent, and six months at 4 1 2 percent.
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New York
New York Stock List Review of Key Shares
A historical listing shows diverse securities with latest figures across steel, oil, railroads, and utilities. Notable quotes include Amalgamated Copper at 77, American Sugar Refining 115.5, New York Central 108.5, and United States Steel 67.75 with various issue types and preferreds noted.
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Amalgamated Copper
American Beet Sugar
American Cotton Oil
American Smelt & Refin
American Sugar Refining
American Tel. & Tel
Anaconda Mining Co
Atchison
Atlantic Coart Line
Baltimore & Ohio
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Canadian - Pacific
Chesapeake & Ohio
Chicago & Northwestern
Chicago, Mil. & St. Paul
Colorado Fuel & Iron
Colorado & Southern
Delaware & Hudson
Denver & Rio Grande
International Harvester
Louisville & Nashville
Missouri Pacific
Missouri
Kansas & Texas
Lehigh Valley
National Lead
New York Central
Norfolk & Western
Northern Pacific
Pennsylvania
Peoples’ Gas
Pullman Palace
Reading
Rock Island Co
Southern Pacific
Southern Railway
Union Pacific
United States Steel
Wabash
Western Union
Texas Oil Co
Bay Pilotage Abolished by Mobile Bar Pilots
The Mobile Bar Pilots Association voted to abolish the 50 cent per foot bay pilotage charge for vessels using a tug in the channel. The decision followed a protest over an $11.75 fee for the Cubang voyage on December 31 and rests on repealed legal authority. Captain J H Norville said pilots chose to waive the fee to simplify practice.
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Mobile Bar Pilots’ Association
Cubang
S. A. le Blanc
Mobile Liners, Inc
Pilots’ Association
Trans Atlantic Steamship Lines Set New North Atlantic Tracks
Hydrographic office notes all trans Atlantic lines adopt 1913 operative routes. Westbound track crosses longitude 47 degrees at latitude 41 degrees. Eastbound track crosses longitude 47 degrees at latitude 40 degrees.
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Hydrographic Office
Radio Arlington Naval Station Closed For All Business
The United States naval radio station at Radio Arlington Virginia is closed until further notice including the time signal. North Atlantic Ocean obstructions to navigation noted near latitude 36 52 and longitude 75 04 with a large part of a vessel or obstruction reported.
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United States Naval Radio Station
Radio
Arlington
Virginia
North Atlantic Ocean
List of Vessels in Port Corrected at Noon January 8
Corrected port list at noon January 8 shows vessels docked or entering harbor. Names, flags, and destinations vary by berth, with routine entries reflecting shipping traffic and harbor activity for the day.
Weather Data Shows Wreckage Near Passage by Radio
The Mohawk reporting Dec 31 at lat 36 36 and long 74 45, observed wreckage appearing to be a lighter deck. Olinda Cuban ss O Neil also relayed radio observations from the scene.
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O'Neil
River stage outlook mild change for two days
The Tombigbee river and branches will not change much the next two days while the Alabama river remains steady. Albert Ashenberger, Local Forecaster Weather Bureau.
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Tombigbee River
Albert Ashenberger
Weather Bureau
Notice to Chart Agents Opens Sale for Various Nos
The following charts are now for sale H. O. Nos. 40 954 1285 2178 917 1076 1117 1285 1392 1765.
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Coast Guard Buoy Adjustments and Light Relights 1912
Navigation notices record buoy replacements and light relights around Mississippi and Louisiana harbors in late December 1912. Horn Island Pass buoy replaced. Southwest Pass East Jetty light relit with oil post lanterns. Sabine Pass Gas Buoy No. 2 relit after being extinguished.
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Local Couple Lyman Gould and Media Bell Granted License
Lyman N. Gould a prominent city book keeper and Miss Media E Bell formerly of Jeddo Alabama both deaf mutes were granted a marriage license in the probate court on Wednesday. The ceremony is set for eight o clock tonight and will be performed by Rev O C McGehee with assistance from Robert E Gordon a friend of the groom.
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Lyman N. Gould
Media E. Bell
Jeddo
Ala
O. C. McGehee
Robert E. Gordon
Shippers' Forecast Warns on Cold Wrap for Long Hauls
The forecast advises protecting shipments in extreme cold with 2 degrees for 36 hours north and 22 degrees east and 18 degrees west, outlining temperature controls for long north south east west routes.
Cold Front Brings Freezing Conditions Across South and Gulf
A high barometer cold snap extends from the West into the middle Gulf states with subzero readings in southern New Mexico and freezing coastal areas in Texas. A low barometer system east of the Mississippi moves toward the St. Lawrence valley, driving warm southerlies to Washington 64 and unsettled weather along the Atlantic coast. The Northwest moderates as a new low forms, while Mobile faces fair but much colder conditions tonight and Thursday.
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Palestine
Ft. Worth
Texas
Mississippi River
St. Lawrence Valley
Atlantic Coast
Washington, D. C
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Rocky Mountains
Mobile
Albert Ashenberger
Weather Bureau
Taft Seeks End to Fur Seal Protection on Pribilofs
President Taft urges congress to repeal the five year ban on killing fur seals in the Pribilof islands. A special message cites a herd surge in one season and argues only female and bull seals need protection, enabling thousands of bachelor seals to be hunted annually without harming the herd.
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Washington
Taft
Congress
Pribilof Islands
Heaters Protect Banana Cargo As Cold Wave Hits Harbor
The arrival of a cold wave prompted heat usage on banana wharves. United Fruit steamer Belvernon from Port Simon with 17,000 bunches and Orr Laubend Belize from Belize discharged at Mobile & Ohio Pier 1 and L. & N. fruit docks. Meanwhile fog delayed three vessels racing to sail, including Lampasas to New York, Portreath to Dunkirk and London, and Pendleton Satisfaction to Jamaica and Haiti. Captain David S. Roberts of Portreath visited the port after forty years away. Teresa delayed in lower bay, thought to be fogbound.
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Dunkirk
London
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Port Antonia
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Royal Theatre Thursday Program at Pathe Lubin Edison
The Royal Theatre presents a Thursday program featuring Pathe News and Edison releases The New Day Dawn and Courageous Blood by Lubin. A one day showing on Thursday January 9 with admission and prices listed in the advertisement.
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Edison
Lubin
Admissi & Cents
For Sale Holstein Cow With Calf Near Dauphin Way
Classified notice offering a Holstein cow with young calf for sale. Contact K. Graf, Sr, 5 miles Dauphin Way beyond Tacon Station. 1:8-7tp.
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Dauphin Way
Tacon Station
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