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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1913
Page
11
The article notes scarce fish will be replenished by two large shipments from near the gulf. Butter prices hold while eggs remain cold storage. Flour barrels sell from 5.60 to 5.85 per barrel as grain quotations rise and demand from mills grows with planting season.
For sale a Holstein cow with young calf. Apply K Graf Sr at 5 miles Dauphin Way beyond Tacon station. 1:8-7tp.
Poem urges optimism over despair urging a cheerful, proactive attitude. It contrasts boosting tomorrow with dwelling on sorrow and criticizes pessimism. The speaker encourages participation, taking chances, and engaging with others rather than sulking. It emphasizes resilience and energetic action.
New York Cotton reports mixed session with early sell off and later partial rally as prices slip 13 to 18 points by midday before closing steady. Activity centers on heavy selling and cover by shorts with Liverpool influence waning and active trade interest in spring months. In a separate note, graft exposures linked to St. Louis parole workhouse prisoners spurred the Women's Tuesday Club to push for a parole board protecting women prisoners.
English consuls rise to 755-16 and French routes up to 80,22 1-2 as New York and New Orleans open steady. Spot market dull though buyers remain active, with a crop outlook around 12 8 million bales and heavy selling not crippling prices. Cotton trade features Hentz and others as leading buyers and sellers, while southern cane and molasses production is highlighted amid favorable soil near Mobile.
Governor Marshall voices warnings about court overreach and lobbyist influence while urging rapid committee action on bills. He argues for a balanced police power and stresses maintaining a clear line between private needs and public social service.
Southern Railway Co. Train 108 lists 7 bales carried by Baker Lyons Co. 2 bales Lott Black shear Co. 2 bales Davis Wilson & Gaillard Co. 2 bales Touart & Quinn 1 bale. Louisville & Nashville Railroad Train 106 shows 113 bales: F. M. Ladd 56 Baker Lyons Co. 21 Touart & Quinn 12 Bevill Phillips Co. 2 Farmers' Commission Co. 1 R. P. Pope 1 Export co pressed 20 bales.
Cotton futures opened steady then declined 22 to 23 points after the census Bureau report showed 12,919,257 bales for year end December. Prices fell as bears and stop losses triggered mass selling while straddler buying offered brief support. Spot cotton eased 2 1/16 cents. January through October futures moved lower as market anticipated ginning output. The Chicago Woman's Aid Club advances housing and school efforts and the Erie Railroad carries over twenty five million passengers yearly.
The note warns that after roasting coffee loses strength and freshness quickly. It urges buyers to ask where and when coffee was roasted and promotes Moore's Coffee as a system providing truly fresh roasted beans through grocers.
A large high pressure system moved northeast from New Mexico toward Pennsylvania, lowering Washington D C temperatures by about forty degrees while weakening. A second subzero high forms north of Montana as a low pressure area brings precipitation from the Pacific coast through the Rocky Mountains and Atlantic rain. Expect fair conditions in Mobile tonight and Friday as the high recedes and warmer air arrives. Albert Ashenberger Local Forecaster Weather Bureau.
The governor proposes a Panama Pacific Exposition commission with women, an inheritance tax, prohibition of stock watering, protection against blue sky schemes, immediate compulsory worker compensation, anti loan shark laws, equal treatment of trust companies and banks, anti panic safeguards, strict housing laws, and a state penal farm for male prisoners.
The forecast cautions 24 degrees for 36 hours on northbound shipments with 32 degrees east and 34 degrees west. River outlook: Tombigbee and Alabama rivers show little change over the next two days.
Friends of Congressman Henry D. Clayton press for him to become attorney general under President elect Wilson. A Mobile petition circulated among judges and Mobile bar members urging the president to appoint Clayton to the United States attorney general post.
Gulfport Mississippi January 9 special to The Item reports nursery firms along the coast face extraordinary sales and depleted stocks with some orders returned due to inability to fill them. The industry will be vastly extended this spring.
Mrs A S Lynn was arrested in Dublin for the killing of F M Hightower, aged father of the local police chief. Her husband is in custody and denied bond. Mrs Lynn repeats she shot to defend her honor at the Lynn home in December.
The port saw two steamers and two sailing vessels arrive while four fruit steamships were set to depart. The British Salybia loaded for Eider ster Steamship Co and docked at Turner Hartwell. Fort Gaines discharged 12 600 bananas at Mobile and Obie docks. Vessels Teresa Marjorie Brown arrived for cargo and New York bound, while Beivernon sailed last Thursday for Port Simon. Several other sailings and cargo moves were scheduled including Wragby for New Orleans and Alm for Point a Pitre Guatemala.
A. J. Parsons a respected resident and tea taster of this city began a hurried race with death after boarding a bound passenger train to New York where he will take a steamer for England to join his wife before her illness overtakes her. He received news that her condition is serious and expects only days to live. Parsons rushed to arrange his departure.
The Vacation Home League of Los Angeles based at V Cal reports over two hundred attendees last season and strong demand for next year.
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