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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1916
Page
5
The fragment mentions a footman and a stray phrase about a motor horn, suggesting a quirky or darkly humorous scene. It reads like a fragmentary note with unclear context and no clear event or named entities to anchor a fuller summary.
The United States Good Roads Association met in Birmingham at the Tutwiler Hotel with John H Bankhead elected president and a slate of regional vice presidents and directors. The gathering endorsed the Bankhead good roads bill and adopted resolutions while Mobile considers an ordinance banning wooden shingle roofs within its city limits.
The Mobile market shows low ordinary to good middling values with steady tone and 250 bales sold. Receipts and exports totals for today and year to date are reported, alongside detailed U S and foreign cotton trade figures and New York Liverpool and Liverpool futures movements.
Mobile's City Commission passed a measure prohibiting shingle and wooden roofs in a specified area bordered by Congress street Broad Spring Hill avenue Ann Selma George Charleston Canal and the river. The rule exempts existing contracts. The December police report shows $588.52 in fines with 202 white and 236 Negro arrests. A proposed cook shop license form was delayed. taxi cab license set at 7560 and jitneys at 60.
New York reports a firm close with spot at 8.86 bid and futures ranging from 8.89 90 for January to 9.01 02 for July. Total sales reach 17,800 contracts.
Chicago market results show hog receipts around 30 000 head with activity up 10 cents. Hogs range 6 60 to 7 05 across weights while cattle receipts near 5 000 and sheep 20 000 with steady prices for native beef steers cows and heifers and lambs at 6 00 to 10 65 for lambs.
Turpentine steady at 56c with 226 casks received and 65 casks shipped, stock near 19,996 casks. Rosin firm amid gales with 424 barrels received and 242 barrels shipped, stock at 74,407 barrels. Price quotes listed for grades B through WG and WW up to 7.50.
The report lists open and close prices for wheat corn oats pork lard and ribs with January and May/July futures. Wall Street opens in New York with declines across commodities on moderate trading, noting fractional losses and a softer start.
Commissioner Laz Schwarz announced that the city commission found Chief C. B. McCosker not negligent in the Dexter street fire. Charges alleged he failed to exercise best judgment. a full investigative report will be presented at the January 18 commission meeting.
El Paso Texas January 11. The American Smelting and Refining Company says a telegram from Chihuahua city states a train of employees traveling to Cusihuimiachic was halted by Villa bandits and all Americans aboard were killed. Also death at City Hospital for William Allen 73 a West Virginia native resident of Mobile.
The Weather Bureau ordered southeast storm warnings along the Louisiana and Texas coasts. A disturbance centered over northwest Texas will move eastward bringing fresh to strong winds this afternoon and tonight.
The City of Mobile docked with passengers and cargo and will depart Tuesday evening for the Alabama river. The Maderas from Huelva unloads 1,983 tons of pyrites for Van Heyningen. Orkild from Havana loads for export then Pensacola. Bertha of Munson Line docks to load then departs Friday. Sabine of Mallory Line unloads about 10,000 packages and leaves for New York. Tarpon sails for Pensacola with resin. Annetta returns to Barrios due to fog. Shipping activity increases with repairs and reef sightings noted alongside coast obstructions and many ships at piers. The Munson liner 2 arrived from New Orleans and heads to Havana. Various navigational logs and vessel movements follow, including distress reports and a ship reef observation near Lobos Island.
A fragmentary ship directory shows vessels in port with origins and southern destinations. Entries mention Liverpool and Newry in Ireland, Mobile, Glasgow, Bay City, and destinations including Spain Cuba Puerto Rico and Jamaica, with masters and cargo notes obscured in OCR.
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