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The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Jan 12, 1914

Page

9

Maritime Notes on Ships in the Port and Ready for Sail

The Maud BD. Krum sails for San Juan with 155,729 feet of pitch pine slumber. Mannie Swan arrives in the lower bay to load lumber and will move to the city. The Beryl arrives from Tampico for repairs and shifts to Ollinger Bruce dock. Karon arrives from Havana to load general merchandise for Cuban ports. Lampasas loads general merchandise with passengers and departs Tuesday. Mercator and Viator are due with bananas from Puerto Cortez and oa respectively. Stradstay sails for Liverpool with cotton timber and naval stores.

Maud Krum Bryant San Juan Porto Rico Mannie Swan Lower Bay Beryl Maristany Tampico Mexico Ollinger-Bruce Pearson Karon Pederson Munson Steamship Company Havana Sagua Cuba Cuban Lampasas New York N. Y Mercator Hubbard- Zemurray Steamship Company Puerto Cortez Hon Viator United Fruit Company Stradstay Liverpool England

Grand Jury Drawn for City Court February Term

The grand jury for the February term of the city court was drawn on Monday with names recorded by the clerk. The clerk will deliver the list to the sheriff in a few days, after which the panel will be made public.

Notice in Chancery Mobile Alabama 1913

In Chancery at Mobile Alabama David R Burgess sues Douglass Davis et al for real estate in Mobile. The court orders defendants to plead answer or demur by January 22 1914 or be confessed. Notice to publish weekly for four weeks in The Mobile Item.

Mobile Alabama David R. Burgess Douglass Davis Court of Chancery Thirteenth Southwestern Chancery State of Sis Senack Pensacola Florida Toulmin Cleveland Houston Texas Investors Realty Company Comlaint Toulmin Section Three Norton's Branch Norton’s Branch Mobile Item

Home Telephone Company Stockholders Meeting Notice

Notice announces the annual meeting of the Home Telephone Company stockholders at the office 57 S Conception Street Mobile Alabama on Tuesday January 15 1914 at 12 Oclock R L Douglass Secretary and W H Bryant Vice President signatories 12 22 29 15 12

The Home Telephone Company Conception Street Mobile Alabama W. H. Bryant R. L. Douglass

Railroad Schedules for Alabama Tennessee and North Eastern Railroads

Fragmentary timetable listing departure and arrival times for Mobile routes and connections with the Louisville and Nashville, Mobile and Bay Shore, and other lines. Includes daily and Sunday only services with scattered times and train designations.

Alabama, Tennessee & Northern Railroad Mobile Canibentint Mise Texas St. L.-Cin Mobile & Meridian Cin Mobile & Bay Shore Railroad

Burial of Mrs Christina Frederickson

Funeral services for Mrs Christina Frederickson were held Sunday at 2:30 from the family home at 408 South Dearborn and at 3:00 from St John s Episcopal Church with Very Rev Gardiner C Tucker officiating. Interment followed at Magnolia Cemetery with pallbearers Dave Karborn George Sindik Peter Hanlon Robert McDonald John Simon and Frank Zieman listed.

Christina Frederickson South Dearborn Street St. John's Episcopal Church Gardiner C. Tucker Magnolia Cemetery Dave ‘Karborn George Sindik Peter ©. Hanlon Robert McDonald John Simon Frank Zieman

Rites Held for Mrs Elizabeth Benham In Magnolia Cemetery

The remains of Mrs Elizabeth Benham who died Saturday in this city were interred Sunday afternoon in Magnolia Cemetery. The funeral service at the Benevolent Home at 4 30 was conducted by Rev E A Donnelly, pastor of Government Street Methodist Church, with a large attendance.

Elizabeth Benham Magnolia Cemetery Benevolent Home E. A.donnelly Government Street Methodist Church

Mrs. Mary A. Duke Dies in Mobile at 75

The remains of Mrs. Mary A. Duke who died after a lingering illness in Mobile were sent to Salem Alabama for interment. She was 75, native of Wilcox county and had lived in Mobile three years after leaving Nettlesboro Alabama. She leaves a daughter Miss Jennie Duke a son in Camden Alabama fifteen grandchildren eight great grandchildren and other relatives.

Mary A. Duke Salem Ala Wilcox County Mobile Nettlesboro Jennie Duke Camden, Ala

Fruitdale Woman Dies at 76 After Pneumonia Fight

Mrs. H. M. Crouse, 76, longtime Fruitdale resident, died Saturday afternoon from pneumonia. She came from Nevada Missouri with her family seventeen years ago and lived in Fruitdale thereafter. Survived by three sons D W Crouse Frank Crouse H M Crouse Jr a daughter Mrs T D Bird one sister Mrs Charles Henderson and several grandchildren.

Fruitdale Ala H. M. Crouse Frank Crouse T. D. Bird Charles Henderson Crouse

Cotton Receipts Reported for Several Railroads

Cotton receipts listed from New Orleans Mobile and Chicago Railroad Export comp 100 bales Mobile and Montgomery Railroad Train No 108 Baker Lyons 1 bale Mobile and Onjo Railroad Export comp 625 bales.

New Orleans Mobile and Chicago Mobile and Montgomery Baker-Lyons Mobile Onjo Bexport

New Orleans Cotton Market Opens Steady With Decline

The New Orleans cotton market opened steady at 3 to 6 points lower due to a weaker Liverpool market. Traders awaited ginning results through Thursday, with limited bullish buying and moderate short selling. Prices fell 12 to 15 points from Saturday’s final, with light volume and a cautiously steady undertone.

New Orleans Liverpool South Wook Ic Ccee Geen Sees Marth Hs Csidias Ts PTY Core Seas

New York Cotton Weakens on Bear Pressure and Cables

The New York cotton market opened steady but slipped 2 to 4 points, then the decline deepened to 11 to 13 points as offerings grew. Foreign connected houses and Southern sellers, notably with New Orleans links, pressured prices while Liverpool cited hedge selling and lack of speculative support. The session closed barely steady.

New York Liverpool New Orleans

Liverpool Cotton Prices and Sales Report

Liverpool reports steady cotton prices with middling at 7.05 and sales totaling 12 000 bales including 10 800 American and 2 000 for speculation and export. Receipts reach 15 200 with futures closed narrowly steady across the curve, led by January at 6.70 and continuing through December–January 6.22.

Liverpool

Sugar Market Prices Signal Firm Trading in New York

In New York on January 12, raw sugar futures show muscovado at 2.73 to 2.76, centrifugals at 3.26 to 2.26, and molasses sugar at 2.49 to 2.51. Refined varieties hold steady with several grades listed from 5.05 to 3.90 for No. 1.

New York

Woman Seeks George Cox Missing From St Augustine

Mrs W A Cox writes to Chief Crenshaw asking aid in locating her husband George Arthur Cox of St Augustine Fla who has been missing since a note from the wife says his friends will feel the loss of a good man and asks for help in locating him.

George Cox Frank W. Crenshaw W. A. Cox George Arthur Cox St. Augustine, Fla

Death of Mobile man Michael James Devney at 55

Michael James Devney aged 55 and a Mobile native died at an infirmary after several weeks illness. He resided at 319 South Royal Street and was employed as a night watchman. He leaves a number of relatives in this city.

Michael James Devney Michael James Deviney Mobile South Royal Street

Mischief Quartette and its Work January Victims

January marks a rising tally of illness including influenza la grippe bronchitis and pneumonia among victims. The text urges Foley's Honey and Tar Compound to promptly suppress coughing heal inflamed passages and prevent grippe complications. Contains no opiates. Van Ant Be Applelate a.

Wall Street Gains After New Haven Accord Signals Bull Market

Trading on the New York Stock Exchange opened with broad gains as investors cheered the attorney general's agreement with New Haven management. Texas Company surged, others like Steel Utah Copper and Great Northern Ore advanced, while bonds remained firm.

New York Stock Exchange New Haven Texas Company Steel Utah Copper Third Avenue Great Northern Amalgamated Copper American Beet Sugar American Cotton Oil American Smelting & Ref’ Ng American Sugar Refining American Tel Anaconda Mining Co Atchigan Atlantic Coast Line Baltimore & Ohio Brooklyn Rapid Transit Canadian Pacific Chesapeake & Ohio Chicago & North Western Chicago Mil Great Northern Ore Ctfs Illinois Central Interborough-Met Ptd Inter Harvester Louisville & Nashville Missouri Pacific Missouri Kansas Texas Lehigh Valley National Lead New York Central Norfolk and Western Northern Pacific Pennsylvania People’s Gas Pullman Palace Reading Rock Island Go Rock Island Co Southern Pacific Southern Railway Tinton Pasitic United States Steel United

Money Market Report and Market Attitude

New York money markets show call money steady at 2 1 2 percent with ruling rate 1 1 2 percent and close at 2 1 4 percent. Time loans steady from sixty to ninety days at 4 4 1 4 percent and six months at 4 1 4 4 1 2 percent. Sterling easier with sixty day bills at 4 838 765 dollars for bills and demand at 4 86 86, commercial bills at 4 823 4. Bar silver at 57 3 4 cents. Government and railroad bonds strong. The social aphorism remarks on betting prudence.

New York Mercantile Sterling Exchange

Cash Grain and Provisions Chicago Report

Cash market notes from Chicago show wheat prices for No 2 red and No 2 Northern bids in the upper 80s to low 90s, No 2 Spring 89 to 90, corn near 64 to 67, oats around 89, and oils and meats with pork at 21.20 and lard around 10.90 to 10.92. Zinc and timothy hay quoted at 3.75 to 5.35 and 12.00 to 14.75 respectively.

Chicago

Turpentine and related commodities report Savannah and New York

In Savannah turpentine firm 451-3 with 164 casks sold. Rosis firm shows 1,461 barrels receipts. Quotations list various grades from 3.92 1/2 to 6.85 dollars. In New York pell refined and molasses prices steady. leather and hides firm with hemlock and central America grades, open kettle molasses at 35 to 36 cents.

Savannah Turpine Rosis New York New Orleans Bogota Central America

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