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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1917
Page
7
Consolidated statement shows weekly and yearly receipts and exports. U S ports receipts nine days total 42 979 and 68 661. Exports to Great Britain 44 910 and to Confederation 6 119 and 1 100. Stock on hand 1 475 265 and 1 773 257.
In New Orleans on January 16 the cotton market starts with buying pressure amid cold wet belt weather. Early trading lifts prices 11 to 21 points with strong demand from large spot interests, but offerings remain scarce and midday gains widen to 2 to 40 points. By 1:30 the net advance is 20 to 31 points. spot stays quiet 25 points off with Middling at 17.75.
New York traders watched a nervy session as May and other months edged up from late night lows. Prices fluctuated with hacks of Liverpool orders, May rising to 17.87 and new crop up 25 points, while spot cotton stood at 17.50 with 400 bales sold. Cotton seed oil later closed firmer with totals around 10,000 barrels traded.
For over forty years Scott's Emulsion has offered a concentrated liquid food to aid a rundown child with thin blood and pale cheeks, providing essential nutrition to start recovery and sustain growth.
United States Steel and the shipping group head the market with gains of 1 to 2 points in early trading. Industrials such as Baldwin Locomotive General Electric Westinghouse rise amid firmer Mexican settlement and better coal and copper demand.
Hogs 000 head market mixed with prices 10.55 to 12.10 on bulk and good heavy pigs. Cattle receipts 6,000 head steady with native beef steers 7.50 to 11.60 and cows 5.50 to 8.50. Sheep receipts 1,600 head higher with lambs 12.75 to 14.35 and yearlings 11.00.
Chicago wheat and provisions prices listed by the Associated Press with bids for No 2 and No 3 red, No 2 hard, No 4 white, various oats figures, and pork lard ribs market values. The alert notes open and close figures and daily headlines for futures trading.
The British steamer GI arrived in quarantine and heads to Mobile to load cargo for Elder Dempster. The tug Three Friends tows the bark Eleanor to Progreso after repairs in Mobile. The schooner A J West departs with lumber for Cuban ports. The fruiter Burstadt expected with bananas.
Local notice reports the Mallory line steamer Alamo moving up the channel this morning. The vessel is bringing in a good freight and a number of passengers as Gulf Coast beacon gas buoy and related aids are slated for relacement later.
The city street department employees receive a $5 monthly raise on motion by Mayor Pillans, opposing vote by Commissioner Lyons. Bills totaling $20,605.74 were approved for payment. The time and measures inspector's report was read. Lyons criticized the coal load statement as unclear and questioned its accuracy.
An unknown automobile collided with a wagon belonging to the Johnson-Allen Undertaking Company last night at Jackson and Louis streets near 8 o clock. The wagon was damaged and the impact tore a headlight from the car, which is now at the police station awaiting its owner.
Parker Brothers auction sale invites lookers to hear Jack Spandau present a broad jewelry array with bargains. The sale aims to close February first with plans to sell all stock and fixtures, with further announcements to follow.
The report records resin firm shipments of 199 casks and 95 casks with stock totaling 22,416 casks. It lists sales quotes for grades B through WG with prices ranging from 6.27 to 7.25 dollars per unit in a structured price table. The details include 53c and 100 casks, and 6.35 to 7.25 price points for categories H I K M N WG WW.
Jan 16 report shows cotton spot low middling around 10.61 and 11,006 bales received. Futures hold steady with January-February at 10.68 and March-April at 10.64. Prices for other spreads range 10.56 to 16.59, signaling cautious speculation.
American ambassadors and ministers abroad ask the state department if they should resign at the start of President Wilson's second term. The department says it is proper for all diplomats to submit their resignations by March. The reply notes the policy applies to all and is not personal.
Discussions on new traffic rules unfold with officers accused of erratic stationing and jay walking cited. Proposals include traffic officer at St Michael and St Joseph during office hours, another at Dauphin and Joachim, curbside car restrictions, and parking bans on specified street sides to ease congestion and improve safety.
Associated Press reports Admiral Dewey's condition worsened through the morning with lungs affected and fever 102 degrees. By 1 40 p m doctors said he was slowly sinking and the end might come at any time.
W D Bellingrath president of Mobile Coca Cola Bottling Works was chosen president of the Mobile Chamber of Commerce at the first board meeting held at the Battle House Monday night. J J Coleman was named first vice president and J A Lamey second vice president with I D Dix considered but declining the post.
Fred W. Fraser aged 28 son of Ed Fraser of Meridian Mississippi died Sunday at Meridian after illness. He had served as a claim clerk for Hiram J. Griffing of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad in this city. He is survived by his widow Miss Belle Sweatman, a daughter Fredna Fraser, two brothers, two sisters and other relatives living in Meridian.
Robert C. Collins a longtime Mobile resident aged 83 died yesterday at his home on Mobile De weeks. He leaves a daughter Mrs William Elsworth and other relatives. Funeral services were held Wednesday morning at 30 o clock from the family home and at St Katharine’s Catholic church at 9. burial followed at Pine Crest cemetery.
Officials issue a physical description of Wilson detailing height five feet ten inches weight 140 pounds florid complexion blue eyes light brown hair a scar at the base of the nose and a right arm lost at the wrist with the left middle finger of the right hand missing at the second joint He is estimated to be 40 to 42 years old and capable of speech.
A wartime correspondent reports Russian offensives along the Romanian front. Germany leverages Asiatic Turkey as a granary and training ground, with 2,000,000 fighters under German instruction. The only stop is cutting the vital Balkan railways, aiming to block German expansion via Salonika as a stepping stone to a Near Eastern empire.
A Reuters dispatch from London notes General Falkenhayn, former German chief of staff, reportedly in transit through Greece. He is said to have boarded a submarine at Kavala and landed near Larissa, with earlier Berlin reports naming Baron von Falkenhausen as part of the German military mission.
Paris January 16. A German raid in the Somme region last night attacked under shellfire carrying asphyxiating gas but was repulsed by French forces. Elsewhere on the front there was little activity aside from artillery exchanges.
Fragmentary OCR notes report interrupted traffic in Souti with unclear cause. Temperature readings and brief weather notes appear alongside the disruption but lack specific details or dates.
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