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Newspaper

The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Jan 30, 1914

Page

11

Chancery Notice In Mobile Alabama Hart Ordered to Plead

In the Chancery case Lyons versus Webster No 10801 an order dated January 8 1914 requires cross-defendant Louis P Hart who is over 21 and believed to reside in New Orleans Louisiana to plead answer or demur to Mark Lyons cross-bill by February 11 1914 or have the allegations confessed. Notice will appear weekly for four weeks in The Mobile Item. Carl Holzborn Register.

Mobile Alabama H. Lyons Joeph B. Webster Louis Carl Holzborn Joseph H. Lyons Joseph B. Webster Court of Chancery Southwestern Chancery Division State of Herbert Lyons Louis P. Hart New Orleans Louisiana Mobile Item Thirteenth Mark Lyons Register N Chancery Ala Virginia Salter Delphine McGrew John Wiley, Sr John Bud) Wiley Piner Wiley Bay St. Louis Mississippi Piner Gulfport John, Jr Bud Poplarville Moss Point Erinn Wiley Eugene Wiley Bay St.Louis LeBaron Lyons Carl Porn

Chancery Order in Salter et al vs McGrew et al

In Mobile Chancery a January 20 1914 order directs adult defendants to plead by February 28 1914 or face confession. minor defendants must answer by February 23 1914 or a guardian ad litem will be appointed. The order requires publication in The Mobile Item weekly for four weeks.

Forty Nine Lives Lost With Liner Monroe Passenger List

A detailed list names victims and missing aboard the liner Monroe after a disaster. Included are Charlies M Jelieff, Hilda Haviland, George Lewis, B B Vernon, Keene Seville and others from New York Baltimore and New Jersey. Also noted are crew members F J Kuehn and R L Etheridge among rescued and lost.

Miss Seville

Maritime traffic and river news of Caribbean trade

The Colombian steamer Colombia arrives from Bocas de Toro with about 16 000 banana bunches while Crathens docks with rum limes and cigars. D J Sawyer reaches ballast from Manzanillo for West Indian lumber as Oscar G and Dom Allison near the bay. Annie sails for Cienfuegos with 510 000 feet pine lumber. Lalla Rookh waits for Sea King to Port St Joe. Exports include pine lumber and logs from Rotterdam and London markets.

Colombia Rasmussen United Fruit Company Bocas de Toro Pan Crathens Kross Seeberg Steamship Company Grand Cayman B. W D. J. Sawyer Sanderson Manzanillo Cuba West Indian Oscar G Newman Dom Allison Sherman Lower Bay Annie McGowin Lumber and Export Company

Sinking of Monroe Confirmed by Old Dominion Chief

H B Walker president of Old Dominion Steamship Co confirmed by telephone the Monroe disaster. Captain Leyland noted the ship’s safety gear and the 124 aboard 85 rescued by Nantucket while fearing higher death toll. Monroe carried 46 first cabin 8 second cabin passengers and crew of 70.

Monroe H. B. Walker Old Dominion Steamship Company Washington Walker Nantucket

Affidavit in Lyons Case Names Hart Resident Outside Alabama

The cross-bill of LeBaron Lyons states Louis P. Hart, a cross-defendant, is over twenty one, resides outside Alabama and likely in New Orleans Louisiana. A demurrer to Lyons bill must be filed before February 11 1914 or the bill will be confessed. The order calls for publication once weekly in Alabama.

Heavy bond demanded for Lacy in jail holdover case

Lacy remains silent on his whereabouts for ten months while in jail. He deflects questions from reporters, says lawyers advise silence, and jokes about bonds. Indictments charge embezzlement for Lacy and nine against Oakley, two quashed, civil suits totaling 100000 dollars. Bijou offers films including The Sword of Damocles and In the Moth.

Lacy Montgomery Dexter Avenue Washington Street Theodore Lacy James G. Oakley Convict Bureau Oakley

Market Update Mobile Cotton Prices and Trade Totals

The Mobile cotton market shows quotes for different grades led by middling and good middling figures. Trade totals for the period include daily and Sept 1 year-to-date receipts exports stock and port figures with United States and Continental shipments noted.

United States U. S

Cotton Receipts Across Railroads and Bales Totals

A record of cotton receipts showing New Orleans Mobile and Chicago Railroad Baker Lyons lists 108 bales with multiple consignors including Tovart Quinn and Frank M Ladd. Mobile and Montgomery Railroad records 51 bales with R P Pope Bashinsky and Co Transit. Mobile and Ohio Railroad totals 210 bales for R P Pope and exports.

New Orleans Mobile and Chicago Railroad Baker-Lyons Southern Railway Tovart and Quinn Frank M. Ladd Bevill-Phillips Mobile and Montgomery Railroad R. P. Pope

New Orleans Cotton Marks Steady Close After Decline

New Orleans January 30 cotton futures held steady with a small advance early amid unsettled weather and easy money signals from England. Prices rose to 6 7 points above yesterday’s close, then sagged to 4 6 points under and closed 12 to 14 points lower on the day with July and October trading sessions noted.

New Orleans New Orlean England Hester

New York Cotton Opens Steady As Market Fluctuates

Cotton futures opened steady with early gains erased by selling pressure from Liverpool and New Orleans. Prices eased nearly at midday, then firmed on late covering by shorts. Active months finished lower for the day while the spot market stayed quiet with middling upland at 12.75 and Gulf at 13.00. Sales reached 1,242 bales.

New York Liverpool New Orleans Gulf

Wall Street Opens Lower as Leaders Rally Amid Mixed Trading

Wall Street reviews opening losses on steady demand for leaders. Shares climb for Rumley avoided by market but overall activity shows renewed buying, boosted by bond absorption and short covering. Major names such as Canadian Pacific, United States Steel, Reading, and Missouri Pacific cited among active issues with quotes up.

New York Stecl Canadian Pacific Texas Reading Rumley Washington Missouri Pacific Shorts Amalgamated Copper American Beet American Cotton Oil American Smelting & Befng American Sugar Refining American Tel. & Tel Naconda Mining Co Atchison Atlantic Coast Line Baltimore & Ohio Brooklyn Rapid Transit Chesapeake & Ohio Chicago & North, Western Chicago, Mil Illinois Central Interborough Met Interborough-Met Prd Inter Harvester Louisville & Nashville Missouri, Pacific Missouri, Kansas & Texas Lehigh Valley National Lead New York Central Norfolk & Western Northern, Pacific Pennsylvania People’s Texas Oil

Cotton market report from Liverpool shows steady prices

London Stock Market Liverpool January 30 cotton spot activity moderate with prices easing. Bales totaled 8 000 including 7 400 American and 500 for speculation and export. Receipts 26 000 bales with 18 900 American. Futures closed barely steady with successive monthly quotes from January through November ranging from 6.20 to 6.70 1 2 per hundredweight.

Liverpool Cedberg

Direct Factory to Home Furniture Sale Ad

Banner advertises factory to home sales for furniture and clothing. It urges buyers to pay as they please and avoid middlemen profits.

Household Outfitting and Tailoring Co. Ad

New Orleans based Household Outfitting and Tailoring Co promises fair dealing and satisfaction with its catalog. Agents will call on customers to present offerings and secure the sale.

Turpentine and Rosin Prices and Receipts in Savannah

Turpentine firm quotes at 47 14 to 47 12 with no sales. receipts total 59 casks. Rosin firm reports no sales and receipts of 1.471 barrels. Price quotes for grades B through H at 4.05. K 4.45. M 6.25. N 6.15. WG 6.40. WW 6.75.

Naval Savannah

Dr Kings New Life Pills Preferred For Bone Troubles

An ad promotes Dr Kings New Life Pills as a gentler natural laxative option than salts or castor oil for bone troubles. It emphasizes ease of use and effectiveness without harshness.

Dr. King

Headquarters for Plumbing and Sewer Work

Plumbing and sewer services offered with emphasis on thorough skilled workmen and personal contract attention. Estimates provided. prices stated as right when material costs are considered.

Funeral Notice for William Herbert Stimpson

Stimpson died Thursday January 29 1914 at 2 25 pm in his 33rd year. Friends invited to funeral from the residence of his father in law Mr Henderson Government Street tomorrow Saturday morning January 31 1914 at 10 o'clock. Interment Pine Crest cemetery.

Stimpson William Herbert Stimpson Noiece Henderson Government Street Pine Crest

M and O R R Lands in Alabama and Mississippi

Public land sale notice for the M and O Railroad lands in Alabama and Mississippi. Details include 40 acre tracts and up, 49000 acres in Wayne County Mississippi and 8680 acres in Greene County Mississippi with smaller Mobile County parcels. Terms: one fourth cash with liberal balance terms. Maps and folders free. G Kilborn secretary 409 N Royal St Mobile Alabama Bell phone 957 J.

Wayne County Miss Jreene County Mobile County Ala G. Kilborn N. Royal St Mobile Alabama Bell

Grain and Provisions Prices From Chicago Report

Grain and provisions trading in Chicago shows futures levels for wheat corn oats and meats with May and July spreads and prices ranging across several tenths to dollars per unit. The snapshot records shifts in wheat corn oats pork lard and ribs with continual fluctuations through the day.

Cash Grain and Provisions Chicago January 30

Cash grain and provisions quotes for Chicago and St Louis dated January 30 show wheat No 2 red 96 1 2 to 96 1 8 cents and No 2 hard 89 to 92 cents with corn No 2 at 64 1 2 cents and No 2 white 68 to 69 1 2 cents. Oats No 2 at 40 cents and No 2 white 41 cents. May Timothy seed 3.76 to 5.25 dollars and Clover 11.75 to 14.35 dollars per unit. Pork lard ribs prices given 10.80 10.82 12 and 87 1 2 to 11 1 4 for ribs.

Chicago ST. Louis

Money Market Rates and Bond Activity in New York

Call money sits at 1 3 4 to 2 percent with ruling near 1 3 4 and close 1 3 4 to 2. Sixty day loans 2 3 4 percent, ninety days 3 to 3 1 4, six months 3 3 4. Mercantile paper 3 3 4 to 4 1 2 percent. Sterling easy sixty days 4 83 60, demand 4 85 76. Commercial bills 4 82 3 4. Bar silver 67 1 4. Mexican dollars 4Sc. Government bonds steady, rail road bonds strong.

New York Mercantile

Tennessee and Northern Railroad Passenger Timetable Fragment

A damaged schedule fragment lists multiple rail lines and departure arrival times. It references Mobile & Ohio Railroad Mobile Bay Shore Railroad Southern Pacific Pensacola routes and New Orleans Mobile & Chicago timetable sections with various leaves and arrivals throughout a day.

Fragmented excerpt yields elusive heat of coal era note

An unclear OCR fragment references coal and wood, with mixed phrases in English and nonstandard spellings. The text offers no coherent event, names, dates, places, or organizations to anchor a fuller news summary.

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