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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1915
Page
3
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A mixed page features an advertisement for a claimed clairvoyant medium Artemis Lindo offering readings, plus Mobile Probate Court notices from June 1915 with final settlement dates, nonresident notices, foreclosure and bankruptcy items, and court actions naming Kate Hogan, John Miller, Ignatius Durette, and others across Mobile County Alabama.
The Saturday market shows unchanged weekly closing quotations for poultry and farm products with steady demand. Peaches and melons move well. bananas, cabbage, lemons, onions, beans, peas, tomatoes, evaporated fruits, and poultry and eggs have steady to varied prices. New Orleans and Liverpool cotton futures and other market data follow, with mixed gains and losses across commodities and stocks.
The piece contrasts Cyrus McCormick’s frugal upbringing with John Wanamaker who started with nothing. It details thrift as a driver of later success, Wanamaker’s self-reliance in early business, and his rise from a one hundred dollar saving to building a clothing enterprise and employing three thousand.
Turpentine and rosin firms report receipts shipments and stocks with price quotes. Chicago grain and provisions markets show cash and futures with wheat corn oats pork lard ribs and related price figures.
Mort L. Bixler secretary of the Gulf Coast Fair Association returned from a business trip with good news. He arranged a cooperative working agreement with A H. George secretary Meridian Fair Association. Bixler toured Mississippi towns along the Mobile and Ohio Railroad and built strong interest in the Mobile fair plan.
New Orleans July 10. Germany's reply to the American note triggered a violent drop in the cotton market. Opening was quiet with prices about 6 points down before widespread selling in the morning session.
Berlin reports from London say the Morgen Post lauds Germany’s note to the U S as calm and upright, denying abatement of rights while blaming Britain for submarine warfare. It notes U S public sentiment shifted since Lusitania and that President Wilson must address new American feelings. Cotton market prices fell further amid liquidation and political unease.
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