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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1916
Page
9
In New Orleans and New York trading today cotton prices gained amid favorable census data on mill consumption and hurricane worries along the Atlantic coast. Prices rose 6 to 9 points from yesterday at midmorning, then moderated, with spot cotton steady at 13.00. Futures closed modestly higher.
WANTED M. P. Dowling 307 Center street Bell 3692. tf WANTED to contract for set up trees BR A Lambert 1054 Center street 7:18 tf WANTED Old out of order sewing machines 987 care Item 17 13 3f WANTED To do your brickwork and plastering Bell phone 2488 J J Williams 6 Peach St jy10 61
Cotton spot quiet in Liverpool with steady prices for good middling 8.17 and middling 8.01 and low middling 7.85. Trades total 6,000 bales including 4,000 American. receipts also 6,000 bales. Futures closed steady with July to February forward prices listed.
The cotton seed oil market closed steady with spot bids at 10.60 and near curves for July at 10.60 10.70 and August at 10.42 10.44. For September 10.08 10.80 and through December 8.52 8.54 with January 8.54 8.55 and February 8.58 8.63. Total sales reached 19,800.
Savannnah reports on July 14 show Turpentine firm at 46c with no sales and 531 casks received, Rosin firm at 1,643 barrels received with no sales. Quotations list B D E 6.15, F G H 6.26, I K 6.30, M N 6.35, WG 6.40, WW 6.50.
Liverpool July 14 weekly cotton statistics show 65 000 bales forwarded to mills with 55 000 American. Total stock stands at 665 000 with 552 000 American. Imports reach 94 000 including 89 000 American while exports total 2 300.
Chicago July 14 Wheat No 2 red nominal No 3 red 1.09 12 1.10 No 2 hard nominal No 3 hard 1.02 34 1.09 12 Corn No 2 yellow 80 14 80 34 No 4 yellow 79 34 No 4 white 75 12. Oats-
Business cards and notices advertise contractors Wm J Koral Royvei and Congress offering free estimates and urgent piano repair services by A W Orr at 967 Seneca Street with home phone 8062. Other contractor Bea repairs offers quick service Bell 702 home 1055 P O Box 1224. For details, the clippings urge prompt action.
Speculation centered on special stocks especially motors and equipment with gains from fractions to over a point. Industrial Alcohol was erratic then recovered. Coppers rose while United States Steel held firm as rails and Mexican shares showed strength. Trading light with short covering and final hour gains, closing strong.
A compact roll call of stocks with listed prices including Allis Chalmers American Beet Sugar American Can American Car and Foundry American Locomotive American Cotton Oil American Smelting American Sugar American Tel and Tel American Tobacco Anaconda Copper Atchison Atlantic Coast Line Baldwin Locomotive Baltimore and Ohio Canadian Pacific Chesapeake and Ohio Chi Mil and St Paul Chi R I and Pac Ry Consolidated Gas Crucible Steel Erie General Electric Great Northern pfd Great Northern etfs Illinois Central Inter Merc Mar pfd etfs Kansas City aera ene Lorillard Maxwell Motors Mexican Petroleum Missouri Pacific Nations Lead New York Central N H Hartford Norfolk and Western Northern Pacific Pennsylvania Reading Rep Iron and Steel Seaboard Air Line Seaboard Air Line pfd Sloss Shef Steel and Iron Southern Pacific Southern Railway Southern Railway ptd Studebaker Tennessee Copper Texas Co Union Pacific United Fruit United States Rubber U S Smelting and Refining United States Steel Virginia Car Chem Wabash Ptd B Western Union Westinghouse Electric
Classified help wanted items include men and women sought for illustrated war books 250 pages 100 illustrations with terms offered by Frenkel & Co. at 120 Liberty St New York 1913 61 year United States ages 18 36 able bodied single citizens calm temperate speak read English apply Recruiting Office 108 St Francis. Also help wanted cook live on place Spring Hill 3 a week apply 188 Georgia Avenue plus metal pattern maker and milker wanted with details and contact references in Knoxville Tenn N Reed and William J Oliver wis Co listed.
The Cratheus has been in port for a week loading general cargo for the Caribbean line and today proceeds to Kingston and Jamaican ports. It carries an unusually heavy cargo. The Munson liner Karen moved to the south side of Pier around noon to load for Havana and other Cuban ports and reached the harbor late Wednesday evening.
Launberga arrived Wednesday night from Havana in tow of Echo and was moved to the local dry docks this morning. It will be converted into a four masted schooner, owned by R. A. Pierce and associates. The Peerless departed upriver Thursday night with freight and passengers for Montgomery Selma and river landings. The Harry Lee’s first trip is set for 3 p.m. today with Mobile to Daphne Battles landings and mail service, owned by Captain A. C. Hiscock.
A list of vessels loading cargo and arriving in port this month includes Bluefields, Patoma, Karen, Aboukir, Manwood, Carmela, Frieda, Grace Harvard, Norstjerne, Joseph P. Cooper, Elizabeth T. Doyle, Launberga, Henry W. Cramp, Henry Crosby, Alma, and others. Vessels are from Norway, Cuba, Mexico, Russia, Britain, Novorossia, and more, with destinations including Havana, Gurt, Bilbao, Kingston, and the Caribbean. The schedules show Munson Line, Hunter-Benn Lumber Company, United Fruit Company, and various docks and piers.
July 11 reports list a waterlogged schooner bottom up near Palm Beach shore at coordinates 21.20 N 86.52 W and a derelict schooner with a 12 foot out of line mast at 29.18 N 66.55 W. A wooden vessel is listed waterlogged, 145 feet long with a two foot beam and a spar out of water.
Manila reports 8301.6 kilometers of roads in use, a five year rise of over 3800 percent. Governor Generals Harrison and Forbes oversee road building, with last year proving the busiest mile age in Philippine history and over 3,000 kilometers graded first class. Roadwork cost near 3 million dollars last year, boosting inter provincial trade and Philippine automobile sales.
General Jacinto Trevino, Northeast military commander, said he and all Carranza officials are united with firm determination to restore order in Mexico. He spoke after rumors in the American press claimed he had revolted and might ally with the Villistas.
Joseph Nichols, a white man, was fined twenty dollars by Recorder Edington on July 4 for being drunk disorderly and resisting an officer at Government and Water streets. He allegedly abused Officer Helton before resisting.
The regular chamber of commerce meeting scheduled for Monday evening has been postponed indefinitely due to active involvement of members in relief work.
Clements Evans jailed on grand larceny charged with stealing $7 from Aknee Smitth. Friday habeas corpus proceedings before Judge S. B. Browne found the evidence insufficient and Evans was released.
The river steamer John Quill on the Tombigbee and Warrior river trade is at government ways in Tuscaloosa undergoing repairs before heading to Mobile for hauling out. It is expected to arrive in the city within a week.
Local notice reports extinguished lights at Fort McRee cutoff range front and rear since July 5. Relighting expected when weather permits. references charts and coast pilot volumes. Coast Guard inspector notes status in Eighth Lighthouse District records.
London July 14 David Lloyd George declares the allied offensives have taken the initiative from Germany and victory is beginning to flow our way due to improved equipment. He cites munitions gains, factory output, and rising gun and shell production as the war effort expands.
New York leaders in medicine and public health gathered to discuss infantile paralysis. Simon Flexner of Rockefeller Institute warned no cure yet while noting some recoveries and the potential of artificial respiration. Dr Haven Emerson reported on 600 suspected cases with 908 deaths out of 2,600 examined.
Officials and employers push through increases in production amid troubles with protection equipment labor and readjustments. If this seal and persistence continue, munition supplies will soon be overwhelming.
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