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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1916
Page
9
Spot cotton held steady at middling 12.69 with sales 365 bales on spot and 400 bales to arrive. Futures closed steady, down 2 to 6 points from yesterday. Open 12.68 and 12.77 for October while December 12.91 to 12.88. Cattle and hog prices listed. receipts and by market sections show a slow afternoon trading environment.
On board the Peerless Baker Lyons & Co and other firms 114 bales received. N. O. M. C. exports compressed 11 bales. Southern Magnolia Compress Co 43 bales. A. T. N. exports compressed 38 bales. Total 206 bales noted.
Continued rains across the belt sparked moderate buying at the opening in New Orleans today and lifted prices 1 to 2 points. After the call demand eased as recent buyers sought profits, leaving the market 3 to 5 points below yesterday's close. Prospects of clearing weather in the western half of the region boosted offerings toward noon.
New York June 16 The cotton market opened steady with modest advances and declines across key months. October touched 12.98 and December 13.14 before profit taking limiting gains, while India connections stayed active for October. Prices ended near prior close with October at 12.92 and December at 13.08.
The Liverpool market shows cotton spot steady with good middling at 8.25 pence and related values. Sales reach 3 000 bales with 500 for speculation and export while receipts total 6 000 bales. Futures drift barely higher with July to August at 7.89 and other contracts quoted around 7.6 to 7.7 cents.
Liverpool reports weekly cotton figures with totals for forwardings imports and exports. Total forwarded to mills 69000 bales American 59009. Stock 664000 including American 628000. Imports 77000 American 70000. Exports 2599.
Turpentine stocks stand at 11 139 casks with receipts 832 and shipments 5 421, no sales. Rosin stocks 60 431 barrels with receipts 2 287 and shipments 5 471, no sales. Quotations list B D E 5.50 and others from 5.15 to 6.00. market update from Savannah and Chicago livestock reports follows.
Spot and futures prices show June at 10.57 to 10.85, July 10.61 to 10.62, August 10.60 to 10.62, October 9.60 to 9.62, November 8.71 to 8.72, and December at 8.62 as trading ends. The market closes easy with narrow ranges across near months.
In early trading declines intensified amid the Mexican situation and railroad brotherhoods rebuffing general managers proposals. Beet sugar plunged over 2 points with metal stocks down including zinc. United States Steel held steady as readings slid late. readings ended heavy with Reading and Steel leading the drop and overall trading near standstill.
Russia reports a rapid southwestern front advance startling the nation. Prisoners are rising as large Austrian units surrender, trains and field equipment are abandoned in large quantities, while Russian losses appear comparatively small.
The front from Volhynia to the Romanian border remains the center of a Russian advance. TarnoPol remains deadlocked while breaches widen on both flanks in Lutsk and the Dniester sector. Austrian forces have broken lines and pushed toward Kovel and Vladimir-Volynski, reaching about 20 miles from those targets.
A wedge from Dubno pushes toward Sokal and widens breaches to 60 miles. A second breach spans 30 miles between the Dniester and the Pruth. Sniatyn falls 16 miles beyond Czernowitz, threatening the city and isolating Austrian forces. Russian officers estimate nearly half of the southwest Austrian troops lost.
Odd Fellows lodges across Mobile county report rising membership and active chapters. Chunchula Lodge No. 536 held memorial services at a Baptist Church with Mr Bloch as noble grand and Mr Lavelle as chaplain, then proceeded to the cemetery for concluding rites and floral tributes to Right Turner the lodge’s oldest member. The event included a post service repast and praised hospitality from Mobile delegates and local ladies.
A mass meeting by the Mobile Division Ancient Order of Hibernians is set for Monday night June 26. The event aims to promote Irish nationalism and universal freedom for Ireland with prominent Mobilian speakers invited.
Within one hour after the state lost thirteen liquor confiscation cases at Girard, appeals were taken to the Russell circuit court. The cases were thrown out because search warrants did not properly describe houses to be searched. Destruction orders were issued in six cases after no claimants appeared, but owners’ attorneys alleged appeals. Trials likely set for July 15 in Russell circuit court.
Frederick C. Tanner, chairman of the Republican state committee, predicted at a ratification meeting that Colonel Roosevelt will come back to the Republican ranks fully committed and ready to help end what he called the government fiasco in Washington. He said the party is reunified and that a united party means victory.
Louis D. Brandeis, newly named Supreme Court justice, will be the principal speaker at the Zionists annual convention in Philadelphia on July 2. About six hundred delegates from across the country are expected to attend. Brandeis chairs the provincial Zionist executive committee, formed August 30, 1914, to resume work of the international organization halted by war.
The Norwegian steamship City of Tampico, a Munson liner, has nearly completed loading and is expected to sail this afternoon for Cuban ports with a large cargo of general merchandise. Three Fruiters Due This Week. United Fruit Company says Agnella arrives June 20, Banan June 21, Belvernon June 24.
Reports from Bilbao indicate the schooner Gladys, bound from Oeary, has put in at Passage Over. The status of the vessel and its cargo are not confirmed and officials are awaiting further details.
The Norwegian steamship Nepos, which carried sisal from Progreso, sailed yesterday afternoon for a similar cargo to the same port and will return here.
In port listings include Carrie Strong schooner from Cuba, Elizabeth T Doyle from Africa, City of Tampico steamship from Cuba, aacini steamship from Cuba, Yoskyl yacht under repairs, Sadie C Sumner schooner bound for St Andrews Bay, Sir Knight schooner for Mexico, Carmela rebuilt at Ollinger Bruce Dry Docks, Albert D Mills to bring sisal from Yucatan, Oranian steamer from Liverpool to the British Isles, Sylvanian steamship for general cargo, San Cristobal tank ship to be rebuilt, Agnella 580 steamship to United Fruit, Francis Hanity and Belize shipments, Belvernon to United Fruit, Lamberger to be rebuilt, Ancon to Fort Morgan, Perceler sails to Bahamas, Springfield to J M Scott, Georgia Gilkey for lumber to Cuban ports, Seemel to Genoa for C W Hempstead, Emma 8 Lord for lumber, Henry W Cramp for repairs and lumber, Edna V Pickler for Cuban ports, Stranger dismantled bark entine Havana to Whitney Bodden, Frieda from Bus to Lorenzo Marques for lumber, Schnersuare ship to Barcelona, Grace Harvard to Genoa for lumber.
Washington June 16 Senator Hitchcock announced after a conference with President Wilson that no effort would be made to add a definite independence date to the Philippine legislation in Congress. He expects the Senate to accept the House passed bill granting greater self government without the Clarke independence amendment.
The Mallory Line steamer Rio Grande 2047 tons, plying Brunswick to New York, has been purchased by the government and will be overhauled as a mine layer. Built in Philadelphia in 1876, it is under orders to leave for the Brooklyn navy yards on Saturday.
In Chicago on June 16 the jury began deliberations in the Chattanooga Medicine Company versus American Medical Association libel case over Wine of Cardus. Judge Carpenter trimmed damages and ruled the journal articles libelous if not protected as fair comment, focusing on church affiliation remarks and the overall publication as a whole.
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