Winter Storm Sweeps Across The Plains And South
Snow rain and sleet hit Missouri Kansas Nebraska Oklahoma and parts of Texas Arkansas and Louisiana with depth up to eleven inches in North Platte and central Kansas. A northeast wind disrupted wire and rail lines as flood warnings rose in Arkansas and Lincoln reports fifty one inches of snow this winter.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Texas
Arkansas
Louisiana
North Platte
Neb
Lincoln
Witnesses Summoned in O Neal Cotton Transactions Probe
Montgomery March 4 The legislative recess investigating committee demanded testimonies from Postal and Western Union Telegraph Co managers to produce telegrams about cotton dealings signed by former Governor O Neal or other state officials. Hearing to begin Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Legislative Recess
Postal and Western Union Telegraph Companies
O'Neal
P. R. Manning Dies at 58 Former NC Press Leader
P. R. Manning, former president of the North Carolina Press Association and late owner of the Henderson Gold Leaf, died in Hendersonville North Carolina at age 58 after a three year confinement to bed.
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P. R. Manning
Henderson
N. C
North Carolina Press Association
Henderson Gold Leaf
Suffering to wellness through Cardui in Walnut story
Mrs. W. McClure of Walnut recalls months of severe pain and weakness before taking Cardui. She says after two or three bottles her health improved steadily, she gained weight, returned to work, and has remained well. The ad promotes Cardui as a tonic for women.
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Walnut
N. C
Cardus
Mobile Children Celebrate Birthday at Empire Theatre
A local note congratulates Maurice Sigler Ida Mae Dunn and Myrtle Chamblin born in March. It invites them to host a birthday picture party at the Empire Theatre this afternoon with five friends. Tickets mailed. Children born in March urged to send full details to the Children’s Editor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maurice C. Sigler
Old Shell Rd
Ida Mae Dunn
New Jersey St
Myrtle Chamblin
Jefferson
the Item
Empire Theatre
Germans bomb Ossowetz fortress in drive on Prussian front
German forces in northern Poland mass heavy guns to take Ossowetz as part of an effort to breach Russian fortifications near the Prussian border. Russian officers view the assault as crucial and see it as a distraction while Austro German forces mass for Galicia campaign.
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Petrograd
London
Poland
Ossowetz
Praasnysz
Kerjen
Amouleff
Przasnysz
East Prussia
Stanislau-Beskid
Galicia
New York Stock List Shows Wide Range of Industrial Stocks
A stock roundup lists prices for leading U S firms across metals, tobacco, oil, utilities, railroads, and chemicals. Notable quotes include American Tobacco 223 7 8, United States Steel 43 5 8, Chesapeake & Ohio 41, and New York Central 82 1 2 with many others trading near midday figures.
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New York
Amalgamated Copper
American Agricultural
American Can
American Car & Fdy
American Cities
Ptd
American Cotton Oil
American Smelting
American Sugar
American Tel. & Tel
American Tobacco
Atchison
Atlantic Coast Line
Baltimore & Ohio
Canadian Pacific
Chesapeake & Ohio
Chi
Mil. & St. Paul
Erie
General Electric
Great Northern
Pfd
Illinois Central
Interborough Met
Louisville and Nashville
Liggett & Myers
Lorillard Co
Mexican Petroleum
Kans
Texas
New York Central
N. H
Norfolk & Western
Northern Pacific
Pennsylvania
Reading
Rock Island
Seaboard Air Line
Sloss
Sheffield Steel & Iron
Southern Pacific
Thursday Closing Markets and Mobile Statment
The report shows weekly receipts 4443 bales for Mobile with 554 today and 300 bales sold at Thursday closing. Consolidated figures list total receipts 261092 for ports over six days and exports to Britain and Continent with stock and U S port receipts since August 1.
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Britain
New Orleans Cotton Prices Slide On Early Trading
New Orleans March 4 price movement shows poor cables and moderate selling from long contracts weighing on cotton. Most active months drop 8 to points as market tests opening, shorts active while spot remains quiet. Spot sales total 465 bales to arrive 2356 with middling at 7.81 cents. Cotton closes steady with a net decline of 10 points.
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New Orleans
Brooks Smith Defends Fair Treatment In Anonymous Letter Case
Former Auditor C Brooks Smith tells a joint legislative committee he was treated unfairly regarding an anonymous letter about pension purges. He says Miss Moore assisted her father and General Ferguson, with some work done at home. Also testifies Western Union manager Fonville refused private telegrams. General Scully disputes committee’s fairness claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Brooks Smith
Legislative
Henry P. Merritt
W. B. Moore
Pofsion
State Auditor
Moore
Capitol
Smith
Miss Moore
Fred S. Ferguson
Ferguson
Merritt
Joseph B. Scully
Scully
Military Department
John D. McNeel
O'Neal
Cotton futures open steady then drift on selling
New York on March 4 saw cotton futures opening steady on overnight buying then weaken as Southern selling and liquidation rose. Liverpool acted as a seller early, with active months trading 5 to 7 points lower from night close. Wall Street houses bought the decline and closes showed futures steady, down 15 to 17 points from early weakness.
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New York
Liverpool
Wall Street
Cvesseee
Liverpool Cotton Market Reports Steady Prices and Strong Sales
Cotton spot in Liverpool remains steady with good middling at 5.38 and low middling at 4.62 as sales reach 6 000 bales. Speculation and export total 1 000 sales with receipts at 35 313 bales. Futures show minimal movement across May-June to January-February contracts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool
Fitzgerald Store Closes After Long Merchandising Run
The Fitzgerald dry goods store in Mobile announces a liquidation sale on Saturday as owners Mary Fitzgerald and Edward T. Fitzgerald retire due to Mrs. Fitzgeralds ill health. After the sale the establishment will be closed permanently.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fitzgerald Dry Goods
Mobile
Mary Fitzgerald
Edward T. Fitzgerald
Fitzgeroe
Steel shares lead early Wall Street gains in brisk trading
Unusual activity in United States Steel dominated the brisk early trading on Wall Street with a substantial fractional advance. Union Pacific Canadian Pacific and Pennsylvania lagged briefly before advancing with the general list as Specialties rose led by Motor shares despite London markets showing heaviness and large declines in Reading Erie and Union Pacific.
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New York
United States Steel
Union Pacific
Canadian Pacific
Pennsylvania
London
Reading
Eries
Naval Stores Prices and Receipts Report From Savannah
Turpentine firm quotes 42 cents with receipts of 70 casks while rosin firms report receipts totaling 947. Prices listed for grades B through M show varied levels from 2.92 to 8.25 and related WG WW ranges. Market activity centers in Savannah on March 4.
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Savannah
Divorce Petition Corrects Marriage Date Error
In the petition of Mrs. Janie Carroll versus David A. Carroll the court amended the bill to fix the marriage date from 19038 to 1897. The amendment was entered in chancery court on Thursday to conform to the correct date.
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Janie Carroll
David A. Carroll
Chancery Court
Thordis Substantiates Submarine Sinking Claim
The captain of the collier Thordis confirms ramming and destroying a German submarine off Beachy Head. Rewards totaling $5,800 may be awarded by agencies to the first merchantman to sink a submarine. Thordis suffered torn propeller blades and severe keel damage.
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London
Beachy Head
Wheat Prices Fall On Cancelled War Orders
Wheat prices dropped sharply in the final minutes of trading amid unconfirmed reports that millions of dollars of war supply orders were canceled. The price slid to 1.37 a bushel, down from 1.453/4, with a lowest point 30 cents under the peak wartime level before a rally closed the session.
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Chicago
Bingham Heads Yale Peru Expedition To Rediscover Inca City
March 4 Yale Professor Hiram Bingham sails from New York aboard the Zacapa with a Yale Peruvian expedition to resume the search for the Inca city of marble in Peru. The team includes Herbert E. Gregory Edmund Heller and O F Cook from the USDA.
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Bingham
Peru
New York
Hiram Bingham
Yale
City of
Marble
United Fruit
Herbert E. Gregory
Edmund Heller
Roosevelt
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic Quoted as General Tonic
An advertisement touts Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a general tonic with quinine and tron active ingredients. It claims benefits like driving out malaria, enriching the blood, and building up the whole system, priced at 5 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grove
Convicts Arrested After Peddling Jewelry in Mobile
George Clifford and Jack Lee, white men, were arrested by Detectives Burch Pearson and Harris at Royal and Lipscomb streets. Crenshaw suspects two escaped convicts, found with a large quantity of watches and jewelry. They claimed Pittsburgh as home and recent county road labor in Pike County Alabama. One wore trousers beneath clothes. photography and identification by agencies planned.
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George Clifford
Jack Lee
Burch
Pearson
Harris
Royal and Lipscomb
F. W. Crenshaw
Clifford
Pittsburgh
Pike County
Alabama
Crenshaw
C. R. Harbin
Evergreen
Ala
Harbin
Mobile
National Bureau of Identification
Boy Drug Victim Held By Police In Alabama
Roscoe Ferrill, an indigent boy from Columbia Alabama, is in police custody after being picked up last Sunday. A letter to Chief F W Crenshaw says Ferrill was paroled from the state asylum in Tuscaloosa on February 13, not insane but a user of drugs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roscoe Ferrill
Columbia
Ala
F. W. Crenshaw
Ferrill
Tuscaloosa
Steamer Overdale Runs Aground Near Cape Lookout
The British tramp steamer Overdale of 2240 tons, sailing from Savannah to Havre with cotton, ran aground near Cape Lookout shoals in Beaufort North Carolina but is undamaged. Captain White and 23 crew members refuse to abandon ship awaiting a coast guard cutter.
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Beaufort
N. C
Savannah
Havre
Cape Lookout Shoals
White
Coast Guard
Overdale
Bernhardt Suffers Reaction After Leg Amputation
In Bordeaux on March 4 it was reported that Sarah Bernhardt, recovering from the February 22 leg amputation, experienced a reaction and anxiety among friends over the last forty eight hours. Doctors said she was somewhat better last night.
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Bordeaux
Paris
Sarah Bernhardt
Chinese boycott may extend to New York
Notices appeared in the Chinese quarters announcing a meeting at the Six Companies hall to discuss a boycott of Japanese goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Hall
Broadway Stars at Royal In Friday Beyond the Curtain
Manager Keener announces Broadway's Max Figman and Lolita Robertson in The Truth Wagon at the Royal theatre Friday. The famed pair recently starred in Man on the Box in Mobile. Critics praised The Truth Wagon as a clever and brilliant comedy drama.
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Max Figman
Lolita Robertson
Royal Theatre
Royal
Keener
Broadway
Mobile
The
Times, World, Tribune, American, and Telegraph
New York
Well Known Negro Dies in Mobile Community
Sandy Cherry, 66, of 511 South Cedar Street, a longtime Mobile resident and former cotton weigher at Magnolia Compress for thirty three years, and porter for L and N Freight for ten years, died Wednesday at 8 p m. He leaves a daughter, three grandchildren, and other relatives. The funeral will be held at State Street A M E Zion Church with Dr A Hannum officiating. Captain Rae is slightly-weer at the Providence In-
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Sandy Cherry
South Cedar Street
Mobile
Cherry
Magnolia Compress Company
Louisville and Nashville
de T
State Street
A. M. E. Zion Church
A. Hannum
Half and Half Cotton Warned by Department
The U S Department of Agriculture warned Oklahoma Texas and Arkansas cotton producers against planting the half and half variety saying it is far inferior to normal cotton. Field tests show low lint yield short irregular and untenderable fiber. Buyers will penalize it and major firms decline to handle it, risking market reputation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Oklahoma
Texas
Arkansas
Department of Agriculture
Department
Chapel Car St. Paul to Leave Mobile Friday
The Catholic Church Extension Society chapel car St. Paul, exhibited in Mobile since Tuesday, will be moved to Pass Christian, Mississippi, Friday afternoon. It has drawn many visitors and will stay under the depot shed at the Louisville & Nashville railroad passenger station at Government Street until further movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul
Catholic Church Extension Society
Mobile
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Government Street
Court actions in Law and Equity Thursday session
In the Law and Equity Court Judge Safford Berney presided. Decisions include judgment for the defendant in John Goodman vs. J B Arnold. Matador Tire and Vulcanizing Co. v Chas W Short Auto Co awarded $840.71 by default on proof. H H Smith v F W Bacho motion to dismiss denied. parts of information struck as to certain words. Gunston Hall v J J Blacksher demurrers sustained. Askin & Marine v Hendon Bullock demurrers to amended pleas overruled. Friday call includes Publishing News Co v H T Culor and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Law and Equity Court
Safford Berney
John Goodman
Gunston Hall
J. J. Blacksher
Askin & Marine
Hendon Bullock
Publishing News Co
H. T. Culor
Strauss-Pritz
Chas. Schimpf
Jno. M. Boyden
Blue Rock Mfg. Co
Silverhill Creamery Co
Fields Ice Cream Co
Jno. Craft
F. J. Poggi
National Amenia
Stonewall Ice Co
Alabama farmer switches to okra. seven carloads seed pledged
King Pharr of Catherine Wilcox County Alabama, after a Mobile visit, says he has abandoned cotton and sown 180 acres in okra. He has contracted to furnish the D M Ferry Seed Company seven carloads of seed to be delivered this season. Francis X Bushman arrives at the Empire tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King Pharr
Catherine
Wilcox County
Alabama
Mobile
D. M. Ferry Seed Company
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Fatima
Aim
Fort Smith
Ark
Government Weather Bureau
O’neal
Fergely
Reet, Y
A. Brooks Smith
Liverpont
Wall Street Review
Naval Stores Today
Thordis
Mobile Chamber Commerce
S. C
D. S
Lord—Tierces
Velice Soto
Bernhardt
Rae
Providence
Francis X. Bushman
the Empire
Adv
St. Emanuel
Dauphin
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