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Newspaper

The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Mar 28, 1915

Page

12

Cabiria Comes to the Lyric for Four Days and Nights

The Lyric Theatre screens Cabiria for four days and nights starting April 8. Itala Film Company showcases ten years of experience with grand photography and production values, including a Temple of Moloch replica built for the film and a cast portrait of Archimedes with a six month beard preparation.

Cabiria Lyric Theatre Itala Film Company Fall of Troy D’annunzio Moloch Archimedes

Pavlova and Volinine to Appear at Lyric April 8

Anna Pavlova brings a Russian ballet company to the Lyric Theatre for one night only on Thursday April 8. The program features new ballets and a Modern Ballroom Spire with partner Mlle Pavlova and M. Ivan Clustine. Also appearing are Alexander Volinine and other premier danseurs with conductor Theodore Stier directing the accompanying symphony.

Pavlova Volunine LYRIC Anna Pavlova Little Mlle M. Ivan Clustine Paris Grand Opera Imperial Opera Houses St. Petersburg Moscow Mile. Pavlova Imperial Russian Ballet Alexander Volinine Stephanie Plaskowieszka Stasia Kuhn Pavlowa America M. Warslaw Waszinski Mlle. Pavlowa Theodore Stier London Bechstein Hall Pavlowa Ballet

Maritime Traffic Updates With Banana Cargoes And Tanker Arrivals

Harbor reports show Fort Morgan sailing for Puerty Cortez with coal and bananas for Mobile. Northwestern discharged 650 099 gallons of black strap molasses and will depart next week. Fjell docked with 20 000 banana bunches marking its final Chamelecon trip. Vintor expected with banana cargo, while Cantor next week. Kennebec loaded coal and proceeded east after quarantine. Dictator due with passengers and freight. Sabine to arrive from New York via West and Tampa. Peerless and American river packets docked with cotton and passengers. several fruiters and ships to load bananas next week. Columbia and Fort Gaines noted among expected vessels. Tarpon anticipated from Winsacola and St Andrews. Mills II ships lumber to Cuba. D H Rivers to Gulfport after Puerto Rico voyage.

Fort Morgan United Fruit Company Puerty Cortez Mobile Northwestern Cuban Molasses Company Fjell Chamelecon Steamship Company Vintor Chamelecon Company Puerto Cortez Hon Banafink Bodo Zetn Kennebec Mobile Coal Company Orr-Laubenheimer Steamship Company Sabine Port New York Ey West Tampa Fla Peerless Selma Montgomery Municipal Docks Upper Alabama Municipal Wharf John Quill City Tombigbee River Coymbia Puerto Barrios Guate- Sols Fort Gaines Nor Verona Boca Grande Turday Chamelecon Tarpon Winsacols St. Andrews Mills C. W. Mills II Cuba Moragues D. H. Rivers San Juan Porto Rico Gulfport Miss Moragues Lumber Company

Vessels Bound for Mobile and Other Ports Listed

A list of ships and schooners with owners and destinations, including S S Alderney to Munson Line from Havana to Pensacola, Bark Normandy bound for Liverpool, and S S Norwegian to Mobile Liners, with multiple tonnage figures and home ports such as New York Havana Liverpool and Kingston, dated January 12 to 28.

Vance Samuelson Glascow Scot Bark’ Ganges Gperaldsen West Hartlepool Eng Gul¢ States Shipping Co Bennestvet Tennessen Mandal European Mber and Transit Co Chodnét H. Rivers Simmons San Juan P. R S. S. Alderney Gjertsen Havana Cuba Pensacola Munson Line Parchim Anderson Plymouth Normandy du Buhr New York Liverpool Georgia D. Jenkins McLean Demerara B. G H. G. Donald Co Margaret Olsen Newport News Gulf States Shipping Co Sylfid Henriksen Limerick Ire Hunter, Benn & Co Marga Knudsen Hunter Benn

Palm Sunday Program at Government Street Church

Palm Sunday service at Government Street Presbyterian Church on March 28 1915 will feature anthems Jerusalem Parker The Palms Faure The Day Is Past and Over Reed Like as a Father Martin Greene with Prof Edwin Lyles Taylor as organist. Also reports note cargo plans for 250000 feet of lumber loading and ships Maud B Krum and Rosefield sailing or arriving with cargo or trips to Cadiz and River Plate and a collision involving Sunflower Galveston Italia.

Government Street Presbyterian Church Jerusalem Parker Palms Faure Reed Martin Greene Edwin Lyles Taylor Galveston

VESSELS IN PORT Vessel Fort Morgan and Northwestern trades

Port ledger lists steamers and barges at multiple docks including Pier 1 Pier 6 with vessels Tela Hon Cuban ports Alex Lawrence Brig Onaway and Clara Scott Fannie Prescott and others. Docks include Gulf Dry Docks Henderson Docks Municipal Docks and Craigisla with river packet activity and UK entries noted.

Alex. Lawrence Onaway Vree Dry Docks Inla Citel Mee Barren Tines United Kingdom Clara’ C. Scott Pier Fannie Prescott Guilf Ixy Docks Ee Ee D. H. Wos Hae Gulf Dry Docks

Five theatre tickets offered for best thirty five photos

Readers submit pictures to win five Empire Theatre tickets with a Wednesday deadline. The list of prior prize winners includes Dor othy Sorensen Edward Hanlon Jr Irma Lee Newell Eloise Goleman Elizabeth Johnston and many other names accompanied by street addresses and scattered notes.

Empire Theatre Dorothy Sorensen Edward J. Hanlon, Jr Irma Lee Newell Eloise Goleman Elizabeth Johnston Mary BE. Newsom Dorothy L. Ramsey Marie Watson Ruth Crum Myrtle Wilson Julius Waldorf Harry Inge Sands Eleanor Burgett

Federals and O B Ignore Peace Plan

New York March 27. There will be no arbitration between the Federal League and organized baseball as urged by David Fultz. President Gilmore of the Federals announced no board is needed and businessmen will settle differences. R B Ward of Brooklyn opposes the idea, favoring an independent fight for another season. The final pre season meeting at the Biltmore Hotel cleared all but the schedule, about twenty conflicting dates, mainly in Pittsburgh and Brooklyn. Season opens April 10 and George Stovall remains Kansas City manager.

New York Federal League David Fultz Players’ Fraternity Gilmore Federals R. B. Ward Brooklyn Biltmore Hotel Pittsburgh George Stovall Kansas City

Wilson lays cornerstone of Civil War memorial Red Cross

President Wilson laid the cornerstone of the new Red Cross building in Washington a memorial to Civil War women. Former President Taft attended and delivered an oration. Justice Lamar and Assistant Secretary of War Breckenridge spoke at the ceremony.

Wilson Capital Washington Red Cross Taft Justice Lamar United States Supreme Court Breckenridge

Wall Street Roundup Mixed Gains and Losses in Early Trading

United States Steel and Amalgamated Copper faced restraint while Reading and New Haven led gains. Reading rose to 147 7 8 and New Haven up a point, with other issues like Baltimore and Ohio Bethlehem Steel advancing. London markets showed losses for American equities amid a broad set of quoted prices and several listed notes.

New York Reading New Haven Baltimore Ohio Bethlehem Steel United States Steel Amalgamated Copper London American Can American Car & Foundry American Cotton Oil American Smelting American Sugar American Tel. & Tel Atchison Atlantic Coast Line Baltimore & Oho Canadian Pacific Chicago, Mil St. Paul Erie Great Northern Interborough Met Missouri Kansas Texas New York Central N.Y. N. H. & Hartford Norfolk and Western Northern Pacific Pennsylvania Rep. Iron & Steel Seaboard Air Line Ptd Southern Pacific Irginia Caro Western Union Aew American Beet Sugar

The First Commandment at Empire Today

The Empire Theatre offers a star packed weekly program featuring Francis X. Bushman Beverly Bayne and Charles Chaplin among others. Highlights include The First Commandment a three reel drama with Tom Moore Marguerite Courtot and more plus daily Chaplin pictures In the Park and The Only Way Out and a range of Kalem Edison Lubin and Essanay features through the week with admission ten cents for adults five cents for children.

Empire Theatre Francis X. Bushman Beverly Bayne Charlee Chaplin Alice Joyce James Morrison Dorothy Kelly Joseph Kaufman Ethel Clayton Tom Moore Marguérite Courtot Robert Ell Chas. Chaplin Charles Chaplin Chaplin Pictures Essanay Rosetta Brice Francis Joyner Lubin Kalem Guy Coombs Edison Bessie Learn Jazr Bill Lubin Vitagraph Constance Talmadge Billy Quirk Bushman Essanay Company Ladies World Alaska Victor Patel Ben Turpin Harry Todd

Crown Theatre week features A Fool There Was and The Vampire

The Crown schedules A Fool There Was, The Vampire with Edward Jose and Theda Bara, and Old Dutch as key attractions this week. Keystone comedy and The Master Model two reel films also appear, with Lew Fields headlining Thursday in Old Dutch and an all star cast promising a major draw.

Crown Theatre Keystone Ambrose Max Swain Nolan Gane Fan Bourke Reliance Edward Jose Theda Bara Rudyard Kipling The Crown Lew Fields Mr. Fields

Wade worried about finance plans for fertilizer tags

Montgomery March 27. Special. Owing to a large drop in receipts from fertilizer tag sales, Agriculture Commissioner J A Wade says funds will be insufficient to meet obligations. Total October 1 to today: 60 902 27, down over 100000 from last season. He expects 320000 more by season end but still faces a deficit, with last year’s expenses 137230 and rural school aid 67000.

Montgomery Ala Agricultural Department J. A. Wade Treasury Department

Entertainments Planned by Mobile Confederates

Adjutant R. E. Daly of Camp Raphael Semmes says the April 9 event in the Armory will progress favors, with an 8 to 11 program for the Mobile Daughters of the Confederacy. Captain William H Bancroft calls veteran volunteers 67 to 80 for a Hardee tactics drill intended as a feature.

R. E. Daly Camp Raphael Semmes No. 11 United Confederate Veterans Mobile Daughters of the Confederacy William H Bud) Bancroft Hardee Mobile Camp Semmes

Tallassee site title vested in trust by federal decree

Federal Judge Henry D. Clayton issued a decree vesting the title to six acres of land tied to the Tallassee Falls Manufacturing Company site in a trust. The ruling affects part of the area surrounding the dam at Tallassee. The order follows ongoing proceedings in Montgomery from March 27.

Tallassee Montgomery Henry D. Clayton Tallassee Falls

Cotton Advances In New Orleans Week Trading

Cotton markets rose 55 to 62 points for the week in New Orleans with active month gains from 58 to 67 points and spots up 50 points closing at 8.75 middling. Sales totaled 11,171 bales, with 11,070 bales arriving, compared to last week’s 7,365 and 3,230 respectively.

New Orleans

Dover Straits to Field Shipping With Warning Lights

Washington March 27 British admiralty plans two lighthouses to block Dover straits near Folkestone from April 1 guiding traffic. Ships must pass between Warne Shoal and Folkstone with eastbound traffic south and westbound traffic north. precise locations and bearings released via American Consul General in London.

Washington English Channel Folkstone Straits of Dover State Department Robert P. Skinner London Warneshoal Folkestone

Villa Begins Final Move On Tampico

General Villa readies a major assault on Tampico with Felipe Angeles commanding artillery and Villa leading cavalry and infantry. Carranza forces fortified hills mines and oil wells protect the port while Villa presses from the north and south, trains move the wounded, and anticipation grows that Villa will capture Tampico to determine Mexico's course.

John W. Robebano Aguas Thousand Villistag Sadaggers Villa Felipe Angeles Artill Tamaulipas Canal Lake Mexico Panucompico Tampico Luis Potosi Aguas Cal Chihuahua Saltillo Republic

Morgan in Saco to Arrange Britain Credit

Morgan arrived from New York to confer with Chancellor Lloyd George on arranging American credit through treasury notes. The aim is to prevent gold transfer from England to the United States during the crisis.

Morgan Saco Ca Britain Liverpool Ountryning Express J. Pierpont Morgan New York Lloyd George America Treasury England

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Maritime Matters and River News S. S. Norwegian Brown Mobile Liners, Inc Edna V. Pickens Butler Whitney Bodden & Co Annie F. Conlon Moody Page & Jones S. S. Viator Erikson, Garston Hubbard-Zemurray Line C. W. Mills Godfrey Geo. Murphy Barkentine Stranger Whitney San Fernandino Trinidad Whitney Bodden Co Paolina Ital S. S. Sigurd Can Peterson Aarhuus Den van Heynigen Brokerage S. S. Nubian Laurenson Nc. S Colombia Simonsen Guat S. S Verona Oxholm Prof Taylor Ween Tela Siaa Beaver Eeee Stocking Street Charleston Street Ee Ann Street Whistler Yeaee Ees Whistler Church Dauphin Way Augusta Street Cedar Street Inerville Lawrence Street Dauphin Street Foote's Tg-Aeee Lmg Ica Mary Ella Terrell Thelma Mae Tucker Emelise Hermann Cseciecccenee William McKinney J. C. Campbell Helen Waters Es Cooper Das W. P. Murphy Louise O'Gwynn Avis Coto Marine Street E. Rickardy Arate Franklin Street Monroe Street St. Stephens Road Hallett Street Herndon Avenue Chatom Street Palmetto Street Government Street Chamberlain Avenue Old Shell Road Conti Street Bayou Street O. B Wall Street Review Ba Cortez United Fruit Isabella P Rican Frednes Anderson, Cuba, Steamship Company Munson S Ottar Cner Smith Munson Steamship Company Young, Velasco Empire Today the Crown Wade Ete Enseal Anna Pavions Great Dover Straits Mobile Bay Chas Drago Gabriel D’annunzio New
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