Bankrupt Percy F Steadham to Face Creditors Meeting
United States District Court Southern District of Alabama issues bankruptcy notice for Percy F Steadham of Mobile Alabama. Adjudicated bankrupt on April 25 1914. First meeting of creditors set for May 16 1914 at 2 p m at the referee’s Mobile office to prove claims appoint a trustee and examine the bankrupt.
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United States District Court
Southern District of
Alabama
Percy F. Steadham
Mobile
Ala
R. T Ervin
Southern District of Alabama
H. M. Price
H. M. Price Wee
R. T. Ervin
Sweet Potatoes Face Broad Pest Attacks
A fragmented report notes sweet potatoes exposed to attacks from about a dozen serious insects in a regional area. It highlights pest pressure threatening yields and calls for monitoring and control measures.
Notice in Chancery Case Burgess v Davis Mobile
In Mobile Alabama a Chancery court order dated April 23 1914 requires defendants Solomon Brown Pristina Brown Higgins Robert Senack Manuel Coleman Corinne Vincent Frank Taylor and Ed Davis and those in estate privity with Lauraphine Coleman to plead answer or demur by May 25 1914 or be confessed. Notice will run weekly for four weeks in The Mobile Item.
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Mobile
Alabama
David R. Burgess
Douglass Davis
Court of Chancery
Thirteenth
Southwestern Chancery Division
State of
Solomon Brown
Pristina Brown Higgins
Robert Senack
Manuel Coleman
Corinne Vincent
Frank Taylor
Ed Davis
Lauraphine Coleman
Lauraphine Taylor
Pristina Brown
Higgins
Norton’s Branch
Mobile Item
Carl Holzborn
Register
H. M. Price Deemed Bankrupt by U S District Court
The United States District Court Southern District of Alabama adjudicated H M Price of Mobile a bankrupt on May 4 1914. The first creditors meeting is at the clerk’s office Mobile May 16 1914 at 2 PM to prove claims and conduct related business. R T Ervin.
Bank of Mobile Wins City Paving Bonds Bid
City commission on Monday awarded the sale of the twelfth paving venture bonds to the Bank of Mobile N. B. A. for 62020.40 dollars. The City Bank & Trust Company was the sole other bidder at 62010 with accrued interest.
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City Commission
Bank of Mobile, N. B. A
City Bank & Trust Company
Mobile Cotton Market Report Today
Mobile Cotton market data shows prices by grade from good ordinary to good middling with no sales reported. Receipts and exports totals for the period are provided with comparisons to the previous year and year to date figures for U S ports and exports to Great Britain and the Continent.
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U.S
Cotton Receipts Reported for Mobile Montgomery Lines
Record shows Train 188 Frank M. Ladd with 12 bales and Plant ers' Cotton Company 6 bales for export, totaling 445 to 463 bales. Mobile & Ohio Railroad export component listed. City of Mobile steamer reported 2 bales.
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Mobile & Montgomery Railroad
Frank M. Ladd
Planters’ Cotton Company
Mobile & Ohio Railroad
City of
Mobile
Touart & Quinn
New Orleans Cotton Opens Higher on Rain Influence
New Orleans May 4 Brisk cotton trading opens with prices up 13 points on August and 7 to 10 points on other months as rains in the western belt and a stronger Liverpool support futures. Spot cotton steady at middling 13c with 979 bales sold and 614 more to arrive.
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New Orleans
Liverpool
New York Cotton Opens Higher on Rain and Replanting Talk
Heavy weekend rains in Texas and Oklahoma and higher Liverpool cables sparked an early cotton rally with gains of 9 to 11 points in active months while May stayed quiet. Spot cotton closed steady with Middling uplands at 13.00 and Middling Gulf at 13.25, no sales. futures opened higher and edged lower by mid session before settling near the day’s range.
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New York
Texas
Oklahoma
Liverpool
Uplands
Gulf
Liverpool cotton market steadies with steady futures
Liverpool notes cotton spot steady with good middling at 7.83 and middling 7.27 and low middling 6.85. Sales reach 12,000 bales with 1,000 bales speculative/export. receipts 7,000 bales. Futures close steady with May-June 6.88 at 1 2, July-Aug 6.75 1 2, Aug-Sep 6.62 1 2, Oct-Nov 6.33 1 2, Dec-Jan 6.25, Jan-Feb 6.25.
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Liverpool
Charles Becker's Second Trial Opens Next Wednesday
New York May 4 The second trial of ex police lieutenant Charles Becker on charges he incited Herman Rosen thal's murder will begin Wednesday. District Attorney Whitman will call seventy witnesses and introduce new faces in the witness chair while some from the first trial will not testify. The case centers on Jack Rose with corroboration from Bridgie Webber and Harry Wallon. Sam Schepps testimony was discredited by an appellate ruling granting Becker a new trial.
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New York
Charles Becker
Herman Rosenthal
Charles 8
Whitman
Jack Rose
Webber
Harry Wallon
Sam Schepps
Court of Appeals
Becker
Girl and Mother Shot in Ambush Near Church
Martinsville Missouri May 4 Miss Ethel Griffin eighteen and her mother were shot from ambush while returning from church last night. The girl died within hours and physicians say the mother cannot recover. A posse is in pursuit of the slayer, believed to be a former admirer of the girl.
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Martinsville
Ethel Griffin
Bishop of Chalapa Crucified by Rebels
Refugees arriving on the steamer Sidney recount the crucifixion of the Catholic bishop of Chalapa by Zapata’s rebels. They say soldiers demanded church funds, the bishop refused, and he was bound to a cross and left to die.
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San Francisco
Mexico
Sidney
Chalapa
Zapata
Wall Street Moves Narrow Amid Light Orders and Mixed Gains
Early trading on May 4 shows a narrow, irregular start with light weekend orders and no major shifts in conditions. Stocks firm after an initial dip from Canadian Pacific. Missouri Pacific led gains as the list inched higher with several issues advancing.
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New York
London
Canadian Pacific
Missouri Pacific
Amalgamated Copper
American Agricultural
American Can
American Car & Foundry
American Cities
American Cotton Oil
American Smelting
American Tel, & Tel
American Tobacco
Atchison
Atlantic Coast Line
Baltimore & Ohio
Chesapeake & Ohio
Chicago
Mil
Louisville & Nashville
Liggett & Myers
Lorillard Co
Mexican Petroleum
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
New York Central
N. Y
N. H. & Hartford
Norfolk & Western
Northern Pacific
Pennsylvania
Reading
Rep. Iron & Fuel
Rock Island Co
Seaboard Air Line
Southern Pacific
Southern Railway
Tennessee Copper
Texas Co
Union Pacific
United States Steel
Virginia-Carolina Chem
Western Union
Autoists recount armed confrontation on Hall's Mill road
A black man armed with a rifle and revolver terrorized motorists on Hall’s Mill road Sunday. Edwin E. Colburn’s party and John W. McAlpine’s group were stopped. The suspect, identified as Robert Rankin, was arrested after being drunk. McAlpine and others described a man with a gun and a distressed woman.
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Hall
Mill Road
Edwin E. Colburn
Cohen
Theodore
Mr. Coburn
T. L. Moore
John W. McAlpine
Robert Rankin
Palmer
Lee
Terry L. Moore
T. L. Moore & Co
Mobile
Hall's Mill
Mr. McAlpine
J. T. Palmer
Negro's Case Set For October Hearing
Washington May 4 The Texas motion led the Supreme Court to advance for hearing October 13 the Carl Oliver case a Texas Franklin county negro who contends a negro may defend his home under the unwritten law.
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Washington
No Important Decisions From Supreme Court Today
Washington reports no important case was decided by the Supreme Court today. The brief notice notes the court did not issue any major rulings on May 4.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Cash Grain and Provisions Prices in Chicago May Fourth
The market report lists cash grain prices for Wheat at No 2 red 95 1 2 to 96 1 2, No 2 hard 93 1 2 to 94 1 4, No 2 Northern 96 1 2 to 96 1 2, No 2 Spring 95 96. Corn No 2 67 1 2, No 2 white 69 1 4. Oats Standard 39 1 2 to 40. Hay Timothy 2 75 to 4 80. Clover 8 00 to 12 00. Provisions Pork 19 50, Lard 9 92 to 9 96, Ribs 10 60 to 11 00.
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Chicago
Eveene Ovveesee
Eer
Turpentine and Rosin Prices and Receipts Reported
Savannah market detail lists turpentine at 421 2 3 cents, sales none, receipts 680. Rosin firm with 1,625 barrels. price quotes range from D and B at 3.80 to M at 4.70 and WG and WW at 5.85.
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Naval
Savannah
Maritime traffic and river news from the port
Several ships arrive and depart with bananas pineapples and fruit. The Albanian Nessian Mount Vernon Fort Gaines Karen Saint Ninian and others dock or sail from the port while two schooners near quarantine and the Tarpon Leucadia and Bodo shift positions along the river.
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Leyland Line
Aew
Port Arthi
Nessian
Sun
New Orleans
Nitonian
Ayland
Mount Vernon
Borsheim
United Fruit Company
Puerto Cortez
Hon
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Knudsen
Port Limon
C. R
Seeberg Steamship Line
Progreso
Mexico
M. A. Achorn
Sedgwick
Tarpona
Leucadia
Turner-Hartwell
Bodo
Brewster's Millions at Royal Theatre with Ward Abeles
Brewster's Millions screened at the Royal Theatre featuring Ward Abeles on Monday and Tuesday. An advertisement touts Dr King’s New Discovery for coughs and lung troubles with patient testimonials, urging relief by using 50 cent or one dollar bottles.
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Edward AB
Brewster’s Millions
Ward Abeles
Dr. King
Jennie Flemming
New Dover
Jen Flemming
Bucklen
Arnica Salve
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