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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1914
Page
9
Admiral Mayo reports 23 cannon shots heard at Tampico last night. American Consul C. A. Miller and the vice-consul are aboard the Connecticut. Ten or 15 Americans refused to leave the city.
Former Tennessee governor Malcolm R Patterson canceled an address on prohibition in St Louis because of illness. He denied rumors of serious illness and said he expected to return to Tennessee in a day or two.
Turpentine firm reports 44c price, 154 casks sold, 467 casks received. Rosin firm shows 741 barrels received. Market quotes list grades B through W with varied prices from 3.85 to 6.00 dollars, including 20 barrel lots for F and I and 80 barrels for M.
In Chancery at Mobile Alabama on April 23 1914 an order in the case of David R Burgess Complainant versus Douglass Davis et al Defendants was entered. It names Solomon Brown Pristina Brown Higgins Robert Senack Manuel Coleman Corinne Vincent Frank Taylor and Ed Davis as potential parties in privity of estate related to Lauraphine Coleman and assigns a deadline for pleadings by May 25 1914 with publication of notice in The Mobile Item for four weeks. The order details the described real estate in Mobile County and directs notice be published weekly. CARL HOLZBORN Register.
Notice of application to the Excise Commission of Mobile Alabama to sell spirituous vinous and malt liquors at retail at the southwest corner of Conception and Manassas streets. The license would purchase an interest in the business conducted by Dennis J Eslava and permit continued operation with Eslava.
Notice states Magnolia Compress & Warehouse Company directors call a stockholders meeting at Mobile office on Monday May 20 1914 at 10 a m to decide on increasing bonded debt by issuing 200 first six percent income gold debentures of 500 dollars each secured by deed of trust on income and property. A P Bush vice-president W D Nesbitt secretary.
Indigestion and reduced appetite remedies touted with claims it increases appetite and improves digestion. Sold as a liver kidney and stomach cleanser with a tribute to Mr. T. D. Peeble’s stomach troubles. Priced 50 cents and 1.00 at druggists. Bucklen's Arnica Salve for eczema also advertised.
The report records cotton market classifications for Good ordinary to Good middling with a steady market and 125 bales sold. It also shows daily receipts 1,167 and exports 66 for the day, with year to date totals and U S port figures including receipts and exports to Britain and the Continent.
At Liverpool influenced market, New Orleans opened 3 to 4 points above Saturday close, then eased to noon. Spot cotton steady at Middling 1314 cents. Sales 749 bales to arrive 830. Futures closed steady, unchanged to 2 points lower.
The New York Stock Exchange closed till 11 am for Vera Cruz dead services. Trading started quiet with modest gains for Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific, while Consolidated Gas slipped ahead of new stock issues. Afternoon activity faded but some names rose. by close bears pressed Canadian Pacific and Missouri Pacific.
The New York cotton market opened steady with a 3 to 7 point gain on strong cables and weather worries in the Western belt. Trading was quiet with narrow fluctuations as midday reports turned prices lower, then futures closed near unchanged with May at 12.58 and December at 11.60.
Cotton spot shows steady values with good middling at 7.94 pence per pound and mid and low grades posted. Sales reach 12 000 bales plus 1 000 bales for speculation and export, with no receipts reported and futures steady across May to January positions.
The Navy Department asked Rear Admiral Badger for a full report after an unofficial claim that an American force landed on Lobos Island eight miles off the Mexican coast between Vera Cruz and Tam Pico and occupied the lighthouse there.
Chicago cash grain reports show No 2 red corn and spring wheat bids with small range and values for oats seed and provisions. St Louis cash grains quote No 2 red wheat No 2 hard corn and oats with modest price readings.
New York metal market notes lead at 6 857 03.95 dollars with London quotes 18L 5s and Spelted steady at 5.10 to 5.20 dollars with London 21L 88 64.0.
Call money steady at 1 3 4 to 2 percent with ruling rate 1 3 4. Time loans weak sixty and ninety days at 2 1 2 percent, six months at 8 percent. Mercantile paper 8 1 4 to 3 4 percent. Sterling exchange firm sixty days 4 85 35, demand 4 88 10. Commercial bills 4 84 3 4. Bar silver 58 8 4 c, Mexican dollars 45 3 4 c. Government bonds steady, railroad bonds irregular.
Eleven year old Will ie Ray was badly wounded Sunday afternoon when an automobile driven by Harry Dickerson struck him in front of his Montgomery home. The boy suffered arm collar bone and jaw fractures and other injuries dragging him several feet. Dickerson was charged with collision and bonded after the parents declined charges.
Mrs Harriet N Brown mother of Mrs Anna B Hail of Toulminville and widow of the late C K Brown one of the single taxers of Fairhope colony died Sunday afternoon at the residence of Mrs Hail in Toulminville. She was a native of Utica New York but lived much of her life in Brighton Iowa where she married Mr Brown. Survived by Frank L Brown of Fairhope and Mrs Nellie M Léach of Los Angeles with two other children. Mrs Brown has lived in Mobile with her daughter for three years and was a graduate of the Chautauqua Literary Club. She was Miss Griggs, a lineage tracing to 1630 England.
The well known Mobile merchant John Renth was honored at a Monday funeral. Services began at 10 o'clock at the family home on North Hamilton Street then at St. John's Episcopal Church with Very Rev. G. C officiating. Large attendance included Red Cross Lodge Knights of Pythias Athéstan Lodge Gulf City Guards and the A N G. The Pythian burial service was led by Chaplain A G Moses amid a military squad presence.
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