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Newspaper

The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

May 22, 1915

Page

5

Quiet New York cotton and bullish Wall Street rally

New York on May 22 reports cotton opening steady then rising on local bull support aided by Southwest rain and crop progress hopes. Futures show July to March prices with modest gains as market closes easy. Wall Street advances boost key industrials and copper stocks amid renewed bullish sentiment. Naval stores in Savannah show turpentine and rosin activity with assorted grade quotes.

New York Wall Street Wall Street Review Bethlehem Steel

Cotton Market Mixed in New Orleans Trade

Moderate buying met slender offerings in New Orleans today with prices up 4 to 6 points over yesterday. War activity in Italy remains the main bullish factor as selling later turned heavy and prices edged lower in the final half hour. Spot cotton steady with no new activity and 770 bales sold on the day.

Orleans Italy

Independent Phone Companies Secure Long Distance Facilities

Press dispatches from Memphis report the Tri-State Telephone Association is near completing an agreement with the Postal Telegraph and Cable Company to use its wires in the entire South. The plan lets independent Southern firms operate long distance, linking Home Telephone Co to Memphis and other Mississippi cities, Memphis to Dallas, Cairo to St Louis, and Atlanta to Memphis, Birmingham and Montgomery.

Memphis Tenn Tri-State Telephone Association William H. Bryant Mobile South Postal Telegraph and Cable Company Southern Bell Tri- State Association Home Telephone Company MobMe Hattiesburg Meridian Yazoo City Miss That City Dallas Texas Cairo Ill St. Louis Louisville Atlanta Birmingham Montgomery

Deaths and Funerals in Mobile Area

David N. McLean died in Phoenix Arizona formerly of Little River Mobile county leaving a wife and three children plus siblings. L O Wiggins a locomotive engineer died at Richton Mississippi and was buried Friday with a wife three children and several siblings surviving. Wiggins was a native of Monroe county.

David N. McLean Mobile Phoenix Arizona Little River Mobile County L. O. Wiggins L. O.wiggins Richton Miss Monroe County Messrs. R., L D. BR W. P. Wiggins Mexia Ala

Death of Thomas A. Page in Chicago

Thomas A. Page, a six year Mobile resident linked with John Morrell & Co., died in Chicago, Illinois, on Monday. Interment followed in Chicago. His wife is Mrs. Alice Hoagland Page of Ottumwa, Iowa.

Thomas A. Page Mobile John Morrell & Co Chicago Ilk Alice Hoagland Page Ottumwa Ibdwa

Burial of T. T. Dorman in Mobile on Friday

The funeral for Thomas T. Dorman occurred Friday afternoon at 4 at his home 211 North Conception Street and at 6 at St Francis Street Methodist Church with Rev C C McGhee officiating. He was interred in Magnolia cemetery with Knights Templar pallbearers and Confederate veterans from Raphael Semmes Camp UCV present. Judge Browne adjourned Mobile circuit court in his honor.

T. T. Dorman Thomas T. Dorman North Conception Street St. Francis Street Methodist Church C. C. McGhee Magnolia Cemetery O. J. Semmes Safford Berney C. N. Owen FE. T. Toomer George Jones Erwin Craighead M. T. Judge Knights Templar John W. Phillips Percy B. Dixon Joseph R Little Charles Shawhan John D. Wilkins Phillip Mobile Commandery No. 2 Raphael Semmes Camp U.C. V

Visitors register at city hotels during weekend

Business visitors noted at Battle House Bienville Windsor and St. Andrew hotels. Names include Vredenburg of Vredenburg Ala J T Wiley Mrs W A Weaver Klosky G Hillman T Pace J A Skimpler C C Day Curt O Dowe and others from Selma Daphne Foley Pensacola Lake City and Columbia. Several locals visit relatives before returning home.

McCarthy Birmville Ala J. E. Flemming Choctaw Bluff Klosky G. . Hillman Selma Thomas’ Malbi Daphne T. H. Pace Jackson J. A. Skimpler Dauphin Island C. C. Day Foley A. C. Crabil Lake City Fla Thomas Fannan Columbia, Tenn Cawthon

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