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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1916
Page
7
Liverpool cotton market closed steady with Good middling at 8.69d and sales of 8,000 bales. Futures ease with May-June at 8.17 1 2, July-August 8.09 1 2. Cotton seed oil also lower with spot around 10.75 and total 28,300 barrels traded.
Cotton receipts and exports listed by railroad and companies show totals of 1,029 bales on one line and 133 on another, with compressions noted. Firms include M Ladd & Co Lyons Co Magnol ia Compress Co Weil Brothers Bashinsky Grimley Transit Muckle Pope and others.
Spot cotton in New Orleans holds even with a 12 point dip, keeping prices steady overall. Traders watch futures and supply signals as analysts note slight pressure in early trading.
An advertisement claims tea harms kidneys but Indian herb teas like Ge-Rar-Dy Tea detoxify blood liver and kidneys. Sold as a cheap remedy at 10 cents a package with a free sample offer from Phil P Cresap Co New Orleans.
Savannnah May 26 Trapen tine firm 38c no sales receipts 414 casks shipments none stocks 9 503 casks Rosin firm no sales receipts 1 401 barrels shipments one stock 57 197 barrels Quote B 4 25 4 40 D 4 30 4 40 BE 4 35 4 40 F 4 40 G 4 45 4 50 H 4 50 I 4 50 4 56 5 K 4 50 5 60 M 4 60 4 75 N 4 90 5 00 5 15 5 25 WW 5 256 5 40
Chicago market report shows hogs receipts 16 000 head with bulk 9 70 9 90 and pigs 7 40 9 30. Cattle receipts 4 000 head with native beef 8 40 10 75 and cows 4 75 9 85. Sheep receipts 9 000 head with wethers 7 40 9 40 and lambs 8 50 12 40.
Chicago May 25 Wheat values for No 2 red No 3 red and No 2 hard wheat are listed with bid offers. Corn No 2 yellow is shown with price ranges and closing figures.
Caribbean and Southern Steamship Co announces regular sailings to Port au Prince Haiti Guadeloupe Martinique and Trinidad with calls at free West Indies ports when cargo is available City Bank builds Mobile Alabama junction text notes.
A Port scene lists multiple vessels including Emily S Malcolm Evelyn W Hinckley and Lizzie E Dennison schooners bound for West Indies Cuba Rosario and Central America. Beatrice Louise E Richards and Strathcona sail for various docks while Oscar G Meltonian and Sylvanian prepare cargoes for the British Isles and Cuba respectively.
The Norwegian steamship Corinto of the United Fruit Company arrives from Central America and docks at Mobile and Ohio Pier 1 with a cargo of bananas.
The tug North American and the barge Tulsa, arriving from Port Arthur last week, have returned after extensive repairs by the Gulf Company. The pair underwent major overhauls before resuming service.
The Orr Laubenheimer liner Fort Gaines departed for Belize and other Central American ports with general merchandise. She will return to Mobile with bananas and chicle. The steamer brought about twenty five thousand bunches of bananas this week.
Captain George Krogsgard reports the Louise M. Richards nearing completion of a lumber cargo bound for Cuba and plans a Saturday morning departure. Captain Richards sold the vessel to the Central American Cattle Company of New Orleans. Tug Echo arrived from Tampa with the tug Senator Bailey and an oil barge for overhaul. The Cuban caront in Paloma departed Havana with a pineapples cargo aboard a Munson liner.
N Dolive of Baldwin county and Mrs Mary Frances Jones of Tippah county died within days. Dolive formerly of Bald win county lived in Mobile. funeral Friday at 10 30 from his sister Mrs Walker 804 Dauphin Street with Magnolia cemetery burial. Dolive survived by one daughter Florence and four brothers. Mrs Jones wife of Rev J W Jones died at Whistler after six weeks with typhoid fever. funeral Thursday at 2 30 and burial in Baptist Cemetery near Whistler. Reverend Atchison and Reverend Vaughan conducted services. Jones left husband two children her mother three sisters and three brothers and other relatives.
Milton La Coste aged 62 resides at 110 Tennessee Street and is noted for lingering nature signs.
City detective B F Hagan testifies his wife, once bedbound and hospitalised, gained 27 pounds after taking Tanlac. Doctors warned surgery was the last hope. six bottles of Tanlac saw her weight rise from 98 to 125 pounds and she regained strength and appetite. The ad, sponsored by Dave Bauer and Van Antwerp's Drug Corp, ran with mortgage notices and local legal sections.
Default on notes due Jan 1 to May 1 1916 under a 1914 mortgage by Mary A Emrich and Eugene P Emrich to A C Ellerman recorded in Mobile County Alabama court records. Ellerman declares all secured notes due and will sell at auction in front of the court house steps with costs.
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