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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1916
Page
11
A long OCR listing details numerous parcels and lots across Mobile County including Pinehurst Citronelle and Bay areas. It notes parcel identifiers owners like White Watkins Williams Yeend and many others, with lot numbers, blocks, tract names and mentions of adjacent streets and waters. Prices and sizes vary with hundreds of dollars shown for individual plots.
Mobile cotton market today shows prices from low ordinary to good middling with End of day quotes near 12.60 to 13.30. Receipts this day 519, exports today 201, stock 26,702, and U.S. port receipts to date around 972,106. Local real estate listings and various imputed values follow, including numerous parcels and imps with Mobile addresses and acreage notes.
The cotton market opened May 29 with a decline of 5 to 8 points amid scattered liquidation and local selling driven by good weather and favorable crop reports. Liverpool steadied after edging higher, while July, October, and December futures rose from early levels before paring gains. overall the session closed steady with futures showing mixed moves across months.
Liverpool May 29 report shows spot cotton steady with good middling at 8.68, mid, 8.52, low middling 8.32. Sales 12,000 bales with 2,000 for speculation and export. Receipts 4,000 bales. Futures steady with May-June 8.22, July-August 8.14, October-November 7.86, December-January 7.74, March-April 7.70 1-2.
Chicago Hive Stock Chicago May 29 hogs receipts 42 000 bales market dull with bulk 9 55 9 70 light 9 10 9 65 mixed 4 309 75 heavy 9 20 9 80 rough 9 20 9 35 pigs 7 25 9 10 cattle receipts 22 000 head market weak native beef cattle 9 20 10 65 stockers and feeders 6 00 8 90 cows and heifers 4 50 9 65 calves 8 00 11 00 sheep receipts 23 000 head market weak wethers 7 00 35 lambs 8 00 10 65 springs 9 00 12 00
Turpentine firm shows 39c with no sales, receipts 569, shipments 542, stocks 9,929. Rosin firm reports no sales, receipts $11, shipments 3,487, stocks 65,955. Quotations list B and D at 4.50, E 4.65, F 4.73, G and H 4.80, 1 at 4.85, K 4.90, M 6.00, N 5.30, WG 5.50, WW 5.60.
Grain prices and provisions are listed with mixed bid and offer levels for wheat corn oats rye and hay along with pork lard and ribs. The Wall Street review notes a quiet session with limited trading volume and small gains in some war shares while major averages show little change.
In Port shipping notes list multiple vessels including Emily 8 Malcolm for West Indies at Ollinger Bruce Docks Francis Hanify from Cuba bound for the Americas at Pier 6 Banana from Tela at L N docks Nepos from Mexico at Pier 3 Alamo for New York at Pier 4 William H Davenport for West Indies at stream Co W Mills for West Indies at Hieronymus Docks Lizzie E Dennison for West Indies at Gulf Dry Docks P J McLaughlin for Cuba at Ollinger Grace Dory Docka Strathona for Cuba at Ollinger Bruce Dry Docks Reno A Murray Fannie Prescott for West Indies at Gulf Dry Docks Sir Knight for sale at Olinger Bruce Dry Docks Carmela being rebuilt at Ollinger Bruce Dry Docks Oscar G for Cuba at L and N Docks.
Bound for Mobile list shows the Meltonian and Sylvanian steamships loading cargo for the British Isles, along with several schooners including Perceler, Albert D. Mills, Elizabeth T. Doyle, Sadie C. Sumner, and Carrie Strong preparing to load lumber, sisal, and dye wood from various regions.
A local contractor Wm J Koral advertises home repair ideas and offers gratis estimates. The notice lists Royal and Congress as contact points with both phones provided.
Immediate possession offered for 926 Dauphin Street. Two story twelve room home with bath gas electric lights servant's house garage fruit trees and large 80 by 326 foot lot. Also listings include a 1913 Studebaker Roadster price 250 and a 1914 Studebaker Touring Car price 350 with electric lights. Additional notices offer a mare buggy and wagon, a refrigerator, and other farm and vehicle items with contact details.
A local retailer announces a midweek through weekend sale at Walter Mitchells offering discounts on a wide range of merchandise. The notice invites shoppers to visit the store this week for special pricing and limited time offers.
In the matter of Walter B Regan, Bankrupt. United States District Court Southern District of Alabama. Notice to creditors of Regan of Mobile that on May 26 1916 he was adjudicated a bankrupt and the first meeting of creditors will be held in Mobile Alabama on June 10 1916 at 2 o clock p.m. to prove claims appoint a trustee examine the bankrupt and conduct necessary business. Robert T Ervin Referee in Bankruptcy. May 29 1916.
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