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The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Nov 16, 1914

Page

5

Grand Opera Opens Lyceum Course At Harte Auditorium

Mobile Church Federation begins its Lyceum Course with the Duggan Grand Opera Company at Harte Auditorium. The Redpath Bureau presents seven entertainments through next April, featuring five musical acts and the Rawei trio from New Zealand alongside humorist Strickland W. Gillilan and various orchestras.

Mobile Church Federation Harte Strickland W. Gillilan Rawers New S. W. Gillilan Schildkret’s Raweis Bolander Orchestra Maurer Sisters Kellerman Company David Duggan Ranny New York Mme Else Harthan-Arendt Charlotte Skert Roscoe Kimball Italy Luigi Vannucini Florence Jean de Reszke Paris Herr Richard Eckhold Brahms Mr. Duggan Henry W. Savage Golden West Ravinia Park Chicago Victor Emanuel Thomas Symphony Orchestra Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra

Bolander Orchestra nearing fifth year of music making

The Bolander Orchestra approaches its fifth year as a musical organization. All members are born musicians. Their father, John A. Bolander, was a violin maker. From childhood they began to play instruments with Adeline Bolander noted at age seven.

Bolander John A. Bolander Adeline Bolander

Turks Fort Turba and Sheik Said Garrison Taken

The admiralty said Indian troops with the Duke of Edinburgh captured Turba Fort near Sheik Said on the Bab el Mandeb strait. Six Turks killed. many wounded or captured. fort and six field guns seized. Indian casualties included one officer and fifteen men wounded and four killed. no cruiser casualties.

Associated Press London Admiralty Sheik- Said Strait Bab-el-Mandeb Gulf of Aden Turba Duke of Edinburgh Aden Protectorate Sheik Said Mendeli

Bolander Orchestra Delights with Vocal and Instrumental Pieces

The Bolander Orchestra offers both vocal and instrumental music with strong emphasis on instruments. The family, born in Chicago and raised largely in Denver, now return to Chicago and have toured from Kansas and Colorado to New York performing ensemble and solo pieces on various instruments, duets, and a quintette along with readings and impersonations.

Chicago Denver Kansas Colorado New York Bolander

Maurer Sisters Orchestra Enters Eighth Year on Lyceum

The Maurer Sisters Orchestra grows into its eighth year on the lyceum and Chautauqua platform under Redpath management. The group began public performance at a young age and has earned consistently excellent reports with no letters of criticism, rivaling the best notice from committees.

Maurer Sisters Lyceum Chautauqua Redpath Bureau Maurer Redpath

Marcus Kellerman to Tour With Redpath Musical Bureau

Marcus A Kellerman dramatic baritone will tour the coming season under the Redpath Musical Bureau assisted by Sara Gurowitsch and William Alexis Parson. He has performed with the New York Symphony under Walter Damrosch and the Minneapolis and St Paul Symphonies under Emil Oberhofer and Walter Rothwell, plus Boston Theodore Thomas and Cincinnati orchestras in recital concert and oratorio.

Marcus A. Kellerman Sara Gurowitsch William Alexis Parson Redpath Musical Bureau Miss Gurowitsch William Parsons Mr. Kellerman New York Symphony Orchestra Walter Damrosch Mineapolis Emil Oberhofer St. Paul

Woodmen Ride Cessna On River Pleasure Cruise

With a crowd of nearly 400 on the Charles E. Cessna, Maple Camp No. 5 Uniform Bank Woodmen of the World took members and friends up the river for about twenty one miles Sunday afternoon and again Sunday night, drawing solid attendance.

Charles E. Cessna Maple Camp No. 5 Uniform Bank Woodmen of the World

Dodson's Liver Tone Promotes Safe Liver Health Alternative

An old advertisement warns against calomel as dangerous mercury causing sickness and calls Dodson's Liver Tone a safe vegetable substitute. It claims calomel harms the body and that Dodson's product starts the liver without side effects, avoiding salivation and griping.

Dodson

New Orleans Cotton Opens With Dual Contracts Under Federal Rules

The New Orleans cotton exchange opened for normal business with no restrictions at 9:05 AM. First trades matched last week’s liquidation level for January at 7.50. Two quotation sets for old and new contracts due to federal rules showed the March position higher on new than old, with spot cotton quiet and 350 bales sold on the spot.

New Orleans New As

Cotton Exchange Reopens After Liquidation Period

New York cotton brokers gathered as the exchange reopened after three and a half months of liquidation. Old and new style contracts traded with initial irregularities but overall steady prices. Middling uplands and gulf quoted around 7.75 to 8.00, spot quiet, futures close steady with mixed early activity.

New York Cotton NEW York Cotton Exchange Gulf T.s

Liverpool Cotton Spot Demand Strong as Daily Sales Top 10,000 Bales

Liverpool reports cotton spot demand remains good with American middling at 4.56. Daily sales reached 10,000 bales including 8,100 American and 500 for speculation and export. Receipts totaled 4,788 bales, all American, while futures closed steady with various forward-month quotes.

Liverpool

Money Market Report From New York

Mercantile paper trades between 5 1/4 and 5 3/4 percent. Sterling exchange soft with 60 day bills at 4.85 4.85, cables at 4.88 4.50, demand at 4.87 7/75. Bar silver quoted at 48 7/8 cents.

Money Market New York Mercantile Paper Sterling Exchange

Bank seeks injunction against Walker and Stapleton in asset case

The Bank of Bay Minette filed a writ of injunction in chancery court on a Saturday asking the State Superintendent of Banking Alex E. Walker and W. D. Stapleton to stop interfering with handling certain assets of the plaintiff or the assignee Joel McDonald. The bank, absorbed months ago by Baldwin County Bank, acted on Walker’s recommendation claiming authority under suite laws. no final order has been issued.

Chancery Court Bank of Bay Minette Alex E. Walker W. D. Stapleton Bay Minette Joel McDonald Bank of Bay

Escape from County Roads Captured in St Elmo

Oscar Parker who escaped from the county roads while serving an eight months sentence for grand larceny was recaptured Sunday at St Elmo by Deputy Sheriff Andrew Parker and returned to the county jail. He will be charged with being an escape.

Oscar Parker St. Elmo Andrew Parker

Constipation a Penalty of Age

Health note urges keeping bowels open in aging, warns against harsh purgatives, and promotes Mr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a mild laxative tonic. Advertises price fifty cents to one dollar with free trial bottle offer by Dr W B Caldwell, 451 Washington St, Monticello, HL.

Caldwell

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