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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1913
Page
11
Desirable furnished or unfurnished rooms for light housekeeping available at 206 St. Louis Street. Contact shows hours 11:20 to 7.00.
The remains of Anna May Wheat daughter of Mr and Mrs E C Wheat were interred Monday in Magnolia Cemetery. The funeral service was at the family home 15 New Conti street with Very Rev Gardiner C Tucker rector of St Johns Episcopal Church officiating. Pallbearers were John Burns Charlies A Garland F C Horton and George A Creary Jr.
New Orleans Mobile and Chicago Railroad Export comp 50 bales. Mobile and Montgomery Railroad Train No 72 Baker Lyons 56 Davis Wilson Gailliard 22 Beevil Phillips 10 Frank M Ladd 26 Touart and Quinn 2 Bashinsky and Company 84 Well Brothers 60 Transit 574 total 817 bales. Mobile and Ohio Railroad Export comp 1958 bales Steamer Mary 8 Blees Steiner Bevill Phillips 52 Davis Wilson Gailliard 40 Baker Lyons 7 Frank M Ladd 26 Touart and Quiha 18 Farmers' Commission Company 11 total 184 bales.
New Orleans cotton opens with a 10 to 16 point decline amid 3000 bales notices for December deliveries. Rumors of larger-than-expected deliveries spurred selling. partial recovery followed as demand from short sellers appeared. Spot cotton unchanged at 131-16c. Futures close steady with a net decline of 4 to 7 points.
New York cotton futures opened lower as Liver pool weakness spread to New York with December leading the decline. Prices fell 7 to 12 points, then recovered slightly on covering but stayed net lower at midday. A local estimate put the crop at 14,435,000 bales with lint, and reports of heavy West rains delayed packing and ginning.
Shippers forecast warns of 38 ecs for 36 hour shipments north with varied temperatures east and west. Tombigbee river and branches and Alabama river levels expected to hold steady for two days. High barometer system moves east bringing colder conditions. fair weather to continue tonight and Wednesday. Albert Aschenberger, Local Forecaster, Weather Bureau.
Mrs. L. Howell of San Antonio, long resident of Monterey Mexico, arrived home and said no American is being held. No member of the Monterey colony in San Antonio knew Mrs. Thornton.
The funeral for Mrs Mamie Angelovitch was held Monday at 10 from her son in law G M Hughes home at Broad and Canal then at 10 30 at St Josephs Catholic church with Rev Father Kennedy officiating. Interment followed at Pine Crest cemetery. Pallbearers included Y W Pringle W Spencer Clarence Rencher M Dooley and Charles Wittman.
After a long illness, Paul J. Sturtevant died at his Prosser Alabama home Sunday at 9 a m in his seventy second year. Funeral services were held at the home Monday at 11 a m conducted by Rev Atkins. Interment followed in Magnolia cemetery Theodore. He was a member of Raphael Semmes Camp No 11 U C V. He is survived by his wife four sons Charles A William P Edwin F Frank C Sturtevant and two daughters Mrs R L Deakle of Bayou La Batre and Mrs L L Obert of this city.
The funeral proceeded from 706 Dauphin street to St Joseph church with Requiem Mass by Rev Father Kennedy. Many relatives and friends attended. interment followed in the Catholic cemetery with a floral grave cover. Pallbearers included John Lynch, Thomas Lynch, John McKay, Peter McKay, James Crane, James McKnight Jr, Robert Laub, Dennis Lynch.
Thomas Burden, a Negro motor truck driver for Weinacker Ice and Fuel Company, was arrested after a Tuesday collision at St. Francis and Water streets. Detective Burch and Pearson charged him with reckless driving after his truck struck 64 year old John Jones, who was treated at the scene and not seriously hurt.
Tuesday morning at 9 an s funeral services were held for Mrs. Margaret Burns at her son F. J. Burns home Bascombe and Bay avenues then at St Matthew’s Catholic church with Rev J W Dunne officiating. Interment followed in Catholic Cemetery with pallbearers Irwin Goff George Glass Charles Cottrell and H Smith named.
Liverpool reports steady cotton prices with middling at 7.28 and good middling 7.44, sales totaling 7,000 bales including 6,300 American and 1,000 for spec and export. Receipts reach 7,409 bales, futures close quiet and steady with multiple two month postings from November through October.
New York sugar and molasses markets show quiet activity on November 25 with prices for raw sugar Musegrado 3.17 cents per pound, cen 3.67, molasses sugar 2.92, refined sugar quiet.
Turpentine firm reports sales of 50 casks with receipts 495. rosin firm shows no sales but 2 359 bins. Bid B 3.55 62 1 2, D 2.60 62 1 2, 360 62 1 2, 2.46 0 52 1 2, 1G 3.62 1 2, H 3.62 1 2, 1 3.40 75, aK 4.46, MM 20 N 6.00, we 8.50, ww 6.30.
New York trading shows active session with broad gains across speculative stocks. Large blocks of 1500 to 3000 shares moved, lifting representative names 1 to 2 points amid early strength and renewed short covering.
Call money remains steady at 2 3 4 8 1 2 percent with a ruling rate of 2 84 percent. Time loans firmer with sixty to ninety day at 5 percent and six months at 4 3 4 5 percent. Sterling exchange firm with sixty day at 4 81 25 and demand at 4 86 46. Government bonds steady and railroad bonds firm.
The commission approved a redrafted franchise reducing its life to twenty years, extending street maintenance on Magnolia and Beauregaard streets, and granting the Compress and Warehouse Company authority to lay tracks with city street control. The school bond ordinance was adopted detailing bond terms and retirement funding. Resolutions ordered retirements of several bonds and interest. Taxicab fare matters were noted for follow up with companies.
Queues formed as four vessels reached the quarantine station early to unload along the bay. The Belize under Captain Hansen arrived from Belize carrying 16,000 banana bunches and 700 bags, with plans to load general merchandise cargo afterward.
Grain and provisions futures show mixed bids with wheat trading around 0.69 3 4 for December and corn near 0.69 3 4. Oats little changed as pork and meat contracts steady with January and May positions noted. Ribs and Tl materials listed with price quotes and minor movements across months.
Chicago grain rates list cash wheat No 2 red 96 1 2 cents No 3 hard 88 4 89 No 2 northern 890 1 2 No 2 spring 88 89 corn No 2 72 1 2 78 No 2 white 78 1 2 74 No 2 yellow 71 3 76 oats No 2 white 40 8 4 41 standard 40 1 2 ad Timothy seed 4 00 35 257 clover 10 00 18 75 per ton provisions pork 21 00 lard 10 75 ribs 10 50 11 2
In St Louis on November 25 prices quoted for corn and wheat show various grades: hard 86 1 2 for No 2, white 77 for No 2, date 41 for No 2, white 42 for No 2. Rounding details indicate typical daily bid figures.
The Norwegian steamer Signe, Captain Ferang, arrives from Progresso Mexico with a sisal cargo signaling a resumption of sisal imports. The British steamer Savann loads at Turner Docks for Elder Dempster while the British schooner Boniform sails from Weatherport in ballast to Antine Station. The steam yacht Winslow arrives at Ollinger Dock for general repairs.
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