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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1913
Page
15
Notice states Antonio Lad will on November 3 apply to Mobile Excise Commission for permission to transfer his bar room business from the southwest corner of Commerce and Eslava to the northwest corner of Water and Eslava in Mobile.
Notice by Louise E. Schimpf executrix of Maria M. Kuhl deceased. Letters testamentary granted October 6, 1913 by Judge Price Williams Jr of Mobile County Probate Court. Claimants must present within law or be barred. Leigh & Chamberlain attorneys. 10:7-14-21.
Bridge over Hall's Mill Creek on Halls Mill Road closed to traffic from October to November 1 by order of the Board of Road and Revenue Commissioners.
Turpentine firm 46 sold 14c per gallon with 65 casks received in Savannah on October 21. Resin firm shows 2,260 barrels received and no sales. Various bid quotations listed from B to WG with prices from 3.55 to 6.20 per unit. The note ends with an age related proverb about sunrise.
The operette Little Boy Blue after major runs in Vienna Paris Berlin and other capitals comes to Mobile’s Lyric next Saturday with matinee and night shows. Otis Harlan Dupont and an outstanding chorus headline the New York production praised for musical excellence and stage beauty. Seat sale is Thursday at 9 p m.
Fred Egen er, longtime Chicago blueprint expert, left architecture for the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus. He developed clown stunts after studying Grimaldi era buffoons, practicing with a veteran clown, and designing acts on paper. The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus arrives in Mobile for two performances on Thursday.
Mobile market report shows daily and weekly cotton receipts exports and stocks. It lists price categories like good ordinary and middling with bid figures, along with year to date receipts and exports to Britain and the Continent and U S ports totals.
New Orleans October cotton futures opened steady with a 17 to 18 point decline on poor cables and long profit taking. Prices dipped 7 to 9 points after an hour of trading before a bounce on private crop-damage rumors.
New York cotton traders saw heavy realizing with futures opening lower by 4 points and sliding 18 to 24 points before buying support steadied the market. Reports from the South of frosts and warmer outlook in the southwest influenced sentiment as traders locked in gains.
The New York market opened with clear strength as demand surged, with Steel Reading and the copper issues leading gains. Nearly a score of issues rose a point or more, Union Pacific Steel Amalgamated Reading among the 2 point advances, while fears of rate suspensions and currency bill changes supported the rally. Foreign buyers were active and bonds remained firm.
Cotton spot in fair demand with firm prices. Middling fair 6 24d, good middling 7 94d, middling 7 82 4d, low middling 7 46 04, good ordinary 6 94 4, ordinary 6 60 4. Sales 8 000 with 7 006 American and 500 for speculation and export. Futures unsettled with several forward spreads listed. Receipts 19 000 including 14 100 American.
A Hagenbeck Wallace Circus scout signed clown Egener after eight years in the business. He speaks of loving slapsticks and aims to perform stunts like The Suffragette Parade The Atlantic City Board Walk and Wasps as a unique burlesque act shaping his show this year.
The Norwegian steamer Crathens arrived from Kingston Jamaica Tuesday morning as the sole river arrival. Tarpon completed repairs and loaded cargo after discharge, with Roy Peck and Mr and Mrs Riddle aboard from Pensacola. Eastland sails to Montevideo with 6000 bales binder twine and extensive timber. Lampasas sails to New York with general merchandise and passengers. Montauk Point expected to sail this afternoon. American from Selma arrives after delays with 572 bales cotton and a long list of sundries while grounding on multiple occasions. Viator bound for United Fruit with banana cargo due Wednesday.
A garbled page lists prices for meats dairy staples and grains with many OCR errors. The fragment includes butter cheese lard pork corn oats hay meal and molasses with scattered prices and unit measures, ending with a reflective quip about two people living cheaply contrasting a prior warning.
Forecasts warn of 86 degree heat risk for a 36 hour shipment north and east while western areas remain moderate. The Tombigbee and Alabama rivers show little change over the next two days. High pressure brings fair but cold conditions south and east, with frosts to the Gulf coast. low pressure to the northeast brings wind along coasts. Albert Aschenberger, Local Forecaster, Weather Bureau.
A humorous lament about a henpecked heavyweight fighter and a jab at loyalists who call pawpaw a fruit. The speaker mocks cautious betting and urges prudent wagers within a lighthearted local tone.
A medical warning describes backache and kidney distress from excess meat. It advises relief by cleansing the kidneys with a four ounce dose of salts mixed with water before breakfast, claiming it cures cloudy urine and supports bladder strength.
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