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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1916
Page
7
Receipts for seven days show 182 072 and 132 682. Exports to Great Britain 104 228 and to Canada 75 553 with 38 618. Stock balance for the day 1 140 371 and 1 251 679. Cumulative ports since August 1 total 3 468 120 and 1 995 611.
New York stocks showed renewed tendencies toward fractional gains with gains led by California Petroleum Marine preferred and other rails while many industrials and utilities rose. Key names include American Tobacco Anaconda Copper General Electric United States Steel and Union Pacific with mixed results across sectors.
Oct 25 New Orleans reports smaller ginning returns easing price gains early trading. July futures rise to 1989 with all months making new highs as heavy buying and later profit taking reduce gains. At noon markets steady with mixed closes from Dec through July, reflecting volatility in a varied session.
The New York cotton market opened firm on smaller October 18 gains in the Census report but soon turned heavy. May futures touched 20.01 while December and January eased, later falling 90 to 100 points as stop loss selling and liquidation intensified. Late trade showed a partial recovery amid irregular closes.
Liverpool reports cotton spot steady with good middling at 11.27 and mid 11.18 while low middling stands at 10.97. Ten thousand bales sold including 1,000 for speculation and export. receipts reach 15,000 bales. Futures show irregular moves across the curve with various forward differentials listed.
Three hundred seventy three cases of beer seized from the Tarpon warehouse were ordered returned to the steamship company as legally seized but to be destroyed after October 31 pending ownership challenges. Other alcohol cases extend to whiskey seizures, guilty pleas and fines, with raids by police and sheriff yielding small quantities of beer, gin, and whiskey in Mobile.
Wheat prices listed for grades No 2 red No 32 red No 2 hard and No 3 hard with ranges. Corn and oats quotes given with several nominal values. Rye and barley priced, and hay, pork, lard and rigs values shown.
Low fare tickets are in effect from Mobile to fected under Hatinion, with new rates announced by Tinlos Mation O45. Authorities urged travelers to confirm dates and terms before purchasing.
The Norwegian steamer Agnella of United Fruit Company discharges a cargo of bananas at the Mobile and Ohio fruit wharf.
The barge Choctaw arrived this morning from the lower bay towing the Nimrod. It lightered cargo from the Portuguese bark Porto Para which lies ashore in the lower bay. About half the cargo was transferred to the Choctaw and taken to the city. Porto Para remains ashore on the west bank, expected to be floated at the first high tide.
The schooner M. A. Acorn dismasted in the October 15 hurricane was shifted to the Markley-Miller slip to discharge cargo. The Achorn and the Longfellow, also damaged, are at the same slips discharging and will enter dry docks here.
The Peerless arrived at the city wharves from points on the Alabama river Tuesday night and will depart again Saturday. The steamer J. H. Menge is set to depart tonight for Bigbee river landings and is loading freight today.
The British steamer Nubian of the Leyland line is expected to arrive in port Friday from Liverpool. The Mobile Liners, Inc. will load the vessel.
Notes list multiple coast lights and buoys relit after recent storms. Galveston Entrances and Bay lights, Hitchcock Reef and Port Bolivar fronts, and St Andrews Bay entries show relighting on the 19th to 21st with some extinguished since the 18th. Florida Apalachicola Bay bulkhead rear light also relit.
The weather bureau reports a 24 to 36 hour forecast with temperatures around 30 to 36 degrees in northern and western zones and moderate in the east. River forecasts show the Tombigbee and its branches and the Alabama expected to remain largely unchanged over the next two days.
The census bureau reports cotton ginned before October 18 totaled 7 91 733 bales, up from 7 619 747 in 1914 and 56 708 720 in 1945, with round and sea island bales included. State tallies show Alabama through Oklahoma and the South totals, outlining regional gains against prior years.
In Savannah on Oct 25 turpentine held at 44 3-4 cents with no receipts reported. Rosin remained firm with no new entries. Prices shown include 6.88 for FG SG and 6.43 and 6.80 for other rosin grades amid a quiet market.
A midwestern train car collision north of South Bend resulted in six deaths as an interurban car of the Southern Michigan Railway struck a passing automobile. Other brief items note Lloyds reporting sunk ships and a call for stronger board of trade powers to curb food-price rises. An Alexandria house once connected to George Washington burned for a $30,000 loss, while a Newport, Tennessee, auto collision killed a family member and injured others. The Ottawa railway strike settlement is reached and Houston reports cotton sales at 19.40 cents per pound. In Ohio, W F Brown offers Republican campaign services. Also noted are Lloyds sinking Barbara and Snestad with no loss of life and the death of William Ward at West Point.
Petrograd reports Roumanians and Russians evacuated Tchernovods in Dobrudja as Field Marshal von Mackensen presses attacks along the Dobrud front. The Russo Romanian line near Lake Tadi Haul by the Black Sea coast 12 miles north of Constanta also evacuated.
An Italian war office announcement says a squad and French troops were enplanee armed Austrian artillery works on three west Istria spots and escaped unharmed after an aerial clash with the French.
Report says hydro aeroplanes and Austrian sea planes clashed near Caorle on the Italian coast. One Austrian machine was capsized and another fell into a lagoon at Baseleghe as the Austrian squadron dropped bombs on Caorle.
Berlin war office announces Vulcan Pass on the Transylvania front captured by General von Falkenhayn's forces. Reported by Associated Press via Sayville. The brief dispatch confirms the strategic loss in the front line theater with no further details.
The war office announces another Rumanian retirement on the Transylvanian front. Rumanian troops near Cluj and Kimpolung were forced to fall back a little as fighting continued.
Italian cavalry from southern Albania joined entente forces at the Macedonian front in a junction with allied cavalry and artillery, the war office announced today.
Paris reports the French struck north and northeast of Verdun along a front of about four miles with a deep penetration up to two miles. The attack followed a heavy bombardment, targeting the eastern Meuse near Bras to the Damloup battery as a counter move in the Verdun area.
French forces seized the village and fort of Douaumont and pushed to Haudremont quarry. They advanced from Douaumont to Damloup on the right and took 3600 plus prisoners and war material.
Charles Hopper was sent to the county jail for fifty days on a tit larceny charge. Walter Hatch held to city court on grand larceny with a $260 bond after a bicycle theft. seven other charges listed. Deputy Donaghue cites seven more charges and bicycle parts found at Hatch’s place. Other defendants, Jones, ten days for an offense. Joe Sims for gaming. Nathan Russell nolle prosse.
Christian entered into rest October 26 1916 at 2 05 am Bilia Redwood wife of ER W Christian The friends of the family are requested to attend her funeral from the residence 875 Dauphin street tomorrow morning at 10 40 o clock and from the St Francis Street Methodist Church at 11 o clock Interment in Magnolia Cemetery
Classified rental ads describe several rooms and cottages for rent. Listings mention private facilities desirable tenants such as gentle men and young men, with locations on Broad Street Dauphin Street Saint Francis Street Booth Avenue and nearby streets with contact details and dates.
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