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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1916
Page
7
Data shows year and week totals for points and returns with multiple figures. It lists yearly and prior year comparisons for days and weeks, including Consolidated Statement values and ports to various destinations.
Grain and provisions prices listed for wheat, corn, and rye with varying futures levels. Naval stores in Savannah report firmer turn with rosin prices and standard resin grades quoted. shipments and receipts noted for barrels and casks.
Adak claims Gold Medal Haarlem Oil cleanses kidneys and bladders and expels poisons. It is marketed as a world wide cure, tested by U S Government chemists, imported from ancient laboratories and sold by druggists with the GO mark on the box.
Daily stock list reports prices for numerous firms across sectors. Notable entries include American Zinc, American Tel Tel, General Electric, U S Steel, Northern Pacific, and Union Pacific with varied figures reflecting current trading.
Cotton spot weak with good middling at 10.96 and middling 10.82. Sales reach 10,000 bales with 1,000 for speculation and export. receipts 2,000. Futures show little change with various forward spreads listed from October to May.
Law and Equity Court notes motions to amend denied or granted with counts overruled or sustained. Cases include O'Connell v National Surety Co and McPherson v Mobile Light and R R Co. Demurrers ruled, costs taxed, jury trial refused in Barrett Bros. Shipping Co. v Minge. Adjourned until Wednesday.
Montgomery Israel Frencher, a Mobile county convict who escaped in 1918 while serving six years for grand larceny, was recaptured in Lowndes county and returned to prison on Monday. The item also notes other brief wire-service updates from Knoxville, Chicago, El Paso, London, and New Orleans.
Norwegian press unites in denouncing German submarine warfare. Oreblade brands it piracy and says Germany targets Norway’s mercantile ships. Tidens Tegn notes widespread bitterness over ship sinkings and deaths in the Arctic and urges government action.
Andrew Groeschner was fined ten dollars or ten days by Recorder Edington on a disorderly conduct charge. J E Mooney testified Groeschner used vile language in his wife’s presence and refused to stop when ordered, leading to a scuffle. Groeschner bore marks from the confrontation.
Fair tonight and Tuesday with noticeable temperature change. No significant precipitation expected across Mobile and surrounding areas.
Captain George J. Murphy, owner of the American schooner Annie M Murphy, cleared his vessel at the customs house for Isabella de Sagua Cuba. The schooner carries 105000 superficial feet of pitch pine lumber and plans to sail this afternoon for the overseas port. The Murphy was formerly the schooner James T Maxwell Jr.
The American schooner Bluefields departed Monday for Havana carrying 95 000 superficial feet of pitch pine lumber.
Monday morning at about 7 o'clock the Tar pon of the St. Andrews and Gulf line arrived at the harbor from Pensacola and other Florida points with passengers and freight. It will make the return trip this afternoon at dusk.
The American steamship Lampasas of the Mallory line arrived Sunday afternoon at Lampasas Port from New York via Key West and Tampa. She brought passengers and freight and will sail tomorrow on the return voyage to the metropolis.
The Leyland line steamer Nubian was due at Fort Morgan this afternoon from Liverpool. It has passed Sand Key and is reported making good time for Mobile. The Nubian will dock at the municipal docks and take a general merchandise cargo from Mobile Liners, Inc.
Florida Santa Rosa Sound indicates the Cirel crossing range rear light is destroyed by the October hurricane and will be re established as soon as practicable.
The local weather bureau issues a Shippers Forecast with moderate temperatures for 24 to 36 hour shipments north east and west. River forecasts state the Tombigbee River and branches will not change and the Alabama will not change much.
The steamer Maria of Glasgow is reported sunk by Kaiser. The U S. crew is rescued after signals from the scene near Ireland where the vessel went down.
London dispatches report the Marina torpedoed without warning while sailing from Newport News. Fifty American horsemen, all white and listed with homes across the United States, were signed aboard. The vessel, a Donaldson liner with ballast, had left Glasgow for Newport News on October 26.
Dispatches from Washington describe the sinking of the Marina with a mixed British and American crew. Consul Frost in Queenstown says the report is provisional and an investigation is underway to determine the attack’s nature and if Germany violated pledges to the United States.
Distruction of the British horse transport Marina by a German submarine may strain U S and British wartime policy. The report notes potential loss of American lives and questions safety of seaborne supply lines amid heightened tensions.
Frank Hines Sven Bell and Jim Collins pleaded guilty in the inferior criminal court Monday to violating the prohibition law and paid $50 fines plus costs. Neil Blowalls Dennis McBride and Addie Tale Randolph faced recorder's court for the same charge with $60 fines each. J L Noble’s case continued to November 2 after a guilty plea. Henry Levert and Ben Fisher were docketed on prohibition charges, Levert bail posted and Fisher released on bond. A raid seized liquor at 8 Poggi southeast streets and Warren streets.
The October criminal term began at 10 o'clock with Judge Claude Grayson. Herbert Allman, indicted for burglary and larceny, sought insanity with a December 1 hearing. Allman is accused of burglarizing a Theodore store and stealing a bicycle. Three loiterers face November 28 trials for violating the prohibition law. Tuesday calls include Ida Hillard for crochurees law violation, Allen Spencer for petit larceny by cutting timber, and Marshall Thomas for assault with a gun.
Herman Scott was fined 50 dollars and costs for carrying concealed knucks and, unable to pay, jailed twenty days. Disorderly conduct charge merged. Arrested by Officer Baker in the southern city section Sunday afternoon. Head Off That All Winter Cough ad text follows the item. Catherine Kermeen McKinstry dies at age five. funeral set for Tuesday at 10:00 AM from Rapier Avenue. Magnolia Cemetery interment.
Mexican ambassador Arredondo explained that a Cabrera statement alleging U S aid to Villa was issued without his knowledge or consent by a Mexican news bureau employee. Officials said the move likely ends the incident and strains between the United States and Mexico.
The Galveston jury in the John Copeland bar killing of William Black an anti Catholic lecturer at Marshall Texas in February 1916 told Judge Briggs it was hopelessly divided and asked for discharge. The judge ordered continued deliberations.
Notice that J B Graham of Mobile Alabama was adjudicated bankrupt on October 13 1916 and a first meeting of creditors will be held at the Mobile office on November 1 1916 at 2 PM to prove claims appoint a trustee and examine the bankrupt.
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