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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1914
Page
2
New York October 30 The government arranged a ten million dollar loan with the National Bank and other New York banks to fund war supplies in the United States. The notes will be publicly offered and held by the lending banks. Interest is reported near 5 1/2 percent.
Notice to the public offers geese ducks hens fryers and broilers at low prices. Call or phone for prices. J C Brincat & Co 106 110 Government Street Bel 3214 Home 440 ady.
Government Street Presbyterian church will install Rev. Henry Wade DuBose as pastor Sunday at 7:30 p m. A presbytery committee will conduct the service with Rev. Henessy preaching Rev. Planck charging the pastor and Mr Gaillard addressing the congregation. Music will be provided. The public is invited.
American women purchase more than 10 million dollars worth of millinery supplies from France each year.
Brigadier General Bliss reports Maytorena’s forces at Nogales now total about 1000 after the arrival of 300 troops and four 3 inch mountain guns from Cananea. Officials note talks with Carranza’s government on Vera Cruz evacuation depend on a date for Funston’s withdrawal and Mexican commitments to honor American demands.
The Southern Express Company offers free transport to Brooklyn New York for Christmas gifts to European children until November 8 1914 with dispatch on government steamers from Brooklyn on November 10. Donations to the American Red Cross Society in Washington DC will also be carried free. The effort, aimed at children of soldiers, has gained national momentum.
Berlin reports from official circles that the South African revolt may widen significantly with Generals De Wet and Beyers seen as respected Boer leaders. Dr Rhomberg argues Japan seeks Asian and Chinese dominance, while the German War Material Company assures copper stocks sustain a prolonged war and private industry can supply. An Irish workman in an Irish paper says Ireland's WWI involvement would not align with Irish interests.
Special Agent Roland Turner of the Southern Railway farm improvement department visits Mobile. Lieut. J. P. McCaskey Jr visits. W. F. Owen returns to the city from business along the line of the New Orleans Mobile and Chicago Railroad. H. A. Smith, Mobile and Ohio lumber agent, spends Friday in Mobile. F. M. Griffith, Rock Island division passenger agent, visits Mobile. John Craft, Alabama Good Roads Association president, spoke in Bay Minette on Friday.
Washington wary as Turkey enters conflict against Russia. Officials fear Balkan involvement, disrupted food supplies, and wider war across the Middle East and beyond. military experts assess Turkish army of about 300 000 with 400 000 reserves and a mixed naval force including Breslau and Goeben.
A Peru Indiana man R F Erwin reports an indigestive biliousness and constipation case last winter. He credits Chamberlains Tablets with easing the stomach and relieving the spasms. For sale by dealers.
Birmingham Ala Oct 30 A tour of mines and plants in the Birmingham district occupied the time today for delegates at the annual meeting of the American Iron and Steel Institute in the city. More than 250 visiting steel men joined the excursion which left early today. A barbecue at Bayview Ala was a program diversion. Tonight the Birmingham Newspaper Club will host a dinner for Judge E H Gary and other officers and directors. A reception and ball at the Country Club will close the day’s entertainment.
Liverpool spot cotton moves in strong demand with prices down five points. Middling fair 5.80d and good middling 4.80d, low middling 4.674d, good ordinary 3.71d, ordinary 2.974d. Total sales 7,500 bales, including 6,200 American at 4.804d for middling. Imports 499 bales, all American.
An advertisement warns consumers to buy genuine Resinol in the original blue package to avoid substitutes and unsafe imitations. It urges avoiding similar names and offers a free sample by writing to Resinol Department 41 R in Baltimore, Maryland.
Weekly cotton statistics show 49 000 bales forwarded to mills with 43 000 American. Stocks total 758 000 with American at 459 000. Imports reach 54 000, including 43 000 American, as of Liverpool October 30.
Do not give opium based cough medicines to children. Experience shows Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is safer for coughs colds and croup in children and adults. It contains no opium or harmful drugs and is sold by all dealers.
Chief Waskanah, a full-blooded Sioux, will sing popular and native songs at the Windsor Rathskeller tonight. He graduated from Carlisle University in 1906. The program includes American tunes and one Indian song in a native tongue for interested listeners.
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