British delay in cotton purchases blamed on data gaps
Washington reports the British government cannot complete purchases of American cotton detained in Britain due to claimants failing to provide essential commercial details. Consul Skinner in London says bills of lading invoices contracts and confirmations are required. the Board of Trade will process claims as quickly as possible once data is provided.
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Washington
Great Britain
Ggeneral Skinner
London
State Department
Department of State
Board of Trade
PRESSING AND REPAIR SERVICES AND VESSEL NOTICE
An early 20th century public notice row lists Imperial Pressing Club offerings with prices for umbrellas suits cleaning and pressing in Palm Beach, plus Thomas Wagner & Co plumbing repair ads. It also contains a notice about the Louisville and Nashville drawbridge closing on Pearl river for up to ten days with an alternate bridge passage. A sale notice follows for defaulted mortgage debt on a Mobile County property with legal descriptions and included assets.
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Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Pearl River
Co. Marshall
New Orleans
National Mosaic Flooring Company
Bouge and Trust Company
Probete
Mobile
Mobile County
Manderville
Alabama
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Hurtel Street
Nti Nepceinek
Nineteen Hundred and Bankers Trust Company
Wisdom of Solomon in Court Confuses Looming Trial
Recorder Edington presides over Aleen Borden case with fourteen witnesses present as a judge adapts to a string of odd local tales. The column chronicles skirt ownership disputes and multiple petty offenses, including speeding, vagrancy, and brass found at One Mile Creek, all tied to colorful local figures.
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Edington
Aleen Borden
Aleen
Mary Monroe
Loreto Gilman
Loreto
Mary
Lizzie Paylor
Carrie Caldwell
Lizzie
Carrie
Mattie Harris
Alverta Ford
Mattie
Frank Long
P. J. O'Shaughnessey
Clarence Porter
James H. Simms
Joe Goodwin
Creek Bridge
South American business ties show improvement says U S official
Albert G. Ebert American vice consul at Montevideo arrived in New York on the Verdi and reported growing US Uruguay and South American trade. He noted prosperity in Uruguay and that European war disruption has spurred US firms to send more representatives. Also aboard, Commander Alberto Stroupler of the Argentine navy will advise and may purchase machinery and marine equipment.
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New York
United States
Uruguay
Albert G. Ebert
Montevideo
Europe
South America
Alberto Stroupler
Saturday Markets by steamer and rail measures bale totals
Markets report bale shipments by steamer Peerless and by rail lines. Lott Produce Company leads steamer totals with 48 bales, Baker-Lyons & Co. 43, Clarke Davis & Co. 14, Planters' Cotton Co. 5, F. M. Ladd & Co. 20, totaling 180 bales. Rail totals show 4 bales by Baker-Lyons & Co. on A. T. & N. Railroad, 12 bales by Southern Railroad, and 1, 7, 2, 2 bales by Planters' Cotton Co., Baker-Lyons & Co., Clarke Davis & Co., and F. M. Ladd, respectively, for a combined total. Louisville and Nashville lines report 1105 bales: Bashinsky & Co. 173, Baker-Lyons & Co. 7, Transit 925.
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Peerless
Lott, Produce Company
Baker-Lyons & Co
Clarke, Davis & Co
Planters’ Cotton Co
F. M. Ladd & Co
Baker- Lyons & Co
Southern Railroad
Naval Stores Market in Savannah Turpentine Rosin Quotations
Savannah Ga September 11 Turpentine market firm with 305 casks receipts 128 shipments stock 21083 casks Rosin market firm receipts 1109 barrels shipments 641 barrels stock 65129 barrels Quotations listed for grades B to WG including E F G H I K M N and WG WW with prices ranging from 3.00 to 5.90 dollars per unit
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Savannah
Turpen
Rosin
Cotton Seed Oil Market Closes Firm in New York
The cotton seed oil market closed firm with spot prices at 6.01 to 6.15 and futures for September to April posted between 5.98 and 6.48. Total sales reached 4,800 barrels.
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New York
Poultry Market Report From New York Trade
Live poultry weak with Western chickens and broilers at 16 1 2 cents, fowls 14 1 2 to 16. Dressed meat mostly weak with Western frozen roasting chickens 19 20, fresh fowls iced 13 to 18, fresh turkeys iced 15 to 16.
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New York
Chicago Produce Market Summary for September 11
Butter market lower while eggs hold steady. Potatoes rise with receipts at 25 cars from Minnesota Ohio Michigan and Wisconsin white varieties at 40 to 45 cents. Wheat No 2 red 1.12 1 4 to 1.14 No 2 hard 1.12 1 2 to 1.14. Corn No 2 yellow 78 1 2 to 79 cents. Oats No 8 white 34 3 4 to 35 cents. Barley 50 to 60 cents. Hay Timothy 5 50 to 8 50. Clover 7 13 25. Provisions Pork 12 10, lard 8 8 02, ribs 7 62 to 8 12.
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Chicago
Texas
Louisville
Sicily
Lima
California
Tennessee
Malaga
Mobile
Feacinee of Commerce
New York
Ewer & Ae
Minnesota
Ohio
Michigan
Wisconsin
Seereesee
Eee Ewes
Eee Ewan
Elgin Butter Trade Ticks Up Prices
Elgin HL reports butter prices steady to firmer with 200 tubs sold at 24 cents and 25 tubs at 25 cents.
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Elgin
Thrift and Determination Lift Off a Great Railroad Staff
A historical essay praises thrift and self denial as keys to rising from low beginnings to leadership, citing hundreds of officers from a major eastern railroad and the example of Abraham Lincoln. It spotlights Nels Anton Christensen, a Milwaukee inventor on the U S Naval board, detailing his rise from Danish youth to international recognition and American achievement.
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Great Eastern Railroad
Abraham Lincoln
United
Hanstholme
United States
Gladstone
Vessels in Port Show Mixed Tankers and Docks Activity
A scanned port list shows multiple vessels at piers and docks with nations and tonnages. Ships include Nadveviss Gulf Dry Docks Fort Gaines Nov 629 and Winona U S with varied yard placements and owners like Olinger Bruce Dry Docks and Hildegard Liverpool.
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Vesse—Uppland
Swed
Boromond
Nadveviss
Seeee
Gulf Dry Docks
Fort Gaines
Frednes
Vayedbacherubheanes Ceaene
Winona
U. S
Turner Terminals
Nelson
Stream American
Ollinger-Bruce Dry Dii
Henry T. Scott
Pler
Cratheus
Nor
Pinto Dry Docks
Schoou Ners
Achorn
Albert D. ‘Mills
Abbie C. Stubbs
Inez
Span
Strain
Lizzie EB
Dennison
Laguna
Susan B. Dantzler
I Bark& Glenesk
Numerous vessels listed with destinations and owners
A catalog of ships and cargo movements shows vessels such as Bark Carolina bound for Moragues Lumber in Cuba, G W Mills to Van Heynigen in Progreso, Fruithandel to Penarth, Pathfinders to Porto Rico Line in New York, and others including Weardale, Conttesse de Miandre, Zetas, Egda, Perceler with various ports of origin and destinations. Additional notes indicate layups and repairs at Puerto Cortes, Matanza Cuba, Port Arthur, and related terminals.
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Carolina
Urug
Havana
Cuba
Moragues Lumber Company
G. W. Mills
Progreso
Mex
van Heynigen
Fruithandel
Bel
Penarth
Pathfinders
Aim
New York
Naperian
Mobile Liners, Inc
Alex Lawrence
Nor
Liverpool
England
Oaklands
Havre
France
Weardale
Huelva
Spain
van Heynigen Brok. Co
Conttesse de Miandre
Calais
Hunter-Benn
Zetas
Colon
R. P
Weather Conditions Forecast and Regional Temperatures
A forecast warns of 94 degree heat for 36 hour shipments north east and west. River forecasts show the Black Warrior lower Tombigbee steady with upper Tombigbee rising at Columbus tonight. Alabama will fall. A cool air wave brings low temperatures from the northern Rockies to the upper Mississippi Valley with Helena Montana showing snow and Calgary at 8 below. Eastern states show high pressure and sunny conditions, Apalachicola 98, Raleigh 94, Montgomery 94, Boston 92. Albert Ashenhemerger, Local Forecaster. Crichton Baptist Church services announced for Sunday, with Sunday school at 9:30, services 11 and 8, prayer meeting Wednesday, teachers meeting Friday, Ladies Aid Tuesday afternoon. Cotton Convention closes in Groton Connecticut with papers on cotton manufacturing.
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Columbus
Alabama
Rocky
Mississippi Valley
Helena
Mont
Calgary
British America
New England
Apalachicola
Ala
Raleigh
N. C
Montgomery
Bostony Mass
Mobile
Crichton Baptist Church
J. D. Wilkes
Harry Keenan
Ladies’ Aid Society
Italian Immigrant Fights Deportation to Find War or Sea
Felix Artago, an Italian migrant, was detained in New Orleans and deportation was ordered. He has endured four months aboard the Cratheus in Mobile awaiting a voyage back to Italy, tired of the sea and longing for a homeland during wartime.
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Felix Artago
Crain
Progreso
Mexico
Artago
Italy
America
Land of
T. Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Land of the Free
New Orleans
Authenties
Cratheus
Mobile
Artage
Schooner Vahlear Black and other maritime moves reported
Local mariners update lists vessels sailing to Port Tampa and Cuba including the Ines and a Norwegian steamer. It notes inspections of the Louis live and the Camelia and includes a detailed Local Notice to Mariners with buoy changes and light reports for Texas City Channel and Galveston Bay. A farmer in Selma, Alabama, died after a shooting incident involving another farmer.
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Vahlear Black
Paewe
Thomas
Oregonian
York
Ines
Port Tampa
Spain
Porta
Ber
Munson
Cuba
Texas
Galveston Bay
City Channel
Boliber Point
Fort Point
Texas City
Bolt Point
Texas City Channel
G. S
Atlantic Coss
District
Galveston Bi Channel
Bolivar Point
Sthr Dstrict
Coast Pilot
Galveston
Atlantic Coast
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W. Bell
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Shaw-Cain Electric Co
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Bell
Jackson Street
Star Drug Store
Conception
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R. E
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South Virginia
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Southern Realty Company
Elmira
Southeast Corner
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Palmetto Street
Gulf Shingle Mfg. Co
J. F
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Laurendine & Touart
Streis Street
Th Piano Co
St Joseph St
J. D. Antoine
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S. . Dauphin
Eete
Palm Beach
Imperial Pressing Club
St. Emanuel
Thos. Wagner. & Co
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Studebut
United States & Ohio
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Wall Street Review
General Motors Baker
Crucible Steel
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United States Steel
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Chicago, Mil. & St. Paul
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Mexican Petroleum
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Studebaker Corporation
Ionore Eaditie Moouthern Ay Tennessee Copper
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Federal Reserve Bank
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Vegetables and Fruit
Warley Fruit and Produce Company
Solomon
Jack
Jill
Herman - Bracka
Ed Reynolds
Mary Davis
Macon and
Malone
Reynolds
Jerry Galley
Cash Grain
S. W. Straus
American Society For Thrift
Hildegard
Puerto Cortez
Barri
Puerto Cortes Pensacola
Matanza
Port Arthur
Lake Pontchartrain
Iriine
Chile
Puerto Patre
Reneernae
Albert Ashenhmerger
Weather Bureau
Sroton
Conn
National Association of Cotton Manufacturers
Saes
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Ocean Vagabone
Marine News
Heselma
R. D. Stone
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