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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1914
Page
3
The Mobile item notes birthday celebrations for several children including Charles Robert Eastes Roxie Lee Parnell Lillian Godbold Roy F Anderson and Vivian E Harwell. It invites boys and girls aged four to eleven to entertain at the Empire Theatre this afternoon.
A Bay Minette Tax League organized Tuesday at the courthouse with E. Q. Norton of Mobile as field secretary. George W. Burns was elected president, J. McMillan vice president, and H. H. Mixon secretary and treasurer. The group will reconvene Friday at 7 50 PM to admit more members and push tax reform.
Sugar market surge boosts Cuban profits by 25 million dollars, signaling a strong economic impact for the island nation. The data point highlights heightened revenue from exports amid shifting trade conditions.
The Agriculture Department’s August bulletin says August was favorable for crops in the South and unfavorable in the North, producing a slight overall decline in crop condition. Prospects for the year are better than last year, while prices paid to producers trended downward though higher than early September in prior years. Seattle plans to contract with farmers for road repair work.
The War Revenue Bill is reworked to drop the freight tax and levy new stamp taxes. It targets banks, brokers, theatres, tobacco dealers, and manufacturers with rates from two cents to fifty cents per item, plus higher charges for bonds, life policies, conveyances, and warehousing.
Bank of Mobile joins Chamber of Commerce Buy-a-Bale movement to aid Southern cotton farmers. Directors meet to urge bank correspondents and new committees from the Chamber and Rotary Club to meet bankers and plan mobilization of support for cotton, with A P Daniels of Chicago seeking details.
All Day Market at 352 Dauphin Street opens tomorrow as Mobile's new pure foods venture with fresh meats vegetables dressed chickens eggs and more. Management includes N. J. Gaston with 18 years in Mobile and J. O. Pitts formerly of Haas Brothers Packing Company. Orders by phone offered with prompt attention.
Eight international steamships were due to arrive in New York today led by the Cretic from Liverpool carrying Mme Vandervelde wife of a Belgian official with a Queen Elizabeth appeal to American women. Other arrivals included the Desola Irish Monarch and several vessels bearing returned American refugees. Five large liners were set to sail for Liverpool Havre Naples and other ports.
The Y M C A indoor baseball championship pits the 5 30 team against the night team. Captain Backes will pitch for the night squad while Ed Higgins handles the 5 30 lineup. The night team lineup includes Backes Douglass Baumhauer Crawford Steber Soost Radcliffe. The 6 30 team lineup is unannounced. Game starts at 7 pm, admission free.
In response to a Chamber of Commerce secretary letter Mobile requested a story on its progress and welfare for Manufacturer and Builder. FE Hyman of Modern City Building replied he would be pleased to print material from Mobile.
Berlin reports the western front remains favorable with no decisive Allied victory and German hopes pinned on the outcome. Sibera n corps defeated at Lyck signals rapid mobilization. The Hela sinking details are sparse with 172 saved. Admiral Maas and Baron von Maltzohn among earlier losses. Commander Von Retamann led Strassburg in battle. Americans learn British evacuees head to trains from September 21 embassy.
The August 1914 trade figures show imports at 149.4 million dollars, the lowest since November 1911, and August exports at 18.1 million dollars, the lowest since August 1909. Eight months ending August import value 1.27 billion, exports 1.51 billion. gold imports 3.08 million, gold exports 18.13 million.
Texas will have built enough new warehouses within a month to store 1,700,000 bales of cotton. Information from 420 Texas cities shows these warehouses are now under erection or financed.
Burglars ransacked the home of Captain John J. Evers of the Boston National League team in Troy New York last night. A chest of silver given by Chicago residents and several solid silver cups earned by Evers are missing with no trace found.
The forecast cautions shipments moving north and west may face temperatures up to 92 degrees for 36 hours while eastern routes see moderate heat.
The Sombigbee and branches will not change much next two days except falling at Demopolis and Tuscaloosa. The Alabama at Montgomery will probably rise tonight or Thursday. Selma shows a continued fall. A disturbance off the south Atlantic coast brings rain to eastern Florida and the Carolinas with cool northerly winds in the east gulf and south Atlantic states.
An institute for Mobile county teachers will meet next week at Oakdale public school starting Monday noon under Mobile public schools Superintendent S. S Murphy. Attendance is required by law or risk certificate forfeiture, with excuses permitted for illness or valid reasons. The statewide institute series will visit Mobile Montgomery Russell counties before ending for all sixty seven counties. Sunday trips offered to Coden or Bayou la Batre with 50 cent round trip tickets via City Ticket Office at 23 S. Royal Street.
Galveston dispatch says Lawrence Pate, named sole survivor of the reported Gertrude of the Mexican Gulf OW Company explosion, is blamed for circulating the rumour and may have previously blown up the tug Echo. Officials found no record of such a survivor or accident.
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