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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1915
Page
5
A garbled OCR note describes a person leaving for training and a series of unclear phrases. The readable portion mentions Annie and Fannie with broken text about a punch and a hole, suggesting a fragmented description of a confrontation. The exact facts remain uncertain due to corruption.
E D Laurendine Mobile County Tax Assessor lists 1916 assessment precincts and dates for Mobile Alabama. He urges taxpayers to bring deeds for proper property descriptions as assessments require deeds and not mere verbal descriptions.
Paris dispatch reports continued violent artillery fighting along the western front with heavy engagements near Rocin court and around the River Aire as French war office notes ongoing operations. Captain Roger Draper son of Rev William H Draper of Leeds is reported killed at the Dardanelles. he was married last December to Anna Lowell Gardner of Boston.
Berlin and Washington discuss a compromise under article 52 of The Hague arbitration convention and seek to resolve differences over treaty interpretation. Germany keeps naval restrictions under the London rules while offering conciliatory signals and reserving rights to destroy absolute contraband vessels.
A detailed account describes a telephone exchange operation where 47 operators connect over 4,000 phones with plug in headsets and a dedicated trouble board. Supervisors maintain order while workers handle calls with precision and discipline. The article also notes Judge Safford wed Edward Devondell Orrell to Miss Nettle Booth in a chancery court ceremony.
Cotton prices fluctuated with weak opening driven by Texas and Georgia crop concerns, then rose before mid-morning liquidation. New Orleans receipts and futures movements are reported, with prices for middling at 10.87 and later around 11.08 and 11.64 in various contracts. Additional notes cover Liverpool spot, grain, and a Wall Street round-up of equities and commodities.
The law requires state stamping on closed fruit packages and bans un stamped sales. It defines grade standards, requires 90 percent defect-free contents, and penalizes misbranded standard packs to curb fraud. The commodities commissioner will register shipping labels, ensuring ownership proof and preventing duplicate designs. The State Bureau will cooperate with Gulf Coast Produce Exchange to support farmers.
A. L. Blanchard, Southern representative of the Pineapple Company of New York City, announces plans to erect a twenty thousand dollar soda plant in Mobile to produce drinks for Alabama and Mississippi. Names of the local contractor and contracts yet to be closed. Plant to be located in the business district with work to begin in sixty days and possible import operations through Mobile.
A port list shows vessels in Gulf Docks and Ollinger Bruce Dry Docks with destinations and tonnages. Entries include WH MOBI 15 New Camelia Oaxaca Itaska Senator Bailey Metlaoni Josey and others from Am Mex Can Ital Nor in South America and Coastwise routes. Repairs noted for Progreso Mex and general unknown Cuban ports.
A catalog of ships and cargos including Bark Carolina from Uruguay to Havana bound for Moragues Lumber, Pathfinder sailing from New York to Porto Rico, Naperian binding to mobile liners, and multiple other steamships and barks with origins, destinations, and tonnages listed for orders or to masters. The record enumerates vessels like Alex Lawrence, Oaklands, Perceler, Anna, Mavisbrook, Mariana, Viator, Corinthia, Kylemhor, Fort Morgan, and Procyon with their ports and destinations such as Liverpool Havre Newport Boston Nassau Tela and Puerto Cortez.
Delegates form Alabama steering committee for Jackson highway route with county votes debated. Over 1,200 attendees include Governor Rye and officials as they push Birmingham as a route point. decision on highway path expected next session.
United Fruit Company steamers bound for the tropics sailed light from Mobile heading to banana cargoes with returns planned. Munson Line adds three cargo-loaders including the Danish ship and Frednes with Edga to load for South American ports. Mary Dantzler reports favorable winds as she heads to the lower bay. Kotonia diverted to New Jeans with sisal cargo from Progreso. Cutter States coast guard reports two derelict vessels removed from Sabine shoals. Maritime movements were otherwise light Thursday.
Moderate temperatures for 3.6 hour shipments north east and west. The Timbigbee river and 6 will not change much next two. The Alabama will not change much. Fair and cool weather over the United States with a high barometer drifting eastward. High frost at Toledo Ohio with scattered rains in the west Gulf region. Phoenix 100 degrees Denver 84. JAIL 18 LONESOME reports the city jail had 1 prisoner at noon the smallest in 25 years with seven white male inmates. TL TO NAME ROADS DELEGATES Acting Mayor Schwarz seeks 15 delegates for the Alabama Good Roads Association meeting at Birmingham October 12-13.
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