Mobile Cotton Market and New Orleans cotton prices
Market report shows Mobile steady with sales of 26 and receipts of 0 today. New Orleans futures drifted lower at open then steadied, Middling around 15.50 to 16.15 with spot around 15.95, while cotton seed oil in New York closed firm with several months advancing.
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Mobile
Oraimary
Css Verisiy
Csc
G. B
Con
New Orleans
South
Liverpool
Oath Aos
Wgcr Os
ST Feels
New York
New York Cotton Opens Easy as Selling Renewed
Market opened easy with a decline of 8 to 16 points amid renewed selling pressure. Some of the less favorable spot advices from the previous session continue to influence early trading.
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New York
Chicago Grain and Naval Stores Market Report
Chicago grain prices show wheat around 1.55 for No 2 red and 1.53 for No 3 red with other contract figures. Corn and oats trade in the high 70s to low 80s, pork and lard prices around mid 20s, while naval stores in Savannah report turpentine firm at 4.38 8-4 and rosin rising with varied grades and stocks.
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Chicago
Tete
Hs Silesia
Steel stocks lead opening as U S Steel hits new record
At Wall Street on September 25 United States Steel set a new intraday record as 15 000 shares traded between 114 1 4 and 115. Anaconda Utah Copper and Central Leather also posted high activity while International Nickel National Lead Baldwin Locomotive Maxwell Motors and Colorado Fuel rose. New York Central and New Haven gained fractional. Shipping shares fell with marine preferred down 11 2. U S Steel reached 11 1 2 in later trades.
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Wall Street
New York
United States Steel
Anaconda
Utah
Central Leather
International Nickel
National Lead
Baldwin Locomotive
Maxwell Moters
Crucible Steel
Colorado
New York Central
New Haven
Marine
Wanted ads seek clerk and shorthand learners in Mobile
A 25 year old with eight years in clerical work seeks Mobile area placement with modest initial pay. Also ads offer shorthand and typewriting courses for $5 with day or night sessions taught by Miss Riley at 158 St Anthony street. An exchange offer trades a good residence lot in Hattiesburg for a Ford car through Panama Auction and Furniture Co. in Mobile. Also a September tutoring service via Bell phone 449-3.
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Mobile
Riley
St. Anthony Street
Hattiesburg
Miss
Panama Auction and Furniture Co
Ala
Bell
Business Manager Wanted for Branch Office
A well rated manufacturing corporation seeks a capable business man to manage a branch and oversee salesmen. Enormous profit potential with capital needs from 300 to 1000 dollars. Write for particulars and set in a business for yourself. Gloria Company, 1427 Carrell Ave., Chicago.
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Gloria Company
Carrell Ave
Chicago
Southern Labor Congress Re-Elects Leaders In Memphis
Jerome Jones of Atlanta was re-elected president and W. C. Puckett secretary-treasurer with no opposition at the fifth annual session. Charleston was chosen as the 1917 convention city. State vice presidents were named from several states, and Karl Karston of Atlanta was elected sergeant-at-arms. The congress approved support for New York street car strikers, endorsed a sympathetic craftsmen strike, and backed Wilson’s policy on the railroad threat. It also urged eight hour laws, condemned prison labor, opposed piece work, and pressed semi monthly pay and limits on armed guards at strikes.
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Associated Press
Memphis
Jerome Jones
Atlanta
W. C. Puckett
Southern Labor Congress
Congress
Charleston
W. S. Lopez
Birmingham
W. J Jackson
Little Rock
W. 8. Weir, Atlanta; O. L. Jones, Paducah, Ky
W. D. Lewis
Monroe
J. S. Morehead
Durant
Miss
J. E. L. P. Wade
Wilmington
N. C
C. M. Rhodes
Batesburg
8. C
Putnam Dye
W. A. Davis
Roanoke
Karl Karston
New York City
Wilson
Marriage Licenses Issued by Probate Court Saturday
The probate court issued marriage licenses Saturday to Lawrence E. Gralapp and Lillian Gaines Doyle, both appearing in the records.
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Lawrence E. Gralapp
Lillian Gaines Doyle
Market closes with strong gains and mixed irregularities
New records were registered by leading coppers and Central Leather amid an undercurrent of irregularity as rails barely held their own. The day saw moderate profit taking in the last hour while bonds remained firm and a wide list of industrials and utilities posted varying advances. Total sales reached 1,181,160 shares.
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Maxwell and Stutz Motors
Central Leather
Allis-Chalmers
American Geet
American Can
American Ar & Foundry
American Locomotive
American Cotton Oil
American Smelting
American Sugar
American Tel. & Tel
American Tobacco
Anaconda Copper
Atchison
Atlantic Coast Line
Baldwin Locomotive
Baltimore & Ohio
Bethlehem Steel
Canadian Pacific
Chesapeake & Ohio
Chicago, Mil
Great Northern Prd
Great Northern Ore Cife
Gulf States Steel
Illinois Central
Inter. Mer. Mar. Pfd
Cife
Kansas City Southern
Louisville & Nashville
Liggett & Myers
Lorillard
Maxwell Motors
Mexican Petroleum
Missouri, Kan. & Tex
Prd
Missouri Pacific
National Lead
New York Central
N. Y
N. H. & Hartford
Norfolk & Western
Northern Pacific
Pennsylvania
Reading
Rep. Iron & Steel
Seaboard Air Line
Seaboard Air Line Ptd
Shoes
Shef. Steel & Iron
Southern Pacific
Southern Railway
Southern Railway Ptd
Studebaker Corporation
Tennessee Copper
Texas (O
Union Pacific
United Fruit
United States
S. Smelting & Hketing
United States Steel
United States Steel Ptd
Virginia Carp. Chem
Va. Iron, Coal & Coke
Wabash Ptd. B
Western Union
Westinghouse Electric
American Zine
American Zinc Ptd
Kennecott Copper
Personal Mention Travels and Visits Across the Gulf Coast
Local notes record travelers visiting Mobile Bay area towns and returning to home counties. Names include Lenore Hynie, Leon Schwartz, Theodosia Dobbs, Marshall Turner, M. O. Discher, James Zelnicker, Grace Zelnicker, R. P. Roach, H. J. Bruisler, E. B. Davis, Joseph Dacovich, Mary J. Fisher, Norma Staples, David Molt, James Snowden, Lena McGowan, Margaret Murphy, Mamie McGowan, Josephine Nelson, and Octavia Nettles among others. Mentions visits to Bay Minette, Jacksonville Wells, Montrose, Montevallo, and Mobile with trips to Tate Springs, Selma, and Dauphin Island region.
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Mary J. Fisher
Mobile
North
Chicago
Kearney
Neb
Nebraska State
Sibley
Montevallo
David Molt
James Snowden
Oak
Bon Secour
Coden
Bayou la Barre
Dauphin
Lena McGowan
Bay Minette
G. W. Humphries
Railroad Street
Margaret Murphy
Stockton
Jessie McMillan
Mamie McGowan
Ort H. Ertzinger
Josephine Nelson
Bessie Byrne
Willie Bryant
Martha Levain
Robert Byrne
J. Whiting Byrne
R. D. Byrne
Burnwood
Baldwin Times
Maryland Sets Sail for Port Arthur From Mobile Repairs
The five masted motor schooner Maryland departed Mobile this morning bound for Port Arthur after repairs. She entered Mobile on the Ollinger and Bruce docks and proceeded downriver in tow of the tug Mary Wittich.
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Maryland
Port Arthur
Mobile
Ollinger, & Bruce
Mary Wittich
Vessels Go Into Dry Dock At Ollinger & Bruce Plant
Two ships entered the Ollinger and Bruce plant dry dock Saturday the tug North American of the Texas Oil Company fleet and the schooner Clara Scott both proceeding with repairs essential to seaworthiness.
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Ollinger & Bruce
North American
Texas Oil Company
Clara Scott
Vetarir Arrives at Pier 8 for Cuban Cargo Run
The Munson line steamer Vetarir docked at Pier 8 this morning and will load cargo destined for Cuban ports.
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Munson Line
Vetarir
Porto Para Berths After Arrival in City to Load Staves
The Italian bark Porto Para reached the city last night and lies berthed in the stream. It is to be loaded with staves at Mobile under the direction of G. M. Rosengrant.
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Porto Para
G. M. Rosengrant
Mobile
Nordfaren Completes Arrival for Van Heynigen Load
The steamer Nordfaren arrived at the north end of the L and N wharf this morning and will load pig iron and ore for Van Heynigen & Company.
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Nordfaren
van Heynigen & Company
Asian of Leyland Line Heads to Mobile for Cargo
The British steamer Asian bound for Mobile to load lumber and cotton sails from Liverpool on September 16. The vessel proceeds to Mobile to pick up lumber and cotton as trade goods.
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Leyland Line
Mobile
Liverpool
Fruit Vessels En Route to Mobile With Banana Cargoes
Two cargo ships head for Mobile with bananas in hold. Fort Gaines sails for the Orr Laubenheimer Company, due Monday. United Fruit Company steamer Birstad from Belize due about Tuesday.
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Mobile
Fort Gaines
Orr-Laubenheimer Company
United Fruit Company
Birstad
Belize
Hanify Tanker Delivers Molasses to Mobile
The American tank steamer Francis Hanify heads to Mobile with a cargo of molasses. The vessel sails under the U S flag and is expected to dock at the port in the coming days.
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Hanify
Francis Hanify
Mobile
St Andrews Bay rear light relighted after extinguish
Local notice to mariners reports the St Andrews Bay range rear light at St Andrews bar relighted on the morning of the 20th instant after being found extinguished.
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Florida
St. Andrews Bay
St. Andrews Bar Range
Weather bureau forecast brief amid shipper advisory
The local weather bureau issues a forecast guiding shippers for the next 24 to 48 hours. Temperatures are expected to vary with West at 90 degrees and moderate readings to the east and north. River forecasts show the Tombigbee and branches remaining steady, with Alabama levels not changing much.
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Tombigbee River
Alabama
Social notes and visits from Mobile to Anniston and beyond
Local items report Mrs. Fannie Griffith visiting Daphne before teaching duties in Mobile. Miss Beulah Wood arrives from Mobile to stay with sister Mrs. Marie Hill on Nineteenth avenue. Miss Margaret Coleman heads to New York for ten days. Mrs. E. B. Vaughan visits her niece Mrs. Frank Clark in Mobile after Monteagle. Mrs. Arthur D. Davis to spend weekend with Mrs. A. P. Case in Georgiana. Edna Inge of Sacramento visiting Mobile and will stay with Dr. and Mrs. H. T. Long after Western tour. Doctors W. N. McClurkin and George Kilpatrick visit Camden. Wilcox Progressive Era notes. Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Trinon of Columbia, Tenn. spend days at the Battle House. Rebecca Brooks returns from Meridian. Marie Genevieve and Amelia Walsh back from a New Orleans visit with relatives.
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Theodosia Dobbs
New York
Columbia
H. L. Dobbs
Atlanta
Mobile
Beulah Wood
Marie Hill
Nineteenth Avenue
Anniston Tar
Margaret Coleman
E. B. Vaughan
Monteagle
Frank Clark
Birmingham Age- Herald
Arthur D. Davis
A. P. Case
Georgiana
Ala
Edna Inge
Sacramento
Cal
H. T.nge
England 10: Grip shipping tighter to offset losses
London Sept. 22 Lord Robert Cecil says Allied shipping will be tightened further to counter submarine losses. Neutrals in Entente trade face restricted facilities as tonnage is allocated to the Allies. Britain will answer Washington over mail seizures and the blacklist policy.
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England
London
Robert Cecil
Robert
Lord Robert
Great Britain
Nova Scotian Bark Mineola Lost Off Jamaica Coast
First mate and three seamen arrived in Newport News aboard the Tagus reporting the Nova Scotian bark Mineola was total loss after a devastating storm off the Jamaican coast. All crew were saved.
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Jamaica
Newport News
Guards Clad as NC National Guard Ready for Border Move
Morehead City dispatch reports North Carolina National Guard units prepared to move to the border as of tomorrow night after receiving a full supply of woolen winter clothing. Distribution of the garments was completed tonight to outfit troops.
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Associated P. Pea
Morehead City
North Carolina National Guard
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