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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1913
Page
3
A vintage homespun appeal touts Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin as a mild laxative for babies and families. It cites a Monticello Illinois mother praising rapid weight gain after use, claims broad efficacy, and offers a free sample by mail.
A wireless telegraph system for the fourth district flood relief work will open in Vicksburg today. Lt Blaine of the U S Army and a 20 man Signal Omaha corps detachment arrived from two wireless stations to serve remote areas cut off by high water. Reports from levees yesterday were encouraging. ROME Italy also reports exceptionally cold weather with heavy mountain snow.
An advertisement proclaims Parisian Sage as the cure for dandruff and cause of hair growth. It promises two week results or money back and notes benefits like reduced itching and softer hair. Sold for 50 cents at drug stores, offered by G. Van Antwer & Son.
Schnieder Ind April 15 meeting his wife in a railroad station here Monday Hugh Burns of De Motte shot and probably fatally wounded her He then fired through a restaurant window hitting Long Parsons a railroad employee He turned the pistol on himself and is not expected to live The couple had been separated for three weeks since Saturday when he learned of divorce proceedings She was en route to Chicago and had to change trains Here Parsons name had not been involved in the affair previously.
Cleve Brown wearing a lion costume in a Beauty and the Beast sketch narrowly escaped death in Kansas City Kansas. A stage trick went wrong when a helper pulled the scenery shift too soon, Brown tumbled toward a real lion. The beast mauled him before he slid back to safety.
Louis Gaudart, a French aviator, died when his hydroaeroplane lost balance while skimming the sea in Nice. The craft toppled as spectators watched near the pigeon grounds and Gaudart’s body was not recovered.
The Hartford burial of J P Morgan followed a seven car funeral train from New York. The grave at Cedar Hill cemetery sits west of the family monument with a huge pyramid of flowers. Attending were the mayor, Rev. Chas Goodwin, relatives, and mourners as the Episcopal service concluded with prayers and benediction.
In Washington on April 15 the Democratic house caucus advanced slowly on the new tariff bill with wool and cotton schedules pending and the income tax clause likely to take longer to explain. Representative Hull of Tennessee will handle the income tax section, and passage may slip to late next week or near June 1 before the bill goes to the senate.
A column advertises beauty and health advice including hair removal with delatode paste, cold remedies with Mothers Salve, Vaucaire bust treatment with a sugar gallol syrup, a Mayatone witch hazel lotion for skin and hair care, and Mother's Shampoo to cure dandruff and baldness while restoring shine and scalp health.
Montgomery April 15. Chief Examiner C. E. McCall summoned Gadsden Evening Journal editor C. E. Verbeck by wire as a witness before the convict department investigation. The board invites all information to illuminate the probe and expects to conclude Tuesday with Governor O Nea ls forthcoming statement.
Associated Press reports that despite a court ruling allowing cabaret shows after 1 a.m. if no liquor is sold, restaurant operators did not violate Mayor Gaynor's closing order. In the Tenderloin area, the 1 a.m. curfew was observed, and the late shows continued as usual.
Water 2.5 feet above flood stage rises toward 64 feet as Learned's sawmill area braces against the embankment with earth from nearby mounds. Planters in Concordia Parish Louisiana urge the police jury to reinforce back levees while sending livestock to Natchez.
Dr. Joseph H. Hertz of New York was installed as chief rabbi of the British empire at the great synagogue in London on Monday.
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