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Newspaper

The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Apr 18, 1913

Page

3

Montgomery Churches and Newspaper Sued for Paving Assessments

The city of Montgomery sues six churches and The Montgomery Journal for 11398.98 in paving and sidewalk assessments. The church defendants include First Baptist Court Street Methodist Kaiser Montgomery Jewish Central Presbyterian African Methodist and St Pete's Catholic.

Montgomery Ala Montgomer Journal Journal Central Presbyterian Church First Baptist Court Street Methodist Kahl Montgomery Central Presbyterian African Methodist St. Pete's Catholic

Sleepers Beset by Late Shifts Need Dormitory Aid

Community pushes to equip a dormitory for “Club” and working boys after long hours at the Royal Theatre. Project aims to provide housing for men who sleep on benches after late shows or early rising duties.

Royal Theatre

Sunday School Convention Declares Greatest Spiritual Meeting

Huntsville Alabama April 28 delegates praised the Sunday school convention calling it the greatest meeting from a spiritual standpoint. Mobile won the next meeting site by 190 votes over Dothan Florence and Gadsden. W C Pearce A L Phillips and R J Bateman gave feature addresses and 1400 delegates registered. Three hundred fifty dollars funded Myra Bachelder state field worker to Zurich for the World Sunday School Convention.

Huntsville Ala Mobile Dothan Florence Gadsden W. C. Pearce Chicago A. L. Phillips Richmond R. J. Bateman Troy Myra Bachelder Zurich Switzerland

$8.35 to Birmingham and Return by Mobile and Ohio R R

Tickets go on sale April 22 to 24 and are valid for return until April 30 due to the National Good Roads Federation. Information and sleeping car reservations available at City Ticket Office 23 S Royal Street or General Agent H E Jones Jr Pass Dept.

Birmingham Mobile Ohio R. R National Good Roads Federation City Ticket S. Royal Street H. E. Jones, Jr Gen

McCormack Disputes Brooke Over Banner Mine Scales

Montgomery Alabama April 18 Examiner H Y Brooke argues Banner mine scales were tampered to boost output and compares February underweight to March corrected figures. Pratt Consolidated Coal Company president G B McCormack counters with disputed working days and convicts, insisting scales were only 20 pounds off.

Montgomery Ala Banner Mine H. Y. Brooke Brooke G. B. McCormack Pratt Consolidated Coal Company McCormack Cormack

State Examiner and Gov O Neal Disagree on Disbursements

Special to The Item reports a debate over whether every convict department outlay is a disbursement or an investment. Governor O Neal argues that spending on projects like the Wetumpka tuberculosis hospital and the Speigner dam yields value, not dead expenditures. He plans to release figures showing higher net receipts for the convict department under his administration than any prior period.

Montgomery Ala O'Neal Wetumpka Speigner’s

Smith files suit against Montgomery liquor dealers

Mrs. Mary E. Smith sues W. Y. Johnson Dave Dreyfus and E. H. Tillery retail liquor dealers of Montgomery for 1000 dollars claiming they sold whiskey to her drunkard husband. The Alabama Fidelity and Casualty Company on the dealers bond is named as a defendant under the Smith liquor bill which bars selling liquor to known drunks.

Montgomery Ala Mary’e. Smith W. Y. Johnson Dave Dreyfus E. H. Tillery Alabama Fidelity and Casualty Company

Hot Springs Liver Buttons Promise Quick Constipation Relief

Puts Liver and Bowels in Condition. The ad touts Hot Springs Liver Buttons as mild and certain for constipation, promising quick relief and improved complexion. Physicians in Hot Springs Arkansas reportedly prescribe them. available in drugstores for 25 cents with mail orders by Hot Springs Chemical Co.

Hot Springs Arkansas Hot Springs Chemical Co Ark

Croxone Promises Quick Relief for Kidney and Rheumatic Ailments

An advertisement touts Croxone as a rapid remedy for backache kidney and urinary troubles and rheumatism. It claims the product soaks into kidneys dissolves waste and purifies blood, with three doses daily often curing the worst cases. Drugstores offer purchase price refund if Croxone fails in a single case.

Alabama exhibitors urged for National Conservation Exposition

John H. Wallace Jr of Alabama urges counties to exhibit at the National Conservation Exposition in Knoxville. He notes Alabama oyster, deer farming and timber interests may be showcased and asks for the program and premium list, with a potential $1,000 prize for best county exhibit.

Montgomery Ala John H. Wallace, Jr Alabama Advisory Board Knoxville Tenn Alabama John Craft Mobile Alabama Oyster Commission Oyster Commission C. E. Thomas Prattville Wallace W. M. Goodman Alabama Board Prblte Boards of Revenue Goodman John Kaul Birmingham

Weather Data: Temperatures at 7 00 a m and forecasts

Temperatures at 7:00 a.m. show a low barometer area over the Lake region with southerly winds and rising temperatures in the eastern half. A high barometer region brings freezing in North Dakota and fair weather in the northern Rockies. A cool high area moves east over the south Pacific coast with rain. Generally fair for Mobile tonight and Friday.

Lake Chicago Mobile Texas North Pacific Coast North Dakota Rocky Mountain South Pacific Coast Albert Iee En ER

Alto Griffin Must Serve His Sentence

Montgomery Ala April 18 Governor O Neal refused to intervene in the case of Alto Griffin a white man from Union Springs serving four years in the penitentiary for the killing of Max Davis formerly of Georgia The homicide occurred in Union Springs last May A large delegation lobbied at the capitol two pardon board members recommended clemency a temporary parole granted Griffin was revoked and the convict must serve his sentence.

Montgomery Ala O'Neal Alto Grifin Union Springs Max Davis Georgia Capitol Griffin

Exposition liquor sale ban defeated in Senate

The Kehoe Exposition closing bill to restrict liquor sales on Panama California Exposition grounds in San Diego was voted down 23 to 14. The measure would have limited sales to beer and wine served with meals.

Sacramento Cal San Diego Senate

Missouri approves $25.725 million railroad bond issue

The Missouri Public Utilities Commission on April 18 approved a bond issue of 25.725 million dollars proposed by the Missouri Kansas and Texas railroad. In Salonika on April 18 the Greek aviator Lieutenant Arghyiropoulous and passenger Constantinos Manos died when an aeroplane fell from 2000 feet.

Associated Press Jefferson City Missouri Public Utilities Commission Missouri Kansas and Texas Railroad Salonike Arghyiropoulous Constantinos Manos

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