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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1916
Page
3
An ad touts Wyeth s Sage and Sulphur Compound as a natural looking hair dye. It claims to darken gray hair evenly with simple sponge application and costs about 60 cents. The text stresses cosmetic use and denies disease cure purposes.
An advertisement extols drinking a glass of real hot water with a teaspoonful of limestone phosphate each morning to cleanse the stomach liver and bowels. It asserts internal sanitation prevents headaches bad breath and dullness, improves appetite, and motivates better health, urging readers to buy limestone phosphate.
An old advertisement touts Dr. King's New Life Pills as a spring laxative and liver purifier. It claims the remedy cleanses the bowels and blood, removing winter poisons and impurities. Available for 25 cents at your drugstore.
President and lawmakers clash over Germany policy as the United States warns of breaking relations if submarine warfare continues. A note to Germany is to be released, detailing protests and the administration’s stance on neutral rights and armed merchant ships amid rising maritime attacks.
A former Mobilian, a prominent speaker, addressed a medical session outlining wartime submarine warfare. He detailed German policy, questioned assurances, and warned on the indiscriminate destruction of merchant ships including the Lusitania and Sussex. The talk stressed neutral rights and U.S. patience amid growing losses.
General Scott is assigned to advise on the Mexican expedition as the administration weighs whether to back Pershing’s forces or recall troops. With reports from General Funston and Carranza officials, officials seek a quick decision amid unclear German developments and border tensions.
President declares the United States may break diplomatic relations with the German empire unless it halts its warfare against passenger and freight vessels. The address emphasizes humanity, neutral rights, and strict adherence to international law as the nation asserts its stance. Burial notice for Joseph A. M. Horta follows. Funeral at 10 from the family home and 10:30 at St Joseph s Church with Rev Fr Salentine officiating. Burial in Catholic Cemetery. pallbearers named.
Headland Alabama April 19 James Holmes a well to do and prominent business man and planter of Webb Station shot himself Monday night in an apparent suicide at his residence The death removes a leading figure in local enterprise and agriculture.
A brief notice invites readers to visit Noahs Ark Catholic on Monday and Tuesday with a Wednesday event teased. The fragment highlights invite for a local church gathering or service.
The Southern Conference of Education and Industry held sectional sessions in New Orleans on April 19 to discuss vocational and industrial education suited to the South. Delegates toured city markets to observe farm product handling while planning community education and industry organization. An associated suit seeks $50,000 damages from Mobile Light and Railroad Company over a fatal electrocution involving a live wire on Beauregard Street.
A Tuesday night blaze at 9:30 damaged the A. J. Spencer Lumber Company plant on Three mile creek near Telegraph road. Hose Company No. 8 and Creole No. 1 extinguished the fire, which started under the floor, costing about 300 dollars insured.
A legal note cites evidence that defendants used six young persons for more than seven days weekly. The claim, drawn from an English weekly paper, highlights labor practice concerns and potential violations.
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