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Newspaper

The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Apr 24, 1913

Page

12

Echo Meeting Friday Night at First Baptist Church

Friday evening at 7:30 the First Baptist church hosts an echo meeting. Mobile delegates to the Alabama Sunday School Association convention in Huntsville will share insights and describe how they secured the 1914 convention for this city. Notable speakers include R. O. Harris Aubrey Boyles and Miss N. J. Phillips with music by J. H. Weinrnch and Mrs. F. A. Riley. The full program will be announced later and the public is invited.

Huntsville P First Baptist Church Mobile Alabama Sunday School Association Huntsville R. O. Harris Aubrey Boyles N. J. Phillips J. H. Weinrnch F. A. Riley

City Stable Law Being Drafted by Officials

City Attorney B B Boone and Dr Charles A Mohr health officer prepare a new municipal stable ordinance. It will first be endorsed by the Mobile County Medical Society and then sent to the city commissioners for final passage. The measure includes flooring impervious to water and aims to avoid discriminatory terms that favored single stock owners.

B. B. Boone Charles A. Mohr Mobile County Medical Society Supreme Court

No Bubonic Plague Rumor In Santa Marta Seaport

April 24 report states there is no bubonic plague at the Colombian seaport of Santa Marta contrary to recent dispatches. Officials emphasize the absence of plague activity and urge verification of sources before publishing further.

Colon Santa Marta

Twenty New Nobles Enter Mystic Shrine In Mobile

Twenty novices received the red fez and were titled nobles after the Ancient Arabic Order Nobels of the Mystic Shrine ceremony at the Abba Temple in Mobile. Delegates traveled from Chattanooga Birmingham Meridian New Orleans Pensacola Jacksonville Washington Davenport Iowa Chicago New York Jackson Grand Rapids and Denver for the event. A 6 PM business meeting preceded the 7 PM pilgrimage through burning sands with namedMobile residents among the new Nobles and leaders listed.

Nobels Abba Chattanooga Birmingham Meridian New Orleans Pensacola Jacksonville Washington Daventport Iowa Chicago New York Jackson Miss Grand Rapids Denver Thomas Chester Acree Dadeville Louis Bennish Selma William Martin Vans Mobile Samuel Augustus Fowlkes Lima Henry Clifton Hamilton Alonzo Lafayette Hasty Linden Samuel Francis Hobbs Harry Marks George Markham Marsh March Henry Cooper Reynolds John Franklin Rawls Julien Albert Richard Willam L,. Smith Horton Turner Noel Ebenezer Turner Eugene Weber Fort Morgan

Woman Confesses to Father’s Murder in Towen City

Bertha Hummel, 30, confessed to killing her father George Hummel whose body was found at his Towen City home about three weeks earlier. Police investigations led to her arrest after initially being deemed to have died by own action, with no motive given.

Associated Press Harrisburg Pa Bertha Hummel George Hummel Towen City

Progressives Clash on Tariff Policy and Its Effects

A House debate centers on a proposed tariff commission and scientific revision. Representative Victor Murdock attacks Democratic plans as injurious to industries and living standards, while Progressives call for a true protective tariff and open, single-schedule legislation.

Associated Press Washington House Today Victor Murdock Kansas Ways and One Fur Seromar Murdock Congress Democratic Party Progressive Party United States

Mobile underwriters banquet honors Prest Sills

William D. Sills president of the National Association of Underwriters will guest the Mobile Association of Life Underwriters at a banquet at the Cawthon Hotel Thursday night. Charles A. Garland will serve as toastmaster during the stopover en route to New Orleans.

William D. Sills National Association of Underwriters Mobile Association of Life Cawthon Hotel Charles A Garland Mr. Sills Mobile Life Underwriters New Orleans National Association of Life Underwiters Richmond

Melodrama Actor Louden McCormick Dead by Poison

Louden McCormick aged 65, a well known melodrama actor, died by his own hand in an uptown hotel yesterday after long illness. He had not performed in two years and suffered from a nervous disease.

Associated Press New York Louden McCormick

Sir Richard Scott Dies in Ottawa at 88

Ottawa notes the death of Sir Richard Scott oldest Canadian senator by years of service at 88. He was knighted in 1909. Denson and d Arcy Scott, former Ottawa mayor, serve on the Canadian railway commission.

Associated Press Ottawa Que Richard Scott Canadian Senate Denson, d'Arcy Scott Canadian Railway Commission

Coordinated Shellfish Advocacy and Federal Aid Plea

A Boston meeting of the National Association of Shell Fish Commissioners urged closer national state cooperation to protect and manage fisheries. The group pressed Congress to fund the U S Bureau of Fisheries to aid shellfish work, noted Alabama progress, and urged state laws and a clearing house to share laws and developments.

Boston National Association of Shell Fish Commissioners Association Congress United States Bureau of Fisheries Committee On Co-Operation Bureau of Fisheries Breau of Fisheries Shell Fish Commissions Alabama Commission Alabama Columinbad United States Growers and Dealers’ Association

Bucklen’s Amrica Salve touted as cure for skin ailments

An advertisement claims Bucklen's Amlica Salve quickly cures burns bruises boils and all skin diseases. It cites L H Haflin of Iredell Texas recovering in four days from an ankle sore that hindered walking. The note urges households to keep a tube and mentions a price of 25 cents and Van Antwerp Drug Corp endorsement.

Bucklen L. H. Haflin Iredell Texas van Antwerp Drug Corp

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