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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1913
Page
7
Advertisement outlines a mail order course from Moler College New Orleans La offering a quick barbers trade education mailed free. Includes rental notice for a Cedar Street cottage between North and South Carolina streets with completion by May 1 and utilities. Apply 407 Conti Street.
Paris reports the collapse of a top Paris residence at 46 Rue D Anjou killed Emile Froment-Meurice and his wife. Froment-Meurice a famed European goldsmith and descendant of Rubens. his son Francois is a municipal councillor and another son a sculptor. Their little grandson survived with minor injuries. The accident is blamed on nearby foundation digging for an apartment building.
The Associated Press reports in Washington that Joseph E Davies has declined a general post in the Philippines. He was considered for the role to succeed Luther Cr Jr, and his nomination was discussed in the Senate.
U S District Attorney J B Sloan sent a follow up letter to Attorney General McReynolds reacting to an error in his Friday letter. The earlier recommendation aimed at prohibiting shi minors only on U S vessels, but the intended wording should ban any vessel sailing from any port of the United States.
George and Henry Grafton open a candy and soda shop with parental permission in a vacant village storefront. They publish a courteous no smoking sign to avoid offending ch smokers, crafting a polite inscription that humorously hints at Rockefeller and wealth.
The board of final appeal in pure food cases named Dr. Carl Alsberg, chief of the bureau of chemistry, Dr. L. A. Rischer, chief of weights and measures at the bureau of standards, and F. N. Halstead from customs to draft enforcement regulations for the March 3 amendment. It requires the quantity to be plainly marked on the outside of package by weight, measure, or numerical count.
The special house committee investigating the assault by banker Charles C. Glover on Representative Sims of Tennessee found Glover in contempt of the house and urged Speaker to issue a warrant for his arrest to answer that charge.
Guardian Christine Kunz will sell at public auction the minors estates Christine Kunz Dominick Kunz and John P F Kunz. The sale occurs May 19 1913 at 12 noon in front of the Coat House door Mobile County. The property totals 15 acres with three five acre tracts in sections 31 36 and related parcels described in detail.
Louisville dispatch reports a heroic act at Carbondale where L & N express No. 101 and No. 104 collided. Fireman Blackwell leaped from No. 101’s engine, warned the other crew, and helped reverse his train, likely mitigating the crash. He was trapped but survived with hospital hopes for recovery.
Ethel Angel a 17 year old Louisville girl was rescued in New York after an abduction by Andrew Harris an elevator runner who pleaded guilty Harris admitted taking her from Louisville promising marriage they traveled to Cincinnati and other cities before Harris left her on the streets detectives acting on a request from New York and Louisville mayors located her Harris faces five to ten years in prison before being returned home
President Wilson intends to recognize the new Chinese republic but American Chargé Williams at Peking cannot act as China’s assembly fails to organize. Opposition within four parties splits the radical group and complicates formation of a permanent government structure in southern China.
In Rock Island NL on April 26 Emil Sparrey, a professional wrestler, fatally shot and killed Grace Campbell before taking his own life. The tragedy, blamed on jealousy, occurred in Campbell’s apartment.
Notice to stockholders of American Supply Company that a meeting will be held on May 14, 1913 at 6 pm at the Mob ile Alabama office to decide whether to reduce capital stock to forty five thousand dollars and how to effect the decrease. President Jas H Zelnicker signs the notice.
President Wilson frees Charles F. Hamilton who was sentenced in Phoenix to ten months for bigamy. To avoid losing a homestead entry in Arkansas Hamilton must return by May 1. the sentence is commuted to expire immediately.
Notice announces a stockholders meeting of Allen Undertaking Company Inc in Mobile Alabama on Monday April 28 1913 at 7 p m. Topics include changing the corporation name and increasing capital stock from its current amount to one thousand dollars. Meeting called by the board of directors as required by law.
Brigadier General Walter Schuyler, long in command of the California department since last June, closed his active military career yesterday having reached the age limit for active service.
Grave fear surrounds the Duchess of Connaught wife of the Canada governor general after an appendectomy on April 10. A London dispatch notes grave anxiety over her health and references other domestic concerns about spelling reforms and punctuality.
Rev. L. F. Sanford preaches at 11 a.m. on The Glory of a Dawning Faith and at 7:30 p.m. on The Peril of Neglect. Go to church Sunday. Good argument is used.
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