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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1913
Page
11
A Cleveland man Frank C. Kelly travels to Detroit finds hotel rooms scarce due to sessions. He shares a double with a drummer who stares overnight provoking irritation until the drummer explains with a blunt remark. The tale is recounted in The Popular Magazine.
Charles S. Mellen president of the New Haven Railroad Company faces a bench warrant for manslaughter over the October 3 wreck at Westport Conn in which seven passengers died. The maximum penalty if convicted is fifteen years in the penitentiary.
Frederick Kelley 24 started from New London to Moberly Missouri to marry Miss Ava Mercer 17 whose name on an egg found last December sparked their romance. Kelley quoted a Christmas eve letter and January 8 reply. Mercer sent a photo and her father sent money and promising a good position and home.
The ad claims Bucklen's Amica Salve treats burns bruises sores boils and all skin diseases. It says L H Haflin of Iredell Texas was cured of four sores on his ankle in four days and notes the product costs 25 cents and is recommended by Van Antwerp Drug Corp.
Offer for a business men's lunch from 12 to 2 30 pm with quick service. Promotes top market foods and short orders. Highlights DeBriere's Famous Java Coffee at 5 cents as a specialty drink.
New York court case involving Miss Hilma Sundell, a domestic worker, who sought 257 dollars plus interest from United States Realty Company for a misrepresented real estate contract. Justice Wauhope Lynn condemns the defendants as deceitful, warning that predatory sales target gullible workers and urge stronger protections.
International News Service reports at a Gramercy Neighborhood Association meeting Rev Karl Berrland criticizes a Western bishop for expectoration in public places. He argues street cleanliness and education are larger evils than rum. He supports reforming saloons with better substitutes. Peter Townsend Barlow and C Grant LaFarge spoke as well.
Dialogue shows Holmes noting a new kitchen maid and using plate fingerprints for deduction. An Australian testimonial praises Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as effective for a child’s cold, with street address provided and the product sold by dealers.
In New York on April 26 Justice Giegerich hears Ophelia Schiff dispute with husband Maxmilian Schiff over cruelty claims in a separation suit. She jokes about her eyes drawing attention while he accuses her of flirta tion with musician William Simon at Broadway hotel as sister-in-law Rosenberg notes frequent meetings but denies private liaison.
A King county official, Sheriff and Collector G. W. Moore, visits Austin and notes the jail locks are so rusty the keys won’t turn. He recalls a $15,000 jail build with only $3,000 spent on the courthouse and says there has been no prisoner in three years.
A local service checks baggage at 57 North Royal Street and delivers it to the station by auto truck. Both phones listed for contact.
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