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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1916
Page
2
A letter praising C D Kenny Co for having the largest sales among 100 stores nationwide is noted. It mentions increased tea and coffee sales and expresses congratulations to the recipient for strong business performance, with expectations of a busy summer ahead.
Thousands of Mobile residents honored veterans at Magnolia cemetery and Confederate Rest with wreaths and flowers. Professor Julius Tutwiler Wright delivered the principal oration on The Birth of a Nation, as speakers Tisdale Touart and Robert E. Gordon addressed Our Heritage. weather disrupted later events.
New Orleans businessman Charles Cohen toured Mobile's agricultural area and praised the development of Mobile’s lands and citrus groves. Visitors from Jackson, Birmingham, Chicago, Colorado, Pensacola, Foley, New Orleans, and New York stay at the Cawthon Hotel and Savage Hotel while on business or pleasure in Mobile.
Mobile citizen J H Hutchinson endorses Dean's Kidney Pills for kidney and backache relief after long trouble. He credits Dean's with restoring normal function and notes he bought them at J T Roe's Drug Store. Price 65 cents at all dealers. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Confederate veterans across Alabama pledge support for General George P. Harrison of Opelika as commander in chief at the United Confederate Veterans reunion in Birmingham next month.
The Automobile Club of Mobile will propose new traffic rules to the city commission including limiting parking to within twelve inches of the sidewalk and directing vehicles to drive and stop on the right with right-angle turns. A meeting with the commissioners is set for next Tuesday at noon. The club also outlines committees on roads, city and county matters, mapping, social activities, tourism, traffic, membership, and legislation. Miss Lola Trax of Maryland will speak on suffrage next Tuesday at 8 PM at Lyon's Park under local suffrage group auspices.
A beauty tip claims that mixing water with powdered delatone forms a paste to apply on hairy skin for about two minutes, then rubbing off and washing. The guide promises effective results if real delatone is used, with no discomfort or injury anticipated.
Announcement by Dr. W. H. Sanders states an assistant surgeon general of the United States Army will be sent to Montgomery to fill the position of state bacteriologist and pathologist until a permanent successor to Dr. P. B. Moss is named. Each Democratic primary candidate May 9 may designate a watcher for each voting box per an opinion from Bibb Graves to E. C. Andrew.
An advertisement touts a dandruff cure using four ounces of liquid argon applied nightly to the scalp claiming complete dissolution of dandruff after several applications. It promises itching will stop and hair will become fluffy and glossy with minimal cost and available squidarvon at drug stores.
W T Robertson, president of the Montgomery city commission, told a Mothers Circle delegation that if property assessments were raised to proper levels the city could provide 4125.60 yearly to public schools. He noted one large owner undervalues assessment at 225000 property. The state law requires 60 percent cash value assessment. Captain Jonn A Mahon of Company M, First Infantry, Mobile, has resigned and Leon Schwarz was named acting CO until successor elected.
State pasteur department confirms the dog that bit a child in Wadsworth Au tauga county last week had rabies. The child must travel to Montgomery for treatment. Unclear if others were bitten. A benefit show for the School of Organic Education at Fairhope Lyric Theater features teachers and professionals in a three act farce to raise funds and lower Alabama illiteracy.
A notice from Serv Us Girl asks to meet this week at Henry Tab. The brief promotes a rendezvous time and place, urging interested parties to respond promptly to arrange the encounter.
The L and N railway will institute a through sleeping car service from Mobile to Birmingham on May 1. The Mobile departure is 1:36 a.m. on the New York and New Orleans Limited, arriving in Birmingham at 9:20 a.m. with occupancy starting at 9:30. No coach passengers are carried and breakfast will be served in the dining car before Birmingham. A southbound service begins May 1.
Washington April 26 The strawberry crop of the Carolinas this season will be about 1200 cars, the department of agriculture announced, based on reports from its representatives and railway officials.
Mrs Charles McIntosh of New York visits Mobile to see her son Lonng McIntosh a student at Spring Hill College. She is a guest of Mrs F Kenny on Washington avenue while in town.
A mistrial was entered in circuit court on Wednesday in the case James McKenzie versus Frank M. Ladd Jr. for one thousand dollars over an alleged fake arrest. Ladd had McKenzie arrested for trespass on his land. the inferior court had dismissed the case.
Mr. Emmett Jones, chief of immigration and markets for Alabama, told the Montgomery Chamber that mixing velvet beans and Johnson grass then processing through a feed mill yields top quality feed. Chamber secretary W. M. Clemens said the feed mill plan will be pursued immediately to install one locally.
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