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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1913
Page
3
Dr. J E Watkins reports witnessing a small king snake attack and kill a much larger moccasin on a sandy road near Boston Georgia. The fight occurred as he approached a patient, the king snake retreating into bushes after the kill.
Pasadena society elites, once eager to dine with William St. John Ranney, withdraw after his embezzlement case. Ranney’s 100000 hush money crime led to prison, leaving his wife and baby abandoned by fashionable neighbors who shorten their social ties and help.
Captain John Phillips of the Cape Cod reports sighting six sixty foot whales engaged with an equal number of ten foot sharks about ten miles off Long Beach. The steamer struck the fray plowing through the scene as four bullets were fired into a shark. The struck shark battered another with its tail and hurled it against the steamer.
In San Francisco two blind siblings, former expert tasters for A Schilling Co, outshine sighted tasters in company tests. The two now hold chief coffee taster roles, with an official praising their nearly uncanny sensory abilities and error-free judgments.
Gibriette Ray, once a London stage sensation, plans to file for absolute divorce from her Scottish multi millionare husband Eric Loder. They wed March 1, 1913 after Ray stood Loder up at the altar the day before.
New Jersey saloon keepers staged nightly fake wedding ceremonies in Jersey City Polish quarter to run dances and sell beer. Professional brides and grooms, artificial bouquets, and canopied back rooms supported fraud while couples often did not know each other.
The Alabama Governor directs Edgar B. Kay to draft concrete stockade plans to replace the fire prone Speigner's convict facility. Ground is to be broken by year end as the state aims to convert all buildings at Speigner’s to concrete including a new concrete gunnery mill and water power plant already underway to cut fuel costs.
Clarence Skaggs a 24 year old paroled convict from Iowa State Penitentiary crossed the Missouri River to Omaha took a job and was rehardened to serve the balance of an indeterminate sentence. Council Bluffs officials and local leaders urge clemency but the parole board ordered his return. Skaggs had earned trust promotion and a stable home life but a parole violation triggered his re incarceration. Chief Froom backs executive clemency saying Skaggs had shown reform and deserved leniency.
In Birmingham the Mobile diocese bishop will visit to discuss proposed church property improvements near St Pauls Catholic Church at Third Avenue and Twenty first Street. Plans reportedly include a boys school and a girls convent with a potential parish house move, but no final decision will be made before the bishop arrives.
The senate postponed consideration of the metal schedule due to the absence of Senators Oliver and Penrose who are key on metal rates. Oliver plans a substitute backed by regular Republicans while Progressive Republicans back Cummins’ alternative. Attention then shifts to the wood and pulp schedule.
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