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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1912
Page
9
Colonial residence just completed in Fle Claire Government street subdivision Mobile Alabama. 50 by 174 foot lot features modern improvements near a park and boulevard. Asking price 2750 with 350 cash and 16.50 monthly balance. terms offered.
John Lavine a pioneer musical agent and manager died at his home 239 West Twenty second Street at age 64. He began with Steinway & Sons and led tours for Mme Alban i Mme Schalacie and Mme Parepa Rosa helping Patti come to prominence in America. Lavine also worked with Colonel Mapleson the Bebr Brothers Piano Co and Xavier Scharwenka and was recently musical and advertising manager of Musical America.
Grove's Taste Less Chill Tonic advertised as a malaria remedy. It claims to drive out malaria and build up the system for both adults and children, priced at 50 cents.
In DeFuniak Florida residents vow to end Sunday darkness by mandamus if the electric light plant closes again. Last Sunday the plant shut due to Sabbath concerns squeezing mail service and leaving townsfolk with oil lamps.
Mrs. Sallie C. Wheeler Pinkerton detective filed new charges against Solicitor H P Heflin in Birmingham alleging habitual drunkenness and unbecoming language to officers. The notice responds to Governor O Neals request for data and vows to press the matter in Montgomery once the governor returns east.
Mary Leigh, charged with wounding the sealer of the parliamentary party, received five years’ imprisonment for the July hatchet attack on Av iuith’s carriage. Gladys Evans, found guilty of arson at Theatre Royal, drew five years. Lizzie Baker, an Evans accomplice, pleaded guilty and got seven months.
Chicago saw the highest postwar beef price today as Kansas cattle topped at 1.25 dollars per hundred pounds. Brokers attribute the spike to scarce cattle due to drought in the southwest and Western Canada and a sharp winter impact.
James B Gentry, once jailed for the murder of actress Madge Yorke, died in his hotel room in New York. Released in 1909 after a commuted sentence, he struggled with remorse and fading ambition, after a brief return to acting and a life shadowed by his crime.
Adlai E. Stevenson aged seventy seven in October plans active campaign work for Wilson and Marshall in the fall. His son Lewis Stevenson decides to allow his father to engage in as much public activity as his strength permits.
Splendidly located cottage No 103 Georgia avenue 2nd 8S Mon tauk avenue Lot 55x135 with 6 rooms kitchen bath servants room attached stables all in good condition currently rented at 420.00 per year Property must be sold before next rental season Optional sale of adjoining lot fronting Montauk avenue offered.
For sale list shows two cottages described as 2 rooms and kitchen each in A1 condition on Camp and Cuba streets. First close investment. owner sacrifices. Cottage six rooms on 4 north Charleston street near Bayou, $800. Three more cottages in best condition rented, various addresses, prices include 1500 and 1300. Additional cottage four rooms on easton street west Washim avenue, $1,300. Attractive five room cottage with bath on Dexter near Monroe St, $2,800.
Real estate listing offers multiple homes and flats in Baltimore and surrounding streets. Properties include a vacant lot on West Washington between North and South Carolina priced at 650x150 and 700, and several cottages and flats with 4 to 6 rooms, baths, and modern utilities on Dauphin Street Toome Easton Street Marine and related addresses.
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