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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1912
Page
5
Captain M. M. Stewart of the James Gayley warned passengers as a steamer struck amidships in a storm off Manitou. Five women and crew of 19 survived after transfers to the Renssalaer and Stadacona, with lifeboats lashed and courage overcoming disaster.
Advert says all aboard Saturday for a Gulf Coast trip priced at one dollar. Full details and departure info appear in today’s advertisement section.
Sun Fo son of Dr Sun Yat Sen arrives in San Francisco with his bride and two sisters to study at the University of California Berkeley. The party are American born natives of Honolulu and will enroll as students while two younger sisters prep for university entry.
Kate Gould 13 and Ellea Gould 16 were found shot to death at Stelney's Flat near Douglas in Weaverville California. The older sister struggled and the younger lay fifty feet away. George Lorenz, brother of the girls’ father, vanished after the discovery.
Police Magistrate Haggerty bailled John Haudecaur chef of a local hotel on cruelty to animals charge after seeing a lobster pegged to prevent snapping. The judge admitted the task was too hard and held the defendant for court to decide.
Brussels reports a shift from white to blue in infant rooms amid claims by Dr. Louis Delattre that white light harms young eyes and brain. The Belgian specialist urges blue for calming restfulness and cites older practices where blue surroundings were valued for health benefits.
St Louis Globe-Democrat reports Captain Lou Flatau of Rabock Mfg Co in St Louis has patents for a new turbine engine The Finlay turbine effille that may deliver 8 horsepower from 150 pounds steam and powers a ship propeller at much lower cost and space than current turbine systems The design includes an electric generator producing light on board and aims to enable Lusitania scale vessels with small compact engines
Every act of home made and high grade candies offered for 26 cents at Majestig Candy Kitchen this Saturday.
W H Allen of Chelsea Wisconsin praises Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for quick relief from coughs and colds. He says it quickly cures coughs, wards off colds if taken timely, and contains no opiates. For sale by Van Antwerp Drug Corporation.
Prominent mariners in New London believe a bottle message said to be from Major Archibald Butt, Titanic victim, is a hoax. They note a bottle from Black Island would drift east toward the Irish coast or Portugal, not toward Block Island waters.
A sixteen year old Bertha Kalferta was jailed in Prague for insisting she is Joan of Arc reborn to aid Hungary. She attacked a military officer, seized his sword, wounded him, and was recaptured after a brief escape with jailer help. A report also touts kidney pills from Foley as effective medicine.
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