U S Methods in Mobile Campaign Against Impure Milk
The Agriculture Department and Mobile Board of Health push to curb impure milk under the Pure Food Act. They prosecute shippers of contaminated milk and educate dairymen on sanitation pasteurization and tuberculin testing, citing broad outreach to over 200 cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
Board of Health of
Mobile
Charles . Mohr
Illinois
St. Louis
Washington
Department
Department of Justice
First Design For Pageant Course In Mobile
The first architect design for the All Alabama pageant route along Government Street was sent to Director General L C Irvine by John A Wetzel. The plan features a triumphal arch with ornate columns lining the street. George B Rogers will submit color proposals next week as Mobile and other Alabama architects contribute ideas to the Panama Celebration Committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Government Street
Southern Commercial Congress
L. C. Irvine
John A. Wetzel
Wetzel
Irvine
George B. Rogers
Rogers
Mobile
Alabama
Panama
Rev Darwin Levitt to Speak at Open-Air Service
The Rev. Darwin Levitt formerly a China missionary now in Irvington will headline the open air meeting in Bienville square Sunday night at 8 o'clock. The Federation of Mobile Churches conducts the event and the public is invited to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Darwin Levitt
China
Irvington
Federation of Mobile Churches
Bienville Square
Foley Kidney Pills Heralded By Kentucky Father
The daughter of A. Mitchell of Bagdad Kentucky suffered kidney trouble but improved after taking Foley Kidney Pills. Mitchell says she is completely cured and praises the medicine as safe dependable and honest with no habit forming drugs. Van Antwerp Drug Adv.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Mitchell
Bagdad
Mr. Mitchell
Foley
van Antwerp
Improvement of Waterworks Shown in July Report
The July water department report by Superintendent C W Soost notes major extensions and fire service expansion, repairs of leaks from sluiceway lining, and savings on coal. Key figures include total collections 9006.54, operating disbursements 6051.98, and excess receipts 2953.55. Extensions, taps, meters, and pumpage details are given along with plan for fire line completion and coal cost savings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. W. Soost
Harry Pillans
Water Department
Office Department
Spring Hill
Bienville
Bay Avenue
Washington Avenue
Gibboney & Co
Standard Oil Company
Co. W. Soost
Ice theft hits Willimantic market price hike warned
Ice dealers warn consumers to curb orders after thieves backed a wagon into the Ayer ice house and stole about a ton of ice. The crime, traced to the Air Line road toward Leonards Bridge, prompted state police involvement and a Lebanon case. Willard H. Smith, Louis N. Ayer and Fred E. Eaton are named in the evolving ice trade disruption. Police also arrested a suspect at the Ayer ice house, with a Lebanon warrant pending. Three local shoppers oppose price boosters amid the disruption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International News Service
Willimantic
Conn
Ayer
Air Line Road
Leonards Bridge
Willard H. Smith
Fred E. Eaton
Berkshire Ice Company
Bridgeport
Louis N. Ayer
Smith
Lebanon
Tom Killourey
Seventy Men In One Cell In Santos Jail
Ex-cook John Laursen says in Santos jail aboard the Earlswood that seventy prisoners crowded a single cell, five raving mad, many armed with stilettos. He describes filth, hunger, damp drafts, and brutal confinement as murderers and foreigners suffer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santos
Onates
Brazil
John Larsen
Earlswood
Port
Laursen
Larsen
Orleans Lodges Rally for Panama Canal Celebration
Mobile fraternal chairs plan joint Alabama coordination with New Orleans lodges for the Panama Canal opening commemoration. James E Cahall will confer in New Orleans and Pensacola then visit Birmingham Montgomery and other cities to align uniforms drills bands and official drum corps for the October event. He will seek authorization from the Knights and Ladies of Honor supreme board in September to invite Indianapolis groups to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Becme
Panama Canal
Southern Commercial Congress
Lodge
Mobile
Alabama
James E. Cahall
Joint
Fraternal Committee of
Louisiana City
St. Charles
Cahall
Knights and Ladies of Honor
Louisiana
Pensacola
Birmingham
Montgomery
Tuscaloosa
Anniston
Huntsville
Florence
Grand Lodge, Knights and Ladies of Honor
Louisville
Supreme Board
Ladies’ Drum and Bugle Corps
Indianapolis
Vital Statistics of Mobile County Week Ending August I
The record lists marriage licenses births and deaths for White and Colored residents. Marriages include Burton Mershon Jacobson Groeschner York Ames Selby and others. Births note many White and Colored families with numerous names. Deaths list White and Colored individuals including Morgan Lauber Stockley Sprague and Chatman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augiat Me
Gertrude Mershon
John E. Jacobson
Ollie Louise Groeschner
Edward York Ames
Magnolia M. Frierson
George T. Selby
Estasia Josephine
Mandelle
An Atuis Kk. Hall
Elisha D. Sasser
Nellie L. Simpler
Arthur B. Kruse
Mannie Walker
Rustus G. Fountain
Willie R. Palmer
Tienary Jones
Della Presly
Luie Russell
Julia Chestang
Tom Moore
Vasser Jones
John Collier
Tama Ross
James Dennis
Hattie Perry
Willy Thomas
Mary Twigg
Henry Williams
Bessie Shumer
Willie Fountain
Ellen Turner
Jerry Collier
Martha Brooks
Anderson Dell
Alice Blakely
Tom Kitts
Lulu Heilderburger
Leslie V. Morgan
George Lauber
Marinot
Stockley
Samuel Sprague
Anna Love
Louise Gunn
Imma
H. Cox
Hazel E. McKeever
Mary G. Gebharat
Edward Chatman
Wiley Murray
Moses McCaskey
Spencer Porter
John W. Harris
Frank Scott
Willie B. Carter
Mary Robinson
Azeline Busby
Mitchell's 204-206 Dauphin Street Store Sale Listing
A fragmented ad listing yard goods and textiles with prices for lawns ginghams linens towels sheets and fabrics. It notes ready made bars steel frame items and assorted colors and values including yards of cottons laces and dimities with specific price points and discounts.
Young Bride Opposed by Barricading Sisters
Dan Kelton, aided by Justice of the Peace H. H. Clark, sought marriage to Maude Grubbs but was met with broom sticks from her two elder sisters on the porch. The sisters claim Maude is under age and forbid the marriage, calling it puppy love that will pass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kelton
Missy
Maude
Rockefeller contributes unseen to church school tribute
John D Rockefeller quietly added a wadded bit to a silver cake plate in a Euclid Avenue Baptist Church Sunday School tribute to Miss Belle C Hart. He refused to be left out and said he wanted to help. Hart declined to name the amount though it was less than 107 dollars. Rockefeller praised H Ditmire for returning to teaching after his term as assistant superintendent. He declared his happiness to be back in Sunday school and urged more church members to act with Ditmire spirit. Racer promised a longer talk in a few weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International News Service
Cleveland, CO
John D. Rockefeller
Euclid Avenue Baptist Church
Belle C. Hart
Florida
Miss Hart
Ditmire
Rockefeller
James M. Racer
Cleveland
The Best Pain Killer Bucklen Arnica Salve Ad
The advertisement claims Bucklen's Arnica Salve instantly removes all pain from cuts bruises sprains burns and other skin injuries. Clinton Me resident E B Chamberlain endorses its effects saying it robs injuries of their terrors and is an unequaled healing remedy. Sold at Van Antwerp Drug Corp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bucklen
E. BE. Chamberlain
Clinton
van Antwerp Drug Corp
Adv
Chair from wreck forty years ago at Marquette
A.A. Cole found remains of an old rocker washed ashore near Lake Superior and painted it into a presentable chair. The bottom bore the stencil Str. St. Clair, a vessel that perished with all hands in a storm about forty years earlier in the western Lake Superior. Pioneer up the peninsula recall the shipwreck and its baffling long drift to shore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marquette, Mich
Lake Superior
Marquette
A.A. Cole
Upper Peninsular
Indian Bride Proved a Failure as a Wife in Campbell Divorce
Harry Campbell a former Government agent at the Brule Indian Reservation files for divorce from Mrs. Bladche Campbell a Siwash wife married at Enea claw Washington December 11 1911. He says her temper was fierce and that Indian warfare souvenirs and weapons were used against him including an Indian hammer and a tomahawk chased him about the house. They separated last June after she choked him. Now living at Kolze Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Harry Campbell
Brule Indian Reservation
Bladche Campbell
Campbell
Eneaclaw
Wash
West
Kolze
Two Melons Bring Thirty Days Each
Two boys, Joe Dickson and Leon Vandiventer, were sentenced to thirty days in jail by Judge Henry Chamberlain in the inferior criminal court after being found with a watermelon each from a patch owned by S. McRee near Whistler. The patch yielded over fifty melons. Leslie Borden faced a $51 fine or thirty days hard labor for carrying a concealed pistol on Leslie Prine's property. his appeal was noted, bond set at $260, and an assault with a gun charge was dismissed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Dickson
Leon Vandiventer
Henry Chamberlain
Inferior Criminal Court
McRee
Whistler
Dickson
Vandiventer
Leslie Borden
Leslie Prine
Also Mentioned on This Page
U.S
Board of Health
Dairymen’s Institute
Reeve Levitt
Cook
Orleans
Vital Statistics OF
Mobile County
Marion C
Samella E. Lane
Michael A
Francis L. Prashman
Margaret
Browne
Oliver
Bertha McLean
Andrew J
Florence Ross
Charles A. Madison
Harvey W
Genevieve BE
Brown
John G
Annie M. Murphy
Joseph A
Ethel Nelson
August P
Mary l. Rossman
George F
Mary J. Rathborne
R. FE
Elizabeth Z. Lutz
M. R
Myrtle G. Williams
Arthur
Bessie Bailey
Charles W
Lida T. Whitlock
Noah
Martha P. Harris
W. A
Nettie Flanagan
Dave
Florence Garrison
Alex
Caldonia Tate
Robert
Carrie McMillan
Henry
Hazel Allen
Frank
Sallie Harris
Henry W
Bessie L. Marsh
John W
Mattie Potter
Eddie
Catherinedwards
Joseph
Susie Jones
Allen
Annie Hendricks
Dauphin Street
Mitchell
Batiste
Valnut
Yvaluou Vvu
Box Eeco
Man’. Viulys
John D
Patch
ST. Francis Street
Parker
A. A. Richards, Auctioneer
Panama Auction Co
W. T. West, Mgr
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