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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1914
Page
2
Leonard Blackman a 19 year old from Prichard Alabama drowned after his skiff drifted from Pier 8 Mobile and Ohio wharves in Mobile river. He swam after it but failed to overcome the current and the body is being sought as authorities drag the river.
Four German subjects from Central America arrived in Mobile on United Fruit Company boats on Monday afternoon en route to Germany. Fort Morgan and Belvernon carried two passengers each. others came aboard the steamship Bodo with no Germans aboard. Captain Larsen noted many applicants were refused due to lack of accommodations.
The advertisement asserts humors in the blood cause internal derangements and skin eruptions, affecting all organs. It touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as the most successful remedy for forty years, purifying blood, removing humors, and enriching the body, urging insistence on using Hood's today.
From Jail, Mobile County offers a $25 reward for Fach Gossett age 22 tall 5 ft 11 in 150 lbs slender dark brown hair with facial features including heavy eyebrows mole scars and a missing tooth. Also sought is L. T. Palmer alias Boatsen a 28 year old 6 ft 7 in 2 in 185 lbs with dark chestnut hair gray blue eyes crooked finger back scar and brown scar on left ear. Residence Knox Tennessee. Sheriff T. T. Palmer Mobile County.
A giant black bear that terrorized Semmes by killing stock for five years was killed Monday by six farmers. The 860 pound, six foot beast was trailed and shot after a four hour chase. Hunters will receive a $50 bounty.
Sheriff T T Palmer reports Ferrill Gossett and Clarence Palmer alias Boatright likely trapped near Mobile City Waterworks pumping station after escaping county jail by sawing out and scaling a wall. Deputies searched near Allentown west of Crichton overnight. descriptions distributed countywide. Sheriff cites Ossie Gossett allegedly smuggling the saws to the men.
Across the globe reports detail wartime measures and movements. The British Admiralty reallocates Allan line ships Alsatian Victoria and Corsicana to transport troops and supplies from Canada to Europe. In Belgium French forces claim a cavalry clash and German reorganizing near Liege. Russian troops report advances in Galicia and Austrians incur heavy losses. Austrian, German, and Japanese actions unfold as war widens.
Ottawa notified all captains of ships on the St Lawrence of a strange vessel sighted in the Gulf of St Lawrence. Authorities at the citadel in Quebec have prepared for unknown intentions and potential risk.
George W. Jones of the rat extermination department returned home after a five day study trip to New Orleans. He filed a report with Commissioner Laz Schwarz detailing government rat catching methods and gained considerable knowledge useful to the health department.
King Albert reached from Louvain and met with the minister of war. A cabinet council followed and reports say Liege hostages have been released on parole to German authorities.
A royal decree in the Official Gazette proclaims a state of war in Limburg North Brabant Zeeland and parts of Gelderland south of the Waal river in the Netherlands amid current hostilities reported from The Hague.
Wreckage from a British vessel believed to be a man of war appeared with the flood tide near the South Shore life saving station today. Two white wooden cabin doors were recovered bearing brass plates reading Navigation Officer and Gunner.
Arthur Krouse a locomotive fireman who smoked since boyhood quit after reading a free book offered by Féward J. Woods of New York City. The article claims two years of illness and memory loss improved dramatically after overcoming tobacco use. The booklet details quitting in three days and is available to readers at no cost.
A German man of war with three stacks and two masts was sighted 16 miles from the Golden Gate at 10 a m today. The sighting aligns with flotsam from a British warship found last night and today, suggesting significance and matching the Leipsig or the Nuremburg.
Reports from Rome, London, Brussels and Athens discuss the possible capture of the German cruiser Goeben, sightings near Cape Matapan, and broader mobilization in England. Brussels notes German looting at Tongres and troop movements toward Paris with halted advance plans.
Selma merchants resume spot cotton trading after a weeklong lull caused by the European war and exchange closures. Demand is expected to rise with the crop movement, and buyers quoted middling at eleven cents as several bales change hands.
Mobile German American Alliance leaders plan a 5 30 PM Tuesday meeting at J M Friedman home to petition local newspapers for complete or no war news. Godfrey Mertz relayed the request from Dr Hexamer in Philadelphia after a telegram from the Alliance president. The Item reports reporters may attend to explain the European news service.
E Lovett assistant chief of police of Atlanta escorted Mrs Marie Wanda alias Mrs Marie Evans from Mobile at 12 53 Tuesday afternoon. Wanda implicated in a local white slave case and wanted in Atlanta for larceny from a house and jumping her bond. She was arrested here last Saturday night by Detectives Burch and Pearson on advices from Atlanta.
Routine business dominated the Tuesday noon city commission meeting led by Mayor Pat J. Lyons with Commissioners Pillans and Schwarz present. Bills totaling 1 049 90 were approved for payment and the first Jett Bros Contracting storm sewer estimate of 4 289 29 was authorized. Boys Club and Detention Home officers report was read and filed. McGowin and Davis wholesale meat license transfer request to Gaston and Pitts 352 Dauphin was referred to Mayor Lyons for investigation.
Field artillery batteries A B and C encamped near Monroe Park resumed target practice under instructor supervision. Major L S Dorrance announced that upcoming encampment days would focus on gunnery drills and drill accuracy.
Licenses issued Tuesday by the probate court to Augustus DeMoly and Anna Miriam Martin, John Gordon Taylor and Bessie Farmer, Ernest Ludvig Franz Brode and Pauline Emma Zehler, George Elizabeth Smith and Mary Alice Dew.
Mrs Woodrow Wilson is borne by a special train past crowds bare headed along the route toward Rome Georgia where a simple funeral service is planned at First Presbyterian Church. The program will be brief with hymns and private rites at Myrtle Hill cemetery.
The Mobile Dredge Sleeve and Vulcanizing Company filed incorporation papers in the probate court authorizing business. It plans dredge sleeves, vulcanizing, autos and machinery trading with $10 000 capital, starting $5 000, incorporators John L. Walker George B. Walker and Joseph G. Espalla with 48 shares held by Walker and one each by the others. A note at end calls a superstition about inspiration.
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