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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1912
Page
12
Governor Johnson of California the vice presidential nominee is described as a fighter since college days at the university. The note recalls his early intent and military or public service mindset shaping his political path.
The piece chronicles Hiram Johnson’s early insurgent path from college athlete to criminal lawyer in Sacramento. It highlights his courtroom defiance of the Southern Pacific machine, his Ruef pursuit, and his eventual rise to California governor despite lack of funds and organization. He campaigned 12 000 miles across the state and opposed railroad powers, aligning with Theodore Roosevelt at the 1912 convention.
An advertisement touts Horsford's Acid Phosphate as excellent for alleviating tiredness from heat, overwork, or insomnia, promoting its use as a remedy in hot weather.
In Albany authorities disclosed a hidden marriage April 6 between Alva Benjamin Firth of Richmond Virginia and Emily Constance Sherman of Springfield Massachusetts. The couple sought a license at St Peter's Church and, after asking for the parson, had Rev William Parkess perform the ceremony with witness Frederick Halander. Rogers the organist supplied the wedding march as the pair stood on the choir balcony.
Mrs Jane Wildman of Philadelphia aims for professional aviation. She flew 3000 feet over Alameda marshes near Oakland with aviator Noy Francis and described sensations as her best substitute for an airplane, noting ninety mph on a motorcycle as prior measure. She visits from Reno and is wife of Frederick Collis Wildman who is in London.
County authorities hunt 70 year old Robert Mahan, wanted in the stabbing death of Clarence N. Higgins, 30, at Cedar Grove church yard before services. Mahan allegedly disemboweled Higgins during a quarrel.
Generally fair to tonight and Tuesday with light east to south winds. Shippers forecast heat up to 90s in the east and 94 in the west for 36 hour shipments. Tombigbee and Alabama rivers rise then fall. Selma rises rapidly then continues to rise to Tuesday night. Scattered showers accompany a barometric low over the Dakotas extending southward to Oklahoma.
General Lyautey urgently seeks 60 000 troops to quell unrest among Moorish tribesmen in Morocco. Separately a Tampa squall plummeted the thermometer 25 degrees in thirty minutes, then cooled. New Orleans reports a store shooting where Mrs. Fletcher Cook found Louis Perkins dead, Perkins missing, unclear motive. Amsterdam notes collision at sea as the Frankfurt with 1200 emigrants to Canada is towed after hitting the Bremen-bound Barhmen near the Hook of Holland lightship.
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