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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1912
Page
12
Dreamland offers neat clean vaudeville acts this week with high quality performances. The program shows smoothness and witty moments, pleasing large audiences last night, including Hale presenting an evolution of the banjo with notable southern flair.
The piece portrays malaria as a tenacious ailment that leaves most sufferers half sick, half well. It avoids bed confinement and keeps people not fully unable to work or enjoy social activities.
An old advertises a blood purifier claiming to permanently cure malaria by cleansing the blood. It alleges malarial symptoms arise from poison in the blood and that the product removes poisons, enriches the blood, and guarantees results with a one dollar bottle.
A lively review notes Japan’s performers as good singers and clever in costume. Billy Williams, a Cork artist, brings energy with singing dancing and fresh jokes. The May Bushnell Trio’s skit with a mix-up of two pugs is witty and fast paced. Motion pictures receive strong audience applause.
The Jewell Kelly Stock Company opened with The Man of Her Choice at Ben Harney Theater to good business and strong applause. Red Wing the Indian princess created a sensation with her expressionless face and a five dollar reward for someone who can make her smile. The program also features four vaudeville acts and two reels, running about two and a half hours with one show at night and a matinee.
Advertising a weekend outing on the Gulf Coast with travel by L N R R and emphasis on Saturday and Sunday to enjoy a good time by the railroad.
Representatives of the prohibition party met in Dallas in a state convention. They agreed to name candidates for governor lieutenant governor and congressmen at large with other offices undecided. A platform will be adopted and an appeal made for a $10,000 campaign fund.
A short note from Box A Atlanta describes a trial treatment for dropsy claimed to relieve swelling and shortness of breath within 15 to 46 days. The source cites MFRE Dr Greene Sons as the provider.
Lea Woodruff former Mobile post office chief clerk and Demopolis postmaster died Sunday night in Selma after a typhoid fever struggle. Born in Fernwood Ohio he lived in Alabama about fifteen years and was active in Republican politics and later aligned with Theodore Roosevelt. He is survived by his wife and other relatives. Interment planned in Demopolis.
Funeral services for Harry C. Vincent were conducted Monday by Very Rev Gardi ner C Tucker at Dixon and McKay undertakers, with many relatives and friends in attendance. Interment followed in Magnolia Cemetery, grave adorned with flowers. Pallbearers included R W Turner H C Rush W J Murphy Dr W L Woodruff. AN aboard for the Gulf Coast Saturday for a good time, L N R R.
A Henry Tennessee man praises Electric Bitters claiming relief from stomach, liver, and kidney troubles plus appetite loss, back ache, nerves, and fatigue. He attributes his improvement to six bottles and urges others to try the remedy, offering it at 50 cents.
Royal Mounted Police with a citizen posse halted a visiting American circus parade in Saskatoon Alaska and ordered removal of all Stars and Stripes from wagons leaving only union jacks. Crowds jeered as flags were taken down.
Ruby Slagie six year old daughter of Filmore Slagie of Double Springs ended her life by jumping into a well in Cookville Tennessee She had been burned on her face and hands after handling a bottle of acid and reportedly brooded over the scars Her parents heard screams and reached the well too late.
Baltimore August 12 The grateful financier known as Diamond Jim Brady of York has donated 220000 dollars to Johns Hopkins Hospital after weeks of stomach trouble. He finally enjoyed a large meal last Thursday night, savoring cantaloupe clams chicken sea bass squab and more as he recovered his appetite.
Weather conditions forecast to 7 p m Wednesday show generally fair conditions for Mobile and vicinity with little temperature change and light variable winds. Alabama and Mississippi expect mostly fair skies with similar light winds, and the Shippers Forecast warns of 92 degree conditions for 36 hour shipments north and east, 86 west. River forecasts indicate the Tombigbee River levels falling over the next two days with slight changes at Demopolis, while the Alabama River at Montgomery begins to fall tonight or Wednesday and rises 24 to 36 hours later.
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