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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1913
Page
4
Governor O Neal and state officials joined a road building ceremony at the capitol approach, wielding pick and shovel as gravel was laid. The event kicked off Good Roads Days with reports of county progress and an anticipated million dollars in highway improvements statewide.
General orders from Bridgeport indicate plans for the forty-seventh National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic in Chattanooga beginning September 15. Credentials committee is led by Adjutant-General H. J. Seeley. Amendments to the rules are approved by Oklahoma Illinois New Mexico and Pennsylvania.
Miss Bertha Neese aged 24 was shot and killed and Robert L. Adams aged 43 was fatally injured at the Adams farm house near Dallas on Wednesday night. Mrs. Adams, released on $1,000 bond, is charged with the shooting after she said she found the guest with her husband and warned of her intent to shoot.
Local druggists promote Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe liver remedy with a money back guarantee if it fails to liven the liver. Priced at 50 cents a bottle, the ads claim it replaces calomel and treats torpid liver, constipation, and biliousness. Beware of imitations.
A memorial for the ter centennary departure of the Pilgrims from Southampton was unveiled by U S ambassador Walter Hines Page. Attendees included the Alden Winslow Brewster families and Joseph G Butler. The bronze panel memorial honors the Mayflower voyage and republican ideals.
Fire swept Woodstock Jumber Company countryside destroying millions of feet of lumber and fifteen homes. Residents fled toward the Pegmiewasset river as flames crossed watercourse. Loss estimates range from 100000 to 400000 dollars. Cause remains unknown.
Denver August 15 In secret sessions the grand encampment elected officers and chose Los Angeles as next conclave city While drills ended and awards went to Indianapolis Englewood Joliet San Francisco Chicago grand master and other officers were named including Arthur MacArthur Lee S Smith J K Orr and others The election of Grand Junior Warden went to W H Norris of Manchester Iowa with Samuel P B Cochran Dallas Texas a close second
General Edward F. Jones former lieutenant governor of New York and Civil War veteran died at his home aged eighty five. He led the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment first to respond to Lincoln's call and Lincoln praised their arrival. Jones later ran a scale works in the city for forty years and was known for the phrase Jones Pays the Freight. An anecdote about a remarkable dysentery cure accompanies the obituary.
Hugh Brown commercial agent of the Clyde Line in Montgomery and his wife will leave August 31 for Chattanooga Tenn. Brown resigns and will join a large life insurance company in Tennessee. E W Russell will replace him as Clyde Line commercial agent at Meridian Mississippi. Costly Treatment.
The Snyder Company of Chicago wins the contract to build a steel tank at Commerce and Beauregard streets for storing black strap from Cuban ports. The 90 foot diameter 45 foot high tank holds 15 000 tons and will be filled by tank steamers with a pipeline across Commerce Street already approved.
New York August 15. The will of Mrs Julia Lorillard Butterfield widow of General Daniel Butterfield who died last week was filed at Cold Springs on the Hudson. It bequeaths more than 780000 in specific bequests with 350000 to charitable and educational purposes and leaves the residue of her 3 million estate to the International Committee of the Young Men's Christian Association for use in its women’s auxiliary work for the army and подход DaAVee.
Chicago businessman Joseph Justice was diagnosed by two physicians with diabetes after sugar readings of four sixteenths of one percent. He treated with Fulton’s Diabetic Compound, noting improvement after three weeks. A Chicago specialist confirmed he was strong and healthy with no sugar or albumen.
The Fram under Captain Doxrud sails from Buenos Aires to Colon to pick up Rear Admiral Robert Peary and Captain Roald Amundsen. Amundsen will sail toward the north pole then return to Christiania aboard the Fram via Spitzbergen. Doxrud plans aviation training in San Francisco for polar flights. The expedition is expected to take six years.
A man suffering days with colic or diarrhoea is cured by one or two doses of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. The notice urges trying the remedy when needed and claims it never fails. Sold by all dealers.
In Montgomery Alabama on August 14 5 L Enzer a planter shot on his La Pine plantation by Will Graham a negro is in serious condition from bullets through the abdomen stomach and leg. The shooting occurred before witnesses who said Graham opened fire. The planter fired back after falling. A shot probably hit Graham but he escaped. Sheriff Hood and a posse have not captured the shooter.
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