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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1914
Page
6
The twentieth bubonic plague case was confirmed in New Orleans yesterday. Louise Welsh, 24, was moved to the isolation hospital after diagnosis. her mother, who lived at 1905 Bienville Street, also contracted the disease and died.
Tickets priced at 60 cents are available for a Found trip on Sunday. Inquiries at the City Ticket Office located at 288 Royal Street.
Examination shows J. D. Searcy short $129 in county funds. Bondsman G S Leeth may pay $6,000 missing from road bond funds after a chase through Northern states. New treasurer M Fischer bonds for $200,000 with county covering $150,000. Depository Leeth National Bank also bonds for $25,000. County commissioners and judge R L Burke attended the Birmingham hearing amid witness testimony.
At the school commissioners meeting four bids were submitted for heating systems from L J Leahy Mobile Home Heating & Plumbing Co Monroe La and C C Hartwell Co New Orleans. Awards postponed to Wednesday. Del Champs public school location change proposal referred to county schools committee.
The Health Board lists July dairy scores for numerous producers and outfits. Scores are broken into equipment method and total, with top entries like elves and Tunstall, Wees scoring high. several names show totals around mid 70s.
Dr. Alberto Membreno, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Honduras to the United States, arrived in Mobile Tuesday evening from Washington and was hosted by Dr. T. T. Miralda, Alabama consul, at his LeMoyne Place home. He left Wednesday evening to Tegucigalpa.
Marshall Nelms, brother of Beatrice Nelms and her missing sister, says warrants are issued against Mr. and Mrs. Victor Innes for murder. The Innes family live in Oregon.
An inquest by Coroner Hirshfield and a jury into John Ervin’s death, stated as due to illness, led to three suspects Eliza Ervin Willie Pharr and Pearl Pharr being held without bond for further murder investigation. The body was found near his Prichard home and deputies were dispatched to gather evidence.
From Brussels to London reporting poor German commissariat shows prisoners arriving with beets and carrots in knapsacks while French supply is praised. A separate testimony describes a violent incident witnessed near the Ervin household with a child as key witness and details of a bloody scene.
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