Refugees Return to Abandoned Homes Amid Civil Conflict
Refugees are beginning to return to their abandoned homes as fighting continues northwestward. A large number of Mormons are among those returning, as the mobile item's want ads note.
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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1912
Page
10
Refugees are beginning to return to their abandoned homes as fighting continues northwestward. A large number of Mormons are among those returning, as the mobile item's want ads note.
Fire in Petersburg Virginia's business district destroys three local ceilings causing estimated damages between 650 000 and 1 000 000 The Watson Realty Co Lum Drug Store Southern and Whitmore Ligon Dr Goods Co and T H Cotter implement dealer are among the heaviest losses. The cause is now known.
Report from St. Petersburg states 800 sailors have been sent ashore for court martial following an inquiry into unrest aboard the Russian Black Sea fleet. Authorities claim evidence of revolutionary propaganda amid largely loyal crews.
ST. LOUIS August 26 W A Webb formerly assistant to President C B Schaff of the Missouri Kansas and Texas Railway today was appointed general manager of the road with headquarters at Dallas He succeeds A D Bethard vice president and general manager who has resigned Gary Indiana August 26 Enveloped in flames and screaming for help Miss
Senator Newell Sanders announces he will not seek re election and will devote efforts to electing Governor Hooper and President Taft. He aims to see a legislature favorable to prohibition laws. Colonel S K Ford and B L Hall announce sale of about 1,000,000 acres of Kentucky coal and timber land to a foreign syndicate for 5 million dollars. The sale was finalized in New York with English and Dutch investors.
The Ottoman government announces it will extend to all provinces in European Turkey and the Anatolian vilayets the same conditions already granted to the Albanians. In Washington, the gun boat Vicksburg, patrolling Mexico’s west coast for revolutionaries, arrives at Magdalena Bay with damage from a broken propeller. The cruiser Cleve-
An old advertisement touts Allen's Foot-Ease antiseptic powder, with over five million samples given yearly and growing sales. It promises relief for corns bunions and tender feet, selling for 25 cents with a free sample offer from A S Olmstead Le Roy New York.
The Negro National Medical Association and allied professions of medicine surgery dentistry and pharmacy representing about 3000 Black doctors dentists and pharmacists will hold its fourteenth annual meeting starting Tuesday at Tuskegee Institute. About 1000 delegates and visitors are expected over three days with Dr. N Floyd Gamble and Dr. John A. Kenney in leadership. Noted white and Black physicians will address topics on sanitation the alimentary tract biological therapeutics and public health with sessions on tuberculosis and cancer prevention. Booker T. Washington will deliver the welcome address.
A local notice urges residents to attend a rally on Lyons tonight at O' clock along Marine and Elmira streets. The call invites everyone to join and participate in the event.
Suit filed in Dayton common pleas court to bar the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World from using the Elk name and insignia. The local lodge members W A Geohegan and A J Dwyer announce the action as the negro Elks convene a national session here lasting one week.
Savannah reports that Heine Schultz the Savannah Club south Atlantic league pitcher who defeated Columbus in a doubleheader last Saturday with two hits allowed each game has been sold to the New York American League club to report at season’s end. Local fans recall Schultz a former Gull cast off by clubs. Fans will watch his progress in the big league with interest.
Local notice invites residents to a community rally at 9 o clock on Mariner and Pearl streets with broad participation expected from neighbors and groups.
An advertisement extols Eckman’s Alterative as a cure for tuberculosis alongside rest, fresh air, and good food. It cites a Fort Worth Texas and Eldon Illinois case, claims repeated arrests of the disease, and urges use with nourishing living conditions. The note warns the remedy is available at Braswell’s Drug Store and other druggists with a Philadelphia booklet.
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