30 Aug 1914
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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1914
Page
1
Amsterdam dispatch confirms British report of eleven German ships sunk in the North Sea engagement. casualty details remain unclear but include ships of various types and sizes. officials and observers assess the German defeat as consistent with early British accounts.
President Wilson orders all senators to remain in the capital to prepare for urgent measures. A caucus will decide on the railroad security and rivers and harbors bills while considering war tax laws and responses to foreign objections to U S ship purchases. Drafting neutrality laws may also be discussed as the Orient situation evolves.
London reports that six of eight Zeppelins linked to the Kaiser’s force are destroyed. Count Zeppelin, aged 70, offers to operate one of the giant aerial craft claiming operator inefficiency caused the losses. The elder statesman cites allied gunfire as the cause of many wrecks.
Frank Cullen fatally shot L. C. Sweatman after a dispute over money at Cullen’s home near Delchamps Station on the Mobile and Bay Shore railroad. Sweatman, 26, was wounded thrice and died almost instantly. Cullen, who was also injured by a hatchet blow, was hospitalized. Cullen, a lifelong Mobile resident known for eccentricities, had a prior lunacy commission finding him not mentally unsound.
Mrs. T. J. Preston, once Mrs. Grover Cleveland, remains missing along with her husband and three children despite Berlin efforts by Ambassador Gerard. Across Europe, French and British lines hold strong as German forces press toward Paris. civilians fear casualties while naval losses deepen Allied resolve.
The Item serves Mobile and nearby areas with a dense circulation of about 16 900, over 15 000 net paid. It delivers world news plus abundant local content making it a premier medium for advertisers seeking strong reader impact in a tight local market.
A debate over extending Tuttle Avenue westward to Virginia Street becomes a political issue in the campaign against Commissioner Schwarz. Commissioner Pillans handles street matters and notes negotiations rely on a right of way through the McDonald land, which is complicated by a life estate and title issues.
A Alabama official may bar selling Stafford Springs mineral water bottled in Mississippi. C H Billingsley state pure food and drug clerk sent samples to Auburn for analysis by state chemist B B Ross who found no mineral constituent with therapeutic value to support medical claims.
Tokio Aug 29 Admiral Tako commanding the Japanese fleet at Tsing Tau reports German forts fired a few shots today without effect. Bombardment has not yet begun. The defenders, about 5,000 men, are vastly outnumbered but prepared to resist. Among the defenders are prominent Germans who have written wills and farewell letters.
Victor FE Innes former assistant U S district attorney and his wife Ida May Innes left San Francisco for San Antonio Texas to stand trial for the murder of Eloise Nelms Dennis and Beatrice Nelms of Atlanta. Their four year old twins accompany them under guard as Deputy Sheriff Newton escorts them. Marshall Nelms, brother of the victims, rides on the same train.
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