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Newspaper

The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Dec 04, 1913

Page

4

Mobile County Satsuma excursion plans for Dawes visit

Mobile businessmen and 150 boys and men will join a Saturday trip to the Dawes orange belt. A three-coach special train departs 1 pm from Mobile & Ohio station for a 2:30 pm return, limited to 250 riders with Dawes sights including cane mill and orange groves.

Mobile Orange Saturn Farnsworth Chamber of Commerce Barton Academy Highool Sons of Chamber of Colonel Satsuma Mobile & Ohio Government ‘Street Bauer J. M. Ponder Chamber of Commerce Ways and Means J. L. Cawthon Zadek Jewelry Level Best Shoe Dawes Kroner Pipaon Kroner Dawes Pioneer Club St. Mary’s Orphan Asylum Church Home St. Mary's Asylum Matt Mahomer, Jr M. J. McDermott Don Farnsworth John B. Mitchell W. H. Armbrecht

Brevity Highlighted in President Wilson’s Literary Attainments

The statement argues that Wilson’s strength lies, not in grand feasts of rhetoric, but in concise expression. It frames brevity as a defining feature of his literary achievements and influence.

Wilson

Zemo Promises Clear Skin With Quick Relief

A testimonial ad touts Zemo as a clean antiseptic solution that clears pimples blackheads and blotches. It claims instant relief from itching and heat and urges readers to buy at local drugstores and stores.

Place St. Louis

Schwarz Takes Up Near Side Stop Plan In Mobile

Commissioner Laz Schwarz pushes to require streetcars to stop on the near side of all Mobile streets. He discusses the idea with J. Howard Wilson of Mobile Light and Railway Co. and expects an early adoption pending Wilson’s input. The plan aims to reduce cross street accidents by improving driver visibility and car stoppage.

Mobile Laz Schwarz Schwarz J. Howard Wilson Mobile Light and Railway Company Wilson Ilson

Injunction Aims to Enforce Rail Car Fare Rules

The case against Dr. Hall seeks a chancery injunction to bar continued trespassing on Mobile Light and Railroad Co. cars for failing to pay fares as required by company rules. The court would require a $500 bond and prohibit him from boarding without depositing fares, while relations with patrons remain unsettled.

Southern Railway Johnson Ala Alabama Great Southern Railway Bales Court of Chancery Turner City of Mobile Chancery Court Bolling Cook Birmingham Traction Co So. Bell Tel. Co Maryland Blondel Con. Gas. Co Hail Chancery Mobile Light and Railroad Company

Resolutions Ask Alabama Supreme Court for Full Court Decisions

A Mobile lawyer and two others presented July resolutions to the Alabama Supreme Court in Montgomery urging rules to require decision by the full court rather than one judge. The bar group cited efficiency gains from limiting record material and argued consultation improves impartiality, noting varied practices across states and listing court decision counts.

Alabama Bar Association T. M. Stevens Mobile Henry Fitts Birmingham RE. W. Godby Decatur Supreme Court of Alabama Montgomery Bar Association Alabama Supreme Court Homer Supreme Court Gueydan Louisiana United States Supreme Court John M. Shirley Kentucky Georgia Michigan Arkansas North Carolina Kansas Pennsylvania Towa Minnesota Missouri Massachusetts Vermont Rhode Island Wisconsin Maine Mississippi New Jersey Nebraska Connecticut Ohio Oregon Oklahoma Indiana Supreme Court of Alabama Court of Iowa Supreme Court of the United States Circuit Courts of Appeals Prac

Postal Receipts Rise in November 1913 Over 1912

Assistant Postmaster J. D. Wilkins reports November 1913 post office receipts up by 1,470.70 versus November 1912. The mobile post office holds large Christmas stock with 2,744,735 stamps, 457,250 stamped envelopes, and 275,225 postal cards on hand.

J. D. Wilkins Postal Savings Department Postoffice Mobile Postoffice Saeneres

Typographical Errour in Suits Over West Shore Traction

In a Mobile filing the phrase The return of the sheriff after the judgment was secured in the lower court showed no property found appears with a typographical error. The intended word was fund.

R. P. DuValle West Shore Traction Company

Fire at Gulf Dry Docks Causes Large Loss on Mobile River

A blaze at Gulf Dry Docks on Mobile river destroyed the planing mill and warehouse, with timber losses and damage to ships including Fort Gaines and Pleasure Bay. The dock itself survived, and insurers cover part of the $20,000+ total loss. Fire lasted over an hour with gas drum explosions and a distant glow observed for miles.

Gulf Dry Docks Company Elmira Mobile River Thames and Barre United Fruit Fort Gaines Knudsen Pleasure Bay

Bar Association Urges Court Reform For Alabama Supreme Court

The Alabama Bar Association argues for procedural simplification and lighter burdens on appellate courts. It asserts the bar bears the heaviest load under new innovations, and urges the Supreme Court to grant reforms that would ease practice and aid the court’s efficiency.

U. & Court Supreme Court of the United States The Bar Association Organized Bar Bar Alabama Supreme Court

Pape's Diapepsin Promises Quick Stomach Relief

A vintage advertisement touts Pape's Diapepsin as a magic cure for indigestion gas and stomach misery. It claims relief in five minutes and urges readers to obtain a fifty cent case from any drug store, presenting it as a scientific safe remedy for upset stomachs.

Pape

Escapes $1 Fine Gets Extra $25 in Court Action

In Whistler Judge Henry Chamberlain held Peter Donald to the city court on $500 bond for assaults to murder against Clementine Williams. Lilburn Eldridge, previously fined for gaming, received an additional sentence of $25 or twenty days for escaping. Other defendants faced fines or bonds for horse collar theft, drunkenness, hunting violations, and gaming.

Henry Chamberlain Inferior Criminal Court Peter Donald Clementine Williams Whistler John Williams Donald Lilburn Eldridge Interior Court Dennis Lynch Andrew Ware Joseph Strong Alberta Savage Emma Chatman Thomas Hamilton Erhard Karl Henry Pettaway Silas Martin Aaron McMillan John King

No Doubt About Dobbs as Manager of the Pelicans

The New Orleans item indicates Johnny Dobbs will manage the Pelicans in 1914. In the club’s reorganization on January 6 A. J. Heinemann is expected to be chosen president. Telmann has been with the club since 1914.

New Orleans Johnny Dobbs Pelicans A. J. Heinemann Telmann

Hood's Sarsaparilla Promises Blood Purity Remedy

Blood Humors cause boils pimples sores and eruptions but Hood's Sarsaparilla offers relief. Thousands testify the tonic expels germs and purifies the blood boosting appetite stomach tone and overall health. Take Hood's Sarsaparilla today.

Hood

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Huerta Zemo M'S Drug Roe Drag Rss. Bauer's Weinacker Bros ROCHE BURKE Hortheass Street Railway Postal Savings Bank Mae BELL T& A Cris Eve Storer Gulf Dry Docks Dauphin Street Moore's Benjamin America M. Friedenthal Cor. Dauphin and Joachim Dobbs the Pelicans Mont Sweethear HER
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