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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1913
Page
5
A full day of events unfolds in Mobile with Shakespeare Club at 11 am, A B L S December meeting at Barton Academy, heart and novelty showers, Sigma Delta Phi gathering, and a story hour at Harte Auditorium. Santa Claus arrival promises toy giveaways as local clubs host fundraisers and social hours unfold.
Advertisement describes Q-Ban a 7 ounce bottle from Van Antwerp Drug Co Mobile Alabama. Claims it darkens hair stops hair loss and itching scalp with ingredients including cantharides and glycerine. Promotes glossy hair and aging look with once daily rubbing and mails available for out of town customers.
Alabama towns along the Frisco line pass ordinances limiting train speeds to six miles an hour after the railroad discontinued stops from Birmingham to Sulligent. Legal action may follow as the railroad commission weighs schedule revisions.
Busy social scene in Mobile includes D A R members returning home after attending the Decatur state conference. Bridge club hosts a party with prizes, chrysanthemums decorate rooms, and birthday invitations announce upcoming gatherings plus a church Christmas Bazaar to aid the First Baptist church fund.
F. N. Chislom, state feed and fertilizer inspector for Mississippi, was in Mobile Friday en route to southern Mississippi on a regular inspection tour. He reported Mobile merchants complied with grain and fertilizer laws and provided trade with quality goods up to standard.
The Mississippi centennial conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South refused to drop the word South from its name, voting 121 to 13. The decision was reported from Natchez, Mississippi, on December 6.
Secretary McAdoo praised Captain Thomas H. McCormick and crews at Portage Life Saving Station Hancock Michigan and Wagle Harbor for rescuing 24 crew members from the steamer L. C. Waldo during a violent Great Lakes storm. The rescuers covered eighty miles by boat at the storm’s peak as Lake Superior lashed and vessels sought harbor.
George M. Cohan’s musical farce The Little Millionaire comes to the Lyric Theatre with 2 PM matinee and 8 15 PM night shows. The Spooner home New York setting features Bert Leigh and Hazele Burgess with a popular Broadway hit in store. Seats are on sale.
Washington December 6 community Christmas tree planned on the broad plaza at the east front of the Capitol. High government officials will attend and the United States Marine Band will furnish music. Vice President Marshall and Speaker Clark signed permits suspending capitol regulation to allow erection.
Philadelphia December 6. T N Carver of the U S Department of Agriculture told an agriculture conference that ungraded and unnamed farm products force middlemen and higher consumer costs. A committee of eleven will urge Philadelphia to connect farmers with consumers.
About 1,200 Great Western Railway workers ended a traffic disruption after a conference in London with a Board of Trade representative. Engineer James sparked the stoppage by refusing to haul goods handled by strike-breakers in Dublin, then pledged not to repeat such tactics under union pressure.
Ad touts Pape's Diapepsin as a fast remedy that digests any meal and cures sour stomach, heartburn, and indigestion in five minutes. A fifty cent case is available from pharmacists to relieve belching, nausea, headaches, and stomach heaviness.
Carl Werner a wealthy manufacturer and commodore of the Stockholm Yacht Club was found drowned in the sound after a nine day disappearance. Authorities believe he took his own life amid a troubled love affair.
Sect Lane of the interior designated his personal inspector Linnen to take charge of an investigation of altered authorities in the Indian service. Linnen has long and successful experience as an inspector in the land office.
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