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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1914
Page
22
A long-form reminiscence on Dame Fortune visiting in unexpected forms. It recalls a tramp’s encounter with a boot repair idea leading to a boy’s copper-toe fortune and notes a modern scene of a teen befriending a street spectacle. The piece contrasts old and new visions of luck and social class.
A stranded driver is inspired to repair his car by a quiet voice and later gains a job offer from a townsman who watched him fix it. A young preacher, riding through heavy rain to a missing Bible, delivers a sermon from memory to fourteen listeners and earns an invitation to preach at a town church.
The Mobile Item notes children listed by name and address born on December 8 in various years from 1898 to 1912. It invites them to entertain five friends this afternoon and to mail birthday pictures and details two days before their birth.
George Stovall acting as scout for the Federal League has visited B Shafer at his home in Los Angeles with a lucrative offer. The former Giants star, who resigned to pursue business, may be drawn back into professional play.
A Fairhope orchard yields eighteen grapefruit on one stem weighing a pound each. The narrator meets a woman who becomes his wife and a city man who gives him a chance to preach in a large church. On a rainy Kentucky Sunday, Dame Fortune visits in odd garb, knocking at Duty and Work to steer him toward success through Opportunity.
Charles Long alias Speak Easy who was shot by Special Officer Leeds Ludlow after exchanging gunfire last September has been jailed on charges of assault to murder burglary grand larceny and receiving stolen property. He was part of a trio of thieves officers had pursued for weeks and was stopped at Royal and Beauregard streets where Ludlow shot him wounding the officer in the arm.
In San Antonio a Bible’s fly leaf bearing the name Dorothy Arnold led police to probe a possible link to the missing New York girl. A young woman and a man named Fred J. Benson were arrested over pawn ticket probes. Keith, counsel to Dorothy’s father, denies any connection.
President nominates Hugh A. Barnes of Minden Louisiana as assistant appraiser of merchandise in Louisiana and Leonard Magruder of New Orleans as assayer at the New Orleans mint.
The article highlights women’s pivotal roles four months before the Exposition opens. Phoebe Hearst serves as honorary president of the women's board and leads the California Host Building committee. Maynard Ladd, a Boston sculptor, appears among women artisans shaping the fair’s artistic display alongside Evelyn Beatrice Longman Edith Woodman Burroughs and Mary Payne Whitney.
A dated treatise argues the face reveals character with claims about chins noses eyes and lips. It links pointed chins to refinement, deep clefts to sweetness, wide nostrils to spendthrift tendencies, and eye shapes to traits from craftiness to fidelity.
A satirical Old World column argues a wife should let a husband lead and not intrude on his plans or meals. It warns women to avoid overdeference and to accept a man’s untidy habits, possessions, and routine, noting that meddling dulls his happiness and appetite.
Colorado coal miners have ended the strike that began in April 1911 and involved most of the state's coal industry. A communication from the United Mine Workers of America executive board, signed by Frank J. Hayes, states the dispute is terminated and supports accepting President Wilson's mediation effort.
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