Mobile businessmen rally for Gulf Coast Fair drive
Mobile campaign teams formed by Chairman Jack O Connell map fundraising for a larger 1916 Gulf Coast Fair. They report strong local appreciation but say Mobile firms await better prosperity before pledging stock. Projected next year cost is 25000 dollars for grounds and buildings. organizers expect more than double returns. The final campaign day is Friday with Satsuma Day omitted.
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Mobile
Jack O'Connell
O'Connell
Satsuma
Many Noviates Pass Over the Hot Sands Shrine Initiation Held
At Abba Temple Shriners ceremonial session many candidates were initiated and officers to be elected for the year. Visitors included E. S. Smith Savannah GA N. E. Metcalfe Boston MA Wooley Finnell Tuscaloosa and J. B. Smith Wheeling WV. The Shriners Drum Corps was praised for marching and music in Tuesday events. Police report November fines total 656 with 450 arrests 200 white 250 colored including 48 females six white. Prison labor totaled 565 days.
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Abba Temple of Shriners
Temple
E. S. Smith
Savannah
N. E. Metcalfe
Boston
Mass
Wooley Finnell
Tuscaloosa
J. B
Smith
Wheeling
W. Va
City Commission
Ely's Cream Balm Advertisement Claim
An advertisement touts Ely's Cream Balm for catarrh and nasal congestion. It promises quick relief by applying a light fragrance antiseptic cream into the nostrils to soothe swollen mucous membranes and clear air passages.
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Ely
Mock Trial Big Event Tonight At YMCA Harboring Dark Secrets
A sensational mock trial at the Mobile YMCA features Dr. Toulmin Gaines as the defendant with Jere Austin as chief witness. Chief Justice Kruempel presides as jurors and witnesses including Ed J. Higgins and R. O. Rubel are listed among the colorful cast in a Homecoming week spotlight.
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Mobile
Toulmin Gaines
Kruempel
Dr. Gaines
Jere Austin
Commonwealth of Alabama
State
John W. McA
Robert McConnell
Monroe Park
V. O'Connor
D. B. Goode
Plans for Old Spanish Trail convention program
The executive committee outlined the program for the Old Spanish Trail convention to be held Friday and Saturday. Delegates from Florida and other points will reach Mobile after noon, with transportation arranged for West Florida delegates and cars across Mobile Bay. Mayor Pat Lyong will give the welcome, and Senator Frank White of Birmingham will speak in the first session, followed by a report from James A. Emmet, official scout.
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Florida
Mobile
West Florida
Mobile Bay
Pat Lyong
Frank White
Birmingham
James A. Emmet
Methodist Conference at Brewton Announces Appointments
The Alabama Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church opens in Brewton under Bishop John C. Kilgo. Due to yearly rotation limits, many pastors reach four years in their posts and will move, including Haskew Florala Ellisor Monroeville Griffin Cottendale Bilbro Martford Slocomb Williams Demopolis and others across Mobile, Pensacola, Atmore, Fairhope, and nearby towns.
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Brewton
Ala
Alabama
Methodist Episcopal Church
John C. Kilgo
Charlotte
N. C
D. W. Haskew
Florala
D. W
Mobile
D. Li Folsome
Loachapeka
J. C. Grogan
Court Street
Montgomery
C. H. Motley
Atmore
W. T. Ellison
Greenville
C. C. Simpson
Fairhope
H. M. Holt
Pensacola
Fla
Ellison
Gastonburg
C. H. Johnson
Slma
Enoch Arden tale and court notes mix in Mobile piece
In a Mobile recorder’s court session the tale of Enoch Arden surfaces as Eugene Jordan claims to be Louise Jordan’s true husband while Louise contends she remains married to Eugene. The docket also shows misdemeanors and minor sentences, with shoplifting cases and a Brewton conference report for Rev. D Y Register.
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Yassah
Jedge
New Orleans
Dar
Eugene Jordan
Recorder’s Court
Enoch Arden
Mobile
Louise Jordan
Eugene
Louise
Irene Nelson
Melissa Palmer
Corinne Dover
Corinne
Irene
Burks Knapp
James Mace
James Bathen
Crucifix Fish Exhibit At Local Sporting Goods Store
Two specimens of the Crucifix or Holy Fish are displayed in Price W. Tompking Sporting Goods at 56 South Royal Street. The heads and bones resemble Our Saviour on the cross and a hooded figure with a sharp projecting bone, likely the devil. Capt. H. Sprinkhorn and wife aboard the schooner Laura Hardt brought them from Dutch Guinea to Mobile. the items are described as well worth seeing.
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Price W. Tompking Sporting Goods
South Royal Street
Mobile
H. Sprinkhorn
Laura Hardt
Dutch Guinea
Minnesota Girl Who Skated for Czar Returns to U S
Fanny Davidson, famed for skating on Minnesota ponds as a girl, once performed exhibitions for the Russian czar and royal family in Petrograd. This winter she stays in New York showing audiences what a light footed skater can do.
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Minnesota
Russia
Petrograd
Fanny Davidson
New York
First Gulf Coast Produce Exchange Ad Marks Winter Crop
The North and Gulf Coast Produce Exchange announces sweet potatoes lettuce and spinach ready for market by December 20. Mobile will ship the first crop under a fixed standard pack and a brand set at the exchange's next executive committee meeting after trademarks were submitted through The Item.
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America
Gulf Coast Produce Exchange
Mobile
Exchange
Exchange Executive Committee
Missing Men Sought in Mobile Node Edges City Search
Postmaster J Blocker Thornton received a Washington letter asking for Eddie Spencer believed to live in Mobile as the brother seeks word after fifteen years. Birmingham youth James Lovingood 17 disappeared last November from Birmingham weighing 140 to 150 pounds, 5 foot 8 or 8 1/2 inches, brown eyes light hair dark complexion.
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J. Blocker Thornton
Alfred Spencer
Washington, D. C
Eddie Spencer
J. T. Lovingood
Birmingham
Ala
James Lovingood
Young Lovingood
Savage Women Health and Bond to Strength
An advertisement promotes a patent remedy from Van Antwerp's Drug Corporation claiming to restore energy and health to run-down women. It touts peptonate of iron beef peptone cod liver oil extracts dissolved in native wine and asserts quick strength gains. The copy urges readers to seek Vinci drug stores in their town for the product.
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van Antwerp
Drug Corporation
Vinci Drug
Cotton ginned to December first totals rise nationwide
Census Bureau reports 9,711,453 running bales ginned before December 1, plus 93,361 round bales and 77,161 Sea Island bales. State tallies show Texas leading with 2,777,581 bales and Georgia at 1,768,366, while Sea Island totals include Florida 24,910 and Georgia 48,877.
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Washington
Sea Island
Census Bureau Today
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
North Carolina
South Carolina
Texas
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Seca Island
Sage Tea Darkens Hair Sage and Sulphur Compound Ad
An old advertisement claims Sage Tea with Sulphur darkens gray hair, smooths dandruff, stops itching and hair loss. It suggests home preparation or a 50 cent Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound bottle, applied daily to restore natural color and add shine.
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Wyeth
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