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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1914
Page
7
Bullock county plans to put forty county convicts to work on a public road starting January 1. The project from Union Springs will cost about 6500 dollars. Convicts were previously leased to lumber camps, but contractors declined to hire them next year amid a weaker lumber market.
Earl Bartman aged five was struck at Government and Royal streets by J R Ingersoll driving a dairy wagon. He remained between life and death with a broken shoulder and internal injuries. Ingersoll charged with reckless driving and to have been drunk. hearing set for Saturday afternoon.
A German steamer carrying 7,000 tons of oil from the United States to Italy has been seized at Gibraltar by a British warship, reports from Berlin indicate.
Stefen Panaretoff, Bulgaria’s first minister to the United States, said Bulgaria will keep neutrality while it serves its interests and will enter the war against Austria if doing so would improve Bulgaria’s position.
Four men, naming Richard and James Kineybrook B H Anglin and Claude Scales, confessed to attempting a branch Nashville post office robbery on April 24. They have been turned over to federal authorities. Scales allegedly escaped from Georgia penitentiary where he faced 18 years. others are said to be wanted in Atlanta for auto theft.
Paris dispatch reports Geneva police arrested a naturalized American named Muller accused of organizing a major German spy system with branches in Lyons and other eastern French cities. He faces trial by court martial.
The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association executive committee in Lexington Ky reinstated J H Peas of the Georgia School of Technology on condition he surrender his scholarship. They found Vanderbilt’s A M Sikes not guilty on eligibility charges. The body added a constitutional amendment proposal barring members from playing similar rank institutions in the league and disqualified Alabama’s Joplin.
The International League owners adjourned without final plans to move Jersey City and Baltimore clubs to Syracuse and Richmond. Committees will handle Jersey City Syracuse and Baltimore Richmond deals, with a January report due. Next season schedules 140 games opening April 27, player cap set at 16, salary limit unchanged.
Daniel W. Sellers, born 1831 in Charleston, S C, died at his Mobile daughter’s home after a long illness. He moved to Mobile for treatment and will be interred in Deer Park, Alabama, with six children and many grandchildren surviving.
Liverpool reports dull cotton spot with irregular prices. American mid dling fair 5.1d, good middling 4.49, middling 4.25, low middling 3.78. Sales 4,000 bales, receipts 19,779 bales all American. Futures closed quiet with May-June 4.03, July-August 4.09, October-November 4.19 1-2, January-February 4.25 1-2.
Several early 20th century classified briefs seek workers and services. A Niagara Falls drawer seeks movie actors for a 50 reel production and Empire-branch opportunities. other ads request invention ideas from Victor Evans & Co., barber trainees at Moler Barber College in New Orleans, silk bow makers at home via Marshall Co., and mailing sales help from Rex Co. Lost dog and Harley motorcycle theft notices round out the listings with rewards offered.
An old classified page lists costumes wigs and silk tights for rent, badges made to order, and a local cleaning and pressing firm. It mentions a grocery store purchase, a buggy horse for sale, and barber shop services with various prices and contact details.
Classified sale ad lists clothing and shoe bargains with wide price ranges. Includes men and boys apparel, ladies footwear, and assorted discounts. Sizable sections pitch repairable clothing and sale of ready-to-wear goods, plus employment requests and help-wanted notices.
Mrs Laura M Slaughter native of Blakeley Baldwin county Alabama aged 78 and wife of Robert Walker Slaughter died here Friday afternoon. She was the daughter of Thomas N and Harriet McDonald Mer vin and mother of six children. Funeral was held Saturday at 11 from Percy M Slaughter’s home and interment followed at Montgomery Hill.
In the probate court of Mobile County Alabama the administrator Lewis Y. Moore filed accounts vouchers and evidence for a final settlement of Augustus S. McDowell estate. The court set December 30 1914 as the settlement day allowing interested parties to appear and contest if desired. Judge Prich Williams. Stevens McCorvey and Dean attorneys.
John Semper’s long lost play The Philanthropists is finally produced by Charles Newbury at the Queen’s Theatre. His son Dick Semper stars as the gifted young actor, while the father watches, moved to tears, and writes a heartfelt note of forgiveness to his boy.
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