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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1914
Page
7
Appreciative care guiding gifts from the best dress shop. Stock highlights evening dress and tuxedo waistcoats, mufflers, ties, buckles, slippers, robes, pajamas, night shirts, hose, handkerchiefs, and matched hose sets. New arrivals emphasize latest style and refinement.
The Alabama Supreme Court cost $50 744.94 in the last fiscal year and $206 010.59 over four years, while receipts totaled $9 368.55 and $32 199.08 respectively. Examiner J. T. Gorman praised General R. F. Ligon’s office as well run and orderly.
The Protestant Orphans Christmas collection seeks support for the coming year. Honorary chair J. W. Little heads a long list of committee members across Mobile, including H. A. Fortheimer, E. BE Kiencke, R. A. Christian, C. A. Cunningham, and many others from streets and institutions citywide.
Jacob Reiss president of Reiss Mercantile Company announces a 10 percent discount on all purchases made before 10 am starting Monday. The Shop Early Campaign aims to ease holiday rush and keep clerks rested by encouraging early shopping.
Police report a surge of highway robberies blamed on tramps flocking to southern cities. Chief Crershaw said about 300 were escorted out last week as many were professionals unwilling to work. Some suspects are tourists out of work amid bad business conditions.
Bertha Jones and Amos Jones were jailed Friday for hunting without a license and bonded for appearance. The inferior criminal court will rule Monday on a separate case where a county game warden arrested two Black individuals with squirrels, arguing possession alone is not unlawful unless the squirrels were killed by the parties, as they were transporting them for white men who had killed them.
In Saturday morning court Eva Smith was arraigned before Judge Henry Chamberlain on vagrancy and fined five dollars or ten days. Sam Carter Charles Davis and Will Moore faced gaming charges and were fined one dollar and costs of ten days hard labor. John Stevenson was charged with assault and battery and fined one cent plus costs.
Effective August 26 the departure time of Alabama Tennessee and Northern train No 4 from Calvert Alabama will be 9 30 a m instead of 8 40 a m The change will aid passengers from the north of Calvert by allowing a connection with Southern Railway train No 221 on the Mobile Selma division
Henry Collins Green Holley and Henry Miller were sentenced to twenty days hard labor for gaming by Judge Henry Chamberlain. Charles Philmore received twenty days, Will Sills ten days. Elmore Bradley was jailed ten days for vagrancy. Junius Canders got six months for petit larceny. Ten others received ten days for unlawful riding on trains.
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