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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1914
Page
6
The German chancellor Von Beth Hollweg reports his eldest son, a lieutenant, has been captured in Poland. He is wounded by a bullet, with prior dispatches noting the son had been at Piotrkow, Poland.
Marion West of Irondale Alabama writes that Dr Swan's Liver and Kidney Remedy helped her more than any other medicine. It targets active liver and kidneys to restore function and relieve biliousness and related symptoms. A bottle should be kept at home for family health. National Remedy Co New York signature required.
An advertisement touts En-ArCo Oil, called The Wonderful Japanese Oil for 30 years, claiming relief from rheumatism neuralgia and other painful afflictions.
President Wilson tells the university commission on Southern race questions that the aim is to know the needs of the negro and help him in every possible way for his good and our good. Dr. C H Brough chairs the eleven southern college panel pledging an impartial study of the race issue.
For sore throat and bronchial troubles, apply hot wet towels to the chest and throat, rub Vicks well in, and cover with a warm flannel. The next morning the panel is loosened, head clears, and skin absorption eases tightness. Three sizes from 25c up.
A Manufacturers Record editorial urges rapid public works at all government levels to employ the unemployed during the depression. It argues for rivers and harbors, roads, municipal buildings, water and sewer projects funded by bonds, noting national leadership is essential and that such work reduces poverty while boosting prosperity.
Total loss from a Spring Hill blaze was about 8000 dollars. Spring Hill College students saved the servants’ quarters and parts of the Dortch house. A passing street car motorman spotted the fire and the bucket brigade saved some furniture.
Principal farm crops produced in 1914 are valued at 4 945 852 000 dollars according to the agriculture department. Breakdown includes corn 1 702 599 000. winter wheat 675 623 000. oats 499 431 000. hay 779 068 000. cotton 519 612 000. potatoes 198 609 000. tobacco 101 411 000. rice 21 849 000. and other crops listed with their figures.
Hastings Michigan reports a local manufacturer received an order for 108000 pairs of woolen blankets for French soldiers. The shipment, to fill thirty cars, must be completed by January 15, 1915.
Law and Equity Court proceedings list judgments and submissions. Published testimonies ordered for Ludlow and Tasby cases. Assignee Pake report read. December 28 layover. Chancery matters include dismissals and demurrers with 30 day answers. City cases against churches proceed with default judgments and damages set. Wednesday call includes Singleton versus Jemerson.
W Cal vin Wells age 71 a prominent Mississippi lawyer and Confederate veteran died suddenly in Jackson. He served as brigadier general in the Mississippi division and spoke at the Jacksonville Florida reunion. A brief legal docket includes several dismissals and motions in Mobile cases.
A health ad from Hot Springs Arkansas touts Liver Buttons as a simple cure for sluggish livers and bowel waste. It ridicules calomel and claims benefits from a single dose with a 25 cent box and a diet slip. The product is sold through Hot Chemical Co. Dept. 10 Hot Springs Arkansas.
W T Robertson of the Montgomery county board of revenue urged at a board meeting that the panel should set aside and charge back as errors all recent raises by the state tax commission in Montgomery county. He said action should be taken even if impeachment results. The board agreed the commission unfairly treated property owners but believed they had no right to cancel the assessment increases.
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