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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1915
Page
3
To handle the Christmas package rush, an extra fourteen clerks were added at the Mobile post office on Friday. Two tables were set up in the main lobby to speed service, with heavy traffic expected through the holidays. Public guidance urged early arrival and secure wrapping with clear addresses, noting most customers use insurance for safe delivery or reimbursement for lost parcels.
Three delegates Rafail Alvarez Tulio Ospina and Miguel Triana will represent Colombia at the Pan-American Scientific Congress in Washington starting December 17. They arrived today from Central American ports. The Colombian president’s message was well received, signaling stronger commercial ties with the United States. Two delegates bring sons who will study in American business colleges.
A Kansas City real estate operator and building contractor is indicted by a grand jury on forging a $600 note. She allegedly built $110,000 in five years without capital to start. Also, J P Kuntz alias Railroad Bill, jailed for fighting a police officer, escaped Magnolia cemetery with seven other prisoners and is at large.
William B. Brewster, field secretary of the National Security League, will explain aims to Mobile residents. He arrives from Montgomery for a noon Chamber of Commerce meeting on Saturday to outline plans for a local chapter. The league, led by Joseph B. Choate and Alton B. Parker, advocates a 25 000 man army and a balanced navy without lavish spending.
J. B. Brown mayor of Fox Lake Illinois in Mobile recounts an eight day Chicago to gulf coast motor trip and urges the Old Spanish Trail Association to open smooth highways from New Orleans to Tampa within a year. He predicts outsiders will flock to Gulf Coast hotels if the road is built and plans a winter trip to Tampa to view the Paradise Loop. Brown owns land near Mobile and spends his fourth winter there.
A. Edmond Wells of Underwood & Underwood, a noted Washington photographer, visits Mobile to document local sights and waterfront life. He aims to record vessels of all classes and their crews while staying in the city on national-interest assignments.
New York police recovered jewelry valued in the thousands found by a sandwich man under a wagon days earlier. They traced a diamond encrusted watch offered by his wife in a pawnshop for $2, and the man paced Broadway with a heavy sign. He claimed neither he nor his wife knew the gems’ value.
In Clarksburg, West Virginia, December 17, hundreds of workers lost jobs as about ninety six industrial establishments suspended operations due to a gas shortage. The West Virginia Public Service Commission ordered Clarksburg Light and Heat to relieve the famine, leading to reductions or cutoffs of gas for industry.
The joint resolution extending the emergency revenue tax to December 321, 1916, passed the House 205 to 189 and moved to the Senate where a quick adoption was anticipated. George L. Davis, a well known local Black resident, died after a long illness. He belonged to Cumberland Lodge No. 22 A F and A M and Benevolent Lodge No. 1 626 G U O of Odd Fellows. His funeral was held at State Street Church. Santa Claus matinee announced for Columbia with toy distribution.
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