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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1916
Page
2
London papers scrutinize President Wilson's note for hidden motives. They cite Lansing’s “verge of war” remark and speculate on German submarine policy, with editors weighing implications for US entry and peace efforts.
Burial held Friday at 3 pm from 204 Adams Street with Rev. W T Fendley leading. Magnolia Cemetery interment. Pallbearers included B McDade T T Palmer W A Freeland H B Carpenter E H Dolbear J L Seabury. Adjacent note cites Chamberlain cough remedy promo.
Rev Henry Wade Du Bose underwent a successful operation in Mobile. The McClure family from Alabama and Tennessee visitors planned a holiday in Mobile. G and Cochrane's party returned from a New York trip. Dr J C Turrentine left Mobile for Fort Worth for holidays. Dr Edwin D King Jr named livestock inspector for shipments to Mexico. The Hubberts and Shaw families visit Mobile, staying at the Battle House.
At the Monteleone Hotel in New Orleans a woman later identified as Mrs. Gertrude Stoddard of Mobile Alabama fell through the grill room roof and landed on the protective wire mesh above the roof. She lay motionless until rescue as alarms sounded and staff responded.
Gonzales lowered to the roof by rope and carried an unconscious woman through a window to awaiting hotel staff. She sustained multiple injuries including a skull fracture and leg and arm breaks. Her name was not disclosed and her companion cited plans to marry as stress from his daughter's nervous breakdown.
Death notices list White male Abraham Pincus Vivian B Cazalas Rev P J Kennedy John B Uphaus William Thompson Henry P Weiss and White female Mary Butler Zoe Hogue Nancy Fe Kirk. Colored males Luke Evans Eli Thrash Manuel Williams William Chandler Sandy Nobles William Ware John Hill Erasmus Meggerson L W Harris George Miller Jackson King Willie Turner. Colored females Malinda Campbell Mary Craig Jania James Lucinda Benard Lula C Bright.
Birth announcements list newborn boys and girls for White families including Willie P Ginn Mary A Ginn and George W Peter son plus girls and many paired parents. Colored births show William and Maggie Evans Woodlie and Nettie Green and others with both boys and girls named.
The Daily News reports that due to heightened submarine threats the government war risk insurance office raises the per voyage insurance for British vessels to forty shillings.
The London office notes that shipping reports will drop all items except casualty announcements under an official order starting tonight. Other items from New York, Paris, and Washington cover war news, political moves, and memorial services, with mixed notes on strikes and theater additions.
Unconfirmed rumors reach Eagle Pass that the Hotel Coahuila in Saltillo was demolished by an explosion yesterday. Many Carranza soldiers were injured or killed and General Carranza was reported to have been in Saltillo at the time.
At Leon Springs Texas a unit of signal corps men carried a mile of ultra thin telephone wire on their backs and crawled through underbrush. The system formed a multi mile line and was praised as a wartime method usable where mules or vehicles cannot operate. Officers called the test a success and said the setup could be deployed in warfare with ease.
Sir Ernest Shackleton began a voyage from Port Chalmers aboard the Aurora to reach ten marooned men near the Ross Barrier. Captain Mackintosh and nine crew members of the Arctic expedition face 21 months without supplies since the Aurora broke away in a blizzard.
London dispatch reports the American steamer Kansas, damaged by a mine, has been beached in the St Nazaire roads as she drew too much water to enter the docks. Her cargo will be lightered to reduce weight.
Chamberlains Tablets are intended for stomach troubles biliousness and constipation and have met with much success in treating those diseases. People who suffered for years with stomach trouble and found no relief have been completely cured by using these tablets. They are also valuable for biliousness and may permanently cure chronic constipation when directions are followed.
Sir Robert Borden, Canada’s premier, declared Britain and dominions cannot yield while military aggression pursues world domination. He dismissed claims the causes of war are merely historic and urged organized national effort to realize Canada’s war aims.
Colonel Walter D. McCaw chief surgeon of the southern department reports guardsmen gain from outdoor border duty. He cites the First South Carolina infantry sent home from El Paso with 1000 men showing a total weight gain of 6000 pounds an average of 6 pounds per man.
Paris December 23 The French official statement reports bad weather on December 22 halted operations on the Macedonian front. It notes a night bombardment west of Auberive repulsed, while Hardaumont and Chambr ette sectors saw notable enemy artillery activity.
Petrograd reports Russian troops in the Romanian province of Dobrudja continue to retire northward as the war department released the official statement.
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