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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1914
Page
2
Sam McWilliams a man described as negro, of 954 State Street, arrested Thursday night by Special Officer Mose Gunnison on larceny charges after being found with four socks, four ties, handkerchiefs, baby caps and other items from H. Kress & Co. stores. He claimed he bought the items though none were wrapped.
Police received a report around midnight of unknown young men breaking the plate glass window of Mobile Tailoring Company at Lawrence and Dauphin streets. Detectives Burch and Pearson found the suspects had fled on Dauphin Street. Nearby residents said the men appeared intoxicated.
A U S artillery private from Fort Hancock on furlough in Middletown Ohio killed two men Thomas Clezitch 32 and Joseph Zugiennit 36 during a snowball fight then fled but was arrested. He said a beer bottle struck him triggering the shooting and he expressed sorrow. Tensions ran high in the town among foreign residents.
Under Mrs. Matilda Crosby and Miss Mattie Huston the Christmas cantata Santa Claus and Uncle Sam delighted 75 participants at Dauphin Way Baptist. Dr Hines opened with a cantata synopsis, delegates learned, Uncle Sam and Santa brought gifts after a GreenVille orphanage collection, ending with satsuma oranges for local children.
The Mobile Central Trades Council held its final 191% meeting of 1914 on December 23 with many delegates. Nominations for council offices were made and the January 1915 election date set. Joseph A. Vautrot won the gift Christmas turkey in the prize drawing.
Blacker's champion hustlers, a dozen newsboys, received Christmas sweaters as prizes for selling the most items in Mobile. Superintendent Jacob Blacker, famed nationwide as a newsboy champion, leads the brigade and outlined how they spot the big story before publication. The twelve top sellers include White group members Joe Lehay Norris Clark Joe Scharff Joe Allito Joe Denaburg Cecil Hillard Gordon Bolton Roy Strike and the Colored group Barley Thompson Ignatius Durette Clarence Vantreet James Nathaniel.
In the interior court on Thursday Hubert Spencer was arraigned on stealing a bicycle from A. F. Baker and sentenced to three months. Charley Hare received four months for stealing two razors from H. Kress & Co. Judge Chamberlain adjourned court until Monday morning.
Berin December 25 more than twenty lives have been saved by a black collie dog of an ambulance corps on the East Prussian battlefield. In peacetime the dog keeps watch at Halle railway station. At night the dog is sent over the battlefield to carry back an item of the victim’s gear and lead rescuers to the wounded.
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