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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1912
Page
2
Ships and docks names listed for the port at noon on December 26. Pier 1 and Munson Docks are noted along with Stream Pier and City Wharves. The document catalogs vessels tied at Stese City Wharves and M. and C. Dks with no other details.
The report describes a high barometer over Idaho and the central region with Denver at six degrees and freezing conditions extending south to northern areas. A low pressure system and scattered rains affect the Mississippi valley, while an Atlantic low brings fair but cold weather in the North and showers in the South. It predicts colder northerly winds in Mobile and an advancing high pressure moving in Friday.
An old style notice promotes a coughs and colds remedy as safe to take and pleasant. It mentions shipments and pricing in vague terms and states the product is for sale by druggists.
The Mobile Carnival Association schedules a general meeting at 3 o'clock Thursday in the Colonial Room of the Cawthon Hotel to review reports from committees controlling the 1913 Mardi Gras celebration. City reporters note a record Christmas arrest lull in Mobile County with eleven total, none serious except one assault murder case. three Morningstar children recover from ptomaine poisoning, and locals mingle during the holidays with visits from Houston Miss. Capt. C A Moffat and Daughdrill family guests. Dudley Lang from Louisville and Nashville Railroad is in town for the holidays. City Clerk McMahon leaves on a hunting trip. Mobile and Gulf Tropical Exposition directors meet to review the fair’s finances and needs.
The Old Standard Grove's Taith Less Chill Tonic marketed as a malaria remedy that builds up the system, offered for grown people and children at 50 cents.
An advertisement touts Buckled's Arnica Salve as a cure for skin eruptions blotches sores pimples eczema and salt rheum. It claims to heal sore lips chapped hands chilblains burns cuts and bruises and to be unequaled for piles. Price 26 cents at druggists with a half-page cut sale at Reiss Mercant Company.
The four masted American schooner Mount Hope with Warren as master carried about 1500 tons of Pennsylvania anthracite coal to the Mobile Coal Company. It shifted to a discharging berth Thursday morning. Also present were the British schooner P. J. Mc Laughlin waiting for a loading berth and the Norwegian fruit steamship Belvernon from Bocas del Toro delivering bananas. The Fjell was expected with a large banana cargo. no departures were recorded on Wednesday or Thursday morning.
A poet recalls sending merry Christmas verse to an editor, only to have the lines returned on the holiday itself. The brief verse hints at festive sentiment and a rebuff from the editor, capturing a tidy wartime style of humorous literary exchange.
A notice from Major Flagler to the Chamber of Commerce says the Lighthouse Bureau has approved installing two range lights two beacon lights and three day beacons to mark the new cut-off channel below Choctaw Point. Work will begin as soon as materials are available.
Mrs Florida Lavalett McGuire widow of Albert G McGuire died Wednesday evening after a long illness. Born in Florida in 1866 she married in Sum merfield Dallas county Alabama and later moved to the city where she resided since. Her husband preceded her in death. She was beloved by many and is survived by Wesley W McGuire of
The funeral for George A Gamble was held Wednesday at 4 p m from the family residence at northeast Ann and State streets. Rev Father T J Eaton of St Marys Catholic church conducted the service and interment followed in Magnolia cemetery with pallbearers William Henry Emile McCoy John Mason Dan Curbow T Chipalich R N Burney.
London reports all European and continental exchanges closed today as traders observe a holiday.
A Durham reader testifies after fifteen years of nervous indigestion that Digestit cured his condition. The ad promotes Brown's Digestit Tablets and Elixir as a liver tonic, claiming they digest food, prevent fermentation, move bowels, and remove waste with a money back guarantee from the druggist.
A bank issues a time certificate of deposit that earns four percent interest with quarterly semi annual or annual payable options. It also mentions a safe bond with double the latter earning power and prompts readers to ask the bank about this department.
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