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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1913
Page
8
Fire in San Sebastian Spain started at midnight in the tenement district and, aided by strong winds, swept through the heart of the city. A vast block of buildings including a theatre and variety hall were destroyed before daybreak and the flames moved toward the military barracks with troops serving as firemen.
Lincoln Beachey completed six loops at 2,500 feet over San Francisco Bay, adding to his Christmas Day five-loop mark. He had flown upside down before achieving the new world record in aerial performance.
A. C. Harte national secretary of the Y M C A spoke to a large Southern gathering on India college conditions versus Britain and the United States. He noted widow care as a key current project and contrasted U S college paths with those in India.
In Romh, the sister of the late Cardinal Rampolla files to remove seals on his residence. Baroness Carolina Rampolla Hezzana presents the cardinal's 1889 testament naming her sole heir as brothers have died. If no opposition emerges, seals may be lifted tomorrow.
Philadelphia reports a rumor that M Blair Doan, chief investigator for the Illinois white slave commission, seeks 40000 in a suit tied to an alleged plot to place Countess Santa Eulalia, once Mrs John Stetson, on the Portuguese throne. The tale spans New York and Philadelphia society circles with supposed support.
Four entomologists from St. Louis Missouri are at the Bienville Hotel in Mobile and plan several weeks of field work. They visited Coden and Bayou la Barre over the weekend and are popular with hotel staff who nickname them bugologists.
Rudolph P Priester a 66 year old Mobile resident born in Jackson Alabama died Sunday morning at 11 20 in his home at 955 Church street after a lingering illness. He formerly worked in merchandising and as agent for the Mobile and Montgomery Railroad and served in the Civil War with Judge Price Williams Jr. He remained active in veterans and mystic organizations and is survived by his wife Hattie.
President Wilson visits a small Pass Christian church with Mrs. Wilson and Dr. Grayson for a humble service on his 57th birthday. The Rev Dr Herbert Jones delivers a sermon on personal accountability, praising a new era in diplomacy as veterans and locals greet the president along a rain-swept Gulf Coast route.
Announcement from Mobile reports the death of Rev John L Stewart D D in Hangchow China on November 24 after a week's illness from paralysis. He leaves wife Miss Mary Horton Mobile and two sons Rev J Leighton Stewart D D of Nanking and Rev Warren H Stewart of Hangchow. Born December 2 1840 in Shelbyville Kentucky he graduated Centre College 1861 and Princeton Theological Seminary 1868 and was ordained in Louisville the same year. He was theSouthern Presbyterian Church's oldest serving missionary.
A Besancon bishop issued a total ban on the tango in his diocese, calling the dance intensely dangerous and a serious threat to morality. He appeals to Christians to exclude it from their homes and urges adherence to church teaching.
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