Bunting and Decorated Mobile Ready for Mardi Gras Carnival
Mobile prepares for a three day carnival with electric lighting and festive displays. Clubs, stores and city buildings decked in carnival colors as residents anticipate a grand parade and events. The two mile Mardi Gras run on Monday at 12:30 features wide entry and eleven prizes for winners.
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Mobile
Atha
Felix II
Athin
Manassas
Fidelia Club
Elks Home
Elks
Moose
Owls
Beavers
Pythian Castle
St. Francis Street
Knights of Columbus
St. Joseph Street
Hammel’s
Gayfer’s
Reiss
Mobile and
Ohio
Royal
Dauphin Streets
Pe r u na the best catarrh cure by experience
The author argues that personal and neighbor experiences prove Pe-ru-na cures catarrh better than books or doctors. He cites thousands of letters from users and urges readers to try Pe-ru-na themselves, offering literature and advice from S B Hartman MD of Columbus, Ohio. Pe-ru-na Manalin and Lu-ca-pia are produced by the company and sold in drug stores.
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S. B. Hartman
M. D
Columbus
Ohio
Pe-ru-na Company
Local athletic cup race to crown best team and individual prizes
The article outlines a team scoring cup with a one year title, repeat winners gaining ownership. Prizes include gold silver bronze medals and merchant gifts such as hats shirts shoes and theater tickets. Entries pledge a record turnout from University Military School Barton Y M C A Spring Hill College and more. The course runs from the Y M C A through city streets to finish, with a junior boys run planned before the main event.
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Eeere
Bronz
Mr. Cashman
The
Cashman Co
Mobile Shirt Co
Captain Howard
Damrich Shoe Co
Buster Brown” Sox
T. J. Potter
Yeend-Potter Co
Barton
Spring Hill College
St. Joseph and
Government
Conception
Royal
Dauphin
Con
Yeggmen Loot Oak Wood Cemetery Office in Heist
Yeggmen blew open the Oakwood cemetery office safe in Montgomery Alabama on Friday night but found no money. City Sexton James J Sullivan said robbers must be hard up to pick a cemetery for their work and called it spite work.
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Montgomery
Ala
Oakwood Cemetery
James J. Sullivan
Mr. Sullivan
Winter Fiction Season Opens With Seed Catalogue Note
A playful line frames the arrival of winter fiction as the seed catalogue gains prominence. It hints at a persuasive argument taking a side in a lingering question, using seasonal motifs to set a literary mood.
Negro hanged in Clarke County for infant murder in Alabama
Special to The Item grove hill Ala Feb 1 Jerry Hill a negro was hanged in the Clarke county jail Friday morning at 7 05 o clock the doctor declaring him dead at 7 15 He was convicted in November for murdering the infant of Mrs Isidore Danzey a white woman at Alameda The child was born to Mrs Danzey she gave it to Hill who dumped it in a lake A mob forced Hill to reveal the location of the body Mrs Danzey received a ten year penitentiary sentence
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Grove Hill
Ala
Jerry Hill
Jerry King
Clarke County
Hill
Circuit
Isidore Danzey
Alameda
Here
Mobile
Southern Railway
Clarke County Victim of Hidden Crime Told in Mobile
The Item reports a concealed case in Clarke County where a negro named Hill received the death penalty. It also describes Mrs Danzey, a charity patient with several young children, who cared for them after the man she lived with was committed to an asylum. The children were sent to an orphan asylum after the arrest.
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Mobile
Clarke County
Alameda
Grove Hill
State Asylum For
Cohen Denies Owing Actor in Glasgow Public Works Chief
International News Service reports Henry Santrey accused Frank I. Cohen master of public works Glasgow of owing him 84 dollars for rent. Cohen, elected master of public works, says the claim is a mistake and that he never owed Santrey. He arrived in America recently and seeks citizenship while lecturing on municipal betterment. He previously served 14 years on Glasgow city council and promoted athletics for boys. He now lives at the Southern Hotel with his mother.
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Glasgow
Cohen
Southern Hotel
Automatic stokers on Pennsylvania Railroad engines arrive
Two large locomotives built in Dunkirk N Y reach Pittsburgh and showcase a new automatic stoker. The belt like coal feed to the firebox will reportedly let workers with minimal training operate the system. Officials say Pennsylvan ia Railroad may retrofit all engines with the automatic fireman if successful.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania Railroad
Dunkirk
N. Y
Hair Goods Sale Continues at Millinery Dept
Owing to Saturday rush the sale of Hair Goods is extended for a few days. Miss Evelyn of New York is advertised at Walter Mitchell's Millinery Department on Dau phin street.
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Evelyn
New York
Walter Mitchell’s
Prong of Scissors Pierces Child Eye in Alabama Accident
Five year old Jane Comer Smith, daughter of Mr and Mrs J Craig Smith and granddaughter of former Governor Comer, was injured at home when a pair of scissors prongs pierced her right eye. Montgomery oculists were summoned and hold some hope if inflammation can be controlled.
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Montgomery
Ala
Jane Comer Smith
J. Craig Smith
Comer
Temperance Day Planned in Mobile County Schools
The Mobile County branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union prepared verses and songs for Temperance Day set for February 21. Observance last year was wide across Mobile county under a state law dedicating part of a day to educate children about the evils of intemperance, marking Frances Willard's anniversary as well.
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Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Mobile
Frances Willard
County Board Convenes on Highway Construction Contracts
A conference is held to furnish information on contracts for county highways. The county board of revenue and members meet Saturday to discuss road work and related details.
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County Board
County Board of Revenue
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Columbus, Ohio
Queer Place
Clark County
Lt Adress
Russwin Builders Hardware Enterprise
Noxall Paint
Kelby
Kelly
Brady Kats
John Deere
Congo
Washington
North Water Street
Temperance Day
Mobile CO. Schools
Weinacker's Drug Store
Drug Department
Silent Waverly Electrics
Block Bros
Water Street
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