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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1916
Page
3
Seattle area faces another severe snowstorm with over two and a half feet of snow. Rail networks in mountain passes are blocked, streetcar lines halted, schools closed, and business nearly at a standstill as damage mounts and recovery prospects look bleak.
Papers filed in Montgomery show thirteen domestic corporations including The Fashion Inc of Atmore with 5000 capital and 2500 paid in for wholesale and retail millinery. Alexander Citys Pine Lumber Co capital 35000 paid, general lumber and tram roads. Alabama Diversified Products Co of Birmingham capital 3000 paid, handles farm products. Atlas Cotton Cleaner Co of Birmingham capital 50000 paid 35000, to manufacture and sell patents. Pan American Development Co Inc of Birmingham capital 10000 paid 9000, a holding company. Indicated incorporators include B P Smith Nora Smith C C Huxford Clara Huxford Benjamin Russell T C Russell J M Stevenson R F Kolb Ester H Smith J W Hughes A D Henry J B Greene J C Stacy G C Stacy J A White George W Beaver W O Tyler T L Finney.
Contributions to the fund for relief of the Jews of Europe will be received by M. C. Altmayer treasurer of the committee of fifteen of the two Jewish congregations and Beth Zur Lodge Bnai B'rith. He will acknowledge subscriptions in Sunday papers. A Temple Shaarai Shomayim meeting approved the plan after a five member solicitation panel. Several hundred dollars were added to last Sunday's total. Subscribers urged to remit to National Treasurer M Warburg of the National Jewish Relief Committee in New York.
Miss Alice Whitney, a Detroit beauty doctor, says a simple home mixture can darken gray hair, boost growth, and soften hair. Mix bay rum, Barbo Compound, and glycerine in water, apply twice weekly for a younger look and to relieve itching, dandruff, and scalp trouble.
The city commission retired bonds totaling 35 500 dollars including 29 500 in principal and 6 000 in refunding bonds. Interest paid on the retired bonds amounted to 6 737.50 dollars as part of the resolution introduced by Mayor Pat J. Lyons.
W C Hollowell of Bessemer Alabama asks Mobile police to locate his seventeen year old son who left home January 14 and is believed in Mobile. He was last heard from at Fulton Alabama and told his father he was coming to Mobile. He weighs about 135 pounds, is 5 feet 12 inches tall with fair skin blue eyes and dark hair. When last seen he wore a blue serge two piece suit and a dark blue checked cap.
Amusements listing promotes The Painted Soul four reel Mutual masterpiece starring Bessie Barriscale about love and reform. Also note Helen Holmes in The Girl and the Game Fridays. Admission five cents. Also an ad for Bromo Quinine cough remedy was noted.
Koelnische Zeitung analyzes President Wilson speech quotes, arguing he favors England and its allies while implying warlike moves. It says Wilson dislikes Germany as much as England and that Germany should expect continued American lukewarm neutrality despite protests in Congress.
The Queen Theatre presents a two reel two act chapter of The Girl and the Game featuring Helen Holmes in a railroad adventure episode titled The Fight at Signal Station. Admission is five cents.
Morton Meyers, president of the Norfolk Virginia Chamber of Commerce, toured Mobile docks and port facilities and predicted Mobile could become a major Gulf Coast export and import center. He praised railroad and coal loading facilities and said the port could benefit his city. The probate court issued several marriage licenses including White-Willliam W Wragg and Jenne Katherine Zeigter and Alexander and Ruth Skinner.PRICE GOLF BALLS REDUCED. New York says golf ball prices drop 10 to 15 cents amid Haswell patent expiry May occur.
The Keating child labor bill passed the House by a 337 to 46 vote and heads to the Senate. It bans interstate shipment of products made by child labor with a heavy penalty and was amended to exempt boys and girls canning clubs. Opposition, mainly in the South, argued constitutional and states rights concerns.
A navy code book is missing from the torpedo boat destroyer Hull. Washington orders court martial for Lieut Herbert A. Jones and Ensign Robert D. Kirkpatrick at Mare Island for joint possession. If found unseen, new secret systems may be needed.
A brief notice asserts these designs surpass all other one dollar styles in quality and appeal.
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