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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1916
Page
3
A noon Thursday session in the directors room called by E. M. Bailey outlines a Mobile cannery project backed by local capital. The Chamber of Commerce aims to launch one factory per month as a policy with coordinated efforts to advance each new industry before pursuing the next.
Reports from Petrograd say a lull spans the Russian front with minor artillery air and mining activity on the Dvinsk Riga line. They note German troop transfers westward as evidence Germany plans to concentrate force on the western front while holding Bukowina and the northern sector.
A social favorite recalls transforming her complexion rapidly with a novel wax treatment from the druggist and a Saxolite witch hazel lotion. She reports improved skin tone and fading lines after a week, claiming the quick remedy made her look youthful enough for the Charity Ball.
Alexis Alabama resident I E Cothram extols Granger Liver Regulator as superior for stomach liver and bowel trouble praising its gentle soothing action and plant based formula. He notes it comes in a sturdy tin box and a 25 cent can and claims it has earned American homes confidence through years of use.
The Alabama Tennessee and Northern Railway reports limited space at its deep water docks on the west bank of the river for lumber logs ties or heavy commodities and shed space on Blakely Island can be secured for any amount needed with water facilities.
Mechanics Lodge 69 I O C F to meet in Carr street hall Tuesday at 7. Rev E M Daffin returned from Semmes after Baptist services and funeral of E Ledyard Phelps. Joel Manuel injured in Whistler shops when struck by a tire hammer. he was knocked unconscious.
The Swedish steamship Texas carrying a cotton cargo is alight and steering toward Kirkwall, Scotland. Departed New Orleans January 22 and Newport News January 27, bound for Gothenburg and Christiana.
W. H. Maulding pleaded guilty to bigamy in Meridian Mississippi on Monday and received a ten year penitentiary sentence. He was arrested Saturday night after being indicted by the grand jury. He had married Miss Mary Brown in Meridian and was said to have a wife and four stepchildren in Chattanooga from a 1914 marriage.
John Culberson and E D Yarbrough, Negroes, charged with shooting and killing Fred Daniel and wounding George Fulton at North Bend, Miss last Thursday, were brought to jail in Meridian for safe keeping.
Edwin Jackson, jailed for abandonment of family, escaped and was captured in Gulfport. He was arraigned for disorderly conduct and fined 15 dollars or 30 days in jail after appeal. Albert Berry received 5 dollars and costs or ten days on appeal from the recorder. Several other appeal cases were dismissed or continued.
Wallace Campbell was arrested late Monday by Deputy Sheriff John Carter on a charge of destroying a wire fence around T. T. Shepard’s property at Cottage Hall. Shepard alleges Campbell cut the fence several days prior.
Police liquor squad raided a dwelling at Bloodgood and Hamilton streets on Tuesday morning. They seized 160 half pints of liquor and no claimant appeared for the seized beverage.
Arthur Frazier and Edward Reed, recent escapees from Magnolia cemetery work gang, were recaptured Tuesday by Day and Turnkey Moody, ending the brief fugitive period with their return to custody.
J A Foppe of Phillips Furniture Company will depart Mobile for New Orleans Tuesday night to attend the New Orleans Buyers convention. He will study new styles in furniture to guide extensive purchases for Mobile's Phillips Furniture Company, the city's newest furniture house.
Mary Mee becomes proprietor of the Mee Hotel in Hammond Indiana a new hotel business venture.
An old advertisement touts a product called Bromo Quinine to prevent colds and remove the cause. It notes a single Bromo Quinine item and features a signature line reading E W Groves on the box with a 25 cent price.
Johnnie Bushytail the young squirrel asks Uncle Wiggily to pick a spinning top with his five cent gift. They visit a toy store, choose a red white and blue top, and wind it to play music. On the way home Aunt Flippity Flop warns of dizziness as she watches the spinning top.
Uncle Wiggily and Johnnie spin a top to outsmart a fox from Orange Mountain who tries to eat them. The dizzying toy makes the fox stumble and fall in snow, allowing the duo to escape to the hollow tree with the top. Johnnie then lets Billy the squirrel play without dizziness.
An advertisement touts Poslam antiseptic cream and Poslam Soap as remedies for skin ailments including cuts boils rashes and itching. It claims to eradicate eczema acne salt rheum barber's itch and similar conditions and offers samples by mail from Emergency Laboratories in New York City.
Biloxi Miss February 8 special Joseph Hosh a Back Bay farmer has raised a hog two years old. stands three feet high weighs 800 pounds and measures seven and a half feet around the body and ten feet four inches from tip to tip. W Cosby and Theophile Delonttin near Beauvoir are under arrest charged with threatening to kill each other. Bishop McFaul returns East after ten days with his secretary Father Norris. Biloxi jail is turned into a hen house after arrests of five Biloxi lads for raiding a hen roost and planning a late night supper.
Washington Feb 8 The House passed a resolution authorizing the War Department to lend one thousand tents and cuts for the United Confederate Veterans encampment to Birmingham next May. The measure has already cleared the Senate.
Fairhope rejoices over the appointment of J R Hammett as fourth district county commissioner. The Henry George Club met at Mrs Marietta L Johnsons home with a song recital and a paper by Mrs Hee. Nearby residents and visitors are noted with bridge contracts, an art program expanding at the School of Organic Education, and a temperance talk by Judge Foster.
Real estate transfers list several property deeds in which New South Land Company to J. H Reichert for 1 dollar. E. J. Knipper to Thomas Harris for 125 dollars. F. M. Senter to H. and Klinge for 1 dollar. RH. D. Laurendine as Trustee to Frank Jones for 1 dollar. O. Broadus to Joe T. Tyrrell for 100 dollars. In New York, the Rice memorial chess masters tournament features Chajes vs Capablanca. Chajes captures Capablanca’s queen on move 29, adjourned after six hours with Capablanca seemingly doomed at 64 moves. Kostic and Kupchik draw after 63 moves. Janokski has a bye.
A low risk home remedy claims to remove facial hair by mixing delatone and water into a paste. Apply to the skin for two minutes then rinse to supposedly remove hairs. Repeats are needed and the ad suggests obtaining genuine delatone to avoid issues.
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