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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1914
Page
2
Chief F W Crenshaw reports Fred G a noted thief who robbed Charles R Pee and others valued at 107, was captured in Florida by Oakland police en route to the penitentiary but escaped while being taken back to serve a term. Schwartz on parole at the time.
Baldwin county stock raisers have secured funds to build 25 dipping vats across the county with a $1500 material budget. Dr F R Harsch reports a Bay Minette meeting approved the plan to add a total of 30 vats statewide for cattle tick eradication. A Mobile meeting will seek further county funding from the Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners, with details to follow.
Nathaniel Baldwin, a Negro, charged with burglarizing a car carrying interstate freight, was lodged in Mobile County Jail Tuesday afternoon to serve a sixty day sentence.
A reader shares a home remedy to darken gray hair using Barbo Compound bay rum glycerine and water. The mix is applied every other day until achieving the desired shade.
Denver Feb 11 John R Lawson prominent United Mine Workers leader prepared to resume testimony as the house investigating committee reopened sessions. Lawson testified yesterday and will be cross examined by coal operators’ attorneys on the Colorado coal miners strike.
Hancock Mich Feb 14. testimony by miners on copper mine conditions tied to last July’s strike. Congress may seek Western Federation of Miners books in Denver to count members and current strike beneficiaries. In Calumet Italian Hall disaster probe Hilton claims constitutional rights affected by Moyer deportation and related events.
Washington Feb 11 partial extracts from the commission on industrial relations report outline the federation's role in Western mining districts. The document notes Montana Nevada and Butte history, and says Michigan copper strike reports will follow. It states 76 percent of Montana miners are native or white immigrants and Virginia City Nev miners have long worked under written agreements with no strikes.
Advertising claims Electric Bitters restores health for liver and kidney issues. Cites Robert Madsen of West Burlington Iowa cured after eight months of virulent liver trouble. Sold by E Bucklen Co St Louis with 60 cents or one dollar price.
The Mobile County Democratic Executive Committee met Tuesday night and set candidate assessments with March 20 as the qualification deadline. Sheriff 150 dollars. state solicitor 100. revenue and road commissioner 50. legislature 25. county school board 10. county executive committee 5. election inspectors noted in a pending resolution.
A small crowd at the traveling men smoker pledged to recruit every traveling man for the Mobile Fair February 21. The campaign aims to show traveling salespeople how the fair will boost Mobile merchants and attract 1500 Traveling Men on Fair Day.
The Item offers two hundred Lyric tickets for The Spendthrift performances on Friday and Saturday. Contest clos es at 6 pm, with winners announced in Thursday's paper. Frances Ford, wife of Richard Ward, spends beyond his earnings leading to near insolvency. The husband discovers the loan from Suffern Thorn and the couple reunites after a government boarding house interlude. The play is praised as forceful and useful with a superb production and strong cast.
Frank Farley who ran a road house on Dog River near Mobile Bay in Thomas's Store precinct was acquitted in the Inferior Criminal court on Wednesday of violating the prohibition law. The prosecution failed to prove he held a government internal revenue license to sell liquors.
Dr. Wade Doster of Topeka Kansas is with his sister Mrs Don Farnsworth in Mobile where she lies seriously ill with typhoid fever. Her condition is said to be much improved.
Howard C. Rush of Mobile filed for bankruptcy in U S district court on Wednesday morning. He listed liabilities at 585 dollars and assets at 1 600 dollars which he claimed exempt. The petition was admitted and the case referred to referee R T Ervin.
Meridian Mississippi February 11. Examination of witnesses for change of venue in the Frank A Hand highway robbery case ended abruptly when the state in rebuttal left the question to the court which overruled the motion. Most witnesses believed Hand could receive a fair trial. The defendant used five peremptory challenges. Hand pleaded insanity.
A blaze at a Milwaukee area tuberculosis sanatorium in Wauwatosa destroyed the hospital basement and forced the evacuation of forty five panicked patients. The fire caused about $50,000 in damages as beds were abandoned and patients awakened in time to escape.
The board of health lists January scores for dairies rated 75 and above. Five dairies supply milk to Mobile scoring 80 or higher, led by Graf with 90.40. Three months earlier only one dairy reached that level.
The Mobile Chamber of Commerce will not attend the national chamber meeting in Washington due to non renewal of Mobile’s membership since November 1913. Secretary Redfield praised E Oliver Fowlkes for his role on a committee promoting foreign and domestic trade, with multiple Washington trips noted.
A young white man, barely out of his teens, was found fatally crushed beside Louisville and Nashville tracks at Theatre Street. His head was severed from the body, no ID. He wore an expensive new pair of Hanan shoes and carried a whiskey bottle, a comb, a leather strap, and a lead pencil. the coroner suspects alcohol contributed to the deadly accident. Nathan Simon of the Simon Shoe Company identified the shoes from his store, which shows purchase Monday. The body remains unidentified as coroner H P Hirschfield investigates.
A Cavendish resident Henry D Sanders praises Dr King’s New Discovery for pneumonia related coughs and colds. The ad notes price 50c and 1.00 and money back guarantee. Product by H E Bucklen Co. Philadelphia or St Louis.
An advertisement touts Danderine as a cheap, quick remedy for soft fluffy hair free of dandruff. It claims rapid gloss and fullness within minutes, with new hair growth after two weeks and asserts it stops hair loss and nourishes itchy scalps. It urges purchase at drug stores and use as directed.
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