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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1913
Page
11
Marie 53 Patterson at Marinello Shop lists January specials for electrolysis treatment to remove moles facial hair and straighten eyebrows. Address 57 St Joseph St contact phone pot 1 23 11.
The Senate opened final debate on a federal water power bill under a near end of the legislative day. Senator Bankhead charged a Progressive committee plan aims to private monopoly and dollar sovereignty. Senator Thomas defended the measure as limiting private power.
Robert G. Patrick, longtime president of Judson College at Marion Alabama, is in Mobile for the Diamond Jubilee planned for May to celebrate the institution's seventy fifth anniversary with alumni gatherings. A streetcar fare register device will be demonstrated at 208 St Michael Street on February 19 at 3 PM.
Mary E. Johnson and Henry Taylor posted bonds of 106 each for good behavior or face thirty days in jail after Johnson allegedly caused Taylor’s arrest by claiming he took her clothing. Lillie King was knocked down and slightly hurt by a car driven by C. M. Best, who posted bond. Detectives Pearlson and Burch arrested Willie Johnson and Edward Mosley for grand larceny over theft of a turpentine still part from McMillan Brothers Co and a cowhide found with them.
Wednesday morning a burglar entered a lodging house at 156 St. Louis street ransacking several rooms. A room occupied by A. H. Avinger and companions was entered and Mr Avinger lost over $6 while others suffered smaller losses.
The Mobile Fish and Oyster Company must pay the city 700 for use of ducks at the foot of Eslava street from August 1, 1910, to December 1, 1912. Interest adds 77.57. Judgment followed a city court ruling after the city sued last November for unpaid lease. an appeal is planned.
Four black men were caught committing robbery at the Tarpon steamship freight sheds early Tuesday night by a railroad switchman. They fled with three packages. two items, a can of lard and a caddy of tobacco, were dropped and recovered by police, but the third package remained missing.
City of Mobile files appeals from recorder court with Jim Rodgers pleading guilty and fined 10 dollars plus costs. William Browning bond forfeiture appeal finalized. Joe Simonsen case dismissed. Berbeze cases continued. Bertha Clay case continued to February 17. A Z Oberhaus pled guilty with a 22.1 dollar fine plus costs.
At Montgomery on Tuesday the University of Alabama announced successful medical applicants. Frank Weaver of this city later told The Item he received official notification that his application had been favorably acted upon, though his name was omitted from the announcement.
Miss Myrtle Williams of Memphis returns home to the Bluff City while KE M Williams hosts. Visitors include Mrs M J Heinberg, Mrs H J Greenhut and Sam Bloom from Pensacola. Mrs F B Palmer and Miss Lulu Palmer arrive from Danville for a weeks stay. Mrs L L Hunter Piper of Minneapolis visits family in Mobile. Mrs Mary Klingsmith of New Orleans arrives for a short visit. Co St John formerly of Mobile, now Billings, Mont, visits relatives. W W Waite and wife of Grove Hill are in Mobile. Mrs Jennie L Black of Jackson and Miss E R Lamine of Rochester pass through Bienville en route to Magnolia Springs. Chicago winter visitors arrive including Mrs H T Grund, Miss Anita Grund and Miss Harriet Miller. Edgar A Haas and wife arrive from Helsinki, stay at St Andrew.
In the Chancery Court Judge Smith presiding, cases advanced include Edward L. Richard versus Otto M. Lehman on the register's report of reference. A petition of Louis Trainer for leave to marry again is submitted on petition and affidavit.
A V Fearne paid a $1 fine for violating the city traffic ordinance by overstaying on a congested street. Mrs. Sarah Wilson faced $23 in fines for depredations at Magnolia cemetery and abusive language, with $10 fines for disorderly conduct and $10 plus costs for abusive language. Police investigated a street ordinance violation after two cartloads of empty tin cans were dumped on Ann street near Mrs. Dobson’s home. Rubén Holmes travelogue interruption at Orchestra Hall sparked commentary on coughing. An advertisement promotes Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound, sold by Van Antwerp Drug Corp in Mobile Alabama.
Wednesday in inferior criminal court Nona Prim and Robert Steel were fined 25 dollars or 20 days for vagrancy and jailed in default. Walter Johnston and Henry Harris received 10 dollar fines or 20 days on the same charge.
A man who identified himself as Edward Jordan of Delaware Street near Chatham was found ill on Royal and Dauphin streets Tuesday night and was taken to the city hospital. His condition was reported not serious.
An old style advertorial extols Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as the solution for poor digestion. It claims the tablets supply pepsin and other digests, restoring stomach and small intestine function and promising relief at mealtime even for advancing digestive disease.
The ad warns against inexpensive glasses lacking proper eye examination. It urges customers to choose Zadek Jewelry Co. Optometrists and Mfg. Opticians for thorough, authoritative eye exams to ensure satisfactory vision care.
Mayor Laz Schwarz joins a group of American city officials invited by Johnstown Bureau of Municipal Research to tour Europe. European city leaders have extended invitations, and the delegation aims to study civic problems in major cities.
Dr Anna Howard Shaw president of the National Equal Suffrage League told 200 members of the Kansas City Equal Suffrage Association at a luncheon that woman suffrage will be nationwide by 1926. She said the ballot could reach all states before 1920 if not for old constitutions blocking votes.
An East Liverpool Ohio pottery firm writes to W. R. Shoub of Spring Hill proposing Mobile Alabama as the site for a seven kiln plant. They cite harbor access and cheap coal as advantages and seek a tract near a harbor with rail access and room for a pier, with clays to be shipped from the Carolinas and England.
Joe Sinnott and Walter Lassiter farmers near Robertsdale Baldwin county Alabama were arrested by Deputy Sheriff Hugh Gillis on warrants for exchanging a diseased mule known as choking Both men posted bond to appear in inferior criminal court on February 18 W H Orr alleges the mule they traded suffered from the choking disease and the statute prescribes punishment from three months to six months at hard labor or a fine of 100 to 500 dollars
An advert promotes ORRINE as a risk free trial for drink habit cure. It offers two forms No 1 powder and No 2 pills, costs one dollar a box, and claims home use with confidentiality. D. Baur at Conception and Dauphin Streets invites readers to discuss and request a booklet.
Will Cook a small negro boy was sent to the reform school for twelve months after a trial Wednesday in the inferior criminal court. He stole two guns from the building used by Dr. D J Spotswood on St Francis Street near Jackson.
New York mayor advocates creating a department of morals to supervise saloons gambling houses and houses of ill repute in an effort to curb police graft revealed by investigations. He suggests a separate force would handle vice while police focus on crime with graft minimized by appointing powers for the commissioner.
A florid recruitment for psychometric astrology offers a free typewritten life reading based on star positions. It promises past present and future revelations to guide success in business law health wealth and marriage and invites letters with birth details and a small postage fee.
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