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The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Feb 12, 1914

Page

5

Visiting nurse expense denied at Mobile school board meeting

The Mobile board of school commissioners defeated a resolution for funding a visiting nurse to assist the medical inspector. The board then approved inspecting city schools with two hours daily until completion, and set carnival holiday to Tuesday only. Leaders granted leave Feb 22 to Mar 1 for a superintendent convention in Richmond. An appropriation bid for kindergarten teacher training was referred to the executive committee. The board ordered contact with Stevens and Nelson of New Orleans to recover the school contract by February 20.

Board of S. S. Murphy C. F. Vigor Lee Byrne Richmond Erwin Craighead Stevens Nelson New Orleans Mobile

Murder Probe After Calvert Alabama Shooting Death

Sheriff T. T. Palmer investigates the December murder of Aleck Law a 45 year old Black man near Calvert Alabama close to the Washington county line Three unidentified Black men stopped Law from his buggy spirited him into the woods and shot him twice in the head with a double barreled shotgun The body was found next day and turned to Law’s wife with no clues as the sheriff suspects a premeditated hit aimed to remove him from the scene

T. T. Palmer Calvert Ala Washington County Aleck Law Law Fairford

Many Names Added to Boosters Roster

The Boosters Club will elect new members at the next meeting and record them on the honor roll. Names include Dr. P. Sewell, John Kilcoyne, G. B. Cleveland, Ira Keeney, T. B. Palmer and others. City Commissioner Laz Schwarz will speak Friday night on an auditorium topic.

Boosters’ Club P. Sewell John Kilcoyne G. B. Cleveland Ira ¥. Keeney T. B. Palmer J. F. Holley P. Williamson W. H. Holcomb Herve Charest E. Y. O’connor H. P. Luscher Co. T. Gordy John Reath S. Roser F. E. Snyder G. A. Carlson Edward McGrath Hamilton Odell J. J. Alvarez E. R. Thompson J. 0. Payant C. A. Lyons E. J. Higgins J. H. Nelson J. H. Hutchinson C. Henderson H. J. Hamilton L. J. Leahy George Clifton L. A. Wetzel A. E. Reynolds J. J. McMahon 8. Imura Henry Delany Laz Schwarz Boosters

Alleged Ritual Murder Charged Against a Tailor

London February 12 A Central News despatch from St. Petersburg reports the arrest of Pashkoff a Jewish tailor at Fastoff near Kiev in connection with the December 9 murder of a boy once thought to be his son The body showed ten wounds on the neck after exhumation and a witness claimed the lad was the son of a Vitomir official News notes rumors of ritual murder followed the first post mortem but second examination found the boy was a Christian The arrest occurred after the exhumation and new testimony

Associated Press London Central News St. Petersburg Pashkoff Fastoff Kiev Yoshel Pashkoff N Law Court Vitomir

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