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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1915
Page
3
A witness notes a European belligerent offering 2 dollars per bushel for 50 million bushels, signaling a sharp rise in wheat prices. The witness says the situation is clearing, with demand from trade purchasers and expected supply from Canada and Argentina by spring.
J A Thompson was elected chairman of the Montgomery Board of Safety. The appointment involved assigning police station duties and organizing the board while retaining W H Taylor and Browder in their posts with the police and fire departments.
An advertisement from The Natona Company of Mobile Alabama touts Natona Cough Syrup and related products as a cure for early consumption and lung ailments. It claims germ destroying and nerve quieting effects, urging physicians and families to act now and buy Natona products from druggists or via mail order.
The bill outlines a public reef warden with a four year term, bond, oath, and duties including daily reef visits and enforcement. It tightens residency rules, sets size standards for oysters, limits gear, and fixes a standard measure for sale, with a June to September closed season and penalties for violations.
A prominent writer argues women are biologically fragile with nine in ten cases of low mood tied to an abnormal system condition. Nervousness sleeplessness backaches and headaches are cited as causes of misery. Lydia’s Vegetable Compound is claimed to cure despondency.
Russian officers view the overall front with optimism as Carpathian operations rapid and Austro German threats shift. Germans halted by flooded rivers and snowmelt, new north battle line forms, Ossowetz defense stiff, Lomza contested, Przasnysz gathering large force while six railbound German groups press forward.
Mobile Chamber of Commerce directors plan a Tuesday meeting to discuss establishing a city headquarters for the Alabama crop diversification drive in southwestern counties. International Harvester officials Professor P G Holden and W R Baughman will attend after arriving from Montgomery where the campaign is established.
Rear Admiral Francis T. Bowles says the submarine's value for offense and defense is fully demonstrated after two months in Germany and a European tour. He believes German vessels disguised as neutral ships supplied submarines with fuel and torpedoes enabling U boats to reach the Irish Sea and return.
Bill to abolish Denver juvenile court and transfer its duties to district courts passed by the Colorado House Republican caucus. The move would eliminate the post held by Judge Ben B. Lindsey.
The executive committee of the Bakers' Association met in New Orleans on Tuesday to fix the date and place of the next meeting. Mobile representation included Gordon W. Smith of Smith's and QO L. Steele, with the group leaving the city Monday night to attend.
The transcript shows Dayton on the stand under cross-examination. Attorneys pushed for more investigation and recalled conversations with Mr. Moody. He denied working with Charles F. Teter Judge Reese Blizzard or Stonaker of the Baltimore and Railroad in the probe.
The California eight hour workday law for women in manufacturing and mercantile fields was upheld as constitutional by the Supreme Court. The decision affirms that reducing women's work to eight hours daily is a legitimate police power. Previously the court only ruled on ten hours in Massachusetts and 54 hours weekly in Ohio.
Readers from Snow Hill Maryland and others report growing interest in Mobile county stock breeding as the Mobile Chamber of Commerce promotes a national campaign. Bulls from Meder Farms Foley and extra Texas breeders supply purchases for local farmers amid an Alba building exhibit.
Equity court on Tuesday before 11 40 am heard bids and decrees pro confesso in Bidault v Duval. Chancery court issued decree pro confesso in Howell v Howell Foster v Foster Gill v Gill set alimony pendente lite for Feb 24. Burkhart v Johnson and Schwarz v Peerless Steam Laundry featured pleadings and motion.
The Norwegian steamer Fjell now tied to the Union Company will, after discharging a banana cargo, be chartered by the Chamleon Steamship Company. She sails Tuesday night for Puerto Cortez Honduras to load another cargo.
A vintage advertisement urges mothers to give California Fig Syrup for upset stomachs and digestive issues. It claims the remedy cleanses bowels, boosts energy, and quickly returns children to a happy, active state, promoting a 50 cent bottle.
The Board of Safety injunction was refused after Judge Pearson’s ruling. The case moves toward the supreme court, with arguments questioning the act’s amendment from a general to local scope and compliance with constitutional limits.
The Supreme Court upheld the Joplin Mercantile Company and Her of Joplin Missouri on conspiracy charges to introduce intoxicating liquors into Indian territory by shipping from Joplin to Tulsa Oklahoma. The court ruled the federal act against introducing liquor into Indian country not enforceable against interstate traffic while state prohibition remained in effect.
The Nieuwe Courant reports that Sir Edward Grey’s claim that neutral flags are not forbidden is not accepted as Dutch law. Foreign skippers sailing under the Dutch flag face potential imprisonment up to one year and a fine up to 120.
Three men robbed the Bank of Stuart early today, taking roughly $4,000 from the cashier. Brandishing revolvers, they forced the bank driver to aid their escape, leaving the car at Post Sewal before ordering the driver to return to Stuart. Two posses pursue the bandits.
John Joseph Hughes 67 a Brooklyn native and long time Mobile resident died Monday evening at his home after two weeks illness. Survived by wife Josephine Odoin two daughters Mrs C Hughes Scheuermann Miss Josephine V Hughes Mobile two sons John O Hughes Dallas Leo Hughes Kansas City two Charlies Fealy Mobile Sister Mary James Buffalo and other relatives. A Civil War veteran he enlisted at fourteen in the Fifteenth United States Infantry served throughout the war and re enlisted in 1864 discharged 1868. He aided Confederate veterans and joined parades with his fife beside the drummer.
Justice of the Peace Adrian de Long of Citronelle will sentence a man to thirty days in the county jail for an offense. Passengers aboard the bay steamer Apollo include Dr. G M Hall and Mrs M A Bowen. Local police report thefts, embezzlement, and a drunken arrest amid routine court sessions in Mobile.
London dispatch reports Berlin holds its first bread day under a ration scheme. Every German, from the imperial family to the humblest household, received a ticket entitling each to their daily supply.
On February 23 women cast ballots in the Chicago mayoralty primary with Republican contenders Art Hale Thompson and Jacob R. Hey on the slate. The result sets the stage for the March runoff as voters weigh the two candidates.
Mobile schools held special Washington's Day exercises with displays and a portrait presentation. Seventh graders wrote life of Washington compositions and students performed recitations and songs as part of the program at Derby and Semmes schools.
An old medical advertisement claims meat causes kidney trouble and urges flushing kidneys with Rad Salts. It warns of uric acid buildup, cloudy urine, back pains, and rheumatic twinges and promotes a grape acid lithia salt drink to cleanse and stimulate kidneys.
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