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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1916
Page
2
The United States cruiser Columbia has taken aboard 1 000 tons of Alabama coal for tests to see if it suits Navy needs. A full Navy report will follow as the experiment proceeds. The cruiser North Carolina has already used Alabama coal and found it satisfactory. The tests may lead to increased Alabama coal use in the fleet.
Mobile Division of the Ancient Order of Hibernians plans an extensive St Patrick Day event for March 17. General Chairman M J McDermott has secured the Fort Barrancas band and invited Pensacola leaders to Mobile. A special meeting is set for February 28 at 7 30 pm to discuss plans and membership, with prominent members to speak.
Ocean Springs Mississippi reports the shrimp season opening early this week as local factory operations begin. Shrimp are medium size and quality though labor scarcity challenges season start. Prominent local Negro Stephen Fair dies at 52, funeral set at St Pauls A M church Maysville. Magnolia Cemetery burial planned. Rev A L Rhone to officiate.
G P Newbern of Mobile's Bertillon bureau argues U S cities rely on outdated systems for identifying criminals. He calls for a central fingerprint clearing house, noting England's and other nations have shifted to prints over Bertillon measurements. He cites lack of national coordination among New York Chicago and others.
The article notes two men named William West with the same Bertillon measurements from the same state who served at Leavenworth simultaneously. An expert cannot distinguish them by face or measurements, but their fingerprints differ as one shows whorls and the other arches, illustrating a flaw in the Bertillon system.
The probate court issued licenses to White Wesley Oder and Ro lina Cox, Julian Kowalczyk and Rosa France, Thomas L Caney and Emma Louise Bosarge, Joseph M Walsh and Marguerite Enderle, Tarleton Alfred Schambeau and Ardell Clarke, Earl B Beshel and Viola C Stutz, and Luke McTurner and Daisy Lee Taylor.
In Law and Equity Court Judge Berney presided with several rulings: Fannie Lindsey won a $63.60 judgment against American Health and Accident Co. Others were dismissed or left with costs. The docket lists numerous motions and call days for the week across Law, Circuit, and Chancery Courts, detailing case names and scheduled dates.
W K Syson and wife sell to R G Stevens for 1023 dollars the southwest corner of Club House road and Gill road. Frances Meyers sells to J E Tyrrell for 850 dollars lot 1 in square 330 Orange Grove Tract New South Land Company. New South Land Company sells to J J Perham section 14 township 2 north range 1 west. H A Crenshaw and wife sell to A H Daughdrill for 200 dollars section 26 township 7 south range 1 west. South Investment and Development Company sells to E T ae ee other valuable considerations section 14 township 6 south range 4 west.
Mary confesses happiness and misery tied to a romance with Max after meeting him in Paris. She recalls past love with an ambitious artist, Jacques, and the longing to keep memories alive. The narrative ends with a cliffhanger as the relationship deepens and a new chapter opens.
A campaign of diversified farming instruction will be held in Mt. Vernon Citronelle and Grand Bay next week under the Plateau Institute with the Chamber of Commerce. Sessions cover crop variety better homes and health sanitation with T M Campbell and Tuskegee Institute staff in charge assisted by local leaders.
A Decatur Alabama report says Mill No. 7 of the H. H. Hitt Lumber Co will be moved to Mobile soon to replace a burned mill on Three Mile creek and Conception road. President Hitt says Mill No. 6 at Falkville may also be moved to Mobile.
Deaths list includes men John M Hand Eli Roscover Walter Mangum George Costello J T Chapman William A Carter Charley Freeman and woman Jessie Harmas Births record boys Thomas Martha Neese Henry Corinne Bridges and girls Paul Mary Antoinette Danner John Ruby Myrick John Ella Merrill Nathan Mattie Davis Charles Olivia Richards and Clarence Ethel Wallace Fire at Gulf Crest destroys old Martha Miller place Friday. R E Lott family occupation saved contents lost to kitchen flue fire in Gulf Crest Alabama.
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