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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1915
Page
15
A Mobile health report notes infant mortality links to prenatal factors and diet. It urges nurse visits, mother education, milk supervision, and better sanitation to reduce deaths under age two, with February and March being peak months.
The Mobile County Fair will run from October 25 to November 1, contingent on Mississippi fair dates. Secretary Mort H. Bixler announced the decision after daily directors meetings. The fair will join the Farm Diversification Campaign next week to publicize in 14 Mobile trade area counties and fund county fair premiums for exhibits that will travel to Mobile for winter display.
Hon Joseph McLoughlin national president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians will speak Sunday at 3 30 PM in the Knights of Columbus hall. On a membership tour he left Philadelphia February 14 and will visit Alabama cities Birmingham and Montgomery before returning. He is a major real estate owner and stockholder in several firms including Continental Title and Trust Company Home Life Insurance Company and Philadelphia Baseball Club.
Mr and Mrs C G Gardner of Maxine Alabama visit Captain S A Casper father of the latter He is an engineer with Southern Railway for fifteen years He says the railway company is building a tipple on the Warrior river near Maxine to load coal onto barges when Lock 17 on the Warrior opens for river traffic A tram line from Maxine to the river is being built for hauling coal to the tipple The company already operates a washer at Maxine
In the Law and Equity Court Equity Side Judge Berney grants a motion to withdraw attached exhibits in Holt Lumber Co versus Augustine Meeah. Monday’s call lists Harry B. Pake assignee against Leinkauf Banking Co with a motion to require Henry Horst trustee to pay past due premium on the H. B. Pake bond from the trust fund.
Lent services listed for multiple parishes including St Vincent’s St Joseph’s St Matthew’s and St Margaret’s with masses at 6 7 8 9 10:30 am and 2:30 pm devotions rosary benediction and Way of the Cross led by local pastors and visiting clergy. Special sermons by Very Rev E Cummings S J at St Vincent’s and Rev John cCreary SJ at St Matthew’s.
Smith v Malone et al testimony ordered published and partition decree filed. Schwarz v Mobile Transfer Co notice of motion to amend bill set for March 1. Chaney v Chaney decree pro confesso. Call for Monday Schwarz v Mobile Transfer. Hanlon v Darling et al before special chancellor Leigh.
Law and Equity Court records show three judgments for plaintiffs in Saturday session: Zimmern Coal Company and Grasselli Chemical Company each won against Stonewall Ice Company, and S. A. Fowlkes won against Mamie F. Rush. Upcoming docket items list multiple civil actions and weekly call from March 2 to March 6 with various plaintiffs and defendants in the Mobile area.
The Item announces a kids color contest with eleven top entries winning prizes. First prize is 1 cash dollar. ten runners up receive a 1 book of Empire Theatre tickets. Winners' names will appear in next Sunday edition. Last week's winners listed with names and addresses.
City Health Officer Charles A Mohr reports the city hospital and dispensary have served Mobile residents with medical and surgical care. In the year 13 577 patients were treated and supplied medicines while the dispensary moved to basement annex rooms and received funding from city and University of Alabama School of Medicine.
Elery Williams, a Delchamps boy, was found guilty of assault on Frances Zirlott and sentenced by Judge Henry Chamberlain to twelve months in the boys detention home with the sentence suspended for a year on good behavior. General tonic ads interrupt the report.
Mobile Excise Commission chair Joel W. Goldsby releases a full opinion on the Kaiserhof Palm Garden case. The panel suspends the Kaiserhof Hotel liquor license for five days amid testimony alleging cabaret dancers and women patrons drinking with male guests, despite some favorable testimony about order and conduct.
The testimony describes a Mobile establishment's management and crowd, with definitions of restaurant and hotel from 1911. It notes the proprietor’s defense that the place does not fit the law, citing the excise commission rulings and the witness impressions of orderly conduct and limited intoxication.
The chairman openly states no apologies for appearing as a sworn witness in the case and for voting to suspend the license five days and to close the Palm Garden permanently. He asserts it is his duty as a public officer to enforce the law, even by personal investigation when rumors arise, and invites the public to read the stenographic record of the evidence from the open hearing in Mobile, Alabama, February 27, 1915.
Daily passenger service schedules from Union Terminal Station show a 7 20 A M departure. The brief notice emphasizes morning departures with potential weekend adjustments and platform details not fully readable.
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