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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1914
Page
10
More than 300 children and many adults attended Cecdiecd Christmas tree given by the Salvation Army at 213 Conti Street on Wednesday night. Captain Price opened the program with films depicting Biblical scenes and children received three age appropriate gifts. Coffee sandwiches and fruit bags followed as the Salvation Army band led a year end street procession.
The United States Chamber of Commerce reports most of the nation in fair business condition as of November 29 1913 with a small portion in good and several areas poor The survey notes a gradual solution to the meat shortage and attributes weakness in building trades to reduced activity in small towns.
Associated Press reports Leonard August Frailey U. S. N. retired pay director died in Washington yesterday aged seventy. Death due to illness of old age. Burial planned at Arlington National Cemetery followed by Salvation Army watch service with prayers and hymns.
An advertisement touts Peruna as a safe tonic against grip with laxative qualities. It warns against coal tar powders and cites testimonials from Pastor George Troutman, Mrs Gates, Mrs Wells, and Mrs Wells about relief and cures, claiming no other specific exists.
Seven hundred sixty seven banking institutions across forty five states report their plan to join the new currency system. Treasury data show 695 national banks applying representing about one fourth of total national capital with varied regional distribution and capital ranges. Town State Bankers Association secretary notes Iowa banks ready to cooperate.
R A Long, noted lumberman and philanthropist, announced a gift of 1 million dollars to the Disciples of Christ conditional on the church raising 5 million more. The funds will expand the church missionary society and establish a fund to educate 1000 men for missionary work at church colleges.
In Baltimore Maryland celebrations around the community Christmas tree ended with a midnight Taps toll and the crowd singing The Star Spangled Banner.
Bank clearings across several cities show gains for the listed years. Birmingham reports 1918 clearings at 917,?...,7114.02, the largest to date. New Orleans records a 1914 total near 9,000?015. Macon tripled over three years with 1914 at 190,?vl,66. Chattanooga total 128,745,098.91 for 191?. Asheville up about 60.9 million from the prior year. Memphis posts 421,987,372.59 for 1913, up 685,084.66 from the previous year.
Dallas reports state wide gains with Galveston at 1 038 202 000 and Austin up 13 491 630 16 while Oklahoma City hits 91 900 000 for 1913. Detroit clears 1 331 053 395 and Cleveland 1 275 501 014.48. Pittsburgh tops 2 932 402 511.
Philadelphia totals for 1913 reached 8 523 508 783 dollars beating all prior years, surpassing 1912 figures of 8 166 286 613 dollars. Kansas City also posted a new yearly high with 2 850 362 611 dollars, up 137 334 695 from 1912.
Minneapolis and St Paul report bank clearings for 1913. Minneapolis total 1 312 413 256 with a 130 180 790 rise from prior year while St Paul clears reach 530 615 562. The prior year set a record with 579 166 753 in clearings.
Omaha bank clearings for 1913 totalled 908,947,659 dollars, an increase of nearly 48,000,000 over the prior year, according to figures released by Associated Press. The report notes a general rise in business activity, reflecting broader economic expansion in the period.
In Pulaski a wageworker A. F. Friend was found dead by a coke furnace with a note blaming his wife for his death. A familiar thread notes a divorce suit filed by the wife, suggesting possible domestic motive.
In Kittanning Pennsylvania January 1 David McCollum robbed Herbert John station agent for the Pennsylvania railroad. The crime occurred sixteen hours after the incident began. details of pursuit and arrest follow in police reports.
A. P. report notes Charles E. Munroe of George Washington University telling the A A A S session that if war resumes the South would furnish its share of explosives and ammunition. He traces Civil War supply problems and cites modern advances placing the South near world leaders in munitions capability.
Joia Kor L. Glover a Texas land agent was admitted to bail of 15000 in the Los Angeles case charging him with the murder of Daniel de Villiers a South African adventurer. The preliminary examination was pushed to January 16 to allow time to obtain evidence from Texas. De Villiers was said to have forced entry into the Glover home to see Mrs Glover formerly Mrs de Villiers.
The passage notes a shift from traditional gunpowder components to explosives made from cotton, soap, and coke by products along with nitrates and sulfuric acids. It highlights the South’s industrial growth from an agricultural base in 1861 to possessing these chemical resources.
London January 1 Jim Clark proprietor of Straw's Castle on Hempstead Heath died yesterday from pneumonia His venue hosted many American boxers who trained there for English engagements and rounds.
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