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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1914
Page
2
Mobiles citizens marked the old year with fireworks bells and street revels. The Cawthon hotel Vineyard hosted hundreds for a midnight toast and auld Lang Syne as the city looked toward 1914 with public parties and theater events.
Adam Glass the Mobile furniture dealer promoted five longtime staffers as partners and officers of the firm to form Adam Glass & Co. Ira T. Keener Claude Christy Milton Klein J A Richard and H J Musser receive shares and titles. Glass continues as president and remains active.
Rebels pressed toward the Constitutional lines south of the city as federals defended a riverfront position. Machine guns dominated the fighting, forcing the rebels to withdraw after hours of shelling. By daylight Laredo streets filled with refugees, mainly poor families and children fleeing across the Rio Grande with scant possessions.
W. E. Kelly of Bay Minette was released from a ninety day city jail term on the recommendation of Commissioner Laz Schwarz and Chief F. W. Crenshaw. Mayor Pat J. Lyons ordered the parole to allow the prisoner to be with his wife and three children in Baldwin county. The decision came as a New Year gesture after authorities learned the family needed his support.
Mrs. Alexander Landau, wife of a local fur dealer, was robbed of a $10,000 diamond bracelet between her legs and a downtown theatre on New Year’s Day. The bracelet was a Christmas gift from her husband.
The Newlands cargo of Argentine corn is being hoisted ashore at Pier 3 Mobile with six cranes. J T Pope grain inspector tests the bags while Dr J Boggess, Fort Morgan quarantine officer, supervises the government unloading. Owner C D Fox praises quarantine modification. he expects no broader disruption to future corn shipments.
An old advertisement extols Ely's Cream Balm and Ely's Dream Balm for catarrh and head colds. It promises instant nasal relief, cleared air passages, reduced discharge, and quicker morning recovery with a small bottle available at drug stores.
The trim steam yacht Wethea owned by John Ringling of Ringling Brothers Circus docked at the ONinger Bruce wharf in Mobile for shaft and machinery repairs. The vessel, en route from Minneapolis to Tampa, came down the Mississippi via New Orleans stopping briefly here. it is the sixth pleasure craft to visit Mobile this winter, and the second steam yacht after four gasoline craft.
Detectives report Bamuna sought profit from the crash by robbing passengers or cars or wrecking freight. Edmund captured with praise for railroad officials. Engineer Riggan slightly improved but still in danger. Express Messenger Humphreys recovering from burns. Passenger statements confirm switch tampering caused the derailment and corroborate the railroad’s account.
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