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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1913
Page
2
A pan express train derailed two miles south of Mobile just before daylight. Engineer Wilson and his fireman were lightly injured, a baggage and a mail car toppled, a sleeper car left the track but all passengers escaped serious harm. Traffic halted for hours while the line was cleared.
Rabbi Sorenson led a meeting at Temple Ahavas with Rabbi Banje and Rabbi Moses discussing aid for Jewish immigrants. Organizers planned collection efforts for the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society as it assists newcomers facing hardship and persecution.
The event marked the fiftieth anniversary of emancipation with services across Bethel A M E and Stone Street Baptist churches led by Rev William Johnson and Dr C F Johnson. Dr H Roger Williams presided at Big Zion with Rev L W Kyles delivering the emancipation address celebrating gains in education religion and industry amid calls for further advancement.
A lively Elks Minstrels show opens with fifty male voices and a grand curtain rise. The production promises a spectacular stage setting mobile audience delight and a full family friendly extravaganza described as a tonic for the tired and a cure for the blues. A big rehearsal is scheduled tonight at eight o'clock.
Lee Padgett of Darlington Florida fell for a Pensacola man who invited him to a hotel to collect Christmas gifts. In a split second the stranger changed a 100 bill and Padgett’s two twenties one ten and six dollars vanished after an hour delay. Police and detectives seek the unnamed suspect from Padgett’s vague description.
Mobile county reports approximate 70 000 Christmas seals sold contributing to the nine teen million dollar U S tuberculosis fund for 1912. Final tallies await reports from post offices and businesses as the seal effort closes with funds to support Mobile visiting nurse services and future campaigns.
TM. P Broyles reports a lengthy kidney and bladder illness ended by Foley Kidney Pills. He claims they cured a severe backache and bladder irregularities and recommend them for kidney and bladder troubles. Van Antwerp Drug Corporation advertisement.
A calm Thursday morning at the waterfront sees no arrivals or departures by noon. The Norwegian ship Harald of United Fruit is expected later with bananas and will dock at Mobile and Ohio pier 1. River boats at steamboat wharves are idle and river landings are not due until Saturday.
Texar Wonder claims to cure kidney and bladder troubles and related ailments in men and women including diabetes and rheumatism. Priced at $1 with a two months treatment per bottle. testimonials available on request from Dr. B. E. Hall in St Louis Missouri. sold by druggists.
A vintage advertisement touts Syrup of Figs as a health aid for liver bowels and digestion. It promotes a gentle cleanse using figs senna and aromatics, claiming no injury and urging mothers to seek the full product name on the label from the California Fig Syrup Company.
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