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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1913
Page
3
Bay Minette Alabama officials report a vigil against tramps with six men arrested or placed to work on city streets. A strict watch on incoming trains targets riders and theft, as officers aim to curb begging near the railroad and disturbed residents.
Bay Minette Alabama January 8 A report from the lower county says work on the Pensacola Mobile and New Orleans Railroad has stopped Henry McLaughlin sole owner reportedly seeks a change in contractors due to dissatisfaction with progress though confirmation is not established.
Mr and Mrs Edgar W Wells and children depart Gulfport for New Orleans before Mrs Wells and others travel to Houston. Mr Wells proceeds to Salvador City to serve as representative of Pan American Life Insurance Company and to Honduras.
The message touts Fatimas as the country’s best selling cigarette claiming the pleasure from absolutely pure tobacco in this popular package.
Voluminous reports filed with Governor O Nea l by State Examiners Gorman Wilkinson and Sedberry review city officials of Birmingham and Jefferson County officials noting books nearly correct with minor errors. Officials examined include Birmingham comptroller C H Abbott probate judge J M Stiles sheriff W K McAdory treasurer H H Bush clerk John C Bradley tax assessor F A Hewlett tax collector George B Tarrant and John Sparkman treasurer county school board Rose Huey clerk of city court Bessemer. compliments to T G Bush and D M Weakley of East Lake Boys Industrial School.
The Bay Minette school annex is nearly finished and the primary department has moved in due to crowding. With a capacity of fifty pupils, the new wing plus the old building should accommodate all scholars for several years.
Advertises Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as the sole solution to modern stomach trouble. Claims dieting is false and modern farming depletes nutrition, necessitating more pepsin and diastase. Asserts one grain of an ingredient digests 3,000 food units and the tablets have no side effects.
A dozen New York and Chicago millionaires traveling to attend a Tuskegee trustees meeting will be entertained by Montgomery Business Men's League on February 24. Seth Low chairs the board and will dine in Montgomery with include Robert G. Ogden and Alian Rosenwald. The Tuskegee trustees meet February 22 and 23.
Twenty five Montgomery police officers petition the city commission for a ten dollar per month salary increase citing the rising cost of living and higher rents. The petition was referred to Commissioner C P McIntyre and may be granted.
Paris January 8 Dr Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute New York Nobel prize winner announced to the Academy of Medicine his latest experiment in life preservation off the body He removed a cat s thoracic and abdominal organs placed in a box with artificial serum kept at 38 degrees C for thirteen hours after death The organs functioned normally digestion continued and heart beats remained strong and regular
Montgomery January 8 An additional district mine inspector will be employed in Alabama early next spring if estimates filed by Chief State Mine Inspector C H Nesbitt are borne out. The state law calls for one district inspector for every two and a half million tons mined. with 1912 tonnage estimated at just over 18 million, six inspectors would be authorized. Accurate statistics due by March 1. Two inspector terms expire in April and Governor O Neal will appoint successors.
The King's Daughters' library in Gulfport Mississippi shows an average of 5600 books loaned during the year just closed. The library holds several thousand volumes of fine literature with monthly additions to expand its collection.
The Mississippi and Gulf Coast Exposition Company will hold its annual stockholders meeting Saturday at 1312 Twenty sixth Avenue. Directors for the coming year will be elected.
Mrs. M. I. Malone of Mobile Alabama testifies to the effectiveness of Doan's Kidney Pills for backache and kidney disorders. She reports relief after using the remedy from Van Antwerp's Drug Store and notes no further need for kidney medicine. Price 60 cents. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole US agents. Remember the name Dean's.
Albert Warren the negro accused of attempting to assault Miss Alice Graves at Brundidge will be taken to Troy to stand trial. A special grand jury was convened and a venire summoned. Warren was brought to Montgomery for safety amid fears of lynching after being captured near Elba in Coffee County.
Philip J. Reuter, 26, president of the Reuter Jones Manufacturing Co., was found dead in a deserted third floor room of the plant after a twenty hour search. Autopsy later said poisoning caused death. a note to his wife, a pistol, and $320 in drafts were found with him.
P H Thrasher a young white electrician was sentenced to five months hard labor by Judge M H Screws in Montgomery Alabama for stripping one quarter mile of copper wire from Montgomery Light and Water Power Company poles and selling it to a junk dealer. He was arrested in Mobile last week and brought back to Montgomery.
Birmingham saw January heat records as the thermometer reached 73 degrees at 1 o clock, marking an extreme warm spell for the city in the observed period.
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