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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1915
Page
3
Crowds chase a large rat down Manhattan streets near the Hotel Astor. A woman drops her muff to scare it away, the rat dives inside, a man knocks the muff, and the RAT is killed, then found inside the muff and discarded. The muff owner retrieves it and vanishes into the crowd.
An official Vienna briefing states security concerns forced a withdrawal to mountain passes as Russian forces advanced. It notes quiet conditions on the Hungarian Galician front with frost and snow in higher districts and occasional artillery exchanges along the Dunajec river and in Russian Poland.
Assistant Immigration Inspector J K Worden returned from Atlanta where he attended the Wong Fook Chong deportation hearing. Worden will take Johan B Johansen, previously ordered deported by Mobile board, to New Orleans for a steamer voyage home to Sweden.
The United States Golf Association planned to discuss rival claims of Foxhills and Baltusrol for the national open championship and consider changes to the amateur status rule at its annual meeting in New York on January 8.
Ormiston is a new aluminum alloy rivaling copper in lightness and steel in strength. The material promises lighter structures with durable performance for industrial use.
Vapor treatments now used in all hospitals to deliver medication to lungs and air passages without upsetting the stomach. Vicks Vap-O-Rub for throat and chest releases menthol thymus eucalyptus camphor and pine tar vapors with body heat. Often the worst colds improve quickly within minutes. three sizes from 25 cents.
In Washington on January 8 the Senate immigration amendment to bar Negroes was voted down in the House 252 to 75. The dispute goes to conference. Rep Madden of Illinois condemned the amendment as un American and against modern civilization while Rep Quinn of Mississippi argued it would curb a growing Negro population seen as a threat to the republic.
Washington reports no word on the German cruiser Karlsruhe potentially using Mole St Nicholas in Haiti as a supply base. The State Department notes Mole St Nicholas harbor is excellent and remote, and instructed the American minister to oppose any European naval base use there under any circumstances.
A vintage advertisement urges readers to stop using calomel for bilious feelings and try Dodson's Liver Tone a vegetable liver medicine. It promises rapid relief by morning and guarantees a full refund if not effective, claiming safety for children and the whole family.
Mobile Rotary Club opened the year with a outgoing program led by President Seale Harris. Guests and new members were introduced as the group enjoyed a meat feast, music, and a New Year toast. Leaders urged greater community service and unity as the club planned future activities and honors.
Madrid dispatch reports the German auxiliary cruiser Otavi interned at Las Palmas Canary Islands. The Otavi arrived January 5 and was previously listed at Pernambuco on December 3. No prior notice of conversion to an auxiliary cruiser had been given, but that seems likely.
New York news reports William R. Bell of the Bronx arraigned before Magistrate Conway on abandonment charges by his second wife Madge Bell. He claimed he married her as a cure for her chronic toothache, saying the pain disappeared after the wedding but he left because she proved a poor housekeeper.
A motorcycle collision on Washington avenue injures Ernest Schreiter and Willie Ryan as their machine hits a cycling standing in the road. Dutch Schreiner escapes injury while both Schreiter and Ryan suffer head and body injuries.
Mrs. Thomas S. Martin wife of the senior Virginia senator died at her Charlottesville home yesterday. Born Lucy Day she was daughter of Colonel and Mrs. C. F Day of Smithfield before her marriage.
Ad promises fast relief from headaches and neuralgia using Dr James Headache Powders priced at 19 cents a package. The copy urges readers not to suffer and to obtain the product now from any drug store.
Mrs. Robert van Looy and her three children were found strangled to death at their Montreal home. Police have no clue to the murderer. Van Looy had left for the front some time ago. A note about a South African mine hydro power is also mentioned in the report.
General Villa was expected at the border here after three days of waiting by General Scott to begin negotiations over border difficulties. A first troop train carrying about 8,000 Villa troops arrived at Juarez and would move to Casas Grandes, then march overland into Sonora.
Speaker Clark spoke before the Pyec an's National Democratic League third annual convention in Washington. He asserted the party could win in 1916 on the administration's legislative record.
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