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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1913
Page
14
The Mobile Item extols Mobile as a top retail market serving South Alabama Western Florida and Southeast Mississippi with low prices and prompt door delivery. It explains special Parcels Post Mail Order Section for zones 1 2 and 3 and urges readers to use ads for daily offers and reliable merchants in Mobile.
Ten patrolmen selected as top marksmen were armed with long rifles and sent in four taxicabs to scour Chicago for motor car bandits and petty criminals. Captain Halpin urged vigilance and warned use of rifles if bandits’ cars outpace theirs. He believes only one of the recent four arrests is a suspect, Herbert Saucier alias Cattlith.
M L Gans, overseeing outside business for J Pollock, reports the theatre building carries 15000 in fire insurance with high risk noted by underwriters. Campbell House is partly insured, about 2000. Theatre scenery insured at 1000, valued around 3000. Treasurer W E Brogley moved valuables from the office to safety after the fire and notes no active flames after Elks Minstrels.
A Mobile theatre fire Thursday killed Fireman Serda and injured Captain Stanton and five others. Firemen Hakeman Weinacker Pocase Conley battled heat on a third floor as a wall collapsed burying Stanton Serda. Serda died at the scene while Stanton survived with burns and injuries.
Realty valued at 45000 dollars encumbered by a 100 dollar mortgage is to be offered as bail for Henry W Legleitner one of thirty three labor leaders convicted in the dynamite conspiracy trial at Indianapolis Labor organizations were represented at a meeting last night Denton placeholder text
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