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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1914
Page
10
Mrs. Fallis a police matron admits she forgot to arrest two men who harassed her and her daughter on a walk home in Son, Kansas. She displayed her star and warned the men but said anger prevented any arrest.
A compact vintage ad touts GETS-IT as a new plan to remove corns warts and bunions quickly and painlessly. It claims easy two-step application, no plasters knives or razors, guaranteed safe and effective with a 25 cent bottle sold by druggists or direct from E Lawrence & Co Chicago.
Albert Kottman, five, a violin prodigy from Ellsworth county, Kansas, plays by ear after hearing a tune once. He joined an orchestra when music he knows plays, entertains guests, and will begin formal lessons next spring. His father Fred Kottman funds his education with optimism for a future in music.
In Salem Oregon Governor West and Roseburg District Attorney Brown investigate physicians who allegedly write liquor prescriptions in dry districts. Reports show a doctor using printed forms to expedite sales, effectively bypassing liquor laws. The governor calls it an evasion that must be stopped.
In a social exchange a man faced a playful challenge as a woman asked his guess of her age. He chose a courteous response reflecting traditional gentlemanly behavior and decorum.
In New York Justice Lehman awarded Mrs. Bessie Price Jenkins custody of her eight year old daughter Helen and $11 weekly alimony. The ruling denounces gossiping neighbors as home breakers after Jenkins, a Met Life accountant, summoned ten wives as court witnesses. The judge found no misconduct by Mrs. Jenkins and noted Jenkins made unfounded cruel accusations.
After Annette Blodgett died in Minneapolis she willed to her daughter and daughter in law two pet ticoats. A patch in one garment hid 142 dollars meant to fund transport and burial in Knapp Wisconsin. Blodgett had lived with her son at 2727 Irving Avenue North and earned small sums by domestic work.
In Boise a 100 pound sturgeon was lashed to a raft after the fish proved too heavy to carry. Engineer Frank Maxwell of the forest service reported the saga from Ox Bow tunnel on the Snake River near the Idaho Oregon line. An Austrian worker ferried the raft with the living fish to the McPherson ranch where the crew was fed the next day.
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