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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1915
Page
7
A burglar robbed the saloon of J. J. Barry at the corner of Spring Hill Avenue and Wilkinson Street in the early hours. The thief secured about $20 in various bills from two cash registers after breaking the front register and tearing off rear window bars to enter.
Cloth orders booked in the country for European armies total 2 500 x yards to be completed in February.
Prominent Mobile businessmen back a year round Gulf Coast Products show to showcase livestock goods for out of town buyers. The Chamber of Commerce plans space for American Short Horn Breeders' Association stock including six bulls. George Carriage & Vehicle Co. and Beech Paint Co. join with a model water tower display and daily electrical pumping demonstration.
Robert Boykin and J. H. Westerly, two young black boys, were arraigned in the recorder's court on a charge of throwing stones. The officer says they fought with bricks in the northern part of the city, endangering passersby. Westerly was discharged but Boykin was ordered whipped.
A longtime authority warns daily meat intake can raise uric acid that strains kidneys and causes dull kidney pain backache headaches and digestive issues including sour stomach and coated tongue as weather turns foul and urine becomes cloudy.
The Lovisa, in port a month loading timbers, will sail at daybreak for European ports after cargo work at Turner-Hartwell Docks. The Lampasas with about forty passengers, including four Mobilians, sails to New York via Key West and Tampa. Tarpon carries passengers and freight, while Mathilde from Havana arrives to load a general cargo. Oscar Gyarriver, in tow, loads lumber for Cuba, and Margaret B. Rouss is under shipyard inspection and repair. Harald cargo prospects rise for Swedish cotton seed cake cargoes.
The United States cruiser Tennessee and the collier Jason reached Alexandria after failing to embark refugees at Jaffa due to rough seas. The Tennessee planned another departure to continue the mission, while Jason would sail to Beirut then Piraeus Genoa and Marseilles, and finally arrive at Plymouth February 15 with exhibits for the San Francisco Exposition. Germans and Austrians have sent exhibits to Genoa.
The Ancient Order of Hibernians met to plan observance of St Patrick's Day this year. Committees were appointed with Lesantuammed leading detail work, and members include M. J. McDermott Frank J. Thompson W. B. McAtee John A. Hughes James E. K. Duggan Joseph C. Sullivan Thomas A. Yeend J. E. McHugh John J. Monaghan Pat J. Lyons Rev. Thomas J Earley D. W. Balady Thomas O'Connor Thomas T. a. M. Campbell M. T. Judge Fr. Ware John W. Phelan A. J. Kevin Joseph E. Gorman Arthur Carlin D. H. Barrett George J. Sullivan.
Abnormally low barometer centered north of Montana drives warm temperatures in the northern Rockies while a system off the North Carolina coast causes rain and unsettled conditions east of the Mississippi. Sheridan reports 50 degrees with other stations showing mild air and a cold front expected to bring a 24 to 30 degree swing within a day and a half.
Mariam Francis Louiselle died in Leakenville Mississippi Monday January 11 1915 at 3 20 PM. She was wife of William H Louiselle. Friends are asked to attend from Roche Burke Undertaking Co 110 Street tomorrow morning at 9 o clock and from St church with requiem mass to Stite Cemetery.
A birthday celebration notice invites mobile children to entertain five friends at a party this afternoon at the Empire Theatre. The item lists several child names and addresses and asks readers to send full name, address and birthdate to the Mobile Item editor at least two days before their birthday.
Gus Edwards' Matinee Girls with Charley Olcott open the week at the Lyric in a lively vaudeville bill. Eight matinee girls, two bell hops and Charley Olcott perform a 145 minute program, recalling the earlier Schooldays style with strong singing by Miss Ford and notable impressions by the troupe. The show has snap and energy with daily matinee and night performances.
President Vincent McAleer of the Mobile County Henderson Club calls a Friday night meeting at Hotel St Andrew at 8 for final details on the Montgomery inauguration trip for Governor elect Charles Henderson. A parade plan and marshals will be chosen.
Jewell Kelley Stock Company presented A Girl of the Streets a four act drama at the Dreamland theatre last night. A large crowd praised the cast led by Captain Andy Beard played by Mr. Kelley Flotsam by Miss Rose Morris and Dan Blalock by Jimike Owen. The show included songs by Johnny Williams and a suffrage speech by Ruth Willard. Matinee and night showings are scheduled today and tomorrow with Thursday offering Roanoke from Hal Reid.
Sixteen hoboes aged eleven to fifty are arraigned in the recorder's court. The eleven year old from Birmingham seeks money and a better life, while another traveler from Chicago heads to New Orleans races but receives the same sentence of twenty one dollars and twenty days on county roads.
King Albert spent hours Sunday with a pick and shovel digging trenches like a common soldier. A Belgian refugee reports the king, upon seeing exhausted laborers, ordered a rest and proposed that he and his staff take the workers’ places in the line.
In Wetumpka Alabama on January 12 the first day of testimony by a special grand jury into the lynching of Ed and Jim Smith led to the release of Thomas Wade and his son Ed Montgomery militia members. The jury has not yet tied any person directly to the crime and the inquiry continues.
The Washington post office stresses the 27 cent letter rate for foreign mail and the need to prepay postage. The 2 cent zone covers Cuba, Mexico, Panama, Newfoundland, the Canal Zone, Germany, England, Scotland, Ireland, and Shanghai. All other countries use 5 cents for the first ounce and 2 cents for each additional ounce, fully prepaid or postage due. New Zealand is not in the 2 cent zone and uses the 5 cent rate.
Traffic department announces tariffs to take effect January 4 allowing service into Mobile over Southern road tracks. No timetable or exact train operations detailed.
An old advertisement touts Grove's Tasteless Code tonic as a universal strength booster for adults and children. The copy emphasizes a “true tonic” image and includes a sales pitch aimed at broad household use.
Mr Mattel announces he is now at the Palm Saloon on North Xere inviting friends and acquaintances to attend and visit him. He signs the notice with his name.
A public sale will be held at noon in front of the courthouse. The seven mules and two horses will go to the highest bidder on January 16. Auction led by A. G. Ward, chairman, with Octave Alv. Clerk.
In the courts Tuesday Chancellor Thomas H. Smith presided. Filings include Kessler vs Gaines Wilson entered for decree pro confesso. Dean vs Elliott with decree pro confesso against Carmichael. Leftwich vs Vinegar Lumber Company quashed by demurrer. Weinacker vs Weinacker on report and exceptions. Lyons vs Webster et al. and other notices set for January court action.
Officials at Mobile Liners Inc seek the British ship Kyleness to carry about 5 000 to 6 000 bales of cotton to England in the ongoing prewar period. A second ship, the Snipe Conspert, is expected Friday to load a like cargo.
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