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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1914
Page
3
Chicago officials praise the success of experimental police women and plan to request funds for fifteen more. Major M L O Funkhouser notes the current ten have curbed activity in dance halls and advocates forming a second squad to monitor flirtations and mashers.
Indianapolis January 13. The weather forecast of zero degrees failed. At eight this morning the temperature stood fourteen above, four degrees higher than the same hour yesterday. The air was still, after a day of gusty wind that intensified the cold spell.
An old Cuticura promotion claims complete face cure from eczema after using Cuticura Soap and Ointment for a month. It includes a signed testimonial by J. Harry Barbour dated July 12, 1913, and urges mothers to use the line for infant skin care at home.
One story brick store at S W Royal and Cent streets 21 by 75 feet new and perfect 1800 dollars per year. Two one story brick stores at 112 114 Government street between Royal and St Emanuel 900 dollars per year. Two story frame store with residence above at Conception Claiborne and Canal always occupied as drug store ideal for grocery 369 dollars per year. 0 stores or offices 62 64 St Michaels street remodeling to suit permanent tenant. Store ground floor 59 N Water street between St Francis and St Michael. Store first floor 118 S Commerce street between Government and Church. Two story brick store 22 S Commerce street between Dauphin and Cent 900 dollars per year.
A line of properties is described including Touart Place on Bring Hill avenue and 8rd W Indiana avenue with 2 story frame homes. Other entries mention A. W. Texas and Michigan Ave 7 r h k b, 8-story Pee a s and OS Joseph St 16 r k b, N E Old Shell and Julia St o r k Bb 2-story frames and 5 acres, W Conception Ist N int Conception and Claiborne Sts o r h k b, 257 N Lawrence between State and Congress. 11-story frame cottage 165 N i 5 & ae, 2158 Hamilton between Monroe and Eslava 4r k b, N Spring ill Ave 2 E Pine 4 r h k b, S W Spring area $15 monthly. 1 acre lot near Old Shell road with barn and chicken yard 3 r k b $1200 monthly. 2-story frame cottage at Spring Hill near Taliaferro’s station 7 r and 4 acres, partly furnished $15.06 monthly.
In Leeds on January 13 the amateur lamp lighters gas and electric workers street car drivers and street sweepers ended a December 23 strike by accepting the municipal council’s terms. The council refused to reinstate all strikers but agreed to hire about half immediately and to rehire the rest as opportunities arise. The settlement is seen as influential for other cities with disgruntled municipal workers. The Leeds Chamber of Commerce urged the government to find less barbarous settlement methods than strikes.
Campaign manager Richardson releases Captain R F Kolb's January itinerary for gubernatorial bid across Alabama towns from Georgiana January 17 to Goshen January 31. Meetings include morning and afternoon sessions at Red Level Andalusia Jpp Florala Samson Geneva Hartford Dothan Headlarei Newville Haleburn Enterprise Elba and Goshen with expectant attendance urged, especially by ladies.
A home beauty tip describes a paste of powdered delatone mixed with water applied to the skin for about two minutes to remove hairs. After rubbing off and washing, the skin appears firm and blemish free. Using delatone from an original package is said to give better results.
Special to The Item. Pascagoula Miss Jan 13 Sheriff Lindinger jailed George Woodman and John Quimbly two white men of Vancleave charged with the deliberate murder of John Farely an aged Negro in September 1913. Farely who kept seven to eight hundred dollars at home was killed in ambush then robbed. Woodman already figures in local cases including witness work against blind tigers and is related to county official W W Woodman. The trial is expected at February circuit court and the case draws wide attention.
IF E Clarke of the Chicago and Alton road based in Little Rock spent Monday and Tuesday in Mobile. He succeeds F L Chase who moves to Springfield in a larger territory after twenty five years with C A. Dr Charles A White of Danville Indiana heads to Coden for winter and home search. Charles Rudolph Jr of St Louis on a visit, son of Charles Rudolph Sr Mobile and Ohio AG. Mrs J B Driver of Chicago also visits Mobile staying at Bienville hotel.
Thousands of women suffer kidney or bladder trouble without recognizing the cause. Dr Kilmer Swamp Root claims to restore kidney health and ease back pain headaches and fatigue. Send ten cents for a sample or buy the fifty cent or one dollar bottle at drug stores.
Boston police Inspectors Morrisey and Lynch will escort George E Stone and LeRoy Ricker to Boston. Stone was arrested in Mobile after escaping from the city jail by digging through a rear wall and was recaptured in Wilmer. Ricker, linked to a $27000 Boston swindle, was arrested at Columbia Mississippi by Pinkerton agents.
Ervin Pope, a Black man in Alabama, will seek a new trial as attorneys ask the state supreme court to grant relief Thursday. The case, marked by four convictions and three reversals, concerns the Calhoun County murder of J. H. McClurkin.
The Mobile W C T U announces a National Prohibition Rally Day program at the M C A on Wednesday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Friends of the cause are invited to attend at any hour or stay for the full meeting. The regular business session will be held in the afternoon.
Washington Jan 13 The senate elections committee postponed consideration of the senatorial seats of Frank P. Glass of Alabama and Blair Lee of Maryland due to questions raised by the direct election of senators law. The review will continue tomorrow.
Funeral services for Mrs Rose Schreiner were held Monday afternoon at 2 30 from the family home 611 Dauphin Street and at 3 from St Joseph s Catholic Church Rev Fr R E Hackett officiated the largely attended rites The interment followed in Magnolia Cemetery with floral tributes and pallbearers named Henry Wil
The McGill Institute night school second month honor roll is announced with attendance up and strong work. Classes include L-Lester Miller Edward Jackson Thomas Fitzgerald Charley Fried man Michael Fry Willie Woolsey Malcolm Blalack and others with entries for Class I and Class HL listing students such as Daniel O Connor Thomas Phillips Toulmin Crist William Jackson Jennings Yost Julius Schulte E L Moorehead Leo Williams Allan Reneke James Paul John McGuire J Forsythe.
An advertisement touts Dr King’s New Life Pills as a gentle natural remedy for bowel troubles. It claims benefits for the stomach and liver and promotes daily regulation of bowels with a 25 cent price.
Plans to implement terms of the dissolution agreement with AT and T will be discussed at the National Independent Telephone Association meeting in Chicago. AT and T vice president N. C. Kingsbury will brief delegates next Thursday.
National Prohibition Day will be observed in Montgomery and other U S cities under the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. A rally at the county courthouse will feature well known orators addressing nation and state wide prohibition. A separate obituary notes the death Monday night at 7 o clock of a Mississippi native who lived in Jackson and Montgomery. survivors include three daughters and a son.
A vintage advertisement touts Papes Diapepsin as a quick cure for indigestion gas sour stomach and heartburn. It claims relief within five minutes and urges readers to buy a fifty cent bottle from any drug store as a harmless home remedy.
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