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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1917
Page
2
For five days Admiral Dewey showed a general breakdown due to age. Doctors Dr A M Fauntleroy and Dr Luther Sheldon reported periodic improvements but warned that his condition remained grave. He slept better last night yet remained very weak this morning with frail vitality and ongoing home care.
The South Carolina Supreme Court sustained a verdict awarding $19 000 damages to the widow of John J Mims of Sumter against the Atlantic Line Railroad in a grade crossing death from 1910. The railroad's appeal was dismissed.
George A Thomas former manager at Crenshaw Undertaking Company informs the public he has joined Dixon and McKay Funeral Directors. He will personally handle all calls night or day via Bell 355 and home phone.
Mr and Mrs 8 Schalkenbach of Seattle arrived in Mobile from Fairhope Baldwin county Ala where they visited for several days and stay at the Battle House. Mr R B Farrel a year night clerk at the Cawthon hotel and formerly with the Battle House resigns to take a day clerk post in Birmingham at the Molton hotel January 21.
Police doubt Clarke's claim that a partner aided a rear entrance burglary. He alleges the pair fled to New Orleans and Pensacola after stealing goods to fund his ill wife’s care. Investigators view Clarke as the likely mastermind, with no corroboration of a co conspirator.
The YMCA board invites member input via a suggestion box in the New York building. Eight months into the fiscal year receipts total 8,699.15 with 97.41 in miscellaneous income and expenditures show 2,762.61 over budget, including dormitory and educational costs.
Eva Leon, representative of Hadassah, spoke at the Jewish Temple in Mobile and will attend a joint meeting with the National Council of Jewish Women and Sisters tomorrow. She described Hadassah as a Zionist and affiliated women's group formed in New York in 1912 to promote Zionist propaganda and to support Palestine work including sanitation projects and a Jerusalem settlement house begun in 1918 with nurses funded by Nathan and Mrs. Straus. The movement now has about 2,000 members in twenty eight U.S. chapters.
SidneyThomas a negro aged 21 surrendered to Police Officer Le Gear and was turned over to the sheriff on a murder charge for shooting Green Griffith Jr. He will have a preliminary hearing in the inferior criminal court. He claimed he did not know the way to the county jail.
An old advertisement warns that early rheumatism pains are tiny but grow worse, arguing external remedies fail because the disease lies in the blood. It promotes Swift’s Specific medicine as a blood cleanser with fifty years of relief, inviting readers to write for free medical advice.
The text states continuing the same price and then developing both tracts for the benefit of the company and its lot owners.
An advertisement extols oil industry profits and early investment in new companies. It cites rising gasoline demand from engines and diesel development as proof of future growth, notes large gains from early spudding at Spindle Top, and asks readers to imagine turning ten dollars into a thousand.
A fragmentary dialogue discusses bringing in fifty successful wells on two tracts and suggests profit from a small purchase would surpass other investments, urging serious consideration.
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