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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1914
Page
3
An advertisement promotes a 1 lot 81x90 Gayfer Spécial sheets at 65 75c value and a bundle including 1 spread 2 pillows and 2 pillow shams priced around $2.48 per set. Also touts a new bath mat line in 65 sizes with prices rising from a prior level.
J C Christman a prominent Chicago Mason presented R L Douglass illustrious potentate of Mobile Shriners with a handsome hand made ash tray. The exchange occurred during a regional meeting as part of a Washington report.
County Tax Assessor Edward B. Laurendine warns property owners that the deadline to file assessments is Saturday January 31. After that date a 10 percent penalty will be added to the assessed amount, with state and county collecting the additional tax. He notes the law requires action after February 1, which falls on a Sunday this year.
Pa patrolman Alex McCarron arrested D Will Hunter a negro driver on Saturday as a dangerous suspicious character. Police allege Hunter stole several hundred empty sacks from H L Wilson Co stevedoring firm. A warrant for grand larceny would be sworn out.
R Stewart of Chicago will deliver a lecture to students of the Plateau Institute at 9 o clock on Monday. Adjustments.
Jan 24 Daniel Soheran a plasterer and his five daughters aged 5 to 16 were found unconscious in their Corona New York home after inhaling gas. Three of the girls died before reaching hospital while the father and two other children were hospitalized.
Washington January 24 Attorney General McReynolds appointed Francis Duehay to succeed Robert V Ladou as superintendent of federal prisons. Duehay a wealthy Washingtonian is 43 years old.
An additional charge of escaping from hard labor was placed against Alda White at the county jail. He had been jailed for petit larceny and was serving three months on the roads when the escape occurred.
A key Penn freshman player from the University of Pennsylvania baseball team was expected to be the first baseman last spring but fell ill during vacation at home and could not play.
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