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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1913
Page
2
The remodeled WEW Settlement Home on Con and Canal streets will open Tuesday with a public 2 to 9 pm program. The $10,000 renovation adds school rooms, girls clubs, a mothers club and day nursery. Addresses will discuss settlement work and its ties to social and church activities. Chick Gandil begins spring training.
John B. Cefalu, once a mobile and New Orleans fruit importer, arrived from Port Cortez aboard the Harald. He built Port Cortez water works under a government and city contract, claims nonpayment led to bankruptcy, and says he will seek relief from the State Department in Washington against the Honduran government and Port Cortez authorities.
Chaplain George E K Stevenson U S N spoke at the YMCA on Saturday night describing the Atlantic Fleet cruise around the world aboard the battleship Virginia. The illustrated lecture highlighted YMCA influence in foreign ports and seas visited, with views taken by enlisted men.
Ilasey Corwin, who married Roberta Menges of Sheepshead Bay eleven years ago when he was worth nearly 1 million, is now down and out. He lives in a squalid ballroom in a cheap boarding house after a hospital discharge for pleurisy. Corwin plans to regain his former job taking tickets at a moving picture show entrance.
George Evans the minstrel man who performed at the Lyric Theatre announces he will give a silver loving cup to the Southern League 1913 batting champion. The winner must have played seventy five games and, after the first year, gains ownership. The cup will be crafted before opening of the season and sent to league cities for exhibition.
M. Andre de Fouquieres led the Junior cotillon in Philadelphia after being paid 3450 dollars to perform as cotillon leader. The revelation came as several prominent society women had declined to attend, confirming his paid entertainer status.
George B. Cleveland Jr argues for developing the Mobile Bay western shore with a Bay Shore railroad to connect Mobile to Dog River, Alabama Port, and Dauphin Island. He cites geology, climate, costs, and potential tourist and farmer benefits, predicting affordable daily trips and seasonal growth if a self powered line is built.
The Collapsible Sanitary Bed Company was filed in probate court to establish a factory for a patented collapsible sanitary bed. Capitalized at 4000 dollars, the firm plans to hire workers and begin business within thirty days with incorporators Charles L. Foster William P. Cothran Jackson Hays and John N Cammack.
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