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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1914
Page
5
In Mobile county the poll tax collection lags with only about 2,000 paid in the final days of the window. Officials estimate 3,600 should be paid, leaving 600 Republicans barred from the Democratic primary. Five gubernatorial candidates and races for sheriff, county commissioners, and legislature heighten interest as two primaries approach.
Pacific coast citrus growers report a bumper season led by California with 40 000 car shipments doubling last year. McCormick of the Southern Pacific notes the crop could supply 15 oranges per person in the United States, averaging 400 boxes per car and 90 to 100 oranges per box. About 4 500 cars have already left Porterville, with most movement in February and March.
Baptist educators at a mass meeting in Nashville urged Southern denominational colleges remain under church control. W F Tillett urged Baptists to guard church atmosphere at their schools during the Southern Baptist Educational Association convention. A stray paragraph about language in describing women's figures follows.
Advertisement claims Cascarets cleanse the stomach and liver, remove sour fermenting food, and relieve headaches and biliousness. It promises a 10 cent box with overnight effect and relief for months, urging readers to consider children as well.
In Kyoto, a deformed child was removed from a male patient with a large left abdominal tumor that grew to the size of two men's heads. Professor Osaki notes the case results from a prenatal abnormal combination of twin-tissue. The patient is recovering.
Medical style advertisement asserts Jad Salts cleanses kidneys by flushing them daily with four ounces in water, claiming teeth urine acids are neutralized and bladder weakness relieved. It promotes high water intake and Jad Salts as a harmless, inexpensive remedy.
Associated Press reports Rabbi Jacob Nieto urged common sense over theology while praising the tango and dances at a California congregation. The rabbi cited historical examples from California missions and medieval rabbis as contexts for dance in religious life. He contrasted solemn ceremony with the idea that culture and decorum can elevate dance. The piece also advertises Dr. King's New Discovery cough syrup with testimonials and pricing for home use.
Salem report states Copperfield Ore. is in the hands of a lawless element and will be disincorporated by order of the attorney general and Governor Oswald West. Proceedings may halt if the town’s administration resigns. Copperfield was placed under martial law after saloon closures by state troops under Fern Hobbs.
C O Pottard, a former attendant at Woodward state insane asylum, is jailed in Amarillo and to be brought back for trial in the alleged murder of inmate Frank S. Pomeroy. Two other former attendants are being sought after Pomeroy, a wealthy inmate from Beaver county, died January 17 following assaults by staff.
George Lee Temple, a British aviator, was killed at Hendon after a gust sent his monoplane into a crash during a difficult dive. His neck was broken in the impact. Temple had earlier made pioneering flights for Britain.
G Lee Sills who served twenty seven months of a ten year term for the killing of C H Ray in 1910 was paroled by Governor Emmet O Neal. He arrived in Mobile from Speigner farm and will live with his mother-in-law while his wife and child reside in Camden. Sills and Ray were longtime loan partners and friends when a night rowboat quarrel ended in Ray’s death.
Kin Seno of Tokio, aged 70, becomes executive head of Seno Commercial Bank after inheriting wealth and finishing her husband’s plan to found a bank. She trains her sons as assistants, arrives at 8 each morning, and runs a thrifty charitable leadership noted for sincerity and model womanhood.
Mrs Josephine Brermer Amend, 40, widow of Robert F. Amend of a noted drug importing firm, leaped from a twelfth floor window of her West Side apartment house late last night and died. Despondent after her husband’s recent death, she had been closely watched by relatives before escaping their vigilance.
Paris reports Greece signs contract for a western European rail link from Piraeus and Athens to Larissa with French contractors. Construction expected to reduce travel time to about sixty hours. The project aims to connect Paris and Athens within months.
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