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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1913
Page
2
Four sisters, Grace Schwyn seven, Alice sixteen, Clara thirteen, and Ida eleven, drowned in Elkhart Indiana after three sisters jumped into St Joseph’s river to save the younger girl who fell while cherry picking. Bodies recovered.
Lorie Rice of Prattville, state fire marshal since 1909, is appointed deputy insurance commissioner of Alabama to replace Harvey W. Laird. T. L. Austin of Wetumpka becomes state fire marshal. Secretary of State Cyrus B. Brown announced the appointments, and they have begun their duties.
Local police and residents battle a surge of petty thefts, including repeated chicken robberies on Reed Avenue and other neighborhoods. Williams, a Black man, received fifteen days for a chicken possession finding, while John Williams pled guilty to three burglary charges. Officers chased imaginary thieves stemming from reports at Monroe Conception streets and Sindik's saloon, with no thief found after swift responses and searches.
Democrats in a late caucus approved the income tax section of the tariff bill with a $8 000 single or 1 000 additional for married filers and 500 per dependent, dropping the $4 000 house proposal to 3 000. They struck out the mutual life insurance company exemption, to be reconsidered tomorrow, as final passage looms next week.
A 20 car caravan with about 100 people left Indianapolis on a 3575 mile trip to promote a Lincoln trans continental rock highway from New York to Los Angeles. Carl Fisher of Indianapolis originated the plan and aims to fund it by popular subscription. Stops will feature speakers to drum up support.
In Chippewa Falls Wisconsin Mrs Ep Ferron reports relief from displacement backache and standing pain after using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. In Providence Rhode Island Mrs Abril Lawson says it cured bearing down pains and fatigue enabling factory work and housework.
Baxter L Brown of the city plan commission seeks outside ideas on municipally owned wharves in St Louis as the 14 railroad track franchises near expiry. A belt line along the levee could solve dock control with city owned property and railroad franchises to manage freight. Brown notes Mobile and New Orleans dock setups as benchmarks and links to potential charter changes needing two thirds support.
The Item reports William Jones is destitute after a fall from a roof near Whistler two weeks ago. His wife and five children, one a baby, traveled from two miles north of Whistler to Mobile to seek aid from Marine hospital authorities and charitable institutions.
Secretary of War Garrison welcomes Blue and Gray veterans on the Gettysburg battlefield fifty years after the war. Governor Tener and Grand Army leaders praise national unity and the enduring republic as veterans reflect on past conflict and current peace. Army doctors note low illness and hospitalizations amid heat. Liquor sales in Gettysburg remain under scrutiny.
Following an inspection trip to One Mile Creek the Mobile River Commission will have Rankin F P. Duvalle, an engineer, survey Boat House Site 10 near the creek mouth to determine if the proposed structures encroach on channel lines. The Mobile and Ohio railroad may be represented, with Mayor Laz Schwarz chairing the commission.
The department of agriculture declared war on the pink boll worm in Hawaii and ordered forbidding import of cotton bolls or seed to the United States from the Pacific Islands. Experts fear the pest could spread to the United States if not contained.
A brief item notes an event at Monroe Park this evening highlighting a sensational slide by a performer.
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