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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1913
Page
10
Sale notice offers houses on Broad Street from 2100 to 7500 dollars and cottages from 1600 dollars in select city areas. Lot parcels also advertised for potential buyers.
Launch advertised for sale a fully equipped 81 foot hunting cabin cruising craft with awnings cushions anchor and Marine engine. Deck work valued at over $60 completed. described as being in first class condition and offered at a bargain price.
A 24 foot 6 inch long boat with 8 foot beam built in juniper and excellently finished is offered for sale. It comes with two anchors an awning spars and rigging. Owners have no time to use either vessel.
Samuel Stevens Sands stepson of William K. Vanderbilt died in a car wreck near Westhampton Long Island last night. His car overturned after a burst tire and a shell struck witness Horace Rumsey’s glasses. Sands was 44 and had married Gertrude Sheldon in 1910. his family included earlier fatalities G Winthrop Sands and Samuel S Sands.
Harry K Thaw in Matteawan writes to Pennsylvania Gettysburg celebration chairman with a thousand dollars enclosed claiming sympathy for General Daniel Sickles after his old age misfortunes He notes uncles who served in the Union army and a Southern relative Colombo Schoonmaker will decide next steps on the offer.
Boston veteran pitcher Thomas J Buck O'Brien, a pioneer of the American League, was sold yesterday to the Chicago club amid the ongoing player exchanges shaping the season.
Governor Sulzer issued a statement denouncing Miss Hopkins suit for breach of promise as a blackmail plot by political enemies and Boss Murphy. He says the case is stale and part of a broader effort to discredit him for opposing Murphy and supporting direct nominations. He admits knowing Hopkins but denies any marriage or scandal.
Washington July 3 The American public consumed a record 143,300,000 gallons of whiskey and brandy in the year ending June 30 1913 along with 64,500,000 barrels of beer cigars and cigarettes rose to new highs and total tobacco use increased. Internal revenue receipts reached 344 426 884 dollars the largest in history and saloons declined by 18 000 with about 450 000 retail liquor dealers remaining.
In Roanoke July 3 an arbitration board ruled that maintenance of way employees of the Norfolk and Western Railway will receive a wage increase. Judge William Lee Chambers chaired the board and will not reveal the exact amount until the report is completed.
The motor barge Nicholas A. Bernhard, first of Orleans Transportation Company's fleet, arrived in Mobile amid praise from local business leaders. The vessel, 200 by 30 feet, with twin 75 horsepower Fairbanks Morse engines and gas producer, will operate Mobile Pensacola and New Orleans routes. A trial trip from New Orleans via Lake Borgne and Grant's Pass reached an average speed of 8.9 miles per hour.
In St Louis near Creve Coeur Lake an automobile skid over an embankment killing Mrs David Sommers, her mother Mrs Alberta Drey, and her two young daughters aged 6 and 7 months. Mrs Sommers was noted as a leading social figure.
Ollie Taylor a 13 year old boy was paroled by Fulton county commissioners for four months after serving two years in the reformatory for stealing a five cent bottle of fountain beverage. His case drew attention because Georgia law could have kept him until age 21 unless paroled. He hopes to find work learning auto mechanics.
The official censor of Cassel Germany forbids the local theatre from producing the American play The Easiest War which had a long run in the United States.
A grand display of fireworks accompanied by a band concert and free moving pictures drew attendees at Monroe Park. The event started at 6:29 and is noted as a public celebration with entertainment for all ages.
Marcel G. Brindejone des Moulinats arrived in Villacoub lay France completing a 3100 mile flight in the same aeroplane. He departed June 10 from The Hague flying via Berlin Warsaw St Petersburg and returned via Stockholm Copenhagen Hamburg to meet the Soviet and Dutch authorities.
Cures for kidney and bladder troubles including gravel diabetes and rheumatism advertised as a Wonder. Claims to regulate bladder issues in children and offers mail order with a one dollar price. Includes doctor name and St. Louis address.
To get rid of mosquitoes you can sleep fish hunt or attend to any work without worry by applying to the face ears and hands Dr Porter s Antiseptic Healing Oil 25c a bottle.
Engineer B F Meyers was killed in a west bound Missouri Pacific passenger train wreck at Berger Missouri. Ten persons were seriously injured and about twenty others slightly hurt when the engine and day coach left the rails and overturned. Among the seriously injured were Wigglesworth of Cynthia Kentucky J M Bick of Trenton Tennessee Bardstown Kentucky and Robert Claygue of Argenta Arkansas. Railroad officials said an investigation had failed to disclose the derailment cause.
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