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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1913
Page
10
A speaker laments artificial conventions and urges true mental independence. He argues civilization cages natural thinking, urges using one’s own reasoning, and emphasizes personal effort to gain wisdom while maintaining influence on others. Independence of thought should precede independent action.
President Wilson expressed surprise as the Senate Finance Committee increased duties in the tariff bill on works of art and books in a Washington briefing dated July 35. The move sparks debate over cultural imports and funding for the government.
At a Saturday session of the New Orleans Mobile Gulf Confederation of Commercial Clubs a sub committee led by H W Grayson was named to map two Biloxi Ocean Springs right of way lines and another led by H D Money to chart lines from Ocean Springs to Moss Point The group aims to present a definite traction plan to Ocean Springs Biloxi Pascagoula and Moss Point and to enlist engineers for final proposals. The gathering also heard progress on the Gulf Coast Farm Marketing Committee with a plan to select two or three key shippers per town to open Chicago markets and ensure honest handling of goods, noting North market difficulties stem from quality and packing issues to be addressed locally. A tour followed, visiting the Southern Paper Company plant after lunch in the People's Bank of Pascagoula director’s room.
Senator Newlands declared the emergency should push immediate action on the senate bill to amend the Erdman Act. He said the White House conference may yield a definite conclusion and that the bill, passed by the senate, favorably serves the public interest. The arbitration board could become an industrial court and should not be linked to the Labor Department or to the Commerce Department.
The Bulgarian minister to Roumania and the legation staff left Bucharest today on a special train for Sofia. Official reports confirm detachments of Romanian cavalry have occupied Detrch Baltchik and surrounding villages.
Washington July 14 Thomas P Kane acting comptroller of the currency authorized the reopening of the First National Bank of McKeesport Pennsylvania which had closed its doors a week earlier Bank officials and customers welcomed the decision and resumed normal operations at the institution.
In London a secrecy shielded dispute pits Alexandra Hugants duchess and her mother, the late Duke of Fife’s widow, over the duke’s estate. Justice Neville presides as the case proceeds without public or press access.
Birmingham July 14. As primaries approach next April candidates for county sheriff in Jefferson County grow active. Six men are named or announced including J. J. Batson of Bessemer and R. E. Howard deputy sheriff. Other contenders mentioned are George H Bodeker Gue Lee William T. Latham Jones G. Moore.
County Solicitor Scott M Loftin will spend three or four days studying the law and reviewing voluminous testimony in the city election fraud cases before acting. The court of record will consider indictments and prosecutions if warranted, while examining the city charter and new election acts during the session.
Delegates from the United States and Canada representing 150 temples arrived in Minneapolis for the binennial convention of the Imperial Palace, a dramatic order of the Knights of Khorassan, which will open tonight.
Disorder broke out as Kentucky Traction Company tried to run cars with strike-breakers. One car carried passengers but was halted by strikers. another was burned. About a dozen arrests. strike-breakers and deputies injured. Francis Douglass urged Governor McCreary to dispatch troops. Judge Kerr asked Lexington militia to restore order. Strikers demanded higher wages and recognition of a new union.
A vintage advertisement promotes Digest it as a stomach aid. It claims modern doctors advise nourishment and that Digest it digests food directly, allowing normal eating. A trial package of twenty-five tablets costs 25c or 50c at Vay Antwerrfs.
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