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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1916
Page
2
Eyewitness reports describe British gains near Le Boisselle and Montauban during the Somme offensive. Artillery bombardment preceded dawn assault amid heavy shelling, with night signals and rocket exchanges marking the advance as the village positions burned.
David Cory recounts Mother Goose returning home with Puss and a Gander aboard the Man in the Moon. They land near her wooden house guarded by a watchful owl with a gun, while Jack sleeps in, and Mother Goose notes the comfort of being home again after their night journey.
Dr C A Cary president of the Alabama Livestock Commission says the tick eradication program in Mobile County will go on despite an inferior court ruling. He urges cattle owners to dip regularly every two weeks and notes improvements from high water, with work progressing in other counties as well and plans to complete the program this year.
The Alabama Bar Association opened its annual convention in Decatur at the Masonic Theatre with about 200 attorneys present led by President Charles B McDowell Jr of Montgomery. Prominent attendees included Ridge Pelham and Alexander Troy. Visitors enjoy dances barbecues and a car pennant service to shuttle delegates around the city. The convention runs through Saturday.
Iverson Byrd was fined five dollars or five days by Recorder Edington for letting a vicious dog run free after the animal attacked W L Creath. The dog was destroyed by court order. J S Robbins Jr was fined five dollars or five days for failing to obtain a soft drink license and must comply with the law. Theodosious Carr paid a prior fine of fifty one dollars and costs after appealing an assault with a gun charge. Police say Carr gave his son a pistol to shoot at a boy named David Johnson.
Passenger Agent H. C. Geron announced a diner will operate on train No 37 from Mobile to New Orleans at 4 80 each morning and a diner attached to train No 10 from New Orleans at 6 each afternoon. He also said Mississippi gulf coast excursions will resume Thursday after the recent storm improved beach conditions.
J R McGaughey of 5 Gilbert Avenue, former manager of Askin and Marine, was arraigned in the recorder's court Saturday on embezzlement charges. The case was continued to a later date by agreement, with a warrant sworn by Palmke alleging embezzlement within the past years totaling about $100 for his own gain as an agent.
A London dispatch notes sixteen balloons on the Allied side and a nonvisible German air presence. German artillery is blinded as French and British airmen cooperate with infantry, signaling German gun positions from altitudes as low as 300 feet. Aerial torpedoes are developed and fired up to half a mile. The village of Dompierre yields stubborn German resistance in Curlu cemetery as shelling drives the defense back.
French troops stormed a cliff known as the Gendarmes Bat and seized the quarry side, reaching the top in bright sun and cheering. Engineers erect light rail, roads span the country, and hammering echoes between shelling mark the busy reorganization under General Marie Emile Fayolle, the veteran artillery commander.
Mobile Medical holds today meetings at 1 pm at St. Michael Conception. Community members invited to attend and discuss local health services and outreach programs.
Paul Smith vice president of Chalmers Motor Company jumped from a tenth story window at the Hotel Biltmore in New York. He arrived this morning with his wife and a trained nurse to seek medical help for a nervous condition. He was about 40.
Rev. Matthew Brewster announces Christ Church Episcopal will conduct services tomorrow in the church building after temporary repairs were completed. The statement confirms normal worship continues despite the repair work.
Physicians claim excess uric acid ages the appearance and can cause gray hair and wrinkles. Recommends drinking water between meals and using anuric before meals to expel uric acid and relieve backache lumbago rheumatism gout symptoms.
United States weather summary from Washington notes a forecast for Alabama and Mississippi. Partly cloudy conditions expected tonight and Sunday with no major weather disruptions indicated.
A 25 year corn study leads to a claimed cure named Blue Jay that allegedly ends corns in 48 hours without soreness. The ad-style text urges readers to try the treatment for freedom from corns and discomfort.
Captain EB L Whi confirms the schooner Sadie C. Sumner was dismasted off Cape San Blas during the recent hurricane. Crew reports indicate all aboard are safe.
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