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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1913
Page
14
Mens summer suit sale at Clear ance prices offers Peck or Rogers Peet quality hand tailored suits. Includes Norfolk English models and conservative styles in a wide assortment of sizes and colors. Stock must move and prices promise quick sale.
A switch-engine collided with a new locomotive in Louisville and Nashville yards. The wreck toppled the locomotive pinning two men, Houston Fleming and Fledy Hamlin. Fleming, trapped and suffering burns, killed himself with a pocket knife after pleas to end his agony went unanswered.
Horace alias Elder McCall was found guilty of manslaughter in the first degree for killing his wife by striking her with a chair. The jury fixed the punishment at ten years in the penitentiary after counsel Feiberman and Grove made a pivotal defense. A large courtroom crowd heard the trial proceedings.
A bolt from a clear sky struck the East Hill playgrounds in Pensacola on Thursday afternoon. John McCarthy fourteen was killed while playing ball. Earl Hoffman playground manager and several others were shocked.
A Swedish submarine sank to 200 feet during a harbor practice on July 2 due to tanks filling simultaneously. Lieutenant Beckman ordered the lead keel detached, enabling the craft to rise to the surface where the crew breathed air. This ascent from such depth is described as unprecedented.
August Belmont's Tracery the favorite won the Eclipse Stakes at Sandown Park over one mile and a quarter for three and four year olds. Louvois finished second and Bachelor's Wedding third in a field of seven as jockey Danny Maher guided Tracery. Betting had Tracery at 2 to 1 with Louvois at 6 to 1 and Bachelor's Wedding at 100 to 6. Tracery had previously been toppled by a spectator during the Ascot Gold Cup on June 19.
Secretary of War Garrison Major General Leonard Wood chief of staff General James B. Aleshire and others arrive from Atlanta in Chattanooga. After breakfast with Commodore Key Kruesi and Patten the party tours Fort Oglethorpe by automobile in an informal visit.
Directors of the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad meet to act on President Charles S Mellen resignation. Reports name Howard Elliott of Northern Pacific and Daniel Willard of Baltimore and Ohio as possible successors while some directors defend Mellen’s policies.
Sofia reports a coalition cabinet formed by liberal leader M. Radoslavoff to replace Premier Daneff after resignation. The new government combines liberals and Stambuloff nationalists with M. Guenadieff named foreign minister. London dispatch notes ex Premier Guechoft Ts proceeding there on a special mission amid Balkan League renewal speculation.
Two women aged about thirty and thirty five were killed near Riverside Park in Asheville when they crossed to avoid a rear freight and were struck by Southern Railway passenger train No. 102 bound from Morristown Tennessee to Asheville. The victims, mangled beyond recognition, had no identification and appeared to be of poor circumstances.
In Seattle three enlisted U S army men were stabbed by a crowd at a street IWW meeting after passing a woman speaker who attacked the armed forces. The attackers used pocket knives. two sailors from the Pacific reserve fleet aided the soldiers before police restored order.
Twelve people were injured in a derailment and collision east of Cleveland when a Big Four passenger train splintered the dining car and telescoped a sleeping car on the rear of a Lake Shore and Michigan Southern train. The Lake Shore train was held. the Big Four train was involved as a freight movement.
Fragmentary ad lists Ladies Silk hose Lisle sole and heels 39 Boeryalies etc with many unreadable lines. Includes men's cotton socks 10c to 15c, silk thread socks, table socks, and children’s hose in assorted sizes. Reading incomplete and prices scattered across items with end notes unreadable.
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