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Newspaper

The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Jul 20, 1913

Page

15

Harvard Student Secretly Wedded in Connecticut

James Francis Cassidy Harvard student and Helen A. McGeary eloped to North Grosvenordale Connecticut on January 1 The couple returned to Webster Massachusetts where they live apart while Cassidy is wealthy and his wife works as a stenographer and at a Worcester real estate office They plan a trip to Jacksonville and Atlantic City after the ceremony was found in Cassidy suit and not yet filed with Connecticut authorities

Mr. Cassidy Webster Prescott Foundry Company William Banaghan Worcester North Grosvenordale Connecticut Cassidy Jacksonville Atlantic City

Mobile attorney Groom praised for murder case defense

Attorney Harry Groom, making his first court appearance in the William Brown murder case in Mobile, was highly commended by the Mobile Register and Mobile Item for his argument. Groom, a University of Alabama law graduate, practiced in Mobile and had ties to Birmingham where he is well known and recently married Gladys Grambs.

Harry Groom William Brown Mobile Mobile Register Mobile Item Groom University of Alabama Law School Birmingham Gladys Grambs Birmingham Ledger

Kansas Women Demand Equality in Politics

Secretary of the Equal Suffrage League in Topeka states women seek full political participation, reject separate women’s parties or bureaus, and insist on equal access to party councils and dope. Progressives endorse equal membership for women while Republicans linger and Democrats plan a separate women’s bureau. The era brings a no smoking norm at state events and celebratory gestures.

International News Service Topeka Kans Kansas Teien Meeker Kansas Equalsuffrage League Republicaan Progressive Democratic Woman's Press Bureau Women's Speakers’ Bureau Woman’s Thas Progressive Organization Progressive Party Stubbs Fred Jackson U. S. Sartin Progressive State Committee Democratic Committee

Just a Little Different Studio Portraits Ad

An advertising blurb touts the "Just a Little Different Studio" at 165 Dauphin Street in Mobile. It promises originality and an elaborate display of portraits illuminated nightly for passersby.

United States Europe Boyle Studio Tyou Ady Mobile Dauphin Street Adv Boyle

Immense Hail Stones Smash Marietta Windows and Crops

Huge hailstones struck Marietta Ohio during the storm last night, smashing windows, breaking slate roofs, and crushing crops. Farmers reported extensive damage to corn fields as wind flipped the stones in gusty bursts.

Rich widow weds nephew in Paris church ceremony

A rich widow and her nephew, both over sixty, married at the American church in Paris. The couple plans to return to the United States to establish a permanent home in southern California.

Paris America California

City Brevities: Locating Relatives for Robert Hunter

Efforts pursue relatives of Robert Hunter an aged Black man who died here days ago. He reportedly held several thousand dollars in Peoples Bank, much of it accruing interest. Hunter, a skilled cotton sampler, worked for Dargan Ledyard and was known in Mobile cotton interests. No relatives found yet. Mack McGallagher of Coden suffered a severe eye injury when a whip broke and fragments struck his eye, forcing removal.

Robert Hunter Hunter Peoples Bank Dargan Ledyard Mobile Mack McGallagher Coden City Hospital McGallagher

Unclear Fragment of Notice Relates to Names Filed

Fragment lists names including William Allen, Harriett Georgia Lee, William Jordan, and Jemina Hogan indicating a legal or civic filing or notice with readable names but lacking context or action.

Urday William Allen Harriett Georgia Lee William Jordan Jemina Hogan

Gulfport trio arrives in five hours for city visit

R Snead R C Connor and W Driver of Gulfport Mississippi arrived Saturday night by automobile. They made the five hour trip and are staying at the Cawthon Hotel.

R. Snead R. C. Connor W. Driver Gulfport Miss Cawthon Hotel

Mid-summer Clearance Sale at L. H. Meyer & Sons

The notice announces a big Mid-summer clearance sale at L. H. Meyer and Sons. The text directs readers to view today's advertisement for details and pricing.

L. H. Meyer & Sons Ad. Adv J. H. Meyer & Sons

Workhouse Preference Over Wife’s Views Sparks Court Tale

A Yonkers police court transcript recalls a husband asking for workhouse sentence to end years of conflict at home. His wife’s nagging, the judge notes, drives him to work though the couple argues over support and money. The piece defends wife truth telling while warning against excessive nagging and domestic strife.

Adam Yonkers

Split-Skirt Stoop Said to Diminish Americans’ Posture

Dr Bascom Burchard warns that ankle revealing styles will deform men causing a split-skirt stoop. He cites evolution and repeated movement shaping bodies predicting bad breathing, rounded shoulders, near sightedness and danger of spinal injury. The piece notes fashion and a local sale ad.

Dr. Burchard Philadelphia

Woman of resolve voices her conscience to halt a course

A determined woman weighs her instincts and training against a proposed path and resolves to argue openly with her husband. She hopes her reasoning may reach his soul and stir his conscience while continuing to speak her mind. She questions what alternative might emerge from a wiser, fair-minded decision maker.

Solomon

Kidnapped Man Reunites With Long Lost Mother

Daniel Saunderson, abducted at age two and raised in Oakland and San Francisco as Chris Ward, has returned from the antipodes to Auckland, learning his mother is alive. He also discovered his original name and the death of his father in the 1906 disaster.

International News Service San Francisco Daniel Saunderson Auckland America Chris Ward Saunderson Ward Oakland

Dr King’s New Life Pills Promote Quick Relief

Paul Mathulka of Buffalo reports Dr King’s New Life Pills are the king of all laxatives. They help constipation headaches indigestion and dyspepsia and his family always keeps a box at home. Get a box and get well from Van Antwerp Drug Corp.

Dr. King Paul Mathulka Buffalo van Antwerp Rug Corp

Mechanics Relief Association Meeting Notice

The officers and members are requested to attend the regular monthly meeting on Wednesday evening July 23 at 7 30 p m at U M B A Hall 8 E corner Dauphin and Jackson streets A J Leibert and A B Picker sign as President and Recording Secretary respectively.

The Mechanics Relief Association U .M. B. A. Hall

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Harvard Heisey Battles Str James A. Carney Battles North Wharf Equal Suffrage League C. P. Huntington Henry F. Huntington New York Arabella D. Huntington Collis P. Hunt Ington Pacific Railroads Henry EK. Huntingtons E. H. Britton Ada Patterson Sailor Weinacker Bros Willis & Percy Willis & Percy Jewelers and Silversmiths Columbia Ice Cream CO Trescent
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