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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1913
Page
5
Newport shifts from exclusive playground to mass beach paradise as the Newport Beach Association funds a new boardwalk roller coaster and large facilities. A $25 000 roller coaster, a $6 000 organ and a convention hall for 5 000 add to a $100 000 modernization drawing crowds from New York and beyond.
Massachusetts Governor Foss denounces lowering tariffs without equal foreign concessions. He says tariff talk prompts manufacturers nationwide to relocate plants to Canada, harming U S interests and provoking party disputes over tariff policy.
Mrs St Fern rent Mart Barnes denied dead six years ago reappears in Hoquiam one day after marrying S H Rob Robertson of Elma She seeks annulment of the Robertson marriage blaming Barnes for the break She recalls Barnes disappeared in Oregon and was believed dead The couple's wedding followed by a street sighting triggered a nervous collapse and hospital care.
Belmont, a vaudeville singer, identified as Harry Thompson a 27 year old who lived as a girl. He said his parents knew he was a boy and dressed him in girls clothing with a girl’s name. Born in the West, he came East ten years ago and performed widely, being arrested and searched by matrons five times without suspicion. Thompson’s hair runs to his waist and he kept facial hair smooth with an acid preparation.
New York reports that the Pennsylvania Railroad warns that high heels and hobble skirts contribute to accidents in stations and cars. A study of 73 cases over three months shows injuries range from contusions to broken legs, with heels and tight skirts blamed in nine out of ten incidents. The guide urges observers to watch for hobble wearers to prevent falls.
In Columbus Ohio, Julie E. Roberts was declared widow of Alfred Roberts for about fifteen minutes before an attorney challenged the status in Judge Dillon's court. The couple married in 1904. the minister and handshake occurred as Roberts died. Judge Dillon upheld the marriage but the matter will be reheard with former Attorney General Sheets seeking a hearing.
Berkeley researchers captured a California polecat on campus and tested it for hydrophobia. The Mephitis Occidentalis was found not to carry rabies, though caution remains advised if bitten.
In St Louis a mix up at the city hospital led Mrs. Anna Klein to mourn a man she thought was her brother George Kuntz. A clerical error sent the wrong Kuntz’s death notice, prompting misidentification before the living brother, George Kuntz of Oberdeck avenue, was located and informed. The deceased’s relatives later claimed the body.
Grant Hayes, a blacksmith for A. B. Meyer Coal, remains in a somnambulistic state after waking nude in an alley twelve feet below his window. He wandered to Michigan and Noble Streets before police and bicycle patrols woke him. He later recalled workplaces on East Michigan Street and the Wallace hotel and rooming house, with a minor head bruise as the only injury.
In Wenatch er Washington a rancher traveled to claim a bride who had advertised in a San Francisco matrimonial paper. After months of letters he arrived in working clothes and was rejected. The woman denied marriage, claiming she was joking and demanded the return of her letters. The rancher sought legal counsel and chose to drop the pursuit.
Columbus July 19 Safe porters of Ohio initiative and referendum face collapse as wholesale forgeries of petition signatures surface. The scandal jeopardizes six referendums filed by the state board of commerce and raises questions about who will verify valid names and ensure constitutional compliance amid legal challenges and potential court action.
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