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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1913
Page
2
Dallas May 31 1924 International News Service reports a fifty woman committee plans a monthly one dollar subscription drive to fund Willard Hall Association. The goal is a central home with future cottage branches offering housing and household science courses for working girls unable to pay standard rates.
Instructions were sent to all sheriffs and county tax commissioners to aid the state automobile department in enforcing the motor vehicle law. Officers are told to identify owners and chauffeurs who failed to pay licenses, warn them, and issue warrants if they refuse to pay. The circular notes the territory is too large for one department to handle alone and seeks cooperation.
In New Orleans Charity hospital two eight to thirteen month old infants Mamie Capdevielle and Matilda Faustmann share a cot, both under five pounds. Mamie has pneumonia while Matilda has a blood disease, with one holler triggering the other's roar. A local Italian child in the same ward nears death from pneumonia and cancer.
A $500 monthly fund will establish a working base to grow subscriptions as benefits prove. A board of directors will be formed soon and active work will proceed to advance the enterprise.
New York May 31 Gover nor Sulzer plans to form a separate district machine to attack Tammany Hall in the next two campaigns. He aims to organize in Manhattan east side districts to split the Tammany vote and pressure assemblymen who opposed his direct primary bill. Tammany leaders downplay the threat, saying the machine effort could aid progressives and potentially elect anti Tammany lawmakers.
Vanderbilt University chancellor J H Kirkland announced he would remain at Vanderbilt rather than accept offers from the University of Arkansas or Tufts College. He cited increased duties in guiding new medical department facilities funded by a $1,000,000 Carnegie donation as the reason for staying.
The report lists June 4 commencements for Columbia Barnard George Washington NYU and others with West Point graduation on June 12 Ninety three cadets at West Point along with later ceremonies at Penn Yale Vassar Princeton and more Highlighted are degrees awarded at Columbia Barnard and related events including reunions and class days
Newett testifies at length about his life and opposition to Roosevelt's renomination. He alleges the colonel drank, citing depositions from over forty witnesses who claimed intoxication, while noting no witness had observed Roosevelt drink to excess.
self-promoter Walt C Cunningham touts a rapid mail order empire starting from $100 and claiming $650000 earned in 18 months. He offers a free book How to Achieve Mail Order Success and promises money making through 20 ready to start home businesses with guidance from The Mail Order School in Denver Colorado.
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