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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1913
Page
2
The doctor offers tonic restoratives and tonics to treat weight loss, nervous exhaustion, rheumatism, bronchial trouble, and digestive distress. Several remedies include cadomene tincture, hypophosphites syrup, arborene tablets, and various tonics. Readers are invited to write for advice and obtain prescriptions through druggists.
The Dream owned by Charles L. Lagen of the Yachtsmen's Club won the Philadelphia to Bermuda motor boat race with Barbara II in second and Tocsam third. The Dream finished at 4 55 p m after Barbara II and had 3 14 56 to spare with a 16 44 86 hour time allowance.
The pleasure yacht Ella P owned by Blacksher Lumber Company and made in Mobile was launched Thursday morning at Hilava street yards. The 40 foot vessel with a 12 foot beam carries ten to twenty five passengers and is powered by a 36 horsepower Wolverine engine. Thompson & McTaggart of Mobile have built yawls launches and small boats for customers in Boston Port Arthur Havana and Honduras and six more yawls are under construction. An order for a large pleasure yacht for Mr Hanson of Atlanta was received Wednesday and will operate at Coden. The firm recently refused several Texas orders due to capacity limits.
The Y M C A Boys Camp at Palmetto Beach is established and ship shape per a Wednesday night message from General Secretary F W Evans. The first party departed Mobile on the launch Puritan with provision boat Cyril Tucker and Guy Hurlburt to meet them. the first baseball game is set for Thursday. The second camper group leaves Saturday June 21, with Assistant Secretary Turner handling registrations 9 am to 6 pm. A weekend trip to the camp site is planned with return Monday.
Rev. Thomas Henry Johnson, recently called to All Saints church, arrived in Mobile from Eufaula, Alabama, Wednesday night and will deliver his first sermon Sunday. Dr. Johnson and his family are staying at the Cawthon currently.
City announces eleventh paving venture near completion with asphalt work on Pine Ann Selma Palmetto Georgia Rapier and portions of Government and South Royal streets mostly finished. Wood block on Dauphin will wrap by Friday noon and only two weeks remain for remaining sections. A twelfth project is unlikely this year.
Immigrant Inspector Worden reports United Fruit Co plans to hire three hundred Chinese firemen to sail aboard its vessels in place of union workers. A New Orleans riot injured a dozen and more than forty were arrested as striking seamen clashed with police at the Heredia’s dock.
News from Charleston reports no further word on the steamship Olinda which was due in the morning with a cargo salvo. Shipping men believe the Olinda has continued its voyage after a reported misidentification with another vessel last night.
President Wilson told Colonel Goethals he will visit the canal zone after Congress adjourns. Goethals expects to set water in about October 1.
The item lists superstitions for Friday June 13, 1913, detailing precautions against misfortune. It mentions Abdul Ben Unduckl, a falling monolith, and the Book of the Dead, plus quirky cautions like thirteen-dollar anchors and a rabbit’s thirteen-week guidance. It notes weddings and police overtime amid ominous claims.
A call to parents to demand better hygiene in classrooms urging every child to learn the tooth brush routine to keep rooms clean and safe and to spread the message to others.
The board postponed action on kindergarten petitions and related tax payer requests until July due to missing members. Summer school opens Monday under S. B. Murphy with Professor Lee Byrne directing high school grades and several teachers in grammar and primary departments. Enrollment estimated at 400 to 500 with about 50 teachers. sessions run 9 am to noon, no fees, nonresidents welcome. A bid to reestablish a primary supervisor position was referred to the executive committee.
A thousand dollar bond issue for a new Citronelle school building passed overwhelmingly at Wednesday's election with a 43 to 3 vote. An $8,000 building will be erected and the funds used as interest on the loan. It is not yet settled whether the loan will be provided by citizens or the school board.
Herman Finkelstein, arrested May 30 at Belmont Park on a charge of taking a $10 bet on a horse, was discharged by a justice of the peace. He admitted the detective’s testimony that he took money from Samuel Kornblum but said it was repayment of a year old debt. Kornblum corroborated the debt claim.
Errors by Harvard at critical moments cost the Crimson as Holy Cross won 7 to 2 in Cambridge. Fast fielding by Holy Cross stopped Harvard runs, marking their second win over Harvard this season.
An old advertisement touts Royal Germetuer as the most wonderful medicine, claiming to kill disease germs and cure rheumatism headaches back pain nervousness constipation and many other ailments. It promises thousands of cures and a money back guarantee with a one dollar bottle available from Ellis Lillybeck Drug Co Memphis and sold in Mobile by Van Antwerp Drug Co.
The piece extols Byeria and its merit as a cleanser purifier and tonic for teeth and mouth. It highlights sixty four years of prominence and its status as a standard worldwide. It claims great efficiency of SOZODONT in its three forms as the greatest dentifrice.
The case of Hardaway Young former president of the Southern Hardware and Supply Company was indicted for misuse of the United States mails and is scheduled for trial in the U S district court next Thursday June 19 A continuance may be requested by Webb and McAlpine attorneys. Other cases include Edward Lindsay a felon facing mail money theft charges and George Cooke facing post office law violations.
A Pittsburg Tennessee man Dave Gibson and Art Mickam of Bridgeport Alabama were killed at the Oxie Portland Cement Company plant in Richard City Tennessee when they were caught in belting in the machinery department yesterday afternoon. Both men left families.
Asheville North Carolina June 12 Dr. F T Merriwether a noted surgeon died early today in his hospital following an operation for appendicitis conducted Monday He belonged to a prominent Kentucky family and had served as a lieutenant in the United States Army.
Nashville announces the purchase of pitcher Forrest More of Chattanooga by the Nashville club. Pitcher McManus from Cincinnati will be released to make room. More returns to Chattanooga with the team tonight but will join Nashville in Birmingham this week.
Rumor of the Protector wreck circulates along the waterfront but is unverified. Captain Newberry cites reliable information that the Protector reported safe off Cape Hatteras. Several vessels including the Kilsyth, Dictator, Georgia Gilkey, Degama, Maud B. Krum, Belize, and Bertha of Mason show a busy port with cargos of lumber resin and general goods bound for Europe, Puerto Rico, and Cuba.
Simon A. Melnikoff a Russian tailor and seaman aboard the Norwegian bark Miranda was admitted to the United States by immigration inspector Henry C. Brownlow after an examination Thursday morning Melnikoff plans to work as a tailor and travel to New Orleans for his trade license in America
An advertisement urges readers to use a twenty five cent bottle of Chamberlain's Liniment to relieve rheumatic pains quickly. Sold by all dealers. werp's about the No Name. 6:26-71.
Salvadore Antoine was arrested on a warrant and appeared in Inferior Criminal court Thursday morning. He was fined $2.50 or ten days at hard labor for assault and battery.
The Royal Theatre in Dallas presents a mixed program featuring One Can't Always Tell a comedy from Vitagraph Pathe Weekly No 23 A Romance of the Ozarks a Lubin drama and a Thursday, June 12 screening slot.
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