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The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Jun 14, 1913

Page

7

Funeral for Captain John R. Simpson Held Saturday

The funeral for Captain John R. Simpson, Confederate veteran, will be Saturday at 6 pm from his home at Hallett and Montauk. Interment follows in Magnolia Cemetery. Born January 24, 1833 in Selma, he moved to Mobile as a child and married Mary L. Cooke in 1858. He served Mobile as tax assessor and alderman and held commands in the Gulf City Guards and the 3rd Alabama. His death ends a life of Civil War service and local public work with surviving ten children.

John R. Simpson Hallett Montauk Magnolia Cemetery Simpson Maryland Potomac River Manassas Selma Mobile Mary L. Cooke Gulf City Guards Alabama Gordon D. H. Hill The Potomac Hill Richmond

Eugenia O'Brien Oberkirch Dies at 28

Mrs. Eugenia O'Brien Oberkirch died Saturday morning June 14 1913 at 4 50. She was 28 and wife of Henry I Oberkirch. Funeral from her father Eugene O'Brien 408 Palmetto tomorrow Sunday at 3 30 p m to St Vincent's Church for 4 o'clock service. Interment Catholic Cemetery.

Oberkirch Eugenia O'Brien Henry IL Eugene O'Brien Palmetto St. Vincent's Church

Farewell Vaudeville at Lyric Tonight

The Lyric presents its farewell Vaudeville run for at least sixty days with three shows today at matinee 3 PM and 7:45 PM and 9:15 PM. The program this week is outstanding and enhanced by extra features for a gala closing night. The next season opens August 24.

Digestit Digests Indigestion Says Local Readers

C H Pelton of Springfield Ohio reports relief from a severe stomach ailment after using Digestit gaining nineteen pounds then fourteen more with no discomfort. Mrs G F Paul of Toledo calls Digestit the greatest stomach remedy she tried and would not be without it. Digestit is sold by Van Antwerp in trial 26 cents and large 50 cents with guarantee.

C. H. Pelton Springfield Ohio Wally News G. F. Paul Meyers St Toledo van Antwerp

Foreclosure Notice of Mobile Personal Property Sale

Default on the G M Pagan loan secured by a mortgage in Mobile County Alabama leads to a public sale of personal property on June 24 1913 at 12 pm The items include three pool tables three sets of pool balls three pool racks two cue racks forty cues and seven chairs The sale is at the northeast corner of Charleston and St Emanuel streets Mobile Alabama to satisfy the mortgage debt W J Ardoyno Mortgagee Ervin McAleer Attorneys Joseph G Espalla Auctioneer.

Mobile Board of School Commissioners of Board of School Commissioners County of State Street George D. Williams Phillip Cosminsky H. S. Peckinpaugh Phillip Kearney St. Louis and Royal Streets Paul Savage G. E. Aunspaugh W. F. Sullivan Daniel Callaghan Mobile County Court House T. A. Dickson Edwin Kirkpride Morningstar J. C. Miles Dauphin and Scott Streets Douglas McMillan W. W. Rayfield George B. McKnight W. A. Bass Conception and Madison Streets Ramie Nelson C. Farkley George T. Cowles M. L. Campbell Lawrence and Canal Streets John Mitchell Noah Schwarz David Nathan Thomas Murray St. Louis E. H. Colbear James Pratt A. Wade John H. McEvoy Eighth Ward N. E Lafayette Streets D. H. Edington W. A. Gunnison W. H. Orr J. B. Robertson Ninth Ward Marine and Elmira Streets J. B. Jenkins W. P.kelly J. E. McHugh Tibrongton M. Clark Tenth Ward Baltimore Street Broad and Marine Streets William J. Young William McQuillan W. P. Rollings M. P. Desmond Lazarus Schwarz City of G. M. Pagan N. S Mobile County Alabama I. W. J. Ardoyono Charleston and St. Emanuel Streets W. J. Ardoyno Ervin & McAleer Attys Joseph G. Espalla

Bereaved Chicago couple seeks lost son through baby modeling

A family tragedy drives Mrs. A. W. Monfort and her husband to place a Tribune ad seeking baby models to visually resemble their four year old son Paul Maurice who died after a fall from a south side elevated train. The notice sparked a flood of hundreds of applicants and vivid memories at Monfort Studio in the Goddard Building.

Chicago Monfort Studio The Goddard Bidg Monroe Wabashavy Last Sundsay's Tribune Oakwood A. W. Monfort Studio Monforts Paul Maurice South Side Mrs. Monfort Tribune

Distracting Mixed Stock Listings with Large Vote Adds

A garbled catalog of items like Argo Starch Cartons and Blue Ribbon Labels shows 30,000 votes extra attached to many products. Entries include theatre tickets, cosmetics, soaps, flour sacks, certificates, and coupons with repeated “30,000 votes extra” notes, lacking coherent narrative or dates.

Argo Gulf City Crown Theatre Karo Kingsford Knox Norris Swift Sauer's Sherwin-Williams Uneek Wetnacker Ise

Local Offer Promises 100000 Bonus Votes On Bulk Purchases

A promotional drive grants 100000 bonus votes for each eligible individual who purchases specified products in stated quantities. Buyers must present merchant sales slips to receive the votes, with selected labels and cartons also eligible in the 30000 quantity offers.

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