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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1913
Page
8
Fire discovered at 12:50 Saturday damaged the premises at Franklin Avenue and Kelly Street. Mrs Alfred Percy and occupants fled as the building owned by Mrs Perez burned. an adjacent house owned by Mrs Gabriel sustained minor damage. The cause remains unknown with no prior fire on site.
The city hospital's summer medical and surgical staff was announced. The Sisters of Charity select the team for summer, with University of Alabama choosing winter staff. Listed are doctors for surgery, medicine, genito urinary, nervous, obstetrics, eye ear nose throat, and house doctors.
W G Horn fined 10 dollars or twenty days for speeding. bond set at 100 dollars on appeal. Cc Morse fined 10 dollars or twenty days for speeding. Ludlow arrested Morse. Bryant French Jr and Howard Peck Jr of Fort Worth discharged for magazine subscription sales without city license. Lena Pitts ordered out, arraigned on vagrancy with 300 dollar bond. Ernest New to day patrol. James R McKay to night duty. Night Driver L K Hughes granted leave of absence.
Mrs. Lillie Parker reports a mole on a model’s back grew into a large red painful knot causing sleepless nights. After using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment three times daily the mole healed. The ad also claims scalp sores and hair loss on a cousin improved similarly with the same products.
Militants described as suffrage arson squads conducted nighttime attacks in St Andrews Scotland and South End in the lower Thames. Gatty Marine laboratory East wing was destroyed with many instruments burned while St John Church at South End was set ablaze but suffered limited damage.
Weather advisory urges cooling methods to guard 36 hour shipments moving north east and west against extreme heat up to 96 degrees. Experts predict high temps may affect freight conditions and require extra insulation and monitoring.
Chicago June 21 A jury refused to grant Mrs Jessie R Van Vlissingen a divorce from Peter Van Vlissingen who is in prison for mortgage forgeries totaling over half a million dollars. The court found she was cognizant of and benefited from her husband's forgeries. The husband contended she knew of the crimes before marriage.
More than 200 athletes, the best in the midwest, entered the Central AAU championship games at Northwestern field. Ira Davenport, holder of records in the quarter and half mile, will race today in his final events, aiming to set a new mark.
State Highway Engineer W. S. Keller and party, touring Alabama by automobile, will arrive in Montgomery tonight. The group visited Birmingham and planned stops at Talladega La Fayette and West Point where Prof G N Mitcham of Auburn joins at noon. From West Point they proceed to Montgomery and then to southeast Alabama’s wiregrass region for the final lap of the trip begun June 9 in Mobile.
High pressure over the gulf and south Atlantic coast brings generally fair weather. Shreveport tops 98 degrees while Montgomery reaches 94. A cooler air mass covers the northern states from the Pacific to the Great Lakes with scattered rain. A low pressure area over the North Atlantic states brings rain and moderate July heat.
Albert David Murry died Friday night at home in Toulminville after a two week illness from typhoid fever. He was the son of J T and Mrs Emily A Murry. Undertaker Roche and Burke will send the remains to Orange Grove, Mississippi for interment.
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