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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1913
Page
10
Mayor Laz Schwarz says Police Officer J W Shaw Jr will not receive a public hearing before city commissioners to rehearse reasons for his resignation. Schwarz stated the city has nothing further to do with the matter after Shaw left the force. Commissioners Lyons and Pillans involved.
President Wilson made nominations for Collector of Internal Revenue in Georgia to Aaron Hlalock and United States attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana to Walter L. Guion. A hearing was granted, but the mayor’s opinion as head of the police department will be concurred in.
Mrs Edward I Dunne wife of the governor who signed the Illinois suffrage bill expresses joy that the law enfranchises 1 600 000 women. She notes she is mother of thirteen and plans to vote whenever possible and praises her husband for signing the measure.
An advertisement touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve for ulcers boils eczema and skin troubles claiming rapid relief. It cites Mrs. Bruce Jones of Birmingham Alabama cured an ugly ulcer in two weeks and notes the product costs 25 cents and is recommended by Van Antwerp Drug Corp.
The House Rules Committee approved a rule to report the deficiency appropriation bill in July carrying a provision to abolish the commerce court and transfer its jurisdiction to the U S district courts.
Brandon Vermont June 27 Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois praised President Wilson during the unveiling of a Stephen A Douglas statue. He contrasted Wilsons stance with Buchanan and Douglas on patronage and senate relations, noting Wilson aims to place the public good above offices and to avoid retaliation. Brandon is Douglas birthplace.
United States Commissioner sets bonds of 100 dollars for Nahemel Baldwin and Will Brasfield in a case tied to a new federal statute penalizing burglaries of freight cars in interstate transit. Witnesses describe a theft of shoes flour ham butter snuff and tobacco, with prior petit larceny convictions noted.
Read as a tidy listing of apparel bargains including men s blue chambray coats at 50c each and ladies long lawn kimonos up to 199 each. Also featured are lawn dresses up to 4 50, figured lawn dresses at 1 00, shirt waists to 3 48, and serge skirts to 5.
A local sale lists numerous textile items with reduced prices including ladies summer union suits at 19 each, brassieres up to 35c, embroidery laces and ribbons by yard, silks and rib fabrics, tissue paper, wash skirts, chambray shirts, bath towels, neglee shirts, Huck Toweling, silk ties, gowns and shirts, sailor hats, corsets, porosknant underwear, pure silk and lisle socks, lace hose, and infant stockings with marked savings across categories.
Mobile harbor officials and the marine affairs committee held a conference at Battle House to address complaints about the Mobile bar range lights. Lighthouse Inspector B B Dorry, committee members and Bay Pilots Association representatives discussed the United States Coast Pilot notice that Sand Island lights do not mark the best water and urged a full remedy. The meeting was ongoing at press time.
Twenty Odd Fellows qualified as instructors in unwritten work at the district session in Mobile on Thursday night. The instructors will hold schools at least monthly in district lodges under a statewide plan. Grand lodge degrees were conferred on a small class.
Washington on June 27 saw 113 customs collectors resign as the 162 districts are pared to 49. Secretary McAdoo formally requested all resignations while three collectors refused, trusting their four year appointments would end automatically on July 1 under the new law.
The government anti trust suit against the International Harvester Company ends testimony after eighty five witnesses for Harvester and 1200 for the government. Arguments set to begin in St Paul on October 138. Hearings since last September, in multiple cities, with daily sessions. Today Ranney and Daniels testified, others rebutted by Edward P. Grossvenor.
A witness G G Perrott of Early Iowa testified he was formerly employed at Fort Dodge as a sub agent and corroborated earlier testimony on the defendant sales method.
Charles Gillock of Nashville Tennessee who had long been connected with horse racing shot himself in Louisville Kentucky today. No reason for the self inflicted death was suggested.
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