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Newspaper

The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Mar 03, 1914

Page

12

Eulogy for Jacob Pollock by Rabbi at Street Temple

A March memorial honors Jacob Pollock, praised for faith, business leadership in Mobile, devotion to family, and loyalty to Israel. The speaker recounts Pollock's suffering with grace, his clear mind, and belief that ambition built a life of public service.

Withz Jacob Pollock Duke Israel Legion of Darkness Switzerland William Tell Mobile House of God Ones Old Jacob of Old God Jacob Haran Abraham Isaac Gate of Heaven

Glass of Salts Cleans Kidneys

An advertisement touts Sad Salts, a grape and lemon juice acid lithia drink, as a simple kidney cleanser. It claims boosting kidney activity by flushing acids and waste, requires high water intake, and promises relief from bladder weakness.

Eckmans Alterative Touted For Lung Trouble Recovery

Claim states that Eckmans Alterative helps serious lung trouble and pneumonia patients regain health. An affidavit by Arthur Webb describes a dramatic weight gain and recovery after starting the medicine in 1905. The ad notes no narcotics and cites Braswell's Drug Store as a seller and Eckman Laboratory contact in Philadelphia for more evidence.

Eckman Arthur Webb Braswell Eckman Laboratory Philadelphia

Hot Springs Liver Buttons Promoted For Liver and Bowel Aid

An old advertisement touts Hot Springs Liver Buttons as a gentle remedy to purge the bowels purify the blood and relieve headaches dizziness biliousness nervousness and loss of appetite Women are urged to use the chocolate coated tablets to improve skin tone All druggists 25 cents with money back guarantee Sample free from Hot Springs Chemical Co Hot Springs Ark

Hot Springs Chem. Co Hot Springs Ark

Beautifying hair ads and a funeral for Jacob Pollock

The text promotes Parisian Sage hair health product with claims of preventing dandruff and improving hair. It then reports the burial of Jacob Pollock, a local businessman, at the Hebrew cemetery, with services at Shaarai Shomayim Temple and tributes from family, employers, and friends.

van Antwerp Drug Corp

Hillman shoots Hillman-Watts executive in Birmingham

W. A. Watts, vice-president and treasurer of the Hillman-Watts Land Company, was badly wounded in a Monday morning office shooting in the Brown-Marx building. James Hillman, the company president, is held on $500 bond for assault with intent to murder as details point to a business dispute turning fatal.

Birmingham Ala W. A. Watts Hillman-Watts Land Company Robinson Infirmary Watts Mr. Hillman Walter L. Howard M. R. McNeill Land Company Berry Loy Hillman

Tax Commission Not Satisfied In Bibb County Coal Case

Special to The Hem from Montgomery Alabama March 3. The state tax commission plans to appeal four Bibb county leasehold tax cases to the supreme court after winning on the law but losing on the facts. Juries valued leases as worthless though Judge Miller ruled them taxable. Assessments against eight coal operating companies total about 10 million dollars.

Montgomery Ala Bibb County State Tax Commission Supreme Court Alabama B. M. Miller Centerville

Revival to Begin at First Christian Church Greenville

Reverend O C Speigal will hold a series of revival meetings at the First Christian church in Greenville starting Sunday March 8. He is a widely known evangelist who has conducted revivals at this church before and draws large congregations.

Greenville Ala O. C. Speigal First Christian Church Speigal

Men Ugly Shadows Bring Six Weeks of Bad Weather

A witty remark notes that men are so ugly that their shadows seem to portend a curse of six weeks of foul weather following them.

Miners Drown After Subterranean Flood in Belgian Mine

A Bracquegnies coal mine flood drowns seven miners who were far from the shaft as water from an underground stream surged through a gallery. The danger signal was sounded and hundreds fled to the surface. The report is from Brussels and is dated March 3.

Associated Press Brussels Bel Bracquegnies

Tuscumbians Seek Upgraded Depot Facilities

In Montgomery the railroad commission heard a Tuscumbia delegation led by Hon. A H Carmichael seeking improved passenger depot facilities. The case, instigated by the Alabama Travelers, also pressed for better gate facilities at the union railway station in Montgomery.

Montgomery Ala Railroad Commission Tuscumbia A. H. Carmichael Alabama Union Railway Station

Mrs Catherine O'Neill Dies at 106 in Hartford

By Associated Press Hartford March 3 Mrs Catherine O'Neill died here today at 106 years old She had been in good health until a few weeks ago Her husband died sixty years ago.

Associated Press Hartford

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Logy DR. Moses J. Pollock ALL Druggists, OR E. Fougera & Co., Inc. N.Y Haskin Temple Hebrew Cemetery Warren Government Streets Alfred G. Moses Ettelson Conn Moses Congregation Shaarai Shomayim House of Pollock Battle House Company Dunlap Mercantile Company Fueral Messrs Moses IL. Gans S. F. Cunningham Seymour Forchheimer Adolph D. Bloch Louis J. Adler Sidney Lowenstein Henry Piser J. Leslie Taylor Henry Hess L. Hammel Henry Hall Robert Hunter Louis Bewenstein Bernard Kahn John Quill C. J. Gayfer J. W. Little John Forney Leon Schwarz Hugo Brown E. E. Richard Bibb County Court Delphin Tuscumbians Schlitz Die Theorie Praxis der Julius E. Thausing Leipzig John D. "Palmer N. Water ST Milwaukee
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