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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1914
Page
2
The board of revenue and road commissioners met Monday in a long routine session. Property along Spring Hill Road again came up for action with Commissioner 1 absent. The county engineer was asked to determine the gravel type and report back, as the board seeks to advance the project quickly.
The Rev. H B Woodward arrives in Mobile to assist Rev. Vaughn in a series of church services at the Whistler Baptist church.
In city court Joseph Kennedy was found not guilty of grand larceny. Special juries were drawn for Clay King Morse and John McGowin charged with first degree murder. Morse, singer of Carl Friedhoff, will be tried Thursday.
Rev Charles R Hyde, supplying at Government Street Presbyterian, preached The Enforced Cross in the morning and The Call of the Highest at night. He leads a three Sunday series with 11 a m and 7 45 p m services and planned topics including Moses is Dead What Then and Christ Our Passover.
New York March 9 District Attorney Whitman predicts a conviction for James E Hussey former police inspector after his release from Blackwell Island on bribery charges He and inspectors Thompson Martha and Sweeney served almost full year for obstructing justice linked to graft revelations surrounding the Rosen gambling murder case
Extensive plans were approved at a meeting of the committee in charge for Go to Church Sunday observed in Mobile on March 29. Cards will be printed and a publicity campaign launched to encourage everyone in the city to attend church on the last Sunday in March.
Don Farnsworth former secretary and business manager of the Chamber of Commerce underwent an appendectomy at the Inge Bondurant Sanatorium last Friday. He is reported very much improved by the attending physician on Monday.
Charles Stagg, facing an alias writ and an appeal case on the civil side of the city court, surrendered at the county jail Monday morning after failing to appear when the case was called. He says he believed the case had been settled some time ago.
Frederick Townsend Martin wealthy New Yorker social worker and author died Sunday at the Berkeley Hotel London from angina pectoris. He suffered a nervous breakdown in London last November and had leased a London place planning to spend a few months there each year.
Frederick Townsend Martin a longtime figure in New York society died yesterday in London. Born 1849 in Albany, he led high society circles while championing aid for the poor, hosting Christmas dinners for the homeless and criticizing extravagant wealth. He authored The Passing of the Idle Rich and My Personal Experiences of Meeting Snobs and planned permanent homes for American legations abroad. He was connected with many clubs in New York London and Paris and had visited Mobile delivering an address.
A speaker urges city control of the waterfront, proposing a public board to determine necessary improvements and rights to lease space to private businesses until the public need requires shared wharves. He advocates state ownership in trust for the public good and calls for legislation to address uplandownership speculation.
A state official, appointed by ex Governor B. B. Comer, told an Item reporter he has not fixed his vote but would update his forecast from trusted supporters of the four candidates. He said Comer trails in many areas due to strong attacks and that Kolb is favored for runoff with Seed supporters preferring anyone but Comer.
GOE COLQUITT conferred with President Wilson and Secretary Bryan on the Vergara case and said no official information had been received. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee discussed the matter and Colquitt sought clarification from the executive branch.
Senor Juan Pedro Dicap once a confidential agent in Washington for Emilio Vasquez Gomez was executed by a firing squad in Mexico City’s penitentiary. The charge was sedition. Dicap’s career spanned consul roles, Mexican revolutionary support in the north, and later activity in the Vasquista and Diaz factions.
Official Texas report says Captain J J Sanders and his Texas Rangers did not recover Clemente Vergara's body nor cross the international line. Sanders earlier claimed Hidalgo Mexico as the source, while Governor Colquitt announced the recovery was not by Rangers and the individuals responsible are not known.
The mutilated body of Clemente Vergara, Texas ranchman, was secretly moved to the American side of the Rio Grande in the early hours Sunday after being exhumed from Hidalgo cemetery. Mexican federals seized him. identity of the abductors remains unknown. American officials were informed only after the transfer and inspected the scene five miles upriver from Laredo.
A description of women across the country who collect rocks and herbs and use traditional family remedies. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is cited as a notable origin of a trusted preparation. The piece underscores pioneer mothers relying on home recipes for family ailments.
A Brooklyn woman credits Vinol with restoring sleep, appetite, and strength after three bottles. The ad claims Vinol uses cod liver oil elements plus tonic iron, tastes pleasant, and offers a money back guarantee. It also notes Saxo Salve for skin issues and lists Van Antwerp Drug Corp as distributor.
W A Gralapp, lifelong Democrat and candidate for Revenue and Road Commissioner from the Second District, runs on a strictly business platform. He pledges full dedication to Mobile and Mobile County, frugal spending, and rapid completion of road and bridge projects, backed by his local land investments and road experience.
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