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The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Mar 10, 1914

Page

5

Militant suffragist slashes Rokeby Venus painting

London March 10 May Richardson militant suffragist once imprisoned for arson was arrested on charges of mutilating Velasquez Rokeby Venus in the National Gallery Trafalgar Square. The canvas purchased for 225000 in 1906 now valued around 500000. Gallery closed following the attack.

London Richardson Hampton Velasquez National Gallery Trafalgar Square

California Syrup of Figs Promises Quick Relief for Constipation

Classic advertisement urges mothers to use California Syrup of Figs for kids with coated tongues fever or stomach issues. It claims a tea spoonful moves waste in hours, promotes prompt fever relief and a return to playfulness, and warns against counterfeits while directing to buy from the genuine California Fig Syrup Company.

California California Fig Syrup Company

A Mass of Letters for a Twelve Dollar Stenographer

Warren and Helen sift through two hundred job applications for a modest stenographer post. They weigh handwriting quality, stationery, and honesty while selecting six standout candidates and debating pay and chance of employment. The scene highlights labor market hopes of young women seeking work and wages.

Warren Helen Miss Perry Brockton Publishing Company Edna M. Woodard Baltimore New York Walter R. Blake Helenple Satmon Jersey Scott

Hyomei decongestant inhaler ad promises quick catarrh relief

An advertisement urges immediate Hyomei use to treat catarrh head colds bronchitis and sniffles. It touts medicated air that reaches irritated membranes, promises rapid and lasting relief and offers a complete outfit for $1.00 available from Van Antwerp Drug Corp and druggists nationwide.

Hyomei van Antwerp Drug Corp

Be Vigorous and Ambitious Liver Buttons Ad

Be Vigorous and Ambitious Drive the poisonous waste from your bowels and start your liver working perfectly with hot springs liver buttons. They purify the blood sharpen appetite and add vigor for energy lacking people. Take them and headaches nervousness sleeplessness and dizziness vanish. Women and elderly find them especially fine. Cut out calomel. Take little chocolate coated liver buttons for a week and notice clear skin pimples vanish. All druggists 25 cents free sample from Hot Springs Chemical Co Hot Springs Ark.

Hot Springs ‘Chemical Co Hot Springs, Ark

Helen Conserves Hopeful Letters In Warm Safe Keep

Helen copies Warren's interview form for six applicants then collects the remaining letters. Troubled by waste, she wraps them in manila and nests the bundle on a warm closet shelf, treating the letters with quiet care as if they were alive.

Helen Warren

Fair boost dinner menu and fair as regional development

A discussion on boosting a local fair cites L. J. Davis and D. R. Dunlap favoring a permanent exposition and agricultural development to attract winter visitors and spur factory growth, with Dumas stressing the fair as key to settling surrounding country. A separate note advertises Chamberlain's Tablets for biliousness and constipation.

L. J. Davis Mobile Cr. P. Dumas

Pape's Diapepsin Promises Quick Stomach Relief

Time it in five minutes all stomach distress gone. Pape's Diapepsin is fast acting for indigestion heart burn sour stomach and gas. Get a fifty cent case from any drug store and restore digestion safely.

Underwood Praises Democratic Reforms and Road Bill

In a March 6 1914 letter from Washington D C Representative D W Underwood commends Democratic reforms and a road construction bill. He notes banking hearings and a pending senate bill expected to be enacted before adjournment. He expresses willingness to campaign but commitment to duties in Congress remains paramount.

Committee On Banking and Currency House of Representatives Senate Congress Hastings Alabama D. W. Underwood Washington D. C Chunchula Ala People’s

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May Richardson Militant Mabel Herbert Urner Food Choppers W. E. Curtis R. F. Erwin Peru Ind Chamberlain Pape Trey Orange Belt Mobile, Ala Hood Beacon Shoes P.M. Hott Shoe CO Manchester N. H Beacon Shoe Store Dauphin St LA Camille Hammel Ebile Mobile County WM. Frye Tebbetts Sisor Revenue and Road A.G. Ward Anes Bart B. Chamberlain House OF County Claude A. Grayson Francis J. Inge W.K. P. Wilson Oscar L. Gray Price Williams Missioner W. H. Delchamps Port Richard A. Finch Mobile C Charles Subject Action Democratic Your Vote John T. Bauer John D. Hagan Naimé E. V. O’connor Revenue and Road Commissioner R. L. Whatley SECND Matlock Irvington Revenue and M. L. Campbell Reuben L. Dorson Frank Cazalas, SR Pla DR. L. F. Tapia Dauphin Britton W. A. Gralapp Brick & Coal CO St. Francis St William H. Holcombe J. C. Bolton FOR Revenue and Road ‘Commissioner Third Distri Ben. L. Hamilton A. S. Towle Bert Towle Revenue and Road Commissionem First S. P. Gaillard Geo. W. Taylor
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