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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1915
Page
2
The mission speaker cites St James on the power of the tongue and warns that calumny and detraction ruin reputations. He recalls ruin caused by falsehoods and urges restitution where harm has been done. Tonight a panel lesson on St Patrick of Ireland will be delivered.
H M Touart and P B Laurendine appointed as state auto license collectors for south Alabama. The firm, Laurendine and Touart, will handle licenses in Mobile and surrounding counties with offices in the Bavage building.
British steamship Kyleakin 1976 Campbell master bound for Glasgow and Greenock with general cargo. Dutch steamship Van Hogendorp 1006 Knip master bound for Rotterdam Hol id with cargo from Galveston. Honduran schooner Angelina 85 es master bound for Tela with 92 feet of pine lumber. Norwegian steamship Matilda 1346 eland master bound for Havana Cuba general cargo.
The notice discusses charging a morphine fee only after satisfactory treatment is achieved and lists withdrawal symptoms. It notes patients can be treated at a private home if unable to reach Bit Sanitarium and references Union Bank, The American National Bank, and other citizens of Lebanon for a free booklet.
The firm reports confusion with another business sharing a similar name in this area. Management says operations will continue unchanged and expects continued patronage as in the past.
On Monday two ships departed Galveston area. The British steamer Kuleakin of Mobile Liner, Inc. sailed for Liverpool and the United Kingdom with iron products coal and sisal grass. The Honduran schooner Angelina left Ruatan for a lumber cargo and cocoanuts to Mobile under Captain Yates.
New Orleans Hydrographic Office reports on March 14 a steam yacht Oneida passing what appeared to be a hull of a smack five tiles south southeast of Sandy Key light, creating a navigation hazard. March 13 officials confirm both Alacran and Triangle light were in operation.
Local Notice to Mariners reports Dixie Island Gag Buoy 2 A relighted March 13 after being extinguished. Action ordered by the commissioner of light houses with inspector B B Dorry of the Eighth Lighthouse District issuing the notice.
Multiple naval and merchant vessels arrive or sail from ports including Newport News Charleston Savannah Galveston New Orleans Port Eads Norfolk Tampa Pensacola and Jacksonville. Listings name ships such as Ikbal Wm Thomas Moore City of Tampico and El Rio with routes to Liverpool Genoa New York and the West Indies.
Daniel A. Carmody manager of the Cudahy plantations near Robertsdale Baldwin county and his guest James Francis Doyle of Chicago predicted an unusually large fig crop for the coming season. They spoke during the St Patrick's day celebration noting last year's drought caused a short harvest.
In a U S district court case Judge Toulmin disposed of admiralty matters. Lapwing Towing & Wrecking Company vs Pleasure Bay heard on pleadings and proofs. Seeberg Steamship Line vs 165 logs and one bag copal decree of 5000 dollars and sale order. Southern Manufacturing Company vs steamship Peerless heard on libel exceptions and overruled.
Toulmin judge Burton Blanks of Mobile filed a bankruptcy petition listing liabilities of 365.60 with no assets and was referred to Referee Ervin. John L. Walker doing business as the Alabama Tent and Awning Company in Mobile filed a bankruptcy petition listing assets of 2,577.40 with 6,121.43 in liabilities and a mortgage of 1,400, referred to Referee.
Mrs. Mary Cameron Boone, 19, a well known Purvis resident, died Wednesday after a brief illness in a local infirmary. Roche & Burke took charge of the remains and will ship them to Purvis Thursday morning over the New Orleans railway.
Market closing figures show cotton prices with modest moves across sessions.cotton futures mixed as traders weigh demand signals and weather expectations, leaving Wednesday's close near session highs for some contracts.
Cotton spot strong with good middling at 5.69 and middling 5.85. low middling 4.95. Sales totaled 15,000 bales, with 5,000 bales speculative and export, receipts 15,000 bales. Futures steady: May-June 5.24, June-July 5.29 1-2, July-August 5.87, October-November 5.54, January-February 5.63.
A compilation of stock prices with numerous listings including Amalgamated Copper American Agricultural American Can American Cities pid American Smelting American Sugar American Tel and Tel American Tobacco Atchison Atlantic Coast Line Baltimore and Ohio Canadian Pacific Chesapeake and Ohio Chicago Milwaukee and Saint Paul Erie Great Northern pid Interborough Met pfd Kansas City Southern Louisville and Nashville Liggett and Myers Lorillard Mexican Petroleum Missouri Kansas and Texas New York Central N H N H Hartford Northern Fed Penania Reading Air Line and Air Line pfd.
A fire at 157 North Franklin street damaged John D. Palmers home of unknown origin. Fire crews also fought a second blaze at 105 South Hamilton street owned by Frank Henley, with 107 Hamilton street and 32 Camp street sustaining minor blast from sparks. No injuries reported.
The British steamship Blonde reported an attack by a German aeroplane in the North Sea. A crew member was killed as the bomber dropped a bomb on her deck while arriving at port.
An optimistic tone promotes Dr. King's New Discovery as effective against colds and coughs. The ad urges readers to believe in the medicine’s ability to reach the throat, kill germs, and aid natural healing, encouraging today’s purchase.
W S Noble, secretary of the Land League of Texas, told the federal industrial relations commission that two north Texas tenant families were so destitute they offered to give their children away. He brought L T Steward, another farmer, as a witness. Steward and his wife were with six of their eight children, some barefoot and with frostbite sores on their feet.
Shippers should guard against 24 degree conditions for 36 hour northbound shipments and 34 degree conditions east and west. The Tombigbee river area shows little change with a slight fall at Demopolis. Alabama remains mostly stable. A cold high pressure area dominates the west, with freezing temperatures reaching central Texas and light frosts on the east Gulf coast. A low pressure zone off the mid Atlantic coast brings light snow to Tennessee and precipitation to the south Atlantic states. Cape Hatteras records 32 mph winds as Mobile expects fair weather tonight and Thursday.
Rev. Father Kennedy, previously pastor of St. Margaret's Bayou la Batre, is appointed pastor of St. Catherine's Crichton and will celebrate his first Mass there on Palm Sunday. He is known to local residents from his earlier connection with St. Vincent's church.
Naval Stores report from Savannah shows turpentine firm with 42c receipts and 63 casks, rosin firm with 1,089 barrels. Quotes list various grades and prices such as B 2903.05 and several grades from BE to WW with prices from 3.10 to 6.60.
City brief notes list April or May visit by Field Secretary John Sadler of the National Housing Association to Mobile for a housing lecture per the chamber of commerce. Several local incidents are reported, including collisions, arrests, jurors drawn, license issuances, fines, robberies, and a burn related train delay.
Edward Shriner clerk for John Nion at 5 South Conception Street was arrested Tuesday night by Detectives Newbern and Harris on permitting minors to play pool. Chief Crenshaw notes a complaint that minors were admitted to the pool hall.
A horse and light wagon owned by William Abrams ran away on Dauphin street at 11 50 am striking a water pipe at St Emanuel street. The pipe burst but the wagon and horse were uninjured. An unknown negro girl was slightly hurt by the horse as she passed on Dauphin street.
Eight hundred forty acres seven miles west of Mobile County Alabama available for farming and stock raising with a fine running stream. Whole price 11.50 per acre. Tracts from 40 acres to 10 000 acres at 4.00 per acre. Address President Ala Land and Deav So 409 N Royal St Mobile Alabama Bell Phone 57 J.
Nelson Campbell arrestee, a Negro, convicted of stealing a cow from Alex Mann of Whistler and remanded to the county jail. Christine Williams alias Josephine Williams convicted of burglarizing A Vacalis home and storing a gold watch. William Astor acquitted on abusive language. Thursday docket includes William Smith and Francis Blackledge for burglary and grand larceny.
A county jubilee and state Sunday school convention will meet Thursday at 7 30 PM in the Government Street Presbyterian Church Sunday school room. The gathering will review the year’s county efforts and arrange a large delegation to the Dothan Alabama convention April 6 to 9. Mobile county aims to lead in Sunday school efficiency and plans ample music and speeches.
Eddie Williams, arraigned in the inferior criminal court, was fined 101 dollars or five months and twenty days hard labor for assaulting and cutting his wife. Warrant sworn by David Robinson who witnessed the incident. Clara Williams charged with vagrancy received 101 dollars or fifty days hard labor. Bill Ruley fined 2 dollars in gaming cases and remanded for sentence. Charley Harte Richard Brown Emanuel McGowin fined 1 dollar each and remanded. Virginia Davis and John Davis fined 5 dollars or ten days in jail for abusive language.
The Kelly Bros. general store in Whistler was burglarized after midnight Tuesday night. Groceries shoes and other articles valued at $150 were taken. Sheriff Holcombe and Deputies Lynch and Delchamps investigated finding entry via a shed to the second story.
Washington reports Great Britain has modified rules to allow cotton shipments where sale contracts or freight engagements were made before March 2. Ships must request permission by March 31. The change lets Americans fulfill pre war contracts while Allies halted shipments to Germany.
W. H. Morgan of Flomaton Escambia county called at the police station on Wednesday and identified four hides found by police in possession of George Taylor a negro. Morgan says the hides were from steers that disappeared from his place about ten days ago.
Twenty racing cars started at 11 o'clock in Venice California for a 300 mile contest around the New Ocean Shore speedway. The event was billed as the St Patrick's Day grand prix with several drivers who raced in the recent grand prix and Vanderbilt cup events in San Francisco among the entrants.
W. S. Royal offers new and modern store at 2 N Government street with large windows. No. 62 Dauphin street is a three story brick building to be improved for a good tenant. No. 6 Dauphin street is a two story brick building suitable for store or warehouse. No. 211 St. Michael street features a large garage with cement floor usable as warehouse. Attractive prices to desirable tenants.
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