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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1914
Page
8
Wille Davis aged 21 residing at 606 South Scott Street, a printer employed by Gill Printing Company, was found dead by his mother from a bottle of deadly fluid. An investigation noted deranged mind and heavy breathing. witnesses recalled no other explanation for the act.
Bandits led by Manuel Gutierrez raided the Madera Company property at Pearson Chihuahua seizing merchandise from company stores. The attack followed the murder of Oscar Allen an American watchman at the American Company store and the removal of Villa insurgent guards from the lumber town.
In a London dispatch today the Duke of Devonshire denied reports that he sold his Chatsworth library. The claim from New York that Henry E. Huntington purchased it for 1.7 million dollars was unfounded.
A fragment suggests advice on feeding nerves with rich blood to prevent nervous conditions, implying poor nourishment leads to nervousness and neuralgia. The text includes garbled remnants of names or terms, reflecting incomplete OCR from a historical health column.
The article notes widespread Southern prosperity through public improvements. In 1913 and early 1914, more than 11 million dollars in bonds were issued for roads, electric plants, waterworks, schools, drainage, and bridges across 200 Southern points, with many counties and towns planning further projects and bonds.
New York March 18 Independent tobacco dealers allege the Metropolitan Tobacco Company violated the Sherman act by restraining trade. H Snowden Marshall and several company representatives met to discuss the matter after last week’s decision by Attorney General McReynolds to prepare a suit against the Metropolitan for discriminating against independents as the distributing agent for the former trust.
Fifty of seventy unemployed New Yorkers arrived in Fonda seeking work on upstate farms as part of Governor Glynn’s program. Only twenty accepted offers. the rest depend on locals for shelter and food. Workers demanded higher pay while farmers offered low wages for inexperienced labor. A tailor willing to farm for 50 dollars a month failed to find work.
Jacob Maas, a New Orleans commission merchant, says a woman held in New York with her son after a suicide attempt appears to be his divorced wife Florence Miller and their stepson Samuel J. Miller. He notes she is daughter of late jeweler S. M. Miller and had previously married him, then Levy, then Maas from whom she was divorced in 1910.
Savannah High School students who walked out for St Patrick's Day parade were reinstated today without punishment. Leaders said they left classrooms due to strains of Wearing of the Green, and Principal B F Pickett accepted the explanation as satisfactory.
A Radford, Virginia resident states he was run down with poor appetite and insomnia until taking Vinol. One bottle brought improvement, and continued use restored health, ended nervousness, improved sleep, and restored appetite. He endorses Vinol for others with similar symptoms.
Three of four alleged yeggmen held in Montgomery were positively identified by railroad and express company agents as the robbers of the Alabama Great Southern train near Bibbville in December. Federal warrants will be sworn, and the men will be taken to Birmingham after habeas corpus matters are settled.
New York march 18 news reports dissension among the jobless as several leaders accuse grafters of diverting funds for food and shelter. Three leaders fled claiming fear for their safety while unemployed women are being organized by the Industrial Workers of the World for outdoor meetings tonight.
Mrs. David Moor of Saginaw Alabama praises Dr. King's New Discovery for curing her husband coughs lasting fifteen years and her son eight years. The testimonial touts its effectiveness and urges every home to have a bottle for persistent hacking coughs.
The steamer City of Sydney ran on Sambro rocks twenty five miles east of Halifax in dense fog while en route from New York. The bow is broken from the jagged edge and the ship remains wedged with water near the decks. No rescue is expected. Captain McDonald stated fog hid the course.
Lafayette Young editor and publisher of the Des Moines Register and former U S senator is in Mobile for a few days after from Biloxi where he spent weeks of winter. He is recovering from pneumonia and notes Biloxi Ocean Springs climate helped his health. He praises Mobile and predicts the Gulf City will become a leading gulf coast city.
Instructors John L. Sweeney and Lewis R. Morgan have received orders from Adjutant-General Scully for a month's work of instruction in the State Military establishment at Montgomery. The item notes the deployment and purpose of the visit by the two sergeant instructors.
The Inter borough Association of Women Teachers in New York voted to sanction the tango to stay current. Miss Grace Strachan, president, praised modern dances noting the decline of older styles as polka and schottische faded.
Mrs. Lina Lindrot wife of a wealthy Los Angeles resident committed suicide by poison in an apartment house. The act occurred yesterday in the presence of Kirt Larsen a Los Angeles business man after a quarrel. Lin drot formerly Miss Lina Mason of Memphis Tennessee.
A satisfactory preparation darkens gray hair and treats dandruff and scalp diseases. Dissolve a small box of Barbo Compound in 7 ounces water, add 1 ounce bay rum and 1/4 ounce glycerine. Apply weekly until darkened, then every two weeks to keep hair soft and glossy.
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