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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1913
Page
2
An old style ad promoting a bust development treatment from Madame Mozelle Co. It claims rapid, safe enhancement of the bust without creams or internal compounds. Addresses in Denver, Colorado, urge secrecy and quick perceptible results for women seeking a fuller figure.
Local Forecaster Albert Ashenberger announced that Mobile's Easter cold wave would move farther north. Residents rejoiced as temperatures avoided 36 degrees, prompting forgiveness for the weather man and expectation of a fair and cooler Saturday night followed by a warmer Easter Sunday.
Mobile music circles show strong interest in two recital nights by Lucia Lacosta and associate artistes under the King's Daughters and the National Society for Broader Education. The program at Knights of Columbus Hall Monday features At Daybreak. Smith's music house Tuesday hosts Dreams. Recitals begin at 1:30 PM. Cash in day at Weinacker's on Wed March 26. For price lists call 2229 or Home 806.
An 83 year old boy George Peters on Augusta and Franklin streets dies after a construction car passes the trolley line. A trolley pole slips freeing a heavy timber that strikes him on the forehead crushing the skull and breaking a leg. Witnesses reported the accident and he died within an hour.
The Mobile chamber traffic committee will compare rail rates from Mobile to a 150 mile radius with those from New Orleans Meridian Montgomery Selma and other centers. Traffic Manager Cobb says after review the rates will be sent to railroads to seek parity and improve Mobile shipping rights. Merchants and manufacturers are urged to submit complaints on higher Mobile rates limiting sales in the territory.
The Dreamland Theatre is sold to the Daisy Amusement Company led by Julius Weinbrecht G G Card and William B Waddle. It becomes The Savoy offering first class motion pictures at modest prices with Waddle directing operations.
A Jamaican woman named Alice Maud Durand is detained by federal immigration officials on grounds of unlawful presence in the United States. Immigration Inspectors Stretton and Worden encountered her after she entered a post office asking questions about a person. The health of the woman was noted during the investigation.
The report describes Dr. Friedmann performing injections on several patients including children with lupus and tubercular glands, a two year old with facial lesions, and adults with kidney tuberculosis. He notes successful techniques such as jugular injections and predicts improvements in multiple cases.
A physician treating patients at a private hospital plans to return to his country within a fortnight of his arrival abroad. Tomorrow night, Dr. Friedmann, his brother and Dr. Benjamin, will be guests of banker Charles.
Finley at Great Neck invites clans to a Friedmann dinner with a $1,000,000 offer for cure of Rex Lee Paris, son-in-law of the host. Paris lies critically ill in a sanitarium at Saranac Lake as the dinner is set to discuss his treatment tomorrow night.
Brooklyn team under Captain Jake Daubert trained in Hampton Ter race near Augusta and at Warren Park in the same day marking their first good baseball weather since arrival. If pleasant weather holds, the two games with Newark at Savannah next Friday and Saturday should find the squad in first class shape. Cash bargain day at Weinacker's on Wednesday March 26. price lists available by Bell 2229 or Home 306.
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