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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1915
Page
9
Funeral notice announces the death of John G. Hensch on Tuesday March 23 1915 at 2 05 PM in his sixty eighth year. The family requests friends attend from 409 Spring Hill Avenue tomorrow Thursday morning at 10 o'clock with burial in Magnolia Cemetery.
An advertisement asserts that taking one Dr. King's New Life Pill at night cures constipation by morning. It promises improved digestion and appetite, urging readers to try the pill tonight.
Liquor firms outside Alabama that ship to Alabama consumers have filed a bill in equity court seeking mandatory injunctions against the Southern Express Company. They claim the Bonner anti liquor shipping law oversteps interstate commerce, following Judge Gaston Gunter's ruling that the law is unconstitutional.
John C. Hensch aged 67 a German native and longtime Mobile tailor died Monday at 2 05 pm at 409 Spring Hill avenue after a long illness He came to Mobile as a youth and lived there forty one years Survived by two sons John C Hensch Jr and Claude Hensch a daughter Mrs M Worthington and other relatives He belonged to the German Relief Association Gesang Verein Frohsinn Knights of Pythias and Odd Fellows He was a member of the German Lutheran church Services will be at his residence Thursday at 10 oclock with Magnolia cemetery interment
Funeral held Tuesday at 2 pm for Mrs. Theresa Brodie Kearney from the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception conducted by Rev Father Gerow. Large attendance. remains interred in Catholic cemetery. pallbearers named Namara Crotty Fister Fister Yniestra Bobe.
Post office inspectors in Mobile report spikes in vandalism against government and private mailboxes. Penalties include fines up to 1000 dollars or up to three years in prison. Inspectors vow strict enforcement and vigilance, noting inspectors wear no distinguishing marks.
President E. J. Buck announced that all of the proposed increase in capital stock for City Bank and Trust Company has been subscribed. The bank will become a regional bank with capital of 750,009 dollars and a surplus of 375,000 dollars after April 5, following regulatory approval and final adjustments by the comptroller of the currency.
Mobile officials arrange an exhibition at Monroe Park Friday at 3 pm between the Gulls and the Cincinnati Nationals. Manager Herzog headlines a strong Reds lineup with Killifer Wingo Griffith Groh Olson Mallowitz Clark Dooin Douglas Schneider Ames and Benton among pitchers and position players.
Three sailing ships bound for European ports remain at anchor in the lower bay awaiting favorable winds. The E. H. G. Dow left last week, the Gypsum Empress and the British bark Athena, both laden with lumber, are also at anchor per fort reports Wednesday morning.
The notice urges prompt care for coughing and colds to avoid serious illness. It promotes Dr King's New Discovery as a remedy, claiming early use clears the head, eases breathing, and restores vitality, urging readers to buy a bottle today.
The note lists U S port receipts and exports to Great Britain and the continent. It includes figures for stock on hand and cumulative port receipts since August 1, with amounts like 181198 and 2195, 71532, 493370, 3906182.
New Orleans spot cotton remained steady at mid dling 8.50 while sales totaled 1 526 bales for arrival 2 725. Cotton closed firmer with a net advance of 14 to 15 points. March 8.65 870 8.70 8.81 May 8.00 9.02 8.87 9.01 July 9.6 9 12 9.27 October 9.... 9.65 December 9.71 9.84 9.67 9.82
New York spot cotton described as quiet with middling uplands trading as sales reached 100 bales. Prices closed firm with figures showing July, October and December futures near 9.60 to 10.19, while bid offers and ranges appeared in the session.
Liverpool notices firm prices for good middling 5.74 and middling 5.38 with low middling 5.00. Sales reach 19 000 bales for speculation and export, receipts 1 500 bales and 300 bales. Futures quiet with May-June at 5.29 and 1/2, June-July 5.34 1/2.
Market closes with mixed gains and losses across major names led by peak readings in American Tobacco and Texas Co. while United States Steel and American Beet Sugar post varied results. Investors track railroad and utility shares as Atlantic Coast Line and Chesapeake & Ohio show modest moves.
Turpentine firm sales at 42 cents and receipts of 52 casks. Rowe firm shows 423 barrels received. Quotations listed as D through M with varying grades and prices from 2.90 to 6.55 per barrel, including WG and ww categories.
G. J. Leach of Bastrop Texas, identified as district circulating manager for the Atlantic Circulating Company, was arrested by order of Chief F. W. Crenshaw on a long charge and is held for investigation. Police say he is wanted in Mandeville Louisiana as part of a sweep on canvassers from other cities believed to have swindled hundreds of Mobilians.
Bubber Chafin and Ernest Wilson were found guilty of the murder of former Sheriff J. M. Renshaw, shot from ambush last fall. The Hopkinsville Kentucky special notes Renshaw as a prominent stockman and Republican politician in western Kentucky. They received life imprisonment.
Miss Ruby Waddle daughter of William KB Waddle was knocked down by a street car at Spring Hill avenue and Indiana avenue Tuesday night. She was bruised about the body and aided home by two witnesses after the motorman stopped the car to avert a worse accident.
Philie Brown faced Judge Chamberlain for abusive language and paid a 2.50 fine or ten days in jail. Saille Windham received a 5 fine or ten days. Sam Kennedy was fined 1 or ten days for assaulting Viola Williams. Sam McCoe was jailed for thirty days on petite larceny after Alvis Hearin testified he stole a bundle of clothes.
Leon Alexander, a Black man, was arrested Wednesday noon on a petit larceny charge after snatching a bag of chewing tobacco from the Mobile Grocery Company. Officers New and Bressingham pursued and captured him with the goods.
Indianapolis March 24 Mayor Dean M. Roberts and three others were jailed for alleged witness tampering in the Terre Haute election case. Roberts was ordered into US marshal custody with an additional $5 000 bond to answer corrupting government witnesses charges. Judge Anderson noted evidence showing efforts to influence witnesses and that court attendants observed signaling to witnesses.
Chicago report on desertion shows large women with steady work desertion rates low. Italians have the lowest desertion rate while American born women have the highest. Unemployment drives over seventy percent of desertions. Commissioner Mrs Leonora Meder notes that many children help marital permanence.
For about half an hour the British cargo steamer Teal was attacked off the Dutch coast by a German aeroplane. The aircraft dropped bombs arrows and a small machine gun, causing only a deck hole and no further damage.
Arthur Walker was convicted of assault and battery. Forgery in the second degree against Alex Battles is reset for March 29. Harold E. West case for miscegenation reset for April 6. The Thursday call includes W. J. Bennett grand larceny Haig Pritchard gaming table Jesse Scarbrough arson. Tuesday afternoon dismissals include John Williams Mack burglary. Harry and Charles Paul disorderly conduct. Other resets set: Samuel Pouncey April 6 Catherine Valenzo April 9.
Humane Officer J. S. W Ducourneau rushed to the Quick Repair Shoe Shop on Govern ment Street after learn ing a papier mache Easter rabbit was placed with a rattlesnake in the window. He ordered the snake removed for lack of a license to keep a menagerie.
Firemen answered alarm box 414 at 10 16 a m to a one story residence of J F Hogan 69 Dexter avenue with slight damage from sparks. About noon they were called to 655 St Michael street a one story frame dwelling of B Moog occupied by I Moog with slight damage from sparks.
United States Marshal C. C. Gewin sold 165 logs and one bag of copal at public outcry in front of the federal building at noon Wednesday. J. D. Cameron & Son purchased the items for $205 to satisfy a maritime admiralty judgment for Seeberg Steamship Line, Inc. for $5,000.
In Selene district court Judge Toulmin heard the United States v John W Carney and Fred Carney of Choctaw county for illicit distilling. A large number of witnesses were examined and arguments were in progress at press time.
Lille Angers refused to testify against Sylvester Durving in the inferior criminal court Wednesday during his arraignment on a statutory charge. The court assessed a fine of 10 dollars and costs against Angers and dismissed Durving.
Petrograd says Germans have removed most heavy batteries from before Ossowetz. Russian report notes abandoned 42 centimeter howitzers after initial clashes. Austrian attack near Rapitza involved 12 inch howitzers, twenty enemy battalions, but Russian infantry repelled them with measured fire.
Re Q Norton led Mobile Equal Suffrage Association at Cawthon Hotel on Women and Taxation. Norton argued taxation without representation is a form of disenfranchisement. The group created a second vice president post and set monthly meetings for the first Tuesday. Plans for the play Your Girl and Mine at Crown Theatre in April were near completion with 25 percent of away-ticket receipts to the association.
Fred Seymour Alfred Seymour Louis Walker Jim Lee and Harry Hayes faced city court on grand larceny charges after stock raiser Phillip McDuffie testified a heifer was stolen. Bail set at 500 dollars. three co defendants already jailed on related larceny charges. Jim Lee Henry OCain and Lonnie Gorman were discharged. another grand larceny count against Hayes dismissed.
Edward Sullivan alias Price W. Smith Wavely Taylor and Louis Dixon are indicted in five cow theft cases and will face city court on Friday. Phinney Smith the brother is accused of bribing a witness. Each defendant seeks severance, requiring fifteen hearings.
Mat Brown arraigned in the inferior criminal court on Tuesday and fined 101 dollars plus five months hard labor for malicious mischief after entering a vacant Prichard house owned by E. I. Bixler and burning window sashes mantles and other parts. Ever Graham and Fred Nixon were fined 10 dollars and costs or ten days in jail for unlawful train riding.
Murford Holland aged three years and four months died at his parents home in Vinegar Bend Alabama after a four week illness. Interment was held Wednesday morning at 10 o clock at Pleasant Hill and local residents expressed sympathy to the bereaved family.
Dodson's Liver Tone is advertised as a safe vegetable alternative to calomel for bilious symptoms. The notice claims it cleanses the bowels, stimulates digestion, and will not salivate, with a 50 cent guarantee and family friendly tasting formula.
Representative C A Gra announces joint Finance and Legislature committee hearings beginning March 29 at the Mobile Chamber of Commerce to hear taxpayers on state revenue and taxation. A second session of March 31 and April 1 at the Mobile courthouse invites lawyers judges and others to submit views to improve court efficiency and reduce costs.
The funeral of Sister Sarah Chapman, a deaconess of the Episcopal Church Home, was held at St. Johns Church at 4 PM. Bishop C. M. Beckwith conducted the service with honorary pallbearers from four city churches. Mains were sent to Montgomery for interment Thursday morning.
A product advertises Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound as a natural home tonic to darken gray hair and stop dandruff. It claims hair becomes glossy after one or two applications and suggests dampening a sponge to apply strand by strand.
Notice is given that under the mortgage from Abe and Sallie V. Rogers to James T. Peterson of Mobile Alabama the property in Mobile County will be sold at public outcry at the Mobile County Courthouse front door on Thursday April 1 1916 at 12 o'clock noon. The described parcel begins 280 feet east of the northeast corner of Chestnut and Cleveland streets and runs 50 feet along Chestnut then 116 feet northward, the east half of the property once conveyed by Ober & Anderson to Susan Walker and later by Susan Walker to Nancy H Forbes. James T. Peterson mortgagee. Harry H. Smith attorney.
Notice by administrator for estate of Alfred Waldauer deceased. Letters of administration granted March 1915 by H Price Williams Judge of Mobile County Court. Claims must be presented within legal time or be barred. Mena Waldauer Administratrix Clarke Brown and Howard Attys 3310-17-28
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