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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1914
Page
5
Ask your druggist about Dodson's Liver Tone a pleasant tasting vegetable liquid remedy for constipation and lazy liver. It guarantees harmless effects and offers a money back guarantee if not pleased large bottle 50 cents.
Vera Cruz May 1 Brigadier General Funston splits the city into districts with regimental provosts for minor crimes and a provost commission for serious cases. The treasury shows 360,000 pesos in government funds and stamps. Ascarraga’s 40,000 pesos plus 320,000 pesos in stamps. Navy lieutenant Foster retires as police chief. Major Sigerfoos succeeds him. Kerr plans to reestablish a Mexican-led police force. city remains quiet.
Fort Smith Arkansas May 1 1914 baseball clubs from Arkansas Oklahoma and Missouri began the Western Association season with opening games including Joplin at Fort Smith Muskogee at Tulsa and McAlester at Oklahoma City parades and holidays marked the start of the schedule.
Vera Cruz falls to American forces under Funston and a refugee and business crowd weighs the future. Some favor continued American civil government and protection of stability, others fear factions may prevent lasting peace without broad occupation.
Henry C. Fitzgerald an American who lived abroad a decade shot himself in the head at the Charing Cross hotel in London and died shortly after admission to hospital. His rank of major is listed as unknown and unclear.
Mobile police seek 24 year old G M Jordan for abducting Venitia Bowen of Chattanooga. Bowen, 21, 5 feet, 110 pounds, fair with black hair. Description notes fair complexion and red hair for the suspect. Also mentions May Day event at Daphne State Normal School with travel details.
Tony Brudges, a miner, was arrested in Westville on suspicion of involvement in the death of Rev Louis Patmount of Milwaukee whose mutilated body was found on railroad tracks in Danville Illinois. Detectives say Brudges was hired to shadow the minister during the local option campaign.
A man waits for another who holds a ticket indicating a watch is in hock. The scene centers on a pawned timepiece and the two men seeking its return.
Washington May 1 Today marks the sixteenth anniversary of the Battle of Manila Bay. Admiral George Dewey hero of Manila Bay and president of the Society of Manila Bay will host a dinner at his home for society members tonight. The group honors those who participated in the famous battle.
Leo Stutz of Alabama was listed as a passenger aboard the steamship Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm of the North German Lloyd Line departing Europe on Thursday, April 3.
May 1 Veracruz refugees from Puerto Mexico and Minatitlan oil fields transfer from Dictator and Hancock to Monterey. Dictator carried 43 men from Minatitlan. transports Sumner C Meade and Kilpatrick, bringing Funston and his Fifth Brigade, sail at daybreak for Galveston.
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