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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1916
Page
3
French troops attacked the Verdun front and seized German trenches along a 1000 metre front with 500 to 600 metres of depth taking 100 prisoners. Artillery activity persisted west of the Meuse from Avecourt to Dead Man's hill despite night operations. Venizelos supporters push for Greece to enter the war.
Fred E. Hunt of Seneca Falls New York says Chamberlain's Tablets for stomach and liver gave him the best medicine he ever used. Obtainable everywhere.
Anonymous letters threaten Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, Britain’s ambassador in Washington, asking he treat Sir Roger Casement as a prisoner of war. Similar threats have arrived in New York amid Allied troop arrivals and rising tensions. A Saloniki dispatch notes a large Liberal rally urging Greece to back Venizelos and join Serbia’s side, cheering France and England and denouncing Germany Austria and Bulgaria.
Athens reports northern Epirus placed under Greek civil administration with districts Komitz a and Argiro Kastro established. Komitza lies in northwestern Greece near lands won after the Balkan war while Argiro Kastro sits in southern Albania near the Greek border. Entente allies monitor Greek moves amid Italian territorial interests along the Adriatic coast. Deputies from Epirus were admitted to the Greek parliament months ago.
Mrs J W Veach of Thomasville North Carolina writes that after years of bed confinement and severe pain Cardui restored her strength and appetite. She weighed 94 pounds at her worst and saved her life according to the testimonial. The letter endorses Cardui and urges readers to try it, sold by all druggists.
Saratoga Springs N Y May 2 The proposal to reunite the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church South is approved in the episcopal address of the bishops at the Methodist general conference Bishop John W Hamilton of Boston reads the address The bishops favor organic union while protecting minority rights and sharing common faith and experience
Bishops laud denominational work among African Americans in the South and praise the Laymen's Missionary Society while denouncing child labor Mormon growth repeal of Sabbath laws and liquor traffic. The assembly endorses church union and discusses episcopal supervision reforms and election of a new secretary, with Edwin Locke narrowly falling short.
The city commission in regular session ordered tungsten lights installed at intersections St. Francis and Warren Ann and Gyons Catherine and Luling and Virginia and Dearborn streets. Mayor Pat J. Lyons offered the resolution. The commission retired paving bonds totaling $9,500 and appropriated $6,700 to pay interest on paving and sewer bonds.
Johnnie Stroud ten years old ran away from the Industrial School and Gardens in December 1915 and has not been located. Chief Van Liew received a letter from Attorney B Frank Yee of Birmingham with the appeal for information. Stroud is the son of G E Stroud of Birmingham. He was sent to the school in this city.
Twenty five thousand applications for tickets to the Republican national convention in Chicago on June 7 have been received. Not more than ten thousand will be granted, with preference to fund subscribers. An early applicant is Indiana seeking 1900 seats through the Fairbank Reception Committee.
The Mobile Ship Chandlery Company changed ownership at a Tuesday board meeting with Captain Newbury and associates taking control. Elected officers include T. C. Thomson as president, Captain J. T. Newbury as vice president and general manager, and Frank Casper Sr. as secretary. Directors named were T. B. Thomson, George H. ee, Captain I. T. Newbury, Captain G. Murphy and Frank Casper Sr.
Information from Mobile says the American schooner Henry Crosby bound for the Barbadoes with case oil reached Pensacola damaged after a severe squall. Gaffs torn and sails split. captain Murphy sails in with jury rig. mate Elmer Newbury, son of I T Newbury, is aboard and rose rapidly to deck hand then mate.
Willie Collins was arraigned before Recorder Edington Tuesday morning for violating the prohibition law and fined 50 days in jail or a 50 dollar fine, choosing jail. Jerry Neely faced the same charge and paid a 650 dollar fine.
Lola Trax of Baltimore will be the chief speaker at Mobile Equal Suffrage Association’s annual celebration tonight in Lyons Park at 8. She will discuss "The Other Citizen." The event is open to the public, invited by president Mrs. Martin Holbrook.
O C Walcott superintendent of the Boys Detention School of Mobile is appointed a delegate to the national convention of Charities and Corrections in Indianapolis May 10 17. He will visit Louisville Cleveland Chicago Buffalo Elmira New York and spend a week in New York with the Probation Society studying juvenile court methods. He will be accompanied by Mrs Wolcott and plans to be away about four weeks.
In Thompson Connecticut on May 2 George A Pettis a farmer and his daughter Sybil were shot dead in their home. Deputy sheriffs and a posse search for John Elliott charged with the shooting. The motive is believed to be the daughter's rejection of his attentions.
Elijah Jones of Tyson Alabama and Arthur Rudolph of Fort Deposit Alabama were killed aboard southbound L N train No 5 after noon Monday during a general fight. Pullman Sims a Black man was wounded and arrested in Mobile charged with murder. This marks a second shooting among L N section hands on a train.
Mrs. A. L. Luckie of West Rochester New York credits Chamberlain's Tablets with curing her sick headache by correcting a disordered stomach. The testimonial notes she began use three years ago and soon returned to full health. Obtainable everywhere.
In London on May 2 the House of Commons was to consider a motion calling for the removal of Augustine Birrell, the Ireland secretary. Prime Minister Asquith spoke of an upcoming opportunity and said the option between Ireland and was now virtually normal amid mounting political trouble.
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