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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1914
Page
27
A traveler narrates a dreamlike welcome by a hospitable people who honor a stranger with gifts and elaborate rituals. They offer flowers, essences, wine, and service, while a special shaded chamber awaits guests from over seas. The speaker longs for that ideal hospitality to become real.
Mrs. E. Henry Harriman plans an Indian paintings and scriptures display by Mrs. E. W. Deming and Josephine Osborne at 1 East Sixty-ninth Street starting May 4 for two weeks. The collection features Hudson River Indian life, ceremonial works, and Deming sculptures connected to the American Museum of Natural History.
In New York on May 2 affidavits claim Ulysses S. Cestro influenced his aged aunt Mrs. Rosalie Cestro to leave him most of her estate worth over 100000. Surrogate Cohalan orders Cestro to show cause May 19 why the will should not be set aside amid fraud allegations supported by sister Mrs. Emilie Tauber and Baltimore brother Cleveland Forbes Dunderdale.
A German engineer devised a technique to blast away earth for wide building foundations. The process creates a hole that allows soft concrete to quickly fill in, forming the base for large structures.
Growers shipping about 2,000,000 boxes of cut flowers annually find they stay fresh longer if kept in cold storage for a day or two before shipping.
A speaker laments uncertain rewards for hard work and urges that merit be paired with character. He contrasts ambitious youths with those discouraged by unseen gains, citing examples of effort leading to real progress and warning against vanity in efficiency.
A dense directory listing Mobile Alabama firms across categories from acetylene lighting and coal to confectionery clothing hardware and real estate. Entries include company names street addresses phone numbers and key locations such as 68 St Francis 713 Dauphin 228 Spring Hill and Government streets. The list covers manufacturers retailers services including cleaners hatters jewelers printers and insurance firms with multiple contacts and Bell phone numbers.
Listings show Dukes Garage on St Michael Street with contact Bell 71. Automobiles French and Kohorn on North Royal Street Bell 2032, Home 2032. Central Auto Company on St Michael Street Bell 2518, Home 710. Biloch Brothers at 5 Water Street Bel 264, Home 3.
The fragment lists addresses and phone numbers for Adam Machinery Co and Adillas Motor Company in Bell with street numbers 113-115 N Royal and 107 Government Street, plus additional Bell lines and home numbers, indicating a partial local business directory entry.
The entry catalogs banks including The Bank of Mobile and First National Bank with branches on Royal and St. Michael streets plus others such as Home Union Savings Bank at 60 N. Royal, Peoples' Bank at 113 St. Francis, and City Bank & Trust Co. at 17 N. Royal. It notes bell numbers and home numbers for each listing.
Mm E and G Bowman beauty parlors listed at 8761 2 Dauphin street home 1379. Miss Florence Adams identified as manicurist at Cawthon Hotel Barber Shop.
Southern Business College located at 4171-2 Dauphin Street in Bell. Mobile Business College listed at 2111-2 Dauphin Street with Bell 1246, plus residence at Bell 2115.
W. M. Cherawett & Co. offers motorcycles at 656 Dauphin street with Bell 980. Bibby Bicycle Shop operates at 461 Dauphin street with Bell 994 and Home 1994 listed.
Local trades directory notes multiple barber shops including Cuff Barber Shop on N Royal Street and St Andrew Barber Shop at 12 N Royal Street. Also lists Odell Shaving Parlor on Conception Street and Tacasta Carriage Co at Bell 1606 with Home 239 N Royal Street. Carriage and wagon works appear at 374 N Royal Street Bell 1824.
Credit clothing stores including Graham-Rush Clothing Store at 267 Dauphin Street and Gregory-Williams Clothing Co at 416 Dauphin Street. Also Outfitting and Tailoring Co and Crockery Co listed with street addresses. Corsets by Emile Tacon at 208 St Francis Street.
L Hammel Dry Goods Co at 7 S Royal St Bell 3650 Home 320. C J Gayfer Co at 171 Dauphin St Bell 3240 Home 575. Yeend Potter Co at 224 Dauphin St Bell 1600 Home 1600. Reiss Mercantile Co at 157 Dauphin St Bell 2710 Home 376. Pitzgerald Co at 5 St Emanuel St Bell 356.
A fragmented notice references Union Painless Dentists on Dauphin Street over Level Best Shoe Store and other locations at T and T FT Wescent, with a figure £352 8s and a Beil address 132, indicating a property or business dispute or boundary query.
The notice lists addresses and contact points for John F. Lores at the northwest corner of Eslava and Conception, Bell 2192, plus Mobile Fish and Oyster Co. at 4 6 Conti Street, Bell 2582 and Nick's Fruit Place at 7 N Conception Street, Hell 76.
Evans Furniture Co. at 412 414 Dauphin Street with Home 1430 and Walker Furniture Co. at 250 Dauphin Street with Bell 1368 are listed as local furniture retailers.
Two street level business notices show Fredericks Dye Works at 308 Dauphin street with Bell 636 and home 1721 and French Dry Cleaning Co at 470 Dauphin street with Bell 1707 and same home 1721.
Directory style notice lists S. L. Evans Henry Myer W. T. Goubil and several grocery firms with street addresses and telephone or Bell numbers. Includes Zeman Grocery Co The Pike Grocery R. O. Harris Grocery Co Partridge-Mickle Grocery Crowley Marshall with respective street corners and home numbers.
Readable notes list two grain firms with addresses and contact phone style. Dixie Grain Company at Waterstreet Bell 102 and Home 524. Drago Grain Company at 111 N Commerce listing Heli $44 and Home 160.
An OCR fragment lists business locations in New Orleans including Hopper Harness Co at 205 N Royal, Battle House near St Francis and Royal, Bell 4100, Home luvy, Cawthon Hotel Bell 3061, Home 701, Klaskey's Hotel 106 Conti Street Bell 60s, Home 17.
A clustered directory lists F. E. Hall jeweler at 4 N Royal, Cartman watchmaker at 11 BL Emanuel, Willis & Percy at 266 Dauphin, Emil Kratt at 16 st Emanuel, J. W. Weber watchmaker at 568 Royal, Parker Bros at 111 Dauphin, and Mile Herpin at 213 Dauphin with Bell numbers 1388 to 2222.
Directory snippet shows American Laundry at 361 62 St. Louis street with Bell 465 and Home 86, and Troy Steam Laundry at 56 St. Emanuel Street with illegible details.
Local business entries show firms and addresses across St. Michael to Dauphin streets. Listings include Copeland & Sons, Clutter Piano Co, Luscher & Son Paint Co, Gustave Gass, Crescent Theater, Boyle Studio, Overton Studio and Renak Co with phone numbers and home connections.
Verona lumber firms include Verona Lumber Co and Crichton Lumber Co with phone listings. Moving and storage providers appear as Bickley Furniture Co and H S Walker Moving Co along with Quicker Co and Conti Street addresses and phone numbers.
An OCR fragment lists lenders with addresses on Government and Royal streets, including J. W. Olensky at 60 Government Street, Metropolitan Loan Company at 0 Government Street, and Bowen & Co at 91-92 St Emanuel Street. It also lists medical specialists Dr. J. T. Adams at 155 Dauphin Street and Dr. J. Brown at 210 1-2 Dauphin Street with phone numbers.
Local firm Mobile Roofing and Cornice Co at 68 60 62 S Water Street Bell supplies sheet metal roofing and cornice services for commercial and residential projects. Contact 2133 for estimates or service inquiries.
A fragmented list of shoe shops and repair services along Conti and Dauphin streets including Kloskey H Restaurant at 106 Conti and Boston Shoe Shop at 66 67 Conti with associated Bell home numbers. Also mentions Mobile Shoe Hospital at 653 Dau Phones 389 and M Baliweg and Verneville’s Shoe Shop at 2161 2cries ra ie Bell 2535 L.
Local classified fragment lists Bickley Furniture Co at 403 Phin Bell 1200 and Home 1366 with W. L. McGuire & Co offering items at $20 Phin Home 1746. Possible early 20th century ad noting phone numbers and addresses for used furniture dealers.
Thoss Sporting Goods Co located at 76 Dauphin Street Bell 2686 with home number 1181 appears in an internal directory. The listing provides street and phone-style identifiers for the business.
A fragmentary ledger-style listing shows several firms with Bell addresses and trade lines. Items include safes and fixtures by Winter Safe and Fixture Company at 64 N Royal Street, and businesses such as Corbett & McMahon and F C Turner & Co linked to Bell street corners.
A compact entry lists Mobile area shoe stores including Walk Over Shoe Store at 109 Dauphin street and Biggest Bargain Store at 219 Dauphin street. Also mentions Shoes Sample Shoe Store at 10 N Royal street and a Turkish baths facility Bienville Turkish Baths with Bienville Hotel Bell 2701 in the vicinity.
A string of tailor shops and businesses on Dauphin Street lists services and contact numbers. Names include London Woolen Mills Taliory Mason Mason Fry the Tailor Needalman American Ladies Tailors Schutz & Coan Cohn Henry Graeber Tip-Top Tailor and John W Hanlein with various street addresses and Bell phone numbers.
Directory snippet shows listings for Irvin Jackson sailor maker at 1188 Commerce Street Bell 3740, Mobile Trunk Company at 263 Dauphin Street Bell 1370 with home 3370, and Typewriter Sales Co. at 3 St Francia Street Bell 1586.
A fragmented OCR page lists multiple businesses with incomplete addresses and contact details. It names Cawthon Taxi Company, Cadillac Auto Accessories, Vulcan Tire Works, Reynolds Music House, Royal Liquor Store and Richard Distributing, among others, showing street names and vague phone or Bell numbers in a cluttered catalog of commercial entries.
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