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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1913
Page
5
Invitations sent for a reception and dance in honor of delegates to the Southern Hardware Jobbers Association and the American Hardware Manufacturers Association during the convention week in Battle.
Warren returns from a failed day in London chasing business leads with delays and friction. He snaps at hotel service, complains about English baths and laundries, and plans to call Bodington at his home while Helen quietly manages the domestic strain. He journals a tense mood and mounting fatigue.
An event is scheduled in the house auditorium for Wednesday evening May 7 1913 at 8 30 o clock.
Notice to Mobile Chapter D A R members urging attendance at the Scottish Rite Cathedral on Monday May 12 at 3 30 p m for annual reports officer elections memorial hour and delegate report to the Continental Congress led by Chaplain Miss Metta Thompson Lucia Weaver Robbins secretary. J W Weiss death postpones Jewish Women Council meeting to next Tuesday at 3 30 at BNAI B Rith Hall.
Mrs. S. M. Landry chaired a Hamilton Whist Club gathering with Mrs. E. S. Lavretta as the sole substitute. Top scorers were Mrs. Landry and Mrs. Penrose Vass, each winning a deck of cards. Mrs. Gregory Luce will host next week.
The Daughters of the American Revolution announce a patriotic service and song recital next Sunday evening at Government Street Presbyterian Church. Rev. Dr. Carr will give the address and Edwin Lyles Taylor will preside at the organ during the musical program of patriotic selections. The Mobile Chapter D A R and city patriotic orders are urged to attend.
The Home Economics Club gathered this afternoon at the Battle House. Mrs William Yuille hosts the Y W A of the First Baptist Church at her Montauk avenue home at 4 pm. Miss Annie Wyndham visits her sister Mrs E E Hagler at North Port Alabama. Mrs Tarver leaves for Selma after visiting her parents on Hallett street. Dr Wyatt Brown leaves for Asheville via Tuscaloosa after resigning All Saints Church for Trinity Church. Frances Whiting's fifth birthday celebrated with a Georgia avenue party featuring pink decor and a treasure hunt.
J T Sossaman publisher of News Cornelius N C endorses Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as a universal skin remedy for burns bruises boils and inflammation. Describes soothing healing action and claims success after other remedies failed. Two cents and recommended by Van Antwers Drug Corp.
Ad copy extols Gold Dust as a vegetable oil soap in powder form that cleans beyond the surface, purging germs and hidden dirt. It claims to purify and sanitize, requiring little user effort and saving time labor and money.
Those born today will have lovable dispositions and can be educated to high good judgment and taste. They will gain friendships with leaders in many lands as their characters mature, while quarrels and legal tangles are warned against.
Warren secures a key contact, meets a top Englishman through a call to a phone booth contact, and plans a 10 30 tomorrow meeting. Helen, in a simple travel suit among lavish gowns, worries about the risk of rushing the plan and clashes with Warren over travel choices.
For the weak and nervous seek renewed energy and appetite with Electric Bitters, hailed as a home remedy for stomach liver and kidneys. Mrs O Rhinevault of Vestal Center New York praises it as a great gift, with bottles at 50 cents and 1.00, recommended by Van Antwerp Drug Corp.
Associated Press reports May 5 that General Tracy Aubert surrendered to Carranza insurgents at Lampasas near Laredo, Texas. Major Salvador Gomez of state forces delivered verification claiming Aubert and about 700 federal troops surrendered.
Jerome Probst an attorney from Detroit must pay $40,000 to Alma Broderick former Cleveland and Chicago teacher for breach of promise. The court of appeals affirmed the common pleas ruling that Probst breached a contract by turning over securities she alleged were worthless.
In Pittsburg Jacob Cold & Son faced a street accident involving a window cleaner. The firm attempted to appeal to the supreme court after a contractor's work caused a man to fall, but the court declined to review.
Colorado Supreme Court reverses Joseph Martinez murder conviction ruling that statements made in sleep are not voluntary confessions and cannot be used to convict. The case, based on testimony of the defendant's sleep utterance "Killed her," required retrial without such evidence.
In Montgomery Alabama on May 6 W W Mulder white man from Elmore County is held on forgery charges after a $266.22 check drawn on Exchange National Bank bore the signature of Jesse W Powell and was presented at noon. Powell contacted the bank and Mulder claimed he received the check from Will Russell who is also under arrest. Russell says Mulder asked him to cash it.
Redding, California May 6 Pietro Lessere wounded in leg and hand after a rifle battle with a sheriff’s posse as he escaped. He belonged to a gang of alleged blackhanders stopped from dynamiting a house where two women and eight children slept. They sought $10,000 from a lumber company under threat of further outrages.
Commissioner of Agriculture R F Kolb, a declared governor candidate, will open campaign headquarters in Montgomery and Birmingham in a few weeks and lead a vigorous state campaign. Walter Richardson, an attorney, likely runs the Montgomery office.
Washington May 6 After a 37 year legal battle Thomas A Edison and others lose their patent infringement suit against the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company and the Superintendent of Jay Gould in quadruplex telegraphy. The supreme court dismissed the Edison appeal affirming lower court jurisdiction was lacking.
An old advertisement claims Dr Porter’s Antiseptic Healing Oil cures coughs in one day. It promotes coughing relief by spraying or throat application with full directions inside each bottle, priced at 25 cents, 50 cents, or one dollar.
Joseph F. Costello, a longtime Boston Globe reporter, died aged 48 in Brain Tree Mass. He served as Cuba correspondent for the Boston Herald in 1899 and Havana representative for the Associated Press, later becoming secretary to an ecclesiastical board overseeing church lands.
In Montgomery Alabama May 6 the state supreme court overruled a rehearing application in a Morgan county case aimed at impeaching two jury commissioners on irregularities. The lower court had rendered impeachment judgment but the supreme court reversed and remanded the matter. Proceedings were filed by Samuel Blackwell of Decatur.
In Montgomery on May 6 Adjutant General J B Scully received notice of W P Newton's election as captain of Company L Fourth regiment East Lake succeeding Thomas B Lea who resigned Scully also reported the resignations of three lieutenants A A Carlson Montg omery Samuel J Yarbrough Monroeville and Raymond A New Anniston from the Fourth regiment
Mrs Sabie Williams of Elkhart Indiana says four months of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash eased fourteen years of inflammation male weakness pain and irregularities. She credits the remedies with restoring health and urges others to seek advice from the Pinkham laboratory in Lynn Massachusetts.
The notice promotes a noon to 2 30 lunch for businessmen, claiming fast short orders and top market fare. It offers DeBriere's Famous Java Coffee at 6 cents, touting it as the best in the city.
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