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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1915
Page
2
A Mobile Infirmary Association appeal urges people to donate to "Pencil Day" by picking a pencil at any price from 4 cents upward. Dispensers spread across downtown, with all proceeds aiding the sick and the needy in Mobile.
An ad explains that thin people can gain weight by cutting out certain foods and using Sargol tablets. It claims 5 to 8 pounds of new fat in two weeks and 10 to 26 pounds per month, with guaranteed weight increase or money back, sold by Van Antwerp and other Mobile druggists.
Octavia Handworth stars in The Path Forbidden at the Royal Theatre Fun. This stirring feature film returns Handworth to local audiences with a strong supporting cast. Edwin August leads another showing Thursday at the Royal.
Official reports to the head office of the Alabama Tennessee and Northern railroad in Mobile indicate good rains in Washington County and light showers in Choctaw and Sumter counties. The weather remained unsettled with threats of more rain affecting territory near the railroad.
Records show 130 bales received by L and NORR Co and Magnolia Compress Co and others. Separate entries list baker Lyons & Co and Clarke-Davis Co with smaller lots. Transit shipments via Southern Railroad add 204 bales including a 200 bale transit total.
Thursday lawyers Lyons and Courtney for McGowin Lyons Hardware and Supply Co filed suit against Holt Lumber Co for 553.60 claimed as due on merchandise. The Seen Pressed Steel Hoe and Tool Co through Scot Francis J Inge filed suit against G Newman 30 Hill as tuatenidata.
Fruit trees in Dalhart Texas hung heavy with unripened fruit as snow covered the ground after an all night rain. The Panhandle town reported a thick snowfall during the early May day.
Kansas City and Chicago report show butter unchanged while eggs rise to 23 785 cases. potatoes higher with 23 cars received. Michigan and Wisconsin red eggs quoted at 35 38 cents and white at 35 42 cents.
May 6 dispatch from Vienna via London reports Italy increasing military readiness along the Austrian frontier. Carabineers and customs guards called to colors, leaves suppressed, passes fortified, Venice protected, anti aircraft guns deployed, and an additional army gathered near Brindisi signaling possible action in the Near East.
Seven Mobile post office workers will be laid off for eight days due to Congress not appropriating full payroll funds for 896 federal buildings nationwide. To cover the deficit, every custodian staff member will also be out eight days in May and June, per Boostmaster J Blocker Thornton. Overall, 4,400 employees across the country are affected.
The Official Gazette announces Gen Sir Henry Rundle, governor and commander in chief at Malta, appointed to command one of Great Britain's six armies. Haig and Smith-Lorrien lead two front armies. Hamilton leads Dardanelles unit. Hunter leads the first Kitchener army. Paget heads the Salisbury training center.
Washington May 6 The Royal Board of Trade announces that shipment of all war material across Swedish territory is forbidden and importation into Russia of war munitions from the northwest is now practically impossible as Archangel is ice bound.
Ambl er Pa May 6 Phillip Mercer Maloney a Philadelphia iron merchant and his wife were killed when their car stalled on a grade crossing near here and was struck by a Philadelphia and Reading train.
The report lists numerous guests and business visitors staying at the Windsor Bienville Battle House St Andrew and Cawthon hotels in Mobile on Thursday. Names include J A McCall DeFuniak Springs E E Nichols Citronelle Fila W Gallard Magnolia Springs and many others from Alabama Mississippi and Georgia.
Negotiations break off as two Japanese fleets head toward northern China. Japan verbally replies to the American note on China’s situation and assures the open door pledge. Ambassador Guthrie departs on leave, seen as accord on the issue.
The Daily News argues that Japan’s要求 on China surpass Austrian pressure on Serbia and warns against blaming China for the crisis. It states China acted peacefully within its rights and had no military means to threaten neighbors, stressing the alliance’s duty to protect an innocent nation’s independence.
Passenger Agent H C Geron of the Louisville and Nashville announced a Mobile to Pensacola excursion on May 17 for $2 round trip. Train departs Mobile at 1 30 pm and Pensacola returns at 9 am on May 19. Also notes: Receiver W F Owen and Traffic Manager O Dwyer leave for St Louis on official business. A man named J W Phillips was arrested for passing a streetcar while discharging passengers. On May 16 the federal building will auction seized items including 850 Havana cigars and perfume.
Jane Addams told a Dutch audience that women are reduced to mere producers for soldiers and that wars strain family life. She warned modern warfare mirrors tribal states where men defend the country but not the home.
A New York child murderer who killed Ele nore Cohn and Charlie Murray sent a letter to the Murr ay mother promising another murder after the child's death subsides. The note arrived as the Murray boy’s funeral approached, prompting police to fingerprint the suspect at headquarters. Investigators and distraught mothers surrounded the Murray home as detectives questioned a suspect who was later released.
William H. Jordan was buried Wednesday afternoon at 2 from his son Charles Jordan’s residence on Old Shell Road near Mobile Street. Rev. J. D. Wilks officiated. Interment followed at Wheelerville cemetery. Pallbearers were G. N. Newell J. H. Simmons Ellis Allen and Alfred Broadus.
Lucedale Mississippi May 6. The graduating exercises were held Tuesday night in the schoolhouse auditorium. The baccalaureate address was delivered by W. F. Bond of State Normal College at Hattiesburg. Salutation by Shelby McBay and valedictory by Anita Greene. Graduating class includes Celia Cook Anita Greene Victoria London and Shelby McBay.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals upheld Fort Worths jitney bus ordinance as constitutional. It ruled the $10 charged per operator is a license fee not an occupation tax, affecting all Texas cities enforcing jitney regulations.
Justice Andrews again warned the jury in the William Barnes libel suit against Theodore Roosevelt not to read newspapers after a conference with counsel. Roosevelt resumed the witness stand but was excused as counsel failed to push questions on Albany politics.
The Amery sailing ship Carolyn from Savannah to Rotterdam is discharging cotton at Leith. Part of the cargo was bought by the British government and the remainder is bound for a prize court on the claim it was destined for Germany.
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