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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1914
Page
9
A captive military balloon used by the military telegraph battalion at Zossen, twenty two miles south of Berlin, was struck by lightning and destroyed today with no casualties.
Walter S. Richardson, Henderson campaign vice chairman, denounces alleged Comer supporters misrepresenting votes for Captain Kolb. He cites former Probate Judge John B. Ward as falsely claiming Kolb support to influence voters. Richardson condemns the tactic as unfair and untruthful.
R Searcy of Greenville Alabama won the bid to build the state aid highway on the old Telegraph road. His $6630 bid was the lowest among bidders Perry Toulmin & Sons Strange and Bonner. The project covers three and a half miles of grading and surfacing from south of the Chackasabogue toward the city limits. A Pratt Consolidated Coal Company letter offering Mobile County convicts for coal mines was filed. the county uses prisoners on highways.
Belmont Tiffany, superintendent of the N. F. & 8. division of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, based at Sheffield, Ala, is in the city visiting as the guest of Assistant Superintendent John Bose of the New Orleans and Mobile division of the Louisville and Nashville.
The Young Men's Democratic Henderson Club holds the final ward rally Friday night on Warren and Bimba streets in the sixth ward. Fireworks and speeches are planned with a torchlight procession expected Saturday night.
An old advertisement touts Laxative Brom o Quinine cures a cold in one day. It urges seeking the full name BE. W. Grove signature and lists a 26 cent price.
The firm Barter & Bailey were the lowest bidders on Lyons Park pavilion construction on Hill Avenue and will begin work at once. Their bid was 1679 dollars. Other bids included M. H Jett Bros at 1918 dollars and P H terminations in a rally at Bienville Square.
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