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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1913
Page
12
The district council of the United Garment Workers of America voted to call out 10 000 workers if Wholesale Clothiers' Association members oppose unionizing. The action follows a factory walkout by four hundred men. 14 000 workers in closed shops remain unaffected.
Professor Walter Sargent told the Western Drawing and Manual Training Association that American women chase European dress styles, driving up living costs. He urged an American bureau of design and a national committee of artists to establish an American fashion standard.
Old Standard tonic claims to remove nervous mood and low spirits. It supposedly arouses the liver and drives out malaria while building up the system. It is described as an nourish or appetize aid to digestion.
The General Missionary Board of the Methodist Church South votes to open a Congo mission in uncharted territory. Three missionaries J A Stockwell D L Mumpower and Co C Bush are named. About 21000 dollars raised for equipment and overall mission appropriations reach 354000 with funds for China Japan Korea Cuba and Mexico projects. A local kidney health testimonial follows.
Sheriff Bennett of Dooly County died from bullets fired by Oscar Blow during an arrest attempt in Vienna Georgia. Blow shot Bennett and was killed by the sheriff after Bennett was wounded. Blow had earlier killed neighbor P Sangster in a pistol duel over a long standing quarrel.
Special from Montgomery shows M. B. Wellborn of Anniston rising as a potential governor candidate. He is a sturdy business leader, president of the First National Bank of Anniston, and a respected financier. He briefly served as president of the state convict board after James G. Oakley’s removal, holding the post two weeks before Hartwell Douglass took over.
A bond was provided Thursday afternoon by the owners of the British barkentine Skoda after Deputy U S Marshall J H Gates seized the vessel Wednesday following a libel filed by the Union Marine Insurance Company.
A German military spherical balloon named Cassiopeia, which rose from Koenigsberg on Wednesday, is missing with its passengers. It was last sighted near Pillau twenty five miles away, drifting through the Frische Nehrung peninsula amid a storm.
An advertisement touts Calocide compound as the fastest cure for corns calluses bunions and aching feet. Soak feet in two tablespoons dissolved in warm water for fifteen minutes to peel corns and relieve soreness. A 25 cent box is claimed to cure the worst feet and is available from druggists.
In Pramingham Massachusetts Helen M age 18 died after taking rat poison to end a life of poverty. She said she supported herself since 14, recently working at a Dennison Manufacturing paper box and crepe paper factory earning five dollars a week.
Walter H. Page and sixteen English peace delegates attend a dinner where the American ambassador jokes about publishers dying off to reduce clutter. He quips that as a reader he cannot read all magazines and wishes for a painless end to magazines.
A family doctor notes women seek help for female trouble but improve when kidneys and bladder are treated. Foley's Kidney Pills are recommended as the best and safest medicine for backache, fatigue, aching joints, irregular kidney and bladder action, and nervousness. Van Antwerp Drug Corporation.
Fifty year Civil War era case settled in New York City. Charles L. Appleby sued the city for property damage from a mob attack. He sought 7300 dollars and accrued interest. final settlement netted 4739 dollars after decades of legal wrangling and numerous aging witnesses.
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