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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1914
Page
8
Frances Smith aged 16 died while trying to rescue her 9-year-old companion Mary Kerlee on a Clarksville trestle. Both fled as a train approached. Frances fell attempting to free Marys trapped foot and was struck by the locomotive, killed instantly. Mary Kerlee suffered severe injuries.
Iowa woman credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with relieving symptoms of menopause and allowing her to keep working. She states the remedy helped with hot flashes headaches back aches and anxiety and notes it surpassed other medicines. The testimonial mentions seeking guidance from Lydia Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
Ty Cobb climbs from 38th to 13th in American League batting with .307 average after last Wednesday's game. Joe Jackson leads at .414 with Wood .412 and Crawford .408. Philadelphia tops club batting at .259 with Cleveland at .250. Turner of Cleveland leads steals with 11. National League leaders include Art Phelan and Sears Becker at .500. Federal League batting leader Simon at .470. Kirby and Kinsley feature in near top ranks as multiple leagues show shifting averages.
On May 9 at the Atlanta baseball park a flag day ceremony raised the pennant Atlanta won as Southern Association champions. Birmingham players participated in the exercises before the game with Atlanta. Manager Smith set the local battery as Dent and Dunn and the visitors as Robinson and Troprogressor for a 3:30 start.
In New Orleans on May 9 the Chattanooga Lookouts played the Pelicans on Louisiana soil for the first time this season. Sline and Street were listed as the battery with Wilson chosen as the pitcher for New Orleans and Higgins in the receiving role. Weather was clear and cool as 3:45 PM start was scheduled.
Montgomery in Montgomery Alabama hosts the opening series of the season this afternoon at 3 45. Manager Gilks announces the Montgomery battery will be Black and Donahue. No battery announcement was made for the visitors.
The Cumberland Sanitarium advertises an unconditional guarantee with no payment until a satisfactory cure is achieved. It claims to manage withdrawal symptoms and nervous symptoms, offering home treatment for those unable to visit, with references from local banks and citizens of Lebanon, Tennessee.
Stanislaus Zbyszko the Pole and Yussif Hassane the Dallas Turk prepared after light workouts for a decisive match in Louisville, to determine who will challenge retirement winner Frank Gotch. Both wrestlers recent Oklahoma bout lasted two hours forty five minutes with no falls, signaling a closely matched contest. Zbyszko weighs 240 pounds and Hassane 190.
At least ten three year olds, possibly twelve, are set to race at Churchill Downs in the forty second annual Kentucky Derby. Heavy rain left a muddy track and horsemen say the Donerail record of 2 04 5 for the mile and a quarter will not be broken today.
Auburn won 9 to 2 over Cumberland University in a slow game. Louisell of Tech, a Mobile student, had two hits including a three bagger, Harris hit a home run, Prendergrast threw out a runner at the plate, and Hunter of Cumberland collected three safeties in four at bats.
Southern University defeated the Marion Institute on the local campus before the largest crowd of the season. The decisive game featured eight Marion errors that enabled Southern to score across runs. Locke Chapman Norwood and McFadden starred defensively for Southern University.
In Salitpa near Jackson Alabama a thirteen year old boy Willie Ray Guy, son of Postmaster Eugene Guy, was robbed by a suspected Black assailant with brass knuckles while returning from a party. Armed citizens captured the suspect. the boy lies in serious but not dangerous condition. A posse searches for the attacker as the boy hopes to identify him.
A trustee sale is set for May 19 1914 at noon on the Mobile County Courthouse front step. The City Bank and Trust Company as Trustee will offer for cash the North Mobile Development Company parcels in multiple blocks and lots in North Mobile Alabama, per the 1913 deed of trust to secure bonds.
Effective Sunday May 10 the Alabama Tennessee and Northern Railroad will run through passenger service between Calvert and Reform Alabama. Mobile travelers can depart via Southern Railway and connect with the A G 8 at York Alabama arriving in Birmingham by 6 PM. The service extends to Reform with connections to Mobile and Ohio trains and returns via Reform to York connecting with A G 8 No 11 to Meridian by 11 AM. The train also serves Cullum Springs and Healing Springs for visitors from Mobile Meridian Birmingham Tuscaloosa and Demopolis.
The text catalogs numerous inclusive lots across blocks sixty four to one hundred Behaat F One, naming ranges like one to sixteen inclusive in multiple blocks and various subranges in others, with scattered lone lots and repeated patterns. It reads as a real estate plat summary or subdivision lot inventory.
Washington May 9 Secretary Daniels announced a full investigation refutes charges that tensions between Lieutenant Commander Charles P. Huff and J. P. Keisecker of Newport News Shipbuilding were linked to official relations with the shipyard. The court martial sentence for Huff’s assault on Keisecker was reduced from five to three numbers in grade reflecting his past record. Huff had struck Keisecker months earlier after a quarrel at a dance. trial counsel argued duty conduct on the Texas project fueled the dispute.
William Siler is sentenced to twenty one years in the penitentiary for the killing of his sister in law Mrs Gil Siler at the family farm near Mountain Home Arkansas last January. The shooting occurred as she left a chicken house after spending the night barricaded with Siler relatives. Her husband and two brothers-in law await trial as accessories.
Jackson Mississippi May 9 The Southern inter collegiate mile relay record was broken here yesterday by the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College team in the Mississippi Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association meet. The A M team Scott Elliott Gaddy and Pepper ran the mile in 3 35 flat. The former record was set by Vanderbilt University at the New Orleans meet last year.
The University of Georgia defeated the Georgia School of Technology 4 to 1 in Athens yesterday. The teams meet again today as Eubanks and Witherington led the Bulldogs while Hitchcock and Torbett contributed for Tech.
A testimonial from Sam F. Gunn of Whatley Alabama praises Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy after severe illness from rain exposure and measles. The ad notes the product is for sale by all dealers.
The document describes inclusive blocks and lots numbered 147 to 154 and blocks A and B with portions excluded by railroad right of way. Names E. C. Meredith Jr, trust officer, and attorneys Poks & Crawford appear as signatories.
Chicago manager Henry O Day protested the May 9 game won by Pittsburg 7 to 1. He objects to umpire Kiem calling Mollwitz out for interference after being hit by a thrown ball and says the three foot rule was not explained to Chicago captain Thomas Leach.
The Telegraph urges the American Polo Association to accept a rule standard like the 1910 Eton challenge withdrawal. It argues a formal agreement sharing one quarter of gate receipts would prevent repeats of past fiascos and foster an annual international rubber.
University of Mississippi won the undisputed state championship by defeating Millsaps College 5 to 3 in Jackson. The Ole Miss lineup posted five runs on ten hits while Millsaps managed three runs with a similar tally of hits.
C S Morris of the Olympic Club, Beeson’s team mate, filed a protest against Beeson’s world record high jump after Beeson allegedly touched the crossbar at 1 75 16 inches during the Pacific Athletic Association conference meet in Berkeley last Saturday.
An Ohio woman, Jennie Flemming of New Dover, touts Dr King’s New Discovery as curing a cough three years old. The ad urges readers with stubborn coughs to buy a 50c bottle, promising relief or money back, and mentions Bucklen’s Arnica Salve for pimples.
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