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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1914
Page
4
Mobile Fair Association directors report strong funds for the Interstate Exposition. Pledges exceed $70,000 with over $100,000 expected before opening. A Tuesday May 12 meeting at the Chamber of Commerce will select directors and form management for the fair to begin active work.
President Wilson approved a joint resolution designating tomorrow as Mothers Day and issued a proclamation urging flag display on public buildings and at homes and suitable places nationwide.
The week ending May 8 reports marriage licenses for Frederick Ehle and Mary Flowers. Robert Clay and Tillie Smith. Owen James and Nellie Amos. Robert Barry and Annie Bones. Barney Horton and Mary Bunch. Robert McLean and Mamie Persica. Arba Burrows and Lillian Blackman. Hubert Worthern and Agnes Crane. Births include Ed and Kate Holling. Walter and Ruth Moore. James and Louise Baker. William and Margaret Gromka. Andrew and Mary Cefalu. Emile and Idell Pages. Samuel and Elizabeth Farmer. J G and Alice Henry. E S and H F Slaten. O H and Edna Kyle. with both boys and girls listed. Deaths include Santos Rubira. Samuel Chavers. Edward Couch. James Collins. Marcus Harris Jr.. Hilda Holberg. Mary Gladden Minge. Mary Foster Rayfield. A patented circular fabric to fit around a man's neck catching hair during barbering is noted.
Prof M Metz leads the growing Mobile High School commercial department as prizes spark full student effort in penmanship bookkeeping stenography and typewriting. Local benefactors McDermott Van Antwerp and others fund cash rewards while Remington and Zaner promote medals certificates and recognition. Plans for expansion include banking offices transportation and new practical courses with outside lecturers.
Rev A Lichtenstein of St Louis Baptist missions in the South will preach at 11 a m Sunday at Government Street Presbyterian Church on The Church Obligation to Israel. An 8 p m sermon at Oakdale Baptist Church titled The Prophecy Is Fulfilled in Jesus. He has been in Mobile a week engaging locals in his work.
Three voluntary petitions in bankruptcy were filed in the U S district court Saturday morning. All three parties are wage earners and were adjudged bankrupts. Hearing set for May 26 before referee R T Ervin. Filers include Charles H Cook Mobile with liabilities 1035 and no assets Julius Rosen Mobile with liabilities 635 and no assets and J E Wright Prichard with liabilities 180 and no assets.
Laura Kingston questions the limits of female conduct from modesty to modern speed in a reflective essay on duty, aging, and the lasting disagreement over right and wrong in a world of evolving social norms and lifestyle clashes. The piece contrasts vegetarian and meat eater, teetotaler and devotee divides across history.
New York May 9 A French bulldog owned by Baroness Karl Czernig von Czernusen wears a nose ring with a ruby on its gold setting aboard the Kaiser Franz Josef I. Other aristocrats and American women travel with the party, including Miss Alice Morgan and Miss Apgar, while customs debates spark indignation among travelers and observers.
Patent attorneys Davis and Davis report several Alabama patents issued to residents. Names include Mark W Johnson Jr Birmingham drying air for blast furnaces Zadock McVay Double Springs acetylene gas generator Hamling Tatum Elba railway switch Frederick Tschudy Birmingham preventing disposition of carbon in reversing furnaces B and H Medicine Brewton malarial fever remedy William F Babr Fowl River self cleaning rake James Burns Excel door-holder S Emery Birmingham safety device for electric cars Joseph T Moncrief Birmingham coupenetins commercial essence of engine G Stapel Montgomery see pot air furnace and hot water see Etey Mobile gasoline Alexander Biller Mobile foldable.
Hillery Herbert Holmes of Montgomery Hill spoke to Montgomery Hill voters in Fairhope at the organic school meeting last Friday night. He answered critics and demonstrated knowledge of issues likely to come before the legislature. In the first primary he led by more than 700 votes over the nearest opponent, and friends expect his election Monday.
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