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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1916
Page
3
About 7 000 Baltimore residents from all classes paraded through the streets in support of national preparedness. Chicago plans a preparedness parade for June 3, per organizers.
A Mobile resident, Miss Josie M Kopf, credits Doan's Kidney Pills with curing long standing kidney and back pain after two years of suffering. She reports improved kidney secretions and appetite and states she has been free from kidney trouble for over two years. The advertisement urges readers to ask for Doan's Kidney Pills at 50 cents.
J B Dicker son of Brookhaven Mississippi describes severe tetter on hands and feet with itching burning and sores. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment for two months his hands and feet were perfectly healed. July 8 1915.
At the Cedar Rapids convention, Robert Healy of Webster County urged Roosevelt for president over Senator Albert B. Cummins. Healy called Roosevelt the greatest man in the world, provoking protests as he was forced to retire amid yells and hisses.
A decision to invite mayors of other cities to elevate the day nationally followed preparedness parades in New York and Baltimore. An appeal for national preparedness day was drafted and sent by telegraph to twenty-five of the largest U.S. cities beyond New York and Baltimore.
The Volunteer Life Saving Corps of Mobile will host a moonlight bay ride and dance on Friday night June 2 to raise funds for establishing saving stations along the eastern shore. The steamer Charles E. Cessna is chartered. departure is 8 pm from the foot of Dauphin street and return by 11 pm with special music and eager support from friends.
Mr. Henry Piaggio, a lumber exporter from Gulfport, visited Mobile on Wednesday. He plans a schooner at Orange Texas but says Mobile firms could not bid due to insufficient facilities, hindering local construction.
Burial of James Kaver held from Thomas Kaver home and Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception with service by Rev. E C Gerow. Elizabeth J Smith died in Theodore Mobile county after visiting her son J J Smith. body sent to Bluffton Indiana for burial. Funeral of Mrs Sarah E Locke conducted at 204 St Michael street by Rev S P Spiegel with burial in Magnolia cemetery.
Anuric is promoted as a uric acid eliminator from Dr. Pierce's Invalids' Hotel Buffalo NY. The ad claims Americans suffer kidney trouble from rich foods and uric acid buildup. It touts Anuric as 37 times more potent than lithia, offers trial 10 cents and full treatment $1, and cites Dr. Pierce's long-standing medical reputation.
Birmingham May 18. General George P. Harrison of Alabama was elected commander in chief as the twenty sixth reunion closed. Washington won the next reunion city over Tulsa and Memphis. The Birmingham plan to care for veterans reduced accidents and illness with cots in downtown buildings and the fair grounds camp where more than 4 500 men were housed.
Permission granted to extend from Middleton to Jackson Tennessee with 40 mile track. Judge Toulmin authorized Receiver Owen to proceed. Extension links Mobile with eastern and western lines, promising 5 000 to 10 000 dollars revenue per mile and costing about 1 225 000 dollars.
Successful and defeated candidates filed second expense reports after the May 9 Mobile county primaries. Dr N T Madler spent 192.50 to run for coroner, Lex Smith 271.96 for circuit court clerk nomination, Norvelle Leigh 652.10 total, and Judge Berney 206.15 for circuit judge. Others spent little or nothing.
Seventeen members of the Older Boys' Conference perform in a minstrel show at Harte Auditorium tonight, starting promptly at 7 o'clock, featuring Mobile's amateur talent in a lively campus event. Local business figures including F H Farwell arrive in Mobile on lumber export and shipping business.
Nick Starvo who runs a restaurant on South Water Street and helps with taxi cabs was fined $50 and costs of twenty days for violating the prohibition law by Acting Judge Harry Kohn. He appealed. Also Albert Shepperd pleaded guilty and was fined $50 and costs of twenty days.
The Pythian Castle Hall Association held its annual meeting Wednesday night and declared the directorate elected. Names withheld as the full list had not qualified. The election of officers will occur on the third Wednesday in June.
Nashville reporters state Democratic convention renominated Tom C. Rye and B. A. Enloe for commissioner, with West Tennessee backing Woodrow Wilson and the party endorsing prohibition law enforcement measures.
Orlando, May 18. Reports of permanent committees to be submitted to the general assembly show progress across departments. Home and foreign missions note gains, Sunday school extension expands, and education and ministerial relief advance. Nearly 22 percent of 523 candidates received aid, and more than 47,000 dollars went to aid 75 aged ministers, 144 widows, and 21 orphans.
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