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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1916
Page
3
In New York on May 22 the Democratic campaign plan takes shape. Former Governor Glynn, temporary chairman at St. Louis, prepares his keynote and will submit it to President Wilson. The platform follows Missouri lines with added planks and centers on peace and prosperity as the main features.
A column warns that neglecting health harms women later and that constant work and worry harm a mother and helper. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is promoted as the ideal aid to build up the female body and combat ailments, with letters from readers supporting the claim.
Mr I E Cobram of Alexis Alabama praises Granger Liver Regulator, saying it has helped cars and families without complaints. The ad touts its safety, pleasant taste, soothing action, and sturdy tin packaging with a 25 cent can as a reliable first aid remedy for stomach and liver issues.
A masked man boarded a west bound Texas and Pacific mail car near Gra Cane Louisiana after 10 pm and forced two postal clerks to cover mail sacks. He rifled several registered mail pouches, leaped from the train, and escaped before Keithville. Posses pursued. value of stolen mail not estimated.
The administration seeks labor backing for the currency bill while stressing nation’s role in aiding workers. The president reiterates the Monroe doctrine and highlights government work to improve trade relations with South and Central America and Central America.
The eighty sixth general assembly at Birmingham endorses federal prohibition via a committee report. It urges voting on the constitutional amendment when submitted to the people. The body notes state measures progress, cites liquor campaigns, condemns a tonic, and debates whether to keep or drop the Presbyterian name.
In the city court on Monday the panel of special jurors was chosen for the Dorsey Tannehill robbery case scheduled for Thursday. The list includes Solomon Ward Joseph Mc Gowin William Demony Jesse Freeland Thomas Pond Phillip Mask William Lee John Morillo William Schultz Vincent Bride Ben Toomer George Threefoot Herman Wefel Ira Pringle Warren Christian Leo Lilly John Eggers Wilber Cato Frank Ulmer Robert Weinacker Jeremy Jouillian Harris Clark Paul Marsh John Fox Eugene Dolive.
Dr. Pierce announces a remedy named Anuric as the best uric acid solvent. The tonic tablet is promoted to ease scalding urine backache and gout symptoms by aiding kidney function, with a hot water premeal routine and a 50 cent price point.
Berlin reports the federal council has authorized the chancellor to form a new board to control all food stocks and related materials. The president will regulate imports and prices, issue directives to state authorities in urgent cases, and oversee animal fodder. Adolph Tortilowitz von Batocki is named board president.
Clemens Del brueck who resigned as interior minister for health has been decorated by the emperor with the order of the Black Eagle. A field HQ letter from William expresses thanks for devotion and loyalty in war and peace and wishes for recovery and welfare.
Kingsbury and Hotchkiss, both named in indictments, pleaded not guilty in Kings County court. Each posted $1,000 bail as the men face charges tied to tapping telephone lines used by Reverend William K. Farrell priest Dr. D. C. Potter and a third witness. Maximum punishment for tapping wires is two years.
City actions show a one hour traffic study on Dauphin street from Jackson to St. Emanuel defeated by Mayor Lyons and Commissioner Schwarz. Schwarz amendment to ban parking on the west side of Conception Street from Conti to St. Michael was adopted with Lyons added provisos. Traffic committee backed Lyons amendment. Spring Hill avenue debris plan filed. Home Ice Company building deemed a nuisance but the tank kept water and mosquitoes guarded.
Reports describe damage from a storm near Mississippis Earlville and Agricola with nine injured and widespread destruction. Timber losses loom from Lucedale to Georgetown if portable mills are not used, while wire lines to Oak Grove and Georgetown remain difficult and no serious injuries reported.
The Tijd reports Dutch Consul at Dinant Belgium W. R. Van Rijckervorsel condemned by Germany to ten years hard labor. Efforts to reduce the sentence have failed. Charges against Consul Rijckervorsel have not been disclosed in dispatches reaching the Netherlands.
At a special board of enquiry meeting Monday afternoon Carl Jacobson a Swede and Jose Fernandez Rodriguez and Antonio Garcia Spaniards stowaways on the Norwegian steamer Karen from Havana were admitted to the United States. They were offered jobs on the Karen and will sail with her when she leaves late this afternoon. Jacobson will remain in Mobile. The men hid in the hold living on pineapples until near Mobile and then came on deck seeking food and work.
The American schooner Oscar G purchased by Mexican parties from Russel Thompson will be fitted with powerful engines and placed in the Mobile to Mexican trade. Captain Jack Hunter says the auxiliary schooner will run on a regular Mobile to Mexico schedule. The vessel was rebuilt at Ollinger Bruce dry docks, sold to Mexican parties, and previously chartered to carry lumber to Cardenas, Cuba.
Antiseptic powder shaken in shoes or foot bath relieves corns bunions and tired aching feet. Over 100000 packages used by German and Allied troops at the front. Sold everywhere for 2 cents with warning not to accept substitutes.
Buenos Aires May 23 The census of 1914 published today fixes Argentina Republic population at 7 883 287. The 1895 census put the population at 3 954 911.
The Reverend Mr McGehee left town this morning to attend his son's graduation at the Gulfport Military Academy and will return by noon tomorrow.
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