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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1914
Page
7
The store touts the most practical lines of furniture in Mobile and backs the claim with twenty years of merchandising success. It highlights simple and dignified divided payments and offers to help thousands of customers with quality merchandise under the Monk guarantee.
W. R. Waller, once a Montgomery county sheriff nominee, filed for bankruptcy in federal court listing liabilities near 50 000 with 36 000 secured by mortgages. Unencumbered assets total about 2 500, while open claims reach 13 000. Major secured debts include 30 000 with Union Bank and Trust, 5 800 with First National Bank, and 400 with Walter Brothers.
Miss Melanie Petithory and Eunice Murray won first and second place in the bookkeeping prize contest held by the high school commercial department. They receive $15 and $10. The organizer, Mr. Andrew Van Antwerp, offered $50 as prizes and plans to match the amount next year.
Summer essentials list items like hammocks porch swings wire cots and army blankets offering shade rest and travel comfort for warm weather use. The jumbled fragment hints at outdoor leisure gear and practical gear for outdoor living.
In Hempstead New York on May 29 Rene Lamontagne led as No 1 J M Waterbury No 2 Devereaux Milburn No 3 and Lawrence Waterbury as back. The polo cup defenders defeated a team of John St Phipps Charles Cary Rumsey Foxhall Keene and Malcolm Stevenson by eleven to four.
Luther Humphries, chief of police, was found dead on a Jackson street in Mississippi. Police say heart failure likely caused the death. An arrest followed an hour later as Louella Stevens, a white woman, was charged with poisoning the officer.
At Leavenworth Kansas on Decoration Day a prison baseball event features a Kansas state penitentiary team against a United States prison team in the morning. In the afternoon the Brown Sox face the Twilight League Methodist nine with Donnie Claire, ex Western League player, on the Brown Sox, and A C Felt, ex banker and Nebraska State League president, umpiring both games.
Football officials from nearly all major Eastern colleges met in New York and unanimously supported Glenn Warner and his conduct of Carlisle Indian School athletics. The resolution stated athletics under Warner had been placed on a clean basis.
Governor O NeaI ordered prosecutors across Alabama to pursue all owners of autos and motorcycles who have not paid the 1914 license tax. After a conference with Secretary of State Cyrus Brown, lists of delinquent taxpayers were compiled for immediate action. those who pay now may avoid prosecution while the effort targets widespread tax evasion.
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