Splendid position offers in distant city prompt question
A distant city offer promises a splendid position but requires money to relocate. An at home investment with a good position is proposed, inviting consideration of the available advantage.
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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1912
Page
2
Ballot Boxes Prepared for Tuesday Election
County officials led by Sheriff Palmer Judge Williams Jr and Clerk Smith completed ballot box preparation for the November general election. The compact official ballot will be smaller than in prior years. precinct delivery is slated for Saturday afternoon and city delivery Monday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palmer
Price Williams, Jr
S. Hi. Smith
Circuit Court
Walnut Ridge Tragedy: Merchant Kills Sister Then Commits Suicide
Marcus Collier, a prominent Walnut Ridge merchant, shot and killed his sister Mrs. A L Poe during a fit of temporary insanity. He allegedly wounded his wife and then killed himself, all occurring early today in Walnut Ridge Arkansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walnut Ridge
Ark
Marcus Collier
A. L. Poe
Tag Day Journal 70 to Be Published in Mobile
Mrs J B Waterman announces Tag Day Journal publication with tag selling and a Made in Mobile parade. Chaperones named include Mrs J Hammer Mrs Erwin Craig head and many others. entries for the automobile parade due by November 10.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Waterman
Boys’ Club
J. Hammer
Erwin Craighead
Joseph Tucker
L. 8. Dunlap
Miss Fonde
Hannah Lyons
W. T. McGowith
T. K. Jackson
C. A. Mohr
Gleason
James Weinacker
Edward M. Robinson
Richard Spencer
Rivers Rush
Shawhan
John Shearer
L. H. Putnam
Charles Hervey
W. D. Doughty
Menry Hall
James Hunter
M. J. McDermott
Henry Aldridge
C. H. Allen
Stanley Finch
Lena Ainspaugh
G. M. Luce
Fe.j. Gower
T. H. Halliwell
Philip Muscat
Wilson Day Celebration Promised by Mobile Democrats
ECV reports Wilson Day events in Mobile led by President A G Quinn of the Wilson Marshall club. A sealed message from Governor Wilson will be opened at 7 30 PM at German Relief Hall. The program includes a reader to break the seal, a brass band, fireworks, and promises a large turnout of prominent Democrats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Jis
A. G. Quinn
Wilson-Marshall Club of
Quinn
Wilson
German Relief Hall
Annual election of officers postponed by alliance
The annual election of officers for Mobile Branch German American Alliance was postponed to the regular meeting on the last Thursday in November due to low attendance as many members were at Halloween parties. Secretary F A Brunnier notes the small turnout was the cause of the delay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Hallowe'en Party At Mrs Moore's Home
At 106 Dexter avenue Mrs Anna W Moore hosted a children party for Erna and Hamp ton Moore featuring apple dipping and a candy pull. Guests included Charles Delage Lionel Clinton Alfred Yeend Ernest Hedges Charles L Cosminsky C O Shaw Jed Denmark Elsie Wrightson Ruby Wrightson Ruth Shaw Doris Tuttle Mary Virginia Wolfe Pearl Denmark Myrtle Harris Lottie Harris Louis Harris Edwin Warley Charles Smith Ardelle Smith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hallowe'en
Anna W. Moore
Dexter Avenue
Mrs. Moore
Erna
Hampton
Moore
Charles Delage
Lionel Clinton
Alfred Yeend
Ernest Hedges
C. 0. Shaw
Jed Denmark
Elsie Wrightson
Ruby Wrightson
Ruth Shaw
Doris Tuttle
Mary Virginia
Wolfe
Pearl Denmark
Myrtle Harris
Lottie Harris
Louis Harris
Edwin Warley
Charles Smith
Ardelle Smith
WILL INVESTIGATE EXPLOSION AT MINE
Governor ONeal orders thorough probe into August 13 Abernant mine disaster in Tuscaloosa county that killed eighteen. Solicitor Ormond to lead inquiry after Nesbit report faulted mine foremen for possible criminal neglect. Tuscaloosa grand jury convened. case expected to be presented.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
O'Neal
M. T. Ormond
Tuscaloosa
Abernant Mine
Tuscaloosa County
C. H. Nesbit
Ormond
Old Mexico Will Close Tonight
The Pain company’s spectacular display "Old Mexico 1847" ends tonight at Monroe Park baseball grounds Mobile. It began 8:30 p m with reduced prices for school children and will move to Jacksonville Fla tomorrow morning as attendance has fallen short of expectations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile of Pain
Monroe Park
Jacksonville
Fla
Mobile
Gulf Coast
Mrs. J. Montgomery Found Dead In Tennessee Smoke-house
The body of Mrs. J. Montgomery was found dangling from a rope in a smoke-house near her Madisonville home. Authorities say financial worries likely caused the self-destructive act. her wealthy husband died about a year earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knoxville
Tenn
Madisonville
Jacob's Liver Salt advertised as a health tonic
In a breezy 19th century style medical advertisement the text argues constipation arises from clogged liver waste and touts Jacobs' Liver Salt as a gentler, more effective laxative that dissolves uric acid, cleanses the stomach and intestines, and avoids the nausea of calomel. Also promotes Bucklen's Arnica Salve for burns and skin issues as a trusted remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacobs’ Pharmacy
Atlanta
van Antwerp
Drus Corp., Inc
Halloween Mischief Under Darkness Spurs Night Observance
Darkness aided youthful revelry as lights failed last night. No serious arrests reported. bands of celebrants roamed neighborhoods with ghostly noises and white bedclothes. F O C masquerade ball at German Relief Hall noted. Catholic churches scheduled services for All Saints Day and All Souls Day observances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
All-Hallows
Germany denies Chilean Bremen coast station claim
Berlin reports the foreign office denies a Punta Arenas Chile report that the cruiser Bremen is surveying the Magellan straits to acquire a German coast station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Punta Arenas
Chile
Bremen
Magellan
Germany
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H. MW. Freidenthal Maupaint
Hoffman’s Big Bargain House
Shoe Department
Son Patent Colt
Button
Blaehers
Goodyear Welt
Button and Blucher
D&a
Alabama
TAG Day Journal
ECV
Fatima Cigarettes
Old Mexico
L. H. Meyer & Sons
Kuppenheimer
Dauphin ST
Darkness
Eade
E. Fougera & Co., Inc
Chichester
Liles
P. P
F. V. Lippman
Savannah, GA
Mobile Gas Co
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