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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1913
Page
24
Charles C. Moore president of the Panama Pacific Exposition congratulates Alabama’s new commission and urges selecting a site at Frisco promptly. He calls for plans and instructions, asking the governor to accompany the commissioners to Frisco.
In Kansas City on November 1 V P Thomas R. Marshall said high rank Masons in the United States were asked to appeal to Huerta and to Henry Lane Wilson to spare Francisco Madero's life. He disclosed he received such a telegram and regretted not making the appeal as a thirty third degree Mason.
The Lawson-Gardner Musical Comedy Company opens at Dreamland Theater Monday matinee in All in a Fog. Miss May Lawson stars with a strong company and the Blue Ribbon Chorus. The troupe is praised for costumes and clever dancing in a humorous tabloid of song and comedy.
Probate judges and mayors appoint delegates from counties and cities to the Alabama Good Roads Association meeting in Mobile in November 2022. Lists from Lee Tuscaloosa Randolph Chilton Coosa Colbert and Colbert counties name dozens of delegates. many accepts come in and visitors look forward to Mobile attendance.
London society enjoys a lively week as many American weddings draw notable guests from the country and promise a bright season. Duchesses and dukes host shooting parties, fashion trips to Paris are planned, and families like Floors Castle, Cassiobury Park, and Crandos House figure in social schedules.
President John Craft of the Alabama Good Roads Association is invited to speak at the Baldwin County Fair in Bay Minette during the week of November 3.
The October report shows $1,739.30 collected from fines and $600 from bonds. It notes 485 total arrests with 248 white and 257 colored prisoners, and 154 discharged. Black men arrested 186 and black women 62. white men 240 and white women 8 were arrested with multiple discharges listed.
The executive committee of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and Children will meet Monday at 3 30 PM in the Alabama Oyster Commission office at the courthouse.
Pressure grows for an inquest into Charles Gates's death after reports that he collapsed following wine. Witnesses say he was not drinking heavily and that a drug given by his physician may have contributed. Authorities ruled death natural despite public doubt about possible poisoning.
The regular meeting of the Junior Auxiliary of Christ Church will be held at the Chapter House on Sunday November 2 at 3 30 p m All members especially those unable to attend weekday meetings are urged to attend.
A historical remark warns that if inmates toiled as hard for pardons as for wages, jails would empty. The quote highlights scarce incentives shaping prison labor and clemency.
Those who can't wear cheap shoes and can't spare the price for good ones should come to Harry's Shoe I buy high grade shoes in job lots for men, idles and children and sell them for fess than wholesale, price. A trial is all I ask. We also do a specialty Shoe. Repairing at low prices. 60 GOVERNMENT STREET Mobile, Ala.
New York reports reveal ongoing matrimonial struggles of Captain Albert W. Lilienthal U.S. Army. Florence Herzog, his first wife, sues for 6500 dollars claimed for son Albert W. Lilienthal Jr. born 190? alleging monthly support of 30 dollars since April 22, 1902. Herzog, once Florence Ellwanger of Rochester, obtained a 1903 West Virginia divorce. Lilienthal lived in Yonkers before military service abroad and later married Frances Bridge in Hong Kong on March 19, 1913.
A newspaper item notes how acts of kindness surround a person who loses a job, with peers saying they resigned rather than were terminated. The story highlights compassionate reactions and public support during unemployment.
Pearley Lang and Mamie Davis, two Negro women, were arrested Saturday by Detective Levine Bauer and held as dangerous and suspicious characters. They allegedly attempted to take a ladies coat from Reiss Mercantile Company without paying, with the coat held at police headquarters as evidence.
The annual meeting of stockholders was held at the Cawthon Hotel yesterday. Officers reported a satisfactory business condition across hotel properties. Directors elected: Charles B. Hervey, George H. Hervey, Frank A. Hervey, RL. Douglass, B. J. Gower, J. N. McAleer, Ralph Richard, and B. W. Robinson. A subsequent directors meeting followed.
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