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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1916
Page
2
The Republican national committee reports over two million dollars raised by October 30. The filing shows 7,679 contributors, with major gifts from Cleveland Dudge of New York and J L Deheney of Chicago. Others include Thomas D Jones, B Jones, and Fred C Penfield among many.
Wetherbee was fined 10 dollars by Edington Friday for speeding on the big city streets. Stanley Sheiff received a 2 dollar fine for not having rear lights burning on his auto.
Wise Virginia resident Mrs J M Elam states she suffered for fourteen years with backache loss of appetite and nervous symptoms and after using Cardus felt improvement within days and weeks confident it may help others seeking relief.
Fragmentary OCR text advises drinking hot water before breakfast and contains unclear medical or dietary references. The piece mentions breath, corn, and an Ankh symbol with limestone, but lacks coherent factual detail or actionable guidance.
Via London on Nov 2 Joseph C Grew acting as chargé d affaires for the United States reports no formal instructions from Berlin on the sinking of the British steamship Marina and the Rowanmore off Cape Clear on Oct 28. Six of 52 Americans aboard the Marina are drowned. none of the Rowanmore Americans were lost.
United States Attorney General Thomas W. Gregory and former Judge Alton B. Parker defended President Wilson at a Democratic mass meeting in Oregon. Gregory contrasted Wilson's policy of negotiation with criticism aimed at Lincoln and Washington, praising Wilson's protection of ordinary citizens and American rights at home and abroad.
Henry G. Adams of Albany representing New York officials reached McAllen to oversee New York guardsmen voting. Four Iowa election commissioners arrived Brownsville to manage Iowa guardsmen ballots. Virginia troops are already casting ballots sent to Richmond after postmaster certification.
New York detectives arrest two men in Brooklyn on charges of aiding H. R. Wilkens in producing or passing counterfeit Indian head five dollar bills. Wilkens was seized in Santa Cruz, California. One suspect is Wilkens' engraver nephew. his son was also detained. Secret Service Chief Flynn says both confessed to assisting in making counterfeit government notes and the younger man admits passing over 800 near New York.
Carranza army officers and men will be paid half their wages in silver and the remainder in Carranza paper currency. The change, effective today, aims to ease hardships amid the constitutionalist army and the nation’s financial crisis.
Honduras plans to send many students to the United States to learn cotton handling from seed to loom. Consul Gabriel Madrid Hernandez in Kansas City announced that the government already has thirty students in the U S and aims to boost cotton production through new cultivation and manufacturing ideas.
Knoxville police report Harry Aker 24 shot Miss Ruby Hancock as she returned from a theater with Bruce Harris. Archie Williams, a university student, was wounded in the leg. Hancock injured in the arm. Aker then killed himself. Jealousy said to be the motive.
The Mayflower yacht with President and Mrs. Wilson arrived at Sandy Hook from New York City. They were escorted ashore and taken to a place near the shore before 10 o clock. An automobile convoy then carried them toward Long Branch.
French forces seized two trenches northeast of Les Boeufs and a major system near St. Pierre Vaast wood southeast of Gailly Saillisel. The British and Canadian drive on the Somme claimed about 1,100 prisoners and pushed forward near Schwaben redoubt and Regina trenches. The overall Somme prisoner total reached over thirty one thousand.
Victor Carlstrom completed a cross country flight from Chicago to New York in a New York Times mail carrying airplane. He stopped at Erie Pennsylvania and Hammondsport New York before landing on Governor's Island at 8 56 a m. He set a new record with a 315 mile leg at 137 mph average, surpassing Jules Vedrines's mark.
Victor Carlstrom, who landed in Hammondport yesterday en route from Chicago to New York in a New York Times mail plane, resumed at 6:35 a.m. He passed Elmira at 6:57, Waverly at 7:03, and Owego at 7:14, aiming to reach Governor's Island by about 9:85.
The navy yard sale in New York offered 1 ton of condemned plug tobacco at 19 cents a pound, far below the 36 cents paid by the government. Government bids for cut glass decanters and wine glasses tied to naval use were also accepted, representing about 40 percent of original cost. Announcement on bid acceptance will follow from the navy department.
Panama Canal authorities notify steamship lines of a fifty cent per ton increase on coal sold to merchant ships passing through the canal. New rates become 8 per ton at Cristobal and 9.50 at Balboa, effective December 1 after all coal purchases at previous price have been settled.
Chicago November 3 Federal Judge K M Landis is named as a likely successor to Hermann in a morning newspaper account. The list of nominees for the vacant position was not confirmed and Landis appears not to have been advised his name was being considered.
President Wilson arrives in New Jersey after travel from New York aboard the Mayflower before proceeding to Shadow Lawn for Old Home Day remarks. He is expected to summarize campaign issues and encourage voters as election returns approach later that night at Shadow Lawn.
Sir Ernest Shackleton arrived in Orleans aboard the Parismina from Panama and departed for San Francisco to lead a relief voyage to save ten Shackleton party members stranded near the western Antarctic coast. He plans to sail from San Francisco to Wellington on November 18 and then to Dunedin to reach the Antarctic on the Aurora. After the rescue, he intends to return to England to enter the war.
Britt Patterson former Washington and Jefferson star and 1915 All American has resigned as head coach after an athletic committee inquiry found friction with the squad. He cited not understanding Southern character as a reason and will return to Lansing Michigan.
Vice President Marshall spoke at a Wilmington mass meeting after a street parade. He defended the Adamson law as a standard for railroad men and warned that U S policy toward Mexico and the Monroe doctrine affects Central and South America.
Mrs Mary Lily Keenan Flagler widow of Henry M Flagler travels to Washington to meet Judge Robert Worth Bingham of Louisville and press representatives. The couple reportedly plans a meeting on Sunday to confirm the engagement.
The local weather bureau reports October was ideal with 21 clear days 6 partly cloudy and one cloudy day. Precipitation exceeded .01 inch on two days totaling 2.562 inches. The coldest days were October 21 22 and 28 with readings of 42 41 and ?
Nashville with cross examination of Duncan Kenner the last to see Harry Stokes before Charles C. Trabue in trial for murder. Kenner describes viewing Stokes near the private office door and hearing shots from the elevator as Trabue left. He notes Florence Harrison and J G Stephenson entering the reception areas and identifies a man thought to be Bob S. Blake arriving with police.
The statement says a violent French bombardment caused a Romanian blow across the border, indicating a cross border clash and retaliation. The report emphasizes the impact of the bombardment on the Romanian defense and subsequent enemy actions.
Austro German forces have penetrated deeper into Rumania in districts southwest of Predeal and southeast of Rothenthurn pass, according to an official announcement from Berlin dated November 3.
Russian troops pushed seven frontal assaults to retake positions southeast of Lemberg at Narayuvka but were repelled with heavy losses, according to the war office. The report notes no territorial advance despite the repeated attacks.
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