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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1915
Page
8
Spring Hill readies for a Southern University clash set for Saturday afternoon. The squad, urged by Head Coach Rush, will practice through Friday with the team coordinated and no friction reported. President Father Cummings allows full student attendance at the game.
San Francisco Nov 11 Representatives of each league in the National Association of Professional Leagues met in convention to study salary limits as a retrenchment measure. Charles Dpotts urged each league set its own figures while Farrell argued uniform standards would help preserve baseball. Shropshire supported the plan as the session eyed Friday for a decision. Baugh was named auditing committee chair and Shropshire joined the resolutions committee. Proposals also covered uniform training dates player limits and winter reserve rosters.
The Bay St Louis YMCA athletic committee hopes to stage a two mile run and a basketball game on Thanksgiving Day. Professor Marriott of the local association said he is confident a run will occur Thanksgiving morning. Acceptance of the proposal by the Bay St Louis association remains uncertain.
A period ad urges readers to buy Mi-o-na from Van Antwerp’s Drug Corporation for quick relief from indigestion and stomach misery. It claims rapid improvement after a few doses and a money back guarantee, plus Booth’s Pills for constipation.
Know Your City committee tours Barker Cotton Mills on Conception Street road near Mobile. Superintendent Rountree explains two mills with 16 000 spindles 600 looms and a 325 to 350 worker force. workers live in company homes and receive low-cost amenities. Visitors see stocking rooms pickery and drying areas and learn about damasks sheetings and towels produced on the line.
Public notice of a free 50 page booklet by Dr W J McCrary on pellagra causes and cure. The ad promises 90 percent cure in nine years practice and includes letters from professionals and cured patients, with free diagnosis and no charge if the book is not provided.
Biloxi Mississippi reports say the gasoline boat Little Star, linked to whiskey cargo, may have docked in Biloxi after a ten day search by revenue and local officials. Deputy Sheriff Horace Walker investigated but found no vessel, though informants say it tied up here early yesterday. Gulf Coast officers continue hunting the Little Star amid rumors of a recent Biloxi stop with liquor cargo.
In Montgomery on November 11, the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Company agreed with the state board of convict inspectors to lease 500 or more convicts for mining work. The deal promises higher convict labor pay than any Alabama contract. Papers must be signed before details are released as orders extend eighteen months with a large convict supply secured to meet them.
The Alabama Public Service Commission, now holding jurisdiction over all public utilities, has sent letters to each utility requesting information on rates charges franchises and related data. Investigations show over one hundred utilities fall under its authority and rate regulation.
West Point reports every ticket in the Army allotment for the Army and Navy football game on November 27 in New York has been distributed. Lieut. Charles B. Meyer, secretary and treasurer of the army athletic council, said no tickets remain and late applicants should not expect seats.
In Steubenville Ohio B M Weir vice president of Phillips Sheet and Tin Plate Company said the Feiton steel plant would be enlarged at an estimated 1 000 000 cost and four new mills planned to begin soon with about 8 000 000 in expenses. Also sports notes on Hill football action and a basketball meeting at the YMCA.
Fifty five boys attended the YMCA gym class on Wednesday afternoon. Physical Director Marriott said the junior division should have its best year yet for attendance and membership. A note on memory ends with a caution about recalling past events.
In Lexington Kentucky on November 11 the Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders Association met and a yearling trotting filly by Prince Albania Moko trotted a mile in 2:17 1 2 to establish a world record.
The text notes Woodland Stock Farm of Woodland California owning a horse and recalls a former record holder Miss Stokes who trotted a mile in 2:19 14 on the same track as a yearling. It also references fiction among hotel registry lore.
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