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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1913
Page
14
Boston city council favors a large scale coal and ice venture. Resolutions call for a constitutional amendment enabling the city to purchase and sell coal and to manufacture and sell ice, needing approval by the next two legislatures and the voters.
Field forces of the Alabama tax commission have been doubled with the employment of M. W. Shirley and Henry P. White of Centreville as tax experts. White is already in Walker County examining valuations and licenses, while Shirley stays in Montgomery to receive instructions before heading out.
Tammany Hall leader Charles F. Murphy plans to protest to President Wilson against Dudley Field Malone's nomination as collector of the port of New York to succeed Mayor-elect John Purroy Mitchel. Malone, son-in-law of Senator James O Gorman, has lately aligned with progressives and backed the Fusion candidate.
Dr T B Crothers of Hartford tells the International Purity Congress that social evil can be stamped out as in typhoid and yellow fever through coercion segregation and understanding causes in every community. Dr BE Pratt of Chicago warns suppression hides immorality in schools and argues nervous-system disorders require medical treatment.
Richard West of the Ohio National Guard died from infection after a bullet wound fired by Lt. W M Miller during a drill near the armory. West had refused orders and was arrested. on the way to jail he attempted escape and Miller shot him. A military board of inquiry is now appointed.
London Nov 12 Sir Richard Solomon high commissioner in London for the Union of South Africa died yesterday at age 63. One of Transvaal's wealthiest men he held high posts after the Boer war and on union formed he served on the native law commission and chaired the mining commission. An Africander and Cambridge graduate.
Nervous and sick headaches attributed to torpid liver constipation and disordered stomach. Pills stimulate liver and bowels to function properly and regulate digestion. 25 cents buys a box. available at druggists or by mail from H E Bucklen & Co Philadelphia or St Louis.
James M. Lynch resigns from the presidency of the International Typographical Union in Indianapolis. The resignation takes effect after Secretary J. W. Hayes returns from Seattle. Vice President Duncan to succeed him. Lynch served thirteen years and led the eight hour day strike of 1906 and was named labor commissioner of New York by ex Governor Sulzer.
In Naples on November 12, American ships Arkansas and Florida watched an army review honoring King Victor Emmanuel. American naval officers sat in carriages beside European princes, as Abbott 1,000 sailors lined up near the saluting base. The event featured a salute to the eleventh Bersaglieri regiment returning from Tripoli with Naples lavishly decorated in Stars and Stripes.
Mrs Mae Bell Cox a 38 year old widow surrendered to Houston police saying she killed W H Morrough after he beat her. Officers found Morrough dead with three bullet wounds in his chest. Morrough had been divorced from Mrs Cox who had been engaged to marry him.
An old advertisement touts Cascarets as a remedy for headache biliousness indigestion and sour stomach. It claims a 10 cent box cleanses the stomach and liver while you sleep improving bowel action by morning for both adults and children.
Banks in York consider stopping the long held over-certification of brokers accounts following a Supreme Court ruling linked to the 1910 Hocking Valley Coal pool collapse. AMong proposals is a stock exchange backed guarantee, while conservatives favor attaching notes to daily loans to safeguard lenders.
A small group of Americans left Nogales on Tuesday bound for their homes in the Yaqui river district of Southern Sonora, 500 miles south of the U.S. border. They were among about 100 Americans who arrived two months earlier aboard the steamer Buffalo at San Diego.
Mrs Mary Gargan of Brooklyn sought a marriage license on the grounds her husband John Gargan, jailed in Sing Sing for murder with an indeterminate sentence, is legally dead. The license clerk referred the matter to the corporation counsel who ruled against the request since Gargan might later be freed and citizenship restored.
A Kalgan letter reports Chinese forces suffered a severe defeat with 500 killed and hundreds wounded arriving for treatment. The Mongol victory prompts expected ceasefire as Inner Mongolian troops are ordered to stop fighting by the Khan.
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