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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1913
Page
3
About 400 Meinhardt College students in Waleska Georgia burned a prescribed history of the United States citing bias toward the North. They derided the author Harriet Beecher Stowe and criticized Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee while the band played Dixieland.
Montgomery Alabama November 13 The state tax commission has gone to Columbiana to hear thirteen Shelby county tax cases. After completing the workload they will return to Montgomery The unusual situation arose from the election of Tax Commissioner J E Ruffin to the county board creating a vacancy and shifting tax case handling to the state commission.
Harris announces new policy forcing census bureau workers to abstain from alcohol to avoid distractions. The move comes as part of improving office conditions, with the director citing the need to prevent the odor of liquor from affecting staff throughout the day.
J Edward Krause was chosen president of the Indianapolis Federals at a directors meeting. The club reorganization sets capital stock at 200000 dollars with 125000 dollars in common stock and 75000 dollars in preferred. Fifty thousand dollars will fund modern steel stands and bleachers for the new grounds.
The Associated Press reports global government debt exceeds 42 billion dollars, up 20 percent in a decade. France leads in debt, followed by Russia and the United Kingdom, with the United States seeing about a hundred million growth in ten years. Interest rates vary, with stronger nations borrowing cheaply and weaker states like Nicaragua and China facing up to ten percent interest.
Baton Rouge November 13. The constitutional convention committee on state debt resumed its consideration of the Butler plan to redeem the state debt of 11 000 000 due January 1. While awaiting the debt committee report the convention will address other constitutional changes including an increase in salaries for officers of the New Orleans sewerage and water board, a matter entangled with local politics.
Philadelphia reports a new inter league spring baseball plan. The Phillies and Athletics will hold a nine game series starting April 1 and join in two joint games on April 8 and 9. Washington and New York Americans may visit, with Brooklyn possible on April 9. The sequence runs to April 13 before the major league season opens.
A home remedy claims mixing one pint granulated sugar with warm water to form syrup and adding 2% ounces of Pinex yields a cough syrup rivaling store products for about $2.50. Dosage is a teaspoon every one to three hours, said to soothe ordinary coughs within 24 hours and help with whooping cough, croup, hoarseness, and bronchial asthma. It advertises Pinex as a concentrated Norway pine extract and directs sending for Pinex Co. materials from Fort Wayne, Indiana.
An advertisement for Bell Phone 3278 and Home Phone 1453 promotes all kinds of tailoring including ladies' tailor-made suits and dresses, refitting as a specialty. Prompt work called for and delivered with guarantee, located at 300 St Francis Street, Mobile, Alabama.
General Bramwell Booth arrived in Chicago a few hours after his brother General Ballington Booth left. The estranged brothers had not spoken for seventeen years and friends hoped for reconciliation. Bramwell Booth said any reunion would honor their brotherhood rather than merge their movements.
Police uncovered a widespread bookmaker operation in Greater New York with a two floor Sixth Avenue loft converted to a private telephone exchange linking to major race tracks. Inspectors Ghillen said the setup likely existed a decade and that the raid followed two months of investigation, leaving hats and coats behind as evidence.
Special to The Item. Eugene Dowling, aged Montgomery carpenter and former penitentiary inmate, may be pardoned by Governor O Neal after two years of imprisonment for a crime against his daughters. He is at Speigner s rumored losing his mind as his daughters now claim their trial testimony was false and profess religious reform. The governor investigates and holds letters from Dowling s daughters and a Montgomery woman supporting mis carriage of justice. Notables including Judge Thomas Congressman Dent Henry N Hughes and Captain Lt A Odom have endorsed parole.
In Montgomery Alabama a jury awarded Mrs A J Crosby 250 dollars against Southern Bell Telephone Company for a buzzing in the ear that injured her and her husband 1000 dollars because she could not perform her household duties. The company seeks a new trial before Circuit Judge W W Pearson citing the unusual verdict.
Patrolman Gus Sutherland resumes duties at police headquarters after more than five weeks of illness. He is detailed to remain at the station pending full recovery.
Delegates from twenty five yacht clubs and two associations met at the New York Yacht Club to raise a standard of skill in handling power boats and to organize a United States power squadron for about 640,000 registered craft. The proposal envisions clubs forming squadrons using Boston Yacht Club rules and signals for potential volunteer harbor and coastal duty.
A vintage advertisement urges mothers to give California Syrup of Figs to sick children showing signs of constipation. It promises rapid relief from sour stomach, feverishness, and upset bowels and emphasizes that the product is a gentle laxative made by California Fig Company with clear dosing directions on the bottle.
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