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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1914
Page
8
In New Orleans Walter D. Lyons a 25 year old municipal rat catcher shot himself in a saloon after forcing his wife to return with their eight month old twins to their home He then shot his wife twice before killing himself Lyons had been estranged from his wife who had a separation and alimony order.
North Carolina University, missing three regulars Tandy Homewood and Captain Tayloe, will face Wakeforest this afternoon in Raleigh. Coaches sit them out to avoid injury before the Thanksgiving clash with Virginia. Weather is cloudy and cool.
A Montpelier Vermont woman shares relief from irregularity and pain after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The testimonial claims renewed regularity improved stomach pain and headaches, urging others to seek advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
Women in Mobile organize to make shirts for Belgian refugees and war victims after Mrs. Theodore P. Shonts' address. Sixty six shifts start, with materials patterns and Red Cross directions provided for shirts socks mufflers and wristlets at the homes of Mrs. Stratton and Mrs. Mastin.
John C. OConnell, south Alabama member of the Belgian relief committee, travels to Birmingham to join a meeting called by James Bowron. Ex-Governor Jelks and other prominent figures will discuss finalizing organization and a campaign plan to publicize the governor’s Belgian appeal.
Paris reports prominent Frenchmen among front line troops led by Count Boni de Castellane and his brother Count Jean Castellane along with Princes Sagan and Murat in motor transport work. About twenty deputies are with regiments. deputy Pierre Goujon and Paul Proust are dead and Senator Emil Reymond is likewise slain.
A dramatized testimonial from Mrs Lillie Wardell of Baltimore describes six months of scalp itching and hair loss. She claims Cuticura Soap and Ointment stopped hair loss after four uses and promoted regrowth within two months, inviting readers to request samples and a 32 page Skin Book.
J D Ream of Broken Bow Nebraska introduces a resolution at the National Grange meeting condemning the war department and the National Rifle Association for creating rifle clubs in 42 universities and 84 private and preparatory schools. The resolution demands the war department withdraw from influencing education and keep hands off school children.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association states that athletic sport, when honorably run, benefits learning and character. It condemns brutality and cheating, urges fair play, and calls for transparency in college athletic programs to preserve dignity and sportsmanship.
The report notes Connie Mack asked waivers on Philadelphia Athletics pitchers Bender Plank and Coombs. Plank owns a .646 season era and .200 World Series mark since joining the A's, while Bender posts a .650 league pitching average over 12 years and a .584 World Series mark. It is likely both veterans move to other American League clubs during winter shifts.
EB T Moore succeeds W U Bentley as manager of the Western Union office in this city after three years of Bentley’s leadership. Moore, formerly of Richmond Virginia, assumes charge today.
The New York city health department passed a temporary ordinance requiring pasteurization of all milk sold in the city due to live stock foot and mouth disease. Michael J. Ryan announced that the United Irish League of America national convention, set for December 8 in New York, is indefinitely postponed because of the European war.
Indictments charging embezzlement were returned against Oscar L. Telling and Francis M. Richard, former president and cashier of Pittsburgh banks. Richard surrendered and posted 10000 dollars bail. Telling is believed to be in Europe.
Captain Reuben F. Kolb seeks the presidency of the state board of convict inspectors. He received thousands of endorsements from Alabama leaders including nearly all congressional delegation and many state and local officials. Mobile County alone gave 3,500 testimonials as part of three volumes of endorsements.
Moss Point Mississippi reports the new Methodist Church, costing upwards of 20 000 dollars, will be dedicated Sunday by Bishop Warren A Candler of Atlanta Georgia. The two story edifice stands as a Gulf Coast beauty built by the Dantzler children in memory of their parents the late Mr and Mrs L N Dantzler.
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