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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1916
Page
2
President Woodrow Wilson designates Thursday November 30 as a day of national thanksgiving and prayer. The message notes the year's blessings amid world war and urges citizens to worship and remember distressed nations.
F C Runte district passenger agent of Louisville and Nashville reports Mobile tourism already starting with two extra sleepers arriving on night trains Thursday. W D Dunn Jr and wife of Grove Hill Alabama visit Mobile staying at Battle House. Horace Turner of Vinegar Bend Alabama also in Mobile at Battle House with companion Turner. G B Harris Wabash agent from Birmingham visits Mobile on business. Port Collector Percy Maer leaves for Columbus Mississippi. customs deputy Captain John Callaghan heads to New York for a two week conference. John Jossen returns from New York and Brooklyn noting election night enthusiasm. R L Querry and wife from Centerville Alabama visit Mobile staying at Cawthon and J D Bolbinger and wife from New Orleans at Battle House.
President Woodrow Wilson calls on American people to contribute from their abundance to aid war victims. The proclamation urges relief for those suffering from conflict, signed in Washington on November 17, 1916, and cites the 141st year of independence.
The war department announced the authorization of nine additional ROTC units. They will be at Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College Oklahoma A and M Rutgers State College of Washington University of Wyoming University of Nevada aeen Gulf Coast Military Academy Gulfport Miss and Georgia Military College all infantry units with the last two in the junior division.
W F Nabors of the internal revenue department returned to Mobile from McCullough Escambia County where he destroyed a distillery. He reports two stills were found and partly made liquor destroyed. Arrests will be made later. Nabors was accompanied by Deputy Sheriff G G Lambert of Brewton. Advertisement for Sloan's Liniment claims fast relief for rheumatic and muscular pains.
Chicago mayor and Health Commissioner appointed a ten member committee of food experts to map out a low cost citizen diet and ten inspectors to study the recent price rise. Other items note dividend, loan, and public notices across multiple cities.
Marty Cross of New York clearly led a ten round welterweight match against Albert Badoud the French Swiss champion until the referee stopped the fight in the sixth round to save Badoud from further punishment. Each fighter weighed 149 pounds.
Fifteen hundred dollars had been raised for the Maternity Home as committees work to reach more donors. General Chairman Gordon Smith said more gifts are coming in and invites checks by mail or calls for collection. Committee head R M WelNacker led a group that raised about three hundred dollars.
Rotary members form a three person committee to secure 10000 dollars for a mobile building at the Mississippi Centennial. The group will coordinate with committees from the Chamber of Commerce Tourist Welcome Club and Gulf Coast Fair in weekly sessions.
Arguments heard in the U S Supreme Court for John Armstrong Chaloner and Fernand V Gasquet who were declared insane in one state and sane in another. Both seek to annul insanity findings to gain possession of valuable property. Chaloner’s lawyers challenge New York sanity proceedings claimed void. Gasquet’s lawyers argue Tennessee decree should annul Louisiana insanity ruling on property valued around 200000 dollars.
The Berlina Germania announces that a vice regent will be appointed immediately for Poland. The dignitary will hold office until a king is formally elected.
Philadelphia reader Mrs Tros McGonigal says years of cramps and pains ceased after taking Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports doctors diagnosed female trouble and urged operation but four doses led to overall improvement and cure. She offers her letter to encourage others to try the product.
The 32nd degree was conferred on twenty eight candidates as the 27th reunion of Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Masons concluded at noon. The week long reunion at the Cathedral on St Francis Street included degrees from the fourth through the thirty second and was led by Dr. J H McCormick.
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