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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1913
Page
2
In Troy New York on November 19 police seized a counterfeit operation run by Charles and Edward Barry. Authorities found a money making plant and an unfinished bill stock along with an outfit for making counterfeit labels. One hundred bottles of counterfeit liquor were found in Troy taverns.
Lieutenant E P King of the United States Army will arrive in Mobile Friday morning to inspect men and arrange the organization of an artillery battery now forming. Major L B Dorrance reports equipment worth 85000 will be sent to Mobile for the battery. Equipment is at Long Island testing grounds, including guns caissons store wagons harness saddles tents and more. The armory lower floor becomes storeroom and quarters on the second floor. Dorrance King and Grove praise local support and expect active membership.
Joseph S. Sands of Berenson & Sands Undertaking Co was fined ten dollars or twenty days for removing a dead body without a health permit. Abe Bennett alias Turkey faced ten days and ten dollars for disorderly conduct and fifty days or twenty five dollars for resisting an officer after a hated court fight. Wright Thomas, cited for driving on the wrong side, had case continued to November 21.
Reading about films shows they entertain but offer limited assistance to learning one thing daily. The passage notes the mismatch between entertainment value and educational impact.
Sovereign Commander Joseph Cullen Root of the Woodmen of the World arrived in Mobile on a Southern tour. He spoke to about 1,800 Woodmen on Tenets of Wood Craft at the armory and was hosted at a luncheon and city tour by local members at the Battle House and Ca wthon Hotel Vineyard with Forest Camp No. 5 introducing him.
Judge A L Hasty of Linden is in Mobile for Alabama Good Roads Association Convention with W S Keller O G Street and J D Matlock. W D Bullard of Pascagoula Miss visits Battle House. Dr and Mrs J A Donaldson of Okolona Miss visit Cawthon and stay at Saint Andrew Hotel. G A Griffin Meridian and T J Turrentine Meridian are in Mobile on business. Dr D Adams and L Adams of Glendale Fla stay at Saint Andrew. Dr and Mrs Rupert Thomas with Mrs M Hannah and daughter visit Saint Andrew.
Zanie W. Welch a former engineer on the Louisville and Nashville line based in McDonoghville was killed in a rear end collision between two freight trains on the Texas and Pacific main line near Lynch Louisiana. Welch who lived in McDonoghville for several years prior to shifting to the Texas and Pacific was unmarried and known for travel and collecting curios.
James Ballock Reid’s religious melodrama The Confession played to large audiences at the Lyric Theatre with Pearsall and Fisher’s road production noted as only fair. Bond M. Turner as Josef Dumont and Richard Sterling as Father Partiett received special praise for their performances.
L. E. Leech, a painter, was arrested by Traffic Officer Jeff Pierce on the complaint of John Pappas, a restaurant owner. He is held as a dangerous suspect. the silver cream pitcher at Pappas' cafe is in evidence. Arraignment set for Wednesday afternoon. Pappas says five or six pitchers have been taken recently.
Amusements notes Primrose and Lew Dockstader as veteran minstrel partners in a revival at Lyric Theatre tonight and details the birth of minstrelsy in Philadelphia in 1839. Also covers the Taliaferro sisters in Young Wisdom at Lyric November 21–22 and the photo drama The Last Days of Pompeii starting Sunday.
The eighteenth to twenty sixth degrees were conferred Wednesday during the twenty first annual Scottish Rite reunion led by Mobile Consistory No. 2. Officials named include Percy B. Dixon venerable master and T. M. McMillan preceptor. Notable honorees at the Washington council include Isaac Lichtbach and Myron T. Sprague among others, with further degrees scheduled through Friday.
The Sunset Limited inauguration is postponed from November 16 to November 23 per O. P. Bartlett of Southern Pacific in Birmingham. The delay is due to a three day strike on the Sunset Route. From November 23 the Sunset Limited departs New Orleans at 11:00 am, the Sunset Express at 11:30 am, and the Sunset Mail at 11:45 pm.
Police report says Deaf Tom was wounded in the shoulder by a Black woman named Sallie Smith Tuesday night in the southern part of the city. Officers searched the area but did not locate the assailant.
A cautious physician admits gaps in knowledge while discussing a case. The remark underscores the complexity of diagnosis and the need for further information before firm conclusions.
You have heard of the effectiveness of Poslam the perfect skin remedy. Test it by selecting a small skin area that is broken out. Apply Poslam on this place at night and note the results in the morning. Surprising results seen for many users.
Preparations indicate the second division of the United States Army will remain in Texas City all winter. Tents were walled and floored, stoves installed, and hundreds of soldiers began laying a sewage system to connect with city mains. The army city is entirely under canvas with generals in the same camp shelter as the men.
Kansas City, Nov 19. Dr. William T. Elam of St. Joseph said I killed him and am willing to suffer the penalty after shooting W. Putnam Cramer, Chicago solicitor, in a local hotel. Inquest showed Elam had hired a detective to shadow his wife and Cramer who he says betrayed him.
An advertisement extols Newbro's Herpicide as saving worry money and hair. It cites Mrs S A Lee of Richmond Virginia who reports hair restoration after Indian hair damage. The copy claims it prevents dandruff buildup stops itching and offers a sample by sending 10 cents to The Herpicide Co Detroit MI with agents listed.
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