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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1916
Page
2
Opening trading shows brisk activity in cotton and steel with new highs. January cotton rises to odds of 20.40 from 20.06, March cotton at 20.60 opening, steel climbs from 126 3 4 to 127 1 4 as wheat holds steady and timber export demand is fair to good at 27 cents per 30 cubic feet.
The probate court issues licenses for colored residents Bill Hudson and Alberta Smith and Lucious Dees and Alberta Car Oc.
Sloan's Liniment offers quick relief from neuralgia and muscle pain. It penetrates without rubbing and soothes stiff muscles, rheumatism, gout, lumbago, sprains, and minor injuries. A 25 cent bottle is advertised for druggists.
Robert Arnold, a negro, faces an assault to kill charge in the shooting of Oliver Jenkins. Jenkins was shot in the back and hospital reports say he remains in danger. The case was postponed until November 24 as police seek Willie Overton, also charged in the Eslava street incident after a card game near St Emanuel.
London dispatch reports the Serbians gaining honors for the Monastir collapse as hill 1212 fell and they pushed toward hill 1278. Allies plan to press toward Prilep and Monastir as a base to outflank Bulgarian positions near the Derna.
Berlin says Austro German forces win new successes against Rumanians and Russian allies. Near Campulung Romanian troops, though demoralized, launch further attacks yesterday and are repulsed.
Petrograd report says Rumanian units retreat southward before Austro German troops in the Jiul valley as of today per the war office briefing.
Berlin war offices say British assaults yesterday between Serre and Beaucourt and north of Miramont failed with heavy losses. The British are said to have been driven from the western part of Grandcourt.
Washington crosses into a critical phase as President Wilson and Secretary Lansing prepare to tackle international crises. Key decisions loom on German submarine warfare, entente trade controls, isolation versus concerted action, and the peace conference.
A Paolo Alabama girl recounts her mother suffering fatigue and dullness until she started Granger Liver Magustee, touted as a purely vegetable, alcohol free tonic. The advertorial style note implies a doctor’s or pharmacist recommendation.
The Mobile Baseball Association sold pitcher Ralph Ledbetter to the Little Rock club. President Dr. Harry T. Inge announced the sale this morning. price was not disclosed. The deal forms part of Matty McIntyre’s planned off season transactions ahead of next season in the Southern league.
The article discusses Allied blockades and censorship as breaches of neutral rights, citing Wilson on intolerable neutrality. It covers Britain’s blockade forms, mail censorship, and embargo practices, plus U.S. retaliatory measures and postwar trade concerns. It notes plans for a league of nations and ongoing regional tensions in Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean treaties.
Mitchell Mulder a native of Michigan aged 30 died Friday night after a short illness in a local infirmary in Mobile He had been in Mobile three days when stricken The body was taken by Roche Burke for burial in Grand Rapids Michigan He is survived by relatives in Michigan.
Deputy sheriffs raided a Whistler soft drink stand late Sunday night and seized twenty bottles of beer amid alleged gambling. Sam Lane was arraigned Monday on prohibition charges, pleaded guilty, and paid a $50 fine plus costs. Willie Robertson was docketed on prohibition charges and released on bond.
President W. H. Taylor and Mr. W. H. Bryant of the Tourist Welcome Club will represent Mobile at a Gulfport gathering to form the Gulf Coast Publicity League. Delegates from Alabama Mississippi and Florida will meet at the Great Southern Hotel at 10 o clock to discuss a planned $250000 advertising campaign for the gulf coast region.
Amusements note a 3 pm Tuesday matinee at the Lyric Theatre where Walker Stevens Opera Company revives de Kovens Robin Hood. The piece, long staged and popular, aims to lift taste in light opera and curb vulgar, nonsensical shows that have crowded the field.
Information from Louisville Kentucky shows the Jackson Highway Commission meeting to name the route. Mobile anxiously awaits results as John Craft of Mobile attends and states he has authority to vote for the Alabama route on behalf of a Mississippi section.
Fort Morgan soldier J. R. Nelson reported to police that he was robbed of about 69 to 70 dollars from his hotel room at the St Andrew Hotel during Saturday night. He could not provide detectives with any clues.
A Burlington Wisconsin reader reports relief from side and back pains after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash. The letter urges others to try the remedies and offers confidential free advice from the Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
Ad copy touts Dr King’s New Life Pills as a mild non griping laxative to purify the system and clear skin. It claims a bottle costs 26 cents and a dose tonight will bring cheer by breakfast.
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