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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1913
Page
13
A historical public health advisory lists measures for Black communities: fresh air, avoid closed rooms with tall windows, early bedtime, plain wholesome foods, fly screens, avoid stagnant water, soil hygiene, move wells away from waste, vaccination, limit patent medicines, drink clean water, avoid spitting, use personal cups, beware alcohol, seek air in churches, and register births and deaths for legal protection.
Visitors to the State Baptist Convention include Rev. J. A. Hopkins of Atlanta and Rev. H. E. Jones of Auburn with other church leaders and dignitaries. Notable items mention cornerstone laying at Ann Street Presbyterian Church, sermons at State Street Church, and the funeral of Mrs. Ellen Bland.
W S Buchannan a prominent Black educator and president of the A and College for Negroes at Normal will deliver an address on Monday at 8 o clock at the A F Owens on Broad Street. The public cordially invited to attend.
Washington November 22 patent attorneys iis Davis report a grant this week to Alabama citizens including William J Price assignor to O Reinhart Birmingham Jake J Jones Brookwood for a shaft invention location details incomplete in the fragment but noted as Birmingham and Brookwood patents awarded to local residents.
The Negro Baptist State convention closes amid leader absences for field work. State boards report missions fundraising totals 2286.20 for state missions and 980.67 for publishing. Publishing board to be incorporated. Preaching schedule announces many Birmingham Selma Columbus speakers.
The Negro Baptist State Convention meets in Selma with Rev. K D Watkins at Stone Street Church and aims for aggressive progress led by Rev Dr J H Eason. Reports from Northeast Northwest Southeast and Southwest Conventions total 2365.54 dollars with mortgaged Selma University and foreign mission contributions included.
Sunday worship at B. D. Warren street M E church begins with am service by Rev A Garner and 7 30 pm by Rev J T Martin Rev Lewis as pastor. Shiloh Baptist Crichton hosts 11 am sermon by Rev H R Cooper D D of Montgomery and 7 30 pm by Rev J L Frazier of Florida.
Montgomery Nov 22 Charles R Bricken of Laverne has been re elected colonel of the Second regiment for a third term. He was unopposed. Bricken announced his staff unchanged except D S Hudson of Montgomery named quartermaster captain replacing T C Locke who becomes assistant adjutant general.
A testimonial from Mrs. A. F. Mertz of Glen Ellyn Iowa claims Dr. King's New Discovery cured a stubborn cough after Trit. will do the. The ad touts relief for a consumptive cough by stopping the cough loosening the chest and banishing fever with promising first doses.
W B Driver of Union Mutual Aid Association gave the principal address at the Talladega Negro County Fair, praising industrial insurance for African Americans and its community benefits. He urged cooperation, noted progress in race relations, and highlighted how urban improvements aid rural workers.
On November 20 the Central Alabama Conference met with Bishop W. P. Thirkild presiding. Notables including Rev. Dr. Price and Gammon Seminary figures attended. Reports from Mobile ministers praised fundraising, with about three thousand dollars expected for old preachers and schools, while leaders urge breaking barriers within the church.
The Richmond meeting of the Negro Organization Society on November 6 and 7 gathered race leaders and white allies to push for better schools health homes and farms across Virginia. executive secretary J M Gandy outlined progress including schoolhouse construction and repairs sanitation leagues and ventilation while Major R R Moton and Dr Booker T Washington urged unity and practical action under Governor Mann who pledged cooperation.
The lesson urges saving when healthy and using funds in sickness or accident. Schools such as Talladega Normal Tuskegee educate youth and continue, while leaders like CG and First Johnson have built large enterprises, offering employment to the same girls and boys.
H. B. O'Shields the cashier of the Fort Lawn Deposit Bank in Chester died instantly after shooting himself through the heart at his home. Financial forries are suspected though no irregularities in accounts are known.
Ephriam Jones was convicted in the city court on Saturday of grand larceny for stealing 285 sacks from Cleveland Bros. He was remanded to the county jail for sentence after being caught selling them. Radium cost rises to 52 million per pound and remains inaccessible to most. The piece closes with a wry note on marriage luck.
A Tuscaloosa trained pastor leads the Memorial United Presbyterian Church on Ann Street Mobile. From two members and two children, enrollment grew to about sixty to seventy with fifteen baptisms and twenty five to thirty members. White allies funded a new building at Spring Hill and community support continues as the church expands its mission among both white and colored congregants.
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