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The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Nov 24, 1912

Page

5

Jewels Galore for the Fair Sex

An overview of jewelers enhancing stone testing while fraudsters push reconstructed rubies and treated pearls. Experts note natural versus artificial ruby prices differ about a hundred to one and recount methods to detect fakes, with Paris factories and London shops selling reconstructed stones to midrange buyers.

London Times Paris London Miethe Berlin Russia Bordas Mme. Curie Willam Ramsay William Lendon

Free prizes offered by Kelly Brady Hardware Company ad

Kelly Brady Hardware Company promotes free prizes in today's page advertisement. The notice highlights prize offers and invites readers to participate in the promotion.

Kelly- Brady Hardware Company

Gun Fight Kills 3 and Wounds 3 at Elsmere Hotel

New York detective Martin Fay and two private detectives try to arrest Henry and Tillie Vogel in their Elsmere Hotel room. Vogel runs a diamond robbery ring with over forty girls aiding thefts. Fay dies from a pistol wound. the Vogels and two others fall in a rapid exchange of gunfire. hotel proprietor and a waiter are seriously wounded.

Martin Fay New York City Central Cffice Menry Tillie’ Vogel Elsmere Hotel New York Vogel Fey Fay

Tabby Faithful Witness in Tragic Death Case

Cincinnati reports Eliza Griffith found dead at 331 East Third Street in a quiet tragedy. Her husband, a steamboat man likely away, while neighbor George Shannon Early recalls a cat asleep on the window sill. Coroner Coe rules death from natural causes.

Cincinnati Ohio Poe Eliza Griffith East Third Street

Montgomery Elks Live Feud With Town Criers Over Advertisements

The Montgomery Elks threaten to prosecute the Town Criers under the federal anti boycott law after the advertising group urged merchants to shun the Elks December minstrel program. United States District Attorney Warren S Reese was not forthcoming on official comment. Several merchants reportedly ignored the letter and placed ads for the event.

Montgomery Ala Town Criers The Elks United States Warren S. Reese Ifr Reese Eiks Criers Fiks

Modern Sanitation and Disinfection Principles in Public Health

Dr. Alvah H. Doty argues in the North American Review that infectious disease need not spread via clothing or money. Isolation of patients, daily health checks for contacts, and minimal public disruption are core goals of modern sanitation to prevent outbreaks with least burden on ordinary life.

Alvah H. Doty North American Review Yjly W

The Yellow Kid Ade Ad Appeal Leads to Hardware Hunt

The item urges readers to visit The Item office for papers and cut out ads. It mentions reading Kelly-Brady Hardware Co. ad in Gay's paper and then pursuing a target, instructing boys and girls to join the effort.

Item Kelly-Brady Hardware Co Gay

Change of mind at church door ends pursuit in Bayonne

Miss Helen Skibach chased Antonio Dubin through Bayonne streets after he refused to marry at Mount Carmel Church. She caught him near East Twenty-second Street and handed him to a policeman. Magis trate Boylan remanded Dubin for reconsideration.

Bayonne N. J Helen Skibach East Nineteenth Street Antonio Dubin East Twenty-first Street New York Herald Mount Carmel Church Dubin

Prizes Offered by the Kelly Brady Hardware Co Advertisement

A reader is urged to scan the page for details of prizes tied to the Kelly Brady Hardware Co advertisement. The note directs attention to contest items and potential rewards featured in the layout.

Venerable Judge to Sentence Gambler Slayers in Murder Trial

The venerable judge will sentence the four gunmen and their ringleader after trials that found them guilty of murdering Gambler Rosenthal in the first degree. The defendants include "Gyp the Blood" "Lefty" "Louie" "Whitey Jack" and "Cnco Frank" with bias noted in the conduct of Lieut Chames Becker.

Supreme Court Chamesbecker Gyp the Blood Lefty Louie Whitey Jack Anda Cnco Frank

Traveler Mrs Lee recalls Siberia to Shanghai trip for ward to wedding

Mrs J Clarence Lee wife of the Church of the Restoration pastor and her ward Miss Wilhelmina Gibbons journeyed from the Russian frontier to Shanghai by Trans Siberian route and steamer. She describes frontier scrutiny at Alexandrov and poor peasant conditions and offers views on Russian unrest and Chinese society after a republic declaration.

Philadelphia Siberia J. Clarence Lee Church of the Restoration Seventeenth Master Streets Wilhelmina Gibbons Shanghai China Miss Gibbons France Paris Warsaw Moscow Kharbine Dalny Russia Alexandrova Hun

Unpopular War Echoes in Madrid as Women Protest

London Chronicle reports that during a past conflict with the United States women in Madrid gathered around Columbo Puerta del Sol to hurled insults at Columbus and tried to pull him from his pedestal, reflecting anti colonial sentiment in that era.

Madrid United States Columbo Puerta del Sol America Columbus London Chronicle

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