Thanksgiving Observance In Mobile With Closures And Feasts
Mobile to observe Thanksgiving with most wholesale and retail stores closed for the day and post office operating on Sunday hours. Churches plan special services while city inmates at hospitals and poorhouses receive dinners funded by community contributions. Banks close. post office carriers to make one full delivery. city and county officials observe the holiday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
United States
City
County Poor Asylum
Little Sisters Home For
Spring Hill
Monroe Park
T. T. Palmer
Crenshaw
Mayor Schwarz
A. F. Owens
Merchants
First Christian
Father Cassidy
Episcopal
Summerdale
Baldwin County
Edward P. Allen
Diocese of
P. F. McCormick
Adam Heibel
P. D . Barker
Fidelia Club
Battle House
Moose
German Relief Hall
Commission Houses
Governor O Neal grants Thanksgiving parole to Wish Rigby
Special to The Item Montgomery Nov. 27 Governor O Neal paroled Wish Rigby Elmore county white man who was sentenced to life for the murder of W L McFain in 1900. The two Rigby brothers were paroled together each claiming the other committed the crime. The governor followed the trial verdict and jury recommendation though the twelfth juror was not located. McFain a former Montgomery resident and county constable was ambushed and shot on a road near Tallassee. Bad blood existed between the Rigby and McFain families. The two brothers and two other relatives had been jailed in Montgomery awaiting verdicts. clemency had long been sought by lawyer John W A Sandford who died before seeing his effort rewarded.
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Montgomery
Ala
Govuvernor O'Neal
Wish Rigby
Elmore County
Jay
W. L
Rigby
Bill
McCair
Atgomery
Elmore
Tallassee
Ain
Montgomery County
John W. A. Sandford
Frenzied Finance Pathe Feature At The Theatre
Great three reel feature by Pathe shown at the theatre with admission ten cents for adults and six cents for children. Shows a lively plot and fast pacing typical of early cinema reels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pathe
Theatre Today
Fitting Tribute to Albert Herzfeld
The funeral for Albert Herzfeld, a prominent merchant, was held Wednesday at 11 from his home 104 South Warren Street. Delegations from Mobile Masons and Knights of Pythias attended. Rabbi Alfred G. Moses delivered a eulogy praising Herzfeld as a guileless, cultured Israelite and devoted family man who lived by the Jewish ideal of righteousness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Herzfeld
South
Warren Street
Mobile Lodge No. 40
Masons
Mobile Lodge Knights of Pythias
Alfred G. Moses
Congregation Shaari Shemayim
Moses
Albert Hersfeld
Joseph Abraham Friedlander
Die
Wissenschaft Des Judenthums
Israel
Germany
Goethe
Schiller
Heine
Alabama
Selma
Mobile
Bosora
Sholom
Jacob
Booths HYOMEI Catarrh Remedy Ad
Enlivened home remedy ad promotes HYOMEI for catarrh relief in one day. Includes hard rubber inhaler, bottle of HYOMEEI, and usage instructions priced at 1.00 with refills 60 cents. Sold by Nan Antwerp Drug Corporation and druggists nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Booth
Hyomei
Nan Antwerp Drug Corporation
Advartivam
Portuguese Celebrate at San Francisco Exposition Site
In San Francisco on November 27 Portugal celebrated its claim to the site where its pavilion for the 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition will rise. General J Batalha de Fretis, Portuguese minister to China and Japan, led the ceremonies at the rear of international salutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Portugal
J. Batalha de Fretis
China
Japan
Taft imposes strict rules on fourth class postmasters
President Taft approves regulations for 50 000 fourth class postmasters in classified civil service. Alaska Hawaii Porto Rico Guam Samoa excluded. Higher paid posts use competitive exams. lower paid posts have local inspectors choose from applicants. Transfers allowed for those earning $500 or more after exams. 42 354 fall under 500 yearly. 7 868 above.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Taft
Alaska
Guam
Hawaii
Samoa
Porto I‘co
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Neal Rigby
Hebrew Cemetery
John W. Phillips
Sigmund Haas
John J. Meyer
Samuel Fichold
Robert &. du Mont
W. H. Monk, Jr
H. W. Leinkauf
Fas
Beecham’s
Beecham
UNION
Beacon Shoes
Beacon Shoe Store
Dauphin St
Cha Banchester Row
Hampshire
Alaga
Georgia
Alabama-Georgia Syrup Company
VANES
Turkey
Window of Mobile
Frank Stoll
Dauphin Street
KODAK
E. O. Zadek Jewelry Co
Mobile, Ala
Kodak Dept
Adams
155
T. Adams
J. K. Cotton
No. Market St
Mobile’s
Windsor Cafe
Albert E. Reynolds
Proprietors—Colden A Brown
Giblin
South Warren ST
Xelgy
Underwood
Provost-Farrow Coal Co
Daily Item
Abraham
Lincoln
Nermmoen
Siam
Tissot
Douay
Cardinal Gibbons
Cardinal
Farley
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