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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1912
Page
3
France forms a national commission led by the finance minister to study causes of falling births. Five committees will address administration, military impact, infant health, family support, and gender education. A new postal rule may require proof of identity for general delivery mail.
The Dora reports Mount Katmai eruptions October 24 and a week of earthquakes across Homer Seldova Kodiak and Uyak. Ashes six inches deep blanket Kodiak aiding fertilizer while salmon packs suffer. Government seeds to natives planned for spring plantings. Cannery owners expect rains to purify streams.
Special to The Item. Biloxi Mississippi November 29 Rev Wm Megginson announces a series of revival meetings at his East Howard avenue church starting Sunday December 1 The opening sermon will be preached by the pastor with Dr A Brown of New Orleans joining Monday Dr Brown leads city missions for the Presbyterian church and is a noted preacher and vocalist during his meetings across the state
A dispatch from the governor general of the Philippines reports a November typhoon that devastated three fourths of Tacloban, Leyte, the island's worst disaster. Capiz also suffered heavy damage as relief ships are prepared for the stricken city with 14 000 residents. death toll not yet estimated.
J Frank Hickey admitted killing Josephs, a Lackawanna boy, whose dismembered body was found in a cesspool, and Michael Kruck, a New York newsboy, ten years earlier. He claimed liquor fueled the killings, expressed remorse, and said he would face punishment. He awaits arraignment on murder in the first degree.
The body of Michael Kruck, a victim Hickey claimed to murder, was found in a Central Park excavation on December 10, 1902. Death resulted from strangulation. Hickey, picked up in Buffalo in a drunken state, confessed in delirium but later repudiated the claim and was released for lack of evidence.
In London a playful social mockery of tall facial hair ends with a husband mistaking his own look for a master’s arrival. His wife’s quip at dinner shatters the pose and triggers a barber’s bustling day in the West End.
Republican Leader Mann predicts a short winter session will yield few major laws beyond appropriation bills. He says the session length allows little time for careful consideration of broad measures as he returns from a Panama Canal trip with the House Appropriations Committee.
Bonds with a face value of 14000 were found Friday on the Waco city dump by three laborers while burning weeds. They had disappeared June 5 from two registered mail sacks en route from the post office to the railroad station. The paper was insured for 140000 and the insurance company offered 1000 reward for return.
London reports the death of W. S. Penley born 1852 famed for Charley's Aunt and long time comic figure at the Criterion Theatre under Charles Wyndham. He was a pocket edition of mirth with a sonorous voice and innate humor that sparked laughter without words.
A Ottumwa Iowa woman, Harriet F. Wamler, says years of female troubles improved after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She urges others to try the tonic, noting its roots and herbs and decades of testimonials.
A program featuring Leonard and Alvin with Scarecrow Dancers at an exposition by Five Bragdons Fun Vaudeville Agency. M. P presents next Sunday a five reel performance.
A schoolmaster turned chapel performer and clerk at a city warehouse, the man moved from Bow Churchyard lace-work to the Globe Theatre as a callboy. He rose to fame and retired wealthy, later suffering neurasthenia and cancer. He proclaimed he was not funny but serious, aiming for a pathetic Robsonian role.
A Loganport Indiana passenger train to Chicago was delayed two minutes when a woman in a hobble skirt could not board. She attempted three times to step up. the conductor hoisted her into the vestibule and quipped, We'll surely have to get gangplanks for you Women.
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