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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1912
Page
7
A report notes an item left between Kaiserhoff Hotel and Palace jewelry store including a fur neckpiece and two in back. The notice instructs returning to Kaiserhoff and promises a reward. Time reference 11 29 81p.
A local notice advertises Madame Pauline in Princess Flora's former stand at Spring Hill Crichton area. Located at the corner of Spring Hill and Burton Avenue with a sign on the house the service promises to help and advise, daily from 9 a m to 9 p m and Sundays.
In a Catholic News account, Cardinal Farley reports his four week Western tour as a revelation. He notes vast, underused lands and growing religious and material prosperity. Salt Lake City impressions include Mormonism waning in polygamy and cordial Mormon officials inviting him to the tabernacle organ recital.
An extra fifty days was imposed in the recorder's court on Henry Sneed after he escaped from the city work gang and was recaptured. Sneed faced a hearing before Recorder Edington on the escape charge Friday afternoon.
Recorder Edington ordered Alex Anderson, found loitering near the Louisville and Nashville depot, to furnish a $100 bond for good behavior or serve ten days in jail. The sentence was passed Thursday afternoon, Anderson beginning his prison term immediately.
Fresh bait shrimp just arrived from Perez Fish and Oyster Co located at Hamilton and Charleston. Announcement dated 11 28 21.
Burrell Oates, a Black man convicted of killing Sol Aronoff of Dallas, was hanged at Waxahachie after seven trials and two statute changes. He faced repeated legal battles, with six juries finding him guilty and one deadlocked, marking a notable episode in Texas jurisprudence. Separate items note coast boxing preliminaries organizing a union seeking 35 dollars per fight, and two rental notices from the same issue.
A fortune teller named Madame Orfeanker operates in a tent on Government street loop offering predictions at 26 cents with a satisfaction guarantee. The notice appears dated 11,27-7tp.
Meridian Misa, Nov 30 Chancellor Whitman awarded Newberger and Levy cotton dealers $7 694 95 damages for Pelzer Manufacturing Company refusing a contract cotton shipment The case tests the constitutionality of South Carolina’s boll weevil law under Interstate Commerce provisions.
Four men including Dr Edward B Stalhutte alias Ijoc Paully and Dr Nicholas H Kern were arrested in Chicago on November 30 for links to a gang stealing automobiles motorcycles clothing and leather. A warehouse stash was found with tens of thousands in loot and a police matron recovered a full goods list from a woman arrested with the men. Todd led detectives to the warehouse and claimed operations were split between stealing and disposing of loot. Stalhutte denied involvement as detectives traced stolen cars to a farmer in Illinois. Detectives say the gang used Barn storage and various fronts to move loot. Railroad workers and chamber leaders named as witnesses and suspects are cited. A conference in Washington opens with Pan American Union head John Barrett and a task force from the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce plans to invite South American ambassadors.
Hotels ban communal cotton puffs in vanity rooms to curb germ spread. Ritz-Carlton and others now provide individual cotton pads or sanitary alternatives, with staff promoting single use towels, toothbrushes and germ protected combs. Women increasingly use personal puffs or disposable items for hygiene.
The Atlanta chamber of commerce announced the railroad, steamship, cotton trade and manufacturers sections for the Panama Canal conference meetings to be held December 19 and 11 in Atlanta. W W Finley of Southern Railway is named railroad section head and J W Porch of New Orleans Progressive Union leads the steamship group. W A Erwin of Erwin Cotton Mills heads the cotton trade section. G Gunby leads the manufacturers section.
Tarrytown reports Walt Storms recounts a midnight ride near Sing Sing prison when a headless horseman tale turned eerie as a riderless automobile sped past Nancy the mare. He says the empty driver’s seat and moonlit shadows echoed Ichabod Crane, a mix of fear and disbelief.
On a Gassaway VA suspension bridge over the Elk river observers watched as one end burned away on Friday. A crowd of bystanders plunged into the water but all were saved by grabbing cables or wreckage. One man is reported in serious condition.
Peter Jackson was arrested for disorderly conduct and fined 2.50 or five days in jail by Recorder Edington Friday afternoon. Jackson gave notice of an appeal and the bond was fixed at 100.
Orleans parish grand jury indicted commissioners L. J. Burgeois T Thriffley and William Kinsella of the Ninth ward first precinct for false returns in the general election. They reported sixteen votes for and 192 against the debt refunding amendment while the jury counts show 66 total votes 26 for and 40 against.
A dispatch from Belgrade reports Prince George eldest son of King Peter of Servia has been brought to Belgrade with typhoid fever. His condition is described as serious.
John W. Sibben cashier of the First National Bank of Manistee pleaded guilty in U S court to embezzling 44300 dollars from the bank and was sentenced by Judge Sessions to sevente en six months at hard labor in federal prison at Fort Leavenworth Kansas
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