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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1914
Page
7
Elbert Marsh and Clarence Harris, both described as Negro, are being held in Mobile after Pensacola police charged Marsh with stealing an overcoat and Harris with possessing and selling the stolen item. Pensacola officials were notified and actions pending return.
The Maaschode reports Queen Elizabeth of Belgium is ill and confined to bed due to overwork in Red Cross duties during wartime. The illness was learned to have arisen from her Red Cross service obligations.
In Columbus on November 30 a barrel of red apples labeled help yourself appeared in the governor's office. Frank E. Long sent the fruit to back his wager on tax reductions after a speech promising a five dollar hat for a lower tax rate. Long declared he would pay $15 less in taxes this year.
Federal authorities raided a New Orleans home seeking Pascual Riviera alias Hoffman in a white slavery plot tied to Mrs. Taylor who sold her 17 year old daughter to him. The daughter Mrs Hoffman and Mrs Anita Riviera were seized as witnesses.
The Isle of Orleans near Quebec is being scoured for secret gun and ammunition caches amid reports a German owner built a concrete gun base and a film crew staged battles there. No weapons have been found as searches proceed across the 20 by 7 mile island near the St Lawrence River.
Zurich dispatch shows Swiss mobilization expenses totaling 100 million francs roughly 30 million dollars. Financed by higher import taxes on spirits and increased telephone and telegraph rates.
Mark A. Savelle chief petty officer of the United States battleship North Dakota is in the city for a several week visit. He is the guest of his parents Mr and Mrs J M Savelle 29 South Reed Avenue.
A sheep farmer and a West man meet in New York after a few misdirections. A staged charity windfall leads to a lunch and a supposed will gesture, with a fake bond of proof and a promised $10,000 each. The tale ends with the Westerner recalling little beyond the bar.
The Hallett Manufacturing Company rebuilt its factory north of Beauregard street near One-Mile creek after a fire destroyed the old plant. The new facility sits south of the original site on Lerio Turpentine property and will reach full capacity with thirty five machines and about eighty workers including river crews on the Warrior and Tombigbee. Output over the next three months is planned for export to Glasgow London Havana and Argentina with agents at those locations. The company makes golf sticks broom and axe handles sledge and hoe handles hatchet and hammer handles miners tool handles and cant hooks.
Appetite follows digestion and many suffer from constipation and headaches. Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is promoted as a natural remedy combining laxative herbs with pepsin. A free trial bottle offer is advertised from W B Caldwell in Monticello Indiana.
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