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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1912
Page
11
The ad claims Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are a scientific compound that aids digestion by supplying stomach digestive agents. It promises quick relief from indigestion and urges taking one tablet after large or rushed meals, noting many prominent men carry them at banquets and that they sell for 50 cents a box.
Dr George B Adams of the Rockefeller Institute led a large turnout at the Battle House auditorium for a Chamber of Commerce and Business League gathering. Dr Dowling health officer of Louisiana was absent. Dr Seale Harris G H Fonde Charles A Mohr and John T Cochrane spoke. motion pictures showed New York tenement sanitation and fly prevention.
The pope's private physician Dr. Guiseppe Petaci died in Rome today. He had served as the pope's physician since December 1906, and the pope was greatly affected by the news. Dr Ettore Marchiafava was named consulting physician in his place.
An old style advertisement touts Stuart's Buchu and Juniper Compound as a quick remedy for kidney and bladder symptoms. It promises relief within a week from scalding urination and related ailments, citing a large bottle price of $1 and offering free samples by mail from Atlanta and Mobile distributors.
Mobile Alabama resident Josie Kopf shares a long tale of backache and kidney pain eased after using Doan's Kidney Pills. She bought at Van Antwerp's Drug Store and reports full recovery after two boxes. Foster Milburn Co. of Buffalo distributes in the United States. Remember the warning: remember the name Doan's.
Mobile Lodge of Perfection Scotish Hire Masons meet tonight to elect candidates for the nineteenth reunion to be held here in late November. Drill teams of the fourth fifth ninth tenth and eleventh degrees are asked to report this evening.
Horticulturists meet tonight to form the Mobile Horticultural Society. A committee including H. P. Loding Miss Maria Minge H. A. Demeranville and Wyndham Lyon will lead the gathering. If formed the group plans an exhibit at the Chicago land show.
In Salisbury and Hickory a Roosevelt campaign stop was thwarted by student cheers for Wilson and a Taft Republican skirmish. At Asheville he spoke briefly from the platform before a locked train car, then left in the chilly air as the next station arrived twenty minutes later.
President W P G Harding of the First National Bank of Birmingham will speak at the Alabama State Land Congress to be held November 12 13 and 14 in Mobile on how banks can aid agricultural development. The event is backed by major state chambers and newspapers with 1000 land owners expected to attend.
At the American Roads Congress session in Atlantic City on October first manufacturers agreed to contribute one third of one percent of gross returns for 1913. The pledge will create a fund of about fifteen million dollars for road improvement nationwide.
A Gulfport Mississippi blaze destroyed 500 feet of creosoted Gulf and Ship Island railroad pier along with one flat car and a new pile driver. Estimated loss is $75,000. Authorities believe the fire started from a live coil on the coil hoist.
G. Van Antwerp & Son's Drug Co. offers Samose, a concentrated flesh-building food with a money-back guarantee if it does not increase weight and restore health. The Mobile agency promotes the product as aiding digestion and extracting from food the elements that form flesh and strength.
Generally fair and cool conditions prevail over the eastern half with light frosts in the upper Ohio Valley. A drifted high barometer crest sits over the middle Atlantic states while another high moves eastward lowering temperatures in the North Pacific. Low pressure over the Rockies brings warmer air and frost-free nights. Mobile area expected fair weather tonight and Thursday.Albert Aschenberger.
Advertises wool plaid blankets at 4 1/2 pounds and woolnap blankets in white or grey priced at 3.00. Cotton blankets offered at 2.00, claiming comparable feel and appearance to wool. Notes other sellers charging 4.00 to 5.00 for similar goods. Local buyer urged to act on full size bed blankets.
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