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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1916
Page
2
A probate court notice outlines auto and motor vehicle licensing and registration dates. It lists tax brackets by horsepower, with fees for gasoline, electric, and steam-powered cars and higher rates for commercial use. Passenger vehicles are taxed by seating capacity, with specific amounts for up to five and more than five seats.
Arthur C. Tonsmeire returns to Mobile and partners with William W. Croom to launch Croom and Tonsmeire a general insurance firm covering fire marine liability and surety bonds. They bring sixteen and fifteen years respectively in banking and insurance with offices in the City Bank building and a move to 108 St Francis Street after November 1.
In Florence Alabama October 1 a stockade housing 65 state convicts burned at a foundry site. The fire’s origin is unknown but all prisoners were removed safely without injury or escape. Temporary quarters have been arranged for the inmates.
Text details license taxes for motor vehicles used to transport passengers for hire. Tax rates include sixty dollars for general licenses and forty dollars for intercity runs ten miles or more apart. Operators must file a written route description and display route terminals on the vehicle, with specific fees for motorcycles and sidecars.
John Neff fifty nine a native of Manile and former Royal street news stand operator killed himself with carbolic acid at his home 556 Charleston near Wilkinson He had sold his business ten days earlier and left notes including a poison reference His son said Neff had worries over finances and health Neff survived by son a sister and other relatives and held memberships in several local fraternal orders
The milk famine's first effects hit New York as dairymen and distributors clash over prices. Hospitals and homes with ill children will get priority supplies from distant sources though some milk arrives from Pennsylvania Delaware Illinois and Canada. The dairymen's league refuses to renew contracts under 4 34 cents a quart and an investigation is promised by Attorney General Woodbury upon distributors' request.
A strike of 800 employees of the Union Traction Company in Albany Rensselaer and Watervliet began tonight after the company refused to reinstate a motorman disciplined for passing a dead stop. The Albany local of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Rail Way Employes demanded public hearings for the accusers, which the company rejected.
The case against George Floyd charged with burglary was called in the recorder's court and continued to October 4. Floyd allegedly burglarized Willie Clemmons residence Saturday night and carried away household effects. The case against Hickey Smith for theft of an electric fan from Bohn's hall was continued until Tuesday.
Willie Halton of Oxford Ohio was arrested Sunday night in the restricted district by Detectives Newbern Harris and Officers C and Dean. He was described as a suspicious character and was testing new tricks and begging money. Recorder Edington sentenced him to five days in the police station.
Leading druggists from across the country gather for the forty second annual convention of the National Wholesale Druggists Association in Baltimore Md. The sessions run through Friday with discussions on major industry issues and business concerns.
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