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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1913
Page
9
An Ohio druggist asks for Castoria formulas from The Practical Druggist. The journal refuses, urging use of the genuine Castoria and condemning substitutes mislabeling as Castoria, stressing the Fletcher signature as the trustworthy mark for mothers.
Work to begin on Mobile Lodge No. 321 Moose on a purposed site on Gov ent Street. A. H. Dunney of the Jaws informs bids are to be drawn for the building’s construction. Thomas Lewis of American Bonding and Mortgage Co. confirms funds are available to the Mobile lodge building committee.
Dr Brute Kimmis father of 13 year old Priscilla was jailed after being arrested for passing a 4 50 worthless check. He faces a charge of bad check operations in Los Angeles and San Diego two years earlier. Priscilla says her father had nothing to do with her conduct and that she cashed checks for Mrs Kimmis who has lived apart from him for six years.
Governor Slaton is expected to issue a proclamation within days to set a special election for Georgia's Second Congressional District to replace the late S. Roddenberry, following long-standing precedent that allows a call within thirty days after a death. The action would fix a date for the election to be held later.
A Morgan Memorial Services sub committee will pick churches and halls for October 28 memorials during the Southern Commercial Congress. Available venues include Dauphin Way Baptist Harte Auditorium Government Street Jewish Temple St Vincent's Hall McGill Institute Auditorium St Francis Street Methodist Sun Day School Auditorium and Knights of Columbus Hall.
George Hamilton a prominent planter near Grand Ridge Jackson county was murdered Wednesday night. His body was found in his wagon near his late home after returning from the cotton gin. Police suspect robbery of the cotton money as the motive. The adim is a product promotion for Dr Hobson's Eczema Ointment with contact details.
Owen Sherry a 19 year old Mobile boy was killed by a Texas state penitentiary guard after attempting to escape from a moving train several days ago. Sherry had prior theft convictions and was serving time for grand larceny when the escape attempt occurred. He reportedly wanted to visit his mother in Houston.
Harwell Douglass president of the state board of convict inspectors is named a delegate to the General Episcopal Conference meeting in New York City on October 9. He succeeds the late Major W. Berens. other Alabama delegates are J S Jemison and D M Drennen of Birmingham.
Cleveland Tenn October 3 The Holston Conference Methodist Episcopal Church South unanimously endorsed the college of bishops and minority Vanderbilt University board of trustees for declining a $1,000,000 Carnegie gift to Vanderbilt's medical school. The resolutions say the terms could not be accepted with honor.
In Toledo at the Vegetable Growers' Association of America convention, growers claim it costs Northern farmers 42 percent more per ton mile to reach Northern markets than Southern truckers. The group raised funds to hire counsel for the Interstate Commerce Commission case, totaling $2,000.
News from Mobile reports Mrs. E P Webb of Biloxi Mississippi sustained severe facial and arm burns Tuesday afternoon when an explosion caused by escaping gas from a stove ignited at her home.
Havre dispatch reports General Felix Diaz sailed yesterday for Vera Cruz. Meanwhile former President Porfirio Diaz has rented a villa at Biarritz for the winter, signaling plans to stay in France.
Washington October 3 President Wilson pardons the 12 year old Raymond Taylor after his mother’s appeal. She plans to take him to Fort Worth Texas for treatment on an arm broken while at the reform school.
Special to The Item from Montgomery reports Governor O Neal was gifted a bound copy of The High Cost of Living by Thomas W Lawson of Boston. The book, printed in 1000 free copies for lawmakers and officials, argues causes of rising living costs, including high taxation, and invites the governor to return it if found unhelpful.
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