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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1916
Page
5
Police raid a West Side hotel nets twenty seven arrests as Judge Landis probes gambling networks. Confessions reveal Sportsmen's Club ties to saloons and slot machines with police protection. Mayor Thompson denies responsibility.
Dr. Robert A. Lambert reports a method to cultivate human tissue after removal from the body so it may continue to grow. The technique uses added fowl plasma to resist digestion and has sustained growth in vitro for months through subcultures, possibly indefinitely.
Mrs W C Brown of 1109 Auburn Avenue Cleveland Ohio reports four weeks in a hospital with continuing pain and fainting. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with rapid improvement and urges others to obtain a bottle at their drugstore and write for free advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co.
A debate on feminism and the postwar role of women in Europe explores whether women will seize political power and public life or retreat to domestic roles. The exchange weighs marriage, motherhood, independence, and the future balance of power between the sexes across France, Germany, and England.
In the October issue Gertrude Atherton explains feminism as the awakening of woman to her own consciousness and the move of women from the backwaters into the central stream of life. She notes earlier demands for equal rights were mainly intellectual not political or social.
Distribution of 27,090 reserved seats for the World Series games in Boston between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Boston Americans began today. Successful applicants appeared at Fenway Park box offices as notices of allotments arrived by mail, with preopening distribution to curb congestion at Braves Field.
Washington society buzzed over the engagement of Prince Andrea Boncompagni of Rome and Miss Margaret Preston Draper of Washington. The prince, on leave from the Cross of Malta, will wed October 25 at the Draper home.
Police and club officials unveiled plan to sell admission seats at 1.00 and 0.50 from side offices to avoid last year’s crush. Gates open at 9 am on game day, 15 000 rush seats fill quickly. Boston players train at Braves Field as Carrigan schedules light practice.
A committee of Satsuma growers from Mobile appeals to Gulf Coast residents to join December 9 for Satsuma Day. Letters sent ask families, merchants, and the press to cooperate, attend, and continue backing the industry after last year’s success.
Prichard School Improvement Association met Monday to map betterments and seek parental cooperation. Finley McFadyen urged broad participation as committees were formed to raise revenues, including a 25 cent yearly entrance fee for all members.
In Quitman Mississippi Judge Tann of the chancery court district ordered the term for October 9 pretermitted to October 16.
Large sale offers fall coats dresses suits and coats for ladies and misses from $5 to $15. Includes serge dresses silk poplin gowns and new fall suits with fur trim. Also school dresses boys and girls outfits with low prices and numerous accessories. High school books discounted and many small school supplies sold cheap.
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