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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1915
Page
10
Several hundred Italians settle on the western slope of the Baldwin watershed to grow vineyards and olive and fig orchards. The sun, tempered like in their homeland, yields unusually productive soil with twelve inches of worth per foot.
The Daphne area Italian colony restarts after law halts wine production. Juice from unfermented grapes and pickled olives become new markets as H. H. Bolton sacks the wine trade, while Baldwin lands draw in farming interests. Local developers from Baldwin, Michigan, and British Columbia invest in orchards, pecans, and copper prospects along the Mobile route.
A hungry old man, George Midt, 60, stole a loaf of bread in Cedar and Dauphin streets. The judge dismissed the case citing a difference between crime and misfortune. Another man, Antone Christensen, confessed to stealing binoculars from Captain M Nelson and was discharged on a suspended sentence.
Old home remedy described for restoring gray hair using Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound. The formula darkens hair naturally, helps with dandruff and scalp issues, and is applied with a sponge or brush strand by strand.
Chamber of Commerce farm demonstration department faces retention on member pledges after first day of volunteer work led by J. Leslie Taylor. Backing from inactive members grows, with several divisions reporting cordial reception and pledged cooperation. A substantial fund-raising effort continues as directors prepare a Saturday morning report and possible department retention contingent on dues. Grocers and merchants urged to aid through Buy-in-Mobile and to favor Made-in-Mobile goods when possible.
Montgomery Oct 8 Special Attorney General William J L Martin asks Solicitor Melvin Hudson of Morgan County to assist in prosecuting Solicitor David C Almon of Decatur, who faces impeachment charges in the supreme court on November 4. Almon is charged with corruption in office and moral turpitude, with neglect of duty. Ouster proceedings followed Morgan County grand jury recommendations.
On Monday October 18 the officers and directors will host an at home in the bank building on St. Francis Street to mark the golden anniversary. The bank, organized under the national banking law in the 1860s, is the oldest national bank in Alabama with fifty years of operation and resilience. Anniversary cards were sent to patrons and friends describing the event and appreciation for continued relations.
Rev. Howard Walker of the Episcopal ministry passes through Fairhope en route from Weeks Bay to Mobile, staying overnight. J. S. Rabb and wife of Philadelphia visit his father Captain Rabb in town. Rabb, special officer for the Pennsylvania Railroad, praises the Southern resort amid muddy weather as Knights of Pythias plan to open a new Castle Hall with an oyster supper soon.
William Spencer and his Michigan family traveled eight years ago with fifty dollars to Baldwin county near Stapleton. They paid twenty five dollars on ten acres, built a house and structures, cleared and cropped the land, keeping payments current. His cropped field shows thirty five acres of corn on virgin soil, fertilized with nitrate of soda, with his initial fifty dollars yielding substantial land value.
Kw A Zavitz and wife return from the North to occupy their cottage on Fels avenue. J W Ettel and wife head to Lake City Fla for winter, after staying in their Fairhope cottage. J M Pilcher reports strong interest in the upcoming community fair with ready exhibits. A remarkable bay front painting by C E Littlefe is featured. Dr Beggs will move to Fairhope avenue as permanent resident. Mass meeting votes to urge sidewalks on Fairhope and Mobile avenues to the women's club house and to delay further improvements until bonds for electric lights and water works are approved.
Local boosters in Mobile County push a bay shore highway from Bayou la Batre to Coden. A Mobile business man pledges 25 dollars to start the movement, aiming to raise and elevate the road to withstand floods and attract tourists despite recent storm washouts. A party of Illinois tourists found the route poor during a county tour, underscoring the need for improved access.
A northern ad claims Vitalitas cures insidious ills by correcting mineral starvation. It asserts nine of ten may be helped, blaming refined foods for mineral loss and touting Vitalitas as a mineral tonic restoring vigor. Sold at Sutton's Drug Store and by druggists.
Fragmentary OCR text suggests a discussion of remedies women have long sought. It mentions a woman considering a remedy she has searched for, implying a human focus and medical or social context without clear specifics.
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