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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1912
Page
3
A dated verse promotes the Gold Dust Twins as two helpers easing domestic chores. The piece extols their work reducing kitchen drudgery from post meal cleanup to general tidying, urging housewives to seek their assistance to end daily troubles and find joy.
Professor Emory R. Johnson of the University of Pennsylvania says Congress erred by granting free tolls to American coastwise vessels through the Panama Canal. He projects toll relief would cut canal receipts by about 2.59 million dollars yearly, suggesting direct subsidies of 2.5 million to selected lines and a self supporting canal with 15.5 million annual fixed charges and a 25 cent rate for 100 cubic feet of net tonnage.
J J Clemmons announces candidacy for Judge of the Inferior Criminal Court of Mobile County and respectfully asks the public for support at the November election.
The White Sulphur Springs Company, linked to the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, plans a 1 million dollar brick hotel this winter at Hot Springs, Virginia with 300 rooms. Directors voted to increase capital by 1 million, project financed through Frank A. Vanderlip, with Fred Sterry likely to manage.
In the Becker trial begun in New York, Louis Krause the Hungarian waiter identified "Gyp the Blood" "Lefty Louie" and "Whitey Lewis" as the gunmen who killed gambler Herman Rosenthal outside the Metropole. He also identified Jack Sullivan as the man who bent over the corpse. The defense cross examination raised questions about the identifications.
A force of about eighteen hundred rebels led by Ceche Campos wiped out most of a 165 strong federal detachment near Herma between Jimenez and Torreon. Only 17 federal soldiers reportedly escaped. Four officers died including Colonel Tello whose body was allegedly displayed on a telegraph pole after being killed. Eighteen federals were captured and their ears cut off. The flag bearer, urged to surrender, refused and was shot. The battle occurred on a wooded public road, with the rebels holding the advantage and the engagement short.
Government seeks to dissolve the American Naval Stores Company of Savannah under Sherman Act. The suit names individuals Edmund B. Nash Spencer P. Shott er J F Cooper Mey ers C J Deloach George M Boardman and Charles Moller as defendants. The government alleges the trust arbitrarily fixes prices for turpentine and rosin.
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