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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1912
Page
4
A vintage advertisement touts Knowlton’s Danderine as a cheap, easy way to achieve soft, lustrous hair with no dandruff. It claims visible fullness in ten minutes and new hair growth after about two weeks, asserting it stops hair loss and treats itchy scalps.
In Mobeogee Oklahoma Oct 11 bandits robbed State Bank of Council Hill of about 2000 dollars. A running gunfight with a citizen posse followed after nitro glycerine exploded awakening three townsmen. They used powder from a hardware store and bloodhounds were used to trail the robbers.
An explosive test in New York harbor caused a premature underwater mine detonation during a government efficiency exercise. A launch towed a net and a fish collapsed as water shot up over 200 feet. Federal officers attribute the mishap to tretol, a German explosive used in the Fifty fourth Company Coast Artillery Corps mine practice.
A well known stage figure urges beauty through a healthy liver and warns against calomel. Dodson's Liver Tone is advertised as a pleasant vegetable liquid that gently starts the liver and relieves constipation and biliousness, with a 50 cent guarantee if it does not replace calomel.
A Mobile chamber committee investigating port charges adjourned to Monday as towboat men are invited to testify. No shippers volunteered to speak despite invitations to numerous firms, including Hunter-Benn & Co and United Fruit Co, as the panel compares Mobile fees with other Atlantic and Gulf ports.
Miserable catarrh and cold sufferer find relief with Ely's Cream Balm. It cleanses and heals sore membranes, relieves discharge, and eases blocked breathing within minutes. Safe ingredients with no mercury or cocaine. 50 cent bottle sold by G. Van Antwerp and son.
The Gulf Coast Baptist Association gathers at First Baptist Church Biloxi with about twenty-five churches from Harrison Hancock Jackson and George counties represented. The annual sermon was given by Rev J E Barnett Moss Point and OO T Bowen was re elected moderator with J L Taylor Gulfport as clerk and treasurer.
Four masked bandits attempt a hold up on a Kansas City Southern train between Hatfield and Mena Arkansas. Express Messenger Merrill Burgett is badly beaten after defending hidden valuables, a robber is wounded and captured, and a posse hunts the others. The robbed packages remain missing with authorities pursuing.
Prominent business leaders will meet at the Chamber of Commerce and Business League this evening at 5 30 to discuss the White Way proposal outlined in yesterday's Item. The plan aims to illuminate the main retail thoroughfare and Government Street from Conception to Catherine. Members show strong interest and a large attendance is anticipated.
Abe Spira of the firm Spira and Pincus is reported slightly improved after a good night and brighter appearance with pleasant weather.
Dr. G B Nesom former U S government agriculture head in the Philippines spoke at Mobile First Baptist Church urging Southern farmers to plant cane and grow sugar to reduce imports. He cited 3 689 000 tons of U S sugar consumed in 1911 and praised Philippine cultivation methods with slides. He will lecture again during his Mobile visit lasting weeks.
The body of A. B. Holmin, formerly of Carroll County, was found in a vacant fare near Indianola Mississippi. A murder committee is alleged to exist under unwritten law and Arthur Seay is being sought by the sheriff as Holmin’s alleged killer.
The Agriculture Department reports country's minor crops and cereals are 5 to 32 percent larger than last year. Composite crop conditions on October 1 were better than a year earlier in all states except North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Michigan, Tennessee, Alabama, New Mexico, Arizona, Idaho and California. South Dakota led with a 113 percent improvement, followed by Oklahoma 65 percent, Kansas 60 percent, West Virginia 58 percent, and North Dakota 48 percent.
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