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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1916
Page
8
The London papers report the British government banning the News Service from transmitting American news by cable amid accusations of garbled and false reporting tied to Hearst outlets. The move is praised by editors for punishing falsification and defending press integrity.
For 47 years the soothing antiseptic balms have led coughs and relieved congestion. Old and young testify to the misery of coughs and colds. Buy a bottle today at your Druggist for 50c.
Eddie Jackson a minor filed suit for 3000 damages claiming personal injuries while employed by Truman G McGonigal. Lorena Hudson mother of Jackson seeks 1500 for loss of her son's services during illness. William Robinson sues Munson Steamship Company for 1800 claiming injury while loading timber on a vessel August 18.
The Chronicle asserts government action depriving the International News Service of telegraphic and mail facilities. It argues the move targets not Hearst papers pro German bias but repeated publication of news falsely attributed to the United States.
London officials block the International News Service from using the official press bureau after multiple false London to New York cablegrams cited by home authorities. The IN S is barred from all facilities and from transmitting news until further notice.
Health notice urging readers to use GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules to prevent and treat pains and potential illnesses. Warns kidneys stomach joints and headaches may signal serious conditions and promises money back if ineffective. Advertises substitutes as inferior and claims product purity.
State of Alabama sue s Mobile Tow and Wrecking Company stockholders to force call of an annual meeting. Thomas I Cook and others claim majority stockholders control board, but J M Walsh R F Pope and John A Dorgan hold over as directors and thwart the meeting.
Petition states officers’ conduct justifies a receiver but company is solvent and can pay debts. Petitioners seek to protect stockholders’ rights to join with others owning a majority to elect a capable board and manage affairs in the best interests of all shareholders.
AP report states the steamship El Rio rescued seven men about 250 miles east of Savannah. They were aboard the waterlogged vessel Bunn or Dunn and are being taken to Galveston. The Dunn, owned by A. C. Cummins of Philadelphia, left New Orleans September 10 for Barcelona.
Dublin Oct 11 — Lord Wimborne the lord lieutenant says the front line Irish division will require 30000 additional troops before Christmas. He notes prewar strength of 34822 regulars with colors and reservists, and cites mobilization figures as soldiers were drawn from various parts of the country.
Judge Sheppard on assignment in Florida federal court sentences Hans Thompson and Fred Uffelman for conspiracy to smuggle $15,000 worth of jewelry into the United States. He laments New York morals and fears temptation amid taxi fares and hotel charges, sentencing each to thirteen months in Atlanta federal penitentiary.
Moberly Missouri Ira Landrith the Prohibitionist vice presidential candidate says Missouri cannot win a dry fight due to heavy St. Louis vote. He cites seventeen thousand saloons closed nationwide and urges Missourians to join the water wagon to balance power in close states.
Three thousand tobacco workers in San Juan joined a sympathetic strike with longshoremen and cart men who had been out for some time after refusing a wage increase. They rejected offers of twenty cents an hour plus thirty cents overtime. current pay stands at sixteen and a half cents hourly with twenty-five cents overtime. Shipping statewide was at a standstill.
Italian readers follow German submarine actions off the American coast with keen interest. The Giornale D Italia argues the sinkings aim to influence the American political campaign rather than merely inflict damage on ships.
Amsterdam dispatch reports a German submarine in the English Channel from September 30 to October 5 destroyed seven merchantmen of hostile nations and three neutral steamers. The entente allied ships totaled 4,031 gross tons and neutrals 2,357 tons. Another submarine on October 4 sank three English trawlers off the east coast of England.
Reports from field headquarters say Villa’s main body advances north along the Mexico Northwestern line toward Madera. Madera, about 60 miles from El Valley, is said to have fallen to Julio Acosta, one of Villa’s leaders, as the punitive expedition presses north.
Montgomery, Oct. 11. The Alabama treasury opened the new fiscal year Oct. 1 with a deficit of 2,356,215.31 dollars, about 419,334 dollars more than the start of 1916. Outstanding warrants stood at 2,439,573.65 dollars, with 83,368.34 dollars left in the treasury reducing the deficit. The deficit is being funded by the National Park Bank of New York, which will hold warrants until January 15 when they are presented for payment. tax receipts arriving in October and the last two months of 1916 are expected to bolster the treasury.
Publication of the year end treasury condition will disappoint lawmakers who argued the state would be out of debt. Alabama figures show deficits grew from an early year forecast, with John B. Weakley and others predicting funds by April 1 but obligations mounting. The March deficit reached 1,433,937.39.
The February 20 estimate predicted a deficit of 1 489 983 74 dollars if demands rose late in February, missing by under sixty thousand. A morning April 1 update confirmed the October 1 fiscal year start would bring a deficit over 1 500 000 dollars, with indicators of it being larger.
New York October 1 A man claiming to be Morris Berman 30 was arrested on a technical charge of vagrancy after police say he was seen near a tenement where 11 year old Tillie Brown was found murdered. He appeared in blood stained clothing according to an arresting sergeant.
Allied aviators dropped bombs on Stuttgart yesterday evening causing small damage, according to a Reuters dispatch from Rotterdam. The report notes no casualties and mentions damage to minor targets in Stuttgart and London.
A P shatters his own telegraphic record in a Brooklyn Boston game sending 18 circuits from the park to 400 offices. The delivery covered about 26000 miles of wires with instant transmission from Bangor Maine to Tampa Florida and to numerous points across the Associated Press network.
New York report finds no German submarines or Entente warships seen by steamers arriving from the east and south. No unusual sea activity observed, vessels state.
Lloyds reports a substantial rise in merchant shipping under construction for the three months ending October 1. At that date 469 vessels were building totaling 1,789,054 tons, about 259,000 tons more than the previous quarter and 253,000 tons more than a year ago.
Wisconsin legislature passes two bills in a seven hour special session. One bill enables soldiers on the border to vote with ballots delivered by a secretary of state messenger and counted at home, while elections are run by guard officers. A second bill permits absentee voting by mail for citizens outside the state.
Berlin reports a bill for a new twelve billion mark credit will be submitted to the Reichstag. The precautionary measure is due to the shrinking margin between the June 1916 credit of 52 billion marks and the 47 billion marks raised by five war loans. The government anticipates floating the loan next spring, using existing funds and short term treasury notes to bridge the period.
The Winston-Salem leaf tobacco market sold 404 835 pounds at an average price of 17 40 per hundred yesterday, nearly double last year’s peak. Warehouses cannot catch up soon. about 600 000 pounds remain dagens in six hundred wagons tonight.
A vintage ad urges immediate relief for stuffed heads and tight chests with Dr Bell s Fine Tar Honey. It promotes honey glycerine to heal membranes and antiseptic tar to loosen phlegm, claiming easier breathing and cold break up for children and adults at 25 cents.
In St Louis the Protestant Episcopal Church opens its forty fourth triennial convention with an organized session. Bishops march into Moolah temple to choose a successor as chairman of the house of bishops and a president of the house of deputies. Delegates announce press access may be allowed. tent meetings will accompany the sessions.
The ceremony included Bishop Tuttle assisted by Rt. Rev. Huysche Wolcott Yeatman-Biggs of Worcester England and Archbishop George Thorneloe of Al Gom a Ontario. In communion administration other bishops attended including H H Montgomery secretary of SPG, David Williams Huron, Cortlandt Whithead Pittsburgh Boyd Vincent southern Ohio and Ethelbert Talbot Bethlehem.
Helen Davis, a Negro, was fined $25 and costs or twenty days in jail by Recorder Edington on Wednesday. Evidence showed she assaulted and cut Will Jones, a Negro, with a knife.
Acids in the system accumulate and poison the blood causing numerous diseases affecting the skin and mucous. S. S. S. purifies and nourishes the blood for over half a century. It is a vegetable tonic claimed to cleanse lines and waters and tone the system. Call for it at your list and do not accept substitutes.
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