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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1912
Page
2
A concise note reports teeth extraction performed without pain, highlighting a painless dental procedure. The brief mentions patient comfort and a successful immediate post operative condition with no complications recorded.
Ensign Andes Hardley Butler of the U S Navy, a Louisiana appointee to the Naval Academy and graduate of last spring, drowned in the Hudson River while returning to the battleship Rhode Island during presidential review. Seamen from the Maine aided eleven others after a collision. 200000 sightseers and 1.5 million onshore viewers marked the fleet day. Butler, 25, disappeared when he stepped from a private launch near the ship and was swept away by the tide. his body was not recovered.
For sale one General Electric continuous current motor 2 HP 230 volts speed 1900. Also about 26 feet 1 3 16 shafting six pillar black bearings six or eight small pulleys four to six inches one counter shaft with two large pulleys and hangers 50 to 60 feet 21 2 inch leather belting. All in good repair. Apply at Item Office.
A Mobile car motorman B J Dunn describes ten to twelve months of illness with neurosis nervous debility and digestive distress. He credits Stummatone from Sutton Bros Drug Store with restoring appetite sleep strength and mood and says his wife improved after taking it. Doctors at Sutton Bros tout Stummatone as bringing happiness to nervous men and women and promise no money back if it fails.
Six sailors on the Vixen made a perilous plunge to aid women in distress as the vessel foundered. All were rescued aboard the ship, though the operation proved difficult as time ran short and waves hindered efforts.
The Mobile Federation of Churches opened its winter work yesterday at the Y M C A auditorium with a crowd present despite weather. A series of weekly lectures was announced as part of the federation’s winter program, expanding the Men and Religion Forward Movement in Mobile. Mr Pettus, noted ex Mobilian, was introduced by Aubrey Boyles.
Thomas Rogers born in Dunleer Ireland June 4 1828 died October 5 in Mt Vernon Alabama after a long life in Mobile and Mt Vernon He served in the US ordnance department was a longtime businessman and is survived by two daughters a son and six grandchildren Funeral Mass at St Thomas Catholic Church Mt Vernon with Rev Philip McCormick officiating Honorary pallbearers and pallbearers named from old friends and local families.
William Barnegraff and George Washington two of four escapees from the Columbus state penitentiary were captured in Piqua Ohio after a freight conductor recognized them and notified police. The train halted and the convicts were taken off and returned to Columbus.
Information from Mobile reports the death of W H Bell a former prominent land deal promoter linked to the New York and Mexican Whiting Company He died aboard a tramp steamer in New York Bay near his home after returning from Mexico with typhoid fever Mrs Bell also died in New York Harbor as the steamer neared the port Bell lived in Mobile for years and helped arrange major land deals and colonization near the city and Baldwin County.
Havana October 13 Antonio Ayala a messenger for the National Bank of Cuba has been arrested in a case linked to the disappearance of a 200000 envelope supposed to have been sent by registered mail to the National Park Bank of New York on September 27 He allegedly carried the envelope to the post office for registry A bank scrutiny shows the noted envelope did not contain the missing funds Additional arrests are expected
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