Fifteen Orators to Honor Morgan at Canal Celebration
Mobile panels announce a memorial service program honoring Morgan as Father of the Isthmian Canal. Fifteen halls and zones will host services October 28 with national figures, patriotic music, and a Mobile song set to music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgan Memo Services Commission
Pananal
John E. Mitchell
I T
Morgan
Hall
McGill Institute
Knights ‘Columbus
Harte
Fish Temple
Christian Church
Mitorium of
Mobile
Mitchell
Canal
Peaie
Organ
Isthmian Canal
Lumberman J. R. Wallace Arrested for Speeding
J R Wallace a lumberman was arrested Tuesday morning by Motorcycle Officer L S Ludlow on a speeding charge. He was released on bond to appear in recorder s court Tuesday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. R. Wallace
Oficer
L. S. Ludlow
Mr. Wallace
Recorder'’S Court
Shipping masters held for grand jury in shanghaiing case
Two Columbus boys Smith and Clark testified they were lured by Oberkirch and Shirley to work as cabin boys on the bark Mincio. The hearing before U S Commissioner Richard Jones Jr resulted in bond for the two ship masters while the grand jury will review the charges in Mobile later in November.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles W. Oberkirch
Harold Shirley
United States
Richard Jones, Jr
Emmett Smith
McLaren Clark
Columbus
Mincio
Federal Grand Jury
Smith and Clark
Mobile
Oberkirch
Shirley
Rio de Janeiro
Jones
Grand Jury
J. B. Sloan
Teach Your Child How to Be Healthy
An advertisement extols Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a mild laxative tonic for infants and all ages. It claims quick relief from constipation and related ailments, touts safety, guarantees results, and offers free samples by mail from Monticello Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bertha Woodard
Moul- Ga
Everyon
Caldwell
Dr. W
Washington St
Monticello
Grain dealer representatives head to New Orleans meeting
Eight Mobile grain dealers and chamber officials travel to New Orleans for the Grain Dealers National Association convention. They will discuss uniform grades proposed by the U S Department of Agriculture and the need for a local grain inspector after the Mobile Chamber dissolution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
New Orleans
Grain Dealers’ National Association
Don Farnsworth
Chamber of Commerce
States Department of Agriculure
New Oreans
Ccal
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce and Business League
Starke
Alabama Corn Mills
Harry Majerski
St. John’s Company
Lee Zimmern
Wolgast and White Sign Up For Milwaukee Bout
Ad Wolgast and Charley White, both lightweights, signed for a ten round no-decision bout in Milwaukee on October 24. They must weigh no more than 133 pounds at 6 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Milwaukee
Wis
Ad Wolgast
Charley White
Free Trial Treatment Sent By Mail For Men’s Weakness
Free trial mailings offered by Dr John Howell to men suffering from weakness due to youthful folly and aging. The home treatment Enervita is claimed to provide warmth and targeted strength, with a free sample sent to any man who writes to Dr Howell in Cincinnati Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John
Howell
Johns. Howell
Auditorium Building
Cincinnati
Ohio
Take Salts to Flush Kidneys
An old health ad describes meat digestion producing uric acid that overworks kidneys. It promotes Jad Salts to neutralize acids and flush urinary waste, claiming relief from dull kidney pain, headaches, dizziness, coated tongue, and bladder irritation. It urges a tablespoon daily in water before breakfast for a few days.
Murder Puzzle Still Mystifies in Bloodgood Street Killing
The body of Will Davis, Peters' restaurant cook, was found in the river after a head wound. Johnny Williams confesses involvement but accuses Spencer Davis and Napoleon Lott. police tie motive to a woman, not money. Other defendants in Recorder's Court include Ragsdale and Annie Ruffin. Nick Peters is cleared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Davis
Peters
Bloodgood Street
St.Joseph
Johnny Williams
Johnny Jones
Spencer Davis
Davis
Nick Peters
Williams
Washington
Lott
King Haywood
Sadie Goldin
Dennis Lynch
T.T. Palmer
Recorder's Court
Ragsdale
Annie Ruffin
Alice Tate
Malissa Evert
Andy Gay
Cora McCloud
Will Hudson
Joan
Mobile River
Lipscombe Street
City Plumbing
Walter Potter
Potter
Panama Canal illustrated book promoted with vivid color plates
A promotional piece extols Panama and the Canal in Picture and Prose, a large volume with six hundred illustrations, water color studies, and gold stamped binding. Willis J. Abbott researched in the Canal Zone, and The Item offers the book via six certificates, plus a smaller text version without color plates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama Canal
Panama and the Canal
Panama
Great Canal
Culebra
Canal
Willis J. Abbott
Canal Zone
Promenade des Toilettes Show Brings New York Models
On Friday and Saturday Hammers displays the season's finest apparel modeled by New York fashion figures in the second floor promenade des toilettes salesrooms. Oct 14 at
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hammers
Living Models
New York
Alma's Operator Cuts Cotton Rate On Mobile Route
W M Eanes the Alma's local agent announces a flat 50 cent per bale rate for cotton brought to Mobile. The schedule expands from Mobile to Selma, lowering costs 25 cents from rival steamer rates of 75 cents. Local cotton men split on impact, some say no effect while others expect increased Mobile shipments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
W. M. Eanes
Alma
Selma
E. D. Peppers
Fairhope to Robertsdale Electric Line Plans Advance
E B Gaston editor of the Fairhope Courier visited Mobile and spoke positively about the Fairhope to Robertsdale electric line in Baldwin County. He stated that all arrangements are in place to float bonds and the company hopes to have the line operating next spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. B. Gaston
Fairhope
Mobile
Robertsdale
Baldwin County
Cold snap nears September low record at 54 degrees
Local Weather Forecaster Albert Ashenberg notes the present cold spell has reached within one degree of September’s lowest temperature. The 54 degree low was recorded Monday and Tuesday mornings, close to the earlier trough.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Ashenberg
Peruna Promises Relief from Digestive Ailments
Advertised letters praise Peruna as a cure for catarrh and stomach issues. James P. Bracken of New York reports dramatic appetite and digestion recovery after a month of Peruna. Other readers from Winona and Watervliet share similar improvements and urge home use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James P. Bracken
43Rd St
New York City
N. Y
Frank Richter
East Second St
Winona
Minn
Peruna
Michael Rooney
Fifth St
Watervliet
Charley Sing Secures Marriage License
A Chinaman laundry owner on lower Government Street obtained a marriage license to wed Lizzie Ladrne, a colored woman, after Clerk Price Williams delayed action to study Alabama law on interracial unions. Williams noted Chinese intermarriage with colored individuals is not prohibited by state law, per brief from attorney Carl Irwin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charley — Sing
Lower Government Street
Lizzie Ladrne
Price Williams
Probate Court
Williams
Carl Irwin
Sing
Alabama
Postage option explained in Panama Certificate offer
An offer explains that either volume can be mailed for an extra postage fee, with the exact amount detailed in the Panama Certificate shown in another column of this issue. Readers are urged to clip the certificate today to avoid delay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama
ILA Leader OConnor Asked to Return to Gulf Port Assignment
National ILA President T. W. O'Connor was asked by District President J. J. Fricker of Galveston and local President A. R. Green to return to Mobile to have the stevedores and ship agents sign contracts with officers of the new Negro local of the ILA. Employers refused the request at a Monday night conference. Fricker said the push for higher pay for coal handlers at the port was ongoing and hoped for a satisfactory coal dealers agreement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. W. O’connor
International Longshoremen's Association
J. J. Fricker
Galveston
Tex
A. R. Green
Mobile
Fricke
Gulfport
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Boyle M'Laren Clarke
Lad
Boyle Emmett Smith
Bertha Lee Woodard
First National Bank
The
Bank of Mobile
National Banking Association
Wolgast and
WHITE
Cook
Case
Ge-Rardy
Price the Phil. P. Cresap Company
Lil Hew
Louisizas
Charley Sing
Negaress
O'Connor
ILA
ALL’ Druggists, Or
E. Fougera & Co, Inc
Burroughs
San Francisco
Inventions Service Department
Burroughs Adding Machine Co
F. J. Petersen
Sales
Mgr
St. Francis St
Mobile, Ala
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