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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1913
Page
4
Reports from the Santos coast area indicate significant seabed changes after recent disturbances. A cable repair ship mapped depths of around 1,000 feet, contrasting with older charts, suggesting deeper conditions off the coast near a town fifteen miles away.
Martin C Fosnes, pivotal in exposing the 1900 Cuba post office scandals, died of a heart attack in a St Paul hotel. At his death he served as assistant postmaster of Minneapolis, having previously been a Chicago postal inspector.
Seattle on October 17 Associated Press reports Laurence Duke son of tobacco manufacturer Brodie Duke will be held on a manslaughter charge after a car crash that killed Henry Farr and injured Alfred Hoglund and Thomas Simmons. Prosecuting Attorney Murphy said the steerage gear breakage cited by Duke occurred after the collision with the Hoglund car. Duke failed to gain bail.
In Tampa on October 17 Governor Park Trammell said a decision on calling an extra legislative session to enact land laws preventing Japanese ownership had not been made. He is studying whether Japanese are undesirable landowners and noted no evidence of large Japanese settlement in Florida. Whether a special session occurs depends on his findings.
An advertisement extols Danderine a 25 cent hair product claiming to remove dandruff nourish the scalp and make hair fluffy lustrous and long. It argues the solution reaches roots and strengthens hair with a single application and invites readers to purchase it from drug stores or toilet counters.
Congressman Conry said Assistant Secretary Post assured no action by immigration would stop Emmeline Pankhurst from addressing a Madison Square Garden audience. If detained she would be released on bond, treated like any other immigrant on arrival in New York.
Four rats trapped Tuesday in an old waterfront building tested positive for bubonic plague at the city health department laboratory. Health Commissioner believes the rats recently came ashore from an Oriental liner.
An advertisement touts Q-Ban hair color restorer as a safe no dye solution that returns original color, strengthens brittle hair, and reduces dandruff. Claims it makes hair look 17 or 18 again with brown black or auburn shades, offering a $1.50 refund if unsatisfied. Sold in Mobile Alabama at Van Antwerp Drug Store with mail order option.
Secretary McAdoo ordered the dismissal from government service of George L. Snyder a book keeper in the life saving service for anonymous charges against Captain Sumner I Kimball and the life saving administration. T H Maxwell was reprimanded for aiding the spread of the allegations. Comptroller Downey found evidence of disciplinary slackness but ruled the accusations against Captain Kimball false.
London slum worker Mrs Armiston Chant arrived from Liverpool to denounce Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst and militant suffragists. She heads a British delegation to the Women’s Christian Temperance Union convention in Brookline October 23 and condemns Pankhurst’s tactics as shameful propaganda in this country.
In Yale news Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels argues for compulsory voting. He says sovereign voters abdicate citizenship duties and compares voting to jury service, bearing arms, obeying courts, road work, and tax payment, urging a mandatory ballot in national life.
Twenty Catholic nuns from the Sisterhood of the Incarnate Word flee Monterey for Tampico and Galveston aboard the Hainault and Waneta oil tankers along with 16 British subjects ten Mexicans and one American. Consul Hanna reports 155 Americans started for Tampico by train as railroad links between Monterey and Laredo remain suspended.
Mrs Griswold Thompson formerly Miss May Van Allen daughter of James J Van Allen of New York and Newport arrived from Liverpool and faced customs officials over her claim of foreign status since marriage in London to Mr Thompson. Authorities questioned her nationality and she declared twenty five trunks as American under protest. Gems found in a belt on Mrs Thompson’s maid were seized pending case.
Rosewell New Mexico October 17 Prof H G Hammer entomologist with the United States department of agriculture was accidentally shot and killed by C J Leland a druggist of this city while hunting in the Capital mountains Hammer had married two months earlier his widow is Miss Mary Horner daughter of a Parkersburg West Virginia newspaper man
Victor E Palmer secretary and field director of the Michigan Buggy Company filed a personal bankruptcy statement in Kalamazoo showing liabilities of 1 656 278 and assets of 21 122. Eighteen banks across the country hold notes bearing his signature.
Seven men drowned when a cave in trapped them as a creek overflowed the Vogel Lignite Company mine near Rockdale Texas. About fifty workers were underground. the rest escaped as heavy rains flooded the shaft following the creeks overflow.
Manuel Bonilla former minister of communications in Madre’s cabinet sailed from Vera Cruz in disguise aboard the Hamburg American liner Krollprinzessin Cecilie. He feared arrest and boarded the ship which was due to sail at 1 o’clock for Cuba Spain England and Germany.
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