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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1913
Page
7
In Eland Ohio Judge Willis Vickery ruled the go dance taught by a teacher is permissible. The case involved a pupil and an injunction against a hall order. The judge ordered the hall inspector not to interfere with the teacher as the dance was found to be entirely moral.
The AP reports in Washington that the nomination of William H. Leavall, related as minister to Guatemala, was confirmed by the Senate yesterday. The appointment follows years of service in public life and aligns with U S diplomatic postings in Central America.
Chicago reports a 553 percent rise in automobile fatalities from 1907 to 1912 amid a national surge. The city logged 15 deaths in 1907 and 92 in 1912, with other major cities showing double to quadruple percent increases across metric years and populations.
The Alabama Good Roads Association reports broad county representation. Delegates announced include Mayors, doctors, engineers and business leaders from Houston Jefferson Russell Fayette and other counties. Names list numerous individuals appointed to attend the convention.
Granville R. Huggins of Murfreesboro is imprisoned at Mazatlan Mexico on charges of abetting rebels by the Huerta government. A letter from U S consul William A Agler to the First National Bank of Murfreesboro asks for funds for his defense. The family fears whether telegraphed money arrived in time. Huggins, a former member of the First Tennessee in the Philippines, has since lived in the west.
A weight gain pitch urges thin readers to use Sargol tablets to absorb fats from food and build healthy flesh. It claims rapid cheek fullness and body firming, with a refund guarantee from Van Antwerp Drug Co. and other druggists.
An old home recipe uses sage tea mixed with sulphur and alcohol to darken gray hair and stop dandruff. A commercial product Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy offers a ready to use tonic at about 50 cents a bottle.
President Wilson rises early and goes to union station to greet Mrs Wilson and daughters Margaret and Eleanor returning from Cornish New Hampshire. They arrive healthy and are escorted to the White House for breakfast with Jessie remaining in the East.
Dr. Frederick P. Clark, medical superintendent of 2000 insane at Stockton asylum, reports that 85 percent of curable patients have been cured by a hydrotherapy involving hot and cold water and electric vibration. About a quarter are incurable. 1500 show wonderful improvements as restraints are removed and daily sessions of eight to ten hours in water or ice packs with electric light baths and mild exercise are used. He notes high apparatus costs but expects overall savings and restored bread winners.
New Orleans on Oct 17 local police arrested Gaetano Russo and found a complete counterfeiters outfit in his home. He was turned over to federal authorities and charged with counterfeiting after months of surveillance tracing spurious dollars half dollars and dimes passed locally. Russo denies manufacturing the money.
Col Robert M. Thompson, Wall Street broker, pleaded not guilty in federal court to a superseding indictment charging conspiracy with James A. Patten and others to corner the cotton crop of 1909. The other defendants also pleaded not guilty. Thompson was abroad when the pleas were entered and was released on $2,000 bail for trial.
President Wilson commuted the life sentence of Richard C. Neal for aiding a 1907 post office and railroad station robbery at Claringdon, West Virginia. Neal, noted as a king's medal holder, had claimed British allegiance and lived in Dallas and New Orleans.
An ad claims Cascarets cure dizziness headaches biliousness and sour stomach by cleansing the stomach and removing constipation. It promises a box for 10 cents and states the product works while you sleep, with relief by morning.
Joseph B. Willard of Virginia arrived in Madrid yesterday to assume the role of American ambassador to Spain, traveling with Mrs. Willard.
Oct 17 Col Peters, a brigade commander, was sentenced by court martial to 15 years imprisonment for deserting his post in an engagement against the Greeks.
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