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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1914
Page
8
Fairfax Harrison of Southern Railway spoke at the eighteenth birthday celebration of the Alabama Girls Technical Institute in Montevallo. He discussed women’s expanding roles and argued higher education once reserved for men opened pathways for women to self support and independence.
Captain Albert E. Erb aged 44 native of New Brunswick died after brief illness at 62 North Ann street Mobile home for twelve years last commanded the British schooner Goldfields operating Mobile Cuban ports survived by wife three children and a brother in law Erb member of Odd Fellows in New Brunswick and listed among local relatives. Bayou La Batre Ala Oct 19 Albas defeat Thoss Club in Federal City League game with clean fielding and standout pitching by Rowell Anderson and Goldman contributing to the loss.
Madison Wisconsin October 19 scientific uniformity rather than catch as catch can legislation will be discussed at the governors conference November 11 to 14. About thirty governors and ten former governors will attend Secretary Miler G Riley said he has a letter from President Wilson hoping to attend. Another topic concerns states rights over natural resources within their borders. The rural credits committee report will be made by Gov Emmet O Neal of Alabama.
Grand Duke Nicholas decides to fight on Russian territory with a frontier line from the Carpathians south of Przemysl to the San and Vistula rivers. German attacks along Warsaw and the front are repelled as heavy rains complicate operations. The article notes strategic use of terrain and railways in shaping the battle and implies German logistics are strained.
Directors of the Chamber of Commerce United States touring the South with three new commercial attaches. They plan meetings with Mobile merchants and manufacturers while visiting Mobile en route to nine Southern commonwealths. Attaches include Weditz to Paris Hale to Buenos Aires and Thompson to Berlin.
Petrograd dispatch details fighting on the Vistula with German losses said to exceed 2,000 after a river crossing near Josefow and Ivangorod. Russians used hidden guns and quick firers to repel German river crossings and push the enemy back toward Warsaw.
Fire Sunday night destroyed the Old Brown Home at Spring Hill, owned by Frank R Smith. The blaze started from a defective flue, damaging a century-old mahogany collection and valuable antiques. Loss partly insured. the house known as The Brown Home dates back nearly 100 years.
Willie Kyles Abe Austin John Davis Emmett Robertson and William White were arrested Sunday by Deputy Sheriffs Delchamps and Lynch on gaming charges and locked up in the county jail before being released on bond. The officers say the men were playing skin at the time of arrest.
In Blountstown, Calhoun County, three white men Ben McDaniel B M Franklin and Matk Davis were found guilty of second degree murder in the Eunice Johnson case. Johnson a negro body found in a creek. Sentencing likely life imprisonment. A second negro death occurred as a material witness. Trial proceeded rapidly for a murder case in west Florida.
An advertisement urges readers to take Cascarets to banish headache biliousness constipation and sick stomach. It claims relief from sour undigested fermenting food gas and excess bile, promoting a sweetened regulated stomach and comfortable digestion.
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