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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1916
Page
5
David Douglas pleaded guilty in the recorder's court and was fined 50 dollars for violating prohibition law. Minnie Cole's case, charged with the same offense, was continued to October 21 after police reported finding prohibited liquor at her residence at 107 Gracie Street.
One thousand Yaqui Indians petition General Calies of Sonora to grant amnesty and allow them to join the Carranza army. Separately, Jim Collins and Chris Andrews face prohibition charges and are held on bail. Deputies report multiple liquor raids on Royal, Windsor, Pine, Congress, Locust streets and related stands.
A vintage price listing shows Postum Cereal in large package at 220 Grape Nuts priced per package at 14 cents and 50 cents. Mixed Tea sold per pound at 300 Hudnut's Metal and Grits priced per pound up to 4 cents.
Washington Oct 20 Major Charles de F Chandler of the signal corps named head of a new division to oversee free and captive balloons dirigibles and related plants He will train officers and men for balloon service with a school at Fort Omaha or Akron and bids for two spherical and two kite balloons issued to form the first equipment for the branch
The article states captive balloons will aid artillery observers at Fort Sill Oklahoma. No plans to build Zeppelins. small dirigibles may be used as the aviation section matures. A department policy may create a separate service if larger airships are developed.
Rev S W Roberts longtime star of the Broad Street Methodist church died in Eutaw Alabama on Wednesday. News reached Mobile Thursday. funeral held in Putaw Friday. He led the Eutaw and Moundville churches. Survived by his widow two sons Milton and Eugene two daughters Mary Ella and Louise Roberts and a brother.
An old remedy for gray hair, Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Compound, is sold in drug stores for 50 cents. It is applied daily with a sponge or brush to strands until the gray hair darkens naturally. The product is advertised as a toilet cosmetic, not a disease treatment.
Jim Williams alias Speedy, a Negro, was sent to the county jail by Judge Edington to await February grand jury action on alleged theft of a car casing and two inner tubes from Mobile Auto Company. He was arrested late Thursday by Detectives Newburn and Harris on grand larceny charges. bond set at $500.
Miss Margaret Fitch a longtime resident died Thursday afternoon at the home of Mr William Laurendine in Toulminville after a long illness She was 67 a native of Pensacola Florida and a devout member of Xavier's Catholic church Survived by relatives in Mobile and Pensacola Burial was held Friday afternoon in the Catholic cemetery.
Mrs. Jennie C. King of Bladon Springs Ala died Friday at 1 AM in a local infirmary after a long illness. She was 51 and survived by relatives in Bladon Springs and other areas. The body was taken by Roche Burke and sent to Bladon Springs for burial Friday afternoon.
Postmaster J Blocker Thornton warns in Washington and locally about counterfeit postal money orders presented at stores and saloons. He notes crude designs but cautions businesses and individuals to scrutinize for differences from genuine forms.
New agreement with the New Zealand postal administration sets a prepaid rate of two cents per ounce or fraction for letters between the United States and New Zealand, in both directions. Unpaid or underpaid mail will incur double short-paid postage. The notice warns recipients to verify genuine money order forms with pale blue paper and diagonal watermarks.
A vintage advertisement touts Shivar Mineral Water as a permanent corrective tonic with a money back guarantee. It promises delivery anywhere by Van Antwerp Drug Corp mobile distributors and encourages readers to phone for service.
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