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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1914
Page
10
The article recounts Mrs. T. G. Cunningham of Waco Texas reporting severe rheumatism relief after using Vitalitas. She waited for wet weather to test the remedy and an extended cold norther brought full, lasting improvement. She now recommends Vitalitas to sufferers of rheumatism and other ailments.
Washington October 21 Democratic Leader Underwood kept order to prevent a quorum vote blocking the war revenue bill sent from the Senate. Texas Representative Henry and southern allies shifted to join the house banking committee to push their direct cotton aid proposal as a possible final amend ment. The maneuvering spared Underwood a parliamentary clash though he remains strained and unwell after 18 months of pressure.
Off Pensacola Florida on October 21 Captain William Bisneck of the schooner Hope fell overboard near the navy yard. The Austrian steamer Lucia crew caught a 12 foot shark and cut open its stomach revealing a leg identified as Bisneck’s. The leg was found with the shoe still on. The body was never recovered and the shark may have attacked a dead or sinking man.
A Montgomery bank publishes thousands of pamphlets by Southern cotton experts arguing that a large 1915 cotton crop would harm the industry long term. The leaflets urge reduced cotton plantings and delaying sowing to April 25 to curb boll weevil damage while warning credit may tighten for bulk cotton loans.
An old time remedy, Wyeth s Sage and Sulphur Compound, is sold for 50 cents at drug stores. It darkens gray hair evenly, restores color, and helps with dandruff and itchy scalp. Apply with a sponge or brush strand by strand to the hair.
The fragment lists a street name and a kitchen item, indicating a historic note about a rye bread and butter sandwich. The readable text is limited and lacks clear events, dates, or identifiable organizations.
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