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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1915
Page
8
Whistler Alabama reports church notices with Rev Francis son pastor and Rev Heywood Taughan at Baptist church. Local civic notes include personnel changes at Saint Pauls Episcopal and pentecostal service. Community updates cover school enrollment at Whistler public school and events such as old time dancing and Maccabees meeting.
In New York a raid on a woman's poolroom in a West Side apartment ends with the death of Emma Casey said to be the wife of a Jersey City merchant. Police report fifty women present with racing charts and betting seen in the kitchen. A note on the floor reads Mother owes me $2. A remark about men and bull dogs follows.
Funeral for Joseph Bowles Jr. at Prichard home follows a brief illness. burial at Wolff Ridge Cemetery. Burial of Mrs. Julia Palmer Brewton at 9 North Jackson Street. she was 28 and died suddenly on October 20. She leaves husband Royal L. Brewton, parents Mr. and Mrs. Palmer, a son Harry, sisters, a brother, grandmother, and many relatives. Pallbearers named W T Henley R G Fountain S Pritchart M T Judge T B Judge M Martin.
The Karen of Munson Line will be hauled out at Ollinger & Bruce Dry Docks for repairs. Echo hauled out for repairs after colliding with government tug Horace Harding near beacon 12 in the lower bay. Peerless departed harbor Saturday night bound for points on the upper river. Corinthia arrived in harbor in tow of Claude. Tarpon of St Andrews and Gulf Line due in port Monday with general cargo and some ore.
Walter Crim of Salem Indiana leads a photo tour of Mobile county's convict camp at Bayou Sara for North region highway officials. The camp houses about eighty convicts in tents and pullman cars with dog patrols and sanitary facilities. Crim notes public concern over convict labor but says the trip will publicize Mobile and showcase camp operations.
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