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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1913
Page
28
Judge Dolan frees Mary Whiting amid a quilt ownership dispute after a white boy clings to the aged black woman who raised him for thirteen years. The boy Richard pleads to stay with Mammy as she and the child depart arm in arm.
Frank A. Mitchell, 42, a Kansas City teamster, learned from an X ray at General hospital that he had a hangman’s fracture in the second and third cervical vertebrae. He was injured two years ago when a switching accident caused a fall. Doctors expect recovery though his neck will remain stiff.
Washington article reports Surgeon Rupert Blue warns travelers face ongoing danger from impure water on interstate trains. Despite Public Health Service orders abolishing drinking cups, state cooperation and funding gaps hinder enforcement. Blue seeks more resources and state officials’ support to ensure water quality nationwide.
A storefront at 60 Government St offers job lot shoes sold under wholesale prices and shoe repair services. The owner invites customers to try the shop, promising better repairs than expected and indicating the business is doable for lease.
In Greeley Colorado Sheriff McAfee learns how Dan Cupid slipped into the county jail through a corncob pipe bowl. A letter from Virginia Caldwell Martin reveals Graves, serving 60 days, corresponded with her after reform talks and support from Sheriff L. J. McAfee. Graves has since left town.
An eight mule team moves parcel post mail from Boise Idaho to Jarbridge Nevada, a remote northern town, via Pocatello Ogden and Death Valley. A Jarbridge merchant uses the zone rate to ship groceries to his store at a saving, despite the route covering over 700 miles.
John Cassel of Anthony near Muncie Indiana, once befriended Daniel Palmer a wealthy rancher who died in an Iowa village. Cassel, named chief beneficiary, sent a lawyer to Iowa to settle the estate after Palmer left most of his fortune to him for caring for him during illness and until recovery.
Charles L Kennedy, recipient of $100 from his brothers, hobbled home to 1069 West Fourteenth Place Sunday night with his wooden leg. He stored the money in the bed foot and slept. the leg later appeared moved to the window sill. A traveling man once grew tired of travel and wished to return home.
In Connersville Indiana on October 26 Loma Rays friends search the river for his body while he supposedly hides with a girl in Brasil Ind after leaving a cryptic note on his bicycle handlebar near a deep riverbank prompting a city wide chase though the text is garbled and incomplete.
Richard Vernon received a note stating his son in law Ray was worn by grief after his wife and baby died a year earlier and had gone to the river to drown his sorrow. Vernon later found Ray's Sunday clothes missing from the room.
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