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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1912
Page
6
Searchers depart Mobile to scour Blackhead Island after a person is reported missing in morasses. Team members plan a thorough island sweep, following a score of volunteers heading to the scene to aid in locating the lost individual.
The British steamship Melford Hall arrived Sunday to load a cargo of cotton for Liverpool. Consigned to Mobile Liners, she was shifted to Pier 5 for unloading, with ten steam winches and thirteen derricks for fast handling. Also noted were arrivals and movements of Daybreak, Fort Gaines, Lady of Avon, Mallory Hner Alamo, Kiori, and J. P. Shuch in Mobile waters.
By 2 PM no word had reached Mobile on the fate of W W Strong cashier of the Mobile Electric Co and treasurer of the Mobile 321 Loyal Order of Moose who disappeared yesterday on Nigger Head Island in Middle River about twenty miles from the city A large search party would sail on the Beaver later today unless news arrived The island is flooded in many areas four to five feet deep
A Mobile Electric Company cashier, W. W. Strong, is missing on Nigger Head island as a large search effort gathers. Fourteen to twenty rescuers, including R. E. Flower and Max Weisner, push through the swampy two mile wide strip while others, led by Henry Spotswood, report a hard journey and possible survival signals.
The Item received from Henry Hess a hundred photo engravings of Woodrow Wilson for free distribution. The pictures are worth framing and present an excellent likeness of Governor Wilson. They may be obtained by applying at The Item business office on St Emanuel Street.
A. L. Marty of Moragues Lumber Company reports Texas mills are preferred as Alabama and Mississippi mills are overwhelmed with orders. Exporters including Bay City and McGowan Timber struggle with railcar shortages and turn to Texas for supplies to meet rising European and South American demand.
Fears grow for the safety of Strong after he vanished on the river island two miles wide. Searchers fear bogs, wild game, alligators, snakes and exposure threaten him while hopes rise that he may be found en route to the city. Relatives and friends await news from the electric company office.
Do not overlook the Weinacker's sale event titled Cash Bargain Day on Wednesday October 30. See Specials in last Sunday's Item for details and featured discounts.
Mayor Schwarz and Police Chief Crenshaw inspected winter metropolitan uniforms yesterday. Officers shown in new caps will be ordered to wear them. some hats remain in good condition so caps may be adopted only for those on duty at the station. Patrolmen Connelly and New each received $25 from liquor dealers’ association for arrest and conviction of William Taylor, a Water Street restaurateur fined $260 for prohibition violations.
The barkentine Mary Barry, laid up at Mobile, towed by the Monarch, left for St Andrews Bay Ila to load lumber for Porto Rico at a Florida port. Captain Stewart, new master formerly of the Penobscot, will command and has Gulf and Caribbean experience. The vessel was inspected by the Revenue Cutter Alert and rumors of filibustering were denied by brokers Thomas Thomson.
United States engineers announce the dangerous Mobile ship channel curvature is eliminated as the Wahalak finishes the new straight cut near Battery Gladden. The old tortuous route will be abandoned, allowing ships to dock without tugs and reducing delays and losses from groundings. The dredge is now digging the 27 foot connection and will move for passing vessels.
The Crown Theatre presents The Woman in White with doors opening promptly at 10 20 a m to avoid lines. Admission is six cents.
Dr Andrew Sledd president of Southern University spoke at the Y M C A in Mobile arguing that discipline at home is essential to boy development. He blamed lack of scientific training and urged prevention through home church and school as key agencies, stressing environment over heredity and that what parents do shapes boys before age eighteen.
Maple Camp Woodmen of the World unveiled thirteen monuments to departed sovereigns in Magnolia cemetery. Large attendance included members and relatives as services were held at each grave. Monuments honored W E Walker Fred W Hines John Bauer and others with palms placed by R L Davidson and Geer Nelson.
New York October 27 a $25 000 emerald ring given to General Ulysses S Grant by the emperor of Japan and inherited by his daughter Mrs Nellie Grant Sartoris Jones has been lost beyond recovery. The ring disappeared six quarters ago when dropped in a water vent at a Fifth avenue hotel bathroom during dress. Searches in hotel waste water and city sewers within a block of the hotel have been exhausted with no return of the ring.
The Mobile excise commission heard John R. Danzy's petition to move his license from 7 St. Francis street to the southeast corner of St. Medeor and Davidson streets. No action will be taken until next Monday.
Wm A Allen of Chacon New Mexico reports his wife nearly choked by a cough. He tried many remedies before Foley's Honey and Tar Compound helped her at once, calling it the best cough medicine he has heard of. Antwerp Drug Corporation advertises the product.
Congressman George W. Taylor asks Mobile Chamber of Commerce and its business league to send a delegation to the Tooimbigbee River Improvement Association gathering in Columbus Massachusetts in late November or early December. He cites a survey and calls for active business backing to advance river development linking Ohio and Mississippi and bringing Mobile closer to St. Louis and Pittsburgh. The chamber authorized a ten member delegation but the wider appeal remains urgent to ensure project success.
In Anderson Indiana on Oct 27 nine teen workers were reported blinded after gazing at welding light from an electrical process on a trolley wire. Dr E W Chittenden attributed inner eyelid irritation to intense light triggering rapid bacterial reaction.
Thomas Ross of Maysville was arrested Sunday afternoon by deputies Lynch and Delchamps on a grand larceny charge. Special Officer Schreiner of the Louisville & Nashville road alleges Ross stole a sample case from a passenger on a train that arrived in Mobile on Saturday. The case is valued at 35 dollars.
John P. Mayo of the Tombigbee Valley Improvement Association writes to a district official urging a Columbus hearing on canalizing the upper Tombigbee. He asks contact with congressional colleagues Board of Trade Mobile Cincinnati Chicago Pittsburg Paducah Knoxville Chattanooga and others for support and data on tonnage and production across several river basins.
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