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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1915
Page
2
No school Friday as Gulf Coast Exposition hosts School Day. Children arrive early in best clothes as fairs offer ten cent rail rates for students and teachers. Canning Club Day and Citrus Day feature exhibits and prizes with carnival features for kids.
Navy officials announced that submarine F-4 will not be repaired after extensive damage from a March incident in Honolulu. Twenty one officers and men lost their lives in the incident and the boat will be scrapped or retired rather than rebuilt.
A 1900s clubwoman recommends liquid silmerine applied with a toothbrush at night to create natural looking curls by morning. She promises a fluffy natural effect with no grease or streaks and calls it a harmless dressing for the hair.
Margaret Hamilton offers readings claiming second sight to reveal your life from infancy to old age with names dates and facts about you and loved ones. She advertises guidance on love business and domestic matters and promises results with hours daily at Shell Read nion opposite McMillan's drug store. Readings during fair week priced at 50 cents to 1.00.
The American schooner Charles Noble Simmons is believed adrift in the Gulf of Mexico between Mobile and the Texas coast after the towline to the steamship Wennebec broke in a gale west of Mobile bar. The Kennebec reported the loss and efforts to reach port at Three Port, Texas.
Hans Engelbert of Mobile Alabama was brought to the city hospital after being stabbed several times in the lower body at Toi nette Alabama a Southern Railway station. He was taken to hospital for treatment. Details of the assault were not learned.
Advertises Mi-o-na as a universal stomach relief with a money-back guarantee at druggists, including Van Antwerp Drug Corporation. Claims rapid improvement within days and long term digestion benefits, urging readers not to endure dyspepsia.
A guest, Herbert S. Field of Scranton, hails Mobile’s harbor and Bienville Square, praising the city as attractive and well bordered by solid business backing. The Gulf Coast Fair draws many visitors including Carl Brown, Eugene Rounsville, and others from Alabama, Florida, and Louisiana, with coverage of hotel listings and attendees at the Cawthon and Bienville houses.
Congressman Oscar L. Gray and other local leaders praise the Gulf Coast Fair in Mobile. They cite strong agricultural and livestock displays, educational value, and the fair as a sign of regional progress and potential for future exhibitions.
J. M. McDonald assistant manager of the Mississippi building at the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco directed gates tickets and admissions at the Gulf Coast Fair. He wintered at Kiln Miss and came to Mobile for treatment where Secretary Mort M. Bixler prevailed on him to help run Mobile's big show. He praised Mobile residents for patronage and called the Gulf Coast Fair the greatest livestock and agricultural exhibit in his fifteen years as a fair secretary.
Mizpah Lodge No. 222 of the Brotherhood Railway Carmen of America will hold its regular meeting Thursday night at Odd Fellows Hall at 7 o'clock. Miss Bessie Liversage, traveling representative and demonstrator for a popular toilet article brand, is home briefly. A gasoline tire machine in the shops exploded Wednesday morning injuring machinist P. G. Connors on the left arm and lightly injuring his colored helper. both are not seriously hurt. James Kane of New Orleans and his wife Grace Ellen are visiting Mrs. Smith. Whistler hosted a well attended minstrel show last night.
A long OCR fragment lists numerous individuals and their hometowns across Alabama Mississippi Tennessee and Georgia. Names include Alas A PF Smith Robertsdale T B Pace Satsuma J M Wigfield McIntosh M H Clayton Wallace Mrs H W Padgeth Irvington S H Hanson Jacksonville J A Sprinkle Dauphin Island E B Shepard Mount Vernon A J Brewer Montgomery Savage Mr and Mrs J B Bartles Atlanta GA Joseph Vaun Nashville TN E H OConnell Montgomery T E Donlein St Louis John Savage Chattanooga H C West Chicago FF C Conley Lima and many others with town designations such as Foley Waynesboro Biloxi Evergreen Vinegar Bend Mt Vernon Saluipa and more.
An advertorial touts four ounces of Rad Salts from a pharmacy to flush and stimulate the kidneys. It warns meat-eaters may suffer from sluggish kidneys causing rheumatism headaches and other ailments and recommends a daily tablespoon in water before breakfast.
A Ford was found in police possession at the head of Government Street by Detectives Noah Harris and Tom Boltz. Three men Will Harris of East Lake Edward Bruce of Birmingham and Robert Mills of Bessie confessed to stealing it from Dr. R. S. Glasgow of Adamsville. Bruce confessed the plan was to reach New Orleans to sell the car but funds failed and they attempted to sell it to a local garage. Bruce claimed a false name Ed Gordon Manly and an address in Birmingham. A letter with the car and engine numbers matched the recovered vehicle. Dr. Glasgow will arrive tonight to reclaim the car and decide further action.
Mobile Athletic Club resumes Monday night with Soldier Jess Smith of Fort Morgan facing Young Holden of Pensacola in an eight round main bout. Jimmie Quinn meets Harry Thomas in a six round semi final, with Kid Hogan facing Hammering Joe Smith in the preliminary.
The consecration of Father A J Schuler as bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of El Paso was celebrated in Denver. Archbishop J B Pitaval of Santa Fe officiated with Bishops Henry Granton and Patrick A McGovern assisting.
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