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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1913
Page
14
Hartford watcher reports Pope Manufacturing Company placed in receivership with Col. George Pope named temporary receiver on a bond of 200000. The firm, maker of various motor vehicles, faces urgent financial action as the case develops.
Royersford resident Young reports severe bronchial trouble lasting three months. He credits Vinci’s remedy with easing breathing and chest soreness. The ad touts cod liver oil tonic and iron as curative, delicious tasting and guaranteed by Van Antag Tous Gore.
Charles Katz a New York brewer was sentenced to three to seven years in prison for grand larceny after the court of appeals upheld his conviction. He allegedly induced F A Heinze to post stocks as security for a loan and then manipulated the deal causing Heinze to lose forty nine thousand dollars. Katz and associates faced testimony from state’s evidence.
Rome Oct 29 Professor Boni reports excavations on the Palatine Hill revealing the imperial palaces of Nero and Caligula and Domitian with the throne foundation uncovered. Seven republican houses, a network of pipes and drains, and circular tufa rooms also found.
A Panama Peace Resolution urging universal conferences to foster world goodwill and arbitral jurisdiction was presented by Alford G. Bryant and unanimously adopted by the Southern Commercial Congress and its Woman's Auxiliary. The resolution calls US policy to be based on morals rather than expediency and urges citizen support for peaceful international relations.
A Mobile Chamber of Commerce gathering of secretaries from Southern commercial associations approved greetings to the Southern Commercial Congress and Woman's Auxiliary. Twenty two members attended as resolutions praised the chamber’s handling of visitors and an executive committee set a Wednesday meeting at the Montgomery headquarters.
Manoh Fitch of Kirksville Missouri drew No 1 in the government lands lottery for the North Platte forest reserve and Niobrara military reservation. Winners may file on appraised or unappraised land with Niobrara filing set for April 1 1914 and forest reserve filing November 17 1918.
Corporal John Hicks of the 100th Company United States coast artillery corps drowned during a race at the entrance to the sound yesterday. He was caught in a cable chain and swept overboard by the transport Merisn Keaton Anerentle.
Hazel Deane, a pretty artist’s model from the South, attempted death in Central Park after failing to gain honest work in New York. Taken into the home of Penrhyn Stanlaws, with Mr and Mrs Stanlaws offering support for her chance at success. Deane says beauty is the worst curse for a girl alone in the city.
M Williams of the Sample Williams Manufacturing Company in Jackson Alabama is in Mobile with the Chamber of Commerce to discuss locating a dry color plant for paint production using ore from a Jackson mine on the Southern Railway. He says Mobile likely to host a brick and tile plant as well, shipping face brick and drain tile before producing fine pressed brick for floors roofs and tile products.
Joseph Patuzel waited for Magistrate Corrigan in the New York court room and struck him on the head with a club. The umbrella was broken and the magistrate bruised. reporters restrained Patuzel and he was taken to Bellevue Hospital for observation. Patuzel had held a grudge since July 16 when Corrigan discharged his landlord.
Cody Wyoming October 20 Charles G Gates son of the late John W Gates died in his private car here yesterday afternoon of a stroke of apoplexy His body will be sent east by way of Billings Mont He came west about a month ago on doctors advice a hunting trip was planned and completed though exertion hastened his decline The hunt was successful for the sportsman but left him weaker last night there was a change for the worse despite efforts to relieve his sluggish heart he died
Charles G. Gates, who died yesterday in Cody Wyoming, had lived in Minneapolis about a year and a half. He married Florence Hopwood two years ago. In late 1912 he started building a residence valued at about $100 000 which remains incomplete.
Mrs. C. Hellmuth of Philadelphia reports twenty five years of eczema ending after using Resinol Ointment and Soap. She praises clear skin and ability to go outside, urging others with itching burning skin and pimples to try Resinol products and request a free trial from Dept. 21 R Baltimore.
Mr. Gates departed late August for a hunting trip in Wyoming and expected to return within the week. Mrs. Gates left for New York to stay with her mother-in-law, Mrs. John W. Gates, while he was away.
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