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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1915
Page
2
Foreign values surged at the opening, then fluctuated violently with rapid up and down moves. By noon the tick showed declines and recoveries as traders reacted to shifting margins and unsettled sentiment. A separate report notes a burglary at J. S. Marshall’s home on Dauphin street with several pins-stained shirts stolen.
Flores Howard, famed as the "Queen of the Mardi Gras in 1914," appeared among Dixie's celebrated dancers, performing before 26 governors during the Governors' Conference just held in Boston Massachusetts.
Advancement and progress were shown as Fairhope Colony voters narrowly approved municipal ownership of waterworks and electric systems. The nonbinding vote, 61 to 4 for water and 58 to 6 for electric, signals council plans to prepare bond financing while waterworks is running and electric plant remains in embryo.
The beauty notice promotes liquid silmerine to curl hair overnight without heat. Applied at night with a brush, it leaves natural looking waves by morning and keeps hair glossy and supple for weeks. The product is claimed harmless and non sticky.
Chief of Police Washington James, badly beaten by two escaping prisoners, killed James Harmon and captured the second fugitive, Wallace Williams, after Harmon fired on him at breakfast. Harmon, Williams, and their Boston auto theft charge were held. James remained seriously wounded.
members of the New Orleans Mobile and Chicago Railroad committee urge keeping the city name Mobile in the upcoming designation after a Chamber of Commerce appeal. J T Schley Stewart A LeBlanc E O Fowlkes and Albert I Bush serve on the committee with telegrams sent to New York after Receiver Owen favored the appeal. Rotary club resolutions on the topic were also sent to New York. We believe the Mobile name will be retained.
Harbormaster T. P. Norville filed with Mayor Harry Pillans a report showing 64 vessels passed up and down the Mobile channel in August. The fleet included 64 steamers total tonnage 66,325 plus 3 square rigged vessels and 8 schooners with combined tonnage listed in the document.
Earnest Roeder a saloon keeper and one of over 100 indicted for felonies in the 1914 primary and election pleaded guilty before Special Judge Lichhorn in Indianapolis. He was released on his own recognizance. trial of Mayor Bell starts next Monday. Real estate transfers listed include Louiselle Realty to Alite T. Staub for $825 and E H Schneiderman to D R Dunlap for properties valued undisclosed in township 4-2 west and township 6-3 west.
Maggie Botts files for divorce from Lawrence Botts in chancery court on grounds of habitual drunkenness and failure to support. They married in Brewton Alabama in 1896 and have three children, custody sought by the wife. Richard A. Smith sues Josie Smith for divorce on voluntary abandonment. married August 1900. Johnny Evers suspended five games in Boston. Schmidt and Fitzpatrick fined for protesting Brooklyn game decisions.
Forest Hills New York morning results show T R Pell defeating C M Bull Jr 6 1 6 2 6 5 in a notable straight set win. The match reflects Pell’s strong performance at the tournament. In other news Edwin Horatio Gould and Harrie Irwin Clarke were issued marriage licenses in the probate court. Emperor William awarded Field Marshal von Mackenzen the Order of the Black Eagle per Overseas News Agency.
John Bennett Starr aged 45 died after a several weeks illness at his Prichard home. He was a native of Alabama and survived by his wife and sister Mrs J W Butterly of Prichard along with other relatives. Dixon and McKay have charge of the remains and will send them to Birmingham for interment.
More than 500 American boys under 18 were discharged from the British army at the request of the state department. Many had gone to Canada and misrepresented ages. Peter Dougal of Lambert Minnesota escaped and re enlisted after a discharge. The Walsh twins of Boston, both fifteen, enlisted twice and were found near Salisbury plain preparing for France.
Commissioner Cham berlain notes that initial wartime tonnage dropped 25 percent versus 1913 but rose in the following six months due to the emergency ship register act of August 1914. Vessels shifted to American registry, boosting net tonnage to 53 183 499 for July 1 1913 to June 30 1914, the highest in U S history.
Second Lieutenant of Engineers G W Carnes U S C G S relieves Lieutenant Patterson and assumes command of the coast guard launch Alert arriving in Mobile yesterday Patterson is transferred to the cutter Yamacraw headquartered at Savannah Ga Carnes previously served aboard the cutter Apache in Baltimore.
Hugo William Hayssen a former Mobile County resident arrested in Houston for threatening horse exporters to the allies and deemed insane escaped from guards while being transported to the state asylum. He previously went to New Orleans making incendiary anti allied speeches and claimed he would go to Europe as a war correspondent.
Thomas Griffith, 50, an English cook aboard the British steamer Irwen, became insane yesterday while at sea. Immigration authorities take charge for deportation plans as the case is reviewed.
Tropical storm in the Gulf moves northwest toward the middle coast with warnings from New Orleans to Cedar Keys. Officials forecast strike along the gulf coast between New Orleans and Cedar Keys as shippers see moderate temperatures for 36 hours. River levels along Tombigbee and Alabama rivers expected to hold. Wind speeds reach 64 mph at Havana and 32 mph at Key West. Albert Ashenberg, local forecaster.
In a 1912 New York Medical Record piece Van Giesen asserts lime starvation and lime assimilation drive tuberculosis vulnerability. Eckman's Alterative containing assimilable lime is claimed to aid recovery in tuberculosis cases and is marketed by Braswell's Drug Store and Eckman Laboratory Philadelphia.
Johnston Gro Co at S. E. Conception and Elmira Streets announces a free one pound coffee gift with every cash order of two dollars or more on Saturday. Customers urged to compare prices before buying elsewhere and to call home phone 1737 for quick delivery.
Twenty Mobile paint dealers prepared a protest against the Smith house bill No 1383, calling it confiscatory and likely to force most Alabama dealers out of business. They warn the bill would require destruction of stock or lifelong imprisonment for violations, impose a color by color license tax, and threaten the state’s paint market with collapse, urging a regulated approach instead.
An advertisement extols Vitalitas as a mineral-based tonic claiming nine of ten people may benefit. It argues modern foods lack minerals and links deficiency to indigestion nervous debility biliousness constipation and general malnutrition. It urges investigation at Sutton's Drug Store with druggists selling it nationwide.
The article reports Mr. Rubel vowing to go out of business rather than comply with the law and notes efforts in Montgomery to defeat the bill. Independent paint men hope the measure will be killed as the dispute intensifies.
Alabama products are shown at Northern fairs with railroad agents handling exhibits due to retrenchment. Emphasis is on diverse goods and anti one crop focus. Inquiries rise from landseekers in the North as mobile development material circulates.
Bridgeport Conn Sept 3 hundreds of persons clashed with police outside the Crane Valve Company as machinists strike enters weeks of tension. Ten officers used clubs to break up a free for all fight after several men tried to block others from entering the plant. Two pistol shots were heard though no one was reported shot.
Police reserves were summoned as streets filled with people. Officers used clubs to regain control. Two men, alleged leaders, were fined and sentenced to six months. Three policemen were lured into the fighting.
Robert Horace filed for divorce from Ada Bell Horace on abandonment grounds. they married in Stockton Alabama in 1909. Sarah Ashcroft seeks divorce from George B. Ashcroft, formerly of Cincinnati, on abandonment dated March 14, 1913, after marrying in Miami Florida in 1912. Gordon & Edington represent the plaintiff in another abandonment suit involving Robert I. Singleton and his wife, married in 1907.
An old newspaper ad claims Anti-kamma or A K Tablets relieve headaches including sick headaches. It urges taking two tablets at onset and one every two hours during an attack, promising rest and comfort unavailable from typical pain relievers. It notes availability at druggists and lists price points.
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