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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1913
Page
8
Secretary Daniels approved a $197 000 dredging contract to R A Perry to connect the Mare Island Navy Yard with a channel, $35 000 under the lowest prior bid. The plan may expand the channel width to six hundred feet using the remaining appropriation.
A mother's care impacts a child’s health and future prospects through daily teeth brushing. Untreated decay leads to tenderness difficulty chewing poor digestion and nourishment loss, weakening constitution and increasing disease risk, as a generations of children have suffered from decaying teeth.
A Mobile committee of the Chamber of Commerce and Home Economics Club asks householders to register rooms for the Southern Commercial Congress October 27 29. Listings will be catalogued by description location and terms, with visitors contacting the committee rather than individual households. Attendees at the Wednesday meeting included Chairman F M Backes S P Gaillard E M Bailey and several ladies.
David C. Norcross secretary of Western Fuel Co. turned himself in to the U S marshal after refusing to hand over company books to federal authorities. Judge Dooling jailed him for contempt but released him on a 3000 dollar bond as habeas corpus proceedings continue. Norcross and company executives face conspiracy charges over duties on imported coal.
A remark on men who collect money assuming discernment when they merely guess, noting how confidence can be mistaken for true judgment in financial dealings.
William Jay Gaynor, born 1851 in Whitestown New York, rose from farm roots to Brooklyn reporter and lawyer, excelling in anti corruption fights and reforms. He became New York City mayor in 1909 and shaped governance while keeping political machines at bay.
Tom Merrill of Randolph County was Wednesday acquitted by the federal court in Montgomery of illicit distilling charges. He was the last on the county list and the only defendant to be acquitted.
Mrs E Parker of Hampton Springs Florida describes severe eczema disfigurement and intense itching. She credits Cuticura Soap and Ointment for relief after three prior remedies failed and notes using two cakes of soap and two boxes of ointment led to cure.
Dr L D Harris of St Louis spoke to the American Health Association in Colorado Springs on quinine treatment for hydrophobia, claiming rapid recovery in a rabies case and forecasting a medical revolution. Jacksonville health officer Dr KE Terry blamed physicians for drug abuse and urged tighter regulation. Eugene E Howe urged stronger school hygiene and inspections. Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic ad closes the piece.
Baron de Freyne a former colonel of the Fifth Battalion Connaught Rangers died yesterday in London. Born in 1855, he left a notable military career. His son Arthur Reginald Freyne vanished from London in January 1905 and was later found to have resigned his British commission and enlisted as a private in the Eighth United States Infantry in New York.
Addie Leigh Hitchcock, only daughter of Mrs. Addie and the late S L Hitchcock, died Thursday at 1 a m. Friends invited to funeral from Bay avenue and Shell road Oakdale tomorrow morning Sept 12 1913 at 10 o'clock. Interment Pine Crest cemetery.
The event invites all Mobile district taxpayers to hear Walter E. Sweeting argue the Somers system of tax assessment equalization at the Battle House auditorium. Six advantages are outlined, including unified district judgment, streamlined work, classification of items, simplified land value judgment, real time community input, and public assessment with minimized favoritism.
At the national encampment in Philadelphia on September 11, the Army and Navy Union adopted resolutions urging pensions for widows and children of Spanish and Indian War veterans and the graded retirement and pensioning of sailors after ten years of service. It also calls for pensioning anyone who served in the Mexican or other wars and was honorably discharged.
D H Henly a negro was fined 25 dollars and twenty days hard labor by recorder Edington after a Thursday morning hearing. Hanly and Charley Williams, both negroes, argued and Hanly swung a plank striking Williams in the back of the head knocking him down.
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