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Newspaper

The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Sep 12, 1913

Page

2

State Tour of Exhibit Car Promotes Panama Celebration

The Panama model exhibit car begins a statewide tour starting Friday in Opelika. L C Ir vine leads the local celebration and will tour ahead of the car as ad valorem agent. George G Card joins as Mobile Chamber of Commerce representative on the trip. The model will be shown in Me for three days next week including Friday and Sunday September 1 and 21, with campaigning to complete fundraising for the Southern Commercial Congress convention.

Panama Mobile Chamber of Commerce Southern Commercial Congress

Negro longshoremen load vessels amid union dispute

Negro longshoremen were put to work by Walsh Stevedoring Company loading the Wavelet and Geneva near Three Mile Creek and Turney-Hartwell docks. White longshoremen allege Negro workers are not union members, while IL A locals say they pay per capita tax. A Gulf Coast IL A official arrived and called for arbitration.

Walsh Stevedoring Company Wavelet Three Mile Creek Geneva Turney-Hartwell Js . Fricke Galveston Texas Gulf Coast District IL. A Fricke Elder-Deimpster

Man Hit by Freight Train Near Cold Creek Loses Leg

A man near Mount Vernon was struck by a southbound Southern freight train while attempting to board it near Cold Creek. His left leg was amputated above the knee. he was taken to Mobile city hospital for surgery. His condition is described as serious but he is expected to recover.

Tom Rue Mount Vernon Southern Cold Creek Mobile City Hospital Howard

Fresh Fall Garden Seeds Arrive at English Carriage Co

Just received stock of all varieties of garden seed for fall planting. Turnips ruta bagas cabbage and other vegetables available. Absolutely fresh none carried over from last year. English Carriage Co.

English Carriage Co

City agrees to 10 book inspection on pavement charges

City officials and eleven objectors met to review the Dauphin Way street paving costs and the $6.90 per front foot assessment. If adjustments remove the culvert cost of $658 the rate would drop to $6.62. Attorneys for the objectors attended and will await audited figures from the city auditor and engineer before Monday’s follow up.

Dauphin Way F. J. Inge Wright Smith Dauphin Street Stickney Hollow George W. Unruh J. J. Thomas, Jr M. H. Keoughan, Jr Pearl G. Reed Lavelle W. A. Reed M. C. Sherman Hattie L. H. Daves J. B. Robertson Miss Lida KB. Robertson Ray Fonde

Moody Injured in Hall's Mill Road Motorcycle Crash

William F. Moody of Cunningham Hardware was injured when his motorcycle hit a horse and buggy on Hall's Mill road near Mertz station. He was taken by ambulance to Providence Infirmary and described as not seriously hurt.

William F. Moody Cunningham Hardware Company Mertz Station Moody Providence Infirmary Joys M. Putnam William Rowell D. Q. McCreary

Praise 15 Heard for Somers Plan in Mobile Meeting

A large Mobile crowd heard Walter E. Sweeting of the Manufacturers' Appraisal Co endorse the Somers tax assessment system as a means to equalize property values and lower tax rates. The gathering urged a feasibility study in Mobile County and city.

Somers Walter E. Sweeting Manufacturers Cleveland Corporation Battle House Chamber of Commerce Ways and Means Committee Hattle House J. M Ponder W. G. Bevill Mobile County Ways and Means Mobile Sweeting Mr. Sweeting Houston Tex Des Moines Augusta Galveston W. A. Somers Excity St. Paul

Forger Deibel Sentenced Again for Robbery

Fred Deibel Jr a New Orleans attorney once convicted for bank fraud and later pardoned after Alabama imprisonment has been sentenced to seven years in the Tennessee penitentiary for robbery. The Memphis report notes Deibel a noted forger and his boast that forging checks is easy while a cashier tracked him in Mobile.

Fred Deibel, Jr New Orleans Alice Flair Merchants Bank State Tennessee Alabama Fred Deibel Denver Deibel Mobile E. M. Ladd Louisville State Penitentiary

Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy Ad Counters Gray Hair

A vintage advertisement touts Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy as a ready to use tonic that darkens gray hair evenly, adds thickness and luster, removes dandruff and stops itching. It claims the product restores natural color after regular application.

Wyeth

List of names appears in archival notice

A sequence of personal names including P. Ellis Isaac Lichtbach Don Farnsworth George W Adams M G Sherman G A Michael L J Davis William H Armbrecht J M Ponder B S Cowen George A Maloney Aubrey Boyles James L Cawthon J W Woolf Leon Schwarz N A Richards George B Toulmin J C Thompson J H Harrison M D Kahn Illiam H Monk Jr A G Tonsmeire appears in the document.

P. Ellis Isaac Lichtbach Don Farnsworth George W. Adams M. G. Sherman G. A. Michael L. J. Davis William H. Armbrecht J. M. Ponder B. S. Cowen George A. Maloney Aubrey Boyles James L. Cawthon J. W. Woolf Leon Schwarz N. A. Richards George B. Toulmin J. C. Thompson J. H. Harrison M. D. Kahn Illiam H. Monk, Jr A. G. Tonsmeire

Postal Officials Probe Mail Robbery Tied to Driver

Post Office Inspector R Dulett investigates a transfer mail theft alleged to involve Ed Beverly a mail wagon driver. Detectives found a broken parcel post package with shirts in a Mobile Transfer locker bound for Cummings King Biloxi Miss. Beverly claims the found property, police press him hard.

Ed Beverly Post Office R. Dulett Burch and Pearson Mobile Transfer Company Royal Street St. Michael Cummings King Biloxi Beverly

Avoid Daydreams and Risk in Conservation Days

Advice warns against daydreams as cheap amusement and urges focus on work during conservation days. The tone discourages idle wandering and promotes caution amid delicate times.

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