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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1913
Page
5
A 40 year old Brooklyn woman told Magistrate Nash she preferred jail to endless household drudgery and would rather serve a long sentence than continue married life. She pleaded guilty and was held for trial after a bank book bearing Isabel Andrews was found in her possession.
New York sept 13 International News Service reports a $55,000 embezzlement at the New York branch of Washburn Crosby Flour by John Schildknecht cashier in export. A wealthy lifestyle and a mystery woman at Garden City Hotel accompany the case. he is bonded for $10,000 as detectives search for him.
Otto Buck heir to the Will iam Buck estate returns to La Porte Indiana after an eighteen year absence triggering a contest against fake claimants seeking twelve thousand dollars. Buck learned of his father’s death in a Chicago drug store and cried recalling past estrangement.
Mrs Laura M Reuter faces trial in Bartlesville on complicity charges in the 1912 murder of her husband Charles T Reuter at their North Cheyenne home. Prosecution rests on a long conspiracy theory with Joe Baker and Guy D McKenzie as alleged co conspirators and Bellew’s confession.
H H Boatright of Harrisburg Illinois says he was robbed of five thousand dollars after a poker game to pass time while flood water trapped him in East St. Louis. He claimed to have collected Swift & Co accounts and was pursued across multiple states before surrendering to authorities.
The Great Northern paid $663430.38 as gross earnings tax to Minnesota for the first half of 1913, lifting statewide railroad tax receipts to $4,473,966.70. Total railroad earnings rose to $49,479,335.24, up from $41,459,189.56 a year earlier, with potential tax reaching about $5.5 million for the year.
Milwaukee alderman reports Winnipeg lacking women after municipal league trip. He urges Milwaukee women to consider moving to Winnipeg for husbands and notes men seeking spouses in the city, describing a park scene and the absence of women as striking.
Raymond Lopez rode 800 miles from Abiquino New Mexico to Fort Collins Colorado to see his parents after 24 days on a weary pony. He camped most nights and stayed with farm families only when it rained while traveling with relatives in New Mexico previously. The pony bears many brand marks from continual use.
Henderson Kentucky September 13 Mrs Henry Norman claims to be the first woman voter in Wilson Station and clashes with Rev A J Lucas who urges shame at breeches. The minister is arrested and fined $25 for harsh language about women's suffrage.
An old advertisement touts Liv Ver Lax as a safer, natural alternative to calomel, claiming constant freshness and full suitability for children. It promises quick cleansing effects, no poisons, and a bottle guarantee, with 50 cents to one dollar pricing and Sutton Bros as sellers.
Assessments Nos. 325 and 326 are due on or before October 1 to avoid suspension. Pay now to protect you and your family and have friends join. they can call the secretary to learn benefits.
Miss Rose T Sagona, a teacher at Elie School No 82 Brooklyn, disappeared after her pupils spent a day searching. Police issued a general alarm. her father Lawrence Sagona claimed to know her whereabouts but refused to say. Neighbors report she planned possibly to join a convent.
An advertisement claims a prescription from a specialist cures nervous debility and vigor loss. It offers to mail full instructions free in a plain envelope to any man who writes Interstate Remedy Co., 4568 Luck Building, Detroit, Michigan.
A team hired by Floyd Townsend near Montfort Wisconsin was driven toward a threshing machine. When the horse flicked its tail at flies the appendage was drawn into the machinery. William Bowers the driver was thrown from the load and barely escaped death as the animal plunged. Christopher Neuroth aged and bent with rheumatism stood straighter than in years, though his rehumanism was gone.
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