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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1913
Page
2
School children will sell tickets for the Panama Canal working model exhibit at Temperance Hall over Friday Saturday and Sunday. Tickets cost five cents and buyers pick a preferred visiting hour when punching the hour on the ticket. Colored visitors are scheduled for Saturday. Expected attendance runs into the thousands.
Willie Walker, a Negro, was seriously wounded Monday afternoon when Doc Jones fired a revolver at him. A bullet struck Walker above the left eye and another in the left lung, and he was taken to the city hospital with little chance of recovery. Jones fled toward Toulminville and has not been captured.
A Pennsylvania reader reports quick relief from diarrhoea after using Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. The testimonial says one dose cured the illness and helped others. Sold by all dealers.
J. R. Posey, drug store operator at Charleston and Franklin streets, will answer in recorder's court Wednesday to the charge of selling cocaine without a prescription to Martha Peeples, with Peeples held as a witness. Lillie McNeil and Matilda Davis are also held as witnesses.
Dr John S Howell offers free trial treatments of Enervita to all men who write from Cincinnati Ohio. The home remedy targets man weakness from youthful folly and long years of misuse, with warmth and perceived direct effect. No restrictions, discreet packaging, literature supplied.
Rainfall reached 12.60 inches from Saturday to Tuesday causing widespread pavement damage across the city and county. Repairs on wooden block paving will take at least two weeks with laborers at work Tuesday, while roads in Oakdale Spring Hill Michgan Avenue and Bayou areas suffer extensive harm and losses total may reach $410,000.
Jack Harrison of El Paso recounts severe finger toe and lip cracks starting in 1911. After trying Cuticura Soap and Ointment he cured in nineteen days, praising the products and noting free samples via Cuticura, Dept. T, Boston.
Edward Zeller, the city remover of dead animals, was added to the city salary list at a noon meeting, receiving $30 per month in addition to his fees. The board passed a resolution to continue payments until rescinded, noting his work replacing a city crematory and rebuilding after a fire.
Major L S Strance of the Alabama National Guard arrives with Lieut J A Luckle to prepare an artillery encampment at Monroe Park from September 18 to 26. Batteries D Birmingham and B Montgomery will train and conduct target practice with light guns. The contract for targets, horses, forage and supplies closes Wednesday, and Adjutant General J B Scully will arrange pay for the men during their stay.
R O Harris Grocery Co extends its grocery sale through Tuesday and Wednesday. Come in and let them show you the bargains.
The grand jury for the October criminal term will convene Monday October 6 and remain twelve days. Veniremen listed by Clerk James A. Crane and Sheriff T. T. Palmer from the last term include Brown Colden A. through Laws John H with numerous others named in the long roster.
Myer H Shirley and Charles Shirley, both Jamaica natives, along with a third named Shirley, were deported after an immigration board hearing in Mobile. The group arrived on the Crathens claiming workaway status but faced removal for disease, public charge risk, and admission denial. They returned to Jamaica on the Crathens, which departed at 7 p.m. Monday.
A cash grocery sale is announced at the R Harris Grocery Co with details to be set for Wednesday.
Striking white and Negro longshoremen in Mobile refuse work amid no talks with District President Fricke and Walsh Stevedoring. Locals 547 and 606 of the Boommen and Raftsmen Union join in sympathy, about 150 strong, handling timber to ships. Local 356 asserts its charter and dues status, accusing Local 898 of arrears and alleging improper charters by National President O Connor.
Julian A. Watters, well known as Magnolia Compress president and former Mobile Cotton Exchange chief, died after weeks of illness in White Sulphur Springs Virginia. A Mobile native, he came to the city over twenty years ago, built Dumas & Watters and J. A. Watters & Co. later entering warehouse work. He leaves a wife, Miss Ethel Hodgson, a child, an aunt, Mrs. Cammie Watters, and other relatives. His remains will return to Mobile for interment. he had been active in the Athelstan club and local social life.
The deacons and trustees deny a report that Rev H R Tunstall was called to lead Macedonia Baptist Church and state Rev R B Washington has long served as pastor. The Macedonia church moved from rented quarters at Virginia and Wilkinson to a building on Wilkinson between Maryland and Montgomery. Church officers note worship in the old quarters is not the Macedonia church. Deacons include Charles T McDade Robert Marshall Ed Harris Thomas Harris Rev R Doning D Johnsen and J B Ballet.
Nick Pappas a restaurant operator at 185 Davis Avenue was arrested Tuesday by Deputy Dennis Lynch and jailed on a charge of offering putrid fish for sale. The warrant was sworn by Dr F R Harsh the chief meat and milk inspector who leads a drive against impure restaurant feed. Pappas posted bond for the Inferior Criminal Court appearance.
The Alabama Department of Education will request all city and district boards to declare a holiday on October 3 for Children’s Day at the State Exposition in Montgomery. Superintendent Henry J. Willingham told George H. Barnes that boards may approve the holiday at their discretion after the exposition association asked for it.
An 19th century patent remedy claims to cure kidney and bladder troubles dissolve gravel treat diabetes and rheumatism offering a broad health cure. The advertisement markets the product to readers seeking relief from various ailments.
Detectives press closer linking dentist Muret to Anna Aumuller murder as clues point to kinship with Schmidt. A copper plate for spurious bills is sought from an engraver accomplice while Schmidt’s insanity claims are undermined by new counterfeiting disclosures. Muret held on pistol charge in $5,000 bail.
Dr. E. Muret is not known among Chicago dentists. The Dental Protective Association, a national body formed twenty years ago to challenge alleged sham dental devise patents, lists him as a member with 11 000 U S members. Its headquarters are in Chicago. President Crouse said he found Muret on the list but does not recall him.
Hot Springs Arkansas Atlantic City New Jersey and Washington City emerged as the leading candidates for next year's Sovereign Grand Lodge convention of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. The eighty ninth annual session opened in Minneapolis with meetings of grand secretaries and grand scribes.
Restaurant keepers Nick Starvo G Gleptis James An dreadis and C J Eastburn were fined ten dollars or twenty days by Recorder Edington for not having their places properly screened. Similar charges against J Simonson and G A Santos were deferred until September 18. William Abram, a butcher, was discharged.
During a Monday afternoon fight on Beauregard Street near Morton Maud Anderson was cut in the lower back by Amelia Thompson who fled the scene. Police reported no further injuries.
Your last opportunity to take advantage of the advertised prices at R. O. Harris Grocery Co. is today and tomorrow as the sale ends.
The board of school commissioners met to consider appointing a kindergarten supervisor and authorized a special meeting. A theft occurred when a satchel with surgical instruments was stolen from Dr W R Jackson's office. detectives found no clues. Alabama officials attend a prison association convention in Indianapolis October 11 to 16. A Mobile marriage license was issued to J H Huffstetler and Mamie Jackson.
Reports from Wilmer Alabama the home of Commissioner Henry Brannan of the second district Mobile county say he is improving and has not had fever for several days keeping to his residence and recovering steadily.
Mothers seek relief for children and adults. Saxo Salve touted for eczema tetter ringworm and crusted skin with claims of soothing itch destroying germs and thorough healing. Van Antwerp Drug Corp. Inc Mobile Alabama offers money back if unsatisfied and mentions Vinci liver iron tonic.
Mrs Ignatius Fried will accept a limited number of advanced pupils at her studio located at 155 Church Street.
Right Rev. Bishop Edward P. Allen of the Mobile diocese announces clergy reassignments. S. Muller moves from Ensley to Blocton as pastor. James S. Downs departs Blocton for St. Vincent's Hospital as chaplain. M. Hourican shifts from St. Vincent's Mobile to St. Michael's Pensacola as assistant. Thomas J. Farley joins St. Vincent's Mobile as assistant after Birmingham missions. Phillip McCormick goes to East Lake as orphan asylum chaplain. Eugene Sands, from the American College at Rome, attends Birmingham missions replacing Father Earley. Joseph Sheridan, East Lake orphanage chaplain, comes to the Cathedral to lead missions formerly tended by McCormick.
Senate introduces a bill to appropriate 25 million dollars for road construction with national highway bureau oversight. The measure requires states to match the funding, aiming to accelerate interstate road development nationwide.
The article advises avoiding fear of aging and using physician endorsed preventives. It promotes mercorized wax as a safe nightly facial treatment to remove dead skin and reveal a pink underskin. It also suggests a saxolite face bath mixture to reduce wrinkles.
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