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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1913
Page
10
The Dawes Cane and Canning Company builds a cane mill in Dawes ready to operate by early October. Machinery has arrived and installation is due soon. The mill will handle the Dawes district cane output and supports local efforts to grow cane cultivation.
Special to The Item Montgomery Alabama September 19 Preliminary plans for President Wilsons Montgomery visit on October 27 will be discussed at a mass meeting next Monday at the Business Mens League. John Barrett and Dr Clarence J Owen will attend as program principals. No definite schedule exists. the president will be in town about one hour and a brief downtown speech is expected.
Walter C. Fernald, sought for seven years by postal authorities on charges of conspiring to defraud through mail schemes, was detained on returning to the United States aboard the Majestic. He had a long police record and time served at San Quentin. In 1906 he allegedly headed the Security and Purchasing Company and Imperial Trustee Company of Jersey City, collecting fees from customers.
A collapse at the Butler mine caused a reservoir to dump about a million and a half gallons of water into Pittston streets near Wilkes-Barre. Residents fled as cellars flooded. damage remained minor and no injuries were reported.
A Poughkeepsie resident reports rapid itch relief and complete skin recovery after using Saxo Salve for months of spreading eczema. The ad claims the product acts on all eczema forms with a money back guarantee and notes Vinol as a blood tonic recommendation.
A gray touring car, wrecked and unidentifiable, was found in a ditch fifteen miles south of Mount Clemens after a pursuit through Detroit. Police had chased a group that had robbed a touring party of $2,000 and jewelry, initially believed to be Bryan Ohio bandits, but the wreck remains unclaimed and nonidentifiable.
An advertisement extols The Texas Wonder as a remedy for kidney and bladder troubles. It claims to dissolve gravel and cure back pain rheumatism and all irregularities. The ad states it works for men and women and also regulates bladder troubles in children. It notes purchase by mail for $1.60 with testimonials from Alabama and a St. Louis address for Dr W Hall.
In Grand Rapids Michigan a daytime jewelry store hold up left two clerks dead and one wounded, with about two thousand dollars in gems taken. Detectives joined local police, suspects briefly held then released, descriptions of two robbers emerged from a wounded witness. The victims were John N Thomson Edward Smith. Paul Townsend was severely injured.
Two Italians were shot and killed in Bradock as feuds among foreign factions spill over. Pasquelle Ferraro was slain returning from work, assailant fled. Nicholas Maso died in a saloon, Patsy Salitino arrested. Antonio Salitino killed April 19 by James Constanzo, who was then killed July 21 by Antonio Ferraro. Investigation under way.
J Frank Houston of Kentucky a former employee condemned to ten years for the killing of Harry Stern at Gatun on February 8 was denied a new trial by the supreme court. One justice dissented. The killing stemmed from jealousy over letters between Stern and Houston. A Washington delay request based on canal zone trial by jury arrived too late to help. A petition with several names urged President Wilson to reopen the case.
A false report spread in New York that Congressman Herman A. Metz of Brooklyn had died of heart disease after arriving from Washington. Metz, in good health, avoided the crowd at the uptown terminal and later joked he was still a "live one" before rushing home to Brooklyn. The origin of the phantom call to the undertaker remained unknown.
In Stockton Missouri on September 19, Oscar Hammons and Albert and Ar Sur Hammons, sons of J C C Hammons, were held for murder in the death of their father whose body with three bullet wounds was found on June 12 on his farm. Lloyd Hammons, another son, is sought by the state for the shooting. The state plans to prove a conspiracy among the brothers to gain a valuable estate.
David Whitehead, a white man paroled from Speigner's prison after five years of a ten year sentence for second degree murder, vanished after reception of clothes and a railroad ticket home to Troy. Relatives alerted Warden Coleman that he had not shown concern, and Coleman suspects he might have headed to Columbus, Georgia.
An advertising notice promotes Fulton’s Renal Compound as a curative for Bright’s Disease and renal degeneration. It urges testing its effectiveness with day by day quantitative tests and notes it is a mild infusion without stimulants or heart agents. The ad invites readers to obtain pamphlets from Van Antwerp Drug Corp or write John J. Fulton Co. in San Francisco.
London, Sept 19. Not a single omnibus employee who refused to recognize the union went to work. One south to north line was suspended causing great inconvenience. A few old omnibuses returned to the streets as talks between workers and the Amalgamated Tube system continued about a general strike and employer plans. The press largely backs the drivers’ demands.
A home remedy and Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy are promoted to darken gray hair, remove dandruff and scalp itching, and restore youthful gloss. The ad urges use in stages with a sponge or brush and claims lasting color after one or two applications.
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