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Newspaper

The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Sep 20, 1912

Page

14

A Heart of Stone A Tale of Hortense and Paul

An aging heiress Hortense de Grammont coldly guards her life at a grand chateau. Her childhood betrothal to Paul d Henriot gives way to tragedy as love blooms for Amelie and Paul elsewhere. Hortense dies after a hidden child is revealed in a dying moment.

Paul Villiers Amelia Hortense Stone Hortense de Grammont Paul d’Henriot Chateau Amelie Paul Amette Count de Grammont Paul d'Henriot Paul d'Henrichh

Taste Smell and Hearing Restored Reported

Fragmentary text notes restoration of taste smell and hearing with references to remedies and claims. No clear events, persons, or organizations are identifiable from the readable portion.

Telegraph Knife Talk in Cafe Sparks Caution

In a downtown cafe two telegraph operators whispered jokes via knife taps about a couple at a nearby table. The exchange included taunts about marriage and a divorce map, prompting uneasy reactions from the couple and ending when the improvised telegraph wires failed.

The Kansas City Journal Peacherino Boéb

Electric Bitters Proved To Restore Health In Henry Man

Flying Mewel victims suffer stomach liver and kidney troubles with loss of appetite back ache nervousness headache and tired feel in Henry Tennessee T D Peebles reports six bottles of Electric Bitters gave him new strength and appetite after other remedies failed The drug is priced at 50 cents at all druggists.

T. D. Peebles Henry Tenn

New Orleans Milker’s Triplets Named After Presidents

In New Orleans a cow gave birth to triplets named Woodrow Wilson Teddy and Bill Taft. All are healthy and lively with Woodrow leading the yard play. Teddy arrived last and Roosevelt is expected later this month. eleven months ago the same cow bore twins now living.

New Orleans Spe Woodrow Wilson Teddy Bill Taft Roosevelt

Austria-Hungary Names New Washington Ambassador

Vienna reports Konstantin Var as ambassador designate for Austria Hungary at Washington. Herr Dumbe, a wealthy popular diplomat, inherits the Vienna banker uncle’s property and philanthropy and is noted as an art patron.

Vienna Konstantin Thevar Austria-Hungary Washington Herr Dumbe

Officer Shot Dead by Five Unknown Men in Caney Bootlegging Raid

A federal liquor enforcement officer, L. Bowman, was killed and Lenapah marshal W. R. Mayfield was wounded when five men attacked them while destroying confiscated liquor near Caney on the Kansas Oklahoma boundary. Mayfield fired back, wounding one assailant. the others fled in a car. Posses hunted the suspects across the neutral strip tonight.

Tulsa Okla A L. Bowman W. R.mayfield Lenapah Caney Kansas-Oklahoma Mayfield Bowman

Piggish Little Boy Ready With Answer

Julius Rosenwald, the Chicago philanthropist, celebrated his fiftieth birthday by giving 687 500 dollars to charities, and he denounces a politician’s underhand methods as a defense that fails like the “piggish little boy” with the bottom toast piece. The Louisville Times reports his remark.

Julius Rosenwald Chicago Louisville Times Ma Rosenwald

Widow fights Ruth claim to $300000 estate

Elly Smith widow of a New York broker seeks to keep Ruth Hopkins Smith as adopted daughter. Sidney A Smith contests the adoption in surrogate court arguing Ruth was not legally adopted in Germany due to lack of New York court approval. Mrs Smith had proclaimed Ruth as sole heir after her husband died in 1911.

M. Lucius H. Smith Ruth New York

Reproachful Question About Sharing a Slice

A boy asks what would happen if everyone copied a behavior asking others to stop. He imagines consequences and explains that then everybody would get a bottom piece.

Cobb Meets Democratic Leader in Detroit Dinner Exchange

Governor and Tyrus Cobb, famed ball player, meet in Detroit during a visit. Cobb recalls a Georgia meeting and jokes about future White House talks. The nominee invites Cobb to luncheon, which Cobb declines.

Tyrus Cobb Detroit Mich Georgia White House Cobb

Brewers Praise From Ruppert At Annual Convention

Jacob Ruppert Jr president of the United States Brewers Association told about 100 brewers at the fifty second annual convention in Boston that brewers are the mainstay of rational and practical temperance.

Boston Mass Jacob Ruppert, Jr United States Brewers’ Association

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