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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1912
Page
8
An old advertisement touts Diapepsin as a remedy for stomach distress. It claims quick relief from belching gas sour food and general indigestion, allowing people to eat favorite foods without fear and regain comfort in minutes.
Miss Grace Drew starred in Alma Where Do You Live winning a large audience at the theatre. She received repeated encores after the second act and shared praise with Mr. King as Theobald. The season's production drew strong response and featured popular songs such as Boo-Hoo-Hoo Never More Childhood Days and Alma.
Miss Drew stars in Alma in an expurgated edition, with four songs including Love Me and Kiss Me My Love. Matinee and evening shows sold out as audiences praised her performance after last year's success in The Chocolate Soldier.
Tomorrow one mass at St Matthew's at 7 10 a m with Feast of St Matthew and confessions from 4 p m today and 6 a m Sunday The second mass at St Margaret's Cedar Point Road runs at 9 am
Special to The Item. Montgomery Alabama September 21 1912 With more than two hundred students enrolled the Woman's Methodist College of Alabama opened for the 1912 13 year The largest attendance yet and plans are underway for an additional dormitory The college operates under the supervision of the Methodist Conference of Alabama.
In Lexington North Carolina the Progressive party convention nominated R Don Laws editor of the Yellow Jacket at Moravian Falls Wilkes County to oppose Democrat R N Page for Congress. Eight of thirteen counties were represented with one Taft Republican present. The meeting was held in Zeb Vance Walser’s office, state chairman.
The Day of Atonement observance began in Mobile Friday at 6 30 pm with services at two Jewish temples. Merchants closed at 6 pm and reopen after 6 pm today. Morning services ran from 10 until sundown with prayers for the dead in the afternoon. A musical program at Temple Streetaral Shomayim was directed by Professor Edwin L. Taylor. Next Wednesday and Thursday Succoth, Feast of the Tabernacle, will be celebrated.
Patrolman Coniff warned theater occupants against stamping and whistling last night, and W. Rawls faced Recorder Hale for disorderly conduct with a $10 fine. Eddie Fears sustained critical injuries after a collision near Hallett street. Wetherbee pleaded and case continued. Rabkby withdrew bid for Magnolia cemetery keeper post. Taft campaign notes, counterfeit nickel detected alongside a recent counterfeit dollar in Mobile.
Bailey G Partin died at his Mobile home at 63 after a brief illness from acute indigestion. He moved to Mobile 22 years ago and lived on Gilbert street near Old Shell road. Survived by widow Annie K Partin, daughter Mrs W H Drew of Mobile, sons Malcolm John C Partin and W A Partin of Meridian Miss. He was active in business with his sons.
The many friends of Mr. Robert F Blow will be pleased to learn he is home from the Southern Infirmary after throat surgery. Joseph Anatole Rabby left today on the bay for a vacation trip to Daphne after beating Magnolia.
Harald Dess, a young white man with prior arrests, returned to Mobile after being allowed to leave. He was arrested again and faced a choice of a $50 fine or twenty days in jail.
The Richmond Light Infantry Blues visit New Haven and will take home a Civil War guidon captured by a New Haven soldier. The guidon, showing Virginia, was presented to the regiment by Governor Baldwin, after federal troops entered Richmond.
London Jewish holiday subdued activity on the stock exchange with business near a standstill. The American section showed greater activity with prices opening firm and later wavering on covering trades amid the holiday.
A testimonial style notice extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as highly successful for women. It cites vast patient letters from the Pinkham Laboratory in Lynn Massachusetts, claiming relief from female ailments and avoidance of surgical operations.
New Orleans September 21 cotton futures opened steady to down five to eight points on weak demand and frost not materializing in the western belt. Buyers turned sellers as offerings grew hard to absorb and the market dipped to six to eight points lower before recovering to about one point higher by midmorning.
New York opened steady to unchanged with small declines as traders anticipated cooler weather. Private forecasts of moderation over Sunday limited selling and by mid morning the market moved toward gains but stayed near yesterday's close.
In Savannah on September 21 a turpentine firm reported a price of 38 cases or gauges and a rosins firm named F and G quoted 6.47 percent.
The Mo bile cotton district saw rain in its city during the past 24 hours ending at eight this morning. Temperatures were unusually low for the season with highs around 87 and lows near 70. Other districts show near normal or below normal temperatures, scattered showers in the Savannah district and three western districts report rain.
Mobile resident Emma Harms reports severe backache and kidney trouble eased by Dean's Kidney Pills after trying many medicines. She describes drastic improvements from a course of five boxes and notes four years without recurrence. Foster Milburn Co serves as the U.S. agent.
Generally fair weather and moderate to low temperatures appear over the Atlantic east Gulf states and Idaho to northern Texas with a 24 degree reading in Durango Colorado. A low pressure area over the Dakotas brings rain over the Mississippi valley while another system off the Gulf coast suggests rain for Mobile tonight and cooler weather Sunday.
Buying resumed at the opening with steel and vane advancing fractionally. Hill issues and Union Pacific see slight gains as Union Pacific and Steel rise in brisk early volume, while most of the list holds at initial prices.
Digestit named a quick relief for stomach disorders with thousands of letters praising its merit. The ad claims strong demand nationwide and offers a money back guarantee if relief is not felt. Brown's Digastit tablets ease digestion, prevent fermentation and gas, and aid nutrient absorption. Van Antwerp Drug Corp., Inc.
Chicago traders faced a gloomy wheat outlook as large world shipments weighed on prices amid heavy northwest receipts and lack of export demand. Corn and oats weakened on uneven frosts and rain while provisions held steady. cattle and hogs mixed with moderate receipts.
Caleb West in two reels by Reliance Co adapted from F Hopkinson Smith novel Caleb West Master Diver shows lighthouse building featuring marine views dramatic underwater scenes and an unusual love story No raise in price Admission five cents 9 21 21.
In Mobile the excursion steamer Margaret, famed for a deadly 1870s collision at Mandeville Lake Ponchartrain drowning fifty or more, was sold under US district court order to attorney Young for a New Yorker with a mortgage. Final price was 1100 dollars. libel valued at about 700. The wreck remains at Bayou Sara after failed repairs and towing costs. The Water Front reports two arrivals, the Norwegian steamship Lowlands from Progreso and the City of Baltimore schooner loading coal for Tanma.
In Roanoke Virginia on September 20 the special grand jury at Princeton West Virginia after five days and 150 witnesses adjourned without returning an indictment in the lynching case of Robert Johnston. The investigation will resume in October at the criminal court term.
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