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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1912
Page
6
Advertises Diapepsin as a quick cure for stomach upset bloating belching sour food and distress claiming relief within five minutes. Endorses regular use with meals to keep the stomach regulated and allow eating favorite foods without fear.
Miss Grace Drew stars in Alma Where Do You Live at the White Theatre with a large audience and repeated encores. She thanks fans and expresses happiness to perform, praising Southern audience and people. Supporting actor Jon King as Theobald keeps the evening lively as popular songs are featured.
Alma in a trimmed edition of the show played to a matinee and tonight with Miss Drew and company. Audiences praised Drew for her earlier hit in The Chocolate Soldier and her appealing Alma performance.
Tomorrow two masses will be held at St Matthew's church with a 7 10 a m start for the Feast of St Matthew and confessions from 4 p m. The second mass is set for 9 a m at St Margaret's church on Cedar Point road with additional confessions Sunday at 6 a m.
More than two hundred students enrolled as the Woman's Methodist College of Alabama opened for the 1912-13 year. It marked the largest attendance yet and plans are already underway for an additional dormitory, with ceremonies accompanying the opening under the Methodist Conference of Alabama supervision.
In Lexington North Carolina the Progressive convention nominated R Don Laws editor of the Yellow Jacket Moravian Falls Wilkes county to oppose Democratic nominee R N Page for Congress. Eight of thirteen counties sent delegates including one Taft Republican. The meeting occurred in Zeb Vance Walser's office.
The Day of Atonement started in Mobile Friday at 6 30 pm with services at two Jewish temples. Merchants closed at 6 pm yesterday and will reopen at 6 pm tonight. A memorial service is set for 2 30 pm. Morning services run from 10 am to sundown. Special musical programs and rabbis led by Professor Edwin J Taylor and Rabbi S Kiccovsky marked the day. Buccoth Feast of the Tabernacle is planned for next Wednesday and Thursday.
Patrolman William Coniff faced alleged abuse from I A Rawls after warning gallery occupants at the Mobile Theatre to stop stamping and whistling. Rawls fined ten dollars for disorderly conduct. Eddie Fears, injured in a collision on Hallett Street, remained unconscious at home. J Perron Wetherbee surrendered and faced arraignment with the case continued. Magnolia cemetery keeper bid withdrawn by Robby. Taft campaign aides meet Alabama Republicans in Mobile. New counterfeit nickels, crude babbitt coins, found and turned to federal authorities.
Bailey G Partin died at his Mobile home on Friday night at 11 o clock after a brief illness from acute indigestion. He was 63 and had lived in Mobile for 22 years. Survived by widow Annie K Partin, daughter Mrs W H Drew Mobile, sons Malcolm Partin John C Martin Mobile and W A Partin Meridian Mississippi. He was active in business with his sons until illness.
The many friends of Mr. Robert P. Blow will be pleased to learn that he is at home from the Southern Infirm ary where he underwent a successful operation on the throat. Joseph Anatole Rabby left today on the bay boat Magnolia for a trip to Yaphne on a needed vacation.
Harald Dess, a young white man with prior arrests, returned to Mobile after being told to leave. He was arrested again and offered the choice of paying a 350 fine or serving twenty days in jail.
The Richmond Light Infantry Blues of Richmond Virginia visit New Haven as guests of the Governor's Foot Guard. They will depart tomorrow with a guidon captured by a New Haven soldier during the Civil War when federal troops entered Richmond. The guidon bears Virginia’s insignia and was presented to the unit by Governor Baldwin.
A garbled report notes reduced business in London stocks on a holiday with the American market most active. Prices opened firm with a fractional rise and closed firm, showing overall strength amid uncertain conditions.
A historical advertisement touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as highly effective for women's ailments. It cites testimonials from the Pinkham Laboratory in Lynn Massachusetts claiming restoration of health and avoidance of surgery.
In New Orleans on September 21 cotton futures opened steady to a decline of 1 to 8 points as poor cables and weak weather forecasts weighed. Buyers turned sellers, trading months down 6 to 8 points before a quick recovery as frost feared in the Texas Panhandle and showers in the eastern belt spurred buying.
New York reports the cotton market opening steady at unchanged to down one point and trading 56 to 6 points lower in early dealings. Declines were driven by weaker Liverpool cables and expectations of cooler weekend weather with frost in the Panhandle, which later moderated selling as prices edged toward yesterday's close.
In Savannah on September 21, Turpentine firm F and G rose to 6.47 percent while a 38tge tosin firm saw gains.
The Cotton Region Bulletin notes Mobile as the only city reporting rain in the 24 hours ended at 6 this morning. Temperatures ran low for the season with Hirsh at 87 and a low of 70. Oklahoma showed unusually low temperatures while other districts had near normal to above normal readings and scattered showers in the Savannah and three western districts.
Mobile resident Emma Harris testimonial praises Dean's Kidney Pills for chronic backache and kidney complaints. She claims prior medicines failed and five boxes cured her, with no recurrence in four years. Sold by dealers. price 50 cents. Koster Milburn Co Buffalo NY is sole agent.
Generally fair weather and moderate temperatures accompany a high over the Atlantic and east Gulf states while another high near Idaho extends southeastward to northern Texas. A low over the Dakotas brings rain into the Mississippi valley and a Gulf coast low oversees the western Gulf. Mobile may see rain tonight with cooler conditions Sunday. Albert Ashenberger, Local Forecaster Weather Bureau.
The market revived trading with notable early advances in Steel and Reading. Hill issues and Union Pacific and Steel rose briskly in large volume during the first hour, while most of the list showed little change from initial prices.
Digestit touted as a quick relief and permanent cure for stomach disorders. Thousands of letters claim relief from indigestion, with high demand nationwide. The ad promises a money back guarantee if relief is not achieved. Brown's Digastit tablets are easy to swallow and aid digestion. Van Antwerp Drug Corp., Inc.
The excursion steamer Margaret, wrecked after a fatal collision at Mandeville Louisiana on Lake Pontchartrain, was auctioned by U S Marshal Deans. A New Yorker owner held the mortgage. price 1100 dollars, libeled for about 790. The vessel was towed from Bayou Sara after failed repairs. Nearby, ships Jovlands and City of Baltimore arrived in Mobile with sisal and coal respectively.
Caleb West in two reels by the Reliance Company adapted from Fr Hopkinson Smith's Caleb West Master Diver. Building the lighthouse and below water drama with a love story. No raise in price. Admission five cents. 9 21 21.
After five days and 150 witnesses, the special grand jury at Princeton West Virginia adjourned without indicting anyone in the Robert Johnston lynching case. The investigation is expected to resume in October at the criminal court term.
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