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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1912
Page
3
A travelogue recalls Whitburn near Chicago where residents stage a dog versus badger fight. The event features a grand crowd, betting, a talking mayor, and a dramatic moment as Paul and Roger witness this fierce American sport surpassing European legends.
A local ruse in Wisnburn uses a barrel chain and a saucepan to stage a mock dog attack during a staged event. Organizers hire a hotel print posters recruit bookmakers and provoke shock among travelers for a recurring adult prank.
In Bristol Tennessee Harry Brady a hotel steward shot and killed Robert Weaver a black bell boy in the Hotel Bristol dining room before breakfast. Brady says self defense while other servants accuse him of racial animosity and pursuit before the fatal shot. Brady is jailed.
A report notes that Dr. M. Gardner, former Surgeon General of the Southern Pacific Railroad, selected an eight physician table case involving albumen casts and dropsy. The patient, weak with night sweats, was given Fulton’s Renal Compound, improving in thirty days and cleared for light work within six months. The piece claims Gardner’s favorable report helped end negotiations and promotes the Fulton product via Van Antwerp Drug Corp. Inc. and John J. Fulton Company of San Francisco.
Booker T. Washington lauds Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, born 1876 in London, noted British composer and conductor. He trained at the Royal College of Music, conducted Handel Society and Rochester Choral Society, and gained fame for Hiawatha works and The Atonement. His music blends melodic clarity with bold orchestration and emotional directness.
If you knew the true value of Chamberlains Ointment for sore muscles sprains and rheumatic pains you would never be without it Tor sale by all dealers.
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