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Newspaper

The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Sep 24, 1915

Page

2

Forehanded William runs to fix pond as police close in

In Mobile court news William, a forehanded Black man, sprints to avoid arrest after an altercation with John Elliott. He surrenders when nabbed, claiming he ran to get pond fixed. Recorder Edington sets next hearing for Tuesday.

William John Elliott John Recorder Edington Castle Crenshaw Willam Percy Jones Point Clear Gulfport Royal Street Dlaer Lawrence Edington Jones Beatrice Mound Mobile Mound Pensacola Manuel Brown Hattie Longmeyer Recorder's Court

Marine Pilot Frank Gueratt Dies Aboard Wayfarer

Frank Gueratt, 50, a France native and ten year veteran of Mobile Bar and Bay Pilots, died suddenly aboard the pilot boat Wayfarer. He was found by Captain Coubil and honored by a pilot delegation headed by Captain Sidney A. Dorgan.

Frank Gueratt France Mobile Bar and Bay Wayfarer Gueratt Ollinger & Bruce Dry Coubil Mobile Bar Sidney A. Dorgan Pensacola Fla T. E. Welles Patrick Burns Welles Foster Weardale van Heynigen Oaxaca Fort Morgan Chickasaw

Vitalitas Natural Remedy Spotlighted in Texas Ad

An advertisement touts Vitalitas as a unique Texas product with broad medicinal claims. It describes Vitalitas as neither mineral nor metal yet possessing mixed healing properties and energizing force. Claims include relief from stomach liver kidney and blood issues, with no harmful ingredients. Available at Sutton's Drug Store and generally by druggists.

Texas Vitalitas Sutton

By-laws Framed to State Law for Gulf Coast Exchange

The Gulf Coast Produce Exchange prepares by-laws aligned with new state law for submission to farmer directors. A by-laws committee led by T. D. Farnell and A. J. Schellinger meets at Aubrey Bayley’s office to mirror Eastern Shore Exchange norms. Magnolia Springs joins. initial crop plans and management placement follow.

Gulf Coast Produce Exchange Exchange Aubrey Bayley National City Bank T. D. Farnell A. J. Schellinger Orchard E. B. Davis Coden Eastern Shore Marketing Exchange Virginia Maryland Eastern Shores Exchange Boyles Magnolia Springs W. H. Sisson Chamber of Commerce St. Joseph Street

Weather Outlook For Shippers And Regions

Moderate temperatures for 36 hour shipments north east and west. Pressure is low over the western Caribbean and a disturbance is forecast southeast of Kingston with unknown intensity. Tombigbee river and Alabama basin show little change. Eastern half cool and pleasant. rain in north Pacific states and west gulf. Corpus Christi reports 9.30 inches in four days. Albert Ashenberger, Local Forecaster, Weather Bureau.

Caribbean Sea Kingston Tombigbee Alabama North Pacific States West Gulf Region Corpus Christi Tex Utah Pacific States Colonel Aschenberger United States Bowie Jamaica

Whistler Notes Social Visits and Parish Farewell

Whistler Alabama residents enjoy family visits as Mrs Clouis Pape returns to Cincinnati and Miss Orlean Pryor heads home from Pensacola. St Bridgett church bids farewell to Rev Father Schmidtner with a welcome for Rev Father Genet. Elmo Hammer opens a store in Lucedale Mississippi in the former Williams property.

Whistler Ala Clouis Pape Martin Adams Cincinnnati Ohio Orlean Pryor Pensacola Relatves Mattie Jones Tuscumbia Earnest Rice Wesley McGuiren Mobile St. Bridgett’s Catholic Church Father Schmittner Father Schmidtner Father Genet Eufaula Schmidtner Restor Elmo Hammer Lucedale Miss Williams

Archibald Dumba Envoy Likely To Escape Prosecution

Washington reports say James F. J. Archibald may face no charges as DOJ reviews his papers. Officials note no statute covers the case, prompting talk of a new law. Von Papen visits San Francisco incognito amid the Archibald affair, while Von Hatzfeldt-Trachenberg is said to be on leave in the West. Austrian consul Schwegel says he knew nothing of Archibald’s role and had no inkling of the plan to use him.

EB. E. Simpson Bouhy Ho Consul Pensacola Fla Union Naval Stores Company Claude Mobile Towing & Wrecking Company Lake Boaghe Frednes Munson Steamship Line Alidia Carisbrook St. John's Newfoundland John Quill Ollinger & Bruce Dry Docks Washington James F. J. Archibald Constantin T. Dumba Department of Justice Archibald Department Congress von Papen San Francisco Franz von Papen M. Hatzfeldt New York Prince von Hatzfeldt-Trachenberg West ST. Louis John H. Schwegel England Dr. Schwegel Wilson

Summer Heat Returns As City Gardens Feel The Heat

The article notes rising temperatures around midnight and a shift from cool to warm with extended heat and humidity. It mentions Corpus Christi floods and heavy rainfall, Jamaica Caribbean disturbance indicators, and a Lampoonish moon sun debate in a downtown scene, with citizens reacting to the warm spell.

Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Remedies Relief

Mrs. S. T. Harley of Eldon Missouri reports relief from displacement inflammation and female weakness after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad claims the remedy helps with ulcers irregularities backache indigestion and nervous prostration and urges others to try it.

Eldon Lydia E. Pinkham

Weathered newcomer asks locals about moon or sun

The newcomer peers at the light and asks if it is moon or sun. He admits he does not know and is a stranger here. The sky is cloudy with fresh east winds.

Dauphin and St. Emanuel

Germans Want Million Bales at Sixteen Cents

A group of German firms that offered to buy Armati cotton earlier raised their bid to 16 cents per pound after delivering in Bremen. They now signal willingness to purchase a million bales at the higher price and have addressed Senator Hoke Smith with their updated offer.

Washington Bremen Hoke Smith

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