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Newspaper
The Mobile News Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1925
Page
12
The Crumpton case shows an American guest at a Paris hotel planning a suicide with a note asking for a rose funeral and specific personal items. A second note requests two French doctors or none, amid tensions over Americans in Paris and a reported absence of other Americans in the city.
In Igton on June 16 a city honored three aging fire horses, Barney Gene and the last veteran team of the Batallion. Officials and residents attended solemn memorial rites with clanging gongs and wreaths. The pair Gene and Tom were later taken to a country farm to enjoy a pen of clover oats and other treats.
Dr. Arthur William Cabeen a professor of romance languages at Syracuse University died at Memorial Hospital after mastoiditis on June 16. He was 66 years old and had taught at the university for many years.
Jack and Dotty examine a large ship in this Hal Cochran tale as Jack asks how to board the vessel. Dotty shows curiosity about the ship while cousin joins, and they prepare to explore aboard.
Seamen report a serious forest fire burning across a wide area in Lower California. The blaze was clearly visible about 100 miles offshore in the Gulf of California, with seamen arriving in Guaymas, Sonora, noting the extent of the fire on June 16.
William H. Dilg president of the Izaak Walton League of America was ordered to pay his wife Marguerite Ives Dilg five hundred dollars in alimony fees and two hundred dollars a month pending divorce proceedings filed by Mrs. Dilg several months ago in Chicago.
The Mobile Rifles plan a boxing exhibit for honorary and associate members tonight in the armory club rooms. Fred Hoyle and Clyde Craughan will perform in the boxing program. A lawn party at St. Margaret's church runs this afternoon on Cedar Point road with free bus transport from Marine and Broad streets, 4 to 9 pm.
A large delegation of editors will gather for the 1925 Alabama Press Association session opening in Bay Minette on Thursday. The six day tour includes Foley, Mobile, Fairhope and Baldwin county, ending with officer elections in Foley on Saturday. The editors will tour the new state docks Monday and hear welcoming remarks from E. B. Gaston at Fairhope.
William H. Arnold was acquitted of murder in the ambling Hatfield case near Grandview Missouri. The jury deliberated under an hour after Arnold testified his wife confessed to Hatfield, then he followed them and shot the detective as he drew a pistol.
An advertisement claims blood impurities cause fatigue indigestion and rheumatic symptoms and promotes Taylor's Blood Medicine as a tonic made from vegetable ingredients with iodide of potash. It cites a testimonial and a money back guarantee and urges readers to buy at drugstores in Tampa Florida.
New York reports the death of Vicomte Gustav de la Jarrie 62 head of France's information bureau in New York and an early aviation promoter after a brief illness.
Miss Eunice Graham in charge of the Lyons Park pool announced semi weekly swimming classes with life saving instruction four days a week. Girls and boys non-swimmers attend separate sessions on Monday and Wednesday at 3:30 and 9:30, and Tuesday and Thursday at the same hours. Professor Jon of the Y M C A announced that sixty eight school boys were awarded buttons for completing the course.
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