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Newspaper
The Mobile News Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1925
Page
2
Survivor accounts describe the tremor hitting Santa Barbara and Santa Barbara Hotel scene with collapsing walls and trapped guests. Observers recount rooms, debris, and panic as streets fill with wreckage and relief workers respond amid power outages and a poisonous calm after the quake.
Three teenage inmates Isabel Prouse 21 Bessie Carroll 16 and Jennie McMinn 16 conspired to escape from a Toronto jail farm. They killed matron Margaret Mick during the breakout and were captured. the crime likely seals long prison terms with no moral to the lurid tale.
The Inland Waterways Corporation advisory board approved 1 100 000 for a 2 000 horsepower steel tow boat and ten 2 000 ton capacity barges to modernize the Mississippi Warrior line. The tow boat will operate between St Louis and Cairo year round and barges will move freight not covered by current river routes.
Moscow reports the Soviet government plans to spend over 100 million dollars to raise Russia’s telephone service to American standards. Swedish German and American firms may join in technical aid and financing with Western Electric considered for compensation related to nationalization. The aim is to scale phones from 120000 to over 1 million and link Moscow with Berlin Warsaw Paris and London.
State executives attend governors conference and instructed the secretary to telegram Governor F W Richardson of California urging aid for quake sufferers.
French forces near Ouezzan repel repeated rebel attacks south of Ain Mantuf. Land mines inflicted heavy losses on attackers and thirty rebels were captured. The town had been evacuated of civilians in anticipation of renewed fighting.
An old advertisement fragment promotes Leonardis Elixir for the blood sold by Antwerp Drug Corp and various drugstores. The copy hints at health claims and a broad retail reach, typical of turn of the century patent remedies.
The Engineering Economics Foundation notes California quakes occur in spasms or groups and that recent shocks near San Jacinto and Inglewood do not relieve Earth’s strain. It compares California events to the 1755 Lisbon and Boston quakes and cites Montana activity showing ongoing intervals.
In southern California many towns felt tremors about 6 45 a m but the shocks were so slight that residents doubted property damage and loss of life. Reports from Santa Barbara and nearby cities indicate widespread shaking with minimal apparent impact.
An advertisement touts Taylor's Blood Medicine as a powerful blood purifier and tonic. It claims impure blood causes fatigue, poor appetite, and skin issues, offering the remedy to rejuvenate energy and health with a long history of use and a money back guarantee.
Oklahoma endured extreme heat with Ardmore reaching 108 degrees at 3 p.m. The day set 25-year record highs across the state, breaking existing thermometers as the heat wave persisted.
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