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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1915
Page
5
The Mobile Item Company publishes a brief item from St Emanuel Street in Montevallo Alabama listing local publisher activities and notices. This snippet records probable office location and ownership in a regional press context.
The article notes railroads once called soulless now aid farming through agricultural agents. It cites a Southern Railway program reported by the Jack ite Times Union showing higher cotton and corn yields when farmers followed advised methods. It argues vast potential for 16 million bales of cotton and billions of bushels of corn if widespread adoption occurred.
Florida libel statutes are criticized as too stringent, mirroring Alabama. Editors risk criminal action even when printing truthful, fully verifiable statements. Critics argue such rules hinder exposure of grafters and thieves and impair press duty to warn the public while offering little redress for corrections.
The article argues that Wall Street shows renewed confidence as Europe’s war unsettles ease and traders bring wealth from banks to markets. It notes increasing stock activity and suggests a shifting sentiment toward prosperity and steadier commerce in America.
The piece notes Fed system strength and expected quick railroad improvements as business volume rises. It highlights South market effects from wartime cotton disruptions easing, better staple prices, increased overseas movement, and overall diversification aiding transport activity.
A Pensacola correspondent jokes about mosquito size in Gopherville noting they are about an inch shorter than Mobile varieties. The whimsical remark reflects a lighthearted exchange in local journalism.
A 72 year old Oregon woman reportedly killed a bear with a hoe in self defense. The bear was reportedly accompanied by a hoe when it attacked, prompting the woman to defend herself with the tool.
The column explains administratrix plural as administratrices and notes electric lighting began commercially after 1881 with ship use evolving over time. It advises stain choice from paint stores, discusses a burning outfit needle heat regulated by a bulb, compares 1780 US population to 1910 New York, and lists the seven stars in the Great Dipper with Dubhe and Merak pointing to the pole star.
Fire destroyed the Arlington hotel in Elmira New York, a three story wooden structure, with flames reaching the nearby business district. Help was summoned from Sayre Pennsylvania and Waverly, with all the hotels from Waverly evacuated by 2 a.m.
Albany April 19. The state department of health urges against shared cups and utensils in public places. The caution cites transfer of germs from nose and throat to lips, noting dangers of diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles, and tuberculosis. A new sanitary code bans common cups in public venues.
The National Academy of Science met in Washington for its annual convention. Sessions begin with routine business in the forenoon and a first public session scheduled to start later today.
Heavy rains lashed southwest Texas with five and a half inches falling in three hours. In San Antonio, all traffic was halted for more than an hour amid property damage reports.
Camden Alabama residents attended social and club activities with Mrs Howell Turner hosting a Music Study Club gathering. Daughters of the Confederacy met at Mrs John Meaniel's home while local residents attended Presbytery events in Mobile and visited relatives in Birmingham and Selma.
The Spoilers comes to the Empire for one day. William Farnum stars as Roy Glenister with Kathryn Williams in a Selig company production famed from Rex Beach book. Admission 25 cents, 10 cents for children.
Chaplin appears in The Jitney Elopement at Empire along with Leo Delaney Leah Baird in Broadway Star features. The Return of Maurice Donnelly headlines as another Broadway Star production with Runaway June episode and Hearst Selig News Pictorial closing the bill.
Crown Theatre showcases five reels of Children of the Ghetto starring Milton Lackaye. Israel Zangwill praises it as his best work, and critics expect a major attraction with Lackaye supported by noted players. Mutual is showing today a program at the Crown.
The April 19 Jackson Alabama fire started about 1 a m in unknown origins and swept through the business section, threatening the entire district. Losses exceed ten thousand dollars with several store buildings saved, including B H Warren Jr, Felix Williams, and W G Bevill properties. Firefighters from the community aided containment, though livestock were lost in a nearby barn.
A Saturday night blaze near Jackson wiped out a large barn owned by William Johnson and several stables. Dozens of tons of feed were ruined, but all horses and cows were saved. Estimated loss about 1500 dollars.
Forty carloads of blackstrap molasses totaling 320000 gallons were loaded in Mobile for shipment north over the Mobile and Ohio railroad between Sunday morning and Monday noon. Two trains will depart Monday afternoon carrying the cargo to its destination.
The Theodore Citrus Fruit Growers Association filed corporation papers in the probate court to engage in growing packing and shipping of citrus fruits. The concern has no capital stock. Names on the papers include J. O. Bolton C. D. Berry J. C. Howard J. E. May J. A. Brannan H. W. Bolton L. W. Moore E. A. Smith M. v. Rowell W. F. Jackson Savannah Peterson J. J. Smith Edward Summerlin C. Quartermus A. T. Hand J. H. Anderson.
Four barge loads of cargo from the Isabella of the Porto Rican Steamship Line were towed to the city after the steamer ran aground near beacon 12 A in a fog. The vessel was pulled out into the lower bay and headed toward the city shortly after noon, after being driven to the west side of the channel about ten miles away.
Captain George T. Cowles of Kuntz & Cowles Ship Chandlery Company returned Sunday from Canada. He spent several days in Ottawa and completed the registry change for the Gypsum Empress, the former British schooner now flying the American flag and awaiting orders to sail from the lower bay.
Mrs. M L Johnson departs Fairhope for Hampton Va to attend the National Hampton Association session at Hampton Institute. She plans to attend the Southern Educational convention in Chattanooga where she will give several addresses and stop in Selma on the return.
Readers may name their favorite comic page character from Aunt Delicia Polly Mary Jane or Buster Brown and explain why The top entry wins advertising orders worth up to ten dollars plus neatness prize The contest closes April 30 with results May 8 and is open to all ages tickets by mail to The Mobile Item Funny Page Editor.
Justice Pitney rules that Georgia courts properly examined the case against Frank, finding most claims of disorder during the trial groundless. The decision upholds that absence when verdict was rendered is permissible under due process, and that states may omit jury trials in capital cases if rights to notice and hearing are preserved.
Professor Alvin W. Roper of Winona Lake arrives in the city to conduct a piano recital at the Harte Auditorium to benefit the North Side Baptist Church. He will depart for Americus, Georgia, to accompany Excell, who leads music at the Georgia State Sunday School convention.
The police arrested William Hare a painter of 267 North Royal Street and docketed him on fault and battery after allegedly striking E Wallenstein who confronted him leaving his home. Wallenstein required several stitches for a head wound. The case was continued in recorder's court.
Sunday dawn raid on a north Davis Avenue gambling den led to arrests of proprietor H B Fields and fourteen patrons including Walter Gamble Tom Petty and Hardy Springs. Officers reported a bank crap game, peep-hole and electric alarm signals and immediate Sheriff action following the complaint.
Judge Crump in the Virginia law court ruled for jitney operators denying Virginia Railway and Power Company injunction. The case marks jitney buses as like street cars under similar regulations. Richmond considers bonds and rules to govern jitney traffic as city ordinances await council action.
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