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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1915
Page
4
Trade items listed from Mobile Alabama including notes on circulation and publishing office locations in Mobile and Chicago with references to national news service reports and circulation figures.
The jury finds Carl Irwin guilty of soliciting employment to file lawsuits for profit and paying a runner to seek clients. The Mobile Bar and the community face the harm of such underhanded practices, and sentencing will signal a stand against ethical violation in the profession.
The Item condemns a Birmingham building fire response and the official who called a standing wall safe after a fierce blaze. It questions how anyone could certify imminent danger-free structure within hours and urges safer post fire inspections.
The Gulf Coast Horticultural Society gathers at Harte Auditorium in the YMCA on April 27 28 for its first annual convention. Members include citrus and pecan growers from Alabama Florida and Mississippi with experts from the national citrus department and Alabama Tech expected to present programs and lectures on improving cultivation and industry growth.
Alabama’s John T. Morgan was hailed as a pioneering dreamer whose canal vision linked oceans. Now Senator John Hollis Bankhead pursues a similar path, predicting the Warrior River’s navigable future to Mobile and world ports via Lock 17 and a Mobile harbor link.
In Gretna near New Orleans Louisianians paid tribute to Vera Cruz hero Louis Oscar Fried who died serving his country. A cemetery shaft was dedicated to his memory alongside the return of his remains to the grieving family and friends.
The weather invites families to enjoy a day away from work in the woods with children eager for outdoor fun. Elders will join in as a simple excursion for relaxation and renewed spirits.
Readers are invited to name a favorite character from The Mobile Item comic pages and explain why in under 100 words. Submit by April 30, prize awards include a $10 merchandise credit to a participating advertiser for first place and ten equivalent smaller prizes.
Rose Marie, a shirt maker with a fragile life, falls for a charming lodger who promises escape. After six days of imagined luxury he vanishes, leaving her to confront a police line later when he is linked to a violent robbery. She testifies she does not know him.
In Irvington Alabama the W C T U met with Mrs J N Haney on Thursday. Various residents are listed visiting or moving, including Mrs E M Hobart Grand Bay visitors, Mrs Helen Smarr from La Grange Indiana, and Mr Lewis Hazlett with family from Springfield NL. Other items note Mrs R Thurston moved to Providence Infirmary Mobile and Mr Decker’s improvements at Alton NY with spring crops. A School Improvement Association program is planned with three plays and music.
W H Reynalds, president of the Gulf Coast Horticultural Society, appealed to Mobile Rotary Club members to canvass the city and raise 1500 for citrus canker eradication in Mobile County. He urged forming a five member committee to solicit subscriptions and warned delays could devastate the citrus industry.
London reports the Norwegian steamer Brilliant has been captured and taken to Hamburg. The vessel was loaded with granite deck planks and paper, according to the Morning Post's Christiania correspondent.
Amusements feature at the Empire includes a three act Broadway style feature Between Two of Them with Vitagraph stars Jane Morrow and Sidney Drew. The program also showcases Earle Williams and Anita Stewart in His Phantom Sweetheart and Francis X. Bushman in The Return of Richard Neil with Strength a Vitagraph drama featuring George Stanley slated for Saturday.
The Crown shows Ella Wheeler Wilcox based drama The Price He Paid in five years. A rich young man wastes his youth with wine, women and song and marries a beautiful wife who becomes a physical wreck as their child is born a cripple. Children under 15 need accompaniment. Madam Rejane feature slated for tomorrow.
The Bank of England is an isolated one story building covering about four acres in London bounded by Lothbury Bartholomew Lane Threadneedle Street and Prince Street. The interior garden court was formerly the churchyard of St Christopher. The bank dates to 1694 and prints all its notes on site with a governing body of a governor deputy governor and twenty four directors.
The executive committee of the school improvement association met at the schoolhouse to appoint committees for Bingville Fair on June 23. Roles cover tickets, advertising, lights, grounds, country store, amusements, cakes, lemonade, ice cream, gumbo, sandwiches, candy, flowers, soda, and grab box, with numerous local names named for each task.
The Ways and Means Committee of the Chamber of Commerce will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the trellis room of the Battle House with Chairman J. Leslie Taylor presiding. An entertainment program will follow the business session. routine matters will be discussed.
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