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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1915
Page
4
Financing boosts farmers and planters aided by banks while exports rise as war demand sustains markets. Wall Street notes general improvement with 90 percent trade capacity and rising purchasing power. The Mississippi campaign tone edges into a heated political season as candidates vie for influence.
An essay extols the pie as a distinctly American creation vital to national vigor and unity. It argues the pie’s simple form embodies independence and energy, claiming it sustains Americans from Maine to California and could have prevented European wars if shared globally.
The text outlines Germany’s competition law with strict provisions against misleading ads such as best and cheapest, factory prices, and English spoken here claims. It also bans luring customers to rivals’ storefronts and restricts tailors from claiming first class status if wages fall to the guild’s fourth class.
The article notes American exports include merchandise to tropical regions, cotton and timber to Africa and Europe, with modern machinery to Egypt, art to Europe, medicines to England, washing powders to New Zealand, chewing gum to the Philippines, watches to Switzerland, electric fans to India, metal goods to many countries, wireless gear to Japan, shelter to Holland, and plated ware to Australia. It also mentions engines to the Balkan states and studies a new pest control method. The piece then shifts to domestic topics like hellebore powder for typhoid and flies, plus railroad and mining activity in the Warrior coal fields as Frisco builds a sidetrack near Cordova to move coal.
The Rt. Rev. Michael Furse, bishop of Pretoria, argues in a London letter that England must adopt national service to win the war. He cites shortages of munitions and trained troops, praises frontline spirit, and calls for universal state control to mobilize every citizen for total war effort. He warns against gas and stresses backing the troops with sufficient arms and ammunition.
Even first Barber notes a snub from a friend who passed. Second Barber admits long practice at “cutting” him. The Lancaster Literary Society is asked to consider whether it is a greater joy to bluff than to call one.
A reader asks why some sentences read year and a day, and the lightest possible term. Other queries cover German military duty after emigration, florists’ beliefs about flowers wilting, house fly lifespans, and Utah bigamy legality with federal religion limits.
Captain John Craft of Mobile was chosen as a vice president of Alabama's delegation at the Birmingham conference on good roads. He views the Jackson Highway Association as aiming to unite routes from San Francisco to New Orleans and into Mobile, the Tennessee line, Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo and the Atlantic. Temporary officers named include President P. L. Atherton of Louisville and six state vice presidents with plans for a mass meeting in two months to finalize organization.
French marines guard the Port au Prince legation after President Guillaume was slain by a mob during Haiti's revolution. U S forces landed with French decree and consent. city remains under control though arms are hidden, prices rise, and provisions run short.
In Port au Prince a deadlock blocks the election of a successor to Guillaume after his assassination. Congress splits between M Dastiguenave and Rosalvo Bodo while fears of attacks from Bodo partisans grow. Four congressmen including the Port au Prince archbishop seek reconciliation as American Marines disarm civilians. French marines occupy the French legation.
A one act vaudeville scene features a popular author and a society girl at a post dinner reception. The girl praises the author’s books, especially Peggy Blossom, and expresses delight at the ending while the author questions the beginning.
The Empire offers Destiny's Skein a Lubin three act drama with Ormi Hawley and Earl Metcalfe plus the comedy Ham a Statue. Lottie Pickford Irving Cummings appear in The Diamond From the Sky episode. Helen Holmes stars in The Hazards of Helen and the Hearst Selig News Pictorial completes the program. Admission five cents.
The 193? US cotton crop is estimated at about 11,970,087 bales of 500 pounds, far below last year’s 16,134,930. The government condition report dated today lists July 26 crop condition at 75.3 percent of normal, with final output dependent on growing conditions before harvest. state figures for Virginia through California are provided.
Rev Henry W DuBose preached on The Greatest Love Poem from Corinthians at a Mobile Federation of Churches service held at St Francis Street Methodist due to rain. He argued love inspires beauty in life and literature and highlighted the Bible verse God so loved the world.
Mobile delegates A LeBlanc and Dr H W Taylor attended the International Rotary Convention in San Francisco and enjoyed listening to Alma Gluck sing in New York via telephony. The group also included Mrs Le Blanc, Mrs R V Taylor, Mrs Jack Ross, Mrs Kirkbride and Mrs A J Parsons who visited Denver. Alternate delegate W H Reynolds, treasurer of the National Association of Talking Machine Jobbers, plans to return to Mobile Tuesday. Dr Taylor will report to the Rotary Club on August 12.
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