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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1916
Page
3
Senator Hardwick opened debate arguing the child labor bill is unconstitutional and exceeds constitutional limits. He contends the measure would strip interstate commerce of products from any producer not meeting a federal civil conduct standard.
Mr. Oliver J. Semmes Jr a Pensacola business man visits Mobile to see his father Judge Oliver J Semmes and relatives. L P Matthews Southern Pacific passenger agent from New Orleans is in Mobile. The Louisville and Nashville excursion carried 280 passengers per H C Geron passenger agent. Laurendine returned Friday from Biloxi and New Orleans after a week visit.
A speaker argues that child protection laws should be state prerogatives rather than federal power. He asserts Congress cannot legislate about domestic affairs like child labor and notes lottery statutes apply only to printers. He emphasizes genuine humane laws belong under state authority.
Public appeals urge arbitration over a 100 million dollar wage hike for train crews on all railroads. Critics warn a nationwide strike would disrupt commerce, noting rail traffic costs and payroll data from 1915. Railroads offer arbitration or ICC reference, rejected by union leaders. A government investigation or a nation-wide strike is posed as the alternative.
Knoxville August 4 Fourteen bodies have been recovered and twenty five are known to be dead in the Claiborne county flood near Tazewell. A family of eight is missing and property damage is put at around fifty thousand dollars. Funerals for many victims including several children were held today.
A Blair's Creek cloudburst in the Barren Creek area leaves 28 dead and 10 missing. Two families lose ten members each, with Bush Ferguson and family among the victims, and Porter Walker family also listed among the deceased. Other victims include Mrs. D. C. Edmondson and relatives, and the Misses Minnie and Lillie Wiley.
Senator Hardwick asserts Georgia’s child labor law is better suited to state needs and condemns both parties for expediency in backing the federal bill. He notes a powerful Southern manufacturer lobby has long worked to influence Washington and within Georgia, calling the lobbying efforts legitimate and highly successful.
Eliseo Arredondo announced a three-member Mexican commission to settle border differences and discussed place and date details with the U S state department. The likely meeting sites are Old Point Comfort Virginia or Asbury Park New Jersey with date arrangements to be finalized.
Southern Railway reports a June 1916 expenditure of 5 328 320 with 86.13 percent paid to South entities. Construction outlays rose with 614 806 more spent in the South than funds contributed for transportation. Roadway and structures improvements totaled 718 383.83, up from 529 718.85 in 1915 and 379 652.48 in 1914.
Monroe Michigan resident Robert Johnson and his wife report property damage not exceeding 150000 dollars after a Tennessee cloudburst. Rescue teams search the shattered region as two Southern Railway trestles are washed out between Middlesboro and Knoxville. Traffic suspended for days as new search parties depart Tazewell. Samuel Wyllie, father of Lillie and Minnie Wylie, learns by telegram their daughters are drowned in Tennessee while staying with their grandmother near Tazewell.
The British king sent a sympathy letter to the widow of Captain Charles Fryatt master of the Brussels who was executed by the Germans for defending his ship while in command of the Wrexham. The monarch called Fryatt’s action a notable example of resource and self sacrifice in his profession and expressed deep indignation at his fate.
In Tennessee Democratic primaries held across four districts, L. P. Padgett T. W. Sims and F. J. Garret were re nominated. W. C. Houston led E. L. Davis by about 250 votes in early returns, with a 127 vote majority claimed. Davis supporters expect a runoff. Half the state returns show 10,000 votes for the constitutional convention proposition, with mixed results by county.
New York reports over 1,000 deaths among children from infantile paralysis and nearly 5,000 cases. Health department daily bulletin shows 45 deaths and 175 new cases across the five boroughs in the latest 24 hours. Since June 26, 4,680 cases and 1,026 deaths.
An old advertisement touts discolored and freckled skin as easily peeled away using a dissolved wax treatment applied nightly and washed off in the morning. It claims an ounce of wax from a druggist banishes tan and defects, yielding a spotless, girlish complexion.
Dublin reports a new booming industry manufacturing rebel lion souvenirs and Sinn Fein badges. Irish republican stamps and volunteer buttons are produced in large quantities, with bullets used by Sinn Fein leaders sold to the trade in single or bulk lots at reduced prices.
Montgomery Ala August 4 Special Typhoid vaccine for five thousand flood sufferers was received from the war department by the state health department Friday and will be distributed immediately. So many requests for vaccine are being received that another supply may be requested.
Henry Reese convicted in recorder's court of petit larceny for stealing 16 pairs of shoes from Sample Shoe Company and sentenced to twelve months hard labor. The case notes the defendant as a negro.
The article extols fresh air pure food rest and clean living as prime treatments for tuberculosis and notes Eck man Alterative as a helpful adjunct. It claims benefit for asthma bronchial trouble and stubborn colds, emphasizes no habit forming drugs, and lists R L Braswell druggists and Eckman Laboratory Philadelphia as suppliers.
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