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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1912
Page
4
The newspaper page from Mobile Alabama lists a wide array of publishing details including Associated Press reports, subscription rates, and office contacts. It notes the Mobile item founded in 1881 and references the 1912 August 10 edition with various internal staff and advertisement lines.
William D. Jelks urges Alabama Democrats to subscribe to a national fundraising drive for the Democratic Committee. He states contributions should go through him or directly to Mr. McCombs, with funds used for national purposes and not diverted locally. Jelks is the Democratic National Committeeman for Alabama.
Data reveals daily July murders and rising gang violence in New York. Police Commissioner Waldo reports 140 murders in the first half and 1912 shows higher totals, with arrests lagging. Assaults and petty crimes fall while total sentences rise, signaling a looming high record unless action is taken.
Tuscaloosa and county residents marked the opening of the Mineral Belt branch of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad with a large Thursday celebration. The event drew guests from miles around and prompted discussion of boosting trade with Mobile and surrounding regions.
Dr Thomes D Wood of Teachers College Columbia University warns that at least 75 percent of 20 million U S school children need today attention for health defects. He argues public education must organize to protect and promote child health, ensuring sanitary schools and integrated efforts to prevent weakness and disease.
An association of American investment bankers plans to scrutinize all public investments and protect investors. The piece notes fraud has cost the public at least 10 million dollars in two years and urges reform to curb get rich quick schemes in Wall Street.
A Memphis Commercial Appeal editorial argues Alaska should have home rule with a territorial governor and a legislature. It cites 1867 purchase protests as misplaced and urges congress to implement local self government for Alaska’s far northern districts.
The article notes banks increasingly target the public through daily ads to attract depositors. It argues advertising shifts banks from distant dignity toward customer friendly service, with newspapers shaping modern banking practices, citing The Item in Mobile as an example.
A fragmentary column from Hickeyville features humorous verses and short notes. It includes playful poems about poets, a claim about a mule and a vet, a mosquito joke, and a reminiscence of a past speech. The tone echoes old timey rural humor and small town newspaper miscellany.
A reader letter decries the National Progressive-Republican-Washington party as a fallen reform movement. It accuses opportunism in its pursuit of votes, questions welfare for Negro voters, and mocks the party’s planks including woman suffrage. The piece comments on political cynicism and recalls historical figures while urging fidelity to principle.
A collage of satirical lines mocks Colonel Roosevelt and political folly across papers. References to Texas ambitions, disembodied spirits, and rival incidents punctuate a playful but pointed portrait of era politics.
The Schenectady Union reports a proposed experiment to use electricity to stimulate minds in backward or defective pupils in New York City public schools. The plan cites Stockholm’s trials and suggests testing electricity to enhance nerve activity and learning.
Raymond Weeks of Columbia University argues the term vaudeville comes from Vaux de Vire in Normandy. French poet Basselin, likened to Burns, wrote many jovial drinking songs there that spread widely. Over time these tunes and their songs helped form early light operettas later named vaudeville.
Louis Ville Pest argues that George Watterson couches attacks on Grover Cleveland in baseless terms. He notes Cleveland fought for tariff reform in 1893 and condemns Watterson for claims the Wilson bill was Cleveland’s. He urges Watterson to focus on Bryan, while honoring Cleveland’s enduring reputation.
A fair lady asks at a supper table who the ugly man opposite is. The reply, a sardonic smile, reveals the man as her brother. She blurts out apology. Turning to another neighbor she notes a handsome man watching her. The other woman retorts he is her husband.
Edward F. Marvin of the Sons of Temperance recalled a mariners bothel scene where a drunken shell-back challenges scripture. The preacher counters with a Biblical admonition and a quip that he can walk on water better than on rum, illustrating temperance arguments in Bridgeport.
The brief tale recalls Senator Alfee of Delaware with very short legs, causing little height change while seated or standing. President pro tempore Frye of Maine, presiding, fails to identify Alfee amid waving papers and asks assistant Rose if the man from Delaware is standing or sitting. He exclaims in disbelief.
A Chicago group plans a nonprofit poetry magazine funded by 100 patrons at five thousand dollars per year for five years. The project aims to publish up to a thousand overlooked poets who have been silenced by poverty and neglect, returning their verses to public view.
A fragmented quote cites Taft’s secretary describing a third term candidate as acceptable to the South and white to the North, with garbled lines suggesting reaction to a splash of remarks. The readable portion hints at regional appeal but lacks full context or clear facts.
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