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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1915
Page
5
Readers see a breakdown of copies by category including 13,778 for employees, courtesy, and office use, plus 1,596 additional copies. The report lists net totals and paid figures with 14,231 presumably related to paid or total distributed.
The Mobile Item asserts it guarantees higher advertiser circulation in Mobile city and surrounding areas than any other Mobile news publication. The claim is presented as substantiated by auditors from the Audit Bureau of Circulation for two consecutive six month periods.
The Mobile Item offers weekly delivery at 10 cents and yearly rate of five dollars with a price guarantee. A reward of one year's subscription is offered to anyone who reports delivery at a nonauthorized price. Emerson quote included.
The Alabama National Guard contingent in Mobile, consisting of three infantry companies and a hospital corps, has earned repeated commendations from regular army officers during annual camps. The Mobile citizen soldiers have a long and honored history since the Civil War, with several units gaining distinction in contests and camps. The editorial asserts the guard is a necessary defense in emergencies and encourages support, while addressing discussions of increased efficiency and merit through proper measures and opportunities for advancement.
Gov Charles Anderson designates Monday and Tuesday this week as Good Roads Days to mobilize public enthusiasm for highway building across the state. The proclamation urges citizens with time and energy to assist in highway projects that will benefit business and travel.
The Interstate Commerce Commission upholds a coal rate increase to New Orleans, highlighting Mobile's advantage as a coal bunkering and export port. With lower rail and port costs, Mobile becomes the ideal coal station shaping Gulf Coast and South Atlantic trade, attracting more cargoes and sleeper ships to berth and bunker cheaply.
The Alabama Power Company and state lawmakers clash over tax exemptions for hydro electric and nitrogen plants. The debate weighs the wisdom of tax breaks, faith to contracts, and state control of water power while considering potential repeal, continued inaction, or selective extension to other industries. The Item aims to present all sides impartially while noting broader implications for Alabama's finances and development.
In the recorder's court yesterday morning Judge Edington presided over the proprietor of two creameries and three dairies charged with dispensing adulterated milk. The city meat and milk inspection department led the prosecution and each case resulted in a conviction. The judge stated that pure milk is essential and buyers deserve unmixed product.
A saying notes a pessimist is someone who mourns as buckwheat faces heat stress. The quip ties climate discomfort to crop concerns, humorously framing worry about agricultural impacts.
A commentary argues against government backing for cotton stockpiling to hedge against European demand. It contrasts Macara’s idea with Manufacturers' Record stance urging South to grow food first and treat cotton as a surplus. The piece mocks guarantees and predicts ongoing war uncertainty and weak Eastern resort business.
At Mobile Home Economics Club meeting on Saturday supporters urged opposing city legislation that would end green grocers in residential areas. A resolution passed to petition City Commissioners and circulate signatures to maintain current system which reduces living costs and has served housekeepers well. The Item notes long-standing green grocers have been sanitary and beneficial, and fears compulsory relocation would be unpopular except with a few beneficiaries.
A traveling man lauds Alabama for supplying Colonel Chester Harding to govern the Panama Canal Zone succeeding Col. Goethals. The report notes Harding is a Tuscaloosan and brother of W. P. G. Harding, a Federal Reserve Board member, with praise for Alabama’s role in the canal project. The piece also covers sisal trades, Good Roads Day plans, and a Mobile hotel crowd listing.
The answer explains using nitrate of ammonia to make ice. For small scale, place hot spring water in a stone bottle with two ounces of refined nitre, seal, submerge in a deep well, and stir intermittently for hours until frozen. break the bottle to release ice. Larger scale uses coils of pipe with nitrate of ammonia.
A reader asks if laws exist against brass checkin machines in stores that take money from boys. The article notes a law against games of chance and discusses whether these machines constitute gambling depending on whether money is lost without return. Each machine would need investigation to determine if it is a gambling device.
A column extols Mobile county farming noting corn yields near Government Street loop, with Atmore farmers averaging forty bushels per acre. It praises Mobile and Baldwin growing feats, urging readers to buy Mobile grown fruits and vegetables and send in big local produce stories.
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