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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1912
Page
4
Norwegian barque Gaselle loaded lumber at Moss Point while Trym arrived from quarantine. The article notes arrivals due for United Fruit ships, shoreline crowds, and local weather patterns including northeast trades, gales, and hurricane behavior in the Caribbean and western Atlantic regions.
An early hydrographic article argues for a central information bureau for navigation. It explains charts and bulletins track obstructions ice, floats, and drifting hazards, with monthly charts showing locations and drift to aid safe navigation and revenue.
The week ending August 17 reports sawn timber exports to Hamburg Fecamp Barrow-in-Furness Antwerp and Belfast with totals 140 182 377 048 1 587 636 1 781 640 and 106 000 90 192 116 964 for hewn timber to the same destinations.
New York war drills unfold as 20 000 regulars and militia begin a two army engagement. The red army aims to seize the Croton watershed and strike New York by land, while the blue army defends from Newton and Bethel ridges and repulses the red advance. The noon recall ends the Connecticut campaign maneuvers with red gains on the left and blue resilience on the right.
Senator Kenyon of Town proposed prison sentences for corporate officers who violate campaign publicity law as an amendment to Culberson's bill. The Senate spent an hour debating the measure but ultimately laid the Culberson bill aside.
Chicago August 17 Evelyn Arthur B Lee founder of the absolute life cult says Mona Reas twenty one is the first example of his philosophy proving it possible to attain perfection He declares Mona Rees is perfect and has reached absolute life which is absolute freedom Lee challenges three Chicago preachers to disprove his claims. Sen sational revelations were made a few ty Mildred Bridges. He was sentenced to ten years in prison but has appealed.
The London Globe notes that poor populations in Southern Austria Italy Roumania and parts of Tyrol rely on cereals and porridge instead of bread. Obersteinmark near Vienna uses sterz a nut porridge. North Italy employs polenta and Italian mamaliga keeps grains distinct, forming the daily bread of the poor.
Joe Wood’s pitching keeps Boston in the race for the American League pennant. If he continues his stellar form, the Red Sox will likely clinch the flag, a fact that seems easy to see.
Greenwich plans to condemn a triangular piece of Pat's Hill the site famed for General Putnam's stone steps ride in the revolutionary era. The move accompanies widening the Post road and paving to remove a sharp turn at Pitt's Hill top. Efforts to purchase the land from Henry L. Cammann have failed.
The Metropolitan Magazine describes how Arab men dissolve marriages by repudiation, leaving wives with little recourse. Women face limited grounds for divorce and must return the dowry if the husband seeks new marriage. The piece contrasts male freedom with female restriction in these divorce practices.
In Pittsburg a large crowd greeted eloped couple Harry Spohn and Mary Brown as they rode through Crafton in an iron barred carnival wagon. Spohn and Brown wed in Grove City to escape mocked wedding jokes, but the plan failed.
Washington reports that Dr One Doolittle would become chief of the bureau of chemistry succeeding Dr Marvey Wey after suggestions from Senators Smith and Townsend and other members of the Sixty seventh congressional delegation. Doolittle has served as chief chemist since Dr Wiley resigned.
Henry Vette Jr aged five feet ten inches tall died at his Chicago home today. The boy reportedly suffered from rapid growth precipitating a fatal condition.
In Paris a young man identified as Aubert, missing since Friday night, reappears after being presumed dead. He discovers his clothes were on a coffin and the body dressed in them. witnesses and undertakers create a chaotic scene as authorities await further inquiry by the Seine tribunal.
Paris reports Count Leopold von Berchtheld clerked project to grant gradual autonomy to European provinces in Turkey. The plan draws official interest though France will withhold judgment until Poincare returns from Russia and talks with allies. The move signals Austria-Hungary seeks to revive European concert in Balkan affairs and ease tensions.
Bombay India Aug 17 W Hunter Workman the American mountain climber and explorer is said to have been killed by an avalanche while climbing in the Himalaya range in northern India. The report, from coolies, is unconfirmed. Workman, born Worcester Mass Feb 16 1847, and his wife Fanny Bullock Workman have long climbed mainly in Asia and usually ascended together.
Reports describe the Kufra oasis as a remote base for the Senussi order with Sheikh el Senussi poised to engage Italians as they push inland. News notes Kharga Oasis railway links and caravans reaching Dahkla, highlighting barter trade and the absence of monetary systems in Kufra as the conflict unfolds.
Philadelphia Mayor Rudolph Blankenburg calls for forgiveness and asks citizens to support keeping Councilman William Burke in office after Burke sent his resignation following a controversial past. Burke’s whereabouts are unknown and his faction notes his eccentric council tenure amid prior police custody incidents.
New York August 17 Author Chapelle the leading motorcycle jockey of New York describes racing on a saucer shaped wooden track at over 90 miles an hour. He says the speed is a severe strain and wind drowns out other sounds including applause until the engine slows.
Boston August 17. Earnings of fertilizer firms this year are the poorest in a decade. Nine Southern states show a 12 percent drop in consumption, totaling 3 512 000 tons this season versus 3 995 000 last year. A late season, low cotton prices, price cutting, and wet weather crippled demand. Many plants shut down with uncertain futures for 1912 profits.
The article notes thunderstorm frequency varies by region with arctic rarity and tropical intensity. Central Africa averages 260 storms annually while Sumatra, Java, and Borneo report far fewer. Mauritius near Madagascar averages about one storm per year.
In Paducah Kentucky police say 25 year old Joseph Spitzer resisted arrest and was seriously wounded by officers while attempting to arrest him. He killed his young wife and then took his own life at his home, following a warrant charging him with maltreating Mrs Spitzer from his mother in law.
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