Guarantee to Subscribers
The Mobile Item announces a fixed weekly price of 10 cents or 5 per year for home delivery in Mobile. A reward will be paid to any person who reports delivery at any other price, and guarantees apply across the Mobile area as of August 22, 1915.
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Mobile Item
Adit Bureau of Circulations
Ing
Audit Bureau of Circulations
City Net
Isers
Mobile
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Aes
Sun
Sage
Cnet
Genuine Chivalry At The Circle Of Street Courage
A brief, reverent sketch of a street boy who aids a bleeding girl after her shoe injuries. He binds the wound, helps her walk to safety, and carries her to a hospital, refusing to reveal his name as an act of quiet, true chivalry.
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Arthur
Sir Arthur
Sabbath
Jad
Eeven
Mrengsth
German propaganda in United States sparks political uproar
The New York World reports a German financed campaign to sway American opinion and undermine neutrality. Rival papers like the Brooklyn Eagle New York Sun and New York Times describe a Berlin directed conspiracy with sedition subsidized by Germany. The reaction calls for firm government action, possible severing of diplomatic ties, and a crackdown to stamp out conspiracy without bloodshed.
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Associated Press
New York World
Germany
United States
Washington
Count von Bernstorff
Brooklyn Eagle
New York Sun
The
New York Times
Berlin
New York
New York Herald
World
Stem
Mobile Declared Free Port in Policy Debate
The Item defends Mobile as a free port against Mr G J Santa Cruz. It cites Ford Bacon Davis and port charges definitions, disputes claims of a closed port, and argues Mobile’s wharves rail access and low switching costs support free port status. It notes the Elder Dempster Line and Munson lines benefiting Mobile without railroad favoritism.
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G. J. Santa Cruz
Mobile
New Orleans
Mr. Santa Cruz
Elder-Dempster
Pensacola
South America
Re Ee
Teaching Our Citizen- Soldiers to Shoot
Teaching Our Citizen Soldiers to Shoot argues for mass arming of civilians to defend the nation in a war against a world power. It contends the regular army would be inadequate to repel a large expeditionary force and urges citizen-soldier training as a national necessity.
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United States
National Guard
The Gleaners and a Plan to Teach Shooting Nationwide
An editorial argues citizens must learn marksmanship for national defense. It favors rifle clubs with War Department instructors, uses discarded Krag rifles, and envisions free public ranges to train young men for possible war, maintaining American prowess.
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Switzerland
War Department
The Storm Toll Hovers Over Texas Coast Losses
The article recalls the early storm season and the Galveston disaster with ongoing uncertainty over the death toll along the Texas coast and Gulf waters. Mobile residents feel the sting as memories of past storms resurface and families await hard news on missing loved ones.
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Galveston
Texas
Gulf of Mexico
Mobile
Do You Know Your Mobile County Grows Big Crops
In Mobile County a farmer sold a 1840 dollar crop per acre last year and many crops require early planting. The column invites readers to share big Mobile County yields, from peaches to pecans, and urges buying Mobile grown produce for freshness and quality.
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Mobile
Mobile County
Baldwin
Does picking flowers hurt flowers asks a little girl
The editor replies that flowers do not feel pain when picked. Botanists say a part of the plant may respond, but the exact sensation is unknown. The conclusion remains that flowers are not hurt by being gathered by children.
Italian Citizens and War Duty Across Borders
Question on punishment for Italians who become American citizens or naturalize abroad and live abroad during wartime. Answer: no treaty defines status. naturalization doesn't exempt military liability. Ages 20–39 face arrest and forced service. after 39 arrest and imprisonment but no duty. Also notes torpedo production takes six months and costs $8,500. smokeless powder time varies.
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A. M
Italy
Ans
Readers Editorial Submissions Policy and Guidelines
Public letters are invited for this column under rules: write no more than 300 words and publish only one side of the paper. Do not cover partisan politics or sectarian topics and maintain neutrality. Sign with your real name and address, even if using a pen name. Include a stamped self addressed envelope for rejected copies. The Item corrects its own errors only.
Free Port Debate in Mobile Letter to Editor
A Mobile reader argues that true free port status requires open access to all ocean lines and equal terms at all wharves, with rail and ship traffic unrestricted by favored lines. The writer cites New Orleans as an example and urges stronger guidance for Mobile and support for Senator Hartwell’s port plan.
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Ocean Lines
Nohe
New Orleans
Mobile
Hartwell
Santa Cruz
Ala
Naval Micuia
Craft Invites Bourne to Address at Good Roads Meeting
President John Craft of the Alabama Good Roads Association invites former U S Senator Jonathan Bourne Jr of Oregon to speak at the nineteenth annual Birmingham gathering October 12-13. Craft praises Bourne as a champion of good roads and notes Alabama’s interest in the subject.
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Craft
Bourne
John Craft
Alabama Good Roads Association
United States
Jonathan Bourne, Jr
Oregon
Washington, D. C
Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Ted
Two County Road Trucks In Mobile County Put To Use
The White and Jeffrys road trucks recently purchased by Mobile County board of revenue and road commissioners have been received and put to work on road improvement projects. A Friday tryout by the road committee found both machines in perfect working order.
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White & Jeffrys
Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners
Mobile County
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