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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1915
Page
4
Financial review describes ongoing European war effects on U S finance with market swings from Arabic oil fears and a weak weekend, Ster-ling decline to 4.64, and concern over industrial orders. The piece notes long war influence on exchange, credit actions, and steel sector activity as harvest and public schooling shifts loom.
A Brooklyn official has estimated that a typical American family of five can live on 70 dollars per month. The plan allocates 14 for rent 2 50 for car fare 30 for food 8 50 for clothing 3 60 for light and fuel and small amounts for recreation reading material incidentals and church. The figures come from the White Wings department as a benchmark for modest living and are not universal across cities.
Authorities in Birmingham enforce fire safety in residences after an inspection orders 2000 flue repairs. With fall and winter ahead, chimney cleaning and flue repairs reduce fire risk. The piece urges occupants to act and warns neglectful owners may be compelled to comply.
The United States becomes the world's leading gold reservoir with year to date receipts totaling 152 million dollars from Canada England France Japan Holland Australia South America Denmark and other nations. The influx from Australia and the Far East continues as Britain South Africa is expected to send its quota soon. The article notes excess gold fuels inflation and the U S holds about one fifth of all governments' gold reserves.
Amusements listing for Empire features Heavy Villains a three act Vitagraph photoPlay with Hughie Mack Cissy Fitz-Gerald Flora Finch and Kate Price in lead roles. Kalem comedy Not In shown with Ham and Bud. Lottie Pickford Irving Cummings appear in The Path of Peril episode sixteenth of The Diamond From the Sky. Helen Holmes Hazards of Helen entry A Perilous Chance plus Hearst Selig News Pictorial. Admission five cents.
Mrs. M A Glass of 222 South Conception Street reports her son Neil Glass was in Galveston during the recent hurricane. He says he rode to a tall building for safety and credits the sea wall with saving the island city from total destruction. He adds the wind exceeded that of 1906 Mobile storm, while the See Mountain valley area also suffered damage from the wind and rain Saturday night.
Allies' first line driven back in Belgium and Lorraine as Verdun southern wing retreat reportedly cut off by German crown prince's army. Germans seize Luneville Blamont Cirey while 24 hour battle rages between Lesse and Meuse rivers. Russian forces capture Gumbinnen Ortelsburg Johannisburg and push toward Koenigsburg. Allied warships join blockade of Tsing-Tao after Japan declares war on Germany.
Petrograd reports German forces on the Russian front have risen to 35 to 40 percent of Germany's and Austria-Hungary's available troops face Russia. The enemy infantry in action now exceeds half of mobilized forces, up from 38 percent earlier. German infantry up 400 percent and cavalry up 900 percent.
Deputies Fritz and Lancashire arrested Sunday at 3:30 p m in the Texas and St. Emanuel building for violating the prohibition law. They found a crowd of white men and negroes drinking beer and seized several dozen bottles from an ice tub. Enoch Seresen Thor Therstad Alf Alansen Arthur Phillips Willie Grove and others were held on vagrancy charges.
Pigk Holloway, indicted by the federal grand jury for violating the internal revenue law by selling liquor near Grove Hill in Clarke county, was released from jail on Sunday after posting a $150 bond.
The article notes Captain Howe warning that herons destroy fresh water fish, including trout, as they watch and dart for prey along inland streams near the coast. It cites horticultural society chatter in Fairhope about citrus canker and orchard cleanup, plus plans for a Gulf Coast Fair citrus and pecan exhibit. Visitors in Mobile were seen at several hotels including Battle House with guests from Tupelo to New Orleans and Memphis.
A Brooklyn man reports his eleven month old baby grew thin due to inadequate nourishment from mother's milk. After trying Grape-Nuts soaked in water and mixed with milk and sugar, the baby thrived, becoming strong and active. The letter touts Grape-Nuts as among the best foods for infants and adults.
A scattered OCR listing reads like a directory of people and places across Alabama Mississippi Florida and Tennessee with multiple surnames and towns such as Pensacola Birmingham Meridian Jackson New Orleans and Orlando. The fragment includes numerous individuals and spouses connected to businesses or listings in a late 19th or early 20th century print.
The commission released public findings on labor unrest after 154 days and 740 witnesses with affiliations split among employers, labor, or neither. Three main reports and opinions cite impartiality concerns, while the August 27 plan includes a Colorado strike report and a structural iron workers update.
Reports from London describe a Russian official account of a decisive victory expelling remaining German naval forces from the Gulf of Riga. The action reportedly involved large Russian warships, submarines, and coastal defenses, with morale impact anticipated in Britain.
London reports the Germans focus on fortifying Constantinople while neglecting Adrianople. The Times Balkan correspondent says Turks are preparing a second defensive line on the Gallipoli peninsula.
It is disclosed that Italian General Pirro arranged with England France and Russia a joint military action against Turkey during his July visit to the Anglo French front. Plans studied then can be put into action immediately.
Aug 23 Petrograd reports the Russian gunboat Sivutch with 148 crew lost in the Gulf of Riga. Commander Tcherkassov, famed at Port Arthur, led Sivutch. Survivors number not announced. Confusion remains whether the Moltke was sunk or a Moltke class ship. Goeben may be the remaining Moltke type vessel.
Report from Petrograd via Reuter's correspondent says the Russian naval success is a great relief to the public. Masses gathered after the victory, marching in front of the government and toward British embassy amid celebrations that lasted late into the night.
The admiralty announced that reconnaissances on Saturday confirmed Italy has evacuated Pelagosa island. All buildings and fortifications were destroyed before withdrawal.
The Meramec rose a foot an hour overnight inundating towns from Valley Park to Pacific. Floodwaters from Ozark streams swept away farm and club houses, with rescuers deploying motor boats as residents sought safety on roofs. Valley Park, 2500 families evacuated.
The coast guard cutter Miami at Key West was ordered to proceed westward along the gulf coast to search for wrecks and distressed vessels after the West Indian hurricane. An unknown schooner is reported sunk on the Louisiana coast at Lake Atchafalaya and several vessels are missing including the steamer Marowiljne.
The wedding ring is traced to pagan days and linked to old chains used on women. The piece notes how men freed women from physical chains but kept a symbolic chain in marriage, with the ring representing union and ownership across early peoples.
The Bon Marche name derives from Paris 1842 linked to Mme Boucicault a shop girl who built a large division of profits system and charitable fortune. The harvest moon rises when the moon horizon angle is at its smallest for several days.
New York reports the keel of the battleship California will be laid at the New York navy yard on September 10. The ship, first to use electric propulsion, has about 12 million pounds of steel prepared for its hull and fittings.
Fifteen locomotives five thousand tons of steel rails and other railroad equipment totaling about seven thousand tons were loaded onto the British steamship St Leonards in Philadelphia for shipment to Russia. The cargo is part of a large order from the Russian government and the St Leonards is expected to sail to Vladivostok via the Panama Canal.
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