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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1916
Page
4
The fragment references the Mobile Tribune dated August 29 1916 Mobile Alabama and Associated Press wire service misbits. It notes editorial and news sections with society editors and home Bell mobile context.
The editorial urges united support for President Wilson as Congress considers measures to avert a threatened railway strike. It warns of possible government seizure of railroads and trains if the strike proceeds, stressing the need to feed, mail, and move a nation of fifty million and to uphold the country’s peace and dignity.
U S Consul General Handley reports Japan expanding in South American commerce. Major Japanese steamship firms add service on the west coast and Mitsui Bussan Kaisha buys five Chilean vessels to reroute to Asia, replacing larger ships. Mobile already runs regular sailings to South America, signaling a global contest for new trade routes and immigration flow.
The Infant Mystics announce a major Mardi Gras parade aiming to exceed previous efforts. The Carnival Association will become a permanent business institution with Mobile’s leading businessmen forming the Board of Directors to organize a community backed carnival like New Orleans.
The document blasts Britain's tobacco embargo and English demand, urging retaliation as U.S. growers face heavy losses. It notes Europe’s neutral buyers staying away, England’s fourfold orders, and fears of brigandage and hit to markets amid planned extra acreage.
The piece argues England has progressed beyond universal conscription with voluntary enlistment shaping wartime involvement. It notes many Englishmen have not visited recruiting stations yet would likely fight if national survival demanded it, contrasting past warrior impulses with modern voluntary service. It suggests a nation-to-nation shift in military obligation and agency.
The poem laments the absence of truly new ideas and notes that writers repeat familiar themes. It references Boswell and Johnson, praising their enduring, though familiar, insights while acknowledging the need to reshape old thoughts for readers.
The article explains why a heated storm center forms by atmospheric circulation absence and plains east of the Rockies foster storm creation. It notes storms move along prevailing winds, often trace parabolic paths, and odors or sounds may be suppressed by heavy air. It also answers printer roller ingredients as glue and molasses with variability by roller makers and cautions against home-made rollers.
The 1916 forecast notes Mercury’s benefic aspects for contracts and partnerships, with favorable periods for publicity and advertising. It predicts rising coal prices, a metals surge, and benefits for Michigan and Missouri, while cautioning commercial deals and seagoing cargo. May foretell a statesman’s death next month and a shift to a new generation of heroes and celebrities.
The piece promotes onions as a health tonic noting their high water content and minerals. It suggests onion honey made by slicing onions, sugar, and resting on a tilted platter to extract a therapeutic syrup. It claims benefits for colds, vitality, and mood, urging walks afterward for extra benefits.
A twenty eight year old unmarried woman seeks help for chronic insomnia and a daily smoking habit of sixty to eighty cigarettes. The response emphasizes self control over quitting rather than medicines, urging focus, discipline, and personal will to regain health and work ability. It warns that relief lies in the person’s effort to reform habits and sleep better rather than external remedies.
Western Union Telegraph Company announces that the day letter service, previously limited to the United States, will extend September 1 to all Canadian offices including those of the Great Northwestern Telegraph Company. Governors of the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association urge President Wilson to preserve arbitration in railway labor disputes.
Providence R I hosts the forty fourth annual convention of the International Association of Fire Engineers with two hundred fifty fire chiefs attending from across the United States and Canada.
Hartford report states the Eastern Forwarding Company of Baltimore, agents for a German submarine merchant line, leased part of Connecticut's new state pier at New London for six months with a renewal option. In New York, Pacific Mail Steamship Company reports over 21 percent annual profits on both preferred and common stock.
Rev. William Hays Ward D D longtime editor of the New York Independent for 49 years died in South Berwick Mo aged 81 He directed the Wolfe expedition to Babylonia in 1884 and wrote on religious and oriental topics He was active in the American Bible Society the Church Building Society and the American Missionary Society born in Abingdon Massachusetts.
Plastering and brick repair work on the Y M C A building was completed Monday as the furnace chimney was rebuilt. Secretary F W Evans says all repair work should finish in about ten days with retinting of dormitory walls underway and interior work rushed by a large force of men.
A reflection on what defines a gentlewoman and lady, contrasting modern superficiality with true womanhood. It emphasizes honesty, cleanliness, modesty, restraint, kindness, charity, and respect for others, portraying a real gentlewoman as a moral standard for all women.
Mrs Dalton agrees to back Helen Curtis as head of a welfare effort within the club. Helen proposes practical aid to a bitter, independent woman, stressing work and meaningful activity to restore dignity. The group approves, and Helen feels she has found her purpose and place.
Charley Mitchell, the English heavyweight who faced John L Sullivan over 25 years ago, arrived in New York from London and stated he was prepared to bring British flyweight champion Jimmy Wilde to the United States for a possible match.
The text extols a woman who honors others and herself, describing a real gentlewoman as one who preserves the sacred splendor of simply being a woman. It challenges readers to embody this ideal and live with dignity.
This advertisement urges maintaining liver and bowel health to appear and feel younger. It touts Chamberlain's Tablets as a remedy for constipation and biliousness, claiming easy use, agreeable effects, and wide availability.
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