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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1912
Page
5
Selma Alabama residents push plans for a new city wharf to replace the dilapidated river facility. Citizens and business leaders propose using existing fundraising funds to boost the project and seek city approval for a street segment and labor to extend to the river edge.
The Wednesday and Sunday issue features up-to-date building tips for current owners and prospective builders. The column highlights practical ideas, materials, and methods to improve homes and projects, urging readers to apply the guidance.
Rev. L. G. Morrill of the People's church condemned modern skirt styles in a sermon with lantern slides showing women in ultra-short and tight skirts. He compared fashions to Eve’s fig leaves, warned of spiritual peril, and ridiculed spendthrift dress habits.
The building page runs every Wednesday and Sunday offering valuable suggestions on home ownership and improving living spaces. It outlines practical steps, financing tips, and design ideas to help readers plan and complete a home project.
A Panama Canal route plan aims to link Los Angeles with the Atlantic coast within sixty days. Alexander Grayder of Chicago appeared before the Los Angeles harbor commission seeking docking and storage data. He said Toronto and Pittsburgh financiers back the project.
Aug 30 Steubenville Ohio reports a new social craze. Mrs. Zanier soothed a crying baby over the telephone during a bridge party, music quieting the child within minutes. The note praises Foley Kidney Pills, with John Heath of California cited as a relieved patient.
William Johnson, a Black laborer from Leeds, tried to remove a wildcat from a hole using dynamite after a brush with the animal. The blast buried him several yards, left him badly bruised, and he was taken to Hillman hospital in Birmingham for treatment.
A traveling salesman named E. E. Youngs writes that he suffered constipation and indigestion until using Dr King s New Life Pills. He claims the pills cure stomach, liver or kidney troubles and are unequaled. Price is 26 cents at druggists.
A liquidation of sugar entries at the port ordered by Secretary MacVeagh and directed by Collector Hebert shows the government claims $103,533 from American Sugar Refining Co. A 1901 1902 undervaluation, allegedly caused by refinery workers offering wet sugar for sampling to lower the assessed value, is cited as the scheme.
The Thanhouser company presents The Cool Place a deluxe three reel adaptation of Owen Meredith's poem featuring love jealousy adventure and battle. Largest season offering with no price raise admission five cents children and adults different pricing indicated open at 19 a m come early to avoid the rush.
In New York on August 30 a humorist named Malcolm Shackelford faced disruption at home after a scented postcard showed a fat woman on a man’s knees with the message You’re a great one to keep a date. Florence. The card’s address traced to East Orange and Mrs Mary Ewart admitted sending it, prompting possible charges.
In Cananea Sonora a force of forty government volunteers beat Insurrectos in multiple engagements from last Saturday. They seized fifty horses and mules with provisions and munitions and $500 from rebels. Rebel losses topped twenty, including four prisoners two of whom were captured women camp followers. The action began at Haviacera and continued at Huepac before a relief force arrived.
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