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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1916
Page
4
The item lists subscription and delivery details for the Mobile Alabama edition dated December 1, 1916. It notes pricing by mail and by carrier, with separate rates for advance payment and regular terms. The notice references the New York and Chicago offices and indicates circulation and advertising sections.
Committee chairmen back the Satsuma Day celebration as Mobile prepares for the fruit's arrival. The event highlights county development and tourism potential, linking Satsuma promotion with regional progress and shared soil and climate advantages. Enthusiasts urge broad community support for a worthy observance.
The football season concludes with few serious injuries as the new pass and open style is seen as less dangerous than the old line play. About 88 000 spectators watched the Yale Harvard game, underscoring the sport’s rising popularity and diminishing abolition calls.
The text notes turkey dealers suffer from boycotts and high prices, while egg prices drop after a nationwide boycott. It cites public refusal to pay high Sys prices around Thanksgiving, price declines in major cities, and warns of possible losses for dealers and speculators if prices do not normalize. Federal investigators consider Sherman act factors governing price rises.
Critics charged that Secretary Daniels pushed a vast wartime shipbuilding program worth sixty five million dollars, arguing the Navy finally reached a robust build up under his tenure. They claimed recruiting rose under his regime and accused opponents of undermining naval efficiency and expert guidance.
Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg floated a peace plan described as guaranteeing the nation's future. The terms were seen as ambiguous and unacceptable to the Entente if interpreted from recent newspaper debates. The note signals no real path to peace and shifts blame to allies.
The poem laments rising costs and hardship for the poor as prices climb. It contrasts scarcity with past comforts and imagines a grim future of hunger, cold, and stripped luxuries. It notes high coal, pricey meat, and shortages, with imagery of rats in a destitute dwelling.
The column forecasts an unusually favorable day across vocations with benefic planets for commerce education and various sectors. It highlights opportunities for bankers educators engineers and women in business, plus potential marriages and rising fortunes, while warning of possible accidents and political overreach.
A Gadsden Evening Journal note records ten Wornda bound car parties passing through Gadsden before 10 am, five from Missouri three from Indiana and two from North Carolina signaling a large Southern tourist movement. Railroads steamships and hotels expect record 1916 17 travel as Florida tops prior year with new trains hotels and roads boosting self driven tours.
A citywide feature extols a new upbeat anthem “It’s Not Our Nationality It’s Simply You” as a unifying morale booster. It argues music lifts labor, heartens soldiers and sailors, and embodies America as a melting pot where origin fades before achievement and spirit. The piece highlights immigrant success stories and calls for pride in personal merit.
A boatload of fraternal group meeting times fills the page with Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias venues and hours across the city. A featured song motivates workers, urging perseverance and national pride to uplift discouraged laborers. The piece blends club notices with a call to sing and keep faith in effort.
Mrs. Lawson boasts of a grand six room library dining room and drawing room combination with a $325 antique table and a $300 sideboard while husband Warren and Helen tease the lavish display. They discuss rents and staff as the couple tours the rooms concluding with tea served by a French maid.
The article explains vibration in sound and light, noting that different tones and colors arise from distinct wave lengths. It uses a glass prism to show sunlight splitting into rainbow colors and compares visible rays with longer Hertzian waves used in wireless telegraphy.
Readers are advised to contact their local medical society secretary for guidance on quartz lamp therapy options including Kro mayer and Nagelschmidt lamps. A reader asks about a neck lump possibly cancer, and a physician suggests an abscess behind the pharyngeal membrane, notes ear involvement, and urges a personal medical consultation for accurate assessment.
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