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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1914
Page
14
A group of African American pastors asks Mobile city officials to aid their race amid war driven hardship. They request rent reductions for long-term renters, hunger relief, and measures to curb burglary and petty crime while promoting peace and unity. They name Olive Baptist Church and St. Peters Baptist Church leaders and urge swift action.
Instructions on packing Satsuma oranges and grapefruits detailing skeleton frame sorting tables curing process boxes and wrappers. Includes guidance on cardboard boxes size 2 cubic feet and Japanese wrapping paper branding for identifying growers and orchard.
Instructions detail crate sizing for various orange layers and box sizes, with packing steps. It covers orange preparation, clippers, stem clipping, wrapping paper use, arranging by size in rows, breaking joints, bulge packing, and securing with wire tape. It also notes sorting to remove damaged fruit and how to use a sizing board and packing benches.
Several rental storefronts listed across multiple blocks. Two story brick shops include 102 46 N Commerce St and 59 N Water between St Francis and St Michael. Additional units at 112 114 Government St between Royal and St Emanuel. Others on 313 N Royal between Congress and Adams and 8 story brick at 54 S Water between Conti and Government. First floor 118 S Commerce between Church and Government. Also a store and residence at Conception Claiborne Canal intersection.
A Mobile Chamber of Commerce livestock campaign plans more blooded beef bulls and expanded dipping vats to fight ticks. The old Dickens plant at Saraland will host Mobile Hog Company swine breeding with 600 brood sows and improved facilities. Leaders include C. C. Wehn, W. E. Minton, John Everett, and T. W. Boykin, with talk of packing plants and new commercial ventures in the South.
Mobile Aerie 880 of the Fraternal Order of Eagles elected J. H. Wentworth as president and named A. M. Forsman vice president, S. A. Fogle chaplain, C. A. Girod secretary, W. J. McQuillan treasurer, Robert A. Sosaman outer guard, Fritz Ebert trustee, and Dr. A. W. Metcalf physician. A banquet followed. four applications were presented, five voted on and accepted, and three candidates initiated.
Sam Pharr, a Negro, was drowned while rafting oak timber on a barge in the Mobile River near Magazine Point. The body was not recovered and a sheriff's office report noted injuries from a derrick arm.
Cotton prices opened steady and showed small gains before easing slightly under liquidation. Campaigns by the National Harvester Company and government agricultural groups, with trained experts touring the South, are described as influential in educating growers. A special committee will report after meetings at Semmes and Union Church.
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