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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1912
Page
6
The 1912 issue from The Mobile Item discusses rising divorce rates in the United States with judge William D. Ellis warning of the evil and decline in home sanctity. It also urges charitable duty toward the poor during Christmas, emphasizing service as imperative.
In New York a meeting of port authorities elected Harry Pillans of Mobile fourth vice president. The group aims to exchange data on port construction and operations, promote uniform policies, and publicize port affairs to boost waterborne transport. Membership to be limited to port authorities and federal or city officials.
Hearings before the state factory investigating commission reveal infants and very young children employed in tenement home workshops. An infant of eighteen months works at artificial flowers while a three year old assists on corset covers and four year olds toil long hours. Families of toilers earn five to six dollars weekly with many workers diseased including tuberculosis in about a third of families. Authorities expect stricter laws limiting or abolishing home factory work.
BE W Parker of the United States Geological Survey notes that anthracite coal has nearly ceased to be used in blast furnaces and is now mainly for domestic sizes. The industry profits depend on prepared domestic sizes, while small sizes compete with bituminous coal for steam.
The Progressive Farmer argues that with moisture sunshine and a long growing season the South can become the corn belt of the future. It cites good farming, organic soil, and legume rotations including cowpeas soybeans peanuts and clover as keys to high yields. Boys in corn clubs demonstrate yields above 200 bushels per acre supporting regional potential.
The Mobile Red Cross continues a battle against a grim foe with trained nurses ready to reassure and save victims. The general committee met on Tuesday December 10 to plan seal sales at Hammel's Van Antwerp's and Gayfer's, with Miss Emma Langdon Roche organizing candy package stamping on Monday and hotels and cafes to be asked to participate.
A man debates frugal living with his fiancée as they plan marriage. He argues luxuries must be cut to save, while she nudges him toward shrewd savings and postponing pleasures. He jokes about keeping socks and plans, then considers the necklace and a dinner out as part of their smart money plan.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer anecdote recalls a sister’s casual plan for watching a three year old. Puck Hawes notes the bachelor’s unease as the child is left with simple orders to avoid mischief and be entertained with a cooky or a ride on the back.
A penitent woman admits her wife threw a fine china plate that struck the husband on the head. The wife expressed remorse and said she could not match that plate again if she tried to hunt the town for it.
A cautionary poem recounting a restless child missing at night and his pants found instead. The gobble-uns threaten those who misbehave, urging children to heed parents and teachers and to aid orphans. James Whitcomb Riley voices the rural moral, urging care for loved ones.
Washington notes the early retirement of James Bryce, ambassador from Great Britain to the United States. Bryce, lauded as the most popular diplomatic representative in Washington, may be offered university leadership. Sir Cecil Spring-Rice will succeed him and is expected to present credentials after the new year.
A compact 1912 poem extols the iron rail as a faithful servant of progress. It links the rail to broadening paths, shared toil, and universal speech across priests warriors and kings, praising industry and divine influence in ordinary steel.
An aspiring young author waits for the postman and learns a magazine sent back more poems than he sent. He reacts with rueful humor, noting the editor’s playful rubbing it in.
The article recalls James Bryce as British ambassador to the United States, noting earlier Berlin service and a proposed friendly intervention with the United States. It mentions gifts from King Edward and Kaiser Wilhelm, Bryce’s Belfast birth, Scottish father, Edinburgh and Oxford education, and his encyclopedic knowledge.
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