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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1915
Page
18
The Mobile Item asserts it has the greatest more net paid circulation in Mobile City and surrounding area, backed by auditors from the Audit Bureau of Circulation for two consecutive six month periods.
The item promotes a mobile newspaper guarantee and details a Christmas season of charitable gifts. It highlights Elks donations to orphanages, a large Christmas dinner for professionals and nurses, and aid to hospitals and homes. It urges local business leaders to push for Alabama munition and shipbuilding plants, advocating mobilization via two cent stamps and Chamber of Commerce action.
The readable fragment suggests a discussion of paying debts without raising taxes or cutting existing programs. It mentions enabling payment of obligations for the city and other institutions, but the precise actions and entities are unclear.
Citizens of Birmingham face a special election tomorrow to amend the state constitution. The measure would let Birmingham raise its own tax rate, currently capped at 6 mills plus 6 mills for interest, without affecting outside properties.
In a satirical conversation set amid Panama Canal debates, Birsky and Zapp mock Colonel Gottheil’s supposed role and public image while debating private enterprise versus government effort. They compare politicians and officials, joke about ads and portraits, and muse on the canal’s completion and the publicity around its figures.
The column predicts irritability and discontent under Mars in Leo and Saturn adverse Though the sun shows late day encouragement for asking favors and authority figures The forecast warns of heavy reverses for France and Italy and rising embezzlement and forgery The pope faces mental strain and peace efforts fail The text urges caution in business and suggests charity support for schools and welfare programs in Alabama’s capital city and asks readers to help neighbors in distress
Fort Morgan residents join relatives in Mobile for the holidays as Montgomery and Chicago visitors arrive. Mobile Commandery Knights Templars meet at the Masonic Temple and toast the day. The Pink Lady company entertains at the Cawthon Hotel Vineyard with a full program and gifts for manager John Fisher.
W Birchette assistant general manager agent of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company based in St Louis arrives in Mobile Saturday afternoon to conduct office business.
C Butler and his wife, residents of New Orleans, were visitors in Mobile on Saturday, enjoying local sights and scenery.
A compiled traveler and attendee roster includes individuals and couples from New Orleans Birmingham Memphis Henderson Pensacola Montgomery Fort Morgan and other locations. The list names many surnames and affiliations with hotels and railroad connections.
Charles King, 659 Street, a white boy, was struck by a car Friday around 1 PM at Royal and Government streets. The vehicle, driven by a Black man named Alexander, fled the scene without aid.
In a vivid tale from the battle for a mountain cabin Jim Brady recalls a mountaineer who swore to supply ammunition to the cabin occupants by any means necessary. He declared he would rather give it to the enemy and let them shoot it at the besieged group if no other way existed.
Communication on public welfare topics invited with rules. Sign full name and address, limit 300 words, use one side of sheet, include return envelope. No anonymous letters, avoid partisan religion or medical controversy. Reprint not guaranteed. repeated submissions discouraged.
In a letter to The Item editor, Dr. Charles A Mohr Pittsburgh City Health Officer disputes an Associated Press rabies report. He states the patient was in hospital for treatment and resisting transport rather than biting staff, urging facts over sensationalism.
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