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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1916
Page
4
Classified notice fragment from The Mobile Item dated December 26 1916 outlines circulation details and editorial contacts. It mentions multiple offices including New York Chicago and St. Louis and references carrier and mail delivery options.
The Birmingham Board of Trade endorses Mobile as a premier site for a government shipbuilding plant or naval base, urging Alabama senators and representatives to support Mobile’s claims. It cites year round outdoor work, deep water, abundant labor, top river locations, and accessible raw materials as factors in Mobile’s favor versus Birmingham and other sites.
The piece notes Christmas day truces on European fronts hinting at a broader desire for peace. It warns that ongoing wars threaten the Caucasian race and urges a world citizen outlook through communication and travel to end hostilities. It also mentions large crowds and large packages observed in Moblians on Saturday night.
The article reports Turkish setbacks in Egypt with British forces capturing Maghdadah and taking about 1100 prisoners. It notes renewed British actions near Kut el Amara and a plan to seize Bagdad with coordinated British and Russian troops under Grand Duke Nicholas, aiming at Constantinople.
A verse tale shows parents raising a shy daughter named perhaps Rove with pies and marmalade and hopes she will comfort them in old age. But at seventeen a reckless romance arrives as a red hot car, and the daughter leaves home, breaking parents’ plans and leaving them to face aging grief.
Readers ask about learning to read music and how to whiten piano keys. Answers advise taking lessons, cleaning with soap and water, using alcohol, and not leaving the piano open. Other questions discuss mirror repair, mending garden hose, preserving eggs with waterglass, and poultry feed.
Horoscope from 1916 highlights mixed influences with Venus favoring progress for women in politics philanthropy and domestic economy while Jupiter Saturn and Neptune warn of enemies and anxiety. Rising thought leaders in art literature and religion are predicted along with greater public activity and marriages. Children born under Capricorn are clever but may face luck issues and health should be guarded.
The article explains that tuberculosis starts with a primary focus in the body such as the lung joint or lymph gland. It describes how tiny miliary nodules form, multiply, and break down into pus rich with bacilli. Blood carries the infection to other tissues, spreading the disease.
List of groups meeting at various venues around town including Eagles, Odd Fellows, K P, Woodmen, Masons and more. Each group schedules sessions at specified halls and times, with city officials holding a noon session at the Municipal Building.
A parent pleads for partial restoration of movement in a child with progressive paralysis despite multiple treatments. The column notes no guaranteed cure, questions chiropractic claims, and urges professional medical consultation for heart pains pimples hair loss granulated eyelids and ruptures.
In a crowded club Helen and Warren share a tense evening. Warren remains stolidly unresponsive while others flirt and revel. A perfume atomizer targets the men, provoking laughter as patrons jockey for drinks and late midnight social bustle ends with a waiter enforcing decorum.
Miss Fairfax replies that happiness matters more than right or wrong. She warns marrying for a home without love may yield mutual unhappiness, while lacking romantic thrill is not a real reason to delay if you seek solid substance rather than froth.
A man serving at the border recounts an affair with a married woman unable to divorce. He returns to find her socializing with other men and pressuring him to date others as well. The adviser urges a firm stand, noting the woman’s lack of self restraint and the fiancé’s weak legal standing.
Official Italian headquarters statement says on the Trentino front there were only artillery actions with batteries dispersing working parties in Pasubio and upper Astico. On the Julian front thick mist limited activity to reconnaissance.
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