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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1915
Page
4
The Mobile Item, a daily and Sunday paper, states all Mobile subscribers pay the same rate of 10 cents weekly or $6 yearly with no variations across the city. A reward of one year’s subscription is offered if delivered by an unauthorized carrier at a different price. Mobile Ala December 27 1915.
A short inspirational quote attributed to Carlyle and Hale urging ambition and outreach. It encourages looking upward and ahead. It emphasizes lending a hand and helping others on a ascent from low points to high goals.
The last week of the year shows strong mercantile sentiment with no lull in trade. Christmas sales surpassed expectations, banking shows solid gains, and clearings rise 40 percent from 1913 levels. Freight congestion on the eastern seaboard signals robust shipments as trunk lines post large earnings.
Voters hear arguments that the bond measure will not raise taxes and will not create new debt. Proponents claim it enables the state to meet obligations for public schools and institutions, veterans, and prisoner care, helping retire bonds and complete economic administration without increasing tax rates.
Rumors allege Mobile interests pressuring Governor Henderson over harbor commission appointments to derail the Alabama bond issue. The piece argues the state must choose between a bond issue to cover old debts or higher taxes, urging support for the bond plan to preserve credit without new debt.
The Mobile County board pushes a rural county school bond issue to improve buildings and equipment. Officials note finances have hampered rural schools while Mobile city voters are urged to support both this bond and the state refunding bond on January 18.
New York organizers launch Central Committee For Relief of Jews Suffering Through the War to gather ten cent contributions via 1,000,000 pocket dime savings banks. The plan aims to raise at least 250,000 dollars for relief with offices at 63 Park Row and a relief committee led by Rabbi M. S. Margolis. A separate divorce case in St. Joseph, Michigan reveals Mrs Emma Been alleging repeated moves by her husband.
A crowded notes column lists visitors and residents in Mobile at hotels Battle House Windsor Bienville and Cawthon. Names include Farnsworth Pincus Gray Clarke Scott Latham Hunter Stevens Katenharken Wilson Flannigan Pope Sexton Sing Howes Johnson Dew Gimbell Gautier Sherrill Habrason and others. One birth announced at Columbia S C after Mrs Dew’s visit.
Vanderbilt's undefeated five travels to Mobile for a decisive Southern championship showdown with the Mobile Y M C A. Captain Cody leads the visitors as a top all around athlete. Reyer stands 6'2 and Turner is a standout sprinter. The lineups feature listed forwards centers and guards from both teams in a high stakes tilt.
The column notes unsettled weather with rain forecast for Tuesday and mentions temperature swings from Nebraska to New York. It also shares a humorous anecdote about name spelling from Elizabeth to Elisabeth and a remark on holiday cards amid changing weather chatter.
The Young People's Jewish Association held its final meeting of the year at B’nai B’rith hall. Captain Leon Schwarz read The Ten Commandments of a True American by Rabbi Joseph Silvermann, adopted as the group’s patriotism code. Mrs L B Strauss and Miss Marie Richard played Grieg piano works. Miss Vivian Levy of Pensacola and Miss Eva Gup also performed. Rose Bodziner gave a reading. Officers will be elected at the next gathering on Sunday January 2.
J. M. Barker of International Harvester Co with Mobile base promoted to general sales agent for the tractor department with Birmingham headquarters. He is succeeded in Mobile by J. H. Harwood from Birmingham. List of numerous individuals and towns follows.
Fire at St. Matthew's Catholic Church on Marine and Parm streets in Oakdale damaged the basement and interior of the church built with Father J W Dunne as pastor. Three alarms were sounded, heater caused the blaze, neighbors helped extinguish before trucks arrived. Mass proceeded. Loss insured.
Getsctive squad of the police department arrested Amably Muscat proprietor of a cook shop at Adams and Royal streets Sunday afternoon on the charge of violating the prohibition law. A small quantity of liquor was found in his place.
A narrator visits St Stephen's with Eleanor Fairlow on Mollie’s wedding eve. In church, a letter troubles the scene as Eleanor’s faith contrasts with a hidden betrayal. The narrator recalls a line about Judas, noting the betrayer was a man, not a woman.
The forecast notes strong benefic placements for Mercury Jupiter and Saturn making it favorable for settling accounts and financial figures. It predicts editorial gains for newspapers and extra editions, rising political friction, possible senator notoriety, and a good setup for big business in 1916 while warning bankers of potential bankruptcies and labor radicalism.
The item lists horsepower figures for a mobile power plant at 2 650 hp and individual streetcar motors at 25 hp each. It notes that a 100 hp steam engine typically yields about 150 hp electrical capacity. It then gives fur cleaning instructions using Fuller’s earth and a flour salt substitute, followed by a brief fortune-misc notes about plays, astrology, and business outlook for 1916.
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