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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1913
Page
8
The city and county schools observe Temperance Day on February 21. Promoters propose a program with songs by students, debates, poems, and short talks urging abstinence from tobacco and alcohol. Readings include "A Bit of Common Sense" and "A Very Short Speech" among others.
Twenty five unarmed convicts labored a month under guard to complete a model brick highway near Columbus Ohio. Engineers praise the road as durable for at least fifty years with minimal maintenance. A life term worker seeks parole through useful labor while advocates push a good roads bill to use convict labor on main routes. Governor Cox recommends moving the state prison to a rural district.
The Item reports Alabama and New Orleans Transportation Co plans to start barge service on Alabama and Tombigbee rivers. Traffic Agent Donaldson says yards on Lake Borgne canal produced the first self-propelling barge nearing completion with plans for about fifty barges, two building at once and one added monthly. The barges will be numbered, not named.
The text details sustained earnings losses for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company exceeding $1.25 million annually due to rate discrimination between 1907 and 1909. It notes Alabama taxpayers contributing about $200,000 to cover costs of the unequal dispute and compares earnings per mile across Class 1 railroads, highlighting only L&N and Western Railway of Alabama charged the standard rate despite higher earnings elsewhere.
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