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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1916
Page
6
An old newspaper fragment advertises LABS BY MAIL and outside Mobile subscriptions. It mentions editorial and news sections with society editors and pricing in monthly quarterly and yearly rates. The text is partial and garbled but shows mail subscription options for readers outside Mobile.
A satirical piece discusses experiments at a major institution inoculating a snake with its own poison and imagines absurd applications. It cites self harming reptiles and jokes about training insects and poets to read their work to themselves for public amusement.
Col James Wade Cox longtime Mobile broker and military figure dies suddenly. He led Winston Jones & Co. for two decades and served as colonel of the First Alabama Volunteers during the Spanish American War. He helped organize local Masonry and was a noted authority on Hardee's tactics.
A collage of stray notes mentions General Hugh Scott possibly guiding the war department with no aid until a successor to Mr. Garrison is named. Other fragments note a young man linked to a possible police miscue and a curious find in Cuzco Peru. The Troy Messenger talks of $35,000 city ads retirement and Morgan County’s tick law adoption.
Circuit Judge Carl Henderson in Hopkins County denounces card games for booty at home as a danger to society and urges grand jury indictments for players. He warns the card table ruins boys and implies bridge parties could be illegal gambling, though practical enforcement seems unlikely.
A Mobile Rotary Club guest from Glen’s Run Coal Co. praises Mobile’s public schools, charitable institutions, homes, streets, harbor, and bay. The piece notes civic pride, local humor about jail fruit distribution, and upcoming carnival preparations with concerns over lodging prices and local bids for road building in Wilcox County.
The examiner alleges the sheriff of Mobile County collected $12,858 improperly as guard fees and notes an attorney general opinion confirming such charges were not authorized. The report also cites the sheriff’s compensation under local act and 1911 amendments, with $2 per guarded prisoner deemed unapproved.
The Adams Advertiser notes a threatened public naming of a debtor was dropped due to legal protection and apologizes for the space used. It laments debt collection waste and hints at future self-harming business trash.
Edward McCall, chairman of the New York Public Service Commission, keeps bees on Long Island. His youthful nephew visited his place and joked about sending Eddie to chase bees, a harmless bit that kept him out of the workmen’s way.
Adjutant Nathan Bedford Forrest of the Sons of Confederate Veterans visits Mobile from Biloxi to meet local leadersColonels Bloch and Moultonto drum up support for the local camp. Numerous visitors from Cleveland Detroit Nashville and other cities stay at the Battle House and Cawthon Hotel as Mobile hosts guests and confirms tourism.
A long list of names and places appears, including Battle House tied residents and many others from Louisville New York Indianapolis St Louis Biloxi Atlanta Chicago Birmingham Cortelyou Daphne Island Hattiesburg Gulfport and more, showing a wide social notice of individuals and spouses from multiple states and cities. The item reads as a society directory style record with numerous married couples and addresses.
The city engineer office lists permits for Bahamas Lumber Company to erect an office at Water and Elmira for 500 dollars, J H McGehee to build a one story tenement at Our Alley and Augusta for 400, M E Speith to repair Queen theatre damage for 200, W H Cushman to remodel 454 Dauphin street picture theatre for 300, Harry T Fowler to erect gallery at 256 South Broad for 125. Total weekly improvements cost 1,525 dollars.
The column offers home care tips and trivia including dry cleaning with bran for a white coat, guidance on locating noxious water closet conditions, explanations of gold fineness by carats and solid gold, plus a date and horoscope for February 28, 1902 given as Friday with character notes.
The Lady Minstrels charity show for the School Improvement Association drew seventy local girls, with music, drills and roasted local characters. The event supports a domestic science department and the active improvement club in Brewton.
A former industrial leader, 65, speaks in a hotel lobby about Mobile’s potential. He cites harbor access, lumber, turpentine, and varnish as local strengths and urges a national shipbuilding push. He questions why Mobile lacks big industry and asks, what ails Monae.
Sunday February 13 1916 predicts favorable days for invention and progress in machinery, attention to life-saving devices, and widespread epidemics risk. It warns of a great scandal from hidden graft, possible violence increases, and rising crime, with reforms and political tension ahead.
A Phillips Furniture Company sale at 216 Dauphin Street between Empire and Queen Theatres invites customers to inspect a fine stock bought at sacrifice and offered for quick turnover to profit Mobile shoppers.
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