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The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Feb 16, 1916

Page

12

Mobile Climate Lauded as Year Round Sunshine

The piece extols Mobile Alabama for near constant sunshine and mild, evenly distributed rainfall in 1915. It cites Weather Bureau records: 298 sunny days, only 12 days above 100 degrees all year, and an average temperature around 75.7 overall. Rain totals amount to 57.73 inches with monthly breakdowns and remarks on pleasant winters and warm summers.

Mobile United States Weather Bureau Lowell Gulf of Mexico Washington County Baldwin County Mississippi Weather Office

Citrus recipes for uses of grapefruit and kumquats

A column of preserved fruit ideas uses grapefruit kumquats and orange peels. It lists candied peels jelly marmalade and preserves with step by step instructions and caution notes for best results.

Value of Pecans in Texas Agriculture

A Texas Agriculture Bulletin highlights pecans as highly profitable, surpassing walnut groves and many fruits. It notes tree longevity, ease of harvesting and shipping, and cites a grower claiming 100 trees on four-year-old land can yield 300 to 800 dollars per acre, or 3 to 8 dollars per tree.

Texas Department of Agriculture Bulletin California Satsuma

Unique unit system offers guaranteed 7 percent on gulf coast land

The Home Gardens Land Co of Mobile touts a unit system where each quarter-acre unit pays at least 7 percent interest from first payment. An 80 acre satsuma and pecan project funds interim revenue, with 80 percent of future orchard income to unit holders and 20 percent to management. Alabama Bank and Trust Company acts as trustee to protect holders. Hundreds of northern families have joined.

Gulf Coast Home Gardens Land Co Mobile Satsuma Alabama Bank and Trust Company of Montgomery North

Baldwin County Lands Offered At Low Terms By L N Realty

The company promotes 20 000 contiguous acres in Baldwin county near the L N Railway at Dyas station. Land is high and well drained with immediate occupancy on some parcels. Office moved from Chicago to Mobile City Bank Building with J B Lawrence in charge.

Baldwin County L. & N. Railway Dyas Station Chicago City Bank Bldg Mobile J. B. Lawrence

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