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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1915
Page
4
The board of city commissioners yesterday set a contract for a concrete inverted culvert in the Southern drain to safeguard health in that city area. Officials expect quicker completion and aim to extend drainage improvements citywide as finances permit.
Farmers increasingly organize into rural communities to gain financial and social advancement. Key needs include better production and marketing, credits, roads, and telephones, plus education, sanitation, recreation, home economics, and countryside beautification. Movements push for closer ties between producers and promoters.
A Mobile chamber of commerce board resolution designates Mobile as the headquarters for thirteen southern and southwestern Alabama counties to extend the Crop Diversification Campaign. The chamber will oversee the movement, with strong expectation that members will diligently pursue the program to align farmers with diversified crops, improving livestock and poultry outcomes and overall county benefits.
The article notes Carter Harrison's failure to secure support and vote in the primary and suggests possible causes. It mentions his father Carter E Harrison as Chicago mayor and questions whether ward leaders or women voters opposed suffrage influenced the result. No definite explanation is given.
The piece argues the U S imports over half the sugar consumed, costing about a million dollars daily. It urges Southern farmers to grow cane to cut imports, boost employment, and support sugar refineries, timber, and related industries, suggesting home production would lower costs and tolls.
John Stutzman a grocer and his two daughters and a son died in a early morning house fire that destroyed their home in Easthoe authorities reported there were no survivors and the cause is under investigation by local fire officials
A Washington letter reports no final bill but urges large scale federal aid for good roads. It argues highways boost farm profits, rural education, and truck economies, with estimates of $504 million annual savings and a recommended $8.4 billion investment. The plan stresses thorough study, local control, and a senate house majority on the Highway Commission to prevent federal dictatorship.
An old advertisement notes LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE with a call to recall the full name when sick. It mentions looking for the signature of E. W. Grove on the box and lists a price of 25c.
The article describes a small girl dress with a seatry skirt for freedom and flare, a low waistline, and long sleeves. It suggests fabrics like serge, wool crepe, challis, linen, galatea, piqué, and washable materials, noting easy laundering and adaptability for different ages.
Helen and Warren clash over weight and dieting in a domestic scene. Helen, anxious about pounds, resists meals and opts for fruit and dry toast while Warren mocks her, prompting self doubt. Helen contemplates exercise as chocolates tempt her.
A Mobile letter writer argues Captain A I Jones deserves oyster warden appointment, noting he opposed a high salary, supported enforcing oyster laws, and aided repeal without dealer aid, while urging the governor to appoint the right man. The Alabama Oystermen's Protective Association endorses Jones.
Frank Smee refutes a recent letter signed “Oysterman” accusing George Sprinkels of being in Smee’s employ with financial obligations. Smee says Sprinkels operated one of his boats under a share agreement and, as captain, had rights to act within that arrangement.
George A. Maloney, county farm demonstration agent, named director of the Mobile Gardens Association project, replies to letters from out-of-town unemployed men that no employment can be provided except for residents of Mobile.
In Atlanta on February 24 the D. R. Wilder Company lost in the supreme court to block Corn Products from collecting for glucose. The court upheld the Georgia Court of Appeals that Wilder's reply to a settlement suit was invalid and ruled the contract’s rebate clause granted exclusive business.
Aimee Smee of Bayou la Batre denounces a circulated article claiming she seeks the assistant reef warden post. She states the claim is utterly false and would not accept the job if offered.
In Feraway Mobile County, a resident protests a planned wooden bridge using rotten pecky cypress boards. He cites cost and durability, noting a concrete bridge at Catherine Street cost 250 and lasted well, urging proper materials and accountability by officials.
An age focused health note touts keeping bowels regular for vitality and preventing illnesses. It warns against violent purgatives and promotes Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a mild herbal tonic with pepsin, available for fifty cents to one dollar, with a free trial offer from Dr W B Caldwell of Monticello, Mississippi.
Commander John B. Briggs retired officer of the Baltimore who served as executive at Manila Bay died in Washington Tuesday. He will be buried in Everett Massachusetts.
Mrs Slack of Palmyra Pennsylvania testifies that after three years of illness her daughter’s cough and thinness improved with Vinci cod liver and iron tonic. The ad claims Vinci restores health and energy, offers a money back guarantee, and lists Van Antwerp Drug Corp. as distributor.
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