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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1916
Page
4
The Mobile Item announces its guaranteed circulation claims verified by the Audit Bureau of Circulations for six month periods. It lists subscription rates: 10 cents weekly, $5 yearly by mail, and 50 cents per month for in-city delivery. Contact details and business hours are provided for Mobile Alabama.
A devotional fragment pondering the holy morning when Christ is born in a manger. The piece reflects on divine creation, mortal need, and the first offerings of redemption in reverent verse.
The Mobile deputy collector of internal revenue office faces abolition due to low receipts. The newspaper argues keeping the office locally avoids added costs for cigar manufacturers, oleomargarine dealers, and other taxpayers who must obtain stamps and certify papers in Birmingham.
Mobile county advances toward tick eradication as blooded stock accounts rise. George Maloney promotes dip adoption. R W Taylor leads new association with John Ormerd backing a campaign. Also notes Monroe Journal milestone and Gen. C W Hooper pledges support for state bond issue ahead of January 18 vote.
Local arrivals and departures at Mobile hotels include E W Gaynor heading to Bladon Alabama for Walker Springs Lumber. Guests at the Battle House and Cawthon Hotel include Captain John H MacFarlane death news and numerous visitors from Detroit Nashville Chicago and Cleveland among others.
The Mobile Register notes arguments against new state debt and favors retirement of existing float ing debt. It cites disbursement figures and calls for reducing interest without raising taxes, arguing repudiation as a last resort and stressing responsible fiscal methods.
Readers are invited to submit welfare related items for publication. Anonymous letters may be printed. sign with name and add contact details. Letters should be under 300 words, single side only, with a stamped addressed envelope for return if unused. Avoid partisan politics and unresolved controversy. repeated submissions from the same source discouraged.
A long list of individuals and spouses from multiple states and cities is recorded, including residents of New Orleans Baton Rouge Chicago Memphis and Birmingham among others. The roll features numerous couples and single names with no accompanying actions, events, or contexts provided.
Hides from Argentina could serve Mobile if a tannery is built here, with low freight costs from Alabama to Mobile. Fairfax Harrison backs a Mobile tannery as profitable, and a linked shoe factory could use Mobile leather, boosting regional trade and jobs. A combined plant offers cycle from vat to consumer, with strong local demand and favorable freight comparisons versus eastern mills. A ghee factory without a tannery is less viable. many see the joint plant as key to Mobile’s economic growth.
The Montgomery Advertiser argues contingent appropriations should not block bond plans to pay past debts. It contends bonds would extend payments over years, ease taxes, and not raise indebtedness, while warning against relying on unproven revenue increases and praising Governor Coleman as competent to restore state finances.
The January 11 1916 horoscope warns of an unlucky day with Saturn and Mars adverse and Uranus friendly. It foresees dissensions in politics and business, possible miscarriages, canal and railroad troubles, looming taxation, and potential accidents in tunnels or subways. It also notes growth of strange cults and risks to health and travel.
The notable Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, was born in 1694 and died in 1778. He was educated at Cambridge and entered diplomacy, becoming an orator of distinction who turned politeness into a science and news into philosophy.
An old health ad promotes Jad Salts and Rad Salts to neutralize urine acids and relieve bladder and kidney irritation. It claims four ounces of Rad Salts daily for two to three days and touts Jad Salts as inexpensive and harmless lithia-based effervescent drink. The piece presents a medical authority and consumer remedy.
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