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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1913
Page
2
Chicago reports pupils at Pastern District High School commonly work after school to earn funds for their education. The pamphlet details how many students, many from families with limited means, balance chores and jobs with studies as they pursue schooling.
An advertisement touts Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets promising rapid stomach relief within minutes. It describes digestion problems from overeating and claims the tablet supplies digestive elements, sweetens the stomach lining, and restores comfort, selling at 50 cents through druggists.
S Hartwell reports seven months earnings totaling 22364.68 with 19966 boys and 6368 girls from Eastern District High School. The largest sum paid to a pupil was 600 as a cantor and others worked as tutors clerks nurses and language teachers among many occupations.
In a London letter Henry Woods S J writes of a supposed eleven million gold hoard buried by expelled Jesuits at Sacambaya Bolivia. Sir John Campbell and Arthur Ormsby seek £500000 to £206000 claims while creditors hope for only pennies on the pound.
Data collected by Eli W Weaver and others show Brooklyn high school pupils earned about 11000 in seven months. Alexander Pugh and Miss Jenness extend the program to the High School of Commerce and Girls High School to gather similar figures. Authorities plan to assist pupils in securing work.
Miss Maggie Ap France, jailed in Leavenworth after a white slave conviction, shares views on vice and society from the prison laundry. She vows to return to Cheyenne after serving a year, insists she will be a good woman, and argues prisons cannot curb the sex trade.
A young widow who lost her husband to suicide after a failed gamble built a gift shop a 25 miles from New York with a $100 stake. She bought about fifty brass items for $30, cleaned them, and sold at profit, opening a shop at Thirty four Main street offering gifts from 10 cents to $10.
An old advertisement extols the Golden Medical Discovery as highly effective for persistent coughs and bronchial irritation. It warns the remedy is not ideal for acute coughs from sudden colds and cautions against use in such cases.
A New York news column lists party totals for a hypothetical 1513 legislature: Democrats 3867 Republicans 1920 Progressives 1002 Socialists 17 Independents 16. It discusses Progressive gains, GOP-Progressive split, and Democratic ascendancy, plus quirks of governor Sulzer’s hat and remarks on investigations overruling constitutional law.
The speaker argues that investigations resemble prosecutions with no aim to serve the people, claiming the government operates not by law or the Constitution but by investigations, and that such actions yield little lasting benefit to the country.
The Century editorial argues President Wilson should resist spoils system temptations and uphold civil service reform. It says many offices will open and his courage and political sense will be tested as he avoids patronage and favors merit based appointments to preserve public service integrity.
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