Local Mobile News and Subscriptions Update
Mobile Alabama January 15 1917 report notes subscription details and local council activity as editors relay society and trade news from outside Mobile.
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Mobile, Alabama
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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1917
Page
4
Paper Preparedness and the Zeppelin Question
The piece argues that dramatic airship plans are impractical due to lack of American factories and long construction times. It warns against overpapered preparedness while urging steady vigilance and consistent effort to achieve true national defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tes
Pensacola Naval Aeronautical Station
Europe
Convasses
British reply to German charges in Wilson peace notes
London provides a defense of Allied actions and denials against Central Powers accusations. The British statement rebuts claims on war conduct, treatment of Irish and Boers, submarine warfare, Belgium Belgium’s neutrality, Armenian massacres, and prisoner policy. It notes Germany’s own wartime decisions and warns of mutual recriminations as peace talks loom.
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Wilson Pte
London
Aote
North
Germany
West
Africa
Russia
Dusitania
The
Sussex
Teutonic
Belgium
Wilson
Hog prices surge as Mo dealers buy carloads
Hog sales climb in Missouri as local dealers pay top prices for carload lots. Hog raising is new to the salt section yet profitable, with one Mississippi county shipping about one thousand dollars worth of hogs, reflecting a shift from cotton following the boll weevil. Modern stock raising gains momentum.
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Mississippi
The Wise Farmer Predicts Strong Farm Markets This Year
The article extols diversified farming in Mobile County with rising prices for velvet beans soybeans hogs cattle peanuts corn and other farm goods. It notes strong demand likely to continue and highlights creameries packing plants cattle tick control and new farmers. It ends with a light nod about guarding police stations amid burglaries.
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South
Mobile County
Rippling Rhymes About The Perils Of Cars And Life
A rustic poem recalls the woes of buying a car and the inevitable grief of travel. An old man warns that mechanical failures and bad luck follow any journey while the speaker questions why pleasure invites pain. The dialogue turns to flaws in marriage appetite and even honey’s risk, ending in a jab at folly.
The Item's Daily Question Box Answers Curious Inquiries
The column notes questions about total war deaths and whiskey related deaths, coin valuations, and horoscope readings. It explains wars began before history and whiskey indirectly causes many deaths, suggests coin values via dealers or pamphlets, and gives March 12 and September 18 zodiac traits.
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Ans
Horoscopes Predict Bold Ventures and Widespread Changes
The January 15 1917 horoscope foresees Jupiter and Uranus favoring large ventures and financial gains for bankers brokers and speculators while warning of extravagant spending and rising crime. It notes possible forgery robbery embezzlement increases and a rise in public reform in Chicago and Western states.
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Jupiter
Uranus
Holland
Switzerland
Pra Aseers
United States
United
Chicago
Eine
Ren Boyn
Boil as Battle Ground Between Bacteria and Body
Health discussion explains boils as clashes between invading bacteria and the body. It notes bacteria multiply rapidly, feed on tissue, release toxins, irritate tissues, and can spread if unchecked, leading to blood poisoning unless resisted.
Meetings of local fraternal and trade organizations tonight
Odd Fellows Napoleanville Lodge No 1 and Knights of Pythias Rescue Lodge meet at 8 and 7:30 o clock respectively. A list of other groups including Masons Eagles Carpenters Plumbers and plasterers gathers at various halls on Dauphin Street Central Trades Council Hall and Y M B A Hall.
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Knights of Pythias—Rescue Lodge
Pythian
Fraternal Order of Eagles—Mobile Aerie
Dauphin Street
Catholic Knights of America
Y. M.B. A. Hall
United Association “of ’ Plumbers
Gistral Trades
eos _ United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of
Central Trades Council
Causes and relief for roaring in the head and stuttering
A reader seeks cause for chronic ear roaring and linked symptoms while a medical column offers possible ankylosis of ear ossicles and practical speech guidance. Advice suggests tests, body health, and trial of fruit-heavy diet while noting stuttering difficulty and strategies to prepare ideas before speaking.
Improvement in Admiral Dewey Condition Reported
Washington January 15 marked improvement noted in Admiral Dewey s condition as doctors said the danger of complications from his cold that confined him to his rooms for several days had passed.
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Admiral Dewey
Washington
German race figure dies in Berloen obituary
German racing circles mourn Cousin Johannes Sieresterpff, a noted figure, as his death is reported from Berloen. His widow, an American, is mentioned in the notice.
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Associated
Berloen
London
Cousit
Johannes Sieresterpff
Married Life in a Cottage Plan Interrupted by a Bath Mishap
In a London style domestic scene, Lawrence Pecores and Helen discuss visiting a cottage while Warren and Helen's son Bobbie cause chaos at home. A bath accident floods the bathroom with a cat, Pussy Purr-Meow, and water leaks to the apartment below. Helen questions the best departure time for tomorrow afternoon.
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Helen
Bobbie
Bixby
Lawrence
Warren
Mr.Bennnett
Just A Few Smiles and a Child's Quiet Insight
Nursery scene shows a mother returning to the nursery as a baby cries and shrieks. Billy calmly explains the baby's awareness of distress. The vignette ends with the mother’s gentle reassurance as the infant learns.
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Ells
Billy
Harper's
Telephone brings dinner invitation joke from Mr Brown
The Washington Herald reports a man praises a new telephone linking his office and home. He invites friend Smith to dinner and uses the device to relay his wife’s clear, unintended reply about keeping a hotel.
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Mr. Brown
Smith
Washington Herald
Marie Lloyd Charms Lads with War Time Songs
In Pearson's Magazine a tale shows Miss Marie Lloyd entertaining soldiers in khaki with witty songs and jests. A private asks an officer to spell fort prompting a pun about the fort you fight and live in. The humor ends with the private clarifying I mean the fort you fink.
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Marie Lloyd
Pearson’s Magazine
London
Mohammedans Stranded in Arabia After Mecca Pilgrimage
Mohammedans from the Malay archipelago who visited Mecca and earned the hadji title are destitute and stranded in Arabia due to wartime communication breakoffs. A Dutch government representative goes to Jeddah to supervise embarkation on special ships to repatriate colonial subjects home, about 4,000 of whom were affected last year.
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Batavia
Dutch East Indies
Malay Archipelago
Mecca
Arabia
Jeddah
Sabbath Leaders Meet In Baldwin County District
Bay Minette Alabama January 15 The fifth district convention of the Baldwin County Sunday School Association was held yesterday in Loxley Mrs Anna B Hail led as district president and Dr H Ertzinger of Bay Minette spoke.
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Bay Minette
Ala
Baldwin County Sunday School Association
Loxley
Anna B. Hail
H. Ertzinger
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Maurice Ketten
Crea Patientington
Wall Street
Brian PY
Etrades
MATL
Mobile
Per Guerre
Rter
Yea Cash Fm Advance
Pheer
Council
Walterial and News
Bell Home Society
Bell
the Wise Farmer
By Walt Mason
Ncline
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Odd Fellows
Napoleonville Lodge
Napoleonville
Fellows
Masonic—Mobile Lodge No
Masonic Temple
O. B
Mobile Dam No
Odd Fellows—Union Lodge
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Oo Central Trades ‘Council Hall
Journeymen Plasterers Union
A. B
Saaraeaiter
6Gishaw
Lawrence Pecores
Carrie
Associated Press
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