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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1917
Page
3
The 1916 gross value of American farm products reached 13.449 billion dollars, a record driven by high prices despite lower crop outputs. Crops valued at 9.111 billion and animal products at 4.338 billion, with corn 2.296 billion and cotton 1.406 billion leading the list. Prices to producers rose about 55.9 percent from the prior year.
Judge Jud son F Going of Chicago 4H delivers a lecture at the Cawthon hotel on The Social Question What Shall We Do With It tonight. The noted jurist widely recognized in that city is the speaker in this public address.
An advertisement offers a free trial of a new asthma cure at the advertiser’s expense. It claims to help long standing or recent cases, all ages and climates, and especially hopeless cases where inhalers and other remedies have failed. No money required. readers urged to mail the coupon today.
Local woman Miss B C Trueblood from Virginia reports eight months of severe eczema healed by Cuticura Soap and Ointment. She describes redness and watery blisters, widespread itching, and relief after using the products, noting smooth skin now and recommending the regimen.
Quarantine lines were tightened in Elkins Grafton and Fairmont as federal and state authorities join to curb an infantile paralysis outbreak. Two suspected cases are watched another boy of eighteen is confirmed as affected. Federal investigators study the situation during cold weather.
Delegates from the United States and Canada attend an international forestry conference in Washington under the American Forestry Association. The main topic is stopping white pine blister disease, including a possible nation wide quarantine. The disease threatens pine values estimated at 400 million dollars in the United States and Canada.
Charles Lathrop Pack of the American Forestry Association opened the conference and urged conservation of forests as vital to economic progress and national preparedness. He cited wartime pressure on forest resources, warned against immediate shortages, and proposed state and municipal forests to supplement national forests.
National Moose director D A MacClellan and District Director F M Sommerkamp of Columbus Ga speak at the Moose Home on Government Street as the lodge begins a campaign to raise members from 800000 to 1 million. R H Parsons expects a large turnout and a successful effort in the South.
A Y M C A banquet honors the boys with the most new members in the period. Twenty four guests attended in the tea room. Membership Secretary E F Linkins led the event with remarks by F W Evans and E C Conway. An additional banquet is planned for those who recruit eighteen more members by February 5.
Mrs Mattie Stokes Adams who shot and killed Captain E J Spratling of the Georgia National Guard has had her trial postponed to an indefinite date. The postponement was announced as the Fifth Regiment troops were in camp at El Paso and unavailable for testimony.
Early hoarseness signals croup in a child. Give Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as soon as the child becomes uneasy to ward off the attack and avoid danger and anxiety.
The Child's Welfare Bureau of Mobile County was organized at a Home Economics Club event. Miss Elizabeth Fonde was elected chairman and Miss Hudson secretary, with Mrs. James R. Hagan initiating the effort. Speakers from Birmingham and city groups discussed ways to establish a permanent bureau and planned future meetings.
William Powell filed suit in the circuit court for $1000 against Dc. R. Smith alleging that Smith attacked him with a knife on January 12, cutting him in the neck and shoulder and causing pain and business disruption. Smith was fined $50 and costs for the knife attack. Powell was fined $25 for disorderly conduct and appealed. The dispute grew from a taxi cab bill.
An advertisement touts Chamberlain's Tablets as a pleasant easy to take remedy for biliousness or constipation. It promises user satisfaction and pleasing effects.
An advertisement asserts uric acid causes gout and rheumatism and promotes Anuric as a remedy. It claims Dr. Pierce at a Buffalo Surgical Institute developed a native formula that drives out uric acid, relieves pain and swelling, and suggests taking hot water before meals plus Anuric tablets, with a trial offer and 50 cent package.
The Berlin Vorwaerts condemns conservative Prussian Diet member Friederr von Maltzahn for an anti American speech at Stralsund. He warned that if America joins the war Prussians will remember Frederick the Great, stating the question is where the enemies are not how many.
United States Ambassador Gerard offered to resign if President Wilson disapproved his remarks at a banquet hosted by the American Association of Commerce and Trade. A Cologne telegram via Rotterdam quoted the ambassador's explanation and his readiness to quit if the explanation failed to satisfy Washington.
The author argues that talk about German aims could aid the anti German press in America and hinder peace efforts. He notes that if Germany sought war, its leaders would face accountability, and suggests von Maltzahn and similar figures may be held responsible for their reckless statements.
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