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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1913
Page
6
The Mobile Trem, founded in 1881 and reorganized in 1912, is the South’s paper delivering seven issues weekly for 10 cents, with afternoon and Sunday morning editions. Managed by J. C. O Connell editor and Albert Hanson foreign advertising, the paper offers leased wire AP reports and full Sunday international news.
The E L Russell School Improvement Association warns the Jefferson Street school sits in a flood bowl with waterlogged yards after heavy rains, dust and poor light, inadequate heating and old facilities harming students. They urge a bond vote for a fireproof modern building on a reachable site with proper equipment.
A discussion inspired by the Lumber Trade Journal and New York Journal of Commerce argues that the Panama Canal will boost Southern yellow pine and cypress exports while Western wood industries face shifted competition. Transportation costs from Southern ports to South America may rival Pacific routes, possibly expanding foreign markets for Southern forestry products.
The article notes the death of Alonzo Adams known as King Alonzo who held Swan Island near Honduras and Central America for about twenty years. He governed from his home with his wife and two sons, cultivated tropical crops, and maintained a wireless station for the United Fruit Company in exchange for commissary access. The piece also references pirates, rediscovery, and legends surrounding the island, plus a tangent on infant mortality and the Childrens Bureau urging better laws to save babies.
The text notes refugees altered surnames to escape country associations after revocation of the time. Examples include Boileau to Drinkwater and Jolife Prettyman to various forms. It mentions corruption of names into French variants and references Du Paty de Glam, with a pivot to Georgia peach crop destruction.
A reporter witnesses Thomas Edison's assistant and staff presenting a six minute reel of synchronized talking motion pictures. The demonstration blends speech with action, including a piano, violin, singing, dogs, and a breaking brick, as Edison explains the tool to combine talking and moving images.
A report to the secretary of the treasury states the government printing office has cost the U S government 16 million dollars to date for building and equipment. About 6 million dollars yearly go to maintenance as well as printing binding and supplying congressional publications. The complex produces circulars bills and thousands of pamphlets for executive offices and the legislative branch.
In a moonlit beach scene Helen and Warren discuss memory and future wishes. They recall a marriage notice earlier, note a message hidden in shells, and flirt with each other as waves crash and a lighthouse glows, while their child Winifred sleeps nearby.
In a humorous morning ruse Brown plans a birthday surprise for his wife. He hides a cake for her to discover, but the plan backfires when the dog eats the cake and the plate remains empty, leaving Brown to confront the mishap and his wife’s reaction.
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