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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1914
Page
4
A fragmented fragment notes The Mobile Item Company Inc located at 16-18 St Emanuel Street Mobile Alabama with a 1914 date. The item text suggests an old business listing or advertisement from that time.
Weather forecasters explain the bureau works like a shipment schedule, tracking storms across oceans via cable and telegraph. They monitor low barometer regions, isobars, and storm centers to estimate arrival times from Siberia, Alaska, and beyond, with alerts spreading from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic.
Reformers and philanthropists are described as carriers of social disease who both resist and enable corruption. The piece argues reform struggles because moral and economic interests among the reformers themselves sustain corruption, making scientific treatment and true reform difficult. It discusses whether reformers can want reform and likens cure to stopping a poison by not introducing fresh air.
A letter to The Item from Secretary M B Trelevant of the New Orleans Progressive Union argues New Orleans has a stronger claim to a regional bank than any Southern city. It cites location, wholesale trade, banking stability, and gulf port prominence as factors drawing federal reserve board attention and notes Mobile’s related interests.
The Department of Agriculture urges deep soil breaking in the South due to heavy rains and hard subsoil. Disc plows and moldboard plows are recommended, followed by harrows and rollers to create a fine seed bed. Thorough spring preparation saves effort later, improves germination, and boosts crop returns amid intensified cultivation.
The piece extols a genuine smile as a light to a woman’s face, brightening features and inner disposition. It contrasts sunny smiles with cold or mocking ones, noting true happiness reflects in lips and eyes and enhances overall charm. Memphis Commercial Appeal.
In a letter quoted by Leslie's and illustrated by the Rosemary dialogue, the clerical staff including the clerk bookkeeper and stenographer are urged to receive fair wages and profit shares alongside factory workers. The piece argues salaried employees toil long hours with high responsibility yet are excluded from profit distributions. It champions equal treatment and full value for office staff.
Daryl and Julia Marvin clash with their landlady Mrs Halloran as suspicions rise. Julia confronts Daryl about her whereabouts and slips of whiskey reveal deeper trouble between the sisters in their gloomy home.
In a 1914 appeal, M B Trezevant urges Southern cities to back New Orleans for a federal regional bank. He argues New Orleans offers central handling for Southern states, gateway access to the Panama Canal trade, largest South banking and manufacturing hub, and major port activity, calling for unanimous support. The letter requests cooperation from regional business leaders to place the bank in New Orleans.
A fragmentary poem depicts inebriation and longing as bar patrons chase luck. The speaker contrasts drunken bravado with the emptiness of impaired judgment and warns that reckless toasts derail will and reason.
M J McDermott outlines Mobile Alabama potential for a major fair on the Jossen tract with 77.5 acres, easy rail and streetcar access, water transport, and a half mile track. He cites Meridian and Des Moines precedents, envisions grandstand, Liberal Arts, agricultural and machinery halls, and an auditorium for Jane Addams and Judge Lindsay to attract national attention.
Announcement from The Hague introduces La Gazette de Hollande an English and French edition. It notes the paper’s historic contributors including Lord Chesterfield Frederick the Great Washington and Franklin and cites its role in reporting Netherlands colonies and Panama Canal impacts. The piece urges public support and ties to Dutch prosperity abroad.
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