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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1915
Page
5
A brief item notes totals for a financial report dated January 24 1915 from Mobile Alabama. It lists 44 033 and 1 616 as figures and 16 649 as total net paid. The source presents a concise ledger style update with dates and monetary values.
The Alba building hosts a Home Products Show that highlights Mobile county farming wealth and diversification. Exhibits aim to boost stock hog raising fruit culture and profitable farming, with organizers praising exhibitors and Captain Alba n for the building donation.
Oscar Lewis of Macon County urged the legislature to act on a resolution demanding registration of corporate connections of members in the Alabama Senate and House. The effort, favorably reported after party talks, sparks debate over Alabama Power Company influence and possible favoritism in lawmaking. A Tuscaloosa note adds coal barges to Mobile via a new tugboat contract, signaling regional transport growth.
The Montgomery Journal notes delays in election returns from prohibition counties after both primaries in 1914. Counties like Choctaw Marion Bibb and others reported late, fueling claims that bribed managers could falsify results to alter outcomes.
The Anniston Star reports Alabama House members in a week’s session reacting to a misread bill by Representative Chamberlain of Mobile. A clerk’s long reading list triggered consternation as a line was heard about regulating airships, but the word turned out to be heirship.
The piece highlights women's actions in two movements toward equal suffrage and universal peace, urging mobilization with the A League to promote American products. It calls women to influence congress and support home industry against tariff pressures, shaping a patriotic, reformist campaign.
A letter from Mobile dated January 24 1915 argues for a city or federal commission to place unemployed men back on farms with backing and credentials. It suggests coordinating farms and capital, inspired by a Chamber of Commerce plan for Belgians, to revive vacant land and reduce living costs by making farming productive. H. F. Peters calls for a program to move urban workers to agriculture as a remedy to unemployment and high prices.
The federal government is attempting to implement a system through the Department of Labor that resembles a proposal outlined by a newspaper correspondent. This reflects ongoing efforts to shape labor policy and workforce management.
In Mobile on January 20, 1915 residents near the Charleston street car line urge the city to block extending cars east of Georgia Avenue It notes the line has four cars with 15 minute intervals and six minute layovers and that 6 to 7 PM sees no seats for many riders including women It condemns recent track removal on Texas Street and calls for ironclad franchise conditions before granting more franchises to the company.
The Louisville Herald notes that Uncle Sam’s 1914 farm yield worth ten billion dollars supports workers, with future wealth growth limited by farming efficiency. It lauds soil-based wealth as renewable, promoting the farmer with the hoe as the best hope of the future.
A community facing a ten year war on business and its false leads must act to aid the unemployed. The article urges shared responsibility across county, town, city, and nation to create work and alleviate poverty, noting innocent sufferers mirror those in Europe and calling for collective effort.
A study of how persistent female talkativeness shaped child education and attention. The author argues that women’s chatter fuels learning through repetition, observation, and guiding interest, comparing it to agricultural habit and citing James on sustained attention. The piece notes Remy de Gourmont praising women’s chatter as a literary service.
Governor Henderson vetoes a statewide prohibition bill, urging local option and removal of licensed saloons' financial benefits. He stresses unit votes by counties, fidelity to party platforms, and suggests amendments to submit to voters with a delayed effective date.
The capital stock is expected to be placed at 250000. An order for 200 carloads of cement will be shipped from Leeds next week and steel is expected soon. Prof G N Mitcham and W S Keller are in Gadsden to confer with a chamber of commerce committee on road construction funded by a 200000 bond issue.
Annual interest on five thousand dollars is placed to Howard Col to fund five scholar ships at the college. James M. Shelburne announces the endowment credit by a unnamed friend. The Selma Live Stock Association meets January 26 for two days to welcome about 500 delegates, with Secretary Morgan Richards of the Chamber of Commerce sending many letters.
Aniston resident Mrs. T P Hawkins reportedly concealed a cloth over her mouth to quiet an outcry and assaulted the scene, grabbing two five dollar bills from a bystander. Governor Henderson plans to retain H R and Robert B E Gorrie as official stenographer for part of O Neal administration.
Mrs Maybelle Sloss Taylor, a founder of the Birmingham Young Women's Christian Association and noted for aiding homeless girls in the Birmingham district, died Friday morning in a sad loss to the community.
Liogd Adams was arrested Thursday in Dothan by Sheriff Johnny on a charge of shooting Ed Inge who has been detained for weeks with a bullet in his neck. Adams was released under $500 bond.
Local optionists met Friday to urge voters statewide to reject the proposed prohibition measure. Attendees condemned the so called revolutionary effort to force it on the sovereign voters and noted the measure had been defeated four times at the polls.
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