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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1916
Page
5
Business notes from Mobile expose shop hours from morning till eight in the evening with Sunday exception and a reflection on debt and faith. The page includes Editorial and News Society editors and a hymn quoted about judgment day.
The Shackelford bill proposes 25 million dollars in federal aid for rural roads with Alabama estimated to receive about 600 thousand. Local readers recall Baldwin county voters approved 255 thousand for good roads and hints at a coordinated Gulf states plan for a transcontinental highway to aid mobilization and regional development.
A column argues Mobile should host an automobile show during Mardi Gras for the season’s crowds. It notes Mobile’s greater auto stock wealth roads and dealers and suggests an early March event in a suitable venue as a booster, pending dealer decisions.
A fifteen member Mobile Jewish committee calls a mass meeting at Government Street Temple next Sunday night to raise funds for Jews in Europe. The appeal notes U S Senate support and urges all to attend, stressing aid beyond Jewish communities.
Birmingham Mayor George Ward, backed by most of the city commission, proposes an ordinance placing a minimum tax of five dollars on every male who does not contribute to government revenue to fund a nine month school term. About 10 000 residents would be affected, with poll tax payment likely spurred if the law passes.
A large number of New York brokers, part of the get rich quick set, met recently to celebrate better times. Guests paid $25 per plate for food and music with songs, and the promoters set a high price to ensure a charitable surplus.
Junius Hill of Etowah county wins the 1915 Boys Corn Club title with 174 bushels raised on one acre. The crop cost him 20 cents per bushel, winning the county record once more. Hurrah for the Etowah lad.
Daily forecast notes unfavorable aspects for Neptune Uranus and Mars during business hours with sun favorable at night. It warns of threats to naval and military affairs and state problems, predicts trouble with a foreign power and a world famous actress may die, plus socialistic attacks and a new party leader rising next month.
A Scotch visitor in Mobile extolled the city as an ideal spot for shipbuilding, citing abundant iron and coal, timber, a protected harbor, and a large riverfront with prospective sites. He compared Mobile favorably to Clyde-area plants and noted many travelers and officials visiting Mobile for business and leisure.
The Item invites live general welfare communications with name and address, up to 300 words, one side only, return envelope if unused. Do not print anonymous letters, avoid partisan topics, religion or medicine. Language should be temperate and parliamentary, with libel-free content. Corrections of The Item’s misstatements may be printed. Repeated letters from the same author are discouraged.
Letter argues a U S congressman from California proposes a national highway system along the coast and borders to aid mobilization in war. It claims such a highway could mobilize a million vehicles, defend mobile, and unite thirty five states with state highways while appealing to commercial groups and peace advocates. The author contrasts philanthropists with kin helpers.
A childlike woodland tale follows Billie Bushytail as he delivers a note for a mouse teacher and discovers unfamiliar porch nuts while wandering near a human house in the park. He pockets the porch nuts to share with Johnnie, amid gentle parkside adventures.
Billie and Johnnie follow nuts left on a porch and fall into a trap set by unseen danger. Uncle Wiggily warns of danger and vows to help Billie, promising the next installment.
Delegations of negro farmers and truckers from Mobile Baldwin and Washington counties attend a three day Plateau Farmers and Truckers Conference at Plateau Institute with Prof I J Whitley presiding. Notables on the program include George A Maloney Mobile county farm demonstration agent and Elmer R Sly Creola Duroc Jersey hog grower. A Colored Woman's Conference meets 2 to 4 pm with demonstrations on domestic science.
Colonel E. M. House arrived in Berlin from Paris and, in Karlsruhe, was described by a Lokal Anzeiger correspondent as very reserved about the trip purpose. The report says he seems a calm observer with no anti German prejudice and regrets the world war and its horrors in moving words.
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