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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1915
Page
4
Semi annual reports show satisfactory finance in the South while Birmingham industry remains active. Wheat in Kansas and Oklahoma benefits from rains though overall crop yields are uneven. cotton suffers from two weeks of rain. West grain districts report corn movement and improved port trade, with East money still easy on secure notes.
The annual report of Superintendent W F Fen examines compulsory education, arguing it would curb illiteracy by funding schooling through state action. South Carolina and Texas adopt this policy, leaving Florida Georgia Mississippi and Alabama as holdouts. Advocates urge Alabama to join and aid campaign efforts.
The United States Geological Survey reports Alabama coal output fell last year due to low petroleum prices and a disturbed market. Mines produced 15,593,422 short tons valued at $20,849,000, down 2,085,100 tons from the prior year.
The article recalls Birmingham Alabama’s rapid growth from a rough frontier city to a modern metropolis. It notes landmarks like Frank O Briens opera house and its demolition for progress, lists famed performers who graced the stage, and mentions political figures of the era as progress reshapes the city.
The U S Public Health Service links tooth decay and Rigg's disease to serious health conditions. Early school screenings notify parents of dental needs while doctors now treat mouth infections with emetin and endamoebae approaches. Emphasis on regular cleaning and tartar removal aids child health and learning.
Professor Haworth of East Tennessee State Normal School staged a statewide outreach driving 476 miles through eight counties. He and his party spoke to 21,400 people in 40 rallies and slept in barns or the school wagon as part of a broad effort to promote education.
Edward Quincy Norton calls for property tax reform to curb vacant unimproved lots in Mobile. He argues higher assessment of vacant parcels would spur development, boost labor demand, and invigorate merchants and factories through a practical tax approach.
Mary Hung, a seventeen year old daughter of a former Chinatown leader, is valedictorian at Denver's Manual Training High School. Principal Charles A. Bradley calls her the most remarkable assimilating case among aliens, noting her American fluency, football enthusiasm, dancing, fashion, and jokes. She plans to study medicine at Wellsley and in time serve China as a government doctor. The item ends with an advertisement for Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic.
The remark suggests debates on genius and practicalism, noting that lacking a kodak shifts peers toward alternative methods for creative work.
Two young swan brothers Flappy and Flippy Longneck venture beyond their pen on a quest for green sea grass. They meet Uncle Wiggily the rabbit and narrowly escape a hungry fox as Grandma Bigwing nods off and their plan unfolds in a playful woodland tale.
The tale features Uncle Wiggily, rabbits, and swan boys as a fox noses out loot with a knot tied in his neck. The fox sneezes forty seven times and the rabbits and swan boys escape. A moral is drawn about knot tying and safety.
The text asks about coinage with no US pennies and clarifies cents. It contrasts bushranger and filibuster, then notes the Statue of Liberty was donated by France to the United States as a gesture of goodwill, costing 6 million francs (about $206,000) raised by French public subscription.
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