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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1913
Page
6
Mobile children ask citizens to approve school bond funding for structural improvements. Officials acknowledge some schools are unsafe and unsanitary, urging voters to support new, healthy school facilities to protect child health and future community progress.
A Mobile City feature denounces Nashville promoted mail order campaigns as dangers to local merchants. It recalls three booster tours by Mobile business leaders, contrasts home merchants with catalogue houses, and includes a long critique of Chicago health official Dr. Evans versus local officials, noting shifting public opinion.
The Montgomery Country Club bars turkey trot bunny hug dances amid moral concern over their origins in river boat entertainment. The editorial notes the stance as a social beacon, urging Alabama groups to follow and curb immodest dancing.
The Item lauds Fay McClure as county engineer for Mobile praising his independence from politics his efficient road work and ability to hold contractors to contract terms. His reports to the county commissioners show competence and a strong focus on public interests, strengthening confidence in the county road improvement plan.
The article notes a legislative move to remove a practical training program for African Americans to a central location in the state, arguing the agricultural feature should maintain a domestic rate program though the effort remains contentious.
Channing Rudd notes the Baltimore success in selling nearly one million dollars in city bonds in small blocks to moderate earners. The piece discusses direct public offerings of New York City bonds, mortgage certificates, and early attempts at treasury direct sales, praising underwriting assurances by Morgan and Co for large projects like subways.
A lines poem by John Kendrick Bangs contrasts gloom with a sun-baked fire-escape kid. The speaker urges readers to shift perspective to a resilient child amid urban hardship.
Don C. Seitz argues in The North American Review that Japan, strapped by war taxes and government monopolies, imposes tariffs to protect native labor while courts capital abroad. He notes railways and telegraphs yield profits but population bears rising costs, and condemns taxing others to fund broad preparations.
In Mobile a dentist and noted fisherman Shelton Frederic tells tall tales at a Windsor cafe. He recalls a day last week in the woods north of Mobile when, after two hours by a small lake, a freckled boy nearby jokes that the pond appeared only after a thunder shower.
Notice to John Bloodgood of Bevier informs him an information is filed against him charging bootlegging. A legal process was served during a visit, and the notice requests appearance in court as required by law.
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