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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1913
Page
6
The issue presents Hal Coffman’s cartoon urging Mobile readers to aid women and children living in shadowed poverty. It frames a social gap between sunny life and hardship, calling for one day of relief through outdoor respite.
The article describes the Southern Commercial Congress push from Atlanta to Mobile celebrating the Panama Canal as a revolution in world trade. It notes fortifying regional growth with arches, a 1000000s in travel expenses, and a Mobile trade expedition to South America driven by Panama festivities. It also discusses Navy policy changes under Secretary Daniels and debates on officer enlisted crew dining norms amid race and discipline concerns.
The university bulletin hails the University of Alabama Medical Department for high national standing and notes a future shift to a minimum admission of one year of college work. It praises hospital plans and calls Mobile a training option. The Journal of the American Medical Association cites federal and AMA Council on Medical Education reports showing medicine’s rise as a university discipline and standardization efforts. It concludes Alabama’s Medical School is ranked among the first class in extensive publicity.
New York June reports discuss the Pennsylvania Railroad's potential Southward expansion through strategic alliances with the New Haven system and Southern routes. Analysts link stock moves in Southern Pacific to plans for a transcontinental link via Washington or Baltimore to New Orleans, with the Atlantic Coast Line as a possible southern connector.
A monument to Father Abram J. Ryan was unveiled yesterday in Mobile amid a solemn ceremony. The poet priest is honored for his contribution to Confederate memory and Mobile’s reverence for the Lost Cause.
Smithsonian findings reveal Baltimore Patriot and Evening Advertiser printed the Star Spangled Banner on September 20, 1814, a day before the Baltimore American. The article recounts Francis Scott Key aboard the Minden during the Fort McHenry bombardment, inspiring him to write the poem after seeing the flag still flying at dawn.
The E L Russell School Improvement Association expresses gratitude to the Ninth Ward Voters League executive committee and campaign workers, the telephone committee, city and Monroe Park theatres, Gill Printing, A D Davis and E M Bailey for lending cars, and The Mobile Item for supporting the schools. Signed by Bertha B Reynolds and E M Barnett. Mobile July 12 1916.
The piece recounts origins of the national anthem in Baltimore stories from the Star Spangled Banner’s early publication to its influence on American symbols. It notes key figures Judge Nicholson Capt. Edes and Ferdinand Durary, and mentions the original flag stored at the New National Museum with its worn battleground marks.
Clippings mock Mulhall and his claims about the National Association of Manufacturers. Critics joke about Congress, prayer, and publicity costs while questioning Mulhall’s credentials and the association’s influence.
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