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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1916
Page
4
An old newspaper fragment announces a mail subscription option with monthly and yearly rates, inviting readers to prepaid sign ups. It references a mail method outside Mobile and includes decorative filler text and stray characters.
Inrise this morning a negro was legally tried for a terrible crime committed years ago in Toulminville. The mob gathered around the jail to storm it, but the military cleared the scene. He was captured, brought to Mobile, tried, convicted and sentenced to hang at the earliest moment allowed by law. The sentence was carried out. The editorial argues the law did what the mob could not and asserts the reign of law would be established if laws were enforced with such dispatch.
Bainbridge Colby, who nominated Theodore Roosevelt, urges a national Progressive meeting in Chicago to discuss the party’s revolt against the national committee’s endorsement of Charles E. Hughes. John M. Parker notes potential protest and a possible wave of dissent harming Republican chances.
Reports say man eating sharks are abundant along the New Jersey coast with several killings and a body found after a shark was shot near Key West. Maritime observers note increased shark activity near Mobile and Fort Morgan, warning bathers to watch for fins as waters stay unsettled.
Grand Duke Nicholas resumes action against the Turks after retreating to a point twenty five miles west of his last stand. Reinforcements bolster the Russian forces as they renew the campaign toward Constantinople and attack Turkish positions in the region.
The article reports that Verdun defenses are failing under French and British pressure as German reserves are moved to other fronts. Paris expects most fighting to end at Verdun, while Germany shifts troops to the Somme and the Russian front, signaling a closing phase and strategic reallocation. Serbia may gain opportunity as Austrian forces pivot to eastern fronts and Bulgaria faces renewed pressure.
The poem celebrates the automobile as a bridge to the country, letting city folk escape fumes and fatigue. It praises the car for bringing rural scenes within reach, lifting moods, and giving couples and individuals a renewed sense of leisure and sunshine when used sensibly.
Readers submit queries on glue that resists fire and on Kodak film after development. Answers explain hot lime linseed glue, and that no extra developing is needed once a negative exists. The piece also discusses the origin of the term fourth estate and where to find Gov Glynn’s St Louis speech.
Horoscope notes a changeable day with Mercury shifting from adverse to friendly. Venus is unfavorable Uranus slightly hostile. Writers may face discouraging difficulties while editors and publishers meet obstacles but gain before night. Cautious health emphasis and looming colonial trade tensions appear for fall.
An editorial urges action against saccharine in beverages, noting government attempts and the need for public opinion. It questions whether children are exposed to saccharine via soda and tea or coffee. The piece warns the chemical irritates delicate tissues and calls readers to reject saccharine.
The text argues moderate use of coffee tea and alcoholic drinks can be harmless or beneficial, while excess causes intoxication-like symptoms. It notes alkaloids and purines in coffee and tea drive adverse effects, but a cup of coffee, tea, a glass of light wine, or a bottle of good beer at one meal weekly can energize like food. It endorses castor oil as effective, fast acting, and safe for grippe symptoms, with mineral oil as an alternative.
A discussion explains why crossing longitude lines does not alter the day by 24 hours. It distinguishes solar days from sidereal days and notes the Earth rotates west to east making the sun appear to move east to west. The day is divided into 24 hours with the sun's apparent motion pacing 15 degrees per hour.
A traveler could loop westward around the globe starting at Greenwich noon and see noon forever, while people at the starting point would experience a night and a Monday after Sunday noon. Crossing the 180 degree meridian would reveal how the date changes and when Sunday ends for others.
Kansas City police called to stopover troopers of the Eighth Infantry Massachusetts national guard who overthrew a fruit stand near Union Station. Some guardsmen were taken to headquarters and released. President Wilson ordered formation of an army aviation corps reserve. Prohibition in Scotland deemed impractical by liquor board. Heat waves and rain affect Philadelphia and New York. Roosevelt abandons plan to raise a volunteer division. Woodrow Wilson Independent League gains enrollments in 32 states. Track drivers strike in Havana with allied bodies joining. Columbia, Pennsylvania tornado and storm cause estimated 325000 dollars in damage, no deaths. Baltimore reports 25 heat collapses. a stevedore drowns after revival. Virginia issues first non-resident license to President Wilson. Shields river power bill advances in the House.
Helen learns Carson has died at eleven thirty and wrestles with telling her lover, while a nearby widow mourns alone. Helen seeks comfort from a friend as her own fear and confusion mount, leaving her haunted by the widow's isolation and her own fragile state.
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