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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1915
Page
4
A fragment from a local column critiques pessimists as “knockers” clinging to a city’s growth. It cites Mobile shipbuilding plans, a proposed 500 to 600 foot vessel plant with $1.85 million cost, and debates on funding and outcomes. It touches fodder pulling methods in farming and public school heating bill debates in cities over 25 000.
The chamber of commerce directors announce a meeting to discuss port charges including pilots towing and stevedore fees. The report addresses impact on port business and officials and stakeholders are invited if they feel their interest is direct.
Indianapolis schools adopt a civic education approach stressing that every child is a citizen. Civics are integrated across grades, with eighth grade entry for direct study, linking community life, government, and responsible action to school routines and property upkeep. Arthur W. Dunn advocates this citizen worker linkage for lasting civic habits.
After Jacob Pollock's death the large Mobile dry goods house began winding up. A new firm formed by former members and young Mobile men will operate as Pollock Dry Goods Co and occupy the former Pollock & Co building.
reports from Juneau note 90 degree shade temperatures with 100 in sun. The nation endures a long heat wave while rains boost mosquito swarms. Mobile enjoys bay breezes but inland areas face heat. A Mobile meeting at Rickardy Place discusses home market efforts and features a barbecue. Selma reports flour and meal shortages despite active river and steam boat traffic.
George R. Bancroft retires from the Mobile county Board of School Commissioners and BE. Oliver Fowlkes is unanimously elected to fill the vacancy. Fowlkes, president of the D. R. Dunlap Mercantile Co., is described as progressive and devoted to education for the youth.
Dr. T. C. Chao of Soucown University said at a Southern Methodist Missionary Conference in Lake Junaluska that Chinese people are friendly to the United States yet unfriendly to Japan. He cited resentment over Japan destroying religion and homes and noted China seeks American teachers especially in industrial education. Chao pointed to 14,000 Chinese students in the United States versus about 300 in Japan.
The body of Archbishop James Edward Quigley, who died in Rochester New York, was buried in Chicago with impressive ceremonies. Cardinal Gibbons and Monsignor Bonzano attended. Monsignor Bonzano celebrated the pontifical requiem mass and Archbishop Edward J. Hanna preached. The burial took place in Mount Carmel Catholic mausoleum.
The Empire's five cent program features Billy Reeves in A Day on the Force with his policeman antics and a three reel Facing the Footlights. Also shown are a Lubin film Whom the Gods Would Destroy and the photo play Facing the Footlights billed as a top return, with ten cent admission.
Johnnie and Billie enjoy croquet with Flippy as Uncle Wiggily lingers unseen. A surprise foe, the ear scratching cat, confronts them but is driven off when Flippy knots his neck and dives the cat into the lake before letting him go.
Wheeling physician Dr. A. L. Coyle is reported held in Toronto as a German spy after a post card from Dr. J. M. Health claimed he was jailed for espionage. The note asked for credentials from Wheeling. Coyle and banker Carl Laing had left Wheeling on a car trip through Canada last Saturday.
Postmaster General Burleson ordered a new parcel post size limit of 84 inches for combined length and girth. The change allows mailing standard fruit and berry crates. A receipt system similar to express companies was also authorized for parcel post shipments.
Frederick Carl Frieseke of Owasso Michigan earned the oil painting grand prize in the United States section of the Panama-Pacific Exposition. Nine gold medals were awarded in this section. The list also notes the late John W. Alexander of Pennsylvania leading the medal winners. Henry Wolf of New York won the etching and engraving grand prize and sculptors Herbert Adams D C French and the late Karl Bitter of New York received medals of honor.
The Mobile Naval Militia under Colonel Frank B. Merrill will conduct a drill tonight on the city wharf. Captain Schofield, U S A, commands, with forty officers and men in line for the exercise.
Berne Switzerland July 15 report that a special train has completed the exchange of permanently disabled French prisoners and 3 000 sanitary troops. It is also reported Constance that 2 000 French sanitary troops are held on the German frontier awaiting transport home.
LONDON July 15 The Norwegian steamer Rym of 1 073 tons was torpedoed and sunk. The second ship was killed, but the rest of the crew landed at Great Yarmouth. Diplomacy is described as mostly talk without substance.
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