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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1915
Page
5
Quote notes that courtesy and kindness yield friendship and love as a lasting reward. The author Basil emphasizes generous behavior creates strong personal bonds.
The article notes a broad rural awakening in Alabama as farmers move from single crop farming to diversified methods. It highlights Montevallo's new flour mill, initially twenty five barrels daily, praised as matching the state’s best flour and signaling growing industrial activity.
Carranza the Mexican leader has lifted duties on imports of needed foodstuff from the United States at gulf ports. The move, among the first humanitarian gestures from the distressed country, aims to relieve thousands facing starvation and ease access to food imports.
A Selma Journal critique notes Birmingham’s pride in all water route goods from New York to Mobile and up the Warrior to Birmingham. The piece contrasts Selma’s accessible water transport with Birmingham’s seaport claim and suggests Selma should stay busy. Also mentions a Chicago doctor arrested for aiding drug users and Landis court proceedings questioning habeas corpus, with local notes on Gulf States Steel’s payroll peak and 1,500 workers in Gadsden Etowah county.
The Item criticizes the School Board of Commissioners for failing to eliminate the $1 monthly high school tuition, noting past partial cuts but persistent hardship for families. It urges complete removal before the new term and references related municipal actions and local farming notes from Etowah county.
Public matter communications invited with conditions. Limit under 300 words, one-sided, temperate language. Name and address required, even if using a pen name. Include stamped self addressed envelope. The Item will correct its own misstatements but not those of other publications.
A letter to The Item parodies the New York Sun editorial on winged cockroaches and claims the author has previously witnessed roaches flying in his room. The exchange mocks the Sun and notes New York's pest prevalence with tongue in cheek remarks.
The dog days begin around the heliacal rising of Sirius with dates ranging from July 8 to August 15. Pliny tied them to Sirius and Procyon rising and to the sun entering Leo, yielding July 28 as a common start. Hippocrates placed them in the hottest summer period. Babylonian roots imply early summer origins.
Meyer Robert Guggenheim wed Miss Margaret Gibbs Miller Weyher three days after his first wife Grace Bernheimer Guggenheim and just before a final divorce decree. He is 29, a Columbia Mines graduate, and horseman. she is 19, daughter of Mr and Mrs Casper Weyher of Scranton.
John Bassett Moore spoke in Frankfort on the need for closer political and commercial union among American nations. He traced Clay and Bolivar, noted shifting trade hurdles, and urged linking material and political interests through expanded Latin American trade and investment.
A 1918 article by Prof Fred H Stoneburn urges pheasants as practical game birds for farms and villages. It notes wild stock declines, success of pheasants in Oregon, and growing commercial potential in breeding for table use, eggs, and stock amid rising native game restrictions.
The article surveys pheasant types such as Chinese Ring Neck English Ring Neck and others, notes their ornamental value and history in Europe and America, and explains that they can be kept in backyards with modest space. A Chinese hen laid 104 eggs in 158 days, showing prolific potential. The piece hints at forthcoming guidance from Professor Otis on rearing methods.
The article extols the Chinese pheasant as a premier game bird, noting its beauty, cover-loving habits, rapid flight, and utility with trained dogs. It covers origins in China, introduction to America by Judge Denny, 1882 protections in Oregon, and current spread, plus detailed plumage descriptions of cock and hen.
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