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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1916
Page
6
A column blends a Bentz town bard poem with local society items. Reports cover church and club meetings, new residents in Tuscaloosa, travels of Blounts and Quinns, social events for Miss Clara White and Miss Gould, and mobile visitors. The piece ends with a detailed summary of Southern Methodist city missions activities.
A columnist urges beauty seekers to try aesthetic dancing as a path to improved figure, rhythm, and poise. She shares a tale of a middle aged woman who shed weak lines, gained elasticity, and gained a new sense of melody without seeking public performance.
Thirteen citizens of Ensley Alabama were released from the Pasteur Institute after twenty one days of rabies treatment. The group had been bitten by a small dog on the street and the animal was killed. A head sent by Dr J Eansa of Huntsville confirmed the rabies diagnosis.
Fragmentary ad copy hints at a skincare claim earning clear skin as essential to beauty. Mentions mail order options and a dramatized “Draigists”/drugstore channel, with garbled branding like “Magnolia Balm.”
Personal mentions list Miss Josephine Harris and Mr Seale Harris Jr of Birmingham returning from Shelby Springs after Miss Harris attended a summer course at Alabama Girls Technical Institute Montevallo. Several visitors and residents in Pensacola Fairhope Mobile are named with brief visits and returns.
Fifty families were helped with clothing food or bedding since yesterday noon. About two hundred people sought aid at the relief committee in Mobile county. Nearly $3 500 has been donated for storm sufferers. Mrs M L Sailor of St Elmo Mobile county commended the effort. Congressman Oscar L Gray says seed measures for farmers are pending. Employment officials seek workers for vacancies. Louisville and Nashville Railroad offers free transport for shipments to storm victims. Simon Shoe Company donated five pairs of children s shoes. Mobile Steel Company offers roofing at fifty percent discount. Kel l ey s Corn Flakes and Borden s condensed milk donated by W T Goubil.
Ten thousand sweet potato plants will be given to farmers whose cotton and corn crops were washed away by heavy rains. The offer comes via a message to J. A. Wade, agriculture commissioner of the Coosa valley, at Pell City. Seed company officials will provide the plants if a list of needy farmers is supplied.
The prohibitions national convention in St Paul faced a heated outbreak as delegates debated printing and distributing the platform draft before its adoption. Sulzer failed to appear to seek the nomination, saying he came at friends’ request for the good of the cause.
In Montgomery Alabama on July 20 a renewed dispute looms between the Montgomery Light and Water Power Company and the Montgomery Traction Company after a Traction filing in U S court. The Traction Company says the light and power firm breached a contract by failing to provide enough electricity for streetcars on two occasions in the past month. The U S court had previously barred construction of a power plant by the Traction firm in Montgomery. A contract between the two firms followed that decision.
Fragmentary notes indicate the case against Thomas continues into the next term after an initial city court session on Thursday. The incomplete transcript mentions the complainant and ongoing proceedings awaiting further action.
Congress reconvened at 10 a.m to resume discussion of the naval appropriation bill. The session did not meet in the afternoon and is not in session, with Friday indicated as the next meeting day.
Floods across Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia caused extensive damage. Estimated property loss reached 15 million dollars, with some areas around Asheville and the Vanderbilt estate forecast to total about 1.5 million. Relief efforts and repair work proceed as rail traffic awaited normal operation. Brevard, North Carolina reported 200 college boys camped there unaffected.
Dr L B Morse recounts devastation in Chimney Rock and Bat Cave after a sudden flood. Roadways flooded, ten to twelve houses washed away, two tourist hotels spared major damage. Survivors suffer hunger with parched corn as supplies struggle to reach bridgeless valleys.
Senator La Follette continued attack on the naval bill in the senate. An amendment to fund an armor plant was defeated 51 to 17 after opposition argued it would not be economic. He claimed increased military spending serves selfish interests and lacks just cause.
Washington July 20 Senator Kern Democratic leader said after a conference with President Wilson he cannot predict if any attempt will be made to pass the child labor bill this session. He favors staying until action. many Democrats and some Republicans share this stance but active opposition exists. If before the Senate, passage by two-thirds vote is uncertain. Senator Gallinger Republican leader again urged passage and cited telegrams urging action.
The local weather bureau reports the Catawba rose to 47 feet on July 17, the highest on record. Flood crests threaten Remini, D. C., with the Santee and Wateree waters separating eastern watershed from central and southern South Carolina. Most highway bridges have been washed away, leaving valleys bridgeless.
Fragments describe a man named Height teased for a remedy claimed to cure malaria. He says he used the tonic after supper, reading his paper, taking a pinch at a time to relieve his trouble. The piece hints at a regenerator or regulator device or powder cited by locals.
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