Data Emphasizes Mobile Port Advantages Amid Reports
The piece urges mobilizing local support for Cobb to strengthen a detailed port comparison with New Orleans. It notes Mobile’s charges are among the cheapest, cites Ford Bacon & Davis data, and defends Mobile against negative publicity while highlighting legislative measures and growing imports and exports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
R. C. Cobb
Chambers Commerce
J. Rich
Rich
Ford, Bacon & Davis
New Orleans
Cobb
United States
Mr. Cobb
Foreign Freight Department
Mobile and Ohio Railroad
Pillans
Moblie
Atte
le Cam
Deliberately Unfriendly Final Warning Shapes U S Note
The United States flags Germany as deliberately unfriendly after a wartime note. President Wilson and Secretary Lansing align on a firm stance: freedom of the seas, neutral rights, and no bargain on immunity lists. The note warns of severed diplomatic relations and potential war if Germany repeats violations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White’ House
United States
Germany
Wilson
Lansing
High Seas
Great Britain
Permanent Products Exhibit to Showcase Birmingham Manufactures
Birmingham plans a permanent exhibition opening July 31 to display the citys skilled labor products. It envisions a broader plan later, with Mobile showing a successful Home Products Show as precedent. The idea aims to advertise Mobile county industry and agriculture without conflicting with the Gulf Coast Fair Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Mobile
Chamber of Commerce
Gulf Coast Fair Association
Mobile County
Market Growth Attracts Southern Cities And Mobile Markets
The article discusses planned and existing markets in cities like St. Louis and San Francisco, urging a substantial, sanitary market house near the Government Street Loop for the Dawes Bay Shore Growers Association. It notes Mobile already has a city market but its current facility falls short of future needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commission
Hlse
St. Louis
San Francisco
Mobile
Government Street
Dawes and Bay Shore Growers Association
Novel Chalked Caution Aids Dallas Traffic Rules
City adopts chalked warnings at crossings and streetcar lines to mark pedestrian deadlines and quiet zones. Officers place targets reading Quiet Zone to remind drivers to reduce noise and speed, reflecting humanitarian aims for safer, calmer thoroughfares.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Dallas
Texas
Do Like White Folks Inspires Advice at Baptist Gathering
At Mobile session of the Negro National Primitive Baptist Association the master of ceremonies urged with humor to "do like the white folks." He cited a drillmaster who mixed up commands and praised white progress in land, schools, peace, and prosperity while cautioning not to focus on war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Negro National Primitive Baptist Association
Mobile
Tallapoosa to Reach Mobile with Seventy Five Crew
The Tallapoosa revenue cutter will replace the Winona and is due in Mobile in two or three weeks with a crew of seventy five. The Mobile bid won after competition with rival ports and local business leaders propose a formal welcome by the Chamber of Commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tallapoosa
Winona
Mobile
Chamber of Commerce
New Elk Chief James R. Nicholson Leads Grand Exalted Ruler Race
James R. Nicholson, 38, elected Grand Exalted Ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at a Los Angeles convention. A Boston manager with five years on the board of trustees, he helped fund a $400,000 national home for indigent and aged members in Bedford Virginia. Nicholson is the youngest and only bachelor to hold the post, with 15,000 Elks and families in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James R. Nicholson
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Purple Princes
Los Angeles
United States
Boston
Nicholson
the Elks
Bedford
Virginia
Bills
Elks
Red Men Tribe Hosts Busy Night With Scalp Chase
The No 57 Improved Order of Red Men in Tuscahoma held a lively Tuesday session. A paleface prisoner was captured and tortured in ritual fashion as tribal leaders adopted a new chief. A gold watch was pledged as prize for scalp quests in ninety days, amid warnings to palefaces. Meanwhile Woodmen of the World Forest Camp No 1 hosted a large outing to Fairhope, with 1300 attendees and well managed transport aboard Pleasure Bay Apollo and Beaver steamers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Modern Woodmen
Modern Woodmen of America
Y. M. B. A. Hall
L. Bauer
Calloway
Zuckerman and Jackson
Matt
Jeff
Regan and
Fincher
Paleface
Forest Camp
Fairhope
Pleasure Bay
Apollo
Beaver
First Section of Naval Militia Will Drill Monday Night
Col. Frank B. Merrill, organizer for Mobile, calls a Monday night drill on the river for the first section. He expects the full contingent soon and notes rising interest in forming the naval militia. Upon completion of drills and basic training, Merrill will tender to the governor to proceed with the organization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank B. Merrill
Naval Militia
Mobile
Merrill
Col
Editorials by Item Readers and Neutral Stance Guideline
Readers are urged to submit temperate editorials focusing on nonpartisan topics. Do not discuss partisan issues. Sign with real name and address or a nom de plume. Include stamped self-addressed envelope for returning rejected copy. The Item will correct its own misstatements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saleen
Focal
Prize winner thanks item and friends in 1916 contest
Mrs J T Gillis of Stapleton writes from Mobile Alabama thanking The Mobile Item Co for the Overland car prize in the circulation contest. She credits subscribers for support and praises the newspaper for its fair conduct. Henry Wade Du Bose commends Mobile officials enforcing prohibition and notes public attitude shift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stapleton
The
Mobile Item Co
Mobile
Ala
J. T. Gillis
Item
Henry Wade DU Bose
Meridian Voters Back City Hall Jail Bond Plans
Meridian Mississippi voters approved bonds for a new City Hall and a city jail, the $40,000 measure winning by 111 votes. The sanitary sewer bond proposal, seeking $25,000, also advanced by a clear majority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meridian
Miss
Question Box on Seen Saw and Submarine Invention
In simple terms the difference between seen and saw is that seen is the past participle used with have or be, while saw is the past tense on its own. Submarine boats date back centuries with early ideas from the 13th or 14th centuries and many plans in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Fragmented Urban Drive and Ford Metaphor Clash
The text sketches a city scene with a man debating affording a Ford and the fines for crossing streets. It contrasts earning enough to own a Ford with the penalties for beating a Ford on city streets, then pivots to describe a man judged by appearances and ads.
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City Net
Alabama
Robert Louis Stevenson
Florida
Alanta
Gedhes
Brooklyn Times
Rome
America
Oe Cvoenef
Imperial New
Les
Bill
Chichester
New Oak
Calli Ie
Kxe
Insurance
Michael St
Toggery
Palm Beach
Earl & Wilson
Just
Mobile’s Leading Men’s Shop
Bauer
National City Bank
E. J. Buck
P. J. Lyons
J. R. Stevens
A. C G. Tonsmeire
Cas
E. C. Meredith, JR
English Cody
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H. Halliwell
J. F. Jossen
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