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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1913
Page
6
A Brooklyn judge upholds a will disinheriting a lawyer's wife and children despite meretricious living arrangements. The ruling notes no clear undue influence, calls the probate objection an intellectual scandal, and questions rigid legal rules when they enact palpable wrongs.
An essay extols pure well cooked food and lists benefits of proper preparation against indulgent eating habits. It cites European culinary prestige and urges national importance of good cooking. The piece precedes editorials about Birmingham and Mobile business ties,widespread Southern industrial growth, and a Cotton trade alliance.
A Cincinnati Times-Star notice profiles Pauline Marquilis, a 19 year old painter from the East Side whose prize winning Cooper Union studies inform her depictions of street life. Critics expect she may study in Paris as her fame grows.
The Indianapolis Star notes the new detectaphone will outshine the dictagraph in exposing crooked schemes. It foresees planners holding meetings in isolated areas to avoid wires as technological advances intensify surveillance.
A recruit in a Pittsburg Post item quips the office is a bad mess with urgent mail and a departing typewriter. The senior partner suggests the office boy be pressed into service as a pinch hitter to handle the workload.
A humorous poem by John Kendrick Bangs about defeating worry with a daily ritual. The speaker imagines telling worry tempters he is busy and will address them later, finding relief as laughter replaces concern.
Washington column reports a coming move to create a budget committee in the House to regulate appropriations. The plan would assign a 40 member board from Ways and Means and key committees to estimate revenues and allocate funds, limiting pork barrel projects and forcing discipline across public buildings roads rivers and harbors.
A Detroit quotation questions the value of a husband’s car bought for his business. The speaker notes only forty five miles an hour as the measurable outcome, prompting scrutiny of the vehicle’s effectiveness in the enterprise.
A letter to the editor argues the Chamber of Commerce and Business League should invite political figures including Lieut. Governor Walter D. Seed B. B. Comer and Charles D. Henderson to speak alongside Richmond P. Hobson during a state campaign tour, urging real business people to wake up.
The Mobile Item reports large interests in Mobile and Birmingham purchase of a major Mobile warehouse to expand handling to a million bales of cotton annually and other goods. The union of interests ends previous monopoly, promising increased export and import traffic through Mobile with Birmingham and interior points, and lifting financial facilities for heavier traffic. The Birmingham Age-Herald urges keeping Mobile port free and accessible to all shippers.
Alabama produced 30 000 more tons of pig iron in May 1918 than May 1912 and runs at 2 150 000 tons per year. Five month output nears 900 000 tons versus under 740 000 in 1912, with furnaces averaging 24 now against 18 then. Coal operators anticipate active work as a new barge line to New Orleans opens trade.
A Milan maestro discovered Olga Alcardi as a child and vowed to train her as a rival to Pasta. The future star, praised by critics, is planned to appear in St Petersburg and Paris, with acclaim from Massenet and Wagner.
The Item recalls the daily lunch meetings of J J Meyer and friends at Joseph Jossen’s on St Emanuel street, a famed Mobile gathering place now vanished. The group included C J Gayfer, Adam Glass, Col J C Clark, Joseph Jossen, John Black, Adrian Dure, and later Dr Rhett Goode who died in Mobile in 1912.
A Washington Star quote shows Dustin Stax arguing that hiring a brilliant orator for a legislative matter wastes time. He favors meeting auditors individually to maximize use of available hours.
The secretary of the treasury William G McAdoo signaled readiness to issue up to five hundred million in national bank emergency currency if banks request it. He toured New York to gauge conditions and said the move could restore confidence similar to 1907 after the emergency law. Some bankers question whether the announcement signals a shift away from hoped banking reform and elasticity in currency.
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