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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1915
Page
4
A Kansas City Star piece recalls country visitors at a theatre and a city woman’s cutting remark about style. The country mother is drawn as dignified while city judgment stings and the rural family’s honor is defended.
The piece questions Birmingham dominance in filling a U S Senate seat. It praises Oscar W Underwood while urging Alabama cities to share the chance, suggesting future roles for Underwood and even a White House bid, and asks The Ledger to consider fairness.
A Washington agriculture specialist outlines a rapid lawn transformation plan using arid-climate tolerant species. Recommend tall foliage plants Castor bean Caladium canna. tall flowering Cosmos scarlet sage sunflowers. border plants Alternanthera alyssum ageratum coleus. medium-tall annuals Geranium California poppy Heucherella Zinnia marigold nasturtium. annuals Cobaea scandens rare Japanese morning glory.
March advises farmers to inventory farm conditions and prepare for spring work. Suggestions include inspecting soil moisture, improving terraces and clover sowing, stabilizing barnyards, feeding and sheltering calves, engaging with local schools and clubs, renewing farm paper subscriptions, drying and inspecting cotton, shopping for fertilizers cooperatively, sheltering idle implements, clearing stumps, maintaining firewood, and building a King road drag to reduce muddy roads.
Specialists from the U S Department of Agriculture describe a method to make a palatable amber colored jelly from sour or bitter oranges. By boiling the pulp with water, straining, and adding sugar, the juice reaches a jelly point and can be canned. The sour orange, once a stock root, thrives in Gulf states and now offers potential commercial preserves.
Campaigners visiting Mobile county and city schools urged children to embrace the home garden spirit as a key asset. They advised that any ground can yield vegetables with proper method and suggested contacting the U S Department of Agriculture, Alabama Polytechnic Institute Auburn, or Mobile farm demonstration expert George A Maloney for planting and cultivation guidance.
The piece condemns Alabama for enacting a law banning ads for wine beer or spirits, arguing it overreaches state power and interferes with interstate commerce while highlighting alleged state failings in literacy child labor peonage suffrage and immigration. It questions the crusading zeal behind such measures and points to Alabama's population of over two million and agricultural base.
March 13 at the public square in Demopolis, a 245 man, 25 woman, 40 child audience heard professors and farmers advocate diversifying crops to reduce reliance on cotton and combat boll weevil damage. Speakers urged adding humus with legumes, green crops, and stable manure while stressing local breadbasket potential and need to replace imported foods.
The Agriculture Department suspends federal certification of seed potatoes from infected Maine and New York districts from March 3 1915 amid powdery scab concerns. Certification will cover table stock and seed potatoes grown outside infected zones remains subject to inspection. Southern markets may remain free of the disease.
Plans for Mrs. John D. Rockefeller death funeral were held in abeyance awaiting Mr. Rockefeller and his son’s arrival by special train from Ormond Florida. Services expected tomorrow afternoon at Pocantico Hills with burial in Cleveland Ohio. only one immediate family member may be absent. Mrs. Harold Fowler McCormick of Chicago likely unable to attend. Mrs. E Parmelee Prentice and Miss Lucy Spellman were at the Rockefeller home.
Special from The Item: St. Pauls Episcopal Church Whistler will hold a 7 30 a m communion service Sunday morning. The event is announced for worshipers in Whistler Alabama.
Directors and speakers from the International Harvester Company toured Hale, Marengo, and Perry counties praising Alabama’s farming region as ideal for improving self sufficiency. Attending speakers included State Entomologist F W Hinds, Edgar Green, Nellie Tapan, C C Hudson, and R A Hayne, highlighting dairy and hog production.
A Monday advertisement promotes 25 cent oyster loaves at Charles Schimpf Restaurant 3 5 7 North Royal Street. Fresh opened plant oysters sold by the dozen in loaves for 25 cents and 1 2 dozen for 15 cents toasted options available. Also raw oysters at stand with plant prices 20 cents per dozen and 1 2 dozen for 10 cents.
Secretary Garrison releases Major General Wood report on ties between Wood and his aide Captain Gordon Johnston and the American Legion organizers. Garrison says war department personnel should avoid direct contact with private quasi military groups, citing caution and future usefulness of the legion.
The Crown Theatre shows a Mutual program featuring Peggy Burke in The Newspaper Nemesis and Vivian Rich in A Heart of Flame. Jack Richardson also appears. Sunday highlights Keystone comedy Hogan's Aristocratic Dream with Charles Murray. Franklin Farrington and Sidney Bracey star in On the Brink of the Abyss, plus Teddy Sampson in Bobbys Bandit.
Lubin star Earl Metcalf appears in The Hermit Of Bird Island a three reel feature at the Empire with a Latin cast. G M Anderson also shows in Broncho Billys Brother. Alice Joyce leads The White Goddess a Kalem three reel feature at the Lyceum Monday. Lena Rivers played by Higley Jewell Kelley stock company brings an ovation at Lyric with May Morris. repeated this afternoon and tonight with vaudeville acts.
An old advertisement touts Dr King s New Discovery as a remedy for child coughs and persistent colds. It promises quick relief and guarantees results, urging readers to buy from their druggist.
Montgomery March 13 The investigating committee devoted the afternoon to a thorough look at the convict system. State employees testified about ill treatment and harsh conditions at camps and prisons. Warden Dawson and Deputy Baltzer were named for exploiting convict labor and other abuses.
The condition of General Maunoury after being wounded while inspecting a German trench is not as serious as first believed. He hopes to return to duty soon and is presently in Paris.
Desire Christophe's funeral was held Friday at 3:30 pm from his home at 557 South Conception Street and at 4:00 pm from St Vincent’s Catholic Church. Rev Fr Daniel Brady officiated. Interment followed in Magnolia Cemetery with floral tributes, taps by the Raphael Semmes Camp Confederate veterans, and pallbearers H Olsen, George Yockers, John McArthur, J H Rodiger, Charles Yockers, Edward Huet, C A Girod, and William H Holcomte.
Mrs. Mary Brown Steele 78 widow of John J. Steele formerly of Lowndes county Alabama died in this city Tuesday at 3 30 p m after a long illness. She is survived by a daughter, a granddaughter Mrs J Thomas Walker and a large Dallas and Wilcox county kin. Remains were sent to Benton Alabama for interment Tuesday.
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