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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1914
Page
4
Editorial note outlines aims of the paper to inform promptly and accurately about world events. It pledges to interpret movements of interest to humanity and promote justice, ethics, and public welfare without sensationalism. Dated March 21 1914.
Reports from a New Orleans conference recall the toll of child labor, with Pauline Newman recounting a Connecticut child’s question about play and Lewis W. W. stressing the lifelong impact. The discussion links poverty, crime, and disease to child labor as a target for abolition and social reform.
Rep Oscar W Underwood of Alabama champions nationwide river and harbor improvements. He seeks a general dam law, federal navigation rights protection, and public-private cooperation to develop waterpower along Tennessee and Coosa rivers, with Mobile Harbor channel expansion and a 30 foot depth goal.
The essay asserts a female writer left New York to live among her birthplace people not to uplift them. The Chicago Tribune praises her wholesome stance as a model for other authors to reengage with real life by living among the common people rather than judging from a city perch.
An exhortation on safeguarding girls from vice urges home based guidance. It argues that prevention lies in parenting, guiding girls toward productive tasks like gardening or home duties, and fostering interests to satisfy beauty and romantic yearnings while nurturing motherhood ambitions. It cites Mothers' Magazine and anti-vice reports to assess current outcomes.
ED MYERS of Birmingham writes that ongoing prejudice harms farming communities in Alabama. He cites Mississippi’s race-driven turmoil, urges press aid to shield farmers, and claims millions of acres lie idle for lack of labor. March 19, 1914.
A Mobile reader from March 20 1914 denounces political activity inside a local armory. The author notes past visits by Chauncey M Depew and claims captains urged men to back specific candidates. The letter urges the Alabama National Guard to keep armories for drilling, not elections.
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