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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1916
Page
4
The Mobile item led by Ed Erint Hy Cprades focuses on the council’s next steps for downtown redevelopment. Officials weigh zoning changes and funding options as residents seek clearer plans and timelines.
A March 27 1916 mobile newspaper fragment presents a quoted youth asking for a song of life. The speaker responds by singing of a life without alloy and timeless beauty, touching on love and eternity as described in a verse by Edward Rowland Sill.
Julia Strudwick Tutwiler, born 1844 in Tuscaloosa to Prof and Mrs Henry Tutwiler, longtime educator and president of Alabama Normal College at Livingston, helped open the University of Alabama to women and inspired prison reform and women’s uplift efforts. Her death marks a loss to Alabama’s educational and reform legacy.
The Birmingham Motor Speedway Company awarded a Cincinnati firm a 2 1 2 mile reinforced concrete speedway contract. The 100 foot wide track features a 40 foot racing surface with 30 feet of turf on each side, bitulithic surface, and a grandstand for 50 000. The project, priced at about half a million dollars, will sit near the lake of the Birmingham Motor and Country Club, a premier auto racing site.
Bankers' Associations of the Central States launch an education drive on thrift for all ages. The effort emphasizes saving through banking and reaching the millions who have yet to learn the basics, noting wealth grows from small beginnings.
Montgomery hears of Lyons Park pool for adults and considers a 100 by 200 foot pool with depths from 2½ to 11/2 feet, 40 dressing rooms, showers, and a 50 by 100 foot pavilion. Birmingham debates a summer bond issue to cover 1 000 000 or 2 000 000. Chambers County bid bids advance for a 26 mile highway at 42 000.
Citizens urged to plant azaleas and other hardy ornamentals in yards or on sidewalk parking strips to beautify Mobile. Notes Chinese azalea and Camella Japonica as resilient choices and promotes foliage planting for year round appeal. Also mentions political figures Bryan and Dunn planning Nebraska campaigns and hints at using influence at St. Louis convention.
Annis ton marks St Patrick day as Hercules No 1 begins first run of the Souths first electrically driven furnace with ground broken for more. Miss Emily Dinwiddie cites Rome 450 B C as ancient housing woes. incumbents Steagall Heflin Oliver face no opposition in three districts, others hot races elsewhere. Detroit factory rush for 27 auto trucks prompts near riot as volunteers seek service for Uncle Sam. Iron worker Frank Learick dies after a 12 foot fall at a new government building in Washington.
The reading notes a lucky day with favorable planetary aspects including Uranus Mercury and Saturn. It forecasts romance for many, keen media activity, possible international tension around Japan, visits to Washington, and prudent financial and social cautions for those born this day.
A flood of travelers and visitors arrive in Mobile from cities including Biloxi Chicago and Philadelphia. Notables such as Moth Ball Higgins of Chicago and a long list of other named guests plan stays and investments while praising Mobile weather.
Interest in revival services led by Rev. Frank H. Wright continues strongly at Government St Presbyterian. Large crowds fill the aisles as lectures and choral services unfold with daily 11 am and 7:30 pm sessions. Noon meetings with Hammontree run 12:05 to 12:30, and special men and women gatherings occur each evening.
The Gulf Coast Horticultural Society directors met in an eight hour session to push securing a horticultural station for the region at Mobile. The annual meeting is scheduled for April 26-27 at the Battle House Auditorium.
Uncle Wiggily Longears walks in the woods with broken glasses and greets woodland characters including Mrs Wibblewobble and Grandfather Goosey Gander. He mistakes objects for familiar friends until he reaches the blacksmith to mend his glasses.
The Motile Automobile Club announces safety first rules for the April 8 road run. Contestants pick a target time at least ninety minutes. the time is sealed and opened after all finish. Prizes go to those nearest and farthest from the chosen time with extra honors for ladies driving their own cars. Committee: Herbert Lyons chairs a five member board including Harry E Clifton and others.
Uncle Wiggily carries a branch with soft Pussy Willows he mistakes for young cats after a dog frightens them. Nurse Jane and a muskrat reveal the mistake, water the willows to bloom, and he plans repairs and further adventures with leaves and household items.
Readers sent in dates and topics for horoscopes and odd notes. Predictions mix March April and August signs with traits and career hints alongside a gardening tip about removing an overgrown weed.
Three rigid trains of sisal departed Mobile over the New Orleans Mobile and Chicago road bound for St Louis Chicago Kansas City St Paul and other western cities. The 7000 bale cargo came aboard the steamer Nepos from Progresso Mexico and was consigned to James Gibbons & Co. It marks the first shipment in months with more cargoes expected within thirty days.
Meridian and Memphis Railroad ran the first train into its terminal station amid blowing whistlers. Track had been hurriedly laid and barely finished before the train entered the new terminal on Saturday.
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