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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1915
Page
5
The Mobile Item prints its auditor report for Sept 30 1914 and monthly totals ending Sept 30 1914 with paid and net figures. A Mobile Alabama note from March 28 1915 mentions the Mobile Young Men's Christian Association campaign and a taunt about rival teams and a potential tie with Birmingham.
Mobile’s Fidelia Club, the city’s oldest Jewish organization, announced a new site at the northeast corner of Government and Wilkinson streets. President Henry Forchheimer said the group would build a worthy home as a monument to Mobile’s recovery from wartime conditions and to serve its purposes.
The article recalls three early Confederate submarines built at Mobile during the Civil War. The first, built spring 1863, was lost off Fort Morgan. The Hunly, built fall 1863, sank the Housatonia at Charleston on February 17, 1864, with three volunteer crews lost. The third submarine, completed April 1864, was tested in Mobile River on May 17, 1864.
Gov Charles Henderson urges Alabama residents to participate in Clean-Up Week to remove mosquito breeding sites and prevent malaria. The editorial notes the need to eliminate standing water in rain barrels and containers and cites Jacksonville Florida’s push for sanitation and Mosquito control as a model.
An Alabama editorial urges citizens to unite to save the state's credit amid financial distress. It rebuts claims of a split between Governor Henderson and the legislature, stresses cooperation to pass necessary relief measures, and calls on voters to press their representatives to follow the governor’s lead.
A bottle tossed from the Llama, a Standard Oil steamer, drifted across the mid Atlantic. Chief engineer J McCafferty reports a bottle with a five dollar reward note dated January 4 1915. A second bottle sent from Muingcreena Mayo Ireland references a reward to P Lavelle.
Movement of sisal from Yucatan on United States naval vessels has begun. Rear Admiral Caperton said the collier Jupiter left Progreso for New Orleans with sisal cargo to aid twine manufacturers. Some fear Carranza currency may not be accepted by planters and gold shipments are under consideration. Mexican export taxes starting March 20 could slow shipments.
March 27 New York. United States consuls worldwide work on a world trade directory for the Commerce Department. Private letters from foreign ports indicate rapid progress but heavy additional labor for commercial representatives abroad. Some West Indies ports report long hours compiling retention data.
Summary of Mobile anarchy and wartime events from 1818 to 1865 including first flag raised in Mobile April 16 1818 and key Civil War actions like the Battle of Mobile Bay August 5 1864 Fort Morgan and Fort Gaines surrenders August 1864 the Lincoln assassination April 14 1865 and Confederate submarine ventures built in Mobile with losses Civil War dates and postwar incidents on Mobile streets and waterways.
Henry Hammann of Indianapolis appeared before Municipal Judge Fricke in Cincinnati on a failure to provide for his daughter. He was given the choice of $30 back payments and bond to pay $3 weekly or three months in the workhouse. The case followed a divorce in which custody was granted to the wife.
Victor Elliott surveys potential reforms in the United States Post Office Department highlighting surplus funds from 1913 and 1914, the growth of parcel post and postal savings, and plans for penny postage and government takeover of telegraph and telephone lines as steps toward greater efficiency and expansion of services. The piece notes foreign acceptance of postal savings and the historic evolution from pony express to modern delivery systems.
TOM TATE of STALL Texas voices support for Governor Henderson and criticism of a conspiratorial Comer body in the state legislature. He urges swift action to stabilize finances and prevent credit impairment, arguing delays harm business and the state. He defends Henderson as level headed and patriotic.
New York March 27 The head porter Tom O'Dwyer of the McAlpin Hotel faces a puzzled guest Mrs. C W Dumont who forgot the railway station name states it was a shellfish route. He recites a long list of Montauk Amagansett East Hampton Wainscott Sag Harbor Bridgehampton Shinnecock Hills Blue Point finally guesses Blue Point as the station where the trunk is likely held.
In Sutton West Virginia on March 27 a burglary suspect housed with men at Stewart prison was revealed to be a woman. Frank A Dawson alias Frank Morris, claimed to be 16, later identified as Mrs. Frank C. Dawson of Clarksburg with a child and relatives there. She and Stewart shared a cell and roamed corridors. Police say the pair committed several burglaries totaling thousands in jewelry and valuables.
New York March 27 Yacht racing on Gravesend Bay will begin later than ever this season with a June regatta under the Atlantic Yacht Club. Lower bay racing pauses during Larchmont week from July 17 to July 24, and the season ends September 11 with another event aboard the Atlantic club.
Friends reveal John Bradlett, longtime Moving Picture World manager and author of popular blood and thunder thrillers, hanged himself after writing letters detailing a life of crime. Investigators confirm Bradlett never committed crimes, though his intense writerly work drove a personal crisis.
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