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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1916
Page
4
fragmented OCR reads like a city council item and local news brief. unreadable lines indicate committee notes and editorials with scattered names and dates. content is too damaged to extract clear events or outcomes.
A reflective line from Hilliard traces life’s shadow across a golden ground of immortal hope, pairing somber existence with enduring aspiration.
The Houston paper joins others facing soaring publishing costs due to white paper shortages and rising material prices. Circulation profits shrink as per-copy costs climb, with papers weighing options to charge readers more to cover production.
The column advises daily grease to fade facial scars and mentions surgical options for removal. It estimates world population around 6 billion and world debts near 42.96 billion in 1914, noting wartime increases. It also explains serge shine with hot vinegar and references 1888 blanket ballot law adopted at Louisville and earlier origins in 1851.
The Ocean Springs pecan shipments for 1915 1916 total 110 022 pounds across the sea route. Figures from local officials exclude six parcel post shipments and reflect mostly fancy paper shipments with limited details available.
The Mobile skating audience is noted for the smallest foot sizes, says B. B. Barnes, manager of the Coliseum Roller Skating Rink which opened last night. He reveals stock sizes 4 and 6 proved too large and ordered additional sizes 1 2 and 3 to fit local demand. The opening drew a capacity crowd and favorable remarks on arrangements for patrons.
Three companies of students from the University Military School toured several Mobile schools in full uniform and armed. The marching columns totaled 120 cadets as they drew attention downtown. H R Wilton and his wife of Toronto are visiting Mobile for several days.
The March 30 1916 page cites a Western state leader rising a Shakespearean celebration success but with authority disputes. It notes a romantic play vogue, a great actor rise, Canada’s planetary government bringing autumn prosperity, inventions promising two U S citizens success, and periodic graft revelations ahead.
A parade of guests passes through Mobile including B J Sullivan of Summerville and A Golaring of Pensacola while L C Irvine presents progress on the Jackson Highway. Officials pledge a $50,000 Tombigbee River bridge at Jackson and Alabama road work to support the project with Montgomery attendees and hotel hosts noted.
B T Moor local manager of the Western Union Telegraph Company and his assistant T G Woods attend a conference at Meridian Mississippi Monday and Tuesday of the Fifth district managers. About 100 managers from Alabama and Mississippi were present. They received their first lesson in telegraphic salesmanship of the most modern and efficient type. Many southern division superintendents and other officials were present. Practical demonstrations were among the important features.
Reports say prisoners at the city station, overseen by Turn key Moody and Detail Officer Bressingham, scrub hammocks, fumigate cells weekly, and apply whitewash as part of new sanitary rules. Entrants must take a shower bath, marking improved prison conditions.
Paris reports General Largeau a young brigadier killed at Verdun. He had distinguished himself in Africa during the Campaign in the Mercant expedition.
A reflective passage as a wife contemplates love beyond romance, linking tenderness to mothers, youth, nations, and art. The narrator seeks to restore love in her heart while pondering loss and fate, ending with a plea to continue.
Construction of the railroad from Alabama Port to Cedar Point by the Dauphin Island Tidewater Securities Company starts this week. President J. M. Dewberry says completion within sixty days. Planned summer service from Mobile via Bay Shore railroad to the island by launch across Grant's Pass in about twenty-five minutes. Guests Ellis J. Learned and A. B. Marshall with wife visit Dauphin Island with President Dewberry to learn about development.
An old U S remedy promotes a home mix for rheumatism claiming wide use. The formula calls for one ounce of a compound and one ounce syrup of Sarsaparina in half a pint of whiskey. One tablespoon before meals and at bedtime. Sold in sealed one ounce packages by Globe Pharmacy Co Dayton Ohio.
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