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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1913
Page
4
A collage of brief items from various papers touches on maldel mer debates and Georgia peach crops, cites the Houston Post slogan about flies and fever, notes Danville Illinois, Japan canard dreadnoughts, Bryan’s prominence at The Commoner, Jonah’s original informer, the Florida Times Union on outcasts, Sybil Loughead’s essay prize, and Frank Chance Day in Chicago with odds.
In Kansas the value of a man shifts from grand whiskers to skill at estimating huge losses caused by a shortage of harvest workers. The old measure fades as new economic strains define prominence.
Advices from Beaumont Texas report good progress on the oil hole expected to supply Oakdale streets once drilling concludes and pumps are installed. The work advances toward bringing local street pumping before long, with officials hopeful for early service.
Rumor says the Chamber of Commerce ignored a bet linked to the Trade Expansion Expedition to Central America. The organizers may have failed to anticipate involvement by a preacher in the arrangement.
The effort to reduce the Congressional Record’s reading matter is criticized as unpopular and ineffective since few people read it, implying that trimming content has little practical impact.
The Susser County New Jersey organization after weeks of bone hunting concludes that the so called relics of a bygone race were in fact sheep bones planted by a group of mischievous youths.
Argentina as the leading refrigerated beef producer faces scrutiny in a struggle against major meat operators. The issue may offer lessons for U S policy makers troubled by Chicago negotiators and prior legislative efforts.
The Chattanooga News notes that 25 years ago DeLesseps sought eighty million dollars to fund his doomed attempt at an interoceanic canal on the Panama route. He died before the United States could take on the project.
Prof T S Adams of the Wisconsin tax commission argues that earning over $2,000 makes one an aristocrat and urges reducing the exemption threshold to $2,500. The remark suggests the professor views salaries as overly high.
The exchange warns about a possible Japanese invasion of the Pacific coast and cites Napoleon’s remark that while many routes into England exist an army has no clear way to get out, highlighting strategic peril of an amphibious assault.
Health officials raided St. Pauls Baptist Church and vaccinated about 400 people by force. Due to smallpox, city blocks are roped off and compulsory vaccination is enforced. Over 5,000 have been vaccinated under protest.
The Industrial Edition of the San Antonio Ex press reaches The Item's exchange table as a premier 144 page publication. It offers extensive articles and statistical data on San Antonio and Texas with broad circulation nationwide, promising substantial benefits to San Antonio.
The Pensacola Journal advocates Henry McLaughlin’s plan to build a Pensacola to Mobile railroad, arguing it connects with four trunk lines and opens Baldwin County to Pensacola trade. The Item notes Mobile and Pensacola stand to gain a deep water port export import conduit, urging Mobile business groups to back the effort.
Waltham Evening News argues pasteurization is the only reliable method to prevent milk born disease amid rising epidemics from impure milk. New York Chicago resolutions push pasteurized milk. Mobile tried pasteurization but the plant burned. The piece notes certified milk plans and upcoming tests by city officials and physicians. Public health officials push action as Ellis bill dies for the year.
A terse line asserts control and restraint amid a tense moment, suggesting a stance against anger from a speaker in a charged context. The phrasing implies measured resolve without explosive language.
Members of congress brace for a weary season in the capital as the tariff debate stretches into July and likely August. The house presses the Underwood tariff bill while currency reform and possible trusts action loom, with the senate taking its time and President Wilson signaling readiness for currency legislation if it fits the tariff timetable.
The Newlands river regulation bill proposes a 50 million dollar annual fund for ten years to regulate interstate commerce and flood control through reservoirs, drainage and forest protection. The Picayune surveys its broad aims, questions practicality, and doubts Congress will approve half a billion dollars while floods persist in low lands.
A humorous note praises a Norfolk era Navy capability claiming a prodigy who can kill, pick, cook, and eat a chicken in five minutes. It cites another feat by Rev. Sam Tutt Peters of Arkansas who cooked and roasterized poultry and pork in under five minutes and notes a park capture in thirty four minutes.
The Virginian-Pilot notes that California asks for national funding to glorify the Panama Exposition in San Francisco while the state lives within its rights and duties. The New York Commercial chides California for seeking costly structures and royal contributions, arguing it risks national entanglement.
The New York Press argues that easy access to high explosives fuels bomb threats in Chicago and New York over the past years. It calls for tougher regulation of illicit manufacture sale and possession as a practical remedy, questioning the practicality of espionage like liquor controls or counterfeiting suppression.
The New York Tribune reports Senator Cummins argues for a Republican national convention selection by actual voters. The move aims to discard the rotten borough system and restore party strength with active, progressive Republicans pressuring leadership to cooperate or face replacement.
A woman packs a bulging trunk amid hotel labels that recall a life of travel. Liane recalls Italy, Monte Carlo, Paris, and Nice as she meets Count Alfredo Pagnelli and faces a letter hinting betrayal, with Germany warning about untested firearms as New York tests a five cubic yard auto truck.
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