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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1916
Page
4
fragmentary OCR notes from a Tribune era page refer to New York Chicago and St. Louis offices, a council editorial and news bell, with unclear context or dates.
Mobile residents gather at the Hotel Friday for a Music Lovers Association meeting to review the Philharmonic Orchestra visit and its impact on next season’s concerts. Debate centers on finances, publicity, and the Houston tax plan.
A recent tanker visit brought the largest blackstrap cargo ever to Mobile followed by four trainloads of mail. The Paloma carried the season’s biggest pineapple shipment. The port’s revival grows with staple exports and steady commerce, sustaining stevedores and waterfront activity.
The article argues Monroe Park should add bath houses a beach a toboggan chute boat hire and water sports to attract visitors. It contends waterside resorts offer antic pleasures and that improvements would draw more Morans to visit the park this season.
Special agents under the attorney general raided Girard on Wednesday after disembarking at Columbus. The state issues a notice that prohibition laws will be strictly enforced, with authorities moving to any length to block illicit sale. An Opelika ordered force was sent to Girard amid threats of trouble.
A fragmented report notes Houston reverting to the old tax method after a constitutional challenge to the revised plan. It cites a drop in deposits and sewer funds as financial stakes shift, with land taxes and related municipal finances affected by the policy change.
A light verse on husbands and wives. The rooster crows while the hen helps, and the speaker praises patient wives who kept families together while men brag about their glory. It contrasts domestic labor with male pride and suggests wives deserve quiet credit.
The May 18 1916 horoscope notes a quiet day with weak planetary directions and a full moon that offers little reassurance. It warns of potential naval tensions and European reverses, health epidemics, and urban sanitary troubles, especially in New York and Chicago, while highlighting unusual summer business activity and possible unscrupulous operators.
The reader questions and answers cover phrases like the almighty dollar from Washington Irving and Ben Jonson’s lines, a query about the date and horoscope for October 23, 187, and a summary of the Brooks-Baxter dispute in Arkansas starting in 1872 with Baxter’s election victory and the 1874 legal battles ending as federal troops kept the peace.
Miss Chameleon and Aunt Chameleon observe newly hatched baby alligators from a hard shell to the river. The elders remark on their knife like noses aiding shell escape, while Mrs Gater minds only that the brood is thriving with no worries.
This brief promotes natural honey as a pure nourishing sweet aiding digestion. It explains that honey provides dextr ose and levulose which enter the blood as energy, unlike other sugars that require digestion and produce acids. It notes bees thrive on honey from nectar and warns against starch based syrups.
A reader seeks advice after a bar and iron weighed about a hundred pounds fell on the right foot. A doctor should assess for broken bones, with swelling fading over time. Elevate the foot, gently massage upward, keep it wrapped at night, and monitor circulation to speed healing.
Captains discuss sea yarns and a stormy Belize voyage aboard the Storm King. A sailor recounts a shark encounter on a twenty five ton sloop and a Caribbean journey with his wife aboard. The scene shifts to a village tale of George and his wife with a whimsical remedy called nerve water from the Sympathy doctor Marti.
A compact study reveals peasant life in the Lower Inn Valley of Austrian Tyrol. The article frames the region as rugged mountain country near the front lines and as a reference point for Italian operations in the Trentino.
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