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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1914
Page
7
Mobile residents praise the rebuilt City Hospital after a major expansion cost 550,000 dollars. The upgrade adds wards and modern surgical gear, with City Commission oversight and Mayor Lyons supervising progress. The facility now touts improved care for all indigent patients.
Among the many manifestations of scrofula are eruptions on the face and body. These are annoying and disfiguring. Other signs include bunions inflamed eyelids sore ears wasting muscles and general debility. Ask your druggist for Hood's Sarsaparilla. This medicine eradicates scrofula and builds up the system. Get it today.
The notice invites ladies to bring pine apples for self sale next week to support preserving and canning purposes. It emphasizes buying at the buyer set price and participation by women in the project.
A personal notice by Eugene M. Pullen of 12 Marcellus Avenue Man NJ claims a non surgical cure for rupture. He states years of work as a carpenter without recurrence and invites readers to write for full information and contact.
International News Service reports the U S crop reporting board forecasts the largest winter wheat crop in U S history for 1913. May 1 condition averages 95.9 with all states reporting favorable prospects and a projected yield of 630 million bushels, exceeding last year’s 524 million.
A comprehensive upgrade at Mobile City Hospital doubles capacity with a new brick annex and restored main building. The complex now serves white and colored patients alike with modern wards, corridors, an improved operating room, and a free dispensary on the ground floor offering free medicines and care to 50 to 75 daily visitors. The X-ray department and fully equipped laboratories support medical teaching with the University of Alabama School of Medicine. Mayor Lyons plans a public reception to showcase the institution.
The Young Men's Democratic Henderson Club, active in Mobile, helped propel the people's governor candidate in May and now faces potential reorganization to pursue a progressive, safe, and sane path in city county and state politics.
Plans call for a second story on the baggage room of the L and N depot to provide new office quarters for the assistant superintendent’s force. The 26 by 110 foot addition will be brick and add to the building’s appearance, housing offices for John Rose and for the chief dispatcher C A Benner and master of trains C B Turner, plus time-card and record rooms. Work starts when materials arrive and will be occupied when finished. Also noted, Hawaii’s pineapple pack this season is expected to reach two million cases, with canning begun in 1900.
The Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railroad plans to boost land sales by appointing W L Waller as farming and industrial agent. It highlights Washington Choctaw Sumpter and Pickens counties with citrus in Washington, alfalfa in Sumpter, peach trees near West Butler, and a possible negro university.
BE. B. Gaston of Fairhope argues that the Fairhope single tax plan has spurred development and growth, contrasting corporation land rents and ownership with non resident holdings. He contends that land value taxation benefits the town and invites observers to compare areas within Fairhope, Alabama dated May 22, 1914.
International News Service reports Washington awaiting Consul Silliman's nine day Saltillo to Mexico City journey and illness concerns. Secretary Bryan learns of Silliman release and guarded travel to Mexico City. Officials seek a private account to avoid inflaming mediation at Niagara Falls and war risk. A Princeton classmate connection to President Wilson noted. A new code for communications will be prepared. The tallest building in the world will rise in New York City's Greenley Square for the Pan American States Association.
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