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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1915
Page
4
The Mobile Item offers Mobile's only uniform price for daily and Sunday editions. Delivery is 10 cents weekly or $5 annually to all Mobile addresses. A one year subscription reward is offered if any delivery occurs at a price other than the stated 10 cents per week or $5 per year.
The piece argues national highways prove a trunk line for a broader good roads plan, aiding homeseekers and investors while boosting land values. It notes tourists spend nationwide, stop at small towns, and provide lasting gains beyond mere market access, with statistics supporting the benefit of good tourist roads.
A contemporary explains a curious hornet control method using a water filled jug to trap hornets near the nest. The piece notes a night court established by the general for workers to avoid losing work time, though details are unclear.
The Item laments lax enforcement of inquest law after Edward Roche killed Thomas McMahon on Royal street. It notes coroner authority, solicitor discretion, and missing sworn witness statements, urging compulsory inquests in homicide cases to curb lawlessness and delays in justice.
A Mobile city lawyer turned farmer shows higher yields and profits by studying farming as a business. The article argues farmers must learn from books and experience, focusing on buying selling as well as producing. It urges quitting gambling with nature for a disciplined, industrious approach.
Harry Marks, jailed for a 1913 Bibbville train robbery and sentenced to 25 years, seeks aid from an unidentified minister who may know the man who could exonerate him. A Selma Journal report notes a convincing appeal to the minister after a访 conversation about the hold up.
A man claims he visited Tybee and stayed in Selma hotel room 22 the night of a robbery. The proprietor recalls the incident but the register lists the name as Vanclyde and the prisoner remains unknown. Officials hope publicity aids the minister’s view of the case.
In Oklahoma farmers report a new method to rid fields of destructive grasshoppers by using turkeys. The approach is said to be successful, though there is concern that widespread use could reduce turkeys available for Thanksgiving.
Chicago visitors W A Murphy and families tour Baldwin lands while attracting winter tourists to Mobile. Birmingham businessman S Ward Fitzpatrick visits, as Miller Nesbit resigns from American Tobacco and heads to Macon. Local officials and industry figures discuss Mobile’s growth and the Jackson Highway’s potential to boost winter tourism and road travel.
A long list records names and locations including hotels in New Orleans and Boston, businessmen in Birmingham and Atlanta, and visitors from Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, and Stockholm. Several pairs and firms are noted, with scattered Alabama ties and international mentions.
Railway services outline connections for Meridian, Tuscaloosa, Birmingham and East, listing Calvert and York with intermediate stations and direct links to major hubs.
The column answers reader queries on Spanish Gypsy pity for fair hair noting early science predating extinction of fair hair, states with compulsory education and Alabama's recent law, why poles flatten via Newtonian gravity and rotation, and the 1604 adoption of the name Great Britain for England Scotland and Wales.
The Mobile Item proposes turning the Mobile fair into a traveling exhibit to promote Satsuma lands and orchards in Mobile and Baldwin counties. It argues such a show could attract buyers and settlers, drawing Northwest attention similar to Texas land campaigns, and ultimately double the county population by appealing to gardeners.
Professor James McCracken of the University of Wisconsin toured the Gulf Coast and urges Wisconsin boys to consider the South as a land of opportunity. He says land value depends on farming input, not soil richness, and praises Mobile’s fair hospitality while noting Wisconsin farmers should not relocate en masse.
At the annual election of Mobile Graduate Nurses Association officers were all re elected. Dillard remains president Schlund is first vice president Catherine White Spunner second vice president Phares corresponding secretary Cady financial secretary and tutor Baldwin ways and means committee Rush membership committee Bradford registrar of the central register for the city's nurses Minutes from Montgomery last month were read Plans for hosting the state association here next year were discussed.
In an interior criminal court session Judge Henry Chamberlain discharged E. M. Harris after he was arraigned on a violation of the prohibition law. Harris had been arrested by deputy sheriffs for possessing twenty bottles of beer and a half pint of whiskey in his rooms.
The inferior criminal court dismissed the case against Herbert Burrage and Tolbert Ellison after the complainant Elmer Sly declined to prosecute at the owner H. R. Scott’s request. Other defendants, including John Hurst Luke Lott Tom Lott Henry Jones and Arthur Hardy, were fined or released on various charges. Sam Harris faced a fine for assault and Walter Davis was discharged after a pistol accusation. The court noted no law violation regarding liquor in Conti street case.
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