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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1916
Page
4
Classified items from the Mobile Alabama News include page headlines and notices with prices and mailing details. The text references editions and rates for subscriptions and outside circulation and lists staff roles such as editors and news belts.
October harbor traffic rose with 47 vessels and 51 961 tons, sisters to last year. Mobile exports improve toward prewar levels hinting at a postwar surge if port facilities match demand. Stated remarks touch on Marie Zingset bequests and a New York cookery aim, plus local law enforcement efforts on licenses and taxes. Various political and economic notes reference war ministers, tariff costs, West Virginia rail demurrage, Chicago eggs, and housing of eggs versus hatching potential.
Hundreds of Mississippians visited Mobile for the Gulf Coast Fair and to rally support for next year’s Mississippi Centennial Exposition in Gulfport. Alabama’s role is praised as the six months show will draw travelers through Mobile en route to Gulfport. A proposal for an Alabama building at Gulfport is urged for strong advertising of state resources. The Thursday banquet endorses a campaign underscoring the need for effective publicity.
The piece urges unanimous condemnation by organized labor of a plot by six discharged New York subway guards to blow up railway stations and city buildings. It argues violence harms the labor movement and cites the Los Angeles Times dynamiting case as a cautionary parallel if charges prove true.
The piece details how Germany cut paper use as prices rose, urging citizens to reuse rag and scrap, with publishers trimming paper sizes and offering incentives. It links to broader U S debates over paper costs, government actions, and wartime economies, noting German efficiency as a model.
The Item's Daily Question Box cites William T. Scott as a 1904 national liberal party nominee for president, offers nickel cleaning guidance with alcohol ammonia and whiting, notes Ben Jonson as England's first pensioned poet laureate in 1591 with 1619 title, and identifies Leon Besnardeau of Lille as originator of picture postcards in 1870.
Horoscope from 1916 predicts good fortune for newspapers exploiting personalities with rising writers, expanding advertising, and increased circulation. Investments in southern regions are favored while a war scare looms from a European dispute. Greece may gain from wartime shifts, and Holy See faces later anxieties. births on this date hint at talent but quick temper.
A letter to the editor by Canton, dated October 27, defends the president's leadership and admonishes critics while warning of dangerous, disloyal currents he sees in politics. The writer praises knowledge, restraint, and moral ideals, contrasting them with perceived malign forces.
Discussion compares the body to an electric battery and explains how stored energy becomes physical action warm heat and mental states. It describes nerve exhaustion from over stimulation and the impact of toxic autointoxication and alcohol on nerve cells.
Public notices list meetings at St Mic 1 and Conception streets at 7 30 p m including Mobile Medical and Student Factors The column answers readers questions on eye disease near sightedness tic douloureux and dairy digestion with cautions to consult physicians and avoid self diagnosis.
A long excerpt discusses why love fades after marriage, proposing several theories from fading male interest to wives losing arts of enchantment. It outlines common female tactics to win a husband and suggests that real issues arise when a wife abandons those tactics after marriage.
A serialized domestic tale follows Elen who fears eavesdropping as she and Warren travel by train. She seeks a quiet night upper berth, navigates his unrevealed anger, and prepares for a morning arrival at Glenville while reflecting on marriage and perceptions. The piece threads through marital disappointments and gender roles with a moral underline.
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