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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1915
Page
6
The Mobile Item asserts it guarantees advertisers higher net paid circulation in Mobile and surrounding suburbs than any other city paper. Auditors from the Audit Bureau of Circulation estimate this claim through two consecutive six month periods.
In this November 15 1915 notice The Mobile Item pledges uniform delivery to every Mobile address at 10 cents a week or 5 a year with no regional price variation. The paper offers a reward of one year’s subscription for any rider delivering at a different rate, and crowns profits as legitimate when derived from service.
A long critique contrasts rural life with city wealth and mocks myths about farmers. It notes the Arkansas A. and M. Cal Prentiss and a county farm salary of 1800 dollars, hinting at agricultural modernizations and a Grove Etowah area rise with new ore manifests.
The Mobile country preserves balance amid rapid growth investors seek lasting agricultural and horticultural industry rather than quick profits. No boom is occurring. settlements sow now for a harvest ahead as equilibrium remains the guiding principle and the rise continues cautiously.
The Greenville Advocate praises Butler county's exhibit at the Gulf Coast Fair in Mobile. It notes Butler won fourth prize and suggests the county could win first with prep. A Mobile exposition is planned next year with potential prize money, urging farmers to prepare standout displays.
Tammany Hall secured a decisive victory in the New York ballot clash as the old guard faded from the scene. The party’s machine backed by the gumshoe tactics and early voting muscle guided through the troubled waters and preserved the constitution status quo for now in Manhattan.
A Shelby County sheriff allowed eighty prisoners to help fight a major Columbia fire after his wife proposed the idea. Each prisoner pledged to return, and all did, reporting back once danger passed. The piece also notes satirical editorials and bids for road-building to attract settlers in Houston County, Alabama.
Recorder Edington handles a series of petty cases in Mobile like marital disputes. Willie Owens wins back his honeymoon under lenient terms after a five day bond, while John Evans pays a fine for domestic violence. Other defendants face fines for drunkenness motorcycle rules and disorderly behavior.
The internal revenue department in New Orleans investigates alleged seagoing liquor operations between New Orleans and Biloxi. Revenue agent George Anse is in Biloxi to examine cases where dealers reportedly sell liquor without licenses, violating internal revenue laws.
Brewton will host the Alabama Methodist Conference on December 8 with Bishop John C. Kilgo presiding. The meeting will consider transfers for three Mobile ministers Rev E A Donnelly Rev J P Roberts and Rev B C Glenn Jr under church rules limiting service to four years. About twenty ministers face transfers, the largest group in years.
Ed Davis a Black man hid whiskey in a floor trap and claimed two quarts for personal use. Beer and hundreds of bottles were found in his room at 56 South Water Street after a raid by Detectives Rondeau and Burch. Davis was fined 250 dollars or ninety days and appealed.
Nashville, Nov. 5. Hub Perdue, pitcher for the St. Louis Nationals, said he would not go to the Pacific Coast club in any trade and would quit baseball if sent there. The report notes uncertainty about a deal involving San Francisco and the Pacific Coast League.
Julius M. Brantley and Miss Annie Lee Smith were married yesterday afternoon. The couple left for a ride and at Evergreen the courthouse was reached where the ceremony took place. They returned to the bride’s home as Mr and Mrs Brantley.
Railroad men visitors A J Merri wether F L Long and W B Stine in Mobile for business. Homeseekers at Windsor Battle House Bienville St Andrew include Simmons Hoskins Montgomery Mines Williams and others from Ohio Wisconsin and Mississippi seeking land citrus homes and winter stays. Regular travelers from Chicago New Orleans and Detroit also lodged at local hotels through the week.
Instructions for submitting letters to the Item. Writers must sign with name and address, limit 300 words, use one side, include a stamped return envelope if unused, avoid anonymous submissions and partisan topics, keep temperate language, and allow corrections only for misstatements by the Item. Repeated submissions are discouraged.
A Mobile reader commends the street department under Commissioner Pillans for improving sandy streets and connecting paved areas on South Conception street. He urges continued work with tar or oil and notes the benefits to automobile and wagon travel across the city.
Sault Ste. Marie reports freight tonnage through St. Falls canal in October at 11,557,861 tons, up 3,817,846 from 1914, beating the previous high of 11,489,442 tons set in August 1912. A stray note adds President Wilson’s rumored tenor from his early glee club days.
The Hague is the Netherlands capital near the North Sea. The 1899 peace conference proposed by Tsar Nicholas II urged avoiding force, set rules for arbitration, and established a permanent court. A permanent council of signatory powers and the Dutch foreign minister acted as president.
A man desires to start his own business to be his own boss, but believes the public misunderstands him. The remark suggests he underestimates public perception and potential market reception.
Three Memphis officials Mayor E H Crump vice mayor R A Utley and police judge W M Stanton were suspended from office by chancellors Fentress and Heiskell after their legal admissions in the ouster suit. Inspector C T Perry was dismissed with a co defendant. Sheriff Richieman’s ouster case was continued to January 5 awaiting supreme court ruling.
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