Auditor's Report on The Mobile Item Circulation
The Audit Bureau of Circulations reaudited The Mobile Item for six months ending March 31 1915 and the six months ending March 31 1916. Net paid circulation totals: Evening city and suburban 12216, country 1415 to 1596, overall 14231 to 13778. No copies for employees, correspondents, service or samples included.
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the Mobile Item Absociated
Press Reports Press Service Audit Bureau of Circulation
Audit Bureau of Circulations
City Net
Mobile
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Prosperity Signals in November Trade Conditions Letter
The November trade conditions letter highlights three drivers of business: labor, transportation, and building operations. It notes labor unrest, with unions leveraging war orders for higher pay and shorter hours, yet unemployment remains low and many idle workers expect quick reemployment. Building activity rises with permits up 18 percent and total value up 30 percent across 160 cities, while rail earnings grow about 709 thousand dollars in September. The report cites Alabama mill expansions and Ohio farming ventures as signs prosperity is approaching, and mentions a mushrooming underground farm beneath a derelict coal mine.
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First National Bank
America
Mobile’s Opportunity in Import Trade and Prompt Advantage
President Fairfax Harrison of the Southern Railway System says Mobile should target import business to spark growth. He cites Argentina hides and a tannery as examples and argues railroads will follow demand, urging local cooperation and finance to attract cannery and manufacturing ventures along Mobile Bay.
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Mobile
Fairfax Harrison
Southern Railway System
South
Central America
New Orleans
Mobile and Ohio
Southern
Charleston
Harrison
United States
Mobile Bay
Chickasabogue
Arlington
After-the-War Orders Boost Alabama Lumber and Reconstruction
The article notes postwar demand will favor the South as orders for lumber and wood products rise. Alabama sees contracts and mills restarting while the North feeds rebuilding needs. It cites Republican prospects in Alabama’s Tenth district and the rarity of GOP success there.
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East
North
Middle West
West
Mobile
Arkansas
Louisiana
Automobile versus Railroad in Short Hauls Debate
T C Powell vice president of the Queen and Crescent Route spoke to the Cincinnati Railway Club on the railway and the automobile. He argued autos win short hauls due to good roads while railroads hold advantage on long freight and passenger distances. He noted nearly two million cars exist and predicted growth, with highways determining competition.
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Cincinnati Railway Club
T. C. Powell
Queen and Crescent
Railway
Powell
United States
Now You've Got It What to Do With It
An article urges Mobile region to stop viewing crops as exhibition items and build a marketing system to sell farm goods. It argues Cauliflower costs a cent to grow and commands high prices locally, urging civic cooperation to wind the internal mechanism and create a Gulf Coast Exposition that sells what is raised. It calls for a sold tag on exhibits and a united effort by producers to market standard products.
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Gulf Coast
Mobile
Dawes
Gulf Coast Produce Exchange
America First Educating Immigrants for Citizenship Drive
The Interior Department distributes a 30 by 20 inch lithographed poster to post offices schools and industrial establishments urging immigrants to attend night classes learn English and become citizens. The five language flyer targets 3 million foreign born adults who cannot read or speak English and promotes naturalization to uplift individuals and the nation.
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United States
Department of the Interior
Department
Uncle Sam
Bureau of Statistics
America
Elba Clipper Endorses Rye Patch for Livestock Feed
The Elba Clipper touts rye patches as a profitable feed option. It states a good rye patch is worth twice the planting cost and benefits hogs cows horses and chickens with limited labor and expense.
Tragic Gun Accident in McKinney Claims Young Girl
A girl in McKinney Texas found a long unused revolver and fired at her three year old sister. An explosion killed the child and ends a familys troubled tale with a fatal outcome.
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McKinney
Tex
Oscar L. Gray III Taken To Meridian Infirmary
Choctaw Ala Nov 6 After returning from the Gulf Coast Fair in Mobile Hon Oscar L Gray was taken seriously ill Saturday. His condition improved Monday and yesterday he went with his wife and Dr H M Mason to an infirmary in Meridian for several weeks of medical treatment.
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Choctaw
Ala
Mobile
Oscar L. Gray
H. M. Mason
Meridian
Mobile visitors noted at hotels and events
The Mobile report lists numerous visitors and locals in town for business and leisure. Names include Julius Hammel of L Hammel & Co and Captain William F. Jones in New Orleans, with other travelers from Birmingham Detroit Pensacola and St Louis. The piece mentions hotel registrations and attendance at shows like It Pays to Advertise.
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Frank W. Boykin
Calvert, Ala
J. J. Sullivan
F. G. Renshaw
Pensacola
Fla
Unclear Guest List From Multiple Cities in Alabama and Beyond
A fragmented OCR passage lists numerous individuals and couples from Alabama Mississippi Georgia Louisiana Tennessee and beyond including residents of Mobile Selma Montgomery Meridian Chatom Grove Hill St Stephens Nash ville and Birmingham along with several cities like New Orleans Milwaukee Chicago and New York. The text appears to be a social or reunion style roster with many names and places but no cohesive event details or dates.
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Battle House
J. D. Henderson
Andalusia
B.&. Crack
St. Louis
Willie Long
Chatom
Ala
G. N. Harris
New Orleans
W. E. Enson
Main Station
E. B. M. Atkins
Selma
O. Rucker
Grove Hill
Charles H. Germann
Vinegar Bend
G. F. Collins
Atlanta
C. H. Sylvester and Son
Chicago
Ill
W. D. Harrigan
Fulton
Bienville
R. J. Schaett
J. B. Leonard
St. Stephens
E. P. Magee
Laurel
Miss
J. P. Harris
Tensaw
Leon C. Palmer
Montgomery
A. R. Dyar
Premium on rare coins and dream causes
The Q with two coins from 1851 has no premium value. A 1822 Goodrich history has no market premium. A yard square equals nine square feet. shape may vary. Dreaming results from light sleep and day’s mental strain, fatigue, digestion, or room conditions, with no harm if not vivid.
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United States
Rev
C. A. Goodrich
America
James Monroe
City Court Docket This Week Heavily Packed With Felonies
Twenty four criminal cases fill the city court calendar this week led by seven felonies including William J Murphy charged with incest. Next Saturday Carl W Helsing faces removal of a Magnolia cemetery gravestone. Burglar trio Willie Coeman James Bradford and Charles Heard appear this week.
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William J. Murphy
Carl W. Helsing
Magnolia Cemetery
Willie Coeman
James Bradford
Charles Heard
Lizzie Dantzeller
Louisa Johnson
Manuel Fabre
Louis Hill
Josh Henderson
Luella Leggins
Henry Lipske
Charles Moorer
Dave Pickens
A. Schwarz
Wallace Stanton
Bennie Toombs
Michael Jennsen
Mike Johansen
Spencer Williams
Irene Burroughs
Oscar Taylor
Edward Ellis
William Coleman
Jas. Bradford
Walter Gamble
Robert Stafford
Rosa Battles
Eugene Clayton
New Zealand Invents Shell for Wider Effect in War
Side Lights on the War notes horses are used in Germany and oxen pull plows. A shell claimed to have extraordinary powers by A. H. Coton of North Auckland, New Zealand, supposedly covers a greater area with fragments, assaults barbed wire entanglements, and could be the deadliest bomb yet for aircraft.
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Germany
A. H. Coton
North Auckland
New Zealand
Alabama's new laws reshape education and justice
Alabama's legislature met in two sessions and enacted key measures to reform education and the judiciary. The child labor and compulsory education bills passed, creating juvenile courts in counties and empowering education reform, while other proposals like tax relief for corporations and extended school oversight faced defeat or modification.
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Ethel Aames
Alabama
State Board of Examiners
State Board of Education
County Boards of Education
State Department of Education
Hensch Appointed County Game and Fish Warden
John C. Hensch of this city was notified Friday of his appointment as county game and fish warden by State Game and Fish Commissioner John H. Wallace at Montgomery. Duties include enforcing state laws, preventing illegal game sales and transport, ensuring license compliance, protecting land rights, compiling license lists, and prosecuting violators. The state warden notes a decline in hunter license sales in Mobile County and directs the new warden to restore the standard. Congregational singing has held up well through the years.
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J. K. Ridgeley
Louisville & Nashville
New Orleans
Mobile
William H. Oate Oates
Oates
W. L. Morris
Montgomery
John C. Hensch
John H. Wallace
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Ss. C. Beckwith
New York
Tribune
Third National
Telep Business
Homeweer Society
Bell Phone Oe
Hones Editorial & News
Bell
Mobile, Ala
Sylacauga
Avondale Mills
Dam
Birmingham
Ohio
Pat Malone
Malone
Dothan
Emerald Isle
Chamber of Commerce
Interstate Commerce Commission
Congress
Knoxville Journal and Tribune
Adam
Oscar L. Gray, III
Frankenstein
Julius
Hammel
L. Hammel & Company
New York City
Harvey E. Jones
Mobile & Ohio
William F. Jones
Philippines
Panama Railroad Company
Quartermaster Corps
Jones
Second Field Artillery
A. M. Wing
Jackson, Ala
H. J. Coxwell
T. W. Russell
J. W. Urquhar
C. H. Sylvester
Mr. Sylvester
Citronelle
Charles Whelan
Birmingham, Ala
Cawthon Hotel
J. J. Gilmore
L. Babcock
The
Magnolia Transportation Company
Magnolia, Ala
S. J. Simpston
Kansas
Satsuma
Mr. Simpston
Liam McLanahan
Mina Bartlett
M. L. Orr
Thomas J. Arborn
Detroit
Mich
St. Andrew
G. C. Simpson
Daphne
M. E. Ellis
Monroeville
J. J. Holland
Pollard
Herbert Pfeiffer
C. H. Low
Robertsdale
F. H. Battle
J. W. McMillan
Stockton
H. J. Johnston
Brent
Klosky
s—Pierce
Carr
Theodore
J. T. Wilson
J. D. Sweeny
T. B. Pace
Jackson
H. McDonald
Windsor
Y. Wada
W. B. Boyle
Thomasville
M. M. McKinzey
Pededa
John W. Pace
Auburn
Otto Brown
Savage
W. H. Lange
O. H. Blanchard
W. HB. Peck
Louisville, Ky
W. A. Robinson
City Court
Hensch
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