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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1913
Page
6
The fragment references the Mobile Item Company with a Chicago office building and Associated Press. It mentions subscription rates by mail and carrier, trunk line telephones, and department connections. Contains filing and editorial notes from Mobile Alabama.
Discussion at mobile convention extols Great Meadow prison in New York as humane model for convict work on highways. Warden's trust in prisoners cited as key to few runaways and no inmate assaults, with advocates linking Alabama convict labor to road construction and broader reform.
The piece argues that laws restricting women’s employment reflect sociological aims but clash with economic life. It cites Pennsylvania’s recent statute as risking thousands of hotel workers losing jobs while men’s contracts remain less restricted, highlighting tensions between humanitarian goals and labor market realities.
An item from Pittsburg reports over 3,000,000 bushels of coal and 7,000 tons of iron bound for Southern markets, with Darging coal and iron moving toward Alabama rivers in earnest.
Los Angeles celebrated completion of an aqueduct delivering 265 million gallons daily from eastern Sierra drainage to 2 million residents. The 234 mile system includes 150 tunnels, notably the Elizabeth tunnel, with a three and a half year construction, under budget by 50000, and bonds near 25 million. It promises 120000 horsepower and long term cost offset, reflecting American drive and westward progress.
Metropolitan Symphony program conducted by Otto Culmbacher features Felice Elefantine as soloist. The Gastronomic Symphony by Kovik-Bordunov and the mock biography of the composer appear in satirical notes. Pieces include Allegretti and Pistachio followed by Chianti and Risotto with aglio, ending in a dramatic finale.
New York Tribune notes the Nobel prize to the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore as a sign of closer East West ties and a modern shared human brotherhood. It highlights The Gardener and The Post Office as works that signal universal appeal beyond cultural borders.
Count Shigenobu Okuma offers a cheerful view on US Japan relations after the Panama Canal opens. He predicts more travel and trade will foster mutual understanding, end old antagonisms, and boost prosperity for both nations, though the pace of California agitation fading remains uncertain.
Mobile county experiments with convict road work report efficient results similar to Jefferson. Prison labor costs 51.8 cents per day per man, far cheaper than wage labor. Convicts are clean, well fed, rested, and controlled, aiming at improved road conditions within six months. Dallas and other counties also employ highway convicts with noted satisfaction.
The Toronto Republican laments a failed attempt at political poetry about fall fashion. It recounts starting lines about bonnets and feathers, then stopping to avoid an endless chain of variations.
A scrambled fragment hints at a book titled Fifty Years of Conflict linked to the Scrappingtons and a question about what was given to them for their golden sneeding.
The Christmas Seal committee of Mobile announces the Red Cross Seal Campaign for 1913. The initial meeting was at the Mobile Public Library with chairwoman Mrs. J. K. Glennon and members planning tuberculosis education and fundraising efforts, including nurses, camps, and seal sales.
The Birmingham News argues Governor O Neal will not be bullied by the Mobile Register and deflects claims of a moblie “nail down the editors” policy. It praises O Neal as a fighter and warns the Register against pressuring Mobile.
Mobile item editorials praise the good roads movement and convict welfare after the convention. John Craft thanks the forum for support and ongoing efforts to improve roads and convict legislation in Alabama.
In a courtroom exchange a judge remarks on a boy’s disheveled clothes after a playful misunderstanding. The boy replies he has been fighting with another boy named Jenkins, not just misbehaving.
Washington reports Dr. A K Fisher of the U S Department of Agriculture outlines the value of predatory birds and mammals in controlling crop pests. He notes that balance suffers when people persecute these natural allies, with hawks foxes weasels and cats shaping the pest landscape and protecting harvests.
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