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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1912
Page
6
The Mobile Item Company Inc at 30 18 St Emanuel Street Mobile Alabama advertises seven papers a week for 10 cents including Sunday edition with daily afternoon and Sunday morning delivery mentions.
The Alabama Land Congress in Mobile stressed honest dealing to attract settlers from colder regions. It cited Chicago and Baldwin county swindles selling pine land at exorbitant prices, urging direct dealings with responsible agents and landowners to avoid losses and anti-South sentiment.
At the Good Roads Congress in Atlanta President John Craft of the Alabama Roads Association condemned speeding on country roads. He urged farmer support for road development and warned opposition to better roads could hinder progress.
The South should have a cabinet voice in President Wilson. Alabama editor Frank P. Glass is urged as a fit Southern representative, citing his vigor, reform record, and loyalty to Wilson's principles, plus his key role in Alabama politics and the 1912 primary fight. The piece argues Glass embodies efficiency, energy, and a shared vision with Wilson.
The Evening Sun cites Vincent Astor's birthday windfall reaching about seventy million dollars. Harper's Weekly cautions that a monetary avalanche can overwhelm and trap one, comparing a single dollar to an avalanche that could bury a person or leave them exposed.
A band of New York working girls proposes S P U G badges to curb extravagant gifts at Christmas. Mrs August Belmont and Miss Anne Morgan back the idea, arguing that a girl earning eight dollars weekly should avoid costly gifts. The piece condemns excessive holiday spending and promotes organized restraint as progressive, linking revolt to public support.
A holiday tale from the Century unfolds in redwood woods where children search for a tree with a Woodsman. A Spirit of the Woods warns against cutting it, a living tree rewards the children with toys, and the party departs along a mossy forest path in a gentle, magical procession.
B nai Brith lodges in New Orleans push immigration outreach with a January dinner marking the organization’s fortieth anniversary. Leaders including Leon Schwarz and Rabbi Henry Cohen will speak on immigration work and placement of Jewish immigrants in the South, with kosher dishes and a focus on agricultural settlement in Louisiana.
W E P Wilson defends a Chamber of Commerce resolution backing Underwood on reviving the U S merchant marine. He argues subsidies are about business and global competition, not endorsing a specific bill, and urges focus on building a protected, prosperous national fleet amid Panama Canal interest. Mobile Alabama November 22 1912.
In Jerusalem crowds gathered around a football field near sacred walls as American students from the Syrian Protestant College at Beyrout won the match. The report notes the game as the first introduction of football by U S players in the Holy Land.
A detailed portrait of the Woolworth Building conceived as a self-contained village with 206 million pounds weight, 910 feet tall, 57.6 feet basement, 27 acres rentables, 28 elevators, and 80,000 lights. Woolworth as mayor and F W Woolworth as founder lead a multi department, transit connected, city within a building serving 10,000 residents and thousands of visitors.
The Mobile Red Cross Seal Committee prepares for the Christmas seal sale with an auction of the first seal amid Birmingham Tuscaloosa Montgomery and Mobile rivalry. Proceeds fund local work after 10 percent to the National Association. A trained visiting nurse will be employed locally.
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