Audit of Mobile Item Circulation for Six Months
The Mobile Item circulation audit ending September 30 1914 reaudited in June 1915 by the Bureau of Circulations. Figures drawn from the six month audit ending March 31 1915 by the Audit Bureau of Circulations in 1916 show net paid circulation in the city and suburban areas 12 816 and country total 14 231 with no copies for employees or advertisers included.
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Mobile Item
Bureau of Circulations
Audit Bureau of Circulations
City Net
Guarantee to Advertisers in Mobile Paper Audited
The Mobile Item asserts it guarantees advertisers higher nonpaid circulation in Mobile and suburbs than any other Mobile news outlet. The claim is supported by auditors from the Audit Bureau of Circulation for two consecutive six month periods.
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Mobile
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Guarantee to Mobile Item Subscribers Price Assurance
The Mobile Item offers daily Sunday delivery to any Mobile address for 10 cents a week or 5 dollars a year, with a price guarantee across Mobile. A refund of one year’s subscription is promised to anyone who pays a different price via an unauthorized carrier. Published in Mobile Alabama on October 6, 1915.
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Mobile
Iby
Louisville
Miss
The
Agricultural Mechanical College
Alabama
One Body and Spirit Unite in Hope and Faith
A religious scripture excerpt from Ephesians emphasizes unity in one body one Spirit one hope one Lord one faith one baptism and one God and Father over all and in all. The passage underscores collective spiritual identity through shared beliefs and divine leadership.
Hazing punished at Naval Academy raises youth conduct concerns
The Navy disciplined six midshipmen and suspended others after a hazing incident at Annapolis. The actions reflect a broader warning to parents about responsibility and the value of discipline in youth pursuing education and future service.
Gulf Coast Produce Exchange Opens Doors Linking Mobile and Baldwin
The Gulf Coast Produce Exchange opens its doors to communities across the bay as Baldwin county farmers join the growing organization. The move aims to unify local exchanges, boost market power, and secure top prices through standardized, carload shipments while strengthening the Mobile Baldwin highway as a prosperity measure for both counties.
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Mobile
Gulf Coast Produce Exchange
Bay
Baldwin County
Virginia
Gulf Coast Exchange
Baldwin Truck Growers
Foreign Loan Has Its Redeeming Feature
The New York Commercial argues the Anglo French loan benefits the U S by stabilizing money flow. If foreign buyers hold American securities the loan is safer and boosts export demand. England France and Russia could send gold, but this loan offers profit and expands purchasing power for U S farmers with grain cotton and livestock to sell.
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New York
England
France
Russia
Collect the Leaves
Autumn brings falling leaves that burden street cleaning in cities like Mobile. Leaves piled at sidewalks edge can be collected by garbage wagons, while wind scatters them and clogs sewers. instructing servants to place leaves in garbage receptacles reduces scattering and sewer blockage.
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Mobile
Novel Home Switchboard Delivers Local News
Cottage Grove residents with 420 homes form a broadcast network via a home switchboard installed by the telephone company. A young girl operates the board, linking neighboring households to disseminate the day’s important happenings over the wire.
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Cottage Grove
Minn
Mississippi Coast Line Rebuilding After Gulf Hurricane
Gulfport and Mississippi Coast Traction Company plans rapid reconstruction of the Biloxi to Pass Christian line, 30 miles, with service possible in three weeks though track aging on sand means nonstandard conditions. Trestle expansion, debris clearing, and a beach cleanup led by Mayor Edward Glennan accompany the project. shipbuilder Francis Brander suffers a near fatal injury while repairing the schooner Pearl.
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Biloxi
Porter Avenue
Gorenflo
Fifteenth Street
Gulfport
Thirtyfirst Avenue
Watson Place
Heartsease Park
Point Cadet
Beach Road
Edward Glennan
Beach
Glennan
Francis Brander
Pearl
Laz Lopaz
Benachi Avenue
Ocean Springs Packing Plant to Run in Three Weeks
Ocean Springs Miss Oct 6 Special We will be canning shrimp again before three weeks have passed said Manager J W Lundy of the Ocean Springs Packing Company whose plant was destroyed in the recent storm The plant was protected by 2000 in insurance and the machinery has been raised and is being repaired A new structure will be placed on higher ground with sheds largely protected The plant will be more substantial with greater capacity and Lundy says the firm has more orders than it can attend to The shrimp are expected to last well into November.
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Ocean Springs
Miss
J. W. Lundy
Ocean Springs Packing Company
Lundy
Railway company withdraws from front ofc support
The Mobile street railway company and six other resignations were received by the chamber of commerce board Tuesday night. The action prompted a review of the chamber’s collection methods described as tactless and likely to deter members. Several members reported aggressive demands for dues, and leadership postponed tariff commission discussion to focus on local matters.
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Mobile Street Railway Company
Chamber of Commerce
Board of Directors
Chamber
Stewart Brooks
S. A. LeBlanc
E. Q. Norton
George S. Wood
United States of Commerce
Confessions of a Wife reads debts and dreams in 1915 tale
In a serialized 1915 Confessions of a Wife segment Margie hides Aunt Marys $6000 bond investment plan from Dick while juggling estate duties and a loan from Jim to cover a looming mortgage. Jim confesses love for Mollie and hints at a mans pride in unreturned affection as Dick remains away.
Wilmer hosts first livestock and agricultural show
The Chamber of Commerce board discussed cotton culturist postings and endorsements for George A. Maloney. Wilmer hosts the inaugural livestock and agricultural show October 15 and 16 with a barbecue on day two. The Rotary Club promotes east west highway linking Mobile to Pensacola, aided by The Item's Blue Book routing efforts.
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Rio Janeiro
George A. Maloney
Chamber of Commerce
Wilmer
Wilmer Progressive Association
Rotary Club
5S. A. le Blanc
Mobile
Pensacola
Loxley Develops Citrus Region Amid Road Upgrades
The Loxley area in Baldwin County is seen as a growing citrus frontier with plans to widen roads and straighten routes. Settlers who chose 40 acre tracts could have expanded to 80 acres, and the citrus boom is driving higher land values as development spreads.
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Loxley
Baldwin County
Turpentine
Turpentine Belt
Bay Minette
Mobile
Bay
Oscar Johnson
Maloney Declares He Is Not Leaving Mobile
The article reports that Mobile businessman Maloney denies leaving Mobile county amid a funds dispute over a products show. Directors question responsibility for four checks tied to Card and Maloney, with Knapp urging support for educational activities and possible funds reallocation to rejuvenate the Chamber of Commerce.
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Maloney
Mobile
George Card
Chamber of Commerce
Palmer Pillans
Board of
Cawthon Hotel
Pillans
Card
S. A. LeBlanc
Stewart Brooks
California Citrus Lands and Historic Loxley Acreage Quoted
The article notes citrus growing land in California priced from $400 to $800 per acre, contrasting with the Loxley lands first settled at 37 cents an acre. It mentions Baldwin county highway plans guiding tourists to Pasadena, a city famed for oranges, and calls the area one of the most unique colonies in the United States with only two others.
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California
Loxley
Baldwin County
Pasadena
Cal
Golden Oranges
United States
Why soda water rises in a straw
The text explains that when you suck a straw you are not pulling the liquid up. Air pushes the liquid upward into the tube as you create space by reducing the air inside the straw. The apparent pulling is really the air pressure pushing the liquid upward into the emptied space.
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Irem
Millie R. T
Florida citrus growers meet to discuss diseases and cures
George E. Murrell and others travel to Gainesville to attend a Florida citrus growers meeting. Topics include combating citrus canker and tree disease as part of the Gulf Coast Horticultural Society program. Also listed are numerous attendees at hotels and a brief note: two marriage licenses issued by the probate court on Tuesday.
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George E. Murrell
The
Southern Railway
Gainesville
Fla
Gulf Coast Horticultural Society
Florida Citrus Growers
John M Holberg
Lillie Huper
George C. LeBlanc
Anna Belle Morris
Germany accedes to U S demands on Arabic case
Germany has disavowed the sinking of the vessel and agreed to indemnify American families. Ambassador von Bernstorff delivered the notice to Secretary Lansing, pledging to bar further submarine incidents. The move reassures Washington that pending disputes may end. In Nebraska, Central and southern areas report a killing frost with corn damage.
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Washington
Germany
Count von Bernstorff
Lansing
United States
Wilson
Lusitania
Falaba
Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska
The Broken Coin Show Moves to Wednesdays
Owing to storm related train service interruption the Crescent Theatre changes the serial schedule from Fridays to Wednesdays. The current episode of The Broken Coin is being shown today with the next episode slated for next Wednesday.
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Crescent Theatre
the Crescent
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Naval Academy
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Army
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Opper
America
Forgitg Prosperity
Baldwin
Mexico
Texas State Board of Health
Cleveland Plain Dealer
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Evanish
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Mississippi Coast Traction Line
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Pass Christian
W. F. Gorenflo
OFC
Jim Edie
Newspaper Enterprise Association
Aunt Mary
Mr. Selwin
Mary
Jim
Margie
Mollie
Hatton
Sullivan
Bradford Knapp
Department of Agriculture
Knapp
Mobile County
J. Leslie Taylor
Walsh
Messrs. LeBlanc
Dunlap
Hughes
Schwarz
Brooks
Fende
Wildman
Cawthon
Elizabeth Chapman
Jackson
Ala
Elizabeth Howell
Fred Watson
T. A. Watson
W. A. Crosby
Boston
Mass
K. W. Burnham
Moss Point
Elmer R. Sly
Creola
Walter Davis
New Orleans
Clyde Hunter
Charles R. Plosser
George H. Gray
Edith C. Gray
John T. Lamkin
Birmingham
T. J. Fairley
Hattiesburg
J.B. Vaughan
Thompson
E. T. Linden
N. Y
J. J. Taylor
G. C. Foster
Chicago
Ill
Earl G. Godlett
Atlanta
Oscar McDade
W. B. Isham
Montgomery
St. Andrew
William Toxey
Tuscaloosa
C. T. Johnston
el Paso
Tex
B. L. May
Atmore
J. M. Stanford
Pineapple
W. Barnes
Andalusia
C. E. Batt
Battles Whar
J. R. Harper
Camden
G. H. Gregg
Monroe County
B. Northrop
Eliska
T. W. Callwary
Stockton
Battle House
J. H. Chapman
Florence
J. P. Chapman
Morgan Richards
Selma
John Pond
West Point
J. B. Lee
Hartsell
George Cooper
Holt
Klosky
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Grand Bay
B. Thomas
T. B. Pace
Windsor
R. C. Wilson
A. L. Green
Irvington
W. L. McKnight
W. E. Knight
Meatley
E. A. Morris
U.S
E. H. Britton
Dauphin Street
Mia Ees
Mobile Coal Company
ST. Francis Street
Ainless
Benee
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