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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1914
Page
4
Captain Reuben F. Kolb, former Alabama agriculture commissioner and farmer, urges growers to raise more hay meat and dairy locally. He notes Alabama imports 75 to 80 million dollars of such products from the Northwest and calls for keeping money at home to ensure prosperity and self sufficiency.
Lauderdale County Mississippi has been officially freed from quarantine for Texas fever after a five month eradication campaign begun April 1 with local and federal cooperation. The successful campaign allows cattle raisers to reopen markets as dipping vats expand in Mobile County and neighboring sections.
A dispatch notes Guadalupe County Texas farmers, largely of German descent, can support themselves without financial aid. They grow necessary crops on their own farms, including cotton as a surplus crop, aligning with local suggestions that farming should occur at home rather than in the West.
A contemporary speaker discusses elections as a means for Americans to express opinions in civic spaces and at home while noting a candidate can gauge support in his district. The talk suggests elections may also reveal the degree of backing and the impact on voters.
Scientific American suggests a test for Mobile high school pupils to compare ships. The Aquitanian is 18 12 longer than the Olympic, wider by five feet, deeper by nearly ten feet, and tonnage figures are given to contrast the two vessels.
The secretary of state announces blades from condemned armies are melted into weights to be distributed among ambassadors and ministers of twenty powers signing peace treaties in the United States as souvenirs of the event.
A Cincinnati Enquirer humor item jokes about a man timing his kissing during marriage. The punchline implies years pass to remove all the arithmetic from his home life.
President Yuan Shih Kai confers honor on Dr. G Beebe head of Philander Ismorial Hospital in Nanking for valuable services during the Chinese uprising. The ceremony highlights ties between the Golden Harvest project and foreign medical missions in China.
A broad Alabama assembly in Montgomery aims to secure a new state tax system. Originating from Mobile protests against the solvent credit tax, the Mobile County Tax League spurred leagues statewide. The Montgomery meeting seeks fair, equitable reforms benefitting the entire state and ends with optimism for change.
An exhibit showcases a chair using faradic and galvanic currents to reduce body weight by relaxing muscles and stimulating chemical processes. The device promises rapid pounds shed without strenuous exercise and is pitched for use by athletes in track and ring settings.
Editor questions Canadian merchants on future purchases of American goods. Montreal reports Canada spends about 400 million yearly in the United States with cotton goods dominant and silk dress items and toys rising. Other sources say higher prices may push Canada to seek more American products, while some see war boosting Canadian manufacturers and Made in America goods use.
From Washington via Berlin wireless report, stay-at-homes are adapting well. While the kaiser focuses on armies, textile mills operate steadily and industries run at near full capacity.
Draped in silk and garlanded with flowers the old gallows, once used to enforce the law in Allegheny Pennsylvania, was placed in a public school yard for children to use as a swing, echoing a biblical image of peace and tools of war becoming instruments of play.
Canadian fire services adopt wireless telegraphy to relay rapid forest fire reports. Integrates early warning, dispatch coordination, and public alerts as fires threaten remote regions. Public officials emphasize faster response and safer communities amid spreading outbreaks.
An Outlook article argues for tailoring American exports to South American tastes and habits. It stresses speaking the local language, aligning business practices with regional customs, avoiding boastful attitudes, and securing North American bank cooperation to finance South American growth.
On a Dinard hotel porch French officers and civilians await a crisis. The tocsin sounds the summons from the ministry of war and the crowd learns mobilization means war, with women and families preparing for upheaval.
Goethe warned of a looming Paris upheaval while Miss Jane Addams notes European events distract from U S social reform. She asks what about American misery from cold trenches and infant mortality as millions suffer and workers toil in factories.
Swarthmore resident E M F asks how to pronounce Przemysl in a playful verse. The Philadelphia North American style guide is invoked to calm the phonetic storms and settle the proper sounds for the fortress name.
An agricultural director argues that to raise 1915 cotton prices, farmers should slash 1915 cotton acreage by half or more and shift to oats, wheat, corn, hay, pastures, and other crops. He urges large fall sowings of small grains, increased livestock, soil improving crops, and hog production to reduce cotton supply and stabilize prices amid wartime demands.
Cassen Eugene Parsons of Yale delivers an appeal addressing Southern China's famine crisis. He cites two million facing starvation within a year and calls on Americans to donate to The China Famine Fund at The Christian Herald in New York City.
Mobile leads with 240000 yards of wooden block paving at 2.05 per sq yd while Pensacola has 125000 yards at 2.15. Minneapolis and Hamilton top the continent with 1000400 yards each. Other cities listed include St. Louis Jamestown N Y Toledo Poughkeepsie Richmond Bronx Delaware Philadelphia Minneapolis Atlanta Louisville Mobile Grand Forks Paterson Granite City.
Venice dispatch reports Feltre citizens withdrew all candidates to elect Signor Battisti, former Trent deputy, in a show of protest against Austrian actions. Battisti, charged with high treason by Austria for supporting Italian annexation aims, is expected to win unanimously. The piece also notes a farmers cooperative approach to improve market prices and logistics, urging clubs to report officers to Auburn extension.
The federal reserve board wrestles with selecting Class C directors who must be bankers without bank ties. Many experienced bankers hold office or stock, complicating the hunt. The board uses resignations, stock sales, and national bank examiners to fill roles.
New Orleans States notes soldiers favor rousing marches and folk tunes over highbrow selections. Favorites include Garry Owen, Cock o' the North, Rans des Vaches, The Girl I Left Behind Me, Yankee Doodle, and Dixie as troops endure the Aisne.
A Chicago Tribune editorial argues against linking war with culture. It questions Saint Saens and Wagnerism critiques, condemns boycotts of British and French arts, and says punishing great art harms self and culture. It stresses universality of genius beyond national origin.
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