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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1913
Page
27
A discussion argues for vocational training over idle schooling to raise material wealth. It extols the hoe and pen as civilizational tools, lauds productive labor, and questions whether schools today instill the value of toil or lead youth toward leisure and soft jobs.
Covington Kentucky school authorities decide that Chinese children are not colored and may attend white schools. The ruling is upheld by the state superintendent and attorney general, despite the fact that a Chinese man recently married a colored woman in the city and required court officials’ ruling.
New Orleans Mobile and Chi railroad lines announce Sunday changes. Wain No. 2 from Mobile at 6:50 a.m. (instead of 6:30) and No. 4 from Mobile at 2:20 p.m. Arrivals include Train No.1 from Louisville to Laurel Miss and Mobile by 7:16 p.m. Train No.3 from Laurel to Mobile arrives 11:10 a.m. No.4 links with Gulf and railroad to Jackson Miss. Parlor car service remains on Nos. 1 and 2 with buffet.
Colored residents gather at Big Zion church Monday October 27 for review by President Wilson at 10 30 am. They march to Lincoln Street Baptist where J C Napier ex register of the U S treasury delivers the day’s address. All school children participate.
The piece details African American entrepreneurship and achievement, citing Jonas W. Thomas’s success on a 40 000 plantation and his 189 workers, S R Simmons and his casting nozzle influence, and various local figures in Mobile including Dr C First Johnson and J C Napier. It notes emancipation celebrations and literature availability, plus community events and organizations.
A September visit by William Reilly Sr president of Luzianne Coffee to Monroe Louisiana gathered descendants of his father’s slaves and some former slaves. He outlined a plan to subdivide a plantation into farms with good housing and self run farms. He advised avoiding credit and arranged bank support for monthly needs. Aunt Silby 78, oldest ex-slave, is the matriarch in line for gifts and education for a granddaughter.
An ad from Mrs. M Summers of Notre Dame Indiana offers a free home treatment for bed wetting and daytime struggles claiming to cure children and adults with no charge. It asks mothers to write for full instructions and avoids blaming the child.
At Sixth Avenue Baptist Church in Atlanta two thousand Negroes heard Rev. John W. Goodgame preach on God Given Ideals. EB W Howell notes the company has grown to over $100000 in annual business and urges Negroes to aid education and employment while acting as ambassadors in their communities.
Prof Edwin Lyles Taylor has prepared special music for Sunday at Government Street Presbyterian Church. The full choir will sing at both services with Mrs 8S 8. Tam Mrs A L Kricier Messrs T L Hallett and T H Halliwell. Selections include Festival Te Deum iz B Fiat Macfarlane Thy Will Be Done Lift Up Your Heads I Sought the Lord. Organ chimes to be played at both services and all strangers in the city are invited.
Kid Williams of Pittsburgh outpointed Patsy Brannigan in a six-round fight here tonight. Williams used hard hits and clever boxing to earn the decision in an International News Service report from Pittsburg dated October 25.
Miss Minerva Reminger of Upper Bern Pa describes years of prostration and misery from stomach failure. After trying many remedies she reports immediate improvement once Hood’s Sarsaparilla was begun and credits it with cure. The notice promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla in liquid and gummy tablet forms.
In Mobile the Emancipation Association and local schools plan a parade for President Wilson on October 27 with banners and songs. Leaders and teachers will accompany student groups from Big Zion church to Broad and Government streets for a formal review by the president. The evening Emancipation Celebration features J. C. Napier delivering an oration at Franklin Street Baptist Church after events at 8 o’clock.
A largely self run negro exposition opens in the Twelfth Regiment Armory New York marking the fiftieth anniversary of emancipation. Delegations from Santo Domingo Hayti and Liberia attend as pageants trace Africa to America the rise of ambition and the fight for freedom led by figures like Frederick Douglass John Brown and William Lloyd Garrison ending with a note of hope for the future.
Advertisement offers a so called prescription for nervousness lack of vigor and weakened manhood claiming to cure at home without medical help. It urges readers to request a free copy by mail from Interstate Remedy Co 4568 Luck Building Detroit Michigan in plain sealed envelope. The notice compares cost to doctors and labels itself as not a medical advertisement.
The privateer of John T. Cochrane, president of the Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railway, led a delegation of Mobilians aboard the L and N New York Limited at 12:23 am for Atlanta to accompany President Wilson on his special train to Mobile. A sub committee of the reception group includes Hartwell, Thompson, McDermott, Bush, Inge, Monk, Armbrecht, Buck, Mahorner, Farnsworth and Cochrane.
The advertisement declares drunkenness a curable disease and promises ORRINE treatment with two forms a home option and a money back guarantee if no benefit. It claims no sanitarium needed no loss of work time and secrecy with a $1 per box price. Dave 8 Bauer markets from Mobile Alabama offering a booklet and private consultations.
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