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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1915
Page
4
A terse literary note recalls William Henley and his line about an unconquerable soul from the poem Out of the night that covers me, praising resilience against darkness.
The Bessemer Tribune reports all Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company furnaces will run in the district within six weeks and predicts every other furnace and coke oven will be in full blast within three months. TheItem shares the optimistic forecast, noting statewide prosperity depends on Birmingham area revival.
Princeton plans a compulsory course on life saving including swimming and rescue skills. The proposal argues for widespread adoption, noting challenges for non coastal institutions and suggesting swimming pools as a solution.
In northeast Alabama near Sand Mountain, C W Ewing of Gadsden plans to ship twelve crates of fine apples to Birmingham for cold storage. His June apples drew $2.50 per bushel from a New Orleans dealer, signaling promising Alabama soil for fruit crops and a revival of local industry.
An animated local figure claims a universal remedy against pests. He advises sticky fly paper around ankles and isolating beds with pans to deter flies and fleas, touting simple devices as effective. A stray tale about a Jersey dog biting a woman and a £1,000 roll highlights odd newspaper humor.
Idaho senator William Borah draws fire as a partisan agitator amid 1916 campaign talk of a Republican presidential bid. Critics cite his Leslie’s interview remark on bread and soup and warn it aims to stir class tensions while supporters cite road reform advocacy and Roosevelt’s shifting stance.
San Francisco and thousands celebrated the exposition's clearance of a $1,200,000 debt with the mortgage burned in the Court of the Universe. President Charles C. Moore spoke on wartime strains and optimism as a pageant honored West history figures. Former President William Howard Taft placed the deed on the pyre amid pyrotechnics and cheers. Attendance neared 74,000 daily average for the month.
In Mobile area reporting a proof that German millet can be profitable in a temperate climate. J W Ripple of Semmes harvested about two tons per acre on twenty acres, with samples showing two thirds ripe and well formed. Canada’s traffic at the exposition and the Southern railroads’ track mark SR are noted, along with multiple hotel visitors listing names and cities from Atlanta to New Orleans.
Today at the Empire the program features Mina comedy How Wife Won Out, Essanay comedy The Drug Clerk, Vitagraph drama The Good in the Worst of Us with Harry Morey and Gladden James, and Selig Jungle Zoo drama The Black Leopard. Admission is 5 cents.
Deputy sheriffs served a writ of injunction on Joe William son and Harry Puckett, who run a soft drink stand at 55 North Royal Street. Issued by the chancery court on orders from Assistant Solicitor J. P. Courtney, it bars selling liquor on the premises or using the building for such purpose. Court action was planned after suspicions rose earlier in the week.
The page explains how perspective makes road sides appear to meet at a distance, noting angular distance and eye judgment. Readers ask about top colleges for men and women, galega herb uses, ants on tables, and muscadine jelly recipes with a basic method and jelly test.
San Francisco reports Annie Mooney, identified by a misshaped toe and a birthmark, as the kidnapped girl Annie Mooney taken from her parents thirty one years ago. She was kept by Chinese captors, rescued from a trunk, later adopted by a Portuguese family, and now rejoined with four sisters and a brother.
A sea dog plots with a sea lion to trap Uncle Wiggily Longears by luring him to the duck pond with a sugar cookie message. The plan hinges on pushing him into the pond after dark and the sea lion hiding underwater to grab him as he splashes in.
A sea dog and sea lion trap Uncle Wiggily at a duck pond near the ocean but Flappy Longneck the swan boy comes to the rescue. Uncle Wiggily is carried to shore safely as the miscreants retreat. A New York man jailed after a Stamford party arrest is noted.
Rheims in German hands claims. French hold Vosges as Paris stands impregnable guarded by a thousand cannons. Britain France and Russia vow joint peace consent. Serbians report 4600 prisoners at Shabatz. Russia chases north after Lemberg victory. Germany posts five corps to the Vistula. Kiao-Chau investment discussed by Premier Okuma.
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