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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1915
Page
4
The line reads “ieee inhumanity to man countless thousands mourn” attributed to Burne. The phrase signals a public lament on human cruelty and mass sorrow as echoed in commemorations and editorials. Burne’s quotation frames a solemn reflection on tragedy and collective grief.
The Baldwin county Daphne Normal School will stay open for four more years as the legislature allocates 10 000 per annum for maintenance. The Item supported the school, noting its value to the region. Credit is given to a Mobilian former trustee who urged against its closure, and to Rev. Dr. D A Planck whose appeals helped secure the appropriation and continued operation.
The Alabama Senate passed a compulsory education measure by a 23 to 5 vote, pending gubernatorial signature. It requires children ages 8 to 15 in state schools to attend 80 days per year unless districts reduce to at least 60, seen as a step against illiteracy amid ongoing debate over education funding and policy.
Nikola Tesla envisions immense future gains from electricity including coal and fuel savings, 4,000,000 horsepower from coke gas, and wireless power. He predicts wireless refrigeration for homes, ocean propulsion, fog dispersal, water from oceans, and universal energy transmission ending wars and uniting humanity. He argues water power surpasses fuel and could drive global progress through advanced generators and transformers.
About 125 members of the International Ticket Agents' Association will travel by special train in November. They will visit Mobile for a day as part of their itinerary en route to the annual convention in New Orleans. Data from Mobile is requested to be included in the party’s schedule.
Butler County teachers from Butler and nearby counties attended a week long institute in Greenville led by Dr. James Thomas of the University and Miss Hassie Gray of Birmingham. Educators visited and spoke on pedagogy as the program closed. Biloxi Schools Declared Free of Contagion After health survey by Dr. W. T. Bolton city physician inspectors reported normal conditions with no diphtheria in schools.
Malcolm Alabama notes list local residents and relatives visiting or traveling during the week. R L Jones Hugh Jones and Mary Lou Jones were visitors Tuesday. M P Johnson spent Monday in Suggsville. Mrs Kate Orso and son Joel visited Wetumpka. T B Dillard left for Tibbie for employment. Jenkins Taylor of Atlanta visited. R L Jones was a visitor to Creola. Dissente Buggsville arrived for river fishing. Amos Taylor of Tibbie was a visitor.
A rambler Uncle Wiggily Longears visits a monkey doodle shop to fetch a yeast cake for Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy. He hopes to return home with the yeast while an ordinary walk yields a simple errand and mild comic dialogue.
Uncle Wiggily loses a yeast cake to a porcupine who eats it and rises like a balloon. The hedgehog floats away while the rabbit hurries to fetch another yeast cake, leaving the meadow in lullaby lightness. The tale ends with a hint of more adventures and a lesson about weather.
The Goddess starring Anita Stewart and Earle Williams returns to the Empire after a shipping error delayed Friday’s regular exhibition. The program also includes Versus Sledge Hammers with Victor Patel and Margaret Joslin, The Fire Escape by Vitagraph with Lillian Walker and Ewart Overton.
Secretary Jones of the New Orleans Association praised Mobile after attending the final series with the Gulls. He lauded Mobile and its people, predicting Mobile will double its population in two years. The piece also lists numerous visitors staying at hotels Battle House Bienville Cawthon St Andrew and Windsor with many named individuals from across Alabama and beyond.
Reader queries cover mosquito repellent blends, Lord Kitchener marriage, life expectancy trends, a myth about Adam’s height, coin premiums, cobalt uses and pigments, a base circling record by Hans Lobert in 1910, and the Oswego Canal reconstruction completed in 1829 with ongoing enlargement.
In Honolulu on September 11 the ballast tanks of the wrecked submarine F-4 now in dry dock are to be tested. It is believed the tests may yield some clues to the disaster. Greenville schools prepare to open with enrollment likely higher than last year’s first day.
Biloxi leaders urged reinstatement of the U S deputy collector of customs as Secretary McAdoo reviews the case. Senator Vardaman plans to press the matter in Washington while Biloxi business interests protest the office’s reduction and its impact on coast shipping operations.
In Biloxi Mississippi at a meeting, the Knights of Columbus elected officers for the coming year. Named were Grand Knight Gaston J. Wiltz and deputies and clerks including W. C. Wagner, John J. Kennedy, John Schwenck, Ernest Desporte Jr, and others with Rev. Alphonse Ketels as chaplain.
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