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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1912
Page
6
The Mobile Item Company Inc publishes seven papers weekly with a Sunday edition. Leased wire full day reports come from AP and other services. Subscriptions are listed for woven days, months, and yearly rates delivered by mail or dealer pickup. Contact details and phone numbers are provided for mobile Alabama and New York offices.
A charged letter from a Progressive party campaign effort claims the third term candidate finances his bid with large corporate contributions. A Manhattan Hotel address, a $500 request, and a circular with platform planks accompany the appeal sent to a major industrial plant leader.
Senator Stephenson, aged well past seventy, was felled by a peat failure while fifteen miles from help, choosing fishing over modern conveyances. The piece extols stubborn vitality in old age and the national zest for risk and pleasure, praising both men and women who press on beyond limitations.
A Nashville editorial urging Mobile to stop lip service to its critics and focus on growth. It argues Mobile should showcase its strengths, reboot boosterism, and ignore knocker critics to attract wealth and population like Memphis and Atlanta.
The Memphis Commercial Appeal printed a Governor Thomas R. Marshall pledge photo with an attributed prohibition statement. Marshall denies ever endorsing prohibition and asks for the ad’s removal, noting he would not advise people in Tennessee or Britain on local liquor policy. The paper explains the ad came from Arkansas anti prohibition forces and publishes his full denial to prevent misquotation.
M B Trezevant of the New Orleans Progressive Union urges deputizing train crews to carry arms while trains operate. Citing recent hold ups and robberies, he argues this could deter bandits and protect passengers and property, noting the engineer and fireman are often unprepared.
A brisk view on advertising compares it to essential needs and to food air and sleep. It argues that merchants using advertising consistently prosper while those who stop suffer dwindling business and eventual decline. Continuous annual advertising keeps a full coffers and public recall.
The Denver area faced severe road damage from record rains forcing the Chamber of Commerce to organize a fund drive. Starting July 29, seven thousand auto owners were asked to contribute based on car value, yielding nearly 5000 dollars by mid August to repair the Denver to Limon corridor.
The way ticket plan for vagrancy seeks to aid the able unemployed while hardening the path for habitual tramps. Unemployed men spend a night in a poorhouse and receive a bread and cheese allowance and labor contacts, while persistent beggars face detention and tasks. The program relies on local cooperation to restrict movements across counties. New Orleans Picayune reports the development.
The piece urges planning a centennial exposition in Birmingham to celebrate Alabama's 100th anniversary in 1919. It notes a Birmingham Chamber of Commerce motion and a state committee under Governor O Neal, with a meeting to organize and target federal aid.
The clippings glance at Taft's New London remarks claiming Arnold was a victim of selfish ambition. The page notes a golf analogy questioning Taft's point. Other items joke about mirrors, weddings, and poetry magazines.
An Indiana truck farmer claims he flavors watermelons by injecting syrup into the stems with a syringe and can also paint a lily by painting it. The Louisville Courier Journal notes the quip about marriage and money as a sign of desire or possession.
The report blends sharp quips about weather and social life from multiple papers. It notes an Ohio woman killed by a storm while cooking, an actress filing for divorce, a husband sensing a neighborhood gabfest, and Rowland Hill’s remark on using religion as protection.
A Philadelphia Bulletin opinion piece argues that hiring women as streetcar conductors taxi drivers and other male jobs does not prove or influence voting rights. It contends that skill in these roles has little bearing on enfranchisement and that female enterprise does not necessarily translate to ballots for women.
The Selma Times denounces Dallas county voters who sympathize with the Bull Moose ticket. It insists Democrats must vote for the party nominees Woodrow Wilson and Thomas Marshall and warns against aiding the enemy of the Democratic Party in national and local affairs.
The London Times reports a Crewe speech by MP Outhwaite claiming the Chancellor plans major action against land monopoly. It notes US tariff and wool subsidies as context, suggesting a dramatic reform effort would provoke a clash between people and privilege.
Washington notes Secretary Knox travels to Tokyo for the Mikado’s funeral with expectations to align Japan on Manchuria and Mongolia amid rumored Russo Japanese coordination. U.S. diplomacy faces criticism for Manchurian railroad neutralization and the Persia affair with Shuster's ousting seen as embarrassing to American policy.
The tangled state of Latin American relations worries American business as turmoil in Mexico, Nicaragua, Cuba, Panama and Colombia grows. Tensions rise between the United States and southern republics, threatening the historic Elihu Root era partnership.
A discussion on U S immigration policy notes the effect of a conciliatory stance toward Mexico and cites census data on foreign born whites. It details regional distribution of new arrivals after 1901 and the shares of older immigrants across the Middle Atlantic, East North Central, New England, and other divisions.
A Georgia tale notes a life insured man’s death and widow’s costly mourning wardrobe with a friend’s wry remark about black underwear. A separate exchange has an Irish customer and a clerk praising a stove as economical, prompting a buy of two stoves.
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