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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1914
Page
5
The Southern Railway Company will replace the old Mobile & Ohio passenger depot with a new $200,000 modern freight facility. The project marks continued growth of Mobile as an export center, replacing the long idle landmark and expanding docks and lines to serve increased freight traffic.
Southern Railway Company moves to raze the M. and O. First Mobile depot and replace it with a modern one story brick freight terminal on Beauregard street. Hancock, Harbin & Hancock win the contract for $200,000 with plans for an inverted U shaped building, new tracks, four central rails, brick paving and upgraded water and fireproof roofing. The project includes yards, spurs, a cotton platform, track scales, and a vitried brick paving system to improve freight movement managed by Freight Agent Webb and his staff.
Governor O Neal has not named Birmingham excise commission chairman and associate member with a decision expected today. Prominent Birmingham citizens lobbied for candidates including W C Agee and John OS Rosenstihl, while K K Wilkinson is likely to be re appointed.
Protracted services start next Monday night September 14 at 7 39 oclock and run through the third Sunday in September. Rev J F Feagin pastor of Whistler Methodist church will preach. Rev J T Eckford extends a cordial invitation to all.
The author laments the vast import of Viennese gowns, hosiery, hats, and jewelry by American women before and during war, noting invoices showing duties of five to thirty thousand dollars per person and total merchant imports in the tens of millions annually. He argues European products offer superior design and durability, questioning American manufacturing limits.
A treatise argues for a scientific system to value property for tax assessments to achieve uniformity, reduce inequalities, and address corporate and mineral land valuations. It notes two opposing groups and calls for legislative revision. The text shifts to critique American women's limited influence on manufacturing and design, urging greater involvement and loyalty to boost U S industry.
In the inferior criminal court on Saturday, five recently convicted prisoners received sentences. John Bart for vagrancy ten days in jail. Marion Mitchell Astleu Robinson for vagrancy ten days hard labor. James Gamille for petit larceny ten days hard labor. Robert Lewis for concealed weapons fifty days hard labor. Sandy Allen for assault and battery ten days in jail.
The speaker recalls a woolen manufacturer showing three exquisite cotton worsted pieces and expressing a wish to make good wares for pleasure. He notes Bradford’s role in cloth and a sentiment that American women prefer Bradford cloth in their suits.
A Mobile Chamber of Commerce update notes requests from George H Hall and Poole Brothers for views and information to feature Mobile in a Southern Congress booklet and a railway guide. The piece urges American women to back domestic industries, stressing patriotism and steady support to keep workers employed and showcase national products.
The customs report shows a large drop in exports for August in the Mobile district including Mobile, Gulfport and Scranton. Exports total about 2,928.7 thousand dollars, down from last year, while imports rise by about 700 thousand dollars.
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