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The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Sep 16, 1915

Page

2

Farmers Plan 21-County Gulf Coast Exchange

Farmers from multiple districts plan a Gulf Coast Exchange in Mobile with about twenty one organizers expected at the Mobile courthouse. Aut Boyles and Charlies Ander Mi of Axis report strong turnout from Citronelle and Simms as engagement grows toward broader participation and future expansion across the Gulf coast producing region.

Yee Eas Mobile Gulf Coast Aut ‘Boyles Charlies Ander- Mi Axis Sented Citronelle Simms Bowles Leaf, Miés Mooe Secion Quays and Means Chamber of Commerce

Grocers of City to Meet Tonight for Record Gathering

Grocers of the city plan a major meeting tonight with members of the Retail Growers and Merchants' Association. The event aims to recruit new members after the flying squadron added fifty names to the association list and to finalize arrangements for an outing on the bay.

Mobile Retail Growers and Merchants’ Association Flying Squadron

Rooney and Pat Debate a Toothy Fowl Joke

A humorous exchange features Rooney insisting a fowl has teeth while Pat counters with the claim that a fowl lacks teeth. The dialogue plays on a rural dialect sting and delivers a playful verbal clash centered on a bird.

Rooney

Financier Calmy Battling for Life in Deal

Newman Erb a wealthy financier and railroad organizer remains at his Deal New Jersey summer home after swallowing two poison tablets by mistake. Three specialists treat him as doctors hope stomach rejection and prompt aid prevented serious poisoning. He is 64, his daughters and sons in law stay nearby.

New York Newman Erb Deal N. J Erb Irving M. Dittenhoefer Jessie Mayer

Meat Inspection Law Violation Charged in Maysville

J P Woolf a city health department meat and milk inspector caused the arrest of William Foster a Maysville butcher on the charge of possessing fresh meat not butchered at the abattoir and violating the inspection ordinance Foster posted bond for appearance in recorder's court Friday.

J. P. Woolf City Health Department William Foster Maysville Foster Recorder’s Court

Passage of State Harbor Commission Objections Rise

Attorney T. M. Stevens argues against Senate Bill 444 to create a State Harbor Commission. He warns it would centralize river, port, and pilot powers, threaten private property, risk bond defaults, and undermine existing Mobile authorities and riverfront licenses. He urges preserving current river commission and local control.

State Harbor Commission Mobile W. E. P. Wilson B. B. Chamberlain Claude Grayson House of Representatives Montgomery Alabama Senate River Commission Port Petneee Pilot Commissioners Commission Bay Front Mobile Transportation Co City of Mobile Mobile Dry Docks Co Ala City of Turner Docks Company Supreme Court Mobile County Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners Mobile Chamber of Commerce Board of Underwriters of Mobile Cotton Exchange Board of Revenue Mobile County Pune Harger Commission T. M. Stevens

Pellagra cure book offered free by Dr McCrary

An advertisement promotes a free 50 page book by Dr. W J McCrary detailing his Pellagra life history theory and a supposed permanent cure. It claims 90 percent cure over nine years and includes letters and photos from cured patients, with a money back guarantee.

W. J. McCrary

Foreman taunts sleeping laborer with sharp wit

A railway foreman finds a laborer asleep beside the line and jests that as long as he sleeps he keeps his job, but once he wakes he will be out of work. The exchange uses Irish wit to lighten the moment.

Doan's Kidney Pills Appeal From Mobile Testimony

Mobile residents testify to relief from back pain and kidney complaints after using Doan's Kidney Pills. Miss Sy. M. Wilson reports lasting benefit after initial improvement, with a January 12, 1914 date cited for being free from complaint since taking the remedy.

Dean Doan Miss On

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