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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1912
Page
17
The text notes that life moves fast and water behind a chaser grows shallow. It suggests that pursuing speed ends in emptiness. It adds that the milk of human kindness yields little cream when one drifts downstream.
A wire brief reports Berlin dispatch that three German post office officials will visit the United States to study American telephone systems as part of ongoing technical exchange. The note closes with other brief items from across the nation.
Philadelphia on September 17 reports a $100,000 endowment for a home near the city intended to aid poor and deserving Lutherans of all ages and both sexes. Hefty funds promise shelter and care, supporting a charitable effort by a community group.
Narragansett Rhode Island September 18 A scandal over a fancy dress ball at the Pier last month ends with a dawn swimsuit break and revelers leaping into the surf in costumes and coats. Elderly observers discuss the incident as police take little notice and locals joke about yearly repeats.
A severe storm drenches Seaford and surrounding farms with heavy rain and lightning. A chimney is torn from a house, mirrors flash as lightning strikes, a barber shop razor is broken, and rural damages include livestock losses and downed wires. A mayoral case ends with psychiatric observation. In New York, party leaders plan speaking tours to win Pennsylvania. The Item’s building page promises home and building tips.
Oscar Hamnerstein issued a prospectus for a new chain of opera houses to be built across forty nine American cities. He outlines a business method involving mortgages on each house to fund construction, aiming to save costs by a standardized chain model. Cities listed include Worchester Providence Hartford New Haven Albany Buffalo Rochester Syracuse Newark Pittsburgh Reading Scranton Baltimore Washington Cincinnati Cleveland Dayton Detroit Toledo Indianapolis Milwaukee Des Moines Kansas City Omaha Minneapolis St Paul Portland Seattle Los Angeles Oakland San Francisco Denver Salt Lake City Birmingham Mobile Atlanta Savannah Louisville New Orleans Charleston Memphis Nashville Dallas Houston San Antonio Norfolk Richmond.
An advertisement touts Horsford's Acid Phosphate as an invigorating tonic for the overworked body and brain calling it a healthful remedy.
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