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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1915
Page
10
Risin NTO reports steel mills operate day and night to forge shells for Europe’s guns. The piece notes warm times for the poor, highlighting wartime production and social strain as shortages and rationing ripple through daily life.
Bethlehem Pennsylvania grows around Schwab’s steel works turning out shells for the European war. The town is cosmopolitan with a large immigrant presence and a booming economy, while post office construction in Mobile competes with delays and cost overruns.
County officials describe road improvements across Mobile County with new bridges and hard surface roads. Convicts helped build bridges and culverts on roughly sixty five miles of road while 100 miles benefited from resurfacing and clay gravel work. Upgraded equipment includes two motor road trucks, 25 graders, 90 mules and more.
Stockholms dispatch reports serious revolts in several Russian cities after the czar prorogued the duma. Police near Petrograd and other centers with ammunition plants arrested striking workers, while the secret service warned editors of radical newspapers publishing biting critiques of the government.
Major Dodd, who led Salvation Army work in Australia and Japan and now heads Gulf division industrial work, will lead the service at the citadel on Sunday September 19. All are invited. Medical Society Meets in Mobile. The Mobile County Medical Association met last night at 8 in St Michael and Conception streets rooms with Dr J T Inge presiding. no special business was reported.
Mr Wilkins extols near Mobile spots for bass trout catfish and eels noting Bon Secour oysters Magnolia Beach and Little Lagoon as prime locales. He mentions clear River Never Muddy waterways fed by springs and describes Magnolia Springs Northern settlers as the sole knowers of the sport with rail access via Foley for reach.
The article notes many undeveloped fishing and bathing spots along the bay shores around Dauphin Island, with visitors saying countless locations await development after trips around the area.
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