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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1916
Page
4
Classified style notice from The Mobile Item in Mobile Alabama dated August 5 1916 advertising subscriptions and mailing options. It references offices in St Louis Third National and a delivery by mail outside Mobile with monthly and yearly rates and cash in advance terms.
The piece argues Americans often lack regional perspective, urging investors to seek opportunities in the South and Mobile district. It emphasizes untapped national resources, pioneer conditions, and the potential for Mobile to become a major industrial hub with local capital directing growth rather than external investors.
Economists in Britain push a postwar plan to divide world markets into strata with tariff walls and to abrogate most favored nations treaties, threatening neutral and allied economies. The United States should prepare for a hard fight for global commerce, as both Entente and Central powers eye American foreign trade and gains. American business resolve, aggressiveness, and tenacity are expected to prevail.
The piece extols Vice President Marshall as a strong and entertaining statesman beside President Wilson. It praises his speech, wit, and ready repartee, noting his growing influence in Indiana’s campaign role and his fit as a running mate over Fairbanks.
Reports from Verdun and the Sommer region indicate gains by the Entente Powers as the English and French push back in the sector of the iron boundary. The war is likely to be settled east of the German and Anglo French line in these regions with French actions central.
For the past quarter the Entente forces show rising odds of beating Germany as they advance along the front in Belgium and France. Joffre Haig and Foch direct steady advances, repelling counter attacks and steadily rolling up the enemy line much like a powerful football team overpowering a lighter opponent.
The piece cites the London Observer noting the extraordinary scale of the war. It describes nations amassing vast forces and marching across thousands of miles, with language struggling to capture the unreal magnitude and enduring, ever changing nature of the combat.
A humorous verse describing a weary traveler tired of sublime mountains and longing for simple life in Empory. The speaker contrasts Colorado peaks with homey pastimes and small-town scenes, ending with a wish to emigrate for ease and ordinary stories.
In the fourteenth century pin makers could sell pins only on two new year days. The money women received from husbands or saved beyond household expenses for this purpose was called pin money. The term later applied to any allowance for a woman’s support despite broader use.
The column notes Jupiter's evening influence for luck in buying and speculation, favors to candidates, judges, scholars, and banquets, with warnings of graft in charity reorganizations. It predicts growth in occult faith, some Russian and Greek military health cautions, and political trouble for a US senator.
A narrator recounts a mother choosing an expensive fashionable school for her daughter Mamie. The mother justifies the sacrifice to fit high society, while the child is set up for unfulfilled tastes and lifelong deprivation of comforts. The piece condemns parental vanity in pursuit of social status.
The piece contrasts wealth and poverty showing how elite tastes and Paris fashions distort values. It argues that rich girls learn to disdain humble homes and hardworking parents, while poor girls face pressure to imitate luxury and endure family hardship.
In Charleston West Virginia Governor Hatfield refused a requisition to return Andrew Wise aged 72 to Buncombe County North Carolina for a murder case from forty four years ago citing no living witnesses and ordered his release. Public funeral services for Seth Low former New York Mayor and Columbia University president will be held at St George's Church in New York City. Sheriff W S Taylor was killed during an attempted arrest in Cuthbert Georgia and a posse hunts the killer. In Berné special war profits tax 25 percent on profits since January 1 1915. Mexico City street car workers receive a 50 percent wage increase.
A descriptive line contrasts a grand mansion on the avenue with a modest flat on a back street, highlighting the social divide implied by architecture and location.
A critique urges parents not to send daughters to fashionable schools. It argues such education breeds dissatisfaction, social envy, and false ambitions, warning that schools shape a girl’s ideals and future happiness more than practical success. It cautions investing in appearances over real, usable learning.
The article explains that heavy sweating signals nervous exhaustion or blood toxins and that skin health relies on diet and overall hygiene. It warns against relying on powders or washes and advises a diet rich in fruits vegetables minerals proteins fats and starches along with good sleep and bathing habits.
Patient reports four hour post meal stomach pain worsened by sour foods with bloating eased by soda mints for months. Advice stresses precise nitrogen balance via twenty four hour Kjeldahl urine analysis to tailor diet and avoid excess waste nitrogen. A follow up question asks whether general paresis can be cured. answer notes no if nerve cells are permanently degenerated.
Warren accuses Helen of jealousy toward Lola Wilcox and pressures her to join him at the Bells. Frances arrives with a plan to influence Helen's decision as emotions rise and plans unfold. Helen hides tears while pondering Frances plan and the social trap.
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