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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1915
Page
4
The article extols Mobile's fishing and bathing spots as daily pleasures enjoyed by locals and now promoted to attract tourists. It notes easy access by launch to diverse fishing banks and resorts, and envisions Mobile inviting the world to its fishing grounds while building tourist appeal through folders and hospitality.
Report from Paris says Mme Ba Bernhardt must cancel or defer her farewell tour in America this season due to her artificial leg. The leg hampers acting grace, though she can walk, and observers predict she will seek a prosthetic improvement before resuming public appearances. The Troy Messenger notes Governor Henderson may take a fishing trip when the session adjourns.
Business and professional leaders dine with county farmers at the Battle House in Mobile. Farmers organized the Gulf Coast Produce Exchange with Tom Farnell as president and Charles Anderson as vice president, while the Chamber of Commerce Ways and Means committee aided the get-together to back the new exchange.
A Jefferson county grand jury partial report accuses Bessemer officers of brutal methods, abuse in court, and corruption ties to city officials. It calls for drastic remedial measures to restore justice in the Marvel City amid warnings of future impeachment limits and pending December final findings.
Government reports show most coastwise trade through the Panama Canal comes from inland U S cities. Mobile steps to handle large shipments to and from coal, cotton, lumber, grain and other goods, expanding port activity for domestic and foreign markets. Gotham cheers as war news includes Russia and Diaghilev references amid theater notes.
British cruisers Aboukir Hogue and Cressy sunk by submarines with fifteen hundred lives lost. London reports two of five submarines sunk. Serbian and Montenegrin forces seize Sarajevo after defeating Austrian defenders. Russian general staff claims Jaroslaw captured and Koenigsburg encircled. Rome says thousands of Italians volunteered at the British embassy yesterday.
L J Dawson of Dawes and A J Schellenger of Orchard lead the Produce Exchange delegates in Mobile as they plan a three day community exhibition starting October 22. The event aims to showcase diversified farming with prize exhibits feeding into the Gulf Coast Fair in Mobile.
A lengthy roster enumerates patrons and their cities, including Montgomery and Birmingham Alabama. New Orleans Louisiana. Chicago Illinois. Atlanta Georgia. and other towns. Names such as W. M. Smith Bienville Birmingham and J. D. Ivey New Orleans appear alongside hotels like Battle House and Cawthon Klosky's. The list also notes family names and corporate identifiers with multiple misspellings and inconsistent formatting.
Tuskegee Alabama September 21 The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute begins its thirty fifth annual session with 946 students enrolled in the academic department and 75 new arrivals awaiting exams Enrollment compares with 767 on the same date a year ago and last session closed with 1587 academic students Including 907 men and 630 women The total reach of activities and facilities would benefit 2727 people across the town and programs Students come from thirty two states abroad and districts Africa Alaska the West Indies Canada India Abyssinia Central America Mexico and beyond Whistler man surrenders W T Swan of Whistler gave himself up at the county jail for violating the prohibition law after a raid on his place by deputies
A vaudeville piece recalls two women in red white and blue stockings walking in opposite directions. A wagon overturns insect powder splashing the street, a car hits the powder and dies, prompting the punchline from Nat Willis the Happy Tramp.
Uncle Wiggily and Nurse Jane plan a sponge cake for a morning in the hollow stump bungalow. He searches the house for sponges then heads to Dr Possum at the drug store to buy a basketful, while Nurse Jane visits the WibbleWobble duck house.
Uncle Wiggily carries sponges and milk for Jane to bake a sponge cake. An alligator tries to steal them but the wet sponges swell inside him, turning the gator into a balloon and trapping him.
The Empire presents the current chapter of The Diamond From the Sky with Lottie Pickford and Irving Cummings and Helen Holmes in A Girl's Grit plus Hazards of Helen and the Hearst Selig News Pictorial. Admission 6 cents. Wednesday features A Bunch of Keys, a five act Charles Hoyt comedy from Essanay, with 10 cent adult and 5 cent child prices.
A playful fragment follows a ballooned creature leaving without Uncle Wiggily while a rabbit gains milk for sponge cake. Nurse Jane explains sponge cake’s name and warns against wrong turns and noises in the kitchen as a prelude to more Uncle Wiggily adventures with a pinwheel.
The column discusses coin values with 1877 quarter dollar and 1806 half dollar quotes. It recounts Eugène Vidocq’s life from Arras born 1775 to death in 1857 and explains the bridal shoe custom as a sign of ownership tracing to ancient symbols.
A dialogue sketches how long winter evenings used to unite families before movies and talking machines, contrasting past routines with present entertainment per a nostalgic note.
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