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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1915
Page
4
Chairman W H Reynolds leads preparations for Satsuma Day on December 7. Growers across Alabama and Mississippi coast counties pledge cooperation after a successful first celebration that boosted home grown citrus visibility. The item includes assorted historical and digressive content.
The article extols the Association of Military Surgeons for fifteen years of wartime medical advances. It highlights typhoid vaccine development, the mosquito theory work in yellow fever, and sacrifices by Dr. Jesse W. Lazear and others in Cuba, the Philippines, and Serbia. It ends noting Florida's bloom and rich harvest as a contrast to the group’s humanitarian impact.
The fragment hints at knee advantages and oral chances to see improvements. It remains unclear which program or treatment is referenced.
A disputed Blount County sheriff race ends with 435 Democrat ballots tossed and R W Buckner declared winner by 67 votes after hearings. The item notes commentary on southern courts and education law amid broader political quips and regional jokes from the era.
Denver and San Francisco officials return home after trips while Port Authority and customs actions are noted. Wabash Railway’s G B Harris visits. J B Whitfield and party tour Mississippi coast via Telegraph Road. visitors from Demopolis and Canada register at local hotels.
Battle House Selma and multiple Alabama Birmingham Montgomery and Pensacola names listed with associates including E B M Atkins J M Harris W Weeks H Porter J Parker A Neel F Watson and others across Alabama Mississippi and Georgia in a long roster likely for a professional or social directory.
After a Thursday meeting of the International Steamship Company, Captain G A Olsen of Stavengeren claims to have bought the Fort Gaines and Fort Morgan, now Norwegian flagged Plentin gen, while company president Captain J A Dorkan says he has not. The firm and its stockholders have held secret meetings and reportedly placed the two Fort steamers on the market.
The gulf ports flood with repair activity as Mobile dry docks handle peak loads after the hurricane. Gulf Dry Docks president George H. Dunlap notes strong business, including the American schooner M. A. Achorn and the Norwegian bark Deveroh, with more jobs likely next week.
This week at the Empire Celeste played by Anita Stewart wins over bankers and miners to back a national corporation plan. The Jungle Lovers, a Selig Jungle Zoo feature, shares top billing with The Goddess. Bessie Eyton Edward J Piel and Edwin Wallack star in the jungle drama. Admission 10 cents, children 5 cents. Saturday adds The Shadow of Fear with Gladden James Harry Morey Carolyn Birch Bud Jamison Marjorie Reiger plus Mustaches and Bombs and The Master of the Bengals and Booming Trizié. Admission 5 cents.
Petrograd reports German forces lured into Russian Poland were decisively defeated. Przemysl nears capitulation while British dispatches confirm three cruisers sunk by a German U boat after deviating to aid the first struck ship. The Indian Prince is sunk off the Brazilian coast. German press accuses Belgians of using churches as arsenals.
Uncle Wiggily Longears visits Sammie Littletail to test a home made boat on the pond. A leak appears when goldfish chew bread crumb stoppers, threatening a sinking ride as they plead for a pail or dipper to bail water.
Dr. John F. Russell argues lime starvation precedes active tuberculosis in adults and that inorganic salts must be in organic form to nourish cells. He credits Eckman’s Alterative, rich in lime, with aiding TB treatment and cites Braswell's Drug Store and Eckman Laboratory as suppliers.
Uncle Wiggily uses his silk hat as a bailer to remove water from the boat and keep afloat until reaching shore. The hat is soaked but saves them, and the rabbit and Uncle Wiggily survive the nautical mishap. The tale hints at a future installment involving Susie Littletail and Uncle Wiggily’s crutch.
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