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Newspaper
The Mobile News Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1925
Page
6
Paris plans show a New Year celebration with drinks and dinners priced at 40 francs after 1924 conditions. Despite council debts and rising restaurant costs, revelers can still pay about 40 francs for the New Year Eve feast as prices range from 35 to 150 francs in general.
Arnold Statz formerly with the Chicago National League club won a golf tournament at the Pasadena Country Club with a score of 73. The report notes a separate government decision rejecting Lenin street naming in Vigny sur Seine and a heated debate in the chamber over public homage and polemic figures.
A boating scene follows Dotty and a girl as they haul in fourteen fish in a half hour. A sudden strong tug nearly tips the boat and the line pulls hard, while Dotty contemplates breakfast for the caught fish. Continued.
Advertisements convey everyday conveniences and prices that shape daily life. The piece argues that routine goods like shaving sticks toothpaste cuff links breakfast foods and bedding matter as much as political or dramatic events. It frames ads as intimate, reader relevant news guiding daily choices.
The Paris Almanac lists writers who pursue other callings from officials to engineers and traders. It notes Marcel Morloff and Carapanos at a cafe episode, and Monaco parasols feature portrait parasols with embroidered names, celebrating simple colors and miniature likenesses.
The schooner Edward J. Lawrence was destroyed by fire today in Portland Maine ending the last of six New England master schooner fleet once used for coal and transport before steam and oil vessels dominated. The Wyoming sank three years earlier and the Addie M Lawrence and Edward B Winslow perished in 1917 off St Nazaire while aiding Allies.
The Latin America colony of Tampa and southwest Florida plans a New Year’s Day bullfight with matador Ralph Gomez "El Gallo" facing twenty seven bulls from Mexico. Local laws ban killing bulls and mounted combat. Gomez will fight on foot using a spring sword.
Georgia continues its legal battle over Chattanooga street right of way through Georgia owned property. The W A and Commission discussed the $185 900 jury award as a minimum interstate value, with Georgia seeking about $1 200 000 and an interstate appraisal of $767 000. Attorney General Napier to pursue further action possibly in federal court. Aerial League of America plans aviation development for Muscle Shoals district with a Ford City field funded by Henry Woodhouse. An Alabama judge fined Annie Bell Cherry for manslaughter in a fatal auto accident. Bootleggers unload liquor in the prison chaplain’s sedan amid renewed police pressure.
Reverend Shacklette with a Penne Camps ministry drove to Asheville at 2 am and wrecked his sedan before handing it to a hotel employee. A prison custodian heard a lawyer threaten exposure of contraband cargo before the governor. Shacklette secured the release of a boy from jail and seeks the person who framed him.
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