Mascot Mondays 4 of 12: The “Mascot” in Mobile

This small article may seem slightly insignificant, but it shows that the “Mascot” was also distributed in Mobile, AL. This is HUGE news and means HUGE work for me. How did it get there? Where else was it distributed? And it also once again illuminates the question that nags at me – why did this incredibly popular newspaper stop publishing?

A HEROIC DEED

A portion of the back page our artist has devoted to illustrating the rescue of several people from a grave beneath the murky waters of Mobile Bay, by the two newsboys, James MacMahon and John Dumas, who are employed in handling the MASCOT in Mobile. Last Tuesday, several excursionists from Meridan, Miss., got possession of a boat and began sailing on the Bay. Not knowing how to handle the boat, they soon came to grief and were precipitated into the water, and would have been drowned but for the timely arrival of these two heroic youngsters. This gallant conduct deserves recognition at the hands of the people of the Gulf City. Who will start the ball rolling? 

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