Food Production Drive Spurs Southern City Cooperation
In Southern cities business groups push city and country cooperation to expand farming near trade centers. Beamon, Dallas, Lynchburg, Louisville, Atlanta and Winston Salem develop coordinated plans with farmers, roads and marketing to boost food output and rural employment.
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Beaumont
Dallas
Texas
Lynchburg
Louisville
Atlanta
Spartanburg
D. C
Winston-Salem N. C
Binghampton
Duluth
Minnesota
Churchill's Proposed Battleship Truce Urged by Churchill
Winston Churchill proposes a 1914 closed season for battleships to suspend warship construction worldwide. If adopted, nations retain ranks and gain a breathing spell while continental powers push land forces. Germany opposes the plan, amid questions of unanimous approval and motives.
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Winston Churchill
British Admiralty
Churchill
Germany
Erlanger’s Word Hisbond Echoes in Theatre Trust Ties
The Houston Chronicle notes a long standing reliance on spoken word in the theatre world as Klaw Erlanger and the Shuberts reportedly operated without signed papers for 25 years. Abraham Erlanger’s personal honor is praised as definitive in business, contrasted with bankers and brokers who rely on schedules.
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Medicine-Lodge-creek
Wyoming
Joseph Robin
Robin
Klaw & Erlanger
Theatrical Trust
Shuberts
Abraham Erlanger
New York
Erlenger
Louisville
Housteg Chronicle
Americans Own Two Fifths of Mexico Wealth Report
Washington reports a United States consular summary showing Americans hold about 40 percent of Mexico’s wealth, led by $640 million in railroad securities and $223 million in mining investments. The estimate, based on Consul Marion Letcher’s figures, notes large American holdings in mines, railroads, banking, and land, with several American clubs and institutions operating in Mexico City.
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Victor Elliott
Washington
Mexico
United States
Marion Letcher
Chihuahua
Letcher
Consul Letcher
Republic of Mexico
Edmund Walker
Canadian Bank of Commerce
Mexican Republic
Mexico City
University
Country Club
Civil and
Mexican Herald
Diaz
Madero
Guggenheims
American Smelting and Refining Company
Morgan Secret Gift to Penitentiary Book Fund
The late J Pierpont Morgan secretly provided a $1000 gift to buy books for convicts at Tennessee's state penitentiary in Nashville. Nashville lawyer John C Brown recounts the donation in a Commercial Appeal letter. The donor, in Egypt for health, sent the check unsolicited about a year earlier.
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Morgan
J. Pierpont Morgan
State Penitentiary
Nashville
John C. Brown
Brown
Egypt
Morgans
Drexels
South
Morgan Ta ‘Peabody College
Nashlat
The Studio of a Worldly Love and Loss
Dominique de Trevoux agrees to marry Clemence Brogier, while his former lover Mme. Sydose urges him to accept happiness and later waits in the studio for years. Years pass with wars and change, and Dominique returns to a quiet, shared memory where Jeanne consoles him and teaches acceptance as aging begins.
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Dominique
Jeanne
Mme, Sydose
Budha
Mme. Sydose
Sisten
Dominque
Dominique de Trevoux
Clemence Bro
Mme
Sydese
Trevoux
Bigs
Hanio
Clemence
Asparagus Farms of the Sacramento Valley
Farm and Fireside reports California asparagus farming as a lucrative industry once barren land. Eastern markets get green spears, San Francisco and Oakland markets prefer white. First cut in early April. cannery work from April 20 onward. Prices range from three and a half to four and a half cents per pound, with high retail values up to two dollars and twenty-five cents per pound in New York. Acreage varies from forty five to one hundred acres per farm. daily yield about three boxes per day.
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Sacramento Valley
California
San Francisco
Oakland
New York
Partisan Books in Alabama Schools Debate
Montgomery Advertiser laments partisan American literature in Alabama high school books. It cites Brander Matthews Introduction to American Literature with heavy Whittier emphasis and minimal Southern authors like Poe, Harris, Lanier, Timrod, and Wilde. The piece argues against teaching that maligns the North or the South and urges fair representation in State Text Book Commission selections.
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South
North
Townes Randol Leigh
Advertiser
Brander Matthews
Alabama
Edgar Allen Poe
Joel Chandler Harris
Whittier
Sydney Lanier
Henry Timrod
Europe
America
Poe
Richard Henry Wilde
Earnest Seton Thomas
Leigh
State
Text Book Commission
Harriett Beecher Stowe
Mason and Dixon Line
Montgomery Advertiser
Tariff Reform Top Priority in Democratic Special Session
Harper's Weekly endorses the new Democratic tariff push as the session's first and essential act. The piece praises the Ways and Means committee and Senate Finance for readying a bill of bills and notes cross‑party cooperation while praising the president’s conciliatory stance toward low tariff Republicans.
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Demonse Committee On Ways and Means
Senate
House
Conference Committee
Democratic Party
Harper's Weekly
Suspension of production of special-request stamped envelopes
The Dayton area stamped envelope factory, Day Office of the Third Assistant Postmaster General in Washington, is temporarily closed due to flood damage. Pending repairs, special request and office request envelope production is suspended. plain stamped envelopes remain available via Form 3201, with printing at purchaser expense.
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Post Office Department
Third Asst. P. M. Gen
Washington
Dayton
Ohio
City of Sleep and the Merciful Town Poem Fragment
Fragmentary verse describes a journey to a Merciful Town by the Sea of Dreams. Night gates close and the wakeful pass back with police and prayer, while outcast figures lament their barred entry and return to the Duties of the Watches.
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Trem Fa Gradinxes & Unde
Mobile Item Company Inc
ST. Emanuel Street
Ala
James
Antwerp
Hanson
P. Bush
O'Connell
Saases
Associated Press
International News Service
Southern Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Albert Hanson
Fifth Ave
Mobile An Yanurte
Baldwin County
Gulfport
Biloxi
Pascagoula
Citronelle
Flomaton
Atmore
Brewton
Pensacola
Bell
Home
Edgar Sydenstricker
Virginia
Advance
Philadelphia
Simon H. Patton
University of Pennsylvania
American Academy of Political and Social Science
Professor Patton
Denny
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa
Birmingham
Howie
Birmingham Publica
Erlanger
Hisbond
McClure
Washington Comment
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