Causeway proposal for Mobile Baldwin counties debated
In the Fairhope Courier remarks, EF B Gaston urges a joint effort by Mobile and Baldwin counties to build a causeway across Mobile Bay with bridges as needed. The idea includes rail and electric car lines and a roadway to connect the regions, revisiting plans first raised in 1910.
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Fairhope Courier
Mobile
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Baldwin
Fairhope
J. Howard Wilson
Mobile Street Railway System
Pensacola
Mobile River
McLaughlin Enterprise
McLaughlin
Illinois Measure to Curb Loan Sharks
A bill in the Illinois legislature aims to curb Chicago loan sharks by creating non profit lending institutions with caps on capital at 5000 dollars, dividends limited to 6 percent, and loans up to 250 dollars. The plan requires wage secured notes, annual reporting, and government oversight to relieve borrowers from high monthly interest. The measure seeks relief for the poor and restrains usury, contrasting with persistent loan shark practices.
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Illinois
Chicago
The
Chicago Tribune
Wall Street
Auditor of Public Accounts
Ships of the Future and the Cunard Aquitania
Atlantic liner predictions by S C Gilfillan foresee a half mile long ocean liner by 1955 if past growth continues. The Aquitania, launching this week on the Clyde, is 885 feet long and carries 3790 passengers with crew for over 5000.
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S.C. Gilfillan
Clyde
Atlantic
Cunarders
Umbria
Etruria
Strenuous Proposal for Film Capturing Lions in Montana Hills
Ordish offers a moving picture venture using two trained Airedale dogs and ropes to capture highwayman style mountain lions in Western Montana. He claims to tree the lion with dogs then ensnares it with a slip knot noose and rope lasso, subdues and muzzles it for transport.
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Ordish
Moving Picture Film Company
Montana
Floggings in Prison Camps Questioned in Editorials
The Atlanta Journal and Memphis News-Scimitar weigh in on convict systems in Georgia and Alabama. They oppose reviving women's flogging as savage and debasing to prisoners and the state. They contrast abolition of whipping with ongoing brutalities and ineffective cures.
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Commonwealth
Atlanta Journal
Georgia
Alabama
Spirit of American Literature by John Macy Reviewed
The essayist John Macy presents seventeen literary figures in The Spirit of American Literature from Doubleday, Page & Co. He critiques American poets as thin and meticulous but praises Whitman and Poe. Macy’s quotes and analysis urge readers to value bold recorders of truth and satire, noting Pittsburg and the American literary voice.
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John Macy
Hawthorne
Longfellow
Doubleday, Page & Co
New York
Macy
Irving
Cooper
Emerson
Whittier
Poe
Holmes
Thoreau
Lowell
Whitman
Mark
Ren-Hur
Wallace
Jason
Ulysses
Warrior
Marie Corelli
Haggard
Jane Austin
Arnold Bennett
United States
Balzac
Pittsburg
Wilson Era Precedent Breaker Aims to Speed Government
Washington dated April 16 columnist lauds President Wilson as the chief breaker of old procedures. It notes McAdoo, McReynolds, Burleson and Daniels pushing changes, cabinet meetings shifting to informal talks, and increased direct action with Congress.
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Smasher
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Burleson
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Dayton
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Hitchcock
Department of Justice
Theodore Roosevelt
White House
Taft
Mexico
House of Representatives
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Senate
Daniels
Navy Department
Navy
Secretary of the Navy
Bureau of Navigation
Garrison
War Department
Houston
Commerce
Redfield
Secretary of Labor
Ellen Greymore's unfaithful fiancé delays wedding
Ellen Greymore anxiously awaits Fred Brookdale at Newport as Aunt Kate frets about lateness. George Trevor arrives unexpectedly from abroad, and Ellen asks if he will marry her instead. Trevor accepts, the ceremony proceeds, and Fred arrives too late to stop the marriage.
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Newport
Fred
Darling
Kate
Fred Brookdale
Aunt Kate
Ellen
Delmonicos
George Trevor
Lusitania
Liverpool
Boston
George
Senator Sherman Takes Oath as Ham Lewis Delayed en Route
Senator Sherman of Illinois has arrived in Washington and taken the oath of office. His Democratic colleague, the Hon. Jim Ham Lewis, is reported delayed en route with his baggage train or undergoing renovations to his whiskers by a feathering establishment.
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Women’s Democratic Club
Washington
Sherman
Illinois
Jim Ham Lewis
New Orleans
Dependency of Man Prompts Unusual vow of isolation
Al Pepperdine complains his family relies on him for every daily chore and laments the burden. He declares he will retreat to a country cabin for six months to prove how dependent the household truly is, planning a visit from Tate Bowed on Saturdays for bread.
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al Pepperdine
Cynthia
Pep Ne
Susan
Tate
Morgan foresees new era of vast capital under private bankers
In the wake of J Pierpont Morgan's death a London dispatch reflects on his forecast of a post reconstruction era for major properties and big business. It notes a coming wave of large scale capital needs over four to five years, potential Vanderbilts unification, expansive international lending, and the role of private bankers in financing America's future growth.
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New York
Manhattan
Bronx
Brooklyn
Queens
Richmond
America
Europe
Persia
Queenstown
Mauretania
Uae Os
J. Pierpont Morgan
Mr. Morgan
United States
Morgan
James J. Hill
Hill
Vanderbilts
Mexico
South America
Far East
Chicago
St. Louis
Minneapolis
Pittsburg
Kansas City
New Orleans
Baltimore
Mobile
France
Panama Canal Company
London
International Mercantile and Marine Corporation
Abraham Lincoln
Shakespeare
Holland
Harm of Frivolous Novels Says Maude Radford
Maude Radford argues in Woman's World that frivolous novels mislead girls about love by equating it with escape from duty and work. True devotion requires balancing romance with daily responsibilities and real life, she warns, while Uncle Joe Cannon quips at a Republican luncheon about truth and ink wells.
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Maude Radford Aften
Uncle Joe" Cannon
Danville
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