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James GC. van Antwerp
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Associated Pecate
International News Service
Outhern Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Albert Eee
Fifth Ave
New York
Ie Mobile and Pious
Baldwin County
Gulfport
Biloxi
Pascagoula
Citronelle
Flomaton
Atmore
Brewton
Pensacola
Bell
Obituary Tribute to Joseph Hodgson and Mobile Health Efforts
An obituary recalls Joseph Hodgson as a top South and national editor of the 1880s and 1890s with vivid, clear writing and humor. The piece also praises Mobile Health Officer Dr. Charles A Mohr for sanitary work in New Orleans and Mobile, urging public participation and support for disease prevention.
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Joseph Hodgson
Mobile Register
The
Item
South
Harper's Weekly
Nation
Grant
Thomas Nast
Hodgson
Dowling
Louisiana
New Orleans
Charles A. Mohr
Mobile
Mohr
Dr. Mohr
Health Department
Health Department Will Give Mobile the Security Against Disease Which Dr. Mohr
Death of Dr Ward A Leading Mobile Physician
Dr William G Ward died yesterday and was among Mobile s best known physicians and surgeons. He earned distinction through study and practice of modern medical principles and gained broad friendship from his genial humane character and charity. His career showed courage and resourcefulness, and his loss is deeply mourned by the medical community and those who knew him.
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William G. Ward
Mobile
Ward
Ty Cobb spotlight triggers congressional inquiry
Congress takes notice of Ty Cobb controversy as Rep Hardwick seeks a House investigation into potential magnate influence and Cobb’s $15,000 salary compare to a Supreme Court justice. Senator Hoke Smith joins concern amid broader wartime Japan scare comparison.
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Ty Cobb
Congress
Representative Hardwick
Georgia
Tyrus
Navin
Detroits
Supreme Court
Hardwick
House
Cobb
Hoke Smith
Americans Seek Separate Farm Banking to Raise Output
A delegation sails from New York to Naples to study a farmers co operative and mortgage banking system modeled on European credit schemes. The American Commission on Agricultural Co operation aims to supply cheap money to farmers, spur production, and cut food costs, with reports to Congress and state legislatures.
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United States
New York
Naples
American Commission On Agricultural Co-operation
Southern Commercial Congress
Wilson
Bryan
Congress
Commission
Chicago
Modest Autobiographies in Congressional Directory Addenda
The congressional directory issued on Tuesday features autobiographical addenda from new members. William Howard Thompson of Kansas boasts of youth and progressive stance and claims record vote support. Oklahoma's William H. Murray contrasts with a working background from ranching to law, noting Alfalfa Bill history.
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Adam Brown Littlepage
West Virginia
Congress
William Howard Thompson
Kansas
Thompson
Senate
New School of Politics
United States
Connecticut
William H. Murrey
Oklahoma
William H. Murray
Bill
Tishomingo
Okla
Collinsville
Grayson County
Tex
William
Wheat Belt
Jerry Simpson
Taft
Washington
Illinois Legislature Debates Permanent Women’s Wage Commission
A welfare commission driven bill proposes a five member state panel to set living wages for women across cities. It requires two employers two wage earners and a sociological expert with at least one woman on the panel. Apprenticeship allowed for up to one year with no wage floor during that period. Post apprenticeship wages must meet the living wage set by the commission, revised annually. Appeals to the Illinois supreme court are allowed for both sides.
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Illinois
Senatorial Welfare Commission
O'Hara
Niels Juul
Massachusetts
Commission
Illinois Supreme Court
Complex Kent Genealogy Puzzle From 1760
The London Chronicle notes a dated family riddle from February 1760 in Faversham Kent. Old Hawood has two daughters by his first wife, one married to John Cashick’s son and the other to John Cash the father. Cashick senior has a daughter by Hawood’s first wife and a son by her. The fragment, allegedly spoken by Cashick’s second wife, claims I am my mother’s father and my father is my son, creating a tangled line of relations.
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London Chronicle
Faversham
Kent
Old Hawood
John Cashick
John Cash
Cashick
Hawood
War Declared On Prairie Dogs By United States
The United States government declares a war on prairie dogs and the California ground squirrel. The Bureau of Entomology plans to treat over half a million acres and kill up to 3,000,000 prairie dogs this spring and summer. The effort targets the West’s grazing lands including Coconino Arizona and Colorado forests. Public health and military units monitor plague carriers and disease spread.
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Washington
United States
Uncle Sam
Burroughs
Bureau of Entomology
Department of Agriculture
L. O. Howard
A. K. Fisher
Bureau of Biological Survey
Coconino Forest
Arizona
Cochotopa
Pike
Colorado
California
West
Public Health Service
Marine Corps
Pacific Coast
Agricultural Department
Henry S. Graves
North Platte
Nebraska National Forest
How Maple Syrup Is Procured
A description of maple sap collection from trees, sap boiling, and syrup production detailing tapping via tubes, collection in pails, boiling in a long pan, and the resulting clear brown syrup priced at a dollar and a quarter per gallon.
War of the Drinks Ends in Tragedy and Peace
The tale follows Cas taroux and Caragnasse as they promote Amer Pobechot and Absinthe Pierette sparking a town wide drinking spree. A mad brawl ends with Carcagnasse sent to an asylum and Castaroux drowned, leading to a peace treaty and a shift away from the two beverages.
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Pierre
Felix
Castaroux
Quinquilla
Amer Pobichot
Maison Pobechot & Co
Caragnasse
Costaroux
Carcagnasse
Amer
Geribadi
Tariff Protests Rise Across the South Over Sugar and Textile Plans
New York reports little organized protest against the tariff bill but Southern opposition is strong. Editors warn free sugar and meat lists threaten sugar plantations and meat production while Georgia and North Carolina cotton interests seek cautious revisions to protect Southern mills and growers.
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New York
Ways and Means Committee
Congress
New York City
United States
Senate
South
Underwood
New England
Panama Canal
Georgia
Columbus
Frederick B. Gordon
North Carolina
Lincolnton
Stuart W. Cramer
American Cotton Manufacturing Association
Ellison A. Smyth
Greenville
South Carolina
Middle States
mid-West
Holland
Muses Bound for Bedlam Across Arts and Dance
Rag-time music, tango and Texas tummy dancing, cubism and futurism in art spark a broader avant garde clash. The Boston Herald ponders whether these muses collide in Bedlam as culture tilts toward radical experimentation.
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Boston Herald
Humorous Misstep Over Bananas and Eggs
A playful clipping recalls a sixteen stone woman slipping on a banana skin and gently sinking. A polite shopkeeper rushes out to help her rise from a box of fresh eggs, exclaiming the eggs are not broken but bent.
Simplicity in Great Men in Caesar Production
The Cincinnati Times-Star reviews a Lyric Theatre production of Julius Caesar noting Caesar’s lack of simple directness versus stage tricks. The piece praises artistic enterprise by Mr Faversham but calls out excessive theatrics on great historical figures.
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Lyric
Caesar
Mark Antony
Ruth St. Denis
Mr. Faversham
Shakspeare
Cleopatra
Julius Caesar
Faversham
Cincinnati Times-Star
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Alabama
Dr. Ward
Washington Comment
Victor Elliott
Ancle
Don
Montgomery
Paptiste Costeroux
Amer Pobechot
Marius
Bedlam
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