Mobile Item Company In Alabama News Page Details
A fragmented OCR text describes the Mobile Item Company of Mobile Alabama, listing officers such as president and vice president and general manager, secretary and treasurer, editor, and the newspaper’s reach. It references publishing seven papers a week including Sunday editions and notes Associated Press and Publishers press affiliations. Phone numbers Bell 223 Home 180 and Bell 2840 Home 180 are listed.
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Associated Press
Publishers’ Press
Puthern Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Buy Local to Boost Colorado and Mobile Economies
A Denver Times inspired plea urges residents to keep money at home to support local factories, banks, and merchants. It cites a potential $200 million inflow from crops and argues buying at home strengthens state industries and the Southern seaport economy. The text links home spending with overall prosperity for citizens and communities.
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Denver Times
Colorado
Gathard
Rado
Colio
Colorado Investments
Coloulo Mercantile Enterprises
Supmr Home Industries
Alake
Chamber of Commerce
Belt Line Debate Turns To A Dummy Train Service
Letters and editorials in the Register criticize the belt line proposal, arguing prior declarations about construction and funding mislead Mobile readers. The article hints the project shift from port commerce to a convenience route for locals to reach markets and rural areas, labeling it a sentiment more than a plan.
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Register
Mobile
Hartwell
Roe
New Orleans
Beldas
Hartwell Campaign Promises Raise Dual Office Concerns
An editorial critiques Hartwell for seeking city commissioner with conflicting interests as vice president of a public utility, and owning in Turner Hartwell Docks. It calls for full disclosure before election to resolve questions about eligibility and potential bias affecting Mobile’s public works.
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Hartwell
The
Register
Lyons
Mr. Hartwell
Turner-Hartwell Docks Company
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River and Harbor Committee
McLaughlin
Mobile River
Mobile
Mobile Towing and Wrecking Company
Earth
City Pledges Funds to Expand Hospital Capacity
City commissioners pledge fifty thousand dollars for hospital improvements requested by the University of Alabama Medical Department faculty. Additions will add two hundred beds and enhance clinical facilities for medical students, aiming to make the hospital second to none in the South. The report also notes broader political and national topics of the era.
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Medical Department
University of Alabama
University
Advertising Chats No 9 Discusses Advertising Spend
The piece argues firms spend 2 to 5 percent of sales on advertising with exceptions. It cites a soda maker spending about 25 percent of sales on advertising and a Chicago mail order house relying almost entirely on advertising. Emphasizes tailoring the percent to maximize net profit and overall sales, urging aggressive advertising.
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Chicago
Prolong Human Life Promise Meets Human Limits
The piece discusses Professor Metchnikoff’s claim that injecting a "sugar bacillus" or glycobacter could delay aging, but only if started in early adulthood. It argues long life requires lifelong discipline, ethical restraint, and a shift toward higher aims rather than mere duration.
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New York Evening Post
Metechnikoff
Mephistopheles
Cagliostro
Metchnikoff
Centego
No Poetry There At Luncheon In Kittery Point
W D Howells at a luncheon in Kittery Point quips that a popular novelist has as much poetry as a certain wild New England scene. A girl asks Mr McMasters his favorite flower and he improvises a playful answer about the whole wheat vest.
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W. D.howells
Kittery Point
Civic figures tout Mobile hiring of Hanson from Augusta
E J Troy reports a letter from J J Farrell praising C B Hanson as a civic worker and likely asset to Mobile. The discussion recalls W D Cowles in Boston and a local tongue in cheek proposal to rename Dog River to attract investors and improve a picturesque stretch along the waterfront.
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Royal Street
Memphis
Pig Branch
Tenn
Dog River
George Fearn
Shore Acres
Humorous Anecdotes Span a Stroll and Courtship Revelations
A narrator recalls a narrow country road encounter ending in a forgiveness marriage proposal after a fatal accident. The tale shifts to a political and legal humor sequence with Bird S. Coler’s 1902 governor bid and a courtroom anecdote about James T. Brady’s first office, featuring witty exchanges with a cobbler and an Irish visitor.
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James T. Brady
New York
Brady
Begorra
Pensions and political quips across newspapers
A compilation of assorted newspaper quotes on pensions criticism of wartime veterans debts and governance. It notes demands for pensions for easy jobs and for delaying new pension lists until all war veterans pass away, alongside observations on political rhetoric and road improvement priorities.
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Washington
Birmingham Ledger
New York Food Cost Study Urges Market Reform
A New York committee reports on food supply, pricing and distribution in the state. It recommends municipal market departments, auction primary prices, and large unit retail stores to cut costs, with emphasis on near market supply, rapid delivery, and public oversight of prices.
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New York City
New York State
Committee On
State Food Investigating Commission
Greater
New York
the Markets Committee
Department of Markets
Woodhaven
Gansevoort
Staten Island
Congress on Mathematics Reports From 1908 Rome Meet
The American commission led by David Eugene Smith W F Osgood and J W A Young prepared reports on American mathematics teaching for the next congress in Cambridge Massachusetts later this month. The commission included many eminent teachers and formed multiple committees to study conditions nationwide. Reports from the Rome congress have been published and circulated.
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Rome
David Eugene Smith
Ballege
New York City
W. F. Osgood
Harvard University
J. W. A. Young
University of Chicago
Cambridge
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Mobile Chamber of Commerce and Business League
J. J. Farrell
Augusta
Business Men’s League
C. B. Hanson
Item
Farrell
Mr. Hanson
Augusta Chronicle
Troy
Hanson
W. D. Cowles
Joe” Stone
Cowles
Boston
Mr. Cowles
Mr. Stone
Item’s Short Stories
Jobson
Bird S. Coler
Greater New York
Democrats
Houston Chronicle
Atlanta
Atlanta Journal
Louis
English Board of Trade
Ian Dispatch
Congress ON Mathematics
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