The Mobile Item International News 1913
The Mobile Item announces its founding in 1881 with re organization and re establishment in April 1910. It published daily and Sunday editions from Mobile Alabama with staff including James C. Van Antwerp president C B Hanson vice president and general manager ERT P Bush secretary and treasurer OHN C O Connell editor.
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Mobile Item Company, Inc
ST. Emanuel Street
Mobile
Ala
James C. van Antwerp
C. B. Hanson
Associated Press
International News Service
Southern Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Albert Hanson
Fifth Ave
New York
Bell
Pathfinding highways and tariff debate across the South
The piece surveys Southern pathfinding highway tours from Mobile to Gulfport and a coast to coast route toward Birmingham and Montgomery. It contrasts Louisiana Senators backing Underwood sugar duties with New Hampshire Senator Hollis opposing protectionism and cites New England’s tariff stance. It notes beef price expectations and argues Argentine meat logistics and tariffs won’t derail U.S. beef prices this winter.
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United States
Louisiana
Hollis
New Hampshire
Senate
New England
South
Congress
Lawrence
Mass
Atlantic
Pacific
Mobile
Atlanta
Birmingham
Montgomery
Lowndes
Wilcox, Clarke
Washington
Mississippi
New Orleans
Selma
Mississippi Coast
Alabama
South Shore
Tick Eradication Lifts Quarantine Over 9 191 Sq Miles
Acting secretary of agriculture orders release from Texas fever quarantine effective Sept 1 for 9 191 square miles across Texas Oklahoma Tennessee Georgia and South Carolina. The move adds to 20 000 square miles freed on March 1 1913, bringing total near 30 000 this year. Since 1906 tick eradication has cleared 196 395 of 741 551 infected square miles. Tennessee now largely released except Marion county.
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Texas
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Georgia
South Carolina
Marion County
Journal of Commerce reports six month fire losses drop
The Journal of Commerce shows total fire losses in the United States and Canada for the six months ending July 31, 1913 at 139 million dollars, down from 149 million in 1912 and 154.5 million in 1911. The figure is a reduction but still a prodigious sum, with experts noting fire losses often magnified. Even if overstated by a third, one hundred million dollars would be swept away in sixty days.
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The
Brooklyn Times
Arentine
China
Peru
United States
Ramsey
Washington
Heer
Journal of Commerce
Canada
Nation-building on American countryside urged by ambassador
Walter H. Page, ambassador to England, says the greatest issue for the United States is developing country life. He notes that industrious cities and railroads were organized while rural areas were neglected, and urges renewed effort to shape future American life from the soil.
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Walter H. Page
England
Protests Over Exclusion of Ferber Story From Mails
The protest recalls prior clashes when John Wanamaker barred Tolstoy's Kreutzer Sonata from the mails. Merchants stockpiled the work, creating demand so strong that shipments were sent in carload lots to distribution points.
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Edna Ferber
John Wanamaker
Tolstoy
Desertion of 3,000 longshoremen shocks IWW ranks
A mass desertion of 3,000 longshoremen from the Industrial Workers of the World signals that anti destruction theories are taking hold. The move appears to reflect shifting sentiment among workers amid labor unrest and mounting pressures on radical organizations.
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Industrial Workers of the World
All-Day Singing Draws Crowd at Tuscaloosa Courthouse
Residents of Tuscaloosa packed the courthouse last Wednesday for an all-day singing event. The community gathering drew families and local residents seeking traditional songs and fellowship in a historic civic space.
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Tuscaloosa
Court House
Old Confederate Brigadiers Left in Congress
The Nashville Democrat marks the death of Senator Johnston by noting that only five senators and three representatives who served in the Confederacy remain in Congress. It recalls Bankhead Martin Tillman Bacon Catron Richardson Taylor Jones and others who once wore the gray, and observes the era’s passing as Gettysburg memories fade.
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Gordon
Tennessee
Congress
Nashville Democrat
Johnston
Bankhead
Alabama
Martin
Virginia
Virginia Military Institute
Tillman
South Carolina
Bacon
Georgia
Catron
New Mexico
Missouri
Richardson
Taylor
Jones
Senate
House
Cleveland
Clark
Postmaster Barker
Mobile
Senator Johnston
The Saddle Man s Music
A nostalgic verse about the music of the spur guiding riders across plains and trails. It contrasts the saddle feller hillman and plainsman with memory’s pull when leaving the old range. The jingling spur evokes blissful dreaming and youth on the trail.
Safety in ignorance
Farmer Corntessel defends a political choice with a colorful exchange from the Washington Star. The dialogue questions whether the elected man had any ties to a powerful lobby, asserting there was never anything he spoke for in lobbying terms.
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Farmer Corntessel
Washington Star
Washington Asylum for the Insane Attracts Cranks and Tales
Washington is described as a magnet for cranks and the insane with tales of visitors to the White House and Congress. The piece recounts numerous absurd cases from a North Carolina man claiming wireless messages from President Wilson to a Taft era claimant to throw out the president, plus other puzzling visitors and pranksters encountered by White House guards, Capitol police, and hospital staff.
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Victor Elliott
Washington
Congress
Washington Asylum
White House
Senate
House
North Carolina
Wilson
United States
Bill
Alabama
Philadelphia
Taft
Uncle Sam
Government Hospital
Wilkie
Secret Service
Government
District of Columbia
Secretary of the Treasury
Kelley
Worst pun debate echoes in Punch spoof of Roumania
The letter scene and a Punch jab on Roumania’s motto reveal wit and nameless bravado. The New York Tribune mocks British pronouncers and the Panama Exposition, noting long weeks before Roumania.
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Wobbie Weignald Browne
Wobbie
Roumania
Bulgaria
New York ‘Tribune
Inquisitive Porter Asks For Kurriemuir Joke
A Washington Star report describes a local train at a Scottish junction where passengers transfer for Kurriemuir. The porter asked if anyone was for Kurriemuir, got no reply, and the train moved on. An old Scotchwoman quipped she was also for Kurriemuir but would not tell the inquisitive porter.
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Kurriemuir
Washington Star
Four Footed Bomb Threats Senate Minister and Dog Escapade
A minister and his secretary receive a suffragette coded warning about a four footed threat. The minister misreads it as a bomb plot tied to his boarhound. A chase unfolds through Lambeth Palace as the dog trails the minister with a ticking clock hidden in the tail pocket.
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Richard Spattes
Morning Mail
Mr. Spattes
Dicky Spattes
Harriet
Spattes
Thetairs
Hades
Lambeth Palace
Fido
Ignorance of Monroe Doctrine debated by Indianapolis News
The Indianapolis News criticizes officials and commentators for misrepresenting the Monroe Doctrine over Britain's Bermudas naval base talk. It argues Britain may fortify Bermudas as freely as Halifax or Vancouver, and urges correct understanding of the doctrine and its Panama Canal implications for U.S. credibility and moral standing.
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Great Britain
Bermuda
Western Hemisphere
Bermudas
Halifax
Vancouver
St. Thomas
French Guiana
Panama Canal
Indianapolis News
Baleful Effects of Fusionism In Tennessee
The piece denounces fusionism as a harmful influence slowing Tennessee's growth and deterring capital from investing. It contrasts Tennessee unfavorably with other Southern states while urging reform and political flattening of huckstering politicians to improve prospects.
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Tennessee
American finances seen through English views on U S wealth
New York reports on European observers like London officials and Sir George Paish praising U S growth. They note 1912 crops and exports reduced need for foreign capital, with American wealth rising to about five billion annually from domestic sources.
Japan's Refusal to Receive Huerta Envoy Signals Subtle Stance
The New York Tribune notes Japan declines to recognize General Huerta's envoy, treating the envoy as a representative of a revolutionary president rather than a lawful government. The move appears personal, not national, and could align Japan with the United States amid tensions with Mexico.
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Japan
Huerta
General Huerta
America
Mexico
United States
New York Tribune
How the term originated joke from Adam and Eve tale
A reader joke traces the phrase to Adam and Eve's marital squabbles. Eve sobs over every slight from home cooking to anniversaries while Adam jokes about understanding poets when he says Dewey Eve, implying humorous origin of a term.
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Adam
Eve
Judge
Dewey Eve
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