Mobile Item Company Ad Information From Mobile Address
An excerpt shows the Item Company of Mobile Alabama with Emanuel Street address and personnel including C Van Antwerp TG Steanon Hanson President and Gen Manager P Bush Secretary Treasurer and Albert Hanson Manager Forel Advertising. It includes subscription rates by mail and carrier and service office contact lines.
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3ISH Item Company, Inc
Emanuel Street
Mobile
van Antwerp TG
Steanon Hanson
P. Bush
Oconnell
Associated Press
International News Servicd
Southern Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Albert Hanson
Forel Advertising
Item Building
Ala
Fifth Ave
New York
MAIL
Usiness Office
Home
Bell
Newlands Bill Links Rivers to Federal Waterway Authority
August 28 1914 Mobile Alabama report details the Newlands bill creating a permanent waterways commission and a river regulation board. Supporters say it ends patchwork levee schemes, centralizes flood protection, and aligns with Democratic pledges while drawing cross-regional backing from the Mississippi Missouri and Ohio valleys.
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Newlands
Senate
Permanent Waterways Commission
Board of River Regulation
Lane
Wilson
Memphis News-Scimitar
Mississippi
Ohiio
Ohio
Missouri
West
Mississippi Valley
National Reclamation Association
National Treasury
Memphis
Do Dogs Carry Tuberculosis in Paris and Beyond
A Paris figure claims 12 000 to 18 000 tubercular dogs roam streets. the St. Louis Post Dispatch rebuts, saying disease mainly thrives in ill ventilated poverty and luxury homes alike. Other papers urge studying pet infection to aid stamping out the white plague across cities including Constantinople.
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French Academy of Medicine
Paris
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Post-Dispatch
Richmond
Europe
Constantinople
Parcel Post as Collection Method Draws Legal Review
The Boston Chamber of Commerce exposes a Kansas merchant scheme using parcel post C O D boxes to collect debts. Boxes filled with waste and a paying recipient prompt curiosity payments, with the district attorney calling it clever but not prosecutable under current rules. The case may push postal law amendments to curb such collection tricks.
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Boston Chamber of Commerce
Parcel Post
Kansas
C. O. D. Department of the Parcel Post
United States Attorney
Post Office Department
Hodges Pushes Commission Rule in Kansas
Governor Hodges argues for a commission form of government, proposing to abolish the state legislature and govern with a twelve to fifteen member body. He condemns the average state legislature as a major national failure and contends representative government is inadequate for Kansas.
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Kansas
Hodges
United States
Advance of
Kansas Oncht Foundation
Abundance of Editors Delights Tuscaloosa Readers
The Tuscaloosa Times Gazette announces a string of editors on summer leave culminating in a last minute replacement. The acting editor admits lacking expertise in ladies skirts politics or county high schools. Readers are promised the usual daily gems and reader submissions in this lighthearted note.
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Tuscaloosa
Gems
Yegeratess of -Who
Husband's Novel Defence in Brooklyn Separation Case
Mrs. Jennie Cohen, owner of a Brooklyn white goods factory, sought alimony and counsel fees in a separation suit. Her husband admitted leaving her soon after marriage but claimed his departure was caused by her failure to employ him in her factory. He provided a new defense, and Mrs. Cohen obtained her decree.
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el Paso Herald
Dallas News
Dallas
United States
Mexico
M. Briand
France
Lloyd- George
Jennie Cohen
Brooklyn
Cohen
Norman Hapgood
Hapgood
Mr. Hapgood
Harper's Weekly
Emerson
Pankhurst
A Line O Cheer Each Day o Year by Bangs
Poem prompts daily cheer with old motto values. Verses urge active deeds and fresh joy, claiming good deeds renew the doer’s spirit as in ancient times. The piece frames daily effort as enduringly fulfilling.
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Methuselah
Putting New York to Bed in a Midnight City Clash
The Cincinnati Times-Star quotes a debate over Mayor Gaynor aiming to curb late night Gotham life. It portrays Broadway revelers as a “class” of nocturnal wastrels amid calls for stricter municipal control and law-and-order sentiment.
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Edmund Burke
Gaynor
Cincinnati Times-Star
The Little Church Around the Corner History
The story of New York’s Church of the Transfiguration and its link to the nickname The Little Church Around the Corner. It began with Bishop Sabine declining a funeral for actor George Holland and prompting Joseph Jefferson to seek the Atonement Church. The name spread through theatrical circles and the church became a hub for actors for marriages christenings and burials.
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New York
Twenty-ninth Street
William Tubwell Sabine
Reformed Episcopal Church
George Hendric Houghton
Jefferson
Speciality in Senate Debates Shapes Washington Power
The piece surveys U S senators as specialists, naming Warren as an appropriation and wool expert, Lewis as a fashion-minded figure, Norris on coffee, Jones on Bryan, Bacon on foreign affairs, Stone on Indians, Thompson on biography, and Vardaman on anti Negro sentiment, with remarks on their styles and influence in Congress.
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Washington
United States
Bebate
Warren
Wyoming
Dolliver
Abraham
Fort Russell
Sage Hense
Laramie Plains
James Hamilton Lewis
Congress
Norris
Senate
Brazilian Coffee Trust
Jones
Bryan
James
Senator Bacon
Talleyrand
Senator Stone
Senate Committee On
Stone
Senator Thompson
Kansas
Plains of Kansas
Charles Curtis
Thompson
Congressional Directory
Eer
Vardaman
Wil
Hapgood critique and senator portraits in a 1900s column
The piece mocks Norman Hapgood and his feminist ideas while praising senators known for specialized wits. It contrasts Hapgood’s views with reflections on dress, duty, and gender roles across generations. The column ends noting the value and pitfalls of political specialization and advertising in elections.
Viola Allen on Woman Suffrage and English Militants
Viola Allen compares English and American suffrage movements noting England’s harsher treatment and the militants’ tactics. She argues American suffragists must prove intellectual fitness for the vote and cites risks of anarchic methods while acknowledging real reform needs and future potential.
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Viola Allen
Europe
England
America
Engnsh
Ning
House of Commons
Mark Twain Relives Pirate Prank in Bermuda Visitor Memoir
In the September Strand Marion Schuyler Allen recounts Mark Twain’s Bermuda visit with a staged pirate intrusion aboard the Euryalus. A sunken longboat, feigned hostility, and mock planks set the scene as Twain enjoyed the shipboard performance and the historical flavor of the escapade.
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Mark Twain
Marion Schuyler Allen
Bermuda
Euryalus
Berduma
Prison Farm Reform in Ontario Reduces Crime
Robson Black reports in Wide World Magazine that Ontario moved 400 inmates from Toronto Central Prison to a farm. The program aims at rehabilitation with minimal supervision, mixing burglars and forgers among willing workers. After three years only about 1 in 4 returning for new sentences, contrary to fears that farming would entice crime.
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Robson Black
Wide World
Province of
Ontario
Toronto
Absurd Picture Worth More Than Frame Says Exe
Dialogue shows Mrs Exe accusing Mr Dauber of lying about an exhibition image. Exe retorts the frame is worth more than fifty cents, per a Boston Transcript remark.
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