Mobile Item Company and Publishing Details of 1881
The document lists Mobile Item Company Incorporated at 418 120 Gopts Street Mobile Ala publishing seven papers weekly with Sunday edition after 1881. It describes subscription terms including seven days for ten cents, yearly rates, mail delivery options, and contact telephones in Mobile and New York offices.
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T Mobile Item Company, Inc
Gopts Street
Mobile, Ale
The
South
Associated Press
Publishers’ Press
Southern Newspapersenchore’ Association
Hanson
Foreig
Item
Mobile
Ain
Fifth Ave
New Rk
Reflections on Mobile Belt Line Debate 1912
In a Mobile address a private citizen criticizes how editors shape public opinion. The piece rebukes belt line railroad schemes, cites legal limits, warns against conflicts of interest by Hartwell, and argues city governance must avoid unmanaged agendas and hidden motives. The writer defends port interests and cautions against public ventures without proper study.
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Mobile
Gulf
Hartwell
Mobile Daily Register
Turner-Hartwell Docks Company
City of
Ofa
Belt Line
Hartwell Campaign Inquiry Questions Grounded
The passage identifies Mr. Aubrey Boyles as a Hartwell campaign press agent and lawyer who handles abstracts. It argues that reviewing Sunday campaign literature in the Register’s advertising columns would reveal no basis for his transfer questions and would show no ground for doubt.
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Aubrey Boyles
Hartwell
Boyles
Register
Three keys of business in Monte Cristo lesson
A historical ad piece argues three purposes in business: goods bought, goods sold, and goods advertised. It uses Monte Cristo to illustrate that success hinges on thorough advertising and choosing the right medium. The Mobile Item is urged as the home paper for advertising.
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Monte Cristo
Dumas
O’neil
Merchant’s Clerks and Subway Angst In One Day
A merchant’s pencil craving leads to a pocketknife rescue by a boy named Tommy. In New York, Gus Schiedecker contemplates death at a matinee crowd and rail, is restrained by Daniel Cornwall, then reassured by a cop. He vows to find the man who has wronged him.
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Tommy
Thomas
Times Square
Gus Schiedecker
New York
Cincinnati Times Star
Schiedecker
Daniel Cornwall
Port Washington
Mr. Schiedecker
Cornwall
Rauss
Panama canal value to the South noted in trade article
The Chattanooga Tradesman argues that Panama Canal will lower costs for pig iron and coal shipping to San Francisco, shifting imports from England and Australia. It cites Alabama iron, Birmingham prices, and steamship freight to show how water routes cut costs, enabling more Alabama and Tennessee coal to reach West Coast markets.
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Panama Canal
San Francisco
England
Cape Horn
Dana
Cape
Straits of Magellan
Europe
California
Alabama No
Birmingham
Cleveland
Middlesboro
Alabama
Newcastle
Australia
Mount Diablo
Chattanooga
Farmer confronts merchant over express charges and local ads
A farmer carrying an express package from a Chicago mail order house is accosted by a merchant who questions his purchase. The farmer retorts that merchants should advertise in local papers to support home stores.
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Chicago
The Spur of The Moment by Roy K. Moulton
Uncle Abner quips on appearances and social foibles. A poetess Misea Perkins begins writing after a love setback. A bugologist claims a microbe to kill potato bugs for farmers.
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Roy K. Moulton
Abner
Misea Eeace Perkins
Elmer Jones
Earl
Aloysius Smith
Anthracite curiosities and town verse in a small town
A goose egg sized anthracite ore was found on Main street by Erastus Hanks and shown at a drug store. Mrs. T Wellington Butts wore an anthracite necklace at a reception while Mazie Binks flaunted an anthracite ring. The note also mentions Mrs. Avery Mudge’s arrest in New York and includes verses about a swatting maid and an Iceman poem.
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Main Street
Erastus Hanks
T. Wellington Butts
Diversified Uses of Petroleum Parade in 1911 Oil Growth
The United States produced over 978 million barrels west of the Mississippi by 1911 with California leading output. Fuel oil emerged as a national asset for power, railroads and naval use, boosting Pacific coast expansion and prompting oil-fueled locomotives in major railroads and oil-burning ships in the Navy.
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United States
New York
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Ohio
Mississippi River
California
Lima
United States Geological Survey
David T. Day
Oklahoma
Russia
Mexico
India
Roumania
Galicia
Japan
South America
Pacific Coast
Alaska
Pacific
Atlantic
Canadian Pacific Railway
William White
British Columbia
Southern Pacific Company
Santa Fe
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
United States Navy
Nevada
Cement mix with oil yields water resistant concrete
Logan Waller Page and associates discovered that adding about 10 percent petroleum residual oil to Portland cement, sand, and gravel creates water-proof concrete without weakening strength. The oil blends into the cement paste, remaining integrated after hardening, improving road material.
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Logan Waller Page
Office of Public Roads
Page
New York Evening Post
Pleasant land of plenty promised by candidates
Poem imagines a utopian country where everyone would have money and health, with no debt or harassment. It contrasts such fantasies with political promises, suggesting disillusion when candidates fail to deliver on their pledges.
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Adam
Early Bird Sells Out Bargains as Prices Drop
A New York Press excerpt notes bargains in summer wear with shirts and hats discounted to half or less. It contrasts frugality with waiting, citing early shoppers who save half to two-thirds. London catalogs warn camels of changing times as cabs and apples move trade.
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New York Press
Half and Half Colors Move Into Fashion Circles
The Memphis Commercial Appeal notes a Newport scene where a prominent woman wore a blue gown paired with a half black half white ensemble including mismatched stockings and slippers. Observers predict a season of such eccentric dress, while critics deride it as idleness among the leisure class.
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Newport
Memphis
Puny Man and the Giant
A government bulletin highlights giant sequoias as the oldest and tallest living beings. Thirteen groves in two parks hold over 12 000 trees ten feet in diameter, with some reaching 300 feet tall. Sequoias dwarf ancient civilizations and loom as timeless emblems of natural grandeur.
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Britain
Athens
Rome
Carthage
Tyre
Spain
Mexico
Atlanta
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London
Tasmania
Puny Man and
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