Item Company Mobile News Advertisement 1913
The Mobile Item Company in Mobile Alabama announces publication details dated August 28, 1913. It lists leadership including Ames C Van Antwerp as President and General Manager and OHN TEE as secretary and treasurer, with Associated Press and International News Service provided content. Subscription rates are shown for daily and Sunday, Sunday only, and carrier delivery in Mobile and suburbs.
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The
Mobile Item
Evences
the Item Company, Inc
Sranune Street
Mobile
Ala
Ames C. van Antwerp
Bet Wud Suns
Ohn Tee
Associated Press
Southern Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Albert Hanson
Item
Fifth Ave
New York
Peters
Bell
Home
Debate Over Baseball Language Highlights Slang Versus Plain English
The piece contrasts Comiskey and Harper’s Weekly calling for clear reporting with a University of Chicago professor defending baseball slang. It notes readers’ taste for vivid slang, cites a Southern League game in Mobile with players and a heckling fan, and reflects on how language conveys meaning to spectators.
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Charles A. Comiskey
Chicago Americans
The
Record-Herald
That City
Harper's Weekly
Comiskey
University of Chicago
Harper’s Weekly
Harper's
Chicago
New York
Starr
Odell
Paulet
Dave Robertson
Robertson
George Chevalier
William James
Harper
James
Mobile
Magnitude of iron ore deposits by Holland
New York recalls Senator Barnum and Abram Hewitt on iron ore resources. The piece discusses inexhaustible ore in Adirondack and Harlem valley, Southern growth, and projected U S production leadership with 1909 figures on ore, mining costs, wages, and pig iron output.
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New York
Im H. Barnuny
United States
National Democratic
Cee Ag
Barnum
Connectic
Harlem Valley
George G
George G. Then Attorney General, Confessed Tat All Fox
Cee Ale Corporation
Tctal
Henry Brown
United States Steel Corporation
Adirondack
New York State
Lake Champlain
Mr. Hewitt
Abram.s. Hewitt
Great Britain
Washington
Hewitt
Bureau of Statistics
American Iron and Steel Institute
America
Holland
Currency Bill Keeps Federal Control in National Reform
President Wilson remains firm on federal control of the national banking system while rejecting a central bank. He cites bankers at Chicago as not reflecting broader sentiment and seeks emergency currency powers without weakening the administration bill. A telegram from a Chicago banker reassures him that many bankers back the plan and approve the reform nationwide.
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Chicago
Wilson
Washington
Chicago Tribune
Iim
Savannah Judge Fines Pair Under Dress Reform Push
A Savannah police judge enforces dress propriety with fines for women and a young man who spoke to them. One woman pays five dollars, a man twenty five dollars protests, signaling a reform wave with few arrests since.
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Savannah
Causes of Discontent With the Law
Frederick R. Coudert argues two main causes for distrust in law. The first is that modern judge-made law lags behind changing life and today reflects older opinions more than living, dynamic views. The second centers on costly, slow court processes that deter ordinary people from vindicating rights, leaving them embittered and forced to settle.
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Frederick R. Coudert
England
France
Germany
Pertinent Questions and Socialist Soap Box Images
A provocative inquiry questions whether a revolutionary Socialist preaches openly on city streets or works covertly in schools and secret meetings. It asks if such figures and their party have saturated public libraries with anarchist and anti establishment titles and reflects on the public perception of radical activity.
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Home Defender
Washington commentary on Justice Department agents methods
Victor Elliott recalls a New Orleans arrest of a Department of Justice special agent for taking a bribe from a fugitive and found marked money. The piece contrasts DOJ tactics with Secret Service practices and cites past cases in Vancouver and counterfeiting to critique enforcement approaches.
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Victor Elliott
Washington
Department of Justice
New Orleans
Latin America
Treasury Department
United States
Secret Service
Vancouver
B. C
Department
Pennsylvania
Navy Department
A Line o’ Cheer Each Day o’ the Year
John Kendrick Bangs presents a humorous verse on rising living costs. The narrator notes high clothes and rent prices, gold prices climbing, yet insists laughter costs nothing and can ease expenses.
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John Kendrick Bangs
THE
Economist
Quips and Quips: A Patchwork of Light Risqué Observations
A collage of sharp witticisms from various papers touches on money, law, and social habits. Jokes range from a father and daughter money exchange to a future judge reference and odd price shifts in grain and seed.
Paris vs Tokyo entertainments teased by papers
The Public Ledger jokes General Diaz could enjoy Paris life more than Tokyo with ample expense money. It notes a Japanese muse is as pretty as a Parisian grisette and that geisha girls dance more beautifully than Abbaye’s or the Rat Mort venues.
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Felix Diaz
Paris
Tokio
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Abbaye’s
Louisville Courier-Journal
Missouri bandit reforms under evangelist urging
A Missouri bandit reportedly reforms after an evangelist's urging while mourners on the bench count money on the way home. A separate note describes a German counterfeit operation in New York where a German secret-service operative aided the counterfeiters until revealing the paper he had bought for engraving.
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Missouri
Florida
New York
Secret Service
Explaining the 17th Amendment and Senate Seating
The piece discusses the unintended effects of the seventeenth amendment to elect senators by the people, noting it does not apply to existing terms except Senator Bacon of Georgia. It describes Alabama’s interim appointment, the Senate’s power to seat or dismiss the appointee, and that lawyers disagree on the text’s meaning. The Birmingham Ledger editorial concludes this is a Senate question, not a legal one.
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Bacon
Georgia
Alabama
Senate
Washington
Birmham Ledger
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Congress
Huerta
Japan
de la Barra
Scovuch
Henry
Mit
Washington Comment
Hartford Post
New York Dispatch
Massachusetts
Allentown
Philadelphia Enquirer
Albany Journal
Allentown Democrat
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