The Mobile Item Company reorganizes and expands delivery
The Mobile Item Company announces reorganization and daily and Sunday delivery options. It identifies leadership including James C. Van Antwerp and C. B. Hanson and notes subscriptions with prices for seven days a dime and longer terms. The paper highlights full Associated Press wire reports and distribution from Mobile Alabama with offices in New York.
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James C. van Antwerp
C. B. Hanson
Albert P. Bush
John C. O'Connell
Sidnain
Associated Press
International News Service
Southern Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Albert Hanson
Mobile
Ala
Fifth _Ave
New York
GanwAew Annivane Vea
Seamen seek emancipation in final session of Congress
The sixty second congress opens with talk of freeing 175000 American seamen from virtual serfdom. House and Senate plan a bill to abolish involuntary servitude for merchant mariners, improving wages, housing and working conditions, and training for youths. The move faces opposition from steamship interests but gains support from labor and reformers. Also noted are harbor appropriations for Mobile and river improvements linking Birmingham with Mobile via a new canal.
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House of Representatives
Great Lakes
Senate
House
Congress
Europe
United States
Brazil
Russia
Representative Wilson
Pennsylvania
Canada
Newd
West Indies
Mexico
Berlin Treaty and US Protest Over Roumanian Jewish Security
The piece discusses John Hay's protest to European powers signing the Berlin treaty over Roumanian Jewish persecution. It notes the humanitarian basis of the protest, cites a German paper call it impertinent, and invokes Walter William Watson’s admonitory verse urging action to defend innocent lives.
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Turkey
John Hay
United States
Short Ballot Movement Influences Illinois Election Debate
Illinois voters backed a move to study shortening the ballot under the Public Policy Act. A Chicago City Club report endorses appointive state officers, governors’ lists, district elections for commissioners, and separate judicial elections, with a case for an appointive judiciary.
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Illinois
Public Policy Act
General Assembly
49Th General Assembly
Chicago City Club
New York
California
Civil Service Commission
Eee
Tramp Requests Trousers in Doorway Gaffe
A tramp at the door tells Mrs. Henpeck he is the head of the house and asks to see her husband. After she questions the request he respectfully apologizes, then asks for a pair of trousers, as reported by Harper's Weekly.
Beggar Politicians Haunt Wilson Era Capital
Washington correspondent recalls a flood of job seekers in Washington as President elect Wilson prepares to appoint thousands. Dems in Congress dodge petitions while veterans recount past fates of failed applicants. By Victor Elliott. December 2.
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Victor Elliott
Washington
House of Representatives
Congress
Champ Clark
Underwood
Clayton
Judiciary Committee
Henry
Rules Committee
Ponick County
Wilson
Meezipp
Bermuda
White House
Cleveland
Willard Hotel
Willard
Border Line
Washington Asylum
Potters Field
South
Alabama papers urge cabinet seats for Underwood and Glass
The Star and Hot Blast favors Oscar Underwood for secretary of the treasury while noting his four year congressional leadership may serve the country better than a cabinet post. It also regards Frank P. Glass as a strong candidate, likening him to Woodrow Wilson and urging party unity.
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Anniston Star
Hot Blast
Alabama
Wilson
Mobile Item
Montgomery Advertiser
Frank P. Glass
Birmingham Age-Herald
Oscar Underwood
Treasury
Star and
Star and Hot Blast
House
Congress
Underwood
the Treasury
Glass
Woodrow Wilson
The Mobile Item Nominates Frank Glass for Wilson Cabinet
The Mobile Item endorses Frank P. Glass of the Birmingham News for a Wilson administration post. Glass is fit for office but not for attorney general and is praised for his intellect writing and action. The piece urges Alabama to support Glass to help make the administration historic.
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Birmingham
Mobile
Alabama
Frank P. Glass
Birmingham News
Wilson
Glass
Princeton
Baltimore
Frank Glass
Christmas Eve in Paris Lights Up With Festive Labors
C F Bertelli reports from Paris in Leslie's about busy Christmas preparations. Booths line boulevards, mistletoe arrives from the countryside, toy fairs replace ironmongery, and a towering 150 foot tree dominates stores. Foreign visitors feel the festive mood yet sense Parisian happiness as similar to that in New York and Chicago, fostering homesickness.
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Paris
Noel
France
Europe
New York
Chicago
C. F. Bertelli
Leslie
Do Your Shopping Early Stamped by Fatigue and Faith
A Chicago Tribune critique argues that urging early Christmas shopping harms workers by increasing fatigue and illness. It compares to the Fourteenth and warns gifts bought at others’ expense lack grace and contradict the spirit of Christmas. It recalls Christ’s teaching burdened souls find rest.
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Aden
Chicago Tribune
Lightning Strikes Repeat Trees In Forest Fire Study
An extensive five year USFS inquiry covering 200 million acres finds lightning often strikes the same tree seven or eight times. Florida and Illinois show highest frequency while deaths from lightning mostly occur in the open, not under trees. Trees emerge as the main target and hazard in open spaces.
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United States Forest Service
Florida
Illinois
Georgia
Waning of the Crescent and War Time Notes
The poem depicts wartime devastation with battles from mountains to villages, urging a stunned world to witness the spread of violence. It references Thrace, the Bosphorus, Stamboul, and prophetic night skies as empires clash and cities burn under red, scarlet imagery. It closes with unrelated labor wage figures and a museum reference.
Hawk of the Woods Meets His Match
A self executed hawk roams rain swept wood looking for prey. He traps a green woodpecker and then stalks a missel thrush, but a clever strategy on telegraph wires ends with the hawk being decapitated by the overhead lines. A vivid nature tableau blends danger and surprise.
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Bird of Prey
Mellen’s Grip on New England Railways Tightens
A critical portrait of Charles Sanger Mellen and his New Haven system as it expands in New England. The piece compares Mellen’s railroad empire to a caged squirrel, notes aggressive acquisitions from boats to trolleys, and highlights frequent clashes with legislatures, courts, and banks while Grand Trunk expansion faces strategic resistance. The narrative casts Attorney General Wickersham as wary observer and hints at looming grand jury scrutiny over competition barriers.
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New England
Charles Sanger Mellen
Granite States
Mr. Mellen
Wickersham
Mellen
United States
New Haven
Boston and
Albany
Boston
Vermont
New London
Grand Trunk
Providence
Palmer
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Hiccoughs
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Mobile Harbor
Alabama River
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Warrior
Tombigbee Rivers
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Rior
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Neer
Iron and Steel Manufacturing
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Short Ballot Movement
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Herman Schenffer
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Thrace
Bosphorus
National Museum
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