Mobile Paper Listing 1912 Mobile Alabama Publication
A 1912 Mobile Alabama classified-style notice lists Mobile Item Company Inc. address at 10-18 St Emanuel Street the seven daily papers published including a Sunday edition, delivery rates for seven days, and contact leads Hanson manager and editors. It notes leased wire full day AP report and Sunday International News Service, plus BPA and newspaper association details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile Item Company Inc
St. Emanuel Street
Mobile
Ala
HSC
van Antwerp
Hanson
T P. Bush
Co. Connell
Associated Press
International News Service
Southern Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Pw Aatt
Hanson, Nager Foreign Advertising
Item Building
Fifth Ave
New York
Newspaper Finance and Panama Canal Impacts
The piece argues subscriptions and advertising fund daily papers, warns against free space, and notes the Greenwood Journal stance. It surveys Panama Canal effects on trade, immigration, and the yellow peril, plus naval policy debates and Aldrich currency reform fallout. It cites Meyer, Hobson, and Fowler in context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenwood Journal
Attorney General urges trust law reform and new litigation
The Attorney General Wickersham calls for legislation enabling the justice department to pursue cases against the United States Shoe Machinery Company and the coffee trust. He cites Supreme Court decisions, disputes Sherman Act amendments, and notes the year’s civil and criminal dockets and recoveries totaling about 2.75 million dollars. He criticizes prior prosecutions as not encouraging and hints at early actions against Lehigh Valley coal and railroad interests.
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Department of Justice
United States Shoe Machinery Company
Coffee Trust
Wickerswan
Congress
Secon
Lehigh Valley Coal and Railroad
Supreme Court
Standard Oilpany
American Tobacco Company
Wickersham
Attorney General
Treasury
United States
Solicitor of the Treasury
Court of Claims
Sonn
Do Away With Prejudice in Mobile Community
A call for unity and neighborly respect in Mobile urges citizens to forgive differences and persuade others kindly. It emphasizes liberty of belief as a citizen and Christian, urging positive acts over negativity to make Mobile a thriving, friendly place to live.
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Mobile
Roosevelt Roosts In Money Trail Of 1904 Campaigns
The senate inquiry chaired by Senator Clapp traced campaign funding from 1904 through 1912. John D. Archbold of Standard Oil testified about $125,000 in 1904 and names like Bliss Morgan Roosevelt and Penrose surfaced, with totals and donors including Harriman and Ryan. Testimony detailed contributions, lists, and fund allocations across parties and campaigns.
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Victor Elliott
Washington
Moses E. Clapp
John D. Archbold
Standard Oil Co
Boise Penrose
Pennsylvania
Standard
Bill Flinn
Penrose
Republican
Flinn
United States
Senate
Quay
Theodore Roosevelt
LaFollette
Roosevelt
Senator Penrose
Standard Oil Company
Cornelius H. Bliss
Archbold
Col. Roosevelt
Frank A. Munsey
Angel
George W. Perkins
J. P. Morgan
Charles P. Taft
Standard Oil
Cornelius H. Bliss, Jr
Morgan
New York State
Mr. Bliss
George B. Cortelyou
Bliss
Senate Investigating Committee
Elmer Dover
Republican National Committee
Dover
EB. H. Harriman
Thomas Fortune Ryan
Parker Campaign Fund
Ryan
Parker Fund
Mr. Ryan
Democratic Party
William F. McCombs
Wilson
Baltimore
The Winter Spirit by Judd Mortimer Lewis
A nostalgic poem celebrating winter as a mischievous yet loving season. The speaker recalls snow, Jack Frost, and the world waking with joy as cold days arrive. The verse blends playfulness with enduring affection for winter’s charm and the return of holiday comforts.
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Judd Mortimer Lewis
The Traitor ends in a doomed sacrifice of Turgoff
Vera declares love for the traitor Slavinski while Ivan Turgoff seeks to save him. The Brotherhood of the Black Seal finds Slavinski guilty, assigns death by drawing, and Bobrikoff kills Turgoff as he dies clutching Vera’s portrait. The final hope is a meeting in the next world.
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Vera
Ivan
Latin Quarter
Michael Lestroff
Siberia
Petroff Slavinski
Secret Court
Brotherhood of the Black Seal
Lestroff
Slavinski
Turgoff
Loris Bobrikoff
Ivan Turgoff
England
Brotherhood
Rascal
Bobrikoff
Véra
Civil Service Reform Sparks Postmaster Controversy
Washington lawmakers debate Taft order placing 36000 fourth class postmasters under civil service protection. Representative Hull cites potential lifelong tenure and notes a rider in the last session’s post office bill gives statutory effect to the executive order. critics warn of unintended consequences.
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Congress
Washington
Representative Hull
Tennessee
Ways and Means Committee
Taft
Mr. Hull
Harrison
Cleveland
Wilson
Civil Service
Post Office
Red Cross Christmas Seals Sale Opens In Mobile
The Red Cross Christmas Seal Committee operates from 117 Dauphin Street the old Blue Store. Ladies committees vend seals at Co J Gayfer & Co Bauer's Drug Store Van Antwerps The Candy Kitchen L Hammel Dry Goods Walter Mitchells Mrs Hart Wood Reiss Mercantile Co. Mail should bear a seal Mayor Schwarz endorses the seal from City Hall.
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Red Cross Seal
Dauphin Street
J. Gayfer & Co
Bauer's Drug Store
van Antwerp’s
Candy Kitchen
L. Hammel Dry Goods Co
Walter Mitchell's
Mrsht & Wood
Reiss Mercantile Co
Schwarz
Giant mail tubes planned to speed city deliveries
A New York commission led by Postmaster General Hitchcock evaluates ultra large mail tubes to connect Grand Central and Pennsylvania stations. Tubes 24 to 30 inches in diameter would carry mail bags between trains, reducing rehandling and labor, with plans to start parcels post service by January 1 and accommodate the Christmas rush.
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Grand Central
Pennsylvania
Hitchcock
New York
Postmaster Morgan
E. H. Morris
Joseph J. Porter
Railway Mail Service
E. T. Bushnell
Rollin H. Bates
Chicago
Mr. Morgan
Commission
Brooklyn
Morgan
Houston Chronicle
Industrial Conservation and State Arbitration Boards
Robert Sloss argues for less coercive conflict resolution in industry. He notes compulsory arbitration failing and highlights state boards, starting with Massachusetts in 1886, as models to mediate disputes. He points to broader adoption across twenty two states and ongoing international discussion.
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Massachusetts
State Board of Arbitration and
New York
International Association of State Boards of Arbitration and Mediation
Robert Sloss
Harper’s Weekly
Hughie Kelly Cited For Panhandling In New York City
Detectives in front of the Hotel Astor arrest Hughie Kelly after he asks for a dollar to buy gasoline. He claims to be from Bridgeport and rich enough to own multiple farms but is jailed for sixty days on the island, as he boasts of past harvests.
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the Daily Journal
Daily Journal
Greenwood
Hotel Astor
Hughie Kelly
Mr. Kelly
Bridgeport
Kelly
West Side Court
Butts
New York
Cincinnati TimesStar
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The
Mobile Item
Alabama
Panama Canal
America
Americas
Atlantic
Gulf Seaboard
Europe
Gulf
Orient
East
Canal
Pacific
Asia
mid-Pacific
Pacific Coast
Hawaii
Honolulu
San Francisco
Navy
Meyer
North American
Richmond Pearson Hobson
Hobson
Secretary of the Navy
North America
Lyceum
Fowler
Charles N. Fowler
Nelson W. Aldrich
Aldrich
Hudson River
Vladivostok
Attorney General's
London
Washington Comment
Ann
Jack Frost
Victor Petrovitch
Ivan Turgeoff
RED Cross
Monster
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