The Mobile Item Company Inc Reopenings 1912
The Mobile Item newspaper, founded 1881 and reorganized on April 10 1912, offers seven papers weekly for ten cents including Sunday edition. Publishes daily except Sunday and lists editors and offices in Mobile Alabama and New York. Telephones and subscription rates included. December 9 1912.
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Mobile Item Company Inc
St. Emanuel Street
Mobile
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Daly Paper In
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Associated Press
International News Service
Southern Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Hanson
Fifth Ave
New York
Dasheen Root Trials and Senate Leadership Discussed
The article details early 1900s dasheen root experiments across the South including Berkeley County South Carolina and Brooksville Florida with Trinidad dasheen yielding high tuber crops. It then analyzes Democratic Senate leadership prospects for Wilson era, highlighting Gore as likely administration spokesman and naming O Gorman Smith Williams and others as possible close allies.
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Tropics
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Nation
Department of Mre Tm
Porto Rico
Hawaii
Orient
Berkeley County
South Carola
Trinidad
British West Indies
South Carolina
Brooksville
Fla
United States
National Georgraphic Society
Washington
New York Club
Wilson
Thomas Pryor Gore
Oklahoma
Gore
Woodrow Wilson
Senate
Clark Territory
New Jersey
Senator O'Gorman
New York
Hoke Smith
Georgia
John Sharp Williams
Remarkable Jungle Life Pictures At Obile Theatre This Week
The Obile Theatre showcases life in the jungle and tropical forests with cinema that educates as well as entertains. The series promises high value for both youth and adults, revealing carnivora habits captured by the camera in tropical wilderness and urging public notice before opportunities fade.
Proposed Court Procedure Reforms From MacChesney Address
Nathan William MacChesney urges nineteen procedural measures to improve criminal cases including standards for reversed judgments, prosecution comment on failure to testify, banning private confessions, equal change of venue, three quarters verdicts in noncapital cases, and flexible indictment amendments. Also notes a lithographing concern and a bank using electric presses in unrelated segments.
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Kansas State Society of Criminal Law and Criminology
Nathan William MacChesney
Chicago
Taft
American Bar Association
Congress of
United States
Boston
Roosevelt third party fate debated in Congress
Washington reports analysis of the Bull Moose movement after Roosevelt's landslide. Norris shifts stance while Dixon and Clapp list as Republicans. La Follette leads a Progressive faction. Observers question if Bull Moosers gain power or fade as party lines blur.
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United States Senate
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Dixon
Clapp
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Theodore Roosevelt
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LaFollette
Is Prayer Answered According to a Memphis Paper
A reader asks if prayer is answered and argues that desire shapes reality. Citing Darwin Spencer and George Eliot, the piece asserts prayer fulfills through personal transformation and cites a Memphis Scimitar note about God using man to answer prayers.
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Spencer
George Eliot
Silas Marner
Earth
Hell
Memphis News Scimitar
Cap Rescue in Central Park Involves Carnegie and Bryce
Two young boys argue in Broad Scotch over a cap lost on the reservoir walk in Central Park. Two elderly passersby intervene and retrieve the cap with a pole. One rescuer is Andrew Carnegie and the other is James Bryce, the retiring British ambassador.
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Andrew Carnegie
James Bryce
Cincinnati Times-Star
Los Angeles Opens School Teaching Dressing as Fine Art
The Chicago Inter Ocean notes a new LA school teaching dressing as a fine art, with hints of coeducation and a course for prospective husbands. The report mentions a German electric railroad achieving speeds exceeding two miles per minute in army officer led experiments.
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Los Angeles
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Tarbell Urges Women’s Good Will To Aid Bedford Reform
In her American Magazine piece on the Bedford reformatory Miss Tarbell advocates female good will to aid criminal girls and women. She argues environmental reform, homelike settings, and respectful treatment restore dignity and prevent relapse, urging homes and cooperative effort beyond New York’s World of Little Chance.
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Ida M. Tarbell
Miss Tarbell
Bedford Reformatory
Bedford
Miss "Arbell
New York
New York City
Jackson
New York Clinical Congress Highlights Surgical Progress
The Kansas City Star notes nearly three thousand surgeries in New York this week at the clinical congress of surgeons. One death occurred from anesthetic complications, but the piece praises anesthesia, asepsis, and advances from ether to organ transplantation as humanitarian progress enhancing overall wellbeing.
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New York
Clinical Congress of Surgeons
Massachusetts General Hospital
Warren
Morton
Carrel
Rockefeller Institute
Kansas City Star
Progress of Woman Suffrage at National Convention
The National Woman Suffrage Convention in Philadelphia drew immense crowds with 5000 attending one evening and 4000 turned away. Baroness von Stuttner spoke on peace while Mrs. Catt highlighted the white slave trade and reported 27 countries with organized suffrage societies, signaling global momentum.
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Philadelphia
Baroness von Stuttner
Mrs. Catt
International Suffrage Association
National Association
New York Evening Post
Impeachment Call Sparks Debate Over Mob Justice
The Dallas News attacks Governor Cole Blease of South Carolina over his railing against federal interference as mobs lynch alleged black attackers. It questions his stance on lynchers choosing the “right man” and suggests possible impeachment for undermining due process and racial bias in law enforcement.
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Cole Blease
South Carolina
Amalgamated Order of
Dallas News
A Feathered Pirate Sinks to a Hunter's Rifle
A skua, a dark Arctic gull of striking appearance, feasts on a grouse, a rabbit, and a baby porpoise before a long shot ends its raid. The landowner remarks the bird will make a fine display but must be stopped to protect livestock and rabbits.
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Mother Eearth
Father Neptune
Mother Earth
Public markets in Alberta reduce living costs and boost production
The Calgary public market study shows lower costs for consumers and fresher, more varied produce. It increases farmer profits, stimulates mixed crops, and spurs idle lands near cities into cultivation while explaining how orderly markets align producer and consumer interests. In Paris, All Saints Day draws massive cemetery visits across Pere Lachaise Ivry Pantin.
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Portland Telegram
All Saints
Paris
Pere Lachaise
Ivry
Pantin
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