Mobile paper ad copy for publishers association rates
Advertises publishing rates and office addresses for a Mobile Alabama newspaper with Chicago office at Lytton Building. Describes editorial aim to inform readers promptly and accurately, interpret current events, praise worthy efforts, and discuss public questions without sensationalism. Includes contact lines Bell 152 and Home 53.
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Chicago
Lytton Building
TED Press
Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Mobile
Bell
Government ownership debates and antitrust reforms discussed
Washington sources report President Wilson weighing two major ideas. One proposes a government inquiry into owning and operating telegraph and telephone lines, with Postmaster General Burleson preparing a supporting report. The other urges tougher antitrust measures including interlocking directorates prohibition and an interstate trades commission.
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Wilson
Washington
Busi
Burleson
Congress
House Judiciary Committee
Interstate Trades Commission
Democratic Party
American Telegraph and Telephone Company
Telegraph and Telephone Companies
United States
Louis D. Brandeis
Boston
Judiciary Committee
House
Senate
Road Building Convict Labor Endorsed by State Geologist
North Carolina geologist Joseph Hyde Pratt urges three class system for penitentiary inmates and road work. Virginia highway official P J Wilson backs convicts on roads. Pratt cites housing health care fair wages and moral reform as road to better roads and citizens.
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Joseph Hyde Pratt
North Carolina
Pratt
P. J. Wilson
Virginia
State Board of Health
Alabama
Uncle Sam's Cotton Guess Sparks Market Debate
The agriculture department forecast on short notice caused a late-afternoon market advance but many in the cotton trade view it as harmful to interior farmers. Critics say the late release lets speculators move first, wiping out or inflating billions in market value while farmers rely on brokers for information.
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Department of Agriculture
American
Mobile
New Orleans
Memphis
Liverpool Exchange
New Orleans Item
Houston
Agricultural Department
Department
South
Washington
Liverpool
Two Sisters Work Dull Jobs and Seek Hope
Julia Marvin endures long hours behind a Bairds department store counter selling ordinary goods while debating marriage, money and future plans with sisters Ida and Mary. The sisters exchange views on home life versus independence, clerking, and the lure of wealth as they navigate early 20th century work and prospects.
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Marvin
Julia
Baird's Department Store
Ryan
van Shoele
Ida
Massachusetts
Maia
Mary Benton
Nation
Baird’s
Mary
Julia Marvin
Daryl
Sis
Renaissance of household science in schools cited
The Cincinnati Times-Star notes public schools may teach household science, with emphasis on practical pies and kitchen skills. It argues fathers, not mothers, push for such instruction to stretch scarce groceries and cut costs, framing the renaissance as necessary for self defense against rising prices.
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New York
Cincinnati
Cincinnati Times- Star
Butler argues slang threatens English purity in sermon
In a Park Avenue Methodist service last Sunday Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler warned that slang, rising from uneducated classes, endangers the language. He urged reading good literature and associating with the cultured for mastery of diction and preservation of English.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Park Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
New York Herald
Safety first in coal mines cuts deaths as output rises
Washington notes from the United States Bureau of Mines report that mining deaths per million tons fell from about seven in 1907 to just over four, with the fatality rate continuing to drop to slightly over three per thousand miners. The gains come from stricter inspections, operator and miner vigilance, and ongoing Bureau of Mines investigations.
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Carl Snyder
Collier's Weekly
United States Geological Survey
Atlanta Journal
Frederick W. H
United States Bureau of Mines
Horton
State Mining Department
Th Bureau of Mines
Wit
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Pontesune
Ness
Uncle Sam
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Storr
Trere
Whrere
Tre
Ket
Wan
Arrant
Housekeeping
Dobbs
Judy
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