A Study in Tuberculosis and Its Legal Implications
A discussion of tuberculosis as a major national concern, the Red Cross Seal fund raising, and a New York court ruling by Judge Blanchard on a marriage annullment plea based on infection risk. The note outlines public health efforts and the disease’s infectious nature and impact on families and offspring.
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Society For Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis
Red Cross
Bert
Blanchard
New York
State High Tribunal
Educator Ella Flagg Young Reelected Chicago Superintendent
The Chicago board of education reelects Mrs Ella Flagg Young as superintendent of schools amid a divided vote. The Young faction also wins the election of board president and vice president, while several members were excused. Mrs Kung, noted educator, has traveled to Mobile meeting leaders of women’s movements.
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Ella Flagg Young
Chicago Board of Education
Young
Presient
Kung
United Tes
Mobile
Keego farmer showcases five fine Satsuma oranges
H. Brown of Keego Alabama near Brewton sent The Item a cluster of five Satsuma oranges grown by him. He demonstrates that this fine fruit will thrive in that latitude. The cluster is large and displays rich golden color with deep green healthy leaves.
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H. Brown
Keego
Ala
Brewton
Christmas Shopping Push Encouraged This Week
Prompts readers to begin purchases early this week, promising relief from last minute rush and stressing the value of planning ahead for holiday needs. The note emphasizes taking the opportunity to buy sooner rather than later.
Praise for Mobile Surgeon B Grubbs Report on Plague Prevention
Surgeon Grubbs of the United States Public Health Service filed an August September report from Mobile noting divided sentiment on plague campaigns, then detailing a city port campaign led with engineer R P Du Valle and cooperative local officials. The report praises local support and models funded by the Rotary Club exhibited at the Southern Health Exhibition in Jacksonville Florida.
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B. 8. Grubbs
United States Public Health Service
Mobile
Grubbs
R. P. du Valle
Louisville
Mobile Rotary Club
Southern Health Exhibition
Jacksonville
Fla
Herrick Returns from Paris with Honor Not Wealth
Former ambassador Myron T. Herrick and his wife came back to the United States from Paris claiming a $400,000 personal loss but a richer standing in public esteem. The French government awarded him the Legion of Honor for aid to refugees and wartime relief efforts amid a storm of hostilities. Herrick declined political talk, saying he simply did his duty and did not seek political gain.
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Myron T. Herrick
France
United States
Paris
Mr. Herrick
Europe
Legion of Honor
Poincaire
Herrick
New York
High Grade Hogs Gain Ground in South Florida
Thrifty residents in southern Florida turn to raising high grade hogs for home use and sale. A Florida farmer claimed a Duroc sow raised eleven piglets from one, sold at eight dollars each after about a year, weight about 200 pounds. Mobile county farmers are also pursuing hogs, cattle, and related farming as a result of recent agricultural drives.
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South
Florida
Mobile County
Dawes
The Study of Gozinter and Quotations on Wisdom
The piece features a dialogue about studying Gozinter, a multiplicative counting play with gozinter numbers. A moral quip follows: if you gain no wisdom from mistakes, you might as well not make them.
Mechanics Air Grievance Prompts Mobile Buy Local Call
In a letter to The Item, Mobile area carpenters urge merchants and employers to hire Mobile labor on all new construction and in stores. They argue that employing local workers will boost Mobile merchants, reduce reliance on mail order houses, and keep money in Mobile by ensuring union labor is paid local wages. Signed by John Martin Harry F. Peters Co G Hutchinson of Carpenters Local No. 89, Mobile, Dec 12.
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the Item
Mobile
Daily Press
John Martin
Harry F. Peters
G. Hutchinson
Carpenters
Ala
Reader questions New Orleans waste land claims and compares Mobile growth
The writer from Mobile disputes a New Orleans booster claim about seven miles of steel sheds on the water front. He says the waterfront is seven miles long but only a fraction is covered. He suggests the paper’s boosters risk collapse if wharves near Garrows Bend are built and praises Mobile merchants over New Orleans. December 11, 1914.
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The
Kem
New Orleans
Register
New York
Fairfax Harrison
Garrows Bend
Mobile
Mobile Buyer
Kentucky Darky Story Recounted From Old-Times
In a Washington Post reminiscence Colonel John Thompson retells a Kentucky tale of a card room where a sharp dealer cheated players until a light skinned spectator sang I count you in and the dealer bored with the refrain admitted the man’s inclusion in the game.
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Washington
Pennsylvania Avenue
Saratoga
John Thompson
Harrodsburg
Phil Thompson
Kentucky
Colonel Thompson
Sam Slick
Washington Post
Readers praise Satsuma issue in Mobile Item
Letters from Mobile Alabama readers celebrate the Satsuma issue and praise the publication. L. H. Reed of Deer Park seeks copies for friends in the North while a Wisconsin letter extols oranges humquats and pecans and imagines planting varieties across the country.
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L. H. Reed
Deer Park
Ala
Reed
Union Grove
Wis
Schley, Russell and Delmas
Turning the Clock Ahead and Daylight Hours
The author argues that shifting clocks forward by an hour would not cause real disruption. People would adapt without noticing, gaining more daylight after work. Evening length would increase and days would feel longer, with difficulties seen as imaginary.
Bible account reframes war in Turkey and Egypt
The author argues Bible narratives illuminate the Turkish campaign against Egypt and Armenia. He links Sinai and Moses to modern warfare noting British naval power blocks routes while Bedouins and logistics complicate Turkish advances toward the Suez and Port Said.
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Rambler
Philadelphia
North American
Europe
Egypt
Persian
Gaza
Samson
Gulf of
Akaba
Palestine
el Arish
Port Said
Sinai
F. E. Hoskins
Nile
Nebo
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Justinian
Turkish Commissariat
Moses
Camel Corps
Mediterranean
Suez Canal
Red Sea
Jerusalem
Children of
Israel
Cairo
Sinai Peninsula
Belgium
Poland
Alabama Property Value Tops 615 Million in Year
Special to The Item Montgomery reports assessments of property in Alabama rose by 34,791,687 to reach 613,380,500 for 1914. J. T. Gorman, examiner of public accounts, lauded the tax commission for businesslike administration. State licenses brought 417,740.99, up 36,591, and total tax and license increases totaled 263,736.55 for the year.
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Montgomery
Alabama
J. T. Gorman
Examiner of
Public Accounts
State Tax Commission
Auditor's
Campaign Against Chinese Smugglers Vigorous Push
Washington reports a forceful crackdown on contraband Chinese traffic. Commissioner Caminetti says 66 people linked to the business have been arrested, 40 convicted, 25 awaiting trial, and one discharged. Sentences run from one year with a $500 fine to two years imprisonment.
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Washington
Caminetti
Steamer Caledonian Brings Nuns from Palestine War
The Caledonian arrived from Port Said with many religious orders aboard. Sixty six nuns landed in Malta, while the rest proceed to France. Most evacuees were expelled by the Turks or fled due to the war threat.
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Malta
London
Caledonian
Port Said
France
Palestine
Bankers of Other States Adopt Cotton Lending Restrictions
Alabama bankers move to curb credit for cotton planting. Georgia Texas Louisiana and Mississippi associations plan similar action after Alabama's resolution. State Superintendent Alex Walker says letters confirm a broader effort to reduce cotton acreage. Louisiana convention set next week to adopt analogous resolutions.
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Montgomery
Alabama Bankers Association
Banker’s Associations
Georgia
Texas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alex E. Walker
Bankers’ Associations
Walker
Receiver named for Nelson Piano Company to end disputes
Federal Judge Landis appointed the Central Trust Company as receiver for the Nelson Piano Company. He said the move aims to keep the business operating despite creditor disagreements, not insolvency. Attorney Edward Sonnenheim reported the firm’s assets around 2.5 million dollars, double its liabilities.
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Nelson Piano Company
Mrs. Fish Advocates Domestic Charity Efforts
New York December 12 Mrs Stuyvesant Fish, active in foreign war relief funds such as the Newport benefit, said the war has caused great distress among American workers and that it is time to focus on charity at home. She added that aiding a sick child on the East Side may be more practical than romantic battlefield knitting.
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New York
Stuyvesant Fish
Newport
Condition of Our Railways Exposed by Economist
William C. Van Antwerp argues in Leslie's that US railways face ruin without relief from dual control and prejudice. He notes 1919 to 1914 tax rises and losses totaling over 124 million dollars, with freight costs per ton mile far higher in the United States than in Europe and high daily wages for railroad workers.
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America
England
France
Germany
United States
Wm. C. van Antwerp
New York
Leslie
Federal geology survey aims across private lands
In the thirty fiftieth annual report United States Geological Survey Director George Otis Smith argues the survey studies all U S lands not just public lands. He notes private land investigations serve national value and public use, and cites growth in mineral resources since 1880 as justification for broad federal science work.
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United States Geological Survey
George Otis Smith
Federal Survey
Congress
United States
Sherley
House Appropriations Committee
Geological Survey
King
Smith
Half-baked laws critique from the San Antonio Light
An editorial derides state laws on child labor health and primary voting as half baked. It argues laws are too lax or too harsh, urging clear standards and decisive convictions to avoid cluttering the books and delaying justice. The piece ends noting a future move toward complete reforms.
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San Antonio
Gun Request Follows Troubled Delinquent Receipts
A Pickens County Enterprise note tells how an editor walking with a Winchester faced angry subscribers who sought to settle debts on sight. They paid up a decade old debt, then delivered hay potatoes wood and turnips to the editor at his office in a comical gunship vigil.
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Winchester
Pickens
Two Doctors Discuss Millionaire Wife Case On Bus
Two Manhattan physicians on a Riverside Drive bus were overheard talking. One said he had performed an appendicitis operation on the wife of a millionaire yesterday, prompting the other to ask what she was suffering from.
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Manhattan
Riverside Drive
Boston Advertiser
Blackmail Reality Checks and A Bitter Jibe on Fathers
A Philadelphia man faced a death threat demanding $3.98 in a blackmail attempt. The Baltimore American quips that even for bachelors a baby is unaffordable, noting the era's rising living costs and the sting of such extortion.
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Philadelphia
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