Sign of Improvement in Emergency Currency Retirement
The United States issued 382 million in emergency currency after hostilities began in Europe. By December 8, 175 million had been retired, with Alabama banks contributing to the repayment, signaling improving conditions in state institutions.
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Europe
United States
Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury
National Currency Association of Alabama
Montgomery
J. M. McDermott
Alabama
Road funds reform urged by Alabama Good Roads
Alabama Good Roads Association seeks legislative reforms to curb waste in road funding. Proposals include placing automobile tax collection with probate judges, funding maintenance from the tax, and establishing a permanent State Highway Commission with a fixed salary for the highway engineer. The group cites high collection costs and excessive salaries as evidence for stricter controls.
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Alabama Good Roads Association
State Highway Commission
State Highways Commission
Sugar Consumption in the United States 1889 to 1914
The Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce notes sugar consumption rose from 50.44 pounds per person in 1889 to 86.85 pounds in 1914. Cuba increased its market share from 1 million to 4.927 million pounds, while Hawaii Philippines and Porto Rico boosted shipments. Europe and other regions fell from 1,219 million to 2,314 million pounds in 1914. The report highlights domestic production contributing to overall consumption growth.
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United States
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Department of Commerce
Cuba
Hawaii
Philippines
Porto Rico
Europe
Truant Officer Is Urged To Lead Child Welfare Reform
The Nation urges reforming truancy work with trained officers who understand home life and social factors. Calls for uniform marriage laws, stronger juvenile court authority, parental education, health checks, and parental schools to reduce school nonattendance and improve child welfare. The U S Bureau of Education will assist in attendance statistics. A permanent city census bureau is proposed.
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United States Bureau of Education
National League of Compulsory Education
League of Compulsory School
Permanet Census Bureau
United States
Poet Laureate Commends Belgian Relief Effort
Robert Bridges, England's poet laureate, commends the Belgian Relief Commission. He endorses the appeal for support and praises the charity that cares for homeless folk in invaded countries, noting a grateful bond between the peoples across the sea.
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Robert Bridges
England
Weather prophets foretell a severe winter still
A Pennsylvania gathering of soothsayers shares diverse signs predicting a harsh winter. From nut crops and animal hair to shellbark hulls and goose breast color, each clue supports a long cold season, while some indicators suggest variability.
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Pennsylvania
German Teachers Join War Effort In Large Numbers
Over forty thousand German teachers, about a fifth of all teachers, have joined the army. Teacher associations have raised 3199000 to aid war victims. In more than sixty locales teachers contribute portions of their salaries to helper campaigns.
Fairhope Colony To Celebrate Twentieth Anniversary
On January 1 1915 Fairhope Single Tax Colony marks twenty years since its founding. Eastern Shore residents plan a proper observance emphasizing community progress and civic effort.
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Fairhope
Eastern Shore
Satsuma Special Edition Praised by State Horticulturist
Ernest Walker of Auburn Alabama writes to The Item praising the Satsuma Special Edition. He envisions future Mobile Spirit industry co operation and notes his positive impressions from meetings with growers and business leaders during his south Alabama visits. He signs with best wishes for a greater future. December 11, 1914.
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Satsuma
South Alabama
Ernest Walker
State Horticulturist
Auburn
Ala
Patriotism prompts temporary service to stamp out cattle disease
President Harrison directs leaves of absence for Dr. C. M. Morgan Dr. Walter Sorrell and Dr. C. D. Lowe to join the Department of Agriculture in fighting foot and mouth disease. The veterinarians with prior Philippine experience will assist in preventing spread beyond Virginia and Kentucky and to enable free cattle movement in the South.
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Washington
United States Department of Agriculture
Harrison
C. M. Morgan
Walter Sorrell
Greensboro
N. C
C. D. Lowe
Atlanta
Department of Agriculture
Morgan
Sorrell
Philippine Islands
Southern Railway Company
Ohio
Potomac
Virginia
Kentucky
United States
South
Sorrell and
Lowe
Georgia's Leo Frank protests innocence before court
The story recounts Leo M. Frank's protest of innocence on the eve of his resentence to death in Fulton County Superior Court. It notes procedural correctness and high court rulings, while urging concern over possible juror bias from public outrage in Atlanta, and appeals to Governor Slaton to consider Georgia's good name.
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Georgia
Fulton County
Leo M. Frank
Herald
Atlanta
Frank
Slaton
New York Herald
How a Child's Mind Awakens
Ella Frances Lynch argues for individual instruction in education. She recalls her own schooling and how curiosity and imaginative reading shaped her mind rather than formal fact teaching. She describes watching the sea beyond a mountain, reading any book, and forming ideas through internal growth.
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Ella Frances Lynch
Macaulay
Herrick
Prophets of Evil and the Rainbow Doctrine
The Sterling City News Record quotes a civic voice denouncing doomsayers and urging faith in hopeful preaching. It extols reading the Bible as promise, not threat, and promises a brighter life and a blessed death through harvest and seed time.
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Sterling City News-Record
Tide anecdote from Confederate reunion tale told by Henry D. Clayton
Congressman Henry D. Clayton recalls a Savannah Confederate reunion tale where two Kentuckians visit the Atlantic for the first time. They ask what souvenir to bring home and a captain fills a flask with ocean water. One warns to pour out a third to avoid the tide bursting the bottle.
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Henry D. Clayton
Alabama
Savannah
Atlantic Ocean
Pard
National Monthly
Alabama Budget Deficit Cited Since 1907 Demands Cuts
The state of Alabama faces persistent deficits as expenses exceed revenue since 1907. Calls rise to abolish offices and cut salaries to reduce debt and reach solvency at the earliest moment, per Marion County News.
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Alabama
Marion County
State Department of Agriculture on Splendid Basis
Montgomery December 14 Special to The Item Receipts of the department of agriculture and industries and the pure food department for the past fiscal year totaled 215863.17, 141709.17 more than disbursements. Over four years receipts reached 776595.56, more than double the outlays. The report by Examiner J T Gorman notes correct books and most receipts from braids licenses and misc items. Disbursements included salaries fertilizer samplers and farm demonstrators plus station costs and soil survey.
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Montgomery
Department of Agriculture and Industries
Pure Food Department
J. T. Gorman
Reuben F. Kolb
Commissioner of Agriculture
Uniontown
Tuskegee
Montagmery
State Livestock Sanitary Board
Gorman
Department of Agriculture
Hubby and "Other Woman" Caught in Automobile Tour
Cleveland report details Arthur J. de Montigne sales manager for Perfection Products Company held on embezzlement theft charges after eloping with Detroit woman Elizabeth Davis. The couple were arrested in Cincinnati amid Mann Act federal inquiry. De Montigne allegedly used company car and funds. wife from New Orleans left without funds.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Arthur J. de Montigne
Perfection Products Company
Cincinnati
de Montigne
Elizabeth Davis
Detroit
Columbus
Barber
Model roads built in sections for Chicago delegates
Model roads showing advantages of various systems of construction were built in sections for delegates at the eleventh annual convention of the American Road Builders Association and the fifth American Good Roads Congress opened here. Officials said ten thousand persons were expected to attend the sessions. National aid will be one of the subjects to receive particular attention.
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Chicago
American Road Builders’ Association
New sheriffs oppose abolition of fee system in Alabama
Montgomery December 14. The bill to abolish county officer fees faces a hard road with strong support in both houses and among many sheriffs. The Alabama Sheriffs Association wields informal influence, and sheriffs elect gathered in Montgomery during a Masonic event hint at opposition, signaling a costly, high-profile clash ahead.
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Alabama
Stern
Senate
House
Hunter Vaughn
Capitol
Alabama Sheriffs’ Association
Jefferson
Mobile
Walker
Jefferson County
Sheriffs’ Association
Association
Masonic Grand Lodge
Joliet Prisoners Adopt Plan to Aid Support Families
One thousand three hundred thirty six Joliet penitentiary inmates start a program to raise a fund for families. They will work their crafts in spare time and sell products through an agent with all proceeds going to a general fund for wives and children of the prisoners.
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Joliet
Associated Press
Chicago
Joliet Penitentiary
Prague Citizen Shot in Czech Uprising Report
A Daily Mail dispatch from Copenhagen claims a Prague resident was shot for corresponding with a Czech union in Chicago. The union is alleged to campaign for an independent kingdom in Bohemia, ongoing amid Austrian rule.
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Associated Press
London
Daily Mail
Copenhagen
Prague
Chicago
Bohemia
National Prohibition Defeated in New Zealand Vote
A preliminary count shows national prohibition losing to national continuance in New Zealand. In 56 license districts 199,850 favored prohibition and 290,697 continuance. in 12 no-license districts 40,688 backed prohibition and 36,771 continuance.
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New Zealand
Bby Associated Press
Wellington
N. Z
Belgian Relief Steamer Reaches Rotterdam
The Norwegian steamer Obidense, laden with foodstuffs for Belgians, arrived at Rotterdam today after sailing from New York via London.
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Rotterdam
Amsterdam
London
Obidense
Speree
New
Diversify Farming: Pigs as Mortgage Lifters for Cotton Regions
The Department of Agriculture urges Southern farmers to diversify from cotton to hog raising. Experts outline start-up costs, pasture plans, and feeding schedules, noting that 10 pigs can yield about 1,400 pounds cured meat from a half-acre of forage. Secretary Houston promotes diversified farming to shield smallholders from crop failures.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Animal Husbandry
Department
Government Farm
Bermuda
Lespedeza
South
Houston
Texas
Middle West
Wedding Bells and Flowered Splendor in Texas Church
A guest recounts a Texas wedding with seventeen in the bridal party arriving at the church at eight-thirty. The bride’s maids wore pink charmeuse and rhinestones, the matron of honor white lace, and the bride white duchess satin. After the ceremony, guests traveled to the bride’s parents’ home amid polite congratulations and poetic praise.
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Debonair Debades
Middleton
Alabama spends on treasury staff amid tax and theft losses
The Tuscaloosa News notes that five officials cost Alabama $8,500 yearly with little money for essentials like ham. It also cites $11,000 to collect automobile taxes from joy riders, leaving scant funds for a Ford, while the state spends thousands to recover embezzled convict funds.
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Alabama
Joy Riders
Anniston Evening Star
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