Local Newspaper Details and Public Notices From Mobile Era
A fragmented report outlines the Mobile Item Company and its publications, subscription terms, and staff roles, alongside a federal rail safety review and Whitelaw Reid's obituary and career. It notes paper delivery for ten cents, and mentions the Associated Press and Southern Newspaper Publishers' Association involvement.
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Giawizeo
APHIL
Mobile Item Company Inc
St. Emanuel Street
Mobile
Ale
Sout
Swan Antwerp
Son
Eppppomeell
Associated Press
Mnie Wentey
Southern Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Hanson
Foreign Advertising
Item
Ala
Fifth Ave
New York
The Czar and the Nihilist Woman
A staged assassination plot unfolds as Nicholas, in disguise, aids a Nihilist woman after a failed attack on the Czar. The pair flee to a hotel then part ways with a note promising they may never meet again as the world wonders about the escape and the culprit.
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Palace
Nicholas
Ivanoff
Czar
Roosevelt Attacks Republicans Spark Heated Speech Exchange
In a Memphis report the Roosevelts criticize the Republican Party mockingly. The article notes past divisions and claims Roosevelt left the party and later rejoined, arguing honesty shifts with power and current conditions.
Don'ts for Atlanta Children Safety Rules
The municipal safety committee issues child safety rules to be posted in schools. The “Don ts” cover riding or walking near streetcars, avoiding hanging on behind cars, staying off car steps, not touching live wires, keeping limbs inside windows, not exiting facing rear cars, looking both ways before crossing, and not taking chances.
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Municipal Safety Committee
Atlanta
New Terror for Police In Chicago Sky Chase
A crowd in Chicago’s financial district watched three ironworkers flee from two detectives by climbing iron beams aloft. The fugitives dodged foot traffic while winds whipped their coats, taunting ground observers as the police weighed an aerial pursuit.
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Chicago
United States Sugar Consumption in 1912 Forecasts Record Use
The year ends with this month will see U S sugar consumption exceed 8 billion pounds with per capita use around 87 pounds. Imports total about 4 12 billion pounds with Hawaii Porto Rico and beet and cane production driving the rise. Domestic beet sugar leads growth while costs to buyers approach 400 million dollars.
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United States
Bureau of Foreign Domestic Commerce
Hawaii
Porto Rico
Mississippi Valley
Cuba
Bedbugs as Disease Carriers Spark Government Study
Washington scientists led by Dr. W. G. Rucker investigate bedbugs as potential disease transmitters. The report details the insect’s travel, alleged germ-carrying capabilities, and comparisons to flies, noting broader public health implications and prior Rockefeller Institute fly studies on polio.
Mobile and Ohio Excursions Promote Southern Homeseekers
The Mobile and Ohio railroad earns commendation for nine homeseekers excursions this season from St. Louis to Tennessee Alabama and Mississippi with a December 17 return run. Stops at Union City Tennessee and southward enable visits along the route and incentives include lower rates on household goods and stock. The policy aims to attract Northern homeseekers to the South and benefit both the region and railroad.
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Mobile and Ohio Railroad
St. Louis
Tennessee
Alabama
Mississippi
Union City
Tenn
South
Old Reliable
Dixieland
Meridian Star
South dominates congressional chairmanships as north-south balance
The Richmond News Leader reports the Philadelphia Press with agreement that Southern Democrats hold forty committee chairmanships while only one goes to a Northern Democrat. The piece argues the South’s long party dominance explains the shift as automatic and precedent based, urging Northern Democrats to blame themselves for the situation.
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New York
Congress
Philadelphia
Richmond News-Leader
Doctor’s Dismay Over Case Sparks Religious Question
Gene Stevens recalls a sick friend whose physician, puzzled by the case, summoned four more doctors who offered no clear verdict. The first doctor then tells the wife the husband is in bad shape and suggests sending for a minister, prompting a witty exchange about a consultation.
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Gene Stevens
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Rockefeller fly experiments linked to polio tests reported
The report describes two methods of fly based experiments linked to typhoid and malaria spread. Flies fed on paralytic monkey spinal cords then injected into healthy monkeys brains while other tests used biting insects feeding on polio inoculated monkeys. One fly kept the polio germ alive in its stomach for six hours. The Public Health Service will replicate similar tests in Buffalo Baltimore and Cleveland.
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Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
Rockefeller
Buffalo
New York
Baltimore
Maryland
Cleveland
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Seattle
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Gary
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Newark
New Orleans
Washington, D. C
Destowa
Pasadena
Cal
Louisville
Bal
Interstate Commerce
New York, New Haven
Hartford
Ers
Whitelaw Reid
England
Reid
Ohio
Europe
Xenia News
Cincinnati Gazette
Washington
The
Gazette
Thomas A. Morris
W. 8. Rosecrans
West Virginia
Military Commission of Congress
House of Representatives
Concordia Parish
Louisiana
New York Tribune
Horace Greeley
New York City
Tribune
Nassau Street
Spruce Street
Greeley
Grant
Germany
D. O. Mills
France
Victoria
Paris
Edward VII
Roosevelt
Seth Low
Wrest House
Bedfordshire
King Edward
Mr. Reid
George V
Taft
Reids
Duke of Connaught
Patricia
Jefferson
A. M. Palmer
Pennsylvania
Larille
Illinois
Theodore Rooseard
Memphis
Republican Party
Balkans
Granes Mzier
Spoopoyi Tca
Kafoozalum
wAm
adTe
Paspakn
Kaphist
Eatery In
Txzrkicacckos
Senvian
Washington Comment
Eday
Victor Elliott
West
W. G. Rucker
Dr. Rucker
Rucker
Rockefeller Institute
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