The Mobile Item and Child Labor Inquiry
A dramatic excerpt traces the Mobile Item’s 1881 founding and 1912 re establishment efforts while reporting findings by the National Child Labor Committee on harsh hours for girls in the Oliver Steel Company plant in Pittsburg. The piece notes wages, machine work, and injuries, urging prohibition of underage labor in foundries.
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The
Mobile Item
Oliver Steel Company
Pittsburg
National Child Labor Committee
David B. Oliver
Federal Promotion of State Agriculture Report Highlights Alabama Station Work
The annual report of the U S Department of Agriculture shows Alabama station work on fertilizer effects in cotton plants and field crops, corn breeding progress, hog diet studies with soybeans, lard quality research, and diverse agronomy projects. It notes cooperative efforts in truck farming regions and orchard renewal, plus citrus hybrids and pecan culture near Mobile.
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Office of Experiment Stations
United States Department of Agriculture
Alabama Station
Hatch Fund
Horticultural Department
Satsuma Voranges
Mobile
Adams Fund
Harian
Trade with Asia and Oceania Reaches Record 1912 Volumes
The 1912 U S trade with Asia and Oceania set records for both imports and exports. Imports from Asia and Oceania totaled 280 million dollars, up 75 percent since 1902, while exports to the region rose to 190 million, up 100 percent in ten years. Growth over 1911 was about 30 million on imports and 20 million on exports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
The
Orient
Asia
Oceania
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Public Light Critiques Newspaper on Mobile Harbor Debate
A public defense accuses a newspaper of bias in covering Congress on Mobile harbor funding. The piece says the paper hid the Fowler-Cullop rejection and misled readers about Southern opposition, urging readers to question the paper's motives and the fairness of its municipal campaign coverage.
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Congressional Record
Congress
Mobile
Congres
Illinois
Indiana
Taylor
Cooling the Capitol: Refrigeration Planned for Washington Congress
Washington in the first session of the Sixty third Congress will rely on a new $70,000 cold air system to cool both chambers. The plan uses a network of tunnels and underfloor inlets to circulate fresh air and remove stale air, with ceiling jets for muggy weather.
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Washington
Bob S-Battooetene
Wilson
Congress
House
Senate
Pennsylvania Avenue
Capitol
Capitol Grounds
Subsidy Debate Over Panama Canal Toll Remission
The note from Secretary Knox on the Panama canal toll remission is condemned as evasive and dishonorable. It argues that coastwise subsidy would betray a friendly nation and betray national honor, exposing taxpayers to subsidy costs and harming American self-respect.
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Knox
Root
Mr. Knox
United States
Private benefactions fund theological schools
The article notes private benefactions totaling 1 680 000 dollars in the past year. It also reports varied educational initiatives including a Fitchburg normal school department for training manual arts teachers and plans to integrate vocational work with college admission requirements at the University of Kansas.
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Fitchburg Mass
University of Kansas
Oenverny of
Michigan
Deal with Fire and Courage in a Burning Mansion
Mildred confronts her fiancé Selwyn after a deadly mansion fire. Selwyn battles fear while Mildred discovers letters revealing her brother George's gambling debts and Selwyn's secret support, leading to a tense confession and emotional reconciliation.
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George
Mildred
Lady Deane
Selwyn
Selwyn Daelingtor
Selwyn Darlington
Mother
Married. Life Second Year On Maudlin Summer Novel Debate
A playful domestic scene follows a quarrel over a sentimental summer novel. Warren dismisses the book as trivial while Helen defends it, then a bat enters their room during the evening as they argue and kiss, ending with a lighthearted demand for a match.
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Warren
Helen
Rhody inspires reconciliation in a Philadelphia marriage
A Philadelphia woman estranged from her husband read Mrs. Brewster's Rhody and a renewed union followed. The anecdote suggests fiction can heal relationships, contrasting with divorce court burdens. A stray note about wires to a dynamo ends the fragment.
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Brewster
New England
Rhody
Philadelphia
Rho
Coffee Trust in the United States and Monopolized Markets
An editorial condemns the U.S. approach to the coffee trust, a state protected monopoly linked to Brazilian interests. It notes large loans in London and New York, a 1907 price surge, and a 931,000 bag surplus held in New York. It reports a London-dispatched sale at monopoly prices and criticizes the overall conduct and alleged plunder.
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United States
Coffee Trust
Brazilian Air Trust
London
New York
Eeeake
America
Senin
United
Crete
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Mobile Item Company Inc
St. Emanuel Street
Ala
South
James C. van Antwerp
C. B. Hanson
Albert P. Bush
Joan C. O'Connell
Eweee
Associated Press
International New Vice
Southern Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Albert Hanson
Foreign Advertising Building
Fifth Ave
MAIL
Bell
Alabama
Federal
Council of National Defense
Joseph 8. Caldwell
Noah Davis
Frederick G. Bromberg
Erwin Craighead
William M. Mastin
J. W. Alstork
John C. Anderson
Emmet O'Neal
C. N. Maxwell
Samuel Minturn Peck
Council of National Defence
Naval Affairs Committee
Naval Committee
Secretary of War
Secretary of the Navy
Army
Union
Baltimore
Democratic Party
Canal
Washington Comment
Panama
Astronomic Society of Mexico
Ordeal BY
Gilston
Rale & Gilston
George Villiers, Deane
Gavin & Co
Commission
Mabel
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