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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1914
Page
4
The text outlines the newspaper’s editorial purpose to inform accurately about world events, interpret movements affecting humanity, and promote moral social and political principles. It states subscription details and places the publication in Mobile Alabama with a February 9 1914 date.
The text explains choosing earth road routes by load capacity, hills, and mud. prefer straight yet gently graded paths on solid ground serving many people. Avoid steep grades by curved lines. optimize sunshine and drainage. consider local residents and tact in repositioning roads.
Mississippi senator James K. Vardaman denounces negro education plans tied to farm demonstration funding, arguing safety and labor roles contrast with Western women. He cites racial sterotypes while Senate debates on the agricultural education bill and related college allocations.
The piece rebuts The Register claims that Mobile can issue bonds without limits and that funding an auditorium is easy. It explains bonds must fit constitutional caps, use a special tax fund for refunding bonds, and that general funds cover interest only within legal tax levy limits. It warns misstatements risk penalties and higher taxpayer costs.
The Outlook argues Wilson’s message shows a Progressive tilt by proposing a trade commission with limited powers. It contrasts this with the Progressive plan for regulated monopolies and direct control to curb and supervise monopolies for the public good.
A woman claims she saw her husband kissing another woman through a section of stovepipe and envisions spectacles becoming popular to prove eye witness statements. The piece notes fashion shifts away from frock coats to long cutaways and mentions a Maya chief’s smile found in Guatemalan ruins along with a remark about Roosevelt.
A detailed remembrance of Carl Browne and General Coxey leading the unemployed army on Pennsylvania Avenue, their distinctive outfits, the rope discipline, clashes with police, arrests, Browne's self styled title The Labor Knight, and Browne's last public appearance before fading from the scene.
The New York State Bar Association criticizes shifting insanity pleas and proposes a statute. It would require defendants acquitted on insanity grounds to be classified as permanently insane and punished. The proposal aims to curb flexible mental state claims across jurisdictions.
The Newark Evening News notes the tension between Boston’s storied past and its current leadership with Honey Fitz and Jim Curley. It laments that only landmarks like Faneuil Hall and the Old South Meeting House remain from the Pilgrim and patriot era, alongside the Codfish and local institutions.
A historical piece describes efforts to unite competing rural denominations into federated churches. It highlights a North town where United Brethren Methodists and Presbyterians joined to share a single church, with increased attendance, a common choir, and planned upgrades including a heated facility. It notes broader patterns in New England and the South, emphasizing resident pastors, budget planning, and community programs.
In western Montana a one room shack school led by Miss Angelina Barker's nine students won the Montana state prize for the best wild flower collection. They pressed sixty eight samples and sent them to Helena, inspiring a new day for the school.
The Interstate Commerce Commission report reveals inflated tie creosoting costs at Frisco, paying 1.35 dollars per tie to American Creosoting Company. By contrast Santa Fe and Katy paid 14 to 18 cents. Daniel G. Reil of Rock Island, an officer in the creosoting firm, links to similar contracts with Rock Island and Chicago and Eastern Illinois.
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