Waterways advocacy and local war memory from Mobile
Hon Champ Clark promotes waterways as vital to national progress and ship traffic. The Item calls for rivers to stay open to ease freight and notes Mobile and Alabama heroes who died at Vera Cruz, urging a monument for Ike Fried and memorials for others.
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Lark
Champ Clark
Missouri
Congress
Mississippi
House
Ols
Oscar Fried
Louisiana
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Louis Oscar Fried
Mobile
Ike Fried
Eseu H. Frohlichstein
Alabama
Gretna
Washington
Frohlichstein
Life Again Answered Explores Reconstruction Controversy
The Item cites a Life magazine piece attacking postwar Northern prejudice against Southern whites over black education. It reprints an Emancipation Day address from the Southern Workman, highlighting black progress, literacy, schools, and property gains since emancipation.
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LIFE
New York
North
South
Banquo
Southern Workman
Neto
Udir
Young Life Cut Off in Sudden Passing Away
The sudden death of John Dacovich cuts short a lively, energetic young man from Mobile. The community mourns the loss of a bright presence among friends and family.
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Dacovich
Georgia waking up to new packing plant in Moultrie
The Atlanta Constitution highlights a modern packing plant at Moultrie Ga that processes home grown cattle hogs sheep and goats. It notes Mobile’s nearby plant and predicts expansion as livestock improves and more local production heads to markets. A separate fire at Ballinger Texas destroyed seven thousand five hundred bales of cotton, potentially lifting prices.
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Georgia
The
Atlanta Constitution
Moultrie
Mobile
Pritchard
Ballinger
Texas
Warning to Mobile business men on fake express orders
Manager Holbrook of the Southern Express Company cautions Mobile business men about blank express money orders in the hands of unscrupulous individuals. He warns that an attempt may be made to cash some of them and urges vigilance.
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Holbrook
Southern Express Company
Mobile
Home Products Show Proves a Great Success at Alba Building
The Home Products Show draws crowds and proves highly successful with visitors urged to attend and learn quickly at the Alba building, highlighting the event’s educational value and participation.
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Alba
Plan to deepen Mobile ship channel and build dock system
City officials discuss a plan to dredge the Mobile basins and create sand islands below Monroe Park to support a dock system, slips and wharves. The project would be funded by a bond issue and could attract bayfront development, with facilities for shipbuilding, coal pockets, and a potential canal reach.
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Mobile
Pnts
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Harry Pillans
National Association of Ae
Seritage
Bove Park
Joece
Ace
Isin
Yacht Club
Monroe Park
Panama Canal
New York
Liverpool
Sugie
Arlington
Monroa
Nashville and
New Orleans, Mobile and Chicago Railroad
Choctaw Point
Washington Letter Gunpowder and the Panama Canal Debate
A Washington letter recounts a debate on gunpowder's impact on warfare linked to the Panama Canal. An army officer argues gunpowder enabled modern, humane warfare with longer ranges, retreat opportunities, and fewer overall wars per world population than in ancient times, citing Roman battles and historical context.
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Victor Elliott
Washington
Panama Canal
Istory
Varrus
Arminius
Rome
Seven Keys to Baldpate at Lyric Friday
George M Cohan presents Seven Keys to Baldpate at the Lyric Theatre Friday February 12. The mystery farce promises fast action bold departures from tradition and strong laughs as a leading London production comes to town. Seats selling. Honey Boy Evans minstrel show follows with a new scenic frame and songs. Seats on sale Thursday. Empire shows The Apartment House Mystery and A Night's Adventure with Ruth Roland and Lubin releases. Cissy Fitzgerald features in a Vitagraph drama in Brooklyn studios.
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George Cohan
Roe M. Cohan
Baldpate
Lyric Theatre
J. Cohan
Earl Derr Biggers
Evans
Honey Boy
Lttle
Arthury
Sam Lee
John J. Nee Leroya White
Tommy Hyde
Eldon Durand
James Mehann
William H. x Ngins
Paul VI
Eddie Cupero
the Empire
Ruth Roland
Empire ‘Theatre
Lubin
L. C. Shumway
Velma Whitman
Vitagraph Company
Cissy Fitzgerald
Motion Ture
Vitagraph Studies
Brooklyn
New York Bakers Raise Bread Prices
The Associated Press reports that bread prices rose from 5 to 6 cents in New York City and nearby areas. Rolls advanced from 10 to 12 cents per dozen, with pies and cakes adjusted accordingly. Governor Whitman monitors the matter as Alfred L. Becker reports on the investigation. A British steamer, the M S Dollar, registered at Port Arthur before sailing with a cargo of case oil.
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New York
Whitman
Associated Press
New York City
Alfred L. Becker
M. S. Dollar
Port Arthur
Texas
Ng Force
Notable silent era cast announced for Sli Stim comedy
John Bunny Flora Finch Kate Price Ni Talmadge Lillian Walker Harry T Morey Ralph Ince Julia Swayne Gordon head a wide cast in popular Sli Stim comedy Sentimental Sophie with Victor Patel Margaret Joslyn and Harry Todd.
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John Bunny
Flora Finch
Kate Price
Ni Talmadge
Lillian Walker
Harry T. Morey
Ralph Ince
Julia Swayne Gordon
Victor Patel
Margaret Joslyn
Harry Todd
Sophie
Men’s Spring Styles Turn Anti Militaristic
The National Association of Merchant Tailors announced today that men’s spring styles would be distinctly anti militaristic. The fashion features include slender high waisted coats, long coats, narrow trousers, and a tighter waistline as designers move away from military silhouettes.
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Associated Press
Chicago
National Association of Merchant Tailors
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