Mobile Item Reestablished and Resumed Publication
The Mobile Item, founded in 1681, is reorganized and re established continuing public daily and Sunday editions. It lists offices in Mobile Alabama and New York with subscription rates and contact numbers, noting full day report of Associated Press and foreign advertising services.
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Associated Press
International Newever- Southern Newspaper Association
Mobile
Ala
Fifth Ave
New York
Alabama
Movement to move workers from cities to rural areas urged
Government planners seek a 1 million dollar appropriation to establish information branches in New Orleans and San Francisco. They aim to direct immigrants and natives to farming and stock raising, arguing land prices and returns favor rural settlement. Senator Bailey’s career is reviewed, noting claims of Standard Oil ties and a dramatic resignation episode. Auto foot noted as a new ailment from too little walking.
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Department of Comm and Labor
Division of Information A&0
New Orleans
San Francisco
Lile Point
Division of Information
Bureau In Migration
Congress
Europe
America
T. V. Powderly
Division Oftion
St. Louis
Bear used as baby helper sparks uproar and banishment
A Boston area reverend touted a tame black bear to assist his infant son provoking sharp criticism from a Worcester nurse who calls for industrial worker action. The bear was banished to a circus as the family faced public scrutiny over the unusual aid.
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Jamaica
Boston
Mass
Ettor
Industrial Workers of
Damcapts
Local Paper Chooses City Merchants Over Distant Markets
The article critiques a newspaper for endorsing local merchants while urging readers to spend locally and prefer in‑state goods. It argues such calls are sincere but hard to act on when the press promotes distant merchants over home businesses.
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Mobile County
Realism in Art by Malcolm Douglas
Mike Angelo McCann famed painter man critics call ideal. He painted busky dell with hay that lured cattle, a spray of flowers attracting bees, and even a juicy steak still life. His retreat from the studio avoided stings while his wife served lunch.
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Mike Angelo McCann
Mike Angelo
Mumbled Exchange Casts Silence Over Hat Loss
Fragmentary dialogue shows two speakers debating a hat and location with unsure recollections. The garbled exchange hints at a casual street scene or interaction without clear names or concrete actions.
Quarter and Milk Dream Ends in Tragic Street Death
A ragged four to six year old and her older sister on Hast street beg for milk and bread. An automobile accident kills the younger girl after she recalls mother’s quarter. Surgeons fail to save her as the silver coin is buried with her. Meanwhile a mother grieves upstairs in East Eighty first street attic.
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Sis
Second Avenue
East Eighty-first Street
Sleep and Sleep Habits Through Time and Theories
A discussion contrasts old and new guidance on sleep with varying scientific claims. It notes a Viennese doctor arguing against long sleep, Edison’s quip about sleep, and how people chase balance between seven and nine hours. The piece ends with a Pickwickian image of a fat boy who sleeps and is content.
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Land of
Nod
Pickwick
London
Result of Blease preaching sparks lynching fear
Governor Cole L Blease of South Carolina faced fallout from a Richmond speech after a mob executed a negro in Norway, D. C. The victim had refused to pay a debt and a note reading Friends of Governor Blease was left on his clothing. The piece argues many misread the speech and blamed Blease for condoning lynching.
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Cole L Blease
South Carolina
Richmond
Norway
D. C
Blease
South
Chicago's Industrial Advance in Harper's Weekly
Harper's Weekly highlights Chicago's rise from a village landing to the nation's second city. It calls Chicago the world's greatest railway center and notes its superior supply networks compared with other American cities.
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Chicago
United States
Harper's Weekly
Herbert Bannister
Ferhande and Hesna A tale of marriage and servitude
Ferhande, a slave girl, grows attached to Hesna and believes she will marry into the same household. When Hesna marries, Ferhande is promised service in the new home and a future reward. Years pass with no child, then Hesna bears a son and Ferhande nears freedom. After Hesna’s family dies, Ferhande learns she will marry Lala but ages and hair turn gray, ending a life of borrowed hopes.
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Hesna
Ferhande
Fernande
Sabit
Sabry Bey
Lala
Bala
Jeffersonian Principle Clash Over Levy Property Sale
The Richmond Virginian rebukes New York American for accusing Democrats who opposed taking Levi Levy’s property of lacking Jeffersonian principles. It argues Jefferson favored due process and that property cannot be seized without public necessity, cautioning against using Jefferson’s name to defend such action.
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The
New York American
Congressman Levy
Thomas Jefferson
Congress
Jefferson Levy
Pull
Jefferson
House
Richmond
Sermonizing Novels Said to End in the United States
A New York publisher argues the public tires of didactic fiction that preaches and seeks converts to causes. He says art rejects propaganda and that meaningful social reforms came from faithful, artistic portrayals rather than sermonizing narratives. He cites Turgenev as an example of literary influence without preachiness.
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New York
Wall Street
Turgenev
No. 50 Helen Embraces a Happy Wife and Mother Life
Helen Curtis hurries a telegram to her husband Warren in New York while doubting the mail's reliability. She visits her school friend Edith Morrison, who notes Helen’s contentment with her husband Harold and their two children Frances and a son, underscoring the joy of a devoted wife and mother over earlier dreams of a career.
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Helen
Mabel Herbert Urner
Warren E. Curtis
Broad Street
New York City
Helen Helen
Main Street
Winifred
Topsy
Tom
New York
Warren
Helen Curtis
Edith Morrison
Edith
Harold
Spring Valley
Frances
Statistics Prove The Towns And The World
A reflective verse fragment questions the certainty of numbers. It cites towns, kings, schoolchildren, skulls, parson salaries, rentals, wealth, and hens as examples, declaring statistics prove yet noting no statistics ever truly do.
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Amos R. Wells
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