Mobile urged as Navy Yard site and shipbuilding hub
A Navy Yard report touts Mobile as the best southern location for a new yard, armor plants, and shipbuilding. It cites Alabama resources, Mobile harbor, rail access to the Panama Canal, and strong local political support to push the nomination and lobbying effort in Washington.
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Mobile
United States
Navy Department
Stanford
Bureau of Yards and Docks
House Naval Committee
Navy Yard
Mare Island
San Francisco
Alabama
Mississippi
Georgia
Mobile County
Mobile’s
Chickasabogue
Dauphin Island
United States Navy
Panama Canal
America
Congress
Army
Navy
Old Hickory Anniversary and Mobile Notes
One hundred one years since the Battle of New Orleans, linked to Jackson and Mobile as a stopping place on the march to New Orleans. The piece notes Gen Andrew Jackson’s forces, the city’s role, and Mobile’s connection to that history. Also mentions Montgomery’s police chief urging young Mobile men to work or move out amid reflections on local life and an automobile investment.
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Alabama
United States Senate
Congress
Oscar Underwood
Ways and Means
House
Senate
Finance
John H. Bankhead
Underwood
Mobile
Éent
Oscar Gray
New Orleans
Old Hickory
Trison
Andrew ‘Koon
Jackson
Montgomery
Rural Mobile County Bond Vote Aims To Help Back Country Schools
In Mobile County, a January 18 bond election proposes 150000 dollars to build and equip rural schools. The appeal urges voters to support education for hundreds of children living in remote areas, including a photographed family from Spring Hill.
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Mobile County
Board of School Commissioners
County Board of Revenue
Old Spring Hill
Mobile
Newspaper Neutrality and Judge Candidate Endorsement
The Item upholds local election neutrality while noting Mobile Bar endorsement of Norvelle R. Leigh for circuit judge. It argues professional insight from lawyers aids public judgment and warns against voting by sentiment or friendship rather than qualifications.
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So-and- So
Mobile
Norvelle R. Leigh
Col Ewing Celebrates Mississippi Primary Victory
Col Bob Ewing of Louisiana publisher of the Daily States in New Orleans and a national Democrat, celebrates Venable’s Mississippi Fifth District nomination after Venable defeated Joyner to fill the Witherspoon vacancy. Ewing had clashed with Senator Vardaman, now aligned with Venable, and praises the pro Wilson stance. Col Jess Stallings plans another bid for Congress in Alabama.
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Bob Ewing
Louisiana
Daily States
New Orleans
National Democratic
Mississippi
Judge Venable
Samuel Witherspoon
Witherspoon
United States
Wilson
Bob
Senator Vardaman
Vardaman
Joyner
President Wilson
Col
Editorials by Item Readers
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Preparedness Editorials Endorsed by Local Citizens
A reader thanks the editor for printing editorials on preparedness and for planned coverage of a National Security League meeting at the Cawthon hotel. The letter praises editorials supporting Pret Wilson and his program to strengthen the army and navy. The note ends with a quip about a rebellious typewriter.
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Cawthon Hotel
National Security League
Pret Wilson
Army
United States
Joel W. Goldsby
Taxpayer urged on January 18 argument against state bond issue
The Mobile Register argues against the bond issue, claiming if the governor raises general operating expenses, debt could be paid from income without extra interest costs. It cites figures from J. T. Gorman and argues for retirement of debt without new taxes, criticizing past deficits and stressing reduced interest.
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Henderson
Comer
Jelks
Mobile Register
Caesrenerts
Examiner of Public Accounts
J. T. Gorman
Mobile navy yard and armor plant a proposed Mobile boon
An editorial urges Mobile to host a government navy yard and armor plate plant or private ship facility. It compares freight and coal costs with Philadelphia Bath and New Orleans, touts Alabama coal and Birmingham steel, and argues Mobile offers lower outlay and strategic advantages for wartime shipbuilding and postwar commerce.
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Stanford
Charleston
Navy Yard
Mobile
United States
Birmingham
Mobile Navy Yard
Birmingham Mills
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Harrisburg
Minnesota
Bath
Maine
New Orleans
Alabama
Orleans
Mobile Shipbuilder
Mobile Man
Secretary of the Navy
Congress
Astrological Forecast Promises Fortunes and Changes
The horoscope predicts unusual fortune as Saturn Jupiter Venus Uranus and the sun align. Beneficial effects favor the elderly bankers lawyers and lovers with rising teachers and a notable national scandal looming before spring. A ship of new ideas may unsettle statesmen and soldiers while the born under this day show steady success.
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Jupiter
Venus
Mendel Theory of Breeding and Its Claims in Eugenics
The article explains Gregor Mendel, a 19th century Austrian priest, studied peas to reveal dominant and recessive traits. It states that his laws apply to animals and humans, linking to eugenics, and notes the work appears in The Wonders of Science in Modern Life from Funk & Wagnalls Co.
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George Johan Mendel
Mendel
Kentucky
Gregor Mendel
Brunn
Ese
Darwin
Funk & Wagnalls Co
New York
Mrs Luke E Wright Visits Mobile
Mrs Luke E Wright of Memphis wife of the former governor general of the Philippines arrived in Mobile on Friday afternoon to visit her sister Mrs Electra Semmes Colston and her brother Judge Oliver J Semmes. The note ends with an old inebriate saying if you want to fight a good battle you must not fight a bad battle.
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Luke E. Wright
Memphis
The
Philippines
Mobile
Electra Semmes Colston
Oliver J. Semmes
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He M Poe
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Home Mobile
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Christ the Lord
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Hickory
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Jess Stallings
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U. S. Naval
Europe
U. S
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Japan
Luke E Wright
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