Mobile Item Company Inc Establishes 1912 Reorganization
The Mobile Item outlines its 1881 founding, a 1912 reorganization and reestablishment dated April 10 1912. It describes the paper published seven days a week for ten cents including Sunday, with offices on St Emanuel Street Mobile Alabama and key personnel including C Van Antwerp president C B Hanson VP GM T P Bush secretary John C O Connell and Albert Hanson manager foreign advertising. It lists subscription rates by mail and contact details for the business office editorial rooms and home numbers.
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THE
Mobile Item Company Inc
St. Emanuel Street
Mobile, Ala
C. van Antwerp
C. B. Hanson
T P. Bush
JOHN C._O'CONNELL
Debate Over New Jersey Minimum Wage Order
The text questions a New Jersey corporation's $9 a week minimum for women workers. It argues the wage may not guarantee sufficiency or safety, noting many earn more, and that fixed pay does not solve unemployment or ensure all applicants are worthy of the wage. It warns the policy could cull the less capable and fail as a broad philanthropic measure.
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New Jersey
New York Sparrows Baffle Officials Across Agencies
Sparrows swarm over upper Broadway as park commissioners seek authority to control the pest. Fire department health department street cleaning department water and electricity office and Audubon Society are consulted with little agreement. Federal guidance to shoot or poison sparrows faces legal and ethical hurdles. The birds crowd cornices and window tops making open windows and hanging items impractical.
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New York
Park Commissioners
Fire Department
United States
Health Department
Department of Street Cleaning
Commissioner of Water, Gas and Electricity
Audubon Society
Upper Broadway
Young Man Seeks Independence Through Army Draft
The excerpt profiles John Harlon, twenty-one, who plans to join the US Army to satisfy adventure during four of six years of waiting. It notes his poverty yet untouchable $22,000, and recounts a youth spent moving from Creston Iowa to the Northwest after leaving home at sixteen with no notice. He is twenty-seven in the present account.
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John Harlon
United States Army
Creston
Iowa
Northwest
Inaugural Parade Draws Tribal Leaders and Women Chiefs
Native leaders from many tribes plan a march to Washington in March for the inaugural parade. The Louisiana Tigers decline participation, leaving a small military unit as the display alongside the National Woman’s Suffrage Society figures.
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Washington
Louisiana Tigers
Chicago S water diversion plan denied. rights referred to Congress
Secretary of War Stimson rejects Chicago’s bid to divert 40 000 cubic feet per second from Lake Michigan for drainage citing interference with Great Lakes navigation and a need for Congressional sanction. Canada treaty provisions further justify no administrative approval. The piece then shifts to Pacific slope growth, highlighting Los Angeles’ rapid rise and end notes with San Francisco’s recovery from 1906.
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Chicago
Lake Michigan
Stimson
Congress
Great Lakes
Joint Commission
United States
Canada
AEG Soncueses
Theo
Sales
Los Angeles
St. Louis
Buffalo
Pittsburg
Baltimore
Seattle
Portland
Spokane
San Francisco
Rise of National Chamber of Commerce and Its Work
A Washington column traces the origin of a national chamber of commerce from Pelatiah Webster to 1912, notes Taft’s call for delegates, and outlines its role as a bridge between government and business. It lists leaders, offices in Washington, and ongoing efforts to inform Congress on key issues at the upcoming convention.
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Victor Elliott
Washington
Jan
United Staes
United States
Interstate Commerce Commission
Congress
Pelatiah Webster
Webster
Chamber of Commerce
Battlast
Taft
E-And Labor
Nagel
Chamber of Commerce of the
Harry A. Wheeler
Chicago
Joseph N
G. Grosvenor Dawe
Standards in Architecture Rise in United States Say Experts
The American Institute of Architects head claims taste in building design is improving in the U S. He notes strides in education and civics linkage, while warning the public must be won to higher art and against overemphasis on utility.
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American Institute of Architects
United States
Europe
America
Democracy
Christian Science Monitor
Women jurors question graft and crime in cities
A Kansas City jury of women, pausing in prayer, voices hope that women on juries and in public life could curb graft, crime, and corruption. The piece argues how policing, elections, and civil service might change if women had decisive influence, citing concerns from bribery to saloons and aldermen.
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Kansas City
New York City
Civil Service
John A. Sleicher
Leslie
Political Alignments Spark Uneasy Party Coalition
The Nashville Democrat voices strong opposition to concerted action among independents Democrats and Hooper Republicans labeling it unholy. It praises cooperation between regular Democrats and Houk Taylor Littleton Republicans as a savory, acceptable alliance.
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Nashville Democrat
Hooper
Houk-Taylor-Littleton
The Man Who Was Dead
Arkadij Sergievitch, a cautious official, reads news of his friend Nicholas Perlovski's sudden death. He recalls lending him ten roubles a week earlier while the friend appeared desperate, torn between guilt and disbelief over a self inflicted death.
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Arkadij Sergievitch
Tchinovnik
Perlovski
Kadja
Arkady Sergievitch
Arkadiy Sergievitch
Virginia Brooks West Hammond Reform Crusade Shocks City
Virginia Brooks, 24, exposed alleged graft in West Hammond Illinois where $25 000 property assessments spurred a reform push. She launched The Searchlight muckraker paper, exposed tainted officials, organized cleanup, faced threats, and led residents in a clash with police during a paving dispute.
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Virginia Brooks
West Hammond
Illinois
Virginia
Pictorial Review
Prince of
Lawrence Fiederwitz
Department of Agriculture
Board of Trustees
Miss Brooks
Confession of a Confederate General Letters Revealed
The Pictorial Review publishes the final instalment naming Major General George E. Pickett as the author of a famed set of Civil War letters to Mrs La Salle Corbell Pickett. The letters, long anonymous, sparked national debate among readers and editors alike.
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Pictorial Review
George E. Pickett
Gettysburg
la Salle Corbell Pickett
Washington, D. C
Married Life The Second Year Surprises Go Right
Helen plans a dramatic home surprise for Warren Curtis but a string of miscommunications and delays leaves her exhausted in a dust filled apartment. A phone call finally brings Warren, promising a celebratory evening as she prepares to change into the gown she had hoped to wear.
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Cortland
Warren Curtis
Mrs. Curtis
Warren
Carlton Club
Helen
Winifred
Delia
Kitten
Alabama Live Stock Association Meet in Montgomery
The Alabama Live Stock Association will convene in Montgomery on February 20 and 21 with lectures and papers on cattle horses mules sheep and poultry. The forum urges all Alabama farmers and livestock supporters to attend and participate to boost Southern livestock and attract northern and western investment.
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Alabama Live Stock Association
Montgomery
Alabama
Livestock Association
North
South
United States
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