The Mobile Item Company Inc Publishes Daily and Sunday Paper
The Mobile Item announces itself as the only South paper publishing seven issues weekly for 10 cents, with a full day report from Associated Press. It lists officers P Bush president and O Connell treasurer, and notes locations in Mobile Alabama and New York. The notice includes subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions and contact telephones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South
Antwerp
P. Bush
O'Connell
Bell
Mobile Chamber of Commerce Elects New Officers
Mobile Alabama on January 14 1913 reports the Mobile Chamber of Commerce and Business League elected new officers and directors. The group aims to advance Mobile as a commercial and industrial center amid growing publicity for the Southern Commercial Congress to be hosted in Mobile in September.
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Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Business League
Mobile
Austria
Gulf Coast
Southern Commercial Congress
Panama
Faunlier of? Commerce
Commerce With South America Expands U S Trade Growth
Exports from the United States to South America rise from 38 million in 1902 to about 138 million in 1912 with the gain exceeding other regions. Argentina Brazil Chile and Uruguay drive most growth while imports also rise. mobile’s Munson line boosts east coast port trade and local rail connections, signaling further foreign commerce gains for Mobile.
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United States
South America
Argentine
Brazil
Uruguay
Argentina
Chile
Mobile
Munson
Mobile and
Ohio
Southern
Department of Commerce and Labor
Inheritance of Silk Trust Under Scrutiny by Pujo Committee
Wise Ones take in the silk trust dispute as Chicago investors probe a failed flotation. New England financiers and insurance heads dominate subscriptions while Westerners learn the funds came from major nine figure backers. An officer resigns from the purchasing company board amid questions of underwriting profits and lack of issued bonds and stocks to insiders.
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Chicago
New England
Silk Trust
Pujo
Dirg
Fisat
Providence
Lynn
Albany
New
Incomplete fragment hints at Senator Seatlote’s discharge
A garbled snippet suggests a note about Senator Seatlote being discharged from a position or duty. The readable portion implies a hope he will soon be found or reassigned. No clear events, dates, or affiliations are established in the fragment.
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Ang
Se Seatlote
Purging the Federal Bench
Impeachment of Judge Robert W. Archbald marks the ninth such trial since the Constitution. The process began after tips from William P. Boland of the Marion Coal Company and hearings influenced by Pujo committee testimony. The senate found Archbald guilty on three counts amid charges of railroad influence, gifts, and improper dealings with coal interests.
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Robert W. Archbald
Commerce Court
United States Senate
John Pickering
United States
West H. Humphrey
Senate
Archbald
William P. Boland
Marion Coal Company
Scranton
Pennsylvania
Boland
Taft
Wickersham
Clayton
House Judiciary Committee
House
Pujo “Money Trust” Committee
Washington
William P. Bolard
Europe
Henry W. Cannon
New York
Erie Railroad Company
Edward J. Williams
James H. Rittenhouse
Erie Railroad
Erie
Marian Coal Company
Clackawanna Railroad
Boland Brothers
Interstate Commerce Commission
Helm Bruce
Louisville Andville Railroad
W. W. Reissinger
Reissinger
Archball
Wilson urges direct election of senators and income tax
Governor Wilson urges adoption of federal constitutional amendments for direct U S Senate election and income tax. He backs corporate reform, securities safeguards, and a constitutional convention. He attacks Newark political rings and calls for reforms in juries, tax procedures, railroad safety, and railroad crew pull policies.
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Wilson
New Jersey
United States
Fielder
Newark
Military police for Washington a tempting idea
In a Washington dispatch from January 14, Victor Elliott argues Paris shows the efficiency of a military police. He suggests Washington could benefit by using enlisted men from forts and barracks for policing and mail delivery, even streetcar operations, contrasting civil police costs and discipline with military control.
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Washington
Paris
France
Edgar Allen Poe
An Ourang Ourang
Arpin
Lusene
Gasroux le Ton
Forts
George
England
Poor Roger Sullivan Traced by Fate in Illinois Politics
The Chicago Tribune laments Roger C Sullivan trapped again in Illinois politics after recounting his costly past efforts to escape the political arena. The piece portrays him as a doomed figure pursued by a harsh fate, contrasting past claimed escapes with current involvement in the state general assembly.
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Roger C. Sullivan
Committee of Congress
Bertha
Roger
Tom
Congress
Uncle Tom
Springfield
General Assembly of Illinois
Count of
Monte Cristo
Chicago Tribune
Prison Drug Trade Revealed Inmate Testimony
A Tombs prisoner named George Earle testified to the grand jury about the sale of narcotics inside the New York jail. He became addicted after morphine, heroin, and cocaine were supplied by inmates and trusties, with money from his wife funding the habit. His wife helped him recover, showing prisons as schools of crime and vice. The report ends noting a pneumonia death list.
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Tombs
New York
George Earle
Earle
The Auburn Hair Mystery at the Chateau
A narrator reencounters Jacques Darville, now married to Angelique, at a grand chateau in Britann. After years apart, he notices a bald “ghost” from a seventeenth century dresser. A hidden compartment yields an auburn hair wig, revealing the woman’s search for a secret parcel.
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Jacques Darville
Britann
Angelique
Mme. Darville
Chateau
Jacques
Paris
Grand Central Terminal Reimagined as a Civic Hub
The 1913 Grand Central terminal in New York will handle an estimated 24 million yearly travelers, with a capital outlay of 180 million. Architects tout it as a continental landmark built to ease cross state and transcontinental traffic with segregated flow, multi level concourses, and dedicated kissing galleries for reunions.
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Grand Central Terminal
Hemisphere
New York
New York Central
United States
Grand Central
America
Lexington Avenue
McAdoo
Manhattan
Long Island
New Jersey
City Transit
Famous Story Reprinted in Century February Issue
The Century plans a mini-series reprinting renowned tales from twenty-five years ago with new illustrations by Oliver Herford. Frank R Stockton’s famed story The Lady or the Tiger is featured in the February issue along with fresh drawings.
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Frank R. Stocktori
Oliver Herford
Married Life The Second Year Dinner Return
Helen and Warren celebrate their reunion with a dinner at a stylish restaurant. He orchestrates a layered pousse cafe and roquefort salad while she wrestles with resolutions to be more restrained in affection. Their chemistry and happiness blur her resolve as they drift toward closeness.
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Mabel Herbert Urner
Warren
Helen
Kitten
Mrs. O'Grady
Fragmented OCR Vapor Trails From a Distant Ledger
A garbled OCR fragment references laten pages with stray phrases about a robber, a bank, and a troubled man. It mentions groceries, cooking, juror fees, and a vague note about autos in Pernambuco and Sweden ordering tonnage of American goods.
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Sera
Mobile Item Company Inc
St. Emanuel Street
Ala
Alabama
Chamber of Commerce
Victor Elliott
Cate
Aed
New York’s Gateway
Winklewads
Dalas News
Pernambuco
Sweden
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