The Mobile Item Company Inc announces weekly paper rates
The Mobile Item Company Inc lists its history since 1881 and 1912, its Mobile Alabama address, and offers a newspaper bundle at 4 weeks for 10 cents with Sunday edition. It notes staff roles including president and editor and outlines subscription terms by month, six months, and one year.
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Mobile Item Company Inc
Manuel Street
Mobile
Ala
South
Mers van Antwerp
Ison
Nghe
Southern
Ig A
Fifth Ave
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Mobile Post Office plans and Kenyon bill debate
The Item examines Senator Johnston’s push for Mobile’s new post office on St Joseph street with bids due between April and June and a projected cost around 350000. It also reports on the Kenyon liquor bill questions about federal state power, housing plans from Chicago City Club, and the housing exhibition stressing hygienic urban development.
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Joseph F. Jhnston
Mobile Post Office
Mobile
Post Office Department
St. Joseph Street
Senard Johnston
Vicar Johnston
Postoffice
Washington
Johnston
Kenyon
Senate
Theington Post
Congress
Union
Japanese Workmen Learn English On Pacific Railroad
The Union Pacific Railroad's educational bureau teaches English to Japanese workers. Over eight hundred selection foremen and trackmen receive instruction in Japanese and Minglish with practical railroading terms. The program aims to improve technical knowledge and overall literacy through a cadence school for employees.
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Educational Bureau of
Unioncific Railroad Company
Pacific
Lathrop Industrial School Aims to Rework Discontented Pupils
The Lathrop Industrial School in Kansas City offers provocation training for students over 14 who have not thrived in standard classes. It blends industrial trades with academics, teaches practical business skills, and plans to expand to trades like plumbing and bricklaying as demand grows. The program spans three years with student-directed trade selection in the final year.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Lathrop Industrial School
Lathrop School
Carnegie Story on a Sea Voyage Gift to Captain
Andrew Carnegie on a White Star liner gives a captain a personal tour and a souvenir gift on his voyage. A boyish moment on the bridge and a thick envelope framed the exchange as the captain received a token of polite regard amid busy duties.
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Andrew Carnegie
White Star Line
Tha
Mr. Carnegie
Margaret
Washington Commentary on Young Diplomats and Society
A Washington columnist notes how youthful foreign officials in the capital often abandon diplomacy for social life. He cites Turkish, South American, and Chinese examples of aides whose antics amuse society but distract from official duties, calling them butterflies used to mask true embassy aims.
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Washington
Thig
America
Alon
Tripoli
Ellon
Regation
Orient
New York
False alarm on suffrage weakening women says New York physician
A New York woman physician and nerve specialist calls suffrage a false alarm and asserts it will benefit women and unborn children. She argues propaganda strains women, but asserts laws shaped by female voices will end degrading conditions for working girls and raise overall welfare.
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New York
United States
Chicago Tribune
Fragmentary 19th Century Snippets Highlight Rural Life
A mosaic of clipped phrases shows old time advice on honesty and trade, winter habits, licenses, and night work. It includes garbled lines about merchants, a druggist, peppermint, foxes, and a mothers congress, reflecting a faded newspaper fragment.
Married Life the Second Year in a Sweltering City
In a hot New York evening Warren and Helen discuss leaving their jammed apartment. They hire Mrs. O Grady to watch Winifred and head out for a crowded car ride in search of air. Warren insists on moving to a cooler flat despite fears of rent increases and limited options.
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Warren
Helen
Winifred
Mrs. O'Grady
New York
Riverside Drive
Jove
Madison Avenue
Helen Jim
Ly A
Berlin Beer Ban Stirs Continentwide Trade Fears
A Berlin city edict taxes beer brewed outside municipal bounds provoking concern over free trade within Germany and among foreign markets. The measure, expected to spark protests in suburbs, is seen as a restraint on beer purveyors nationwide.
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Berlin
Germany
Hoboken
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Milwaukee
Brooklyn Times
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