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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1914
Page
7
The text outlines office locations and communications for The Mobile Item Company and Kelly Smith Company, with addresses in Mobile Alabama and Chicago. It states subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions and describes the paper’s mission and public service aims as of January 19 1914.
A Chamber of Commerce and Cotton Exchange investigating committee report on Mobile harbor funding masks haste with long quotes and disputes. The text challenges the panel to reveal the Gore Turner letters and resolves the movement versus activities dispute while hinting at reconciliations among Estes Baker W H Armbrecht and Don Farnsworth at the Battle House gathering.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat contrasts French and German budgets with rising armament costs funded by taxes on the rich and wealthier classes. It notes Kaiser reforms and Caillaux schemes, and Lloyd George funding dreadnoughts from supertaxes. It argues masses must resist profligate policy and halt politicians. Alabama plans to curb such spending.
The piece urges breaking child labor and child murder through stark imagery. It cites a New England shop where children toil to exhaustion and uses a reproduction of a telling sign to shock readers into action.
A searing critique condemns child labor as wage slavery driven by profit. It denounces Alabama governor B B Comer for opposing tighter laws and cites the danger to youth, health, and futures while demanding protective reform.
The new Mobile Booster Club seeks united civic development echoing New Orleans and southern cities. It aims to rally citizens beyond business factions, though early unity hinges on overcoming political divisions and private interests blocking public progress.
A Washington column outlines a Senate and House bill to guard 400000 federal employees against disability. The plan creates a United States Employees' Compensation Commission with two thirds of wages, starts after three days, and extends to widows and dependents with a 800000 fund. It also covers civil service suspensions and foreign dependents, with lump sums allowed abroad.
The review notes Gerhart Hauptmann’s new play The Boys of Odysseus inspired by the last eleven cantos of the Odyssey. Odysseus returns to Ithaca as Nobody, beggar to prove his identity by bending Odysseus bow, aided by a maiden embodying Pallas Athene. The drama adds two women and scenic grotesques, with strong poetic conception but lingering judgment.
A Mobile civic discussion weighs Mobile versus Meridian and Jackson in fair prospects. The analysis compares population, rail access, and regional draw, citing Meridian’s train service and Des Moines figures to argue for Mobile’s potential success with proper spirit and logistics.
A Louisville Courier Journal quotation set discusses notoriety and self praise. It humorously notes misperceptions of James and includes lines about dominating a spouse and a woman’s rope and clothesline. The passage reflects gossipy tone and social satire.
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