The Mobile Item Company Newspaper Masthead 1914
The Mobile Item itemized imprint lists 46 18 St Emanuel Street Mobile Alabama and Chicago office Lytton Building. It presents a campaign to inform promptly on world events, interpret movements for humanity, praise worthy men, combat evil and injustice, and advocate principled public welfare. January 21 1914 price four dollars one year.
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Chicago
Lytton
Absocia Press
International News Service
Southern Newspaper Publishers’ Association
ION
Vegas
Mobile
Bell
Alabama
Making the Tennessee flow uphill in a Bijou speech
Captain Hobson argues for a national water policy diverting Tennessee water to other rivers while ignoring past failures to advance education or highway projects. He claims a Senate seat would let him do better though critics note he secured few favorable committee reports on his many measures.
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Tennessee
Hobson
Congress
Senate
Joshua
Tennessee River
Gulf
Ohio River
Mississippi
Coosa River
Sand Mountain
Tennessee Valley
State of
Value of Oyster Industry on the Alabama Coast
Secretary Joullian reports Bayou la Batre oyster output growing with expanding shipping bases and a Birmingham branch. Alabama’s oyster trade totals $183,205 with $274,807 invested and 924 employed, far below Louisiana and Mississippi. industry could rise tenfold with investment and better methods. Also notes rail financing reform proposals and a treasury ruling on timber tax treatment for forestry.
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Caden-Bayou la Barre
J. A. Joullian
Alabama Oyster Commission
Bayou la Batre
Mobile County
Bayou la Barre
Birmingham
Joullian
Alabama
Louisiana
Mississippi
South
Mobile Bay
State Commission
Maryland
Winners and losers meet again in a lasting union
The piece recalls Ulysses S. Grant and Simon Bolivar Buckner, once foe and ally, who shared youth at West Point, fought side by side in peace and war, and at Mount McGregor in 1885 Grant embraced Buckner on his deathbed. Buckner, born 1823, rose from surrender to governorship, while Grant reached the presidency and enduring fame.
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Ulysses S. Grant
Simon Bolivar Buckner
Buckner
Grant
West Point
Donelson
Floyd
Pillow
Shiloh
Vicksburg
Chattanooga
Wilderness
Appomattox
Louisiana
Kentucky
Mount McGregor
New York World
The South A Livestock Country
The South should be a livestock region by growing legume crops after oats and using by products like cottonseed meal. Legumes enrich soil and feed, making corn or silage per acre comparable to the Midwest, while cottonseed meal provides cheap protein. Progress depends on training men to integrate livestock with farming as a profitable system.
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South
Many Kinds of Mud Editorial on Moral Environment
Rev. J. W. Phillips argues that a pure atmosphere can curb inherited immorality and burglars. The Coffman panel warns that mental mud spread for profit taints society more than gutter dirt, urging cities to establish mental mud cleaning to protect youth.
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J. W. Phillips
First Baptist’ Church
Coffman
Harvard Alumni Bulletin praises improved conduct of college students
The Harvard Alumni Bulletin notes a shift from rowdy pasts to better behavior in higher education. It recalls 19th and early 20th century incidents at Harvard including riots, vandalism, and pranks, contrasting them with a five year trend toward cleaner living, saner conduct and higher scholarship.
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Harvard Alumni Bulletin
Harvard
Josiah Quincy
Prescott
James Russell Lowell
Phillips Brooks
Ireland's Great Crop Sets New Irish Potato Benchmark
Ireland harvested a bumper potato crop last year with an average of 239 bushels per acre, the highest since 1851. The total reached 139,603,251 bushels, up 44,552,078 from 1912 and about 66,000,000 above the ten year average. A man’s reason versus pocketbook appeals is noted after marriage.
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Ireland
Direct Benefits of County Fair
Discussion outlines Mobile's potential direct gains from establishing a county fair. It cites Meridian fair earnings, projected Mobile revenue of about 41 000 with 30 000 in costs, and a proposed 100 000 investment. It highlights railways streetcars hotels and local concessions as benefiting the city and charities through fair related business.
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Mobile County Fair
Mobile
Striplin
Chamber of Commerce
Hattiesburg
Commercial Club
Traction Company
Auto
Hack
The
Kings Daughters
Daughters of the Confederacy
Looking Back Across The Sea to a Lost Dear
Florence Jones Hadley recalls a beloved girl from the past and laments missing her church visits. The piece shifts to commentary on public interest during fairs, noting Huerta’s downfall as gossip, and praises the Mobile fair's economic impact. It cites Mobile and Des Moines fair data, projecting growth and profits, and lists the Mobile Central Committee members.
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Tor
Florence Jones Hadley
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the Mobile Item Company, Inc
ST. Emanuel Street
Mobile, Ala
Interstate Commerce Commission
Kenyon
Iowa
Commission
New Haven
Wall Street
Newlands
Senate Committee On Interstate Commerce
Department of Justice
Treasury Department
Mobile District
Used To Be
Huerta
Des Moines
United States
M. J. M’dermott
George Fearn, JR
John T. Cochrane
Frederick I. Thompson
E. J. Buck
J. W. Woolf
W. T. M’gowin
Albert P. Bush
Central Committee of General Fair Committee
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