Burnett Critiques Navy Spending in Alabama Interview
The Item publishes Congressman Burnett of Alabama opposing large battleship expenditures and urging a shift to smaller auxiliary ships. He advocates road building over new battleships and cites the proposed Council of National Defense to align naval policy with national needs.
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Padgett
House Naval
Germany
France
Japan
Committee On
United States
Council of National Defense
Congress
Senate
Colored People Protest Over District Relocation
The Item reports a proposed shift of the restricted district north of Davis Avenue and west of Wilkinson Street, printed as a faculty suggestion from the University of Alabama Medical Department. The paper clarifies it offered no position on new locations and supports clearing the district, citing civic reasons and the protest by Davis Avenue residents to influence city commissioners.
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Wnvate
Davis Avenue
Wilkinson Street
Item
Medical Department
University of Alabama
Dauphin Street
Lawrence Street
New Government Check System Shifts Payments to Banks
On February first the government will pay all bills by checks drawn on the treasury and deposited in national banks. The change concentrates accounting at the U.S. Treasury, saves pensioners from exchange fees, and shifts funds away from New York to regional depositories, reducing clearing costs.
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Treasury
United States
New York
Denver
Secretary of the Treasury
Justice department should investigate executive errors
Washington opinion argues the department of justice and the attorney general should lead investigations when federal departments are accused. It urges standard use of justice investigators to uncover facts, citing the Crow reservation case and highlighting timely, thorough fact finding over political posturing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victor Elliott
Washington
Department of Justice
Indian Bureau of the Interior Department
Crow Reservation
House
Senate
Interior Department
Indian Bureau
Congress
Senator Chamberlain
Oregon
Indian Affairs Committee
Robert W. Archbold
Congressional Committees
Congressional Committee
Protecting Immigrant Girls Work Needs City and Jewish Aid
The Jewish Herald highlights the New York section of the Council of Jewish Women detailing efforts to guard immigrant girls and seeking 1200 annually to strengthen outreach. It urges Bnai Brith and Southern Jewish leaders to fund a broader campaign, noting past limited visitation due to staffing and criticizing revoked support from European officials.
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New York
Council of Jewish Women
B‘nai Brrth
Council
National Council of Jewish Women
Jewish Herald
New Year's Eve in London at Hotels and Restaurants
Thousands filled Piccadilly hotel and nearby venues to welcome 1900 with bells, lights, and gifts. At Piccadilly over 1,300 rang in the year with mother of pearl lorgnettes. Prince's restaurant flashed A Happy New Year. Carlton gave guests folded papers with New Year resolutions.
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Piccadilly Hotel
Prince’s
Carlton
The Peach Thief and a Racehorse Tip
In a Rutland garden a boy nicknamed the fruit thief distracts Doreen with a peach. She later learns his Trump Card tip spurs a race day plan, aided by Lord Westray who backs the horse at fifty to one for Doreen. The story follows their unfolding scheme and consequences.
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Doreen
Heath
Evelina
Curly
Purlieus
Sigmund-Wolfs
Lord Westray
Newmarket
Rutland
Cambridge Road
Hussar
Westray
Trump Card
Johnson
Promis
DoCard
Learn to Ride Before Sunday
Helen grapples with a hidden fear of horses as she secretly learns to ride to please her husband Warren. She endures four lessons costing two dollars each, taking encouragement from Mrs. Stevens while concealing the strain of years of claimed riding prowess.
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Mabel Herbert Urner
Mrs. Stevens
Helen
Mr. Stevens
Warren
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