Mobile Fair Campaign Awakens Public Spirit in City
The Central Committee of One Hundred selected by Mobile Chamber of Commerce urges broad support for a city fair. The appeal highlights benefits to Mobile, civic unity, economic growth, education, and cooperation from labor groups and local clubs as it seeks funds and engagement to establish the Mobile Fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Fair Committee
Mobile
Committee of One
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Amateurs Form News Transmitter Network in Kansas
In Topeka the Central Kansas Radio Club forms a wireless news service by volunteer operators to supply small papers with news from nearby towns free of charge. Plans include equiping Salina Abilene Solomon Bennington Chapman Minneapolis and Junction City with wireless plants as members seek government licenses.
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Topeka
Kan
Central Kansas Radio Club
Salina
Abilene
Solomon
Bennington
Chapman
Minneapoli
Junction City
Henry Goodel
Lee Henry
Minneapolis
Ford boosts marriage at Detroit plant
At the Ford Automobile Company plant in Detroit since the profit sharing plan was announced, about seventy five workers have married and twenty applied for licenses last Saturday. The clerk notes many couples come to license offices with brides obtaining permits while husbands stay at work. Some labor voices claim Ford favors married men for steady work, while others allege a high number of foreign workers reduces American citizen opportunities.
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Detriot
Mich
Ford Automobile Company
Alexander H. Stewart
Henry Ford
Ford
Lcense
Detroit
Buckner boomerang missioner travels forty thousand miles
Dr. R. C. Buckner of Dallas aged eighty, yet feeling twenty five, completed a six month mission tour covering forty thousand miles. He preached in Japan, the Philippines, and interior China with an interpreter, relying on his aged appearance to aid his work. Buckner founded the Buckner Orphans Home and received $80,000 at his eightieth birthday before resuming travel.
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Dallas
Tex
R. C. Buckner
Japan
Philippine Islands
Buckner
China
Odd Hog With No Bristles Stirs Dixie Barnyard
In Dixie Washington on January 24 a barnyard crowd gathers at Paul Thorney Sr. where a pig lacking a single bristle attracts attention among ten animals.
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Dixie, Wash
Paul Thorney, Sr
Dixie
Doubleday displays knee in court to support damages claim
Mrs Jennie L Doubleday of Springfield mass a W C T U leader lifted her skirt and showed her left knee to a dozen male jurors in Hartford superior court to prove 5000 damages against the Connecticut Company operator of the New Haven trolley lines She alleges a November 26 1911 incident on a Unionville car injured her arm and other injuries are disputed by jurors and railroad counsel
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford
Conn
Jennie L. Doubleday
Springfield
Mass
Superior Court
Connecticut Company
New Haven Road
Connecticut
Doubleday
Tragedy Halts Bulgarian Elopement Plot
Sofia reports the death of Lora Karavelov daughter of a former prime minister at age twenty two. She was found shot in her husband’s room with suspicion on Dr Jamarow who killed himself after the incident. Lora, war heroine and decorated by Servia and Bulgaria, had planned to elope with Brenkow in Paris.
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Sofia
Lora Karavelov
Lora
Jamarow
Brenkow
Paris
South America
Jameron
Servia
Bulgaria
Mobile to Witness 1914 Transit of Mercury
Mobile will see an eclipse year with one solar and one lunar event, but the transit of Mercury on November 7 attracts the most attention as Mercury and Venus, the only planets between Earth and the Sun, may be observed with smoked glass.
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Mobile
United States
Mercury
Venus
Two Mobilian Patents Granted in Washington
Special to The Item reports patent attorneys Mes Davis and Davis announcing grants to Mobilian citizens. Patents listed include McDonald Alexander for a hen nest and Thomas M gan with H E Burnby for a rail-joint. Also cited are Burnby’s closure device, automati nest by Sabert Oglesby, and trade marks for St John & Co Migs bile corn meal.
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Washington
Mes Davis
Davis
McDonald Alexander
Mingham
Hen’s Nest
Thomas Mgan
H. E. Burnby
Bessemer
Ragan
Willam WU
Mobile
George W.sr. Thorsby
Rail-Joint
Sabert Oglesby
Green Pond
Automati Nest
St. John & Co
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Boosters Club
Home Economic Club
Ands
M. J. McDermott
E. J. Buck
George Fearn
J Frederick I. Thompson
A. de Bush
W. T. McGowin
John £. Cochrane
Junius W. Woolf
Central Committee
B. F. Adams, Sr
W. O. Lott
W. H. Armlech
H. W.W. Batchelder
Estes D. Bale
Moses Gans
J. J. Bartee
Bauer
D. W. Bellingrath
D. Bestor
E. G. Rickardy
S. S. Bradon
Stewart Brooks
E. J. Buc
Horace Turner
Charles H. ‘Alle
John T. Cochrane
James L’. Colesman
J. W. Corry
John C. O’cornnell
F. J. Thompson
F. W. Crenshaw
P. J. Lyons
O. E. Fowlkes
Paul Danner
Percy B. Dixon
P.B . Dorson
John B. Drago
A. P. Bus
E.G. Dreaper
Dr. T. A. Dixon
J Leslie Taylor
T. K. Jackson
John A. Jackson
Price
Winston Jones
Lyons
Wm. T. Kelly
L. J. D Geo
Kilborn
W. P. Roberts
Lagman
Moses Kohn
Geer
Leatherbury
Sidney Lowenst
G. M. Luce
Windham Lyons
J. McAleer
Junius Woolf
Fearn, Jr
Earle McCartney
Marshall
J. L. Marty
E. H. Flemming
Dr Seale Harris
G. J. Brown
J. O. Acree
John Rose
Committee of One Hundred
Wireless Club
Kansas
New York
Thomases
Gray
Dremees St
Sofia Slavi
Dauphin Street
Mobilians
W. A. Harris
L. C. Fry
Laprece D. P. Bestor, JR
Vicw
G. A. Michael
Assi
Merchants Bank
Water and
St. Francis Streets
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