Is Picture Overdrawn In Mobile Amid Hard Times
The Item notes Mobile has many unemployed but no deaths by starvation locally while acknowledging broader national shortages. It argues against advertising a false distress image and praises neighborly aid to those in genuine need, insisting the city is not suffering as some reports suggest.
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Mobile Bay
Protect Fish and Game Movement Gains Local Support
A group of Mobilian residents met Tuesday to push stronger fish and game protections. They seek drastic laws to end seine fishing in certain waters and pot-hunting, aiming to curb damage to wildlife and ensure genuine sport and recreation.
Tampa Merchants' Exchange Sees 100 New Members in 60 Days
The Tampa Florida Merchants' Exchange secretary celebrates enrolling one hundred members in sixty days. The piece compares Tampa's aims with Mobile Chamber of Commerce and urges broader support locally to double membership and boost community progress.
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Fla.) Merchants’ Exchange
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
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Mobile
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Vegetables vs Meat Debate Echoes Through Markets
A fragment notes a public cry over diet choices as consumers debate vegetables against meat. The terse line hints at a broader discussion about food preferences and trade in local markets.
Senator Jones Pushes State Textbook Printing Plan
The bill aims to curb school book costs by driving out the Getation school book trust and creating a state printing plant to print uniform texts for public schools. It would empower a state text book commission to select and oversee printed texts and distribute them at cost, benefiting patrons across Mobile and surrounding counties.
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State
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Text Book Commission
Mobile
Preliminary hearing for Alabama mob murder suspects begins
In Huntsville inferior criminal court the preliminary hearing opened Monday for H L Russell Hugh Craft and Bass Cobb charged as members of a mob that abducted Neely a Black man from Deputy Hunt and lynched him. Sheriff John A May ordered a county wide Sunday observance closing fruit stands and soft drink stands and restricting drug stores.
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Bass Cobb
Inferior Criminal Court
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Houston County
Order of Things
Mail Service Expanded on Decatur to Nashville Railroad
Instructions from Decatur announce that passenger trains on the new Lewisby and Northern line will carry mail from Decatur to Nashville and intermediate stations. The line, owned by the Louisville and Nashville railroad, begins operations between Decatur and Nashville. previously it did not carry United States mail.
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Lewisby Andorthern
Nashville
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
United States
Birmingham liquor trade rush to sell as crackdown nears
Saloon keepers and wholesale liquor dealers in Birmingham and surrounding section have begun selling out with five months remaining before the traffic halt. Saloons and wholesale houses in Birmingham show no overstocking, while a couple of wholesale firms in Birmingham are under receivership and likely to be closed out soon.
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Birmingham
Patent Grants Reported by Messrs Davis and Davis
Davis and Davis patent attorneys report grants to Alabama citizens including George L Blanchard Montgomery linter and cotton gin Harry G Dodds Mobile sheet metal barrel Annie B Francis Birmingham envelop Stephen A Krom Birmingham sintering apparatus Mattie Clisby Birmingham trade mark for hair salves and tonics.
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Washington, D. C
George L. Blanchard
Montgomery
Harry G. Dodds
Annie B. Francis
Birmingham
Stephen A. Krom
Mattie Clisby
Muzzle Musing Sparks Controversy at Florida Convention
A hygienic expert at a Florida convention argued that 90 percent of people should be muzzled to prevent disease, comparing dogs and humans and warning the theory itself may be mad. The remark drew sharp criticism and a harrowing view of mankind forced to act.
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Baltimore
Navy Budget Battle Shapes Two Battleships Policy
Washington Letter reports a heated debate led by Representative Augustus Gardner on naval policy. The House Naval Affairs Committee releases a liberal fiscal plan with sixteen submarines and multiple support ships, edging toward a two battleship program amid strong pro and anti big navy factions. The debate, stretching about ten days, centers on defense needs, committee compromises, and key figures including Hobson Heatley and Padgett guiding the process.
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Indiana
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Naval Committee
Proposed Coast Guard Bill Unites Revenue Cutter and Life Saving Services
The House passes a bill to create a national coast guard under the treasury, uniting the revenue cutter and life saving services. It promises fixed tenure, pensions for incapacitation, and military discipline, improving efficiency through coordination and shared leadership.
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Life Saving Services
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Life Saving Service
New York Herald
Krupp Guns Reach Unprecedented Range in 1892 Flight
The Meppen shot from a Krupp .9.45 inch gun reportedly flew 22 120 yards on April 8 1892 in Kaiser’s presence, the longest measured distance for a projectile in any known record. By contrast German siege guns used at Liege Namur and Antwerp had about six miles range. Journal notes Watervliet 16 inch guns may fire a one ton shell to twenty one miles.
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Antwerp
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Panama
Army and Navy Journal
Senator Kline Targets Cotton Mills in Oil and Gin Probe
Government agents informed Senator Kline of Calhoun that they will assist in an investigation into charges that Alabama cotton oil mills own cotton gins and could influence cottonseed pricing. Kline introduced a bill last week to bar any cotton oil mill from direct or indirect cotton gin interests.
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Senator Kline
Calhoun
Alabama
Kline
Senate
From Mobile to Philadelphia A Speeches of R V Taylor
R V Taylor of Mobile and Ohio delivers an address to the Traffic Club of Philadelphia. He praises Philadelphia and Mobile, recalls personal anecdotes, cites Jefferson and Franklin lore, and offers hospitality to visitors from Mobile, promising a tour and a view of Mobile Bay on a clear night.
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R. V. Taylor
Mobile & Ohio
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Scat Oysters Debate Prompted by Conservation
BPender Adams of Mobile urges abolition of the oyster commission claiming it lacks enforcement to cull undersized oysters on the reef. He argues the commission's conservation work is essential, noting the law requires culling to let small oysters grow. January 27.
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Bpender Adams
Mobile
Ala
Strength of the Law in Practice
A Corpus Christi Caller column argues law enforcement is lax as drivers routinely speed and break multiple rules daily. It notes few arrests for minor infractions, a lack of public accountability, and rare fatal incidents prompting only temporary regret.
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Corpus_ Christi
Sunset Reverie Inspires Child’s Vivid Dream
A child imagines a sunset as a Western horizon turning red like a flamingo. He envisions a sea of golden islands and a heavenly scroll rolling up as if gazing through gates to Paradise.
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