Mobile Item advertising rates and circulation policy 1916
The Mobile Item outlines circulation guarantees by the Audit Bureau of Circulations and details subscription prices and delivery options. It notes 10 cent weekly or two six day renewals, year rates, and mail delivery outside Mobile. It also lists multiple office locations and editor society notes.
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Audit Bureau OF Circulations
GURA
Mobile
Vance
Ion
Ae Society
BAO
Alabama
Mobile's Opportunity to Attract Steel Leadership to Alabama
Mobile hosts James A. Farrell of United States Steel and George Gordon Crawford of Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad to observe local assets. The piece argues for Mobile as a low-cost, strategic hub with potential to become a major coaling station, shipbuilding center, and naval base, urging aggressive investment and good roads to realize growth.
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Mobile
James A. Farrell
United States Steel Corporation
George Gordon Crawford
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
Great Alabama
Farrell
Crawford
State Harbor Commission
Old South
United States
Middle West
Big Field
Mobile County
Satsumas
Alabama
Riviera
America
Belgiin
Gulf
South Atlantic
The
Steel Corporation
British Isles
Georgia
Providence
Coosa
U S Steel Leads Renewed Market Optimism Across Sector
Improved business conditions follow a week of market rally led by United States Steel. The gain comes after holiday unloadings and shows U S Steel stock more than doubling in the last year with dividends rising to a 65 percent rate. Railroads and foreign trade post gains, exports exceed 1914 by 1.772 billion, and overall financial prospects appear hopeful.
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United States Steel
U. S. Steel
Prince
Wall Street
Mobile visitors fill hotels with a string of names
A long list describes several visitors in Mobile from various states. Lobbies and Battle House host guests including Hickman Price from Nashville, Dan Riser from Cumberland, and J C Hicks from Chatom, with many others arriving or staying ten days or more. J C Seigman transfers to Pensacola and is replaced locally by Richard Farrell.
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Hickman Price
Nashville, Tenn
Mobile
New Orleans
National Foreign ‘Trade Council
Charles G. Seigman
The
Cawthon
Pensacola
Fla
Richard Farrell
Battle House
Brazil
New York
Southeast
Mexico
Guatemala
Honduras
Typographical Union endorses candidates for May election
The International Typographical Union reports over 1 million dollars yearly for its pension system and related benefits. Secretary-Treasurer John W. Hays seeks reelection as endorsements from fifty locals are required, with seven hundred locals set to back candidates in February primaries. Numerous named locals and individuals across states are listed as endorsers.
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International Typographical Union
John W. Hays
Printers’ Union
Mobile as a site for varied factories boosts freight savings
The article argues Mobile offers freight and material advantages for a railcar plant, shipyard, cordage, canning, tannery, furniture, coffee roaster, and zinc smelter. It cites lower transport costs, local supply access, and export reach to Mexico and South America as key factors driving location benefits.
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Mobile
Philadelphia
Bath
Orleans
Manila
United States
Sisal Fibre Mobile
Chicabo
St. Paul
St Ouvans
Mexico
Central
South America
Mobile Canner
Southeast
Montgom'ry Birming
M Mobile
Baltimore
Indianapolis
Chicago
Kansas City
California
Birmingham
Wilson Passes Through Chicago on Way to Milwaukee
President Wilson spent a short time in Chicago today en route to Milwaukee for an afternoon speech. He traveled by secret service guarded train, had breakfast with Mrs. Wilson, and walked the platform with aides. Officials denied any shift in policy on Americans sailing on merchant ships of belligerent nations.
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Chicago
Wilson
Milwaukee
Cleveland
Secret Service
Tumulty
Daily Horoscope for Monday January 31 1916
Astrologers warn of a variable day with adverse Jupiter Sun aspects. Selling may be lucky but buying could bring losses, with increased risks of fraud and embezzlement. Employment cautiousness, army navy prominence, editor honors, and political discord are featured themes for the period ahead.
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Mercury
Mars
Army
Navy
Rep Thomas 8 Butler Westchester Pa faces ninth term
The article describes Thomas 8 Butler of Westchester Pennsylvania as a long serving representative in the Seventh district. He sits as ranking Republican on naval affairs and is urged to support Gulf Coast shipyard locations, with Mobile Alabama urged to back federal yards.
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Thomas
Butler
Westchester
Congress
Keya
Daniels
Mobile
Gulf Coast
Alabama
Selma
Confessions of a Wife discuss and divorce of Waverly pair
The narrator notes Dick’s month long East trip and learns of her mother Mrs. Waverly’s quiet marriage to Morton Trent at age sixty two. Friends speculate Trent’s background, independence and shared interests, while the narrator contemplates companionship in old age. Dick’s telegram ends the scene with a blunt D- fools.
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Eliene
Waverly
Morton Trent
Marrid
Margie
Jim
Morton
Chadwick
Question Box: language notes and naval facts
Readers ask about correct usage return mail and you versus you were. Dreadnought counts for US and Germany. cost about fifteen million dollars. Other queries cover drug licensing, patent protection, and the 1906 Pure Food Act details.
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United States Navy
Germany
Internal Revenue
Dr King's New Discovery Promoted for Coughs
An advertisement touts Dr King's New Discovery for children's coughs and colds. It claims Pine Tar and balsams soothe irritation, act as an antiseptic, loosen coughs, and expel poisons. It urges timely treatment to prevent lung trouble and notes use for adults as well.
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Dr. King
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