The Mobile Item Company Establishment Details
The Mobile Item Company founded in 1881 reorganized and re established April 1910. Published daily and Sunday morning from 48 St Emanuel Street Mobile Alabama with leadership including James C. Van Antwerp president C B Hanson vice president and general manager Albert P. Bush secretary and treasurer John C. O Connell editor.
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Mobile Item Company
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ST. Emanuel Street
Mobile
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James C. van Antwerp
C. B. Hanson
Albert P. Bush
John C. O'Connell
Legislation Against Samarism and Local Candidate Review
A Washington bill by Senator Cummins targets impersonation and improper influence in Congress with imprisonment or fines. The piece also questions Samari s m candidacy activity and cites Moody Campaign notes criticizing Captain Hobson for voting absences and neglect of duty, amid Alabama politics.
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Washington
Senator Cummins
Iowa
Con
Congress
Lamar
Wall Street
Chicago Record-Herald
Sing Sing
Bar Associations
Stock Exchange
James R. Keene
J. P. Morgan and
City
Record-Herald
Cummins
Hobson
Ledger
Alabama
Moody Campaign Committee
Walker County
United States
Mann
House
Congressional Record
Underwood, Taylor and Richardson
Warrior River
Sixth Congressional District
Faile Ake
Underwood
Taylor
Hobegan
Senate
Birmingham Ledger
Mournful Wail of New Bedford Mills and Tariff Critique
The piece portrays New Bedford with over thirty cotton mills valued at 52 million dollars and a 100000 population of mill workers. It argues mills profit from refined cotton to luxury goods, condemns outdated plant equipment, calls Massachusetts manufacturers tax dodgers, and attacks tariff advocacy as a means to preserve profits for northern interests.
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New Bedford
Mass
Memphis News-Scimitar
Massachusetts
North Atlantic
The Sane Fourth Gains Ground Across the Nation
The Fourth of July celebration reduces deaths and injuries nationwide. This year eight fatalities and 365 injuries occurred, compared with earlier deadly years. Over fifty towns enacted ordinances banning deadly forms of celebration, and street scenes show ambulances and fire engines displaced by calmer commemoration.
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Ere
United States
Hundred Years Of Locomotives Reckoned By Tribune
The New York Tribune credits the steam locomotive’s birth to early experiments by Trevithick and Ledley with Hackworth’s Puffing Billy in 1813, predating Stephenson’s Rocket by a century yet acknowledging Stephenson’s crucial role in rapid development. It notes Hedley’s invention inspired Stephenson and regards the locomotive as a foundational world changing achievement.
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Stepherson
Stephenson
Fulton
Morse
Trevithick
William Ledley
Wylam
Newcantleon-Tyne
Timothy Hackworth
South Kensington Museum
Liverpool & Manchester Railway Company
Hedley
Newcastle
New York Tribune
A Line of Cheer Each Day of the Year
A playful verse fragment muses on not worrying about fate and what a person cannot be. It contrasts impossible roles like a billionaire or a marmalade with the idea that someone can be a denied fine clam as an unexpected identity.
Death burial costs fall as McAdoo pamphlet cites low prices
Washington July 7 Treasury figures show seamen burials in 1914 may cost as little as 50 cents each under government contracts. The piece details bids across cities from Cairo to Juneau and notes average burial cost per seaman about 18 dollars, far lower than typical civilian rates.
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Washington
McAdoo
Secretary of the Treasury
Cairo
RE. A. Burke
Burke
Army
J. Vanderhook
Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Vanderhook
Saulte Ste. Marie
Superior
Wis
A. P. le Sage
Buck
Magner
Budimreten
Vogelsane & Murphy
Manitowoc
Albert A. Falk
Port Huron
J. J. Saunders
Solomons, Md
Fox and Weeks
Savannah, Ga
Edward Holman Undertaking Company
Portland, Ore
Hager Brothers Co., Ltd
Maronette, Mich
J.L. Reed
Port Tampa
Fla
Ketchikan
Alaska
J. R. Heckman and Co
George W. Fox
Philadelphia
A. L. Bentley and Son
Chicago
Martin Hughes
New York
Treasury Department
Uncle Sam
L. McGillis Furniture Company
Ogdensburg
N. Y
Southern Furniture Company
Washington, N
CSC
St. Vincent's Hospital
Toledo Ohio
Providence Hospital
Washington, D. C
H. H. Williams
Honolulu
Hawaii
C. W. Young
Juneau
San Juan
Porto Rico
COLORS AS CURES AND ANCIENT COLOR HEALING BELIEFS
A column discusses belief in color therapy from red for sore throats to violet rays. It cites London Answers arguing red light helps skin, blue and violet kill germs, green soothes, with notes on red garments for measles in Spain and red treatments in parts of the Orient. The piece notes color ideas persist in fashion and may become scientific with future advances.
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London
Orient
Atlanta Journal
Hyacinthe’s Great Sermon Behind the Heavy Wine
Pere Hyacinthe on a missionary tour drank a heavy wine that dulled his senses as he delivered a sermon. He faltered on the pulpit stairs yet finished the discourse and was warmly praised by friends in the vestry for an eloquent delivery.
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Pere Hyacinthe
la Grande Revue
Exposition Notes Prompt Cites Poetry Frenzy
The Ohio State Journal quips about flood of original poetry and letters from the San Francisco exposition press bureau and jokes about investing in a six cylinder waste basket amid the influx.
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Alert Press
Comng
San Francisco Exposition
Ohio State Journal
The Fowler's Tale of the Salt Marsh Owl
A fowler recalls a three year old night when an owl haunted the marsh and nearly wrecked his hunt as he fled through rising tides to reach a lamp-lit home. Now another owl haunts the same night and fears return to the saltings. The story blends superstition with a perilous journey and a ghostly omen.
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Landshire
Jack
Fowler
Record Breaking Commerce Report
New York July 7 Oscar O Austin chief of the bureau of statistics reports a record in eleven months ending May 31 with total foreign commerce near four billion dollars. Exports reach two billion three hundred two million while imports total one billion six eighty one million, creating a six hundred twenty million dollar visible trade surplus. He notes sustained growth in manufactured exports and highlights the role of industrial giants like the United States Steel Corporation as part of a global sales push.
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New York
Bureau of Statistics
Department of Commerce
Washington
Oscar O. Austin
Mr. Austin
Joseph P. Nimmo
United States
Austin
James A. Farrell
United Oe Ee Corporation
Farrell
George W. Perkins
International Harvester Company
Europe
South America
Canada
North American
Germany
Great Britain
Perkins
United States Steel Corporation
Mr. Perkins
Holland
The Czar for Peace and Balkan Arbitration
The note from Tsar Nicholas in Saint Petersburg defused a Bulgaria Serbia clash and earned him praise for averting war. The two Balkan powers accepted Russia as arbitrator, with global admiration including acclaim from Wall Street.
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Bulgaria
Servia
Ferdinand
Peter
Balkan
St. Petersburg
Russia
Nicholas
Wall Street
Springfield Republican
Ethnological claims on Japan's mixed heritage
The text argues Japan's people are a blend of races including Tartar Malay Semitic Aryan elements. It cites language and ancient records and mentions Semitic colonies, Aryan infusion, and a remnant of Ainu people with European-like features. It asserts no race is purely Japanese and labels the pure Christian era as non-existent.
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Japan
Europe
First U S Bureau of Education Bibliography on Industrial Education
The United States Bureau of Education issues its first extensive bibliography on industrial, trade, and vocational education compiled by Henry R. Evans and staff. The list covers about 806 titles with summaries of key works and topics including apprenticeship vocational legislation and the social value of industrial training.
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United States Bureau of Education
Henry R. Evans
Bureau
Mportant
Burenger
Public wages debate stirs Kansas City waitress tips claim
A Cincinnati Times-Star note quotes a committee inquiry into equal pay for women. It recalls a Kansas City scene where waitresses praised tips as compensating their ordinary wages, suggesting broad wage satisfaction despite the broader issue of underpayment.
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Kansas City
Cincinnati Times-Star
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