The Mobile Item Company Reestablished in 1910
The document notes the Mobile Item Company's reorganization and reestablishment in April 1910. It lists address at 10-18 Saint Emanuel Street Mobile Alabama, officers Van Antwerp as president Alegat P Bush as secretary and treasurer John es as secretary on treaster, and mentions Associated Press and International News Service affiliations. It also includes subscription options by mail daily and Sunday for one and two years and by carrier for Mobile.
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Mobile Item Company, Inc
ST. Emanuel ST
Mobile
Ala
van Antwerp
Alegat P. Bush
John
Treaster
Associated Press
International News Service
Southern Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Albert Hanson
Bulldine
Fifth Ave
New York
Ma!l
Bueiess Othcrs Storiaews Bell
Home
Bell
Old Politics and Money in early 1900s lobbying
The article reviews the National Association of Manufacturers and allied groups using vast funds to influence political outcomes, including attempts to place officers on the tariff board during Taft’s era. It cites Mulhall testimony, Foraker, Cannon, Sherman, and others, detailing evasion of campaign finance laws and cross-state ties to prohibition politics.
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Congress
National Association of Manufacturers
Martin M. Mulhall
Senate Lobby
Association
Foraker
Cannon
James 8
Sherman
Mulhall
Ohio
National Council of Industrial Defense
Manufacturers’ Association
van Cleve
Indiana
Parry
James E. Watson
Watson
Mississippi
Industrial Education in Columbus Ga Mills Star School
A Columbus Georgia school for mill operatives aims to curb dropouts by aligning hours 8 to 11 and 1 to 3 80 with mill shifts. Pupils dubbed the dinner toters school learn academics in the morning and practical woodwork sewing cooking poultry gardening in the afternoon. Most finish by year five or six. only about 1 percent pursue further study.
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Columbus
Board of Education
Bureau of Education
Lessons From Europe Chairman Haslam Reports
Chairman Haslam of the American Commission to investigate agricultural credits sends home accounts of European conservation. He notes Lombardy grass crops, Hungary grain milling superiority, and Germany lifting food with less land, plus Europe’s parcel post and river transport. He calls American distribution costly and farmer organization weak, draining rural life.
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Chairman Haslam
American Commission
Lombardy
Hungary
Germany
Minnesota
North Dakota
Europe
Haslam
America
Cooperative forestry work by lighthouse and forest services
The federal lighthouse bureau and the forest service are jointly studying forest management in lighthouse districts along the Great Lakes in Michigan and Wisconsin. Reservations total about 5500 acres with plans to replant white and Norway pines where timber is cut and to conserve existing stands.
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Federal Light House Bureau
The
Forest Service
Great Lakes
Michigan
Wisconsin
Bryan and Mexico on His Chautauqua Mind
The Secretary of State continues his lecture tour with Ambassador Wilson’s report on Mexico not shifting his steady optimism. Critics note Bryan shows reluctance to flag any Mexican crisis and focus remains on his speeches, raising questions about balancing two major commitments.
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Henry Lane
Wilson
Mexico
Bryan
United States
Getting in Shape to Vote in Illinois Women’s League
A report on the first Illinois Woman's Democratic League meeting where Dr Julia Smith urged order and focus on suffrage questions. The session featured Mrs Susan Peck interrupting Mrs Charles Trainor and signaling plans for permanent headquarters as newly enfranchised women prepare to nominate municipal candidates.
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Illinois Woman's Democratic League
League
Julia Smith
Susan Peck
Charles J. Trainor
Dossenheim Raiffeisen Bank Visit Reveals Cooperative Model
The American commission examined the Dossenheim Rural Credit Bank in Germany, a 295 member society with half laborers and half small farmers. Deposits yield four percent for members, three and three fourths for non-members, and loans are funded mainly by member deposits and Central Bank support. The bank operates with a lean staff, tight oversight, and strong social ties, prompting questions about transplanting the system to America.
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Dossenheim
Germany
American Commission On Agricultural Co-Operation
United States
Central Co-operative Bank
Board of Managers
Board of Supervision
Co-Operative Union
Dessenheim
American Commission
Raiffeisen Bank
America
White House Wedding Plans Draw Public Attention
Washington discusses the forthcoming marriage of Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson to Francis Bowes Sayre at the White House. The piece contrasts expected pomp with possible restraint and surveys a history of presidential weddings, noting prior ceremonies in the Blue Room and East Room and listing prominent past brides and attendees.
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Victor Elliott Washington
White House
Jessie Woodrow Wilson
Francis Bowes Sayre
New York
Army
Navy
George
England
Turkey
Russia
Sam
Miss Wilson
Alice Roosevelt
Nicholas Longworth
Benneath-The-Reet
Wilson
Princeton College
Miss Roosevelt
Longworth
Paterson
N. J
Cleveland
Francis Folsom
Emily Pratt
President Hayes
Russell Hastings
Nellie” ‘W. Grant
Algernon C. F. Sartoris
Elizabeth Tyler
William Waller
Williamsburg
Virginia
Andrew Jackson
Delia Lewis
Nashville
Tennessee
Joseph Yver Fageot
Legation
Mary Easton
Jackson
Lucien B. Polk
Emily Martin
Lewis Randolph
John Adams
Mary Hellen
Maria Monroe
Dolly__Madison
Anna Todd
Miss Todd
Dolly Madison
Lucy Payne Washington
George Washington
Executive Mansion
One Judge Evil Seeks Court Operated Precedent
The Mobile meeting of the state bar association passed a resolution endorsing the supreme court for adopting a rule to have cases reviewed and decided by the full court before a judge writes an opinion. A three member committee will present the matter to the court when it convenes this fall in Montgomery.
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State Bar Association
Mobile
State Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Thomas MM. Stevens
Montgomery Journal
A LINE O' CHEER Each Day o' the Year
I dreamed last night that I had stores of gold untold and grew cold toward my fellow men. They fled, leaving me in a lonely joy. The dawn woke me to find the gold gone and true wealth returned: the love of neighbors and good health.
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Min
The Difference A Vision of Priscilla and Caroline
A fragment describes Priscilla a vision of grace with brown hair in a dainty gown, while Caroline surpasses with a slitted skirt and hobbed feet in filmy hose. Prentice Abbot appears as a judge.
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Priscilla Fair
Caroline
Prentice Abbot
The Gold Coin
A penniless old man recalls his daughter's monthly gold coin gift and confronts the truth of her life while watching her at the office. He resolves to a grim act, confessing how his art and his pride shaped their fate and that he must die, taking the coin with him.
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Bergstrasse
Grete Allmers
Ottersberg
Iron Woman of Trenton Shapes Global Iron Work
In Trenton New Jersey Harriet White Fisher Andrew runs a foundry that produces anvils and vises for the globe. Known as the Iron Woman she commands the plant from charging the cupola to operating the chipper and keeps her workers on schedule despite injuries and heavy demand.
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Trenton
N. J
Harriet White Fisher Andrew
Miss Will Allen Dromgoole To Stage Tennessean Play
Nashville Delighted By news that Miss Dromgoole will present a new play The Tennessean in August at the Orpheum with Billy Long as producer The dramatized work follows her celebrated Treasure Island and draws on Tennessee life and landscapes from the author a noted Southern novelist and poet.
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Will Allen Dromgoole
Billy Long
Orpheum
Nashville
Miss Dromgoole
South
New York Port Records Historic Foreign Trade Volume
Special to The Item. New York reports the largest annual foreign trade volume in the nation’s history for the year ending June 30. Imports top $900 million, exports rise, and total US foreign commerce nears $4.35 billion with New York handling 58 percent of imports and 37 percent of exports. Duties collected exceed $200 million.
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New York
Custom House
United States
Federal Treasury
Uncle Sam
Banana tax sparks East Side protest and tariff debate
A proposed banana duty in a Senate finance plan triggers mass opposition in New York's East Side. A Copper Union meeting and Reform Club accuse the tax of harming the poor and blocking free food. Jamaica delegation opposes the tax as harming island fruit access.
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Senate Finance Committee
New York
Tropics
Copper Union
Democratic Reform Club
Jamaica
Washington
Marriage trends among New York society leaders rise
An analysis from the blue book shows a roughly twenty percent rise in marriages among social prominence and births in a similar amount. If this continues, large families may no longer be a barrier to joining the social elite on Fifth Avenue, mirroring trends outside the circle as marriage licenses in June set new records in New York.
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Fifth Avenue
New York
Gen
Lloyd S. Bryce
Mrs. Burden
Gen. Bryce
Burden
Steé
Gen. Bryee
Carnegie
Otto H. Kuhn
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
Four Hundred
World’s Most Remarkable Well in Giggleswick Fascinates Tourists
A two mile trek between Settle and Ingleton in Yorkshire reveals Giggleswick’s ebbing and flowing well. The stone basin fills and drains rapidly with no visible outlet, locals theory blame underground cisterns or air currents. The phenomenon, long noted by travelers, puzzles scientists and remains a curious antiquity.
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Settle
Ingleton
Yorkshire
England
Giggleswick
Wide World
Those Lawyer Fellers Speech Reflects On Right And Wrong
A line from Abe Perlmutter and Mawruss discusses legal counsel and moral choices. The exchange suggests the danger of deciding without professional advice and hints at a broader theme of ethical judgment in legal matters.
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Mawruss
Abe Perlmutter
Taking Ways in Louisville Neighborhood Rumor
A Louisville Post reader describes stranger women and men praised as charming taking valuables from homes. The citizen reports his house was looted while a range remains missing amid a pattern of thefts in the area.
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Louisville
Louisville Post
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Alabama
Washington Comment
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