The Mobile Item Company Reorganized and Reestablished
The Mobile Item Company Incorporated, founded in 1881 and re organized and re established in April 1910, lists officers including B Hanson vice president and general manager and P Bush secretary treasurer. The notice notes offices: Mobile Alabama at 226 Fifth Ave New York and mailing options via Daily and Sunday subscriptions with price details and carrier rates.
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Mobile Item Company, Inc
ST. Emanuel
St.van Antwerp
Beecaident
Aln
Fifth Ave
New York
Bell
Home
Alfalfa on every farm in Alabama movement announced
Mobile Alabama July 23 1915 a statewide effort to spread alfalfa growing with a Demopolis launch meeting August 13 headlined by P G Holding and Joseph Wing Speakers from national and state agricultural departments will tour August 14 stopping at Gallion Farnsdale Uniontown Marion Greensboro Selma to lecture distribute literature Committees in Farnsdale Uniontown Marion Greensboro etc coordinate a statewide drive No compensation involved organizers say the aim is to add millions to Alabama agriculture and create a local market near Mobile
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Demopolis
Alabama
P. G. Holding
Iowa
Joseph Wing
Ohio
Gallion
Farnsdale
Uniontown
Marion
Greensboro
Selma
Mobile
St. Louis
Summer Mood Myth or Medical Reality in The Times
A London Times writer argues summer provokes the deepest low mood, not its opposite. He notes summer beauty intensifies distress, sleep falters, appetite fails, and sociability wavers, while Coleridge is cited for ancient causes of melancholy and doctors’ possible explanations.
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London Times
Hamlet
Coleridge
Cole
Birthday party excursion draws 20000 visitors in Kansas
B P Waggener of Atchison hosts a yearly birthday celebration that attracted more than 20000 visitors, mostly children, from across northeastern Kansas. The event, described as the largest party of its kind in the United States, relies on wagons, automobiles, and an excursion train to transport attendees.
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Kansas
United States
B. P. Waggener
Atchison
Mobile Awakening to Canal Celebration Power and Unity
A lengthy editorial praises Mobile for rallying behind the Panama Canal celebration and the Southern Commercial Congress. It credits L. C. Irvine and a faithful core with sustaining the cause, notes rising public recognition, and emphasizes city unity as essential for progress and gaining national attention.
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Mobile
Southern Commercial Congress
Panama Canal
L. C. Irvine
Panama
Atlanta
Memphis
Birmingham
Nashville
Chattanooga
Express Rates Reduced by Interstate Commerce Commission
The Interstate Commerce Commission approved nationwide reductions in express rates, likely 25 to 50 percent for small packages and 10 to 30 percent for larger parcels. The decision ends a year long study led by Commissioner Lane, who mapped 950 fifty mile blocks to regulate rates. The plan aims to curb double charges and discrimination while preserving company profits and encouraging competition with parcel post.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Government Parcel Post
Burleson
Auch
Lane
United States
London Magistrate Plowden Reviews Midnight Dancing Case
The Richmond News Leader reports on London magistrate Plowden noted for practical wisdom akin to Haroun al Rasheed. A youth and a young woman were charged with dancing at 1 am and the officer said the man clutched the woman. The magistrate dismissed them saying go away and try to be as sad as you can. Police court honors are about even between Richmond and London.
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London
Plowden
Haroun al Raschew
John
Richmond
Richmond News-Leader
A Discoverer and the Missing Sweetheart
A curious street encounter unfolds as Rastus accuses his lost love Eliza of moving on with a more generous suitor. She calmly replies that she cannot tell if he provides better dinners or times. The exchange exposes the singer’s lingering heartbreak and humor.
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Rastus
Liza
Eliza
A Line O' Cheer Each Day o' the Year
A humorous poem by John Kendrick Bangs contemplates a playful indecision between the chicken and the egg. The speaker rejects overthinking trivial questions and urges contentment, suggesting happiness in simple meals and daily cheer.
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John Kendrick Bangs
Page speech hints at America as melting pot and evolving Anglo Saxon identity
The Atlanta Constitution highlights Walter H Page's address to the Anglo-Saxon Club of London. It notes his view that leadership defines Anglo-Saxon influence and argues that American diversity blends English Irish and other European strains. The piece praises mixing races as healthy and predicts a stronger American type emerging with new focus on health and eugenics.
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Page
America
Portland
Europe
Atlanta_ Constitution
The Pull and the Law in Caminetti-Diggs Case
The Caminetti-Diggs case on the Pacific coast faces influence and delay. The attorney general postponed the trial prompting U S Attorney McNab to resign. The president backed the attorney general and ordered the trial to proceed.
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Pacific
United States
McNab
Caminettis
Mellen and McLeod Parallels in New England Rail Rivalry
New Haven President Charles S. Mellen moves to unify New England rail systems, echoing Archibald McLeod of the Reading. The piece notes rival financiers, public resistance to monopoly, and Mellen’s brusque style, with Morgan and others backing consolidation.
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New York
Charles S. Mellen
New Haven Railroad System
McLeod
Reading Railroad Company
Reading
Eest
E. H. Harriman
East
Harriman
New England
Mellen
New Haven
Archibald McLeod
Mr. Mellen
Commodore Vanderbilt
J. P. Morgan
E. H. Harrimar- Myr
Melies
Reading System
Boston
New York City
Mr. McLeod
Northern Pacific
John N. Hall
William Rockefeller
Percy Todd
Bangor and
Aroostook
Morgan
Reading Railroad
New Haven Railroad
Ellen
Ee “Holland
Cant Elude Him Man and Beast in Folk Tale
The fragment rasps with dialect about meeting a fearsome man on the road who questions travelers about their paths. It warns that civility may invite danger as he wields power, and recalls the only past match when he transformed into a whale and swallowed Jonah, a mythic anchor for his anger toward creation.
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Jonah
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AMD
M Lord
Bath Hovndst
England
M’leod
Holland
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