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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1913
Page
6
The Item reports a new mammoth corporation uniting Birmingham and Mobile capital to promote larger trade. It will expand cotton storage, aiming to make Mobile a leading southern cotton hub with six percent loan facilities on stored goods.
The Mobile Item published daily and Sunday morning lists staff including James C. Van Antwerp as president C. B. Hanson as vice president and general manager Albert P. Bush as secretary and treasurer John C. O Connell as editor. Rates show daily and Sunday subscriptions and carrier delivery in Mobile Alabama.
The Brooklyn Eagle reviews Baron Henri de Rothschild of Paris and his play Croesus noting his wealth, medical training, and model Paris children’s hospital. It contrasts his view of happiness with Andrew Carnegie and John D Rockefeller, suggesting Rothschild may be the happier man of the trio.
An Alabama movement led by Frank S. White and John W. O Neill seeks to end convict leasing. The Birmingham committee calls for state action June 14 to plan replacing convict labor with alternative programs and to address the suffering of convicts and families.
A municipal officer faces inquiry as Commissioner P oversees the city purse, examining irregularities in expenditures and the handling of public funds. The issue centers on possible misallocation and accountability within city finances.
The article notes dramatic export growth from 1893 to 1913 for iron and steel, copper, wood, cotton, leather, and refined mineral oils. Total six-group exports rose from 125 million to about 875 million dollars, a 600 percent gain, outperforming all other domestic products. It highlights overseas expansion with producer and distributor representation and anticipates a new record year for cotton exports.
The Commercial Press of Shanghai issues Hsin-tou-tien to supersede Kanghsi 1716 edition. Five years of scholar labor, removal of obsolete characters, core body plus a supplement, abundant illustrations, inclusion of modern scientific terms, dated events from the republic, and an appendix with measurements and dynasty chronology.
In Yates County New York regular court term began with no civil or criminal cases to hear. County area is 320 square miles with a 1910 population of 18 642. The editorial notes the peaceful scene contrasts with some lawyers past expectations while warning about delays for a long aerial fire truck in traffic.
Count von Beltzig visits the Louvre trio painter poet musician who adore Mona Lisa. The painting moves to life and grants them a shared affection while aging them rapidly. The count plans to rescue them but cannot reach their door as dawn floods the room with light.
The June report surveys the U S Steel Company case as a pivotal Sherman act matter. It notes the lawyers experts and witnesses shaping the questions, and analyzes the rise of the steel giant through co operation, Judge Gary, Schwab, Morgan and others, and the impact on American manufacturing.
T M Gilmore of the National Model License League argues for constructive liquor regulation. He backs renewal rights, reasonable fees, one license per 500 residents, and suspensions for first violations with permanent revocation on second. He critiques the Anti-Saloon League and cites a 1913 national context and Alabama as a testing ground.
Reflects on how individuals choose identities and horizons by imagining life colored as purple past, gray present, or rosy future. Suggests agency in shaping perception and destiny through personal narrative.
The Charlotte Observer muses that without mirrors people would spend time gossiping instead of fixing hair and hats and laments losing one of the best umpires ever seen in the area due to stubborn circumstances and perhaps a few individuals.
Henry Bessemer sparked a world changing iron and steel boom that redefined wealth in the early nineteenth century. Twenty years of further invention modernized production as Percival Roberts Jr and partners Gary Schwab and others drove consolidation toward a unified industry.
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