Mobile Item Company Ad and Editorial Mission 1914
An 1914 Mobile Alabama page notes the Mobile Item Company Inc address on Emanuel Street and the Motton Building as the business base. It outlines a daily subscription rate and classifies the paper under Southern Newspaper Publishers Association. The editorial policy emphasizes prompt accurate world news, fair interpretation, avoidance of sensationalism, and public welfare through intelligent discourse.
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Press Report
News Service
Southern Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Bell
Wilsons Year in Office Seen as Mixed Record
A review of President Wilson's first year highlights achievements in tariff reform currency changes land policy and naval reorganization. It notes criticisms in the press but credits him with trust dissolution education efforts war support and international diplomacy including Panama tolls repeal and arbitration treaties. Mexico China and Peru are cited as troubled foreign fronts.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic Party
Hig
Tew
Interior
Det
Ees
War
Navy
Army
Burleson
Senate
Wilson
Mexico
China
Peru
Japan
Great Britain
United States
Washington
Comer’s Local Option Split Tops Political Fight
A charged letter argues B B Comer shifts between local option support and national prohibitionist aims. It cites records and actions to claim Comer manipulated laws, threatened Mobile, and framed campaigns to push constitutional prohibition while courting local voters.
No safety voices on looting and finance in odd editorial riff
A fragmented column rails at embezzlers and crime with surreal imagery about peless airships and detectaphones. It calls for a commissioner to exterminate the groundhog before winter and speculates on Matty’s finances and federal incentives amid a “big brown bug” on government street.
Prison reform talk surfaces in stray remarks
A garbled fragment mentions Mr C C Smith of Mississippi and his past prison work. The text hints at reform ideas and free advice but remains unclear about specifics or outcomes.
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Rience
C. C. Smith
Mississippi
Bis
Prizes of Lasting Value For Agricultural Winners
The U S Department of Agriculture urges replacing trips to Washington with a year of practical training at an agricultural college for state prize winners in corn canning and clubs. Arkansas pioneers the idea with scholarships. county prizes may offer two week courses at state rural and mechanical colleges. The emphasis is on practical training over glamorous travel to cultivate farming as a business.
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Washington
United States Department of Agriculture
William P. Brown
Arkansas Corn Club
Arkansas
Corn’ Club
Bankers’ Association
Agricultural Col. College
Moreseed
A Bit Human Wright Attacks Scientific Management
Orville Wright denounces the craze of scientific Management as inhuman. The remark invokes a bizarre anecdote about a comical, unnamed elderly figure in a store scene with a dish of eggs and a humorous exchange at a stove.
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Orville Wright
Cruel Old Cornelius Husk
Panama tolls debate prompts coastwise subsidy option
Washington letters analyze the Panama canal tolls dispute centering on coastwise exemption. debate foresees national honor framing repeal talks, possible amendments to the Adamson act, and pressure from Britain Canada and domestic opponents.
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Victor Elliot
Washington
Congress
Emor Iwo Sry A
Ie Co
Freie Ae Tr
A'S
United States
Natu
Wilson
Great Britain
Panama
Canada
Older Traditions Instructing Women On Ledger Work
A fragment reflects a shift in teaching for girls from entering a room to mastering ledger entry. The phrasing contrasts past gender norms with rising emphasis on financial bookkeeping skills. The tone suggests a satirical look at domestic education and profitability.
Proposed Water Ordinance Aimed at Metered Rates
Letter to the editor questions City Commissioner Pillang's proposed ordinance to charge the same water rate for each house on a single meter as for individually metered homes. The writer argues it burdens small tenants, questions fairness, and wonders if the city loses revenue under current rules. G. H. Kruemperl signs.
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Pillang Hdy
Pillans
G. H. Kruemperl
Monroe doctrine and European nations in Mexico
The Louisville Post argues that the Monroe doctrine does not bar European powers from seeking compensation for injuries to their subjects in Mexico. The United States should not invade to establish order but will demand indemnity when appropriate, without ceding territorial rights.
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Nashville
Mexico
United States
Huerta
Carranza
Louisville Post
Colored Wigs and Spring Imagery in Chicago Tribune
A playful piece envisions colored wigs and bright fashion as expressions of joy. It imagines maidens singing about makeup and hair while city streets glow with spring color and floral metaphors replacing brown roads with violet banks.
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Broadway
Midi Boul
Chicago ,Tribune
Elderly suitor courts Gertrude in 1872 Cleveland scene
A cautious older man calls on Gertrude in Cleveland in a 1872 summer meeting. He smooths his appearance, struggles with a tremor, and asks permission to use a nickname. Gertrude replies warmly, guiding the conversation with casual ease.
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Gertrude
Papa
Gert
Cleveland
Odd Finds CAME ERA And Women Voting Figures In Illinois
An old photograph of an Inca burial tower near Take Titicaca Peru is noted in a Columbus library collection. A report on women voters shows low turnout after registration drives in Illinois Chicago wards and Springfield with only a small fraction of registered women voting.
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Ilinois
Chicago
Springfield
Zabern Incident Refrains From Civil Military Clash
Alsace Lorraine unrest centered on Zabern where Colonel Reuter used bayonets to quell protests on November 27 28. Civilians resisted harsh discipline and anti Prussian sentiment rose as court martial proceedings followed in Strassburg.
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Zabern
Sun
Alsace-Lorraine
France
Reichsland
Bismarck
Westphalia
Strassburg
Y. Reuter
Severak
Reuter
V. Reuter
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Motton
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B. B. Comer
Register Office
Prohibition
South
North
Matty
Onvernment Street
Raz
People's Forum
Columbus Memorial Library
the Pan-American Union
Fréderick J. Haskin
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