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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1913
Page
6
The Mobile Item newspaper announces a daily seven days a week edition at ten cents with Sunday issues, published from 10-18 St. Emanuel Street Mobile Alabama. It notes leadership, subscription rates, and contact telephones for offices and home.
Mobile leaders push for a centralized freight bureau under the Chamber of Commerce to reveal at a glance the city freight rates. The piece cites Atlanta Birmingham Nashville Memphis Montgomery New Orleans examples and notes the Nashville bureau spurred wide factory growth and regional sales.
The piece compares Jefferson’s restraint on federal power with contemporary Washington, noting his conservatism and reform aims. It cites Woodrow Wilson’s history to argue that Wilson, like Jefferson, seeks a balanced, less meddlesome federal role, appealing to both Progressives and common voters.
A Burns detective agency suit targets the city commissioners to endow its operatives with police powers amid past accusations of graft and corruption by the agency. The piece cites a last campaign, nationwide reports, and a partisan grand jury that found no arrests or evidence supporting the agency’s claims, harming New Orleans’ public life.
The Department of Commerce and Labor report shows New Orleans and Galveston rising sharply in imports and exports from 1902 to 1912, while Mobile is not listed. The omission is criticized as discrimination, urging Chamber of Commerce attention. A separate Harvard address condemns police third degree interrogations as secretive and often inadmissible.
In old days of the volunteer fire department Fire Chief Kenton recalls how thirsty engagements trumped fires. A farm blaze in 1869 led to a farmer’s demand for water two miles away, yet the firemen plowed in, joking they would drink it straight.
The Kansas House of Representatives rejected by a largerity vote a bill providing for the initiative and dum that had been passed by the senate. Manitoba prohibits sale of offensive weapons except under certain conditions.
Washington March 7. The Jones-Works and Shepherd-Kenyon bills move to Congress aiming to restrict liquor under interstate shipment and wet-dry state conflicts. Dr Carl Alsberg urges federal state cooperation to curb drug adulteration and enforce the pure food law across borders.
Albert Fink argues in The North American Review that the Sherman act should be repealed and replaced with a federal incorporation law. He calls for publicity on corporate valuations and a ban on cross ownership, proposing a constitutional convention to propose amendments and urging national reconsideration of trust regulation.
The article argues meat prices stem partly from supply and demand and criticizes the beef trust for monopolistic methods. It cites a Chicago yearbook claiming 8,000,000 calves slaughtered in 1911, producing far less beef than if raised to full weight, and notes Argentina’s laws against slaughtering young cows.
A young writer Arthur Raynor rises from modest shop work after his stories gain acceptance. His fiancée Dorothea doubts his dream, but a later rejection reshapes his life. One September night he journeys with Hettie Hullard toward a new, uncertain happiness, while the family watches.
A fragment from Florida Times-Union argues about unusual names for future presidents and cites past names like George and Thomas. It follows with a humorous exchange from the Philadelphia Record about teaching a girl to swim, ending with a punch line about a sister.
The text mixes fleeting remarks on war, fashion, and technology. It mentions a Bulgarian blouse dress, a skeptical view of war, and an English auto parts maker testing magnetos and carburetors in water. It also notes unsuccessful experiments involving two colored citizens in a fragmentary, uncertain passage.
Helen hires Miss Finch to over a dress after moving to a new apartment. The tailoring drags on as seams are let out or new panels added, causing delays, mess, and friction. Helen resists “they're wearing” fashion while Warren notices nothing until dinner.
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