Mobile Item Company presses edition in 1913 outlet
The Mobile Item Company issues its afternoon and Sunday morning editions from 90-18 St Emmanuel Street Mobile Alabama with wide regional distribution including Baldwin, Biloxi, Pascagoula, Citronelle, Atmore, Brewton, Pensacola and nearby towns. The mobile paper carries trunk line telephones for apartments and lists contact numbers and home office details.
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Mobile Item Company Inc
ST. Emanuel Street
Mobile
Ala
Sealy Peper
Yance Associated Paas
Abielia Ok Publishers’ Association
Ascaris
Hanan
Ith Ave
New’ York
Ona
Carrie Ie Pote
Baldwin
Biloxi
Pascagoula
Citronelle
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Atmore
Brewton
Pensacola
Bell
Dear Mobile
Alabama
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Richmond Conference Aims to Boost Rural Education and Co operatives
Delegations of farmers business men and school workers will attend the Richmond Virginia conference April 16 18 to discuss rural schools agricultural credits and cooperative marketing. Governors will send delegates to shape plans for rural life improvement and press involvement.
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Richmond
Inns of Virginia
South
Mann
Uthern
Suffragists back mantillas to lure male support
The New York Woman Suffrage Party promotes mantillas as an enduring, versatile alternative to seasonal hats. Mrs. Anna Ross Weeks argues two mantillas can replace yearly purchases, offering funeral black lace or party drape and warmth while lending an air of mystery. The idea targets male interest as a political lure.
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Woman Suffrage Party
New York
Anna Ross Weeks
Congressional Committee
Washington
Manas
Town Progress Mantra Urges Unity and Action
A civic missive urges residents to back local efforts, support town improvement, and avoid dampening spirit with negative talk. It warns that lagging progress invites decline and calls for organizing meetings to spur growth and pride.
Mobile Should Get Busy on Public Wharves and Rail Access
The Item rebuts Montgomery Journal claims that Mobile lacks public wharves and railroad support. It notes Mobile spent 50 000 on steel sheds, preserves river links to Montgomery, and asserts railroads do not control landing at public wharves. The piece questions a coordinated press effort to undermine Mobile as Alabama’s sole seaport.
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Mobile
Alabama
Montgomery Journal
Pensacola
Jacksonville
Montgomery
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City
The
Interstate Commerce Commission
Gulf
L. E. Campbell
Enterprise
Miss
Ala
Campbell Lumber Company
New Orleans
Campbell
Woman May Be Topeka Mayor Candidate Mrs May Taylor
Topeka Kansas resident Mrs May Taylor owner and manager of a third store seeks the mayoral nomination and election on a Progressive Socialist Labor platform. Her campaign features include free night schools uniform wages eight hour day city construction by the city public loan fund at 6 percent strict prohibition enforcement freedom of press and assembly and abolition of redundant city offices.
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May Taylor
Topeka
Kansas
Secon
Tariff combinations form in House upset Democratic leaders
Washington dispatch notes growing efforts by House Democrats to curb tariff combinations as Underwood and the Ways and Means Committee push a revised Payne tariff. Regional blocs from the Midwest New England South weigh how to protect local industries while avoiding log rolling ahead of the extra session.
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Victor Elliott
Washington
House
Middle Western
Middle West
New England
South
Louisiana
Colorado
Senate
Underwood
Ways and Means Committee
Ways and Means
The Yellow Peril A Poor Bogey
Mr J O P Bland defends against The Yellow Peril claiming it is born of ignorance about China. He notes China lacks unified purpose and will require generations of education to reach Western military and administrative efficiency. He compares East and West and cites Chinese workers’ relentless labor as a potential threat to Europe.
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J. O. P. Bland
Europe
North
South America
Cathay
Art Exhibit Sparks Chicago and New York Fuss
Chicago touts securing an ultra modern exhibit that traces art history from the mid nineteenth century to cubists and futurists. A New York critic described viewing a futurist work titled Nude ding the Staircase and joked it resembled an explosion in a factory.
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Chicago
Art Institute
New York
Milwaukee and Mobile contrasted on child labor and charity
Letter writer Ralph K. Whiting defends Milwaukee against accusations of heartlessness while criticizing Mobile for brutal child labor practices. He cites mills, stores, and clergy as examples and urges enforcement of Wisconsin’s strong laws, noting Mobile’s complacency and public indifference to child misery.
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Milwaukee
Item
Mobile
Childa
United Charities
Wisconsin
Alabama
God Save the
MacManus First American Check by Harper Editor
Seumas MacManus the Irish writer tells how he, a Donegal hill schoolmaster, sent seven stories to Harper's in New York. Alden offered to pay for one, then proposed 100 dollars for Allie Cannon's First and Last Duel, prompting MacManus to cash out. Within two months editors nationwide sought his work.
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Seumas MacManus
Harte Auditorium
America
Donegal
Harper's
Alden
Mr. Alden
J. Alden
Harper’s
Allie Cannon
MacManus
Harper Brothers
New York
Boston
The Arson Trust Controversy and Public Belief
A critical essay argues that despite public belief in trusts and sensational claims of an arson trust, court testimony fails to prove its existence. It discusses insurers, fire bugs, and adjusters, noting the persistent belief in hidden conspiracies and the tension between perception and evidence.
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Collier's Weekly
Torpedo confession in a haunted survivor tale
A Russian torpedo boat commander recounts the Danube mission that destroyed the Turkish flagship and left him haunted by the phantom cry of the torpedo. He recalls the crude weapon, the perilous approach, and his terror of the final moment as the crew perished.
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Livadia
Tron
Cory Ana An
Paris
Bam
Danube
Tiver
Mobile Fights for Coast Trade Train Schedules
The Mobile Chamber of Commerce promotes an aggressive schedule change by Louisville and Nashville to allow a 6 15 am Bay St. Louis to Mobile run and a 5 pm return. The move aims to boost Mobile business by enabling coastal towns to work the business day there and back for supper. Local boosters praise Mobile enterprise while arguing for fair competition with New Orleans along the Mississippi Sound.
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Mobile
New Orleans
Mississippi Sound
Chamber of Commerce
Gulf City
Bay St. Louis
Louisville
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