Mobile Item Note Reorganized and Ref Established 912
The Mobile item note announces reorganization and establishment of 912 at 938 St Emanuel Street Mobile Alabama. The Mobile Item Company Inc lists James C Van Antwerp as president B Hanson as vice president and GM Albert P Bush secretary and treasurer John C Coxonnell editor. Full Associated Press and International News Service provided. Member Southern Newspaper Publishers Association. The edition is Mobile Alabama March 23 1913.
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the Mobile Item Company Inc
ST. Emanuel Street
Mobile
Ala
the South
James C van Antwerp
B. Hanson
Albert P. Bush
John C. Cocoxnnell
Associated Press
International News Service
Southern Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Birthplace in Maine Ties to Ex Governor Black
The article traces Frank Swett Black born on a Maine farm. It covers his upbringing in Alfred, schooling, early legal training, and rise to become New York governor. It notes his civil service reforms, later legal career in New York, and wealth, highlighting the self made man narrative of the era.
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Maine
Frank Swett Black
New York
Alfred
Jacob Black
Black
Deee Young Black
Dartmouth College
Albany Law School
Johnstown
N. Y
Conkling
Blaine
Boston
Troy
Congress
Albany
Roosevelt
Metropolis
Storm Sufferers Meet Mobile Appeals for Aid
The Item urges Mobile residents to respond to the Lower Peach Tree cyclone survivors with immediate substantial help. Local merchants have given first aid, but long term relief is needed for the homeless and bereaved, and Mobile’s community duty is stressed.
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Mobile
Lower
Peach Tree
What of the Boy Moral Reform Move Supports New Union
The piece argues for protecting boys amid a nationwide moral crusade and calls for home influence and decent recreation. It highlights working youths, parental neglect, and cites Mobile forming the Boys Union to provide guidance and moral environment downtown.
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Illinois
Boys’ Union
Easter and the Resurrection Joy Across the World
The piece extols Easter as the chief festival of the universal year, highlighting the triumph of life over death, and the season’s uplifting influence on conscience and nature. It speaks of joy, renewal, and a closer sense of the divine during Eastertide.
Opportunity in the South and Philadelphia’s commercial aims
The Philadelphia Ledger highlights the Panama Canal opening and Southern ports as drivers of national growth. The Chattanooga Tradesman agrees that the South already holds industrial supremacy potential, with agriculture and manufacturing expanding together and boosting the region as a key national center.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Philadelphia
Chattanooga Tradesman
United States
Redepositing Reserves Under National Banking Law
The article argues that the current National Banking Law concentrates wealth in Wall Street by allowing country banks to redeposit two thirds of their reserves with reserve city banks, which in turn redeposit half with central reserve city banks. Central banks in New York Chicago and St. Louis channel funds to New York for stock market loans. Redeposited funds are recallable on demand and earn profit only in the call loan market. The piece questions whether redepositing should be forbidden in any new law.
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Wall Street
Central Reserve City
New York
Chicago
St. Louis
Stock Exchange
The Lily and the Beggar’s Restful Easter Gift
A seed dies and a lily grows to bless an Easter service then glitters in the poet’s eyes. A beggar girl finds the flower’s depth reveals memories of home and a message of Christ and peace. The lily’s host rises to joined angels from the earth.
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Lily
Christ
White House Kitchens Past and Present Under Wilson
A Washington dispatch contrasts Taft and Wilson in White House dining. It notes Taft’s elaborate meals and banquet habit versus Wilson’s simple family meals, smaller guest lists, and reduced state dinners. The article describes the renovated kitchen, equipment, and the Wilsons’ preference for privacy, with a focus on function, not ostentation.
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Washington
Taft
Jim Carter
White House
Woodrow Wilson
Jim
Wilson
Cleveland
Executive Mansion
People's Forum Questions Serum Treatments and Health
The article surveys numerous serums vaccines and cures from Ehrlich to atoxyl noting failed promises and public distraction by injections while urging basic health via diet. Edward Quincy Norton from Daphne Alabama argues a non fermenting diet with lean beef and hot water aids recovery and warns against reliance on serums.
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Ashley
New York Harbor
Jauregg
Austria
Paul Ehrlich
Germany
Ehrlich
Sayre
Behring
Elie Metchnikoff
China
Friedmann
Edward Quincy Norton
Daphne
Ala
Seumas MacManus Laughs At O'Brien Name Mixups
Irish author Seumas MacManus, slated to lecture March 29, recalls how absent minded hosts misname him Shamus O'Brien. He recounts a Western banker introducing him as Mr. O'Brien and the city’s businessmen joking about his books as if they were by Shamus O'Brien, the 98 rebellion hero who escaped the gallows.
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Seumas MacManus
Shamus
Shamus O’brien
Seumas O'Brien
Ireland
Shamus O'Brien
Mr. MacManus
Shamusen
Shami MacManus
O'Brien
MacManus
How the South Found Itself
An April Century article by Clark Howell explains postwar Southern recovery. It details how cotton saved the region from bankruptcy after the war, how mortgage burdens followed, and how women, industry, and cities revived with new commercial activity and development.
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Clark Howell
Atlanta Constitution
South
The Goldheaded Cane and the Pawned Brooch Scheme
A man named Jones seeks funds by pawning a gold headed cane after planning a dinner with Miss Lyly. He manipulates a poorBrooklyn shop scene, exchanges a costly family heirloom for cash via a young clerk and Lucie Camine, and sends a telegram to Miss Lyly.
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Bata
Miss Lyly
Aieerseet
Jones
Lucie Camine
Brooklyn
Miss. Lyly
One Year to Motherhood Debate in New York Schools
A nameless New York teacher sought a one year paid leave of absence for pregnancy, asking the board of education to support expectant mothers amid protests. The salary figures cited for the teacher and her husband underscore the cost and value of motherhood in a debate reflecting broader rights and duties.
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Education of
New York
Board of Education
Israel
Mothers of
America
Local Notes and Openings Highlight City Life
A brief column notes Silen at 239 East 101st with a cook and Spanish family. Mike Rissman holds a farm sale nearby. Minner opens a neck injury linked barber shop in the Glenwood house with a guaranteed tion.
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New York
Silen
Mike Rissman
Rae
Glenwood Air
Minner
Charles
Glenwood House
This Is Their Town and Their Critics
A reflective piece argues that local faults stem from residents themselves not the town. It urges pride in home buying, community spirit, and developing receivers to attract investment and improve the town.
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Encourag Investment
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A. W
Sunshine) Hawks
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Victor Elliott
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