Fragmented Mobile Item notices and agency credits
The fragment lists a Mobile Item Company address at 16-18 St Emanuel Street Mobile Ala and Ytt On Building Company representatives with Associated Press and International News Service credits. It also shows subscription rates by mail and carrier, a Chicago office line, and various department connections.
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the Mobile Item Company, Inc
ST. Emanuel Street
Mobile, Ala
Ytton Building Company
Ciated Press
International News Service
Southern Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Mobile
Shicago
Bell
Silent as the Tomb Braxton B Comer under fire
Nine days pass with no Mobile Register response to its governor candidate Braxton B Comer after editorial claims of two facedness On March 4 the Register criticized Comer for professing local option while supporting state wide prohibition and asked if silence admits guilt
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Braxton B. Comer
Mobile Register
the Register
Trig
Comer
Mr. Comer
B. B. Comer
Mobile Featured in Sage Foundation Education Report
The Russell Sage Foundation released a nationwide study on industrial education, noting Mobile ranks eleventh among 78 cities for 13 year old boys in or above seventh grade. It reports fathers’ occupations and broad mobility affecting local vocational training and future work locations.
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Mobile
Division of Education
Russell Sage Foundation
Sage
Brockton
Mass
Portsmouth
Drago denies immunities in campaign fund claims
The statement by Captain John S. Drago manager of the Comer campaign in Mobile county refutes insinuations of immunity for liquor interests and details his outreach to saloon licensees including a $50 request from Dacovich and other alleged interactions during prohibition. It notes his prior role as sheriff and hints at controversy over possible excise commission leadership.
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Kolb
Comer
Dhy
Oberhaus
Dacovich
Mobile County
John 8. Drago
Drago
John
Lyric Theatre
George Dacovich
St. Andrew Hotel
Cawthon Hotel
Bud’ Wilson
Wilson
Peter Hamel
South Conception Street
Hamel
John S. Drago
Mobile
Mobile Excise Commission
Comet Forces
Mississippi River flood calls for national action
The Delta argues the Mississippi flood is a national problem requiring federal control to protect homes and farms. Since 1879 the river commission and regular appropriations sought lower river stabilization, but decades of piecemeal work have left Delta land risked by floods.
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Peel Io
Mississippi
Mississippi River Commission
Tyler
Congress
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
James A. Garfield
Chester A. Arthur
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Mississippi River
Delta
Panama
Barrett’s Creditable Stand for Governor’s Integrity
Editor E W Barrett writing as Ned Brace in the Birmingham Age Herald defends Governor O Neal against accusations about missing state convict funds. He states the governor is not dishonest, though flawed, and praises fairness amid Alabama political rancor. The piece joins a Montgomery Advertiser reflection on Delta flood control and national implications.
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Ned Brace
E. W. Barrett
Birmingham Age-Herald
O'Neal
Barrett
Stiil
Alabama
Lacy
Oakley
Age- Herald
Mobile fair gains strong funding push for regional exposition
Optimists in Mobile and surrounding area hail the planned fair as a lasting boost. J Howard Wilson commits $8 000 in stock, elevating total subscriptions to $20 000 before formal solicitation begins. Central Committee moves to rapid fund-raising, targeting landholders and local interests who stand to benefit.
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Mobile
J. Howard Wilson
United States
Central Committee
Southern Newspapers Back Wilson With Unanimous Endorsement
The Southern Newspaper Publishers association, covering sixty daily papers from Potomac to the gulf, unqualifiedly endorses President Wilson and his policies. They praise his national service and express pride that a Southern-born statesman seeks to shape current history, hoping the president is gratified by homeland recognition.
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Southern Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Wilson
Potomac
Gulf
South
Atlanta Journal
Fortunes for Writers Highlighted by historic notes
The piece notes Milton sold Paradise Lost for 20 pounds, Chatterton’s death by suicide, and royalties fortunes of Clyde Fitch and Walter Browne. It cites a divorce case with alimony and a $125,000 royalty, a $250,000 Browne legacy, and a $10,000 prize won by Lona Dalrymple. It ends with the idea that a right hand can direct a rich future in literature.
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Milton
Paradise Lost
Chatterton
London Bridge
George H. Broadhurst
Broadhurst
Clyde Fitch
Walter Browne
Browne Chop House
New York
Lona Dalrymple
Passai
Fortun
Memphis
Witte on War and Delta Cotton Protection
Russian statesman Count Witte warns that armies absorb 40 percent of great powers income and questions the end of war propping US cotton supremacy. Delta lands could yield more cotton if levees are strengthened, requiring 230 million cubic yards of earth and 60 million dollars, with 20 million acres to protect but only 3 million in cultivation. Delta residents urge national support for Mississippi river control by army engineers to end patchwork efforts.
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Army Engineers
Delta
Mississippi River
United States
Count Witte
Mississippi Delta
United States Army Engineering Corps
Panama Canal
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TRA Council
Ois Ssr
Ieee Eae
Johnnie” Drago
Comedian
By Frederic J. Haskin
MR. Barrett
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