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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1914
Page
8
A social historian argues twentieth century taste defies a single style. Interiors reveal individual preferences rather than a unified Zeitgeist, with furniture serving as decoration and personal expression rather than mass tradition.
New York May 16 Wide response to invitations from the general committee led by Lloyd C Griscom marks the first National Foreign Trade convention in Washington May 27 28 Delegates will hear papers on Sherman law foreign trade and regional conditions with discussions at open sessions and advance distributed papers to guide debate including remarks from J D Ryan of Amalgamated Copper and W C Redfield secretary of commerce.
The passage muses on evolving taste from Marie Antoinette to Louis XVI and suggests future refinements may come from Christie's auctions in Paris. It notes that Louis Seize may persist until another sale prompts reappraisal of taste.
New York May 16. Henry Fuentes an 18 year old youth faces breach of promise charges after preferring flight to marriage and returning to his Guatemala sugar plantation. Miss Mary Bosi 22 of Fort Washington place alleges he met her at Forest Lake Wingdale New Jersey in 1913 and promised marriage. Bail set at 3000. he remains in Ludlow Street jail as funds come via William R Grace Co.
The afternoon program features talks on Sherman Law foreign trade effects with J D Ryan Amalgamated Copper M A Oudin General Electric Charles A Conant Federal Reserve Act impacts and Henry C Emery Jeremiah W Jenks topics. Fairfax Harrison Southern Railway and P A S Franklin International Mercantile Marine discuss trade transport issues.
A broad free trial offer promotes a new asthma treatment promising relief for all severities and ages. The advertisement claims to cure difficult breathing and wheezing, inviting sufferers who have failed other remedies to mail for the method at no cost.
A decades old mail order scheme story explains how a $25 start with ten cent ads grew into ten firms. Investors receive seed catalogs and endless pitches from mining and oil land promoters, then a flood of mail for years as the scam’s reach expands.
New York May 16 Bigger bands will play louder dances at the annual May fête for public school girls. Festivals will occur in Prospect Park Brooklyn May 19 Staten Island May 26 and Central Park June 1 if rain dates hold. Spectators stay outside ropes and the event is a gala day with games and dances for the girls.
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