A Line O' Cheer Offers Daily Readable Verse
The Mobile Item publishes poetry and essays alongside news, including an 1917 edition featuring a comparative diet poem about a Robin Redbreast and a discussion of Illinois minimum wage legislation. The issue also notes dairy industry debates from Chicago and Mobile public health concerns.
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Mobile Item Foundeng. PE
Mobile Item Company Inc
ST. Emanuel Street
Mobile
Ala
C. van
Bush
Onmileeseee
New Ewes
Full A! International News Service
Southern Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Citronette
Lomaton
Atmore
Breyton
Pensacola
Weltty. Hone &2
Alabama
Robin Redbreast
Chicago
Board of Health of
City of
Northern Illinois
Illinois
C. H. Potter
Butter and Egg Board of
Elgin
United States
Henry Myers
Natoma
Hinsdale
F. O. Butler
Bankers’ Committee
Butler
Chicago Board of Health
Treasury Building History From Early Fire to Civil War Expansion
Washington correspondent Victor details the Treasury Building’s evolution from the 1800 fire losses in Philadelphia to its 1836 act and Jacksons cornerstone moment. It traces Mills design input, wartime delays, and the 1855 expansion under Walter, finishing with the 1869 completion and total cost of 6.13 million.
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Illinois
Senate
Industrial Commission
Secretary of State
Victor
Washington
White House
Treasury
Treasury Department
Philadelphia
Y Ze Hatfield
Congress
Pennsylvania Avenue
Capitol
Jackson
Robert Mills
Aquia Creek
Virginia
Committee On Public Buildings
Thomas A. Walter
State Department
Treasury Building
Post Office Department
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of War
Register
General Land Office
Fifteenth Street
Rae
Improvement in Cotton Handling
Government and industry officials press tighter rules for cotton packing marking and bailing to cut losses from spoilage and mislabeling. Trans Atlantic lines will enforce higher charges from July 1918 as railways, ginners, farmers, and shippers align to improve quality to please foreign buyers and protect market share.
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United States
Foregn
Germany
South Atlantic
Gulf
United
Soap tariff clash prompts US market warning
A telegram from James S. Kirk and Company alleges Lever Brothers plan to flood the American market under free soap tariffs. The note questions whether the senator will defend the U S soap industry, citing heavy American exports to England and the carriers' cross Atlantic costs as possible advantages for Kirk and Company.
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James
Kirk and Company
United States Senate
Lever Brothers
England
James 8. Kirk
Ghost Dancers in Georgia and the ghost-dance of headlines
A critical look at newspaper ghost-dancers who sensationalize stories. The Atlanta Constitution defends Georgia by debunking life magazine and Macon cases, showing how misrepresented deaths and ceremonies mislead readers. The piece questions the future credibility of Georgia reporting.
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Jennie
Failer
Egypt
Georgia
Ollie Taylor
Life
New York Weekly
Atlanta Constitution
Constitution
Sanders Walker
Macon
The
Covington
Walker
Associated Press
Chee Foo
Shanghai
St. Nicholas Liar
Pests of the Farm and Prosperity Threaten Farmers
A historical discussion argues that pests both native and imported devastate American agriculture. It cites cotton boll weevil, San Jose scale, gypsy moth and others as costing hundreds of millions yearly, urging strict quarantine, funding, and enforcement to protect farmers and the economy.
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San Jose
America
Europe
Massachusetts
Secretary of Agriculture
Smithson in Romance on the Continental Train
A London clerk named Smithson on a Continental train to Naples becomes embroiled with a tall Italian and a beautiful olive skinned girl. After insults and a noisy dispute, Smithson tries to defuse tension with humor and Gallic bravado while the couple’s romance unfolds before them.
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Naples
Smithson
London
Italy
Dover
What It Meant and A Canard Misunderstanding
Mrs Fulton Street asks her husband what a canard means and learns the word implies a cowardly belief. The exchange reveals their comic ignorance and feigned sophistication in a brief domestic dialogue.
Hearst Bill Urged to Speed Tariff Consideration
In a melodramatic scene a journalist named Smithson faces a Japanese Italian stallion and a cafe dispute over a bill for two, while seeking relief through a recited poem and a grasp on Paradise Lost amid a tense travel interlude to Naples.
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Hearst
Knoxville Sentinel
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