Mobile merchants press for Latin trade share
The New Orleans States attacks Mobile sailors and merchants for targeting Central America and warns New Orleans cannot be outpaced in the tropical trade. It notes no iron clad advantage for New Orleans and argues Germany France and England hold larger Latin American shares, urging mutual push for new business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Mobile
The
Trade Commission
Central America
Association of Commerce
Germany
France
England
United States
Education reform in Germany and America boosts practical studies
The piece cites Dr J J Sheppard on Germany’s education for business and explains how German commercial and technical schools drive trade power. It also notes American progress led by Scott Nearing, detailing Los Angeles and Philadelphia efforts, Auburn’s tech school, and Mobile’s ongoing freight rate dispute with railroads, urging practical training and fair tariffs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Department of Commerce and Labor
Empire
Scott Nearing
University of Pennsylvania
America
Ladies’ Home Journal
William Penn High School
Philadelphia
Los Angeles
Francis
Technical High School
Alabama
Fine Technological School
Auburn
Fathers Day Idea Reflects on Dad’s Night Time Hopes
The note imagines Father’s Day on the third Sunday in June and ponders what a father would want from a day when he already has many nights to share with his children. It blends sentiment with a practical reflection on family time.
St. Louis Property Net Taxable Value Questioned
A report questions the net taxable value of property in St. Louis, noting figures for assessment, exemptions, and resulting tax burden. Officials consider revisions to property assessments and potential impact on municipal revenue and residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Good Advice to Farmers Stimulates Southern Food Independence
A Louisville Courier-Journal column urges Southern states to boost home food production. It cites Georgia and other states as failing to grow enough corn hogs and hay, noting millions spent on imports. The piece argues diversified farming improves profits and independence from outside markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South
Louisville Courier-Journal
Watterson
Macon
Georgia
Reform of Civil Service Under Wilson Era Changes
President Wilson accepts resignations of General John C. Black and William Washburn and plans a reorganization of the federal civil service. Charles M. Galloway and George R. Wales named as successors to lead the commission, amid Senate review and push to end political activity in the service. A Chicago D A R movement seeks a million dollar hotel for working girls. The 1913 city directory lists Chicago population at 254 078.
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Wilson
John C. Black
Illinois
Federal Civil Service Commission
William Washburn
New York
Charles M. Galloway
Smith
South Carolina
Black
George R.,wales
Vermont
Washburn
Senate
Chicago
The Heart of a Boy at Fifty
A reflective piece marks fifty with lingering hair gray and fragile stride. The speaker recalls youth’s edge by a pool and worm on a pin, facing misfortune yet buoyed by faith and love, finding joy as deep as a boy’s heart.
Senate Deliberations On Underwood Tariff Proceed
Washington note outlines how the United States Senate handles debate on the Underwood tariff bill. It describes filibusters, committee referrals, and the path from finance committee to floor as the measure moves toward final passage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victor Elliott
Washington
United States Senate
House
Senate
House of Lords
England
Underwood
Simmons
Senate Finance Committee
Finance Committee
Rangdell
Louisiana
Ransdell
Promise and the autumn wind chorus
A short, sunlit street scene turns tense as a man ends a casual affair with a cold dismissal and a demanding lover confronts him. The garden's personified trees and birds mock the couple, while the wind hints at a past episode and the looming end of summer. The man resolves to writing to the other woman that evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cora
Tam
Walter
Piccadilly
Jove
Country life school urged by readers for Mobile county
A reader urges the Chamber of Commerce plan for a country life school to Mobile county school commissioners. The letter shares a story of Mr Griffin of Semmes who trained a poor boy into a successful agent and husband, and notes Griffin’s wish to educate and employ a farm helper, but he cannot fund all responses.
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Country Life School
Chamber of Commerce and Business League
Board of School Commissioners
Mobile County
Griffin
Semmes
A Treat for the King and a Letter from London
A dear old Irish woman proud mother of a successful politician writes of a letter from London describing a king’s sighting of Richard. The Mississippi floods reached 2,300,000 cubic feet per second, twelve times Niagara’s flow. A caller praises a local figure and proposes a Semmes country life school led by Mrs. Griffin and notes possible noble work with books and education in Mobile county.
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London
Richard
Niagara Falls
Booker Washington
Mobile County
Semmes
Schwab Testifies on Steel Efficiency at Washington Hearings
Charles H. Schwab testified at Washington hearings on the United States Steel Corporation. He described efficiency and cost savings in blast furnace operations and argued that a centralized, capital-rich system could yield six percent annual savings, outlining the development of the corporation and its aims to unify mining through to finished product.
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New York
Charles H. Schwab
Department of Justice
Washington
United States Steel Corporation
Schwab
James A. Farrell
Farrell
Supreme Court
J. P. Morgan
United States
Mr. Morgan
Mr. Schwab
Mr. Schwabmean
Europe
Federal Steel Company
Carnegie Company
Mr.Morgan
Morgan
Also Mentioned on This Page
J. J. Sheppard
School of Commerce
New York City
National Educational Association
Interstate Commerce Commission
Iten
Cotton Exchange
W. L. Mapother
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company
C. 8. Compton
Louisville and Nashville
Lincoln Green
Southern Railway
Milton H. Smith
Mapother
Louisville
Joint Committee
Atlantic Seaboard
Birmingham
Thomasville
Atlantic
Savannah
Gulf
Lousy ii
c.Iy
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Washington Comment
Her
People’s Forum
SY ‘‘Holland
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