Mobile Excise Commission Enforces Liquor Law Rigorously
The Mobile Excise Commission has enforced the Smith regulation, interpreting section 35 to bar any minor or woman from serving or selling liquor. The ruling, praised as aligning with the law’s spirit, could guide other commissions and strengthens public confidence in Mobile’s compliance with local option and licensing rules.
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Birmingham and Atlanta Freight Rates Spark Dispute
The Birmingham Ledger accuses favoring Atlanta in freight pricing from New York to Savannah and Mobile. It notes rail and water rates favor Atlanta by 9 cents to Birmingham, despite Birmingham's closer rail distance to New York. Birmingham Chamber of Commerce campaigns for equitable rates to attract and retain industry and jobs, with Mobile pushing a similar effort.
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Protection Lobby Support Tied to Wilson Tariff Fight
Democratic papers back President Wilson against the Washington lobby challenging the Underwood tariff bill while sugar and wool interests resist. Chicago manufacturers say they expect higher output under revision and no major harm from changes. A North Carolina cotton mill owner argues the tariff needs market expansion and freer trade with the South and East rather than stronger protection. The text shifts to unrelated remarks about aluminum and a rain crow.
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Women of Alabama Erect First Chickamauga Monument
Alabama women unveiled the first monument on the Chickamauga battlefield during the Chattanooga Confederate Veterans reunion. The ceremony marked a notable effort to honor Southern history as future generations reflect on Civil War memories.
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Dope and Dozing in Montgomery Interviews Refer to Comer Prospects
The piece discusses interviews in Montgomery on Tuesday about B B Comer's prospects in Mobile County. It uses sports slang to say the interviews offered information or prophecies, noting the authors Lowenstein and Laurendine failed to deliver reliable insight and merely earned newspaper mention in the county seat.
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Japan criticism of California land limits divides Tokyo and Kobe
The Kobe Chronicle argues Japan’s inflexible land policy and bans on foreign workers complicate protests over California land measures. It says America’s openness contrasts with Japan and that bilateral negotiations face a no room situation, leaving Japan politically cornered. The piece discusses treaty rights, public opinion, and warns against liberal concessions.
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Fence dispute and hen house feud end with wire barrier
The exchange between the Nos 17 and 19 neighbors escalates into a joke about a hen house. A week later a wire fence blocks the hens while the piece notes New York and Buffalo traffic accident rates per 100000 people.
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A Line O' Cheer Renewal Amid Daily Cares
Poem exhorts readers to abandon shop work and worldly wares for rejuvenation. It urges going outdoors to a grassy track and recapturing boyhood by whistling or yelling, claiming such renewals restore peace of mind and youth.
Bathhouse Talk and a Sausage Manufacturer General
A Russian lieutenant recalls a bathhouse conversation with a little man and a stout guest, debating generals and wars. The encounter ends with the lieutenant chasing a gray mustache general who turns out to be the same man from the bath, revealing a tense near arrest and a strange encounter.
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Steel firm plans $15 million Alabama plant expansion
New York May 28 A United States Steel Corporation move to invest about fifteen million dollars to improve the Tennessee plant at Birmingham Alabama would bring total expansion and modernization costs for the Tennessee Company to roughly thirty nine million dollars The plan is tied to broader efforts to enhance foreign trade and develop southern markets including New Orleans Memphis Nashville and the Birmingham district while scrutiny in a Sherman anti trust suit proceeds in New York</analysis>
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Almanac Weather Predications and Public Signatures
A Western town tale recalls a grandmother who prefers the almanac with kinder weather forecasts. The piece notes leaders laboring under heavy signing duties and cites the Treasury Division of Warrants as the “heaviest name signer.”
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