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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1914
Page
5
In London on May 30, landscape pendants and crystal jewels with diamond frames are the current rage. Miniature landscapes painted on ivory replace center gems, framed by diamonds or left unframed, with crystals carved in bas relief and mounted on velvet ribbons.
Tourists in Berlin mingle with winter travelers returning from Egypt and Italy as Potsdam greets the Kaiser from Corfu and the Hansa resumes daily service to Berlin. Americans Battles and Perilliat visit the city, while the American Library Association displays a model library system for the Leipzig exhibition. The King of Saxony inspects the American cataloguing method during opening day.
London reports show rising public confidence in submarines after the Coulomb voyage. Advances include larger, faster ships with better crew comfort, long range torpedoes, and seaplane support expanding underwater warfare to oceangoing duties.
Ellison A. Smyth president of the Cotton Manufacturers Association of South Carolina spoke at the National Foreign Trades convention on May 30. He highlighted the South’s higher cotton production and rising prices, noted Africa and the Philippines as major growth markets, and urged a coordinated campaign to expand export trade for cotton goods beyond domestic consumption.
In a district attorney statement, John Hayden exbookkeeper for Babbitt Inc reveals gambling led him to steal 11 000 from his firm after a nine year restraint. He describes two fellow employees profiting from his theft and hush money payments while noting a prior 1901 sentence for 25 000 taken from Swift & Co. His case moves toward a grand jury plea while an ad for Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy closes the article.
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