Local News Notes and Classifieds From Chicago Office
Fragmented text shows advertising and newspaper office details including rates and subscriptions. Mentions Associated Press and International News Service, plus departments and editorial office contacts. Data appears garbled with scattered names and prices.
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Berisceree
Chicago
Lytton Building -Smith Company
Full Associa
Associated Press Report
International News Service
Southern Newspaper
Pu Publishers’ Member Association
Alabama News Excerpt From November 1913
A fragmentary 1913 Alabama sheet notes its aim to inform readers about world events and public welfare. It emphasizes moral advocacy and reporting on current affairs to promote just measures and public questions.
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Alabama
Eeeurpe
Pooumaten
Moving houses and address safety notice
The circulation manager asks readers planning a move within the next two weeks to provide their new address to ensure uninterrupted delivery of The Item.
Remembering Lloyd D. Batre A life of charity and probity
Obituary praising Lloyd D. Batre for a lifetime in Mobile marked by unusual integrity and generosity. He is described as cheerful, universally respected, and a model of mental and moral balance. The piece notes his secret charitable acts and mourns his passing as a loss to all who knew him.
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Jena
Fd D. Batre
Mobile
Richmond Times-Dispatch Calls for Tax Reform to Lower Rents
The Richmond paper argues that lowering taxes on improvements rather than vacant land will spur construction, increase housing, and reduce rents for workers. It cites success stories from other regions and urges a step by step approach to land-values taxation to ease living costs.
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Richmond Times-Dispatch
Richmond
The
Times-Dispatch
New Zealand
Comef
Houston
Seamen From Slavery in United States Revisions
A fragmented report notes congressional action on freeing sailors from involuntary servitude during sea voyages. The senate committee, led by La Follette, advances a bill to ensure full crews and end actual slavery aboard ships, aiming to treat seamen as free laborers under law.
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United States
Senate
LaFollette
Triumph of a Visit that Raised Mobile's International Profile
The article lauds President Wilson's Mobile visit as a historic boost for the city’s global standing and Latin American trade prospects. It notes public missteps by local officials, praise from other cities, and Mobile's heavy sixteen thousand dollar investment yielding broad world publicity and potential commerce gains.
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United States
Mobile
Washington
Government Street
Wilson
Montgomery
Tuscaloosa
New Orleans
Baton Rouge
Hattiesburg
Asist Mobile
Congress
Latin America
Mobile Invited to Exhibit in New York City Plan Show
An opportunity is extended for the city to be represented without cost at a November 24 to December 6 exhibition in New York. The event, official in character, is directed by a joint advisory commission of the City Board of Estimate and Apportionment and the Merchants' Association. It showcases city planning and aims to urge prudent control of urban destiny through organized exhibits on streets, transit, parks, housing, sanitation, and industry.
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New York
Board of Estimate
Merchants’ Association
United States
American City Bureau
New York States
Stock Exchange
New York City
William M. Tweed
Abram S. Hewitt
Hewitt
Gaynor
Suggestion for New Orleans Celebration of Peace and Battle
Dr. George A. Harman proposes a New Orleans event starting December 24, 1914, marking the Treaty of Ghent centennial and ending January 8, 1916, for the Battle of New Orleans centennial. He envisions broad Anglo American peace celebrations and cites Mobile's Panama effort as a model for regional cooperation.
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George A. Harman
Ohio
Grand Army of the Republic
Ohio State Journal
New Orleans
Ghent
Great Britain
United States
Panama
Crescent City
Mobile
New York Eyes End of Tammany Grip in Reform Era
A Macon News editorial argues the city now has a chance to shake off Tammany Hall as reforms take hold. It contrasts the fattening tiger with starving city kids and blames Tammany for past mistakes despite a new anti-Tammany government in power.
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New York
Macon
Tammany
Valuable Bricks Attract Sumerian Tablet Study
Professor Stephen H Langdon from Oxford arrives to examine Sumerian tablets in the University of Pennsylvania museum. A heap of Babylonian brick fragments is valued more than diamonds and could reveal ancient commerce traces from Nippur near Babylonia.
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Stephen H. Langdon
Oxford
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Nippur
Wasteful New York Papers Drive City Profits and Reform
Probing New York paper recycling shows vast millions earned weekly from waste and a large labor force led by Salvation Army plants. The piece also covers ballot fraud concerns, director fees, stamp exhibitions, waiter tipping opposition, and thrift campaigns led by S W Straus and the American Society for Thrift.
Auditorium plan to convert riverfront shed in Mobile
A reader urges converting part of a riverfront steel shed into a large auditorium. The proposed floor would rest on supports, allowing about 300 feet of the 1,240 foot shed to hold a 10 000 seat venue with outside Front Street entrances. Posts in the storage area and lower room space are noted. Mobile, Oct. 29, 1918.
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Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company
M. & Oshbed
Mobile
Out of the Mouths of Babes in the Yard
In a lighthearted excerpt two children share puzzled, humorous remarks. Five year old Horace muses on memory while Fred recounts a bee encounter and a misheard description of a fly with a red hot needle. Their innocent reflections echo a quaint schoolyard scene.
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Fred
Horace
Shane Apnat
Alaska Trusts and Territorial Wealth in Washington View
Washington Letter argues Alaska’s wealth is exploited by monopolies and trusts. It credits Russian and U S leases, notes vast resources, and criticizes government bureaus while endorsing four measures: address trust power, uphold platform ledges, end forestry reservations, and open coal fields.
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Alaska
United States
Far Islands
United States Congress
Fish Trust
Copper Trust
Transportation Trust
Washington
Congress
California
Colorado
Pennsylvania
Ohio
West Virginia
Michigan
Arizona
Wales
Indiana
Illinois
American
Alaska Syndicate
Missouri
New Mexico
Union
Aska
Wickersham
Baltimore
Wilson Adinistration
First coal barge for Ala and New Orleans Transport at Tuscaloosa
The arrival of the inaugural coal barge at Tuscaloosa marks a milestone for the Alabama coal fields and elevates New Orleans prospects in Panama Canal traffic. Officials say New Orleans could become a major midvoyage fueling hub for Pacific-bound ships, boosting fuel supply from Louisiana and Oklahoma and expanding crude and coal trade via river and rail connections.
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Ala and
New Orleans Transportation Company
Tuscaloosa
Alabama
New Orleans
Panama Canal
Pacific
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Baton Rouge
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Europe
Pittsburg
Peacemakers plan stalled by disputes board proposal
A fragmented note suggests plan to submit conjugal disputes to a conciliation board be delayed until assured by reliable peacemakers. The idea faces skepticism amid uncertain progress in Cincinnati and related efforts.
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Board of Conciliation
Cincinnati ‘Pines-Star
Partial Substitute Confusion in Wart Claim
A garbled wartime exchange hints at a confession about harming a dog. The quote appears incomplete with fragmented punctuation and missing names or dates, leaving the exact incident and parties unclear.
Income Tax Law Debates and Bank Reactions Discussed
The piece discusses final opinions on income tax law and government guidance for taxpayers amid confusion on filing duties. It notes treasury rulings, bank practices to collect taxes at source, corporate methods for bond payments, and the broad political debate on state and city taxation and public finance.
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Treasury Department
Vem
Easury Department
Washington
Florida lawmaker urges special session to curb Japanese land buying
Congressman Frank Clark of Florida asks the governor to call a special session to prevent Japanese from acquiring property in Florida. He claims Japan seeks more territory and aims to colonize parts of Mexico and large numbers within U.S. borders, warning of potential war if unimpeded.
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Frank Clark
Florida
Japan
Mexico
United States
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TER Mobile Item Company, Inc Inc
Chile
Bell
Lloyd D. Batre
Gotham
Knickerbocker
Salvation Army
Honest
Wall Street
Cleveland
Union of Waiters
Commercial Travelers’ Organization
S. W. Straus
American Society For Thrift
American ‘Society For Thrift
People’s Forum
BY Victor Elliott
Holland
United States Steel Corporation
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