The Mobile Item Company Inc Mobile Ala 1913 Ad
The Mobile Item Company Inc lists office at 10-18 Emanuel Street Mobile Alabama with representation and telecommunication lines. The paper states subscription rates by carrier and details about editorial offices and policy intentions including prompt accurate world events reporting and public welfare through impartial discussion.
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Mobile Item Company, Inc
Emanuel Street
Mobile
Ala
Ssrmapaseton
Resentatives O Fuia
Aieobea
International News Service
Southern Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Canarbe
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Railroads Face Added Tax Burden on Bond Income
Federal income tax prompts fire and casualty insurers to demand railroad refunds of 1 percent tax on bond income. With 90 95 percent of bonds tax exempt the extra levy could reach about 4 275 000. Treasury confirms source collection on commissions and professional incomes as part of the tax.
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Fire
Lire and Casulty
New York
Treasury Department
Mitchel's Ancestry Linked to Confederate Roots in New Mayor
William Dillon adds details on John Purroy Mitchel family tracing to three Mitchel brothers who served in the Confederate army. The eldest died at Fort Sumter, the middle served under Lee and fathered the current New York mayor, and the youngest fought at Gettysburg and vanished. Dillon notes Mitchel's mother’s Purroy line as solid in New York.
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John Purroy Mitchel
New York
John Mitchel
William Dillon
South
Mr. Dillon
Mitchel
John
Fort Sumter
William
Pickett
Gettysburg
James
Northern Virginia
Lee
John Purroy
Miss Purroy
Dillon
Mr. Mitchel
Bryan and Sullivan Flint Internal Revenue Fight Again
A renewed feud unfolds between Secretary Bryan and Democratic committeeman Roger Sullivan over the Illinois collectorship of internal revenue. Bryan asserts intimate knowledge of the Illinois case and urges the president to back his view. The president has not yet named a minister, leaving Sullivan’s position in question.
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Bryan
Roger Sullivan
Tromi Illinois
Fght
Knowlee
Illinois
Minis
Sullivan
Chicago teacher attacks marriage in controversial book
Oscar Merrill Heath a Chicago high school teacher and reform school principal defends his volume Composts of Tradition as for educated adults. The work argues marriage restricts women and that society should pension mothers and fund offspring, sparking an official inquiry by school authorities.
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Oscar Merrill Heath
Chicago
Heath
Professor Heath
Illinois
England
Emmeline Pankhurst
George Eliot
Washington Letter on House Stress and Re-election Pace
Members of the House face a long session and tough re election campaigns as primaries begin in February and March. Many contemplate exit for private life citing costs time and political pressure while leaders push for daily roll calls to prove attendance.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Congress
Wilson
Uncle Sam
James R. Mann
Ers
Financial conditions depend on England and global capital
In 1902 James Stillman warned that normal international finance hinges on Britain's long term debt financing after the South African war. The piece traces world capital shortages, Balkan debts, Panamanian wealth prospects, US rail financing, and the Canada Mexico trade balance shaping future wealth and capital for the United States.
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New York
James Stillman
London
Paris
Great Britain
South America
Balkan
George Paish
Panama Canal
Mexico
Canada
Lotos Club
Cyril Maude
United States
Borden
Great Dominion
Republic
Mail Holiday Gifts Early Says Post Office
The Post Office Department urges patrons to mail parcels early this Christmas season. Postmaster General Burleson aims for quick and accurate delivery with expeditious handling and minimal criticism, relying on the efficiency of the vast postal workforce to meet the holiday rush.
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Burleson
Perkins at Armageddon and the Harvester Trust War
The Cincinnati Times-Star review claims the 1912 campaign shaped by figures like George W. Perkins led to a government suit against International Harvester. It accuses Perkins and others of steering a stock monopoly through a voting trust while defending monopolistic pricing. A brief comic aside notes a lost art of humility as autos rise.
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United States
The
Harvester Trust
International Harvester Company
George W. Perkins
Cyrus H. McCormick
Charles Deering
Taft
Wickersham
Perkins
Theodore
Cincinnati Times-Star
The Female Politician Theme in Verse and Satire
A poem by Florence Goff Schwartz contrasts female power with male authority, arguing women are blamed for social ills while men control politics. It includes the line about women and the cradle and urges recognition of natural laws guiding gender roles.
One Yale Club Football Tale From New Haven
A New Haven anecdote recalls a Yale football fan who stayed aboard a rented steamboat the night before a game. He wandered the town, found a ticket to board the vessel, and woke to seek access to the game in New York. The tale ends with a playful riff on tariffs and Eden.
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Yale
New Haven
New York
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New York Sun
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