Mobile Promotes Agriculture and Belgian Settlement
Three public efforts in Mobile push county wealth through stock-raising citrus expansion and Belgian immigration. Offers of land in Quitman Georgia, Theodore K. Jackson’s twenty acres, and Charles G. Ollinger’s eighty to one hundred acres back a plan to attract Belgian farmers to urchin farmland near Mobile.
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Mobile
Ways and Means Committee
Chamber of Commerce
Matt Mahomer
Macon County
Mississippi
Quitman
Georgia
Florida
Mobile County
Theodore K. Jackson
Mobile Electric Company
Charles G. Ollinger
Home Dredging Company
Messrs
Jackson
Ollinae
Beljan Sae Committee
O’neal
Birmington
Alabama
Eaport
Mesidie
Automobile Wheel and Airtight Case Experiments
A fragment describes solid tire wheels with curved spring spokes that push sections outward by about 1 inch on rough roads. It mentions public libraries housing books about an invented airtight case tested with sulphur fumes.
Heated and Ventilated Schools Debated by Board
A city school board debate over a combined heating and ventilation system stalls on funding and primes a Friday meeting. Health officials Dr Mohr and Dr Gaines oppose artificial ventilation, arguing natural air and open windows better for children, with experts cited to support natural ventilation over complex plants.
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Hartwell
C. A. Mohr
Toulmin Gaines
Mohr
Gaines
D. T. McCall
L. W. Roe
Washington
Quacks Horoscope Warns of Public Health Perils
Journal of the American Medical Association notes October 1914 favors the public health while warning against quacks. It cites Samuels of Wichita convicted on eleven counts for selling a fake cure and Miller of Chicago Denver for causing death in a shut sanitarium scheme. Flower arrested in Canada for grand larceny tied to a million-dollar swindle.
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Journal of the American Medical Association
Samuels
Wichita
Orlando Edgar Miller
Chicago
Denver
London
Miller
International Institute For
Richard C. Flower
Canada
Flower
R. C. Flower
Keeping Him Fighting Mad
A Manchester Union opinion notes that a Russian soldier's pay is kept at 2 cents a day to maintain him in a constant state of fighting anger. The comment suggests deliberate suppression of wages as a morale tactic.
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Manchester Union
Alabama First Claim in Flag Birth Controversy
A writer argues Alabama designed the Confederate flag or the Stars and Bars before North Carolina and lists seceding states and timeline from December 1860 to May 1861. The piece asserts Alabama’s priority, notes Beauregard's battle flag design role, and disputes North Carolina’s claim.
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Alabama
Montgomery
North Carolina
Capitol
South Carolina
Mississippi
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Texas
United States
Union
Ala
Confederate
Virginia
Fort Sumpter
Beauregard
Charleston
Confederacy
Lincoln
Arkansas
Tennessee
Missouri
Kentucky
Congressional Record Embodies Unauthorized Verse Traditions
A Memphis Scimiter critique denounces congressional waste as poems and extraneous speeches migrate into the Congressional Record. It cites Humphreys Mississippi and La Follette misuse of funds, noting printers and publishers rejected works yet government paid for printing. The piece laments lack of merit and calls for reform.
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Robert E. Lee
Natchez
Humphreys
Mississippi
Congress
Congressional Record
la Follette
Memphis News Scimiter
Lure of the Woods and Autumn Solace
An excerpt from the Philadelphia Ledger extols autumn woods as a restorative escape for hunters and nonhunters alike. It likens rustling leaves and pumpkins to a spell renewing tired spirits, offering peace, freedom, and regained buoyancy regardless of game.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Peonage Farce Provokes Southern Debate
An Athens federal grand jury refused to indict two prominent Georgians on peonage charges, issuing clean bills. The Atlanta Constitution decries the statute as archaic and ineffective, arguing convictions are rare and the laws only inflame Southern nerves without addressing the abuses they target.
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Athens
Atlanta Constitution
War Tax Debate Calls For Broad Acceptance
A Indianapolis News editorial voices doubt about creating wartime taxes that satisfy all direct taxpayers, describing the task as nearly hopeless and stressing political and public resistance to new levies.
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Indianapolis News
Terrific Fire Withstood by British Territorials In Big Battle
Eye witness account details London Scottish actions on Oct. 31 near Ypres and Messines in hard fighting with Germans. The territorial unit held a section of the firing line under heavy fire, endured envelopment attempts, and inflicted greater damage than it received before a retirement at dawn.
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Associated Press
London
Official Press Bureau
General Headquarters
London Scottish
British Empire
Ypres
Messines
Wyschaete
Lys
Germany
Wytschaete
Armentieres
Neuve Chapelle
Nieuport
Orleans Kimono Burglar Now Has Three Good Hands
A 16 year old girl, Lawrence Cessy of 1431 Marais street, reports a kimono burglar wearing a Panama hat robbed her of a $5 bill at noon. The incident occurred near Nelson Grocery Company, Columbus and Villere streets, after she visited a friend’s home. She was struck by the burglar, who also used a revolver during the theft.
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New Orleans
Lawrence Cessy
Marais Street
Miss Cessy
Nelson Grocery ‘Company
Columbus
Villere Streets
Ferdinand Beaumont
Wallace to Attend National Conservation Commissioners Meet
John H. Wallace Jr state game and fish commissioner will attend the National Association of Conservation Commissioners meeting in New Orleans from November 16 to 20 to represent Alabama. The group will hold its annual convention despite the National Conservation Congress postponing its gathering until next year.
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Montgomery
National Association of Conservation Commissioners
New Orleans
John H. Wallace
New York City Board Defeats Leave Without Pay for Teacher
By a 28 to 8 vote the board refused the committee’s report granting Lorah M. Wagner a leave of absence without pay until September 10, 1915. Neglect of duty charges were to be filed. A proposal to amend rules to allow women principals and teachers to bear and rear children was postponed for final action.
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Associated Press
New York
City Board of Education
Committee On
Lorah M. Wagner
Wagner
Tribute to Wilson Policy Praised by Clark in Mississippi
Champ Clark on a speaking tour in Mississippi lauded President Wilson's foreign policy. He said future historians will mark his love of peace and Mexican policy as his chief glory, noting tariff reform among his other achievements. Clark left for Columbia today.
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Hattiesburg
Miss
Champ Clark
Mississippi
Wilson
Clark
Columbia
Saloons Ordered Closed Across 1855 Treaty District
Bemidji Minnesota November 13 Two hundred saloons within the Indian treaty of 1855 district were ordered closed last night in compliance with a Supreme Court decision issued last June. The treaty area spans a large portion of northern Minnesota.
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Bemidija
Minn
United States Supreme Court
Minnesota
Water Cooler Mystery Faces New Orleans Court
In New Orleans on Nov 12 the old juvenile court water cooler and its drip cup vanished from the floor. Judge Wilson denies removing it. suspicion falls on nearby saloon keepers as the court’s drink supplies disappear. The missing cooler leaves a damp patch as bartenders are blamed for the puzzle.
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New Orleans
Death of Chicago Methodist minister Henry C. Jackson
Rev. Henry C. Jackson aged 76 a veteran Chicago Methodist minister died Tuesday He helped organize the church after the Civil War was twice shot through the lungs in the New Orleans riots In 1888 he became superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal missions in South America stationed in Buenos Aires for ten years In 1871 yellow fever ravaged Tunisia he stayed among missionaries through the outbreak.
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Chicago
Henry C. Jackson
New Orleans
Methodist Church
Methodist Episcopal Missions
South America
Buenos Aires
Argentine Republic
Tuna
Finland to Host Pan American Trade Tour Ship
The Fidelity Trust Company of Baltimore plans a 102 day 16 130 mile voyage aboard the Finland starting January 29 from Baltimore and New York to South America. The aim is to educate and foster direct business ties between U S bankers merchants and South American counterparts while showcasing Made in U S A goods.
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Washington
West Indies
South America
United States
Finland
North America
South
Fidelity Trust Company of
Baltimore
National City Bank of New York
Rio de Janeiro
Buenos Aires
Fidelity Trust Company
International Marine Company
Enterprise
San Juan
Straits of Gagellan
Panama Canal
Brazil
Montevideo
Uruguay
State Department
Bushnell's Turtle: First Submarine Mine and Boat
The article traces David Bushnell's 1776 invention of the Turtle the first submarine mine and boat built by a Yale undergraduate. It describes the craft like a round clam ride with foot tread propulsion a large gunpowder keg and a fuse. A night attack on the Eagle off Staten Island failed to reach the hull but startled British seamen.
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Yale
David Bushnell
Bushnell
Eagle
Staten Island
Absinthe and Vodka Prohibition Emerges in War
The Atlanta Constitution notes European powers ban absinthe in France and vodka in Russia as war proliferates temperance. It argues government revenue and morale drive alcohol interdiction, linking drink to unreliable soldiers and wartime discipline. The piece suggests war may spur lasting temperance benefits.
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France
Russia
Atlanta Constitution
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Orleans
Wallace
National Conservation Commission
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Baltimore Trust Company
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