Progress Reassures on Postwar Financial Recovery
Center New York reports growing signs of economic revival. The federal bank starts well, NYSE reopens for bonds, Cotton Exchange resumes, exchanges resume nationwide, foreign trade improves, sterling nears normal, the gold pool winds down, cotton pool dwindles, money remains abundant and credit restores. Banks implement resumed policies as the path to normalcy solidifies.
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New York
Federal Bank
New York Stock Exchange
Cotton Exchange
Sterling Exchange
United States
Movable School of Agriculture Planned for Alabama
Professor L N Duncan of Alabama Polytechnic Institute proposes a movable school of agriculture to visit counties starting soon. Limited to about eighteen to twenty sessions this season through July 1, it will use demonstrations and lectures, with separate programs for girls and women and for boys and men. The initiative aims to showcase top College of Agriculture instruction and bring charts lantern slides and equipment to communities at low cost.
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Pse of
Alabama
L. N. Duncan
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Duncan
Alabama Tech
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
College of Agriculture
School of Agriculture
Get Out and Go After It for Latin Trade
The piece urges Mobile to energize merchants and manufacturers to seize the Latin American trade. It contrasts Mobile with New Orleans, arguing Mobile’s location and enterprise give it the lion’s share if efforts are intensified and coordinated across all interests.
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Gulf
Atlantic
New Orleans
The
Building Review
United States
Europe
Mobile
Crescent City
Lions
Making a Good Beginning in County Road Inquiry
The Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners begins a systematic tour of county roads to inspect conditions and evaluate petitions for new roads. Regular meetings raise complaints about road conditions and access, aiming to improve maintenance and provide better routes to the city.
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Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners
Board of Revenue and Reactioners
Forest Fire Crew Sent Ten Men To Contained Blaze Speedily
Oregon ranger rushed ten men to a forest fire twelve miles distant and reached the blaze within forty minutes after notification by telegraph. The report notes rapid mobilization in the national forest and praises prompt action by local fire crews.
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Oregon
Immigration Conference on Southern Immigration Policy and Relief
Senator Fletcher of Florida calls a December 12 1914 Washington conference to discuss moving unemployed agricultural workers to Southern farms and planning support for immigrant settlers. Belgian refugee relief and cooperation with federal officials will be discussed with Secretary William B Wilson delivering the opening address.
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Duncan A. Fletcher
Floyda
Southern Commercial Congress
Washington
Commerce Court Room
Southern Building
William B. Wilson
Thanksgiving Reflections On A Nation at Peace
The article notes Americans have much to be thankful for as Thanksgiving nears despite European conflicts and a cautious business mood. It highlights a peaceful country with no pestilence and a gradual return to normal conditions, urging gratitude to The Almighty.
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United States
Europe
Boxwood wood engraving material costs cited
Boxwood, a costly wood used in a traditional industry in the United States, is valued at four cents per cubic inch and about $1,300 per thousand board feet. The note highlights its status as a premium engraving material.
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United States
Getting the Strangers to Church in New York
Park Avenue Church hosts third season of Sunday lectures one hour before service. Dr. Arthur Jamieson leads discussions on religious social and economic issues with educators journalists scientists and business leaders inviting open question and answer sessions for thinking readers.
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New York
Park Avenue M. E
Arthur Jamieson
Feathers and Shells from Fort Worth Star Telegram
Col Callan of the Fort Worth Star Telegram returns from Menard estates and mocks England’s “white feathers” while remarking on shell injuries. He notes surgeons probe for shells, implying true orthopedic familiarity and veteran experience.
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Col
Cracks Callan
Forth
Menard
England
Col. Callan
Army mule unaffected by motor transport in war
A Washington dispatch notes that despite gasoline engines aiding European armies, the US Army relies on mules and horses for field transport where roads fail. Experiments with motor battery wagons failed, and the quartermaster department advances self-propelled units while artillery remains mule-supported. The army also uses motor cycles sparingly and values cavalry horses for messengers.
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Washington
Germany
France
Belgium
United States Army
Quartermaster’s Department
Texas
Army Ordnance Bureau
Ordnance Bureau
United States
England
Miracle hens and the new wealth of the chicken nation
The North American Egg-Laying Contest shows 500 hens producing 84 940 eggs in a year with 131 hens over 200 eggs each. Extrapolated gains suggest poultry yields could add hundreds of millions to national wealth, rivaling steel and railroads in impact.
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Stallings
Boston
Tanyard
Watt
Bessemer
Edison
United States
Shipping Ties Improve as War Traffic Normalizes
The Dun's International Review notes improved Atlantic and Gulf sailings with most major lines operating regularly. Freight demand rises for grain coal and oil to Europe, rates firm, long voyage tonnage scarce. New Orleans gains regular sailings and a New Orleans to San Francisco service launches with the Pleiades and Cartago joining.
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United States
Dun
Atlantic
Gulf
West Indies
South America
Europe
Asia
Africa
Australia
New Zealand
Panama Railroad
Colon
Balboa
New York
Boston
Baltimore
Montreal
Philadelphia
Mobile
Central America
New Orleans
United Fruit Company
Cartago
Luckenbach Steamship Line
Pleiades
San Francisco
Panama Canal
Chicago
Teeth in Health Work Special to The Item
Jacksonville expects a large turnout as the American Public Health Association meets November 30 to December 4 in the city. The National Mouth Hygiene Association joins sessions on school dental inspection, oral hygiene education, and public health roles with motion pictures and exhibits. The event aims to boost lay and professional health efforts nationwide and in the south, Canada, Mexico and Cuba.
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Jacksonville
American Public Health Association
National Mouth Hygiene Association
Mexico
Canada
Cuba
South
Plot Discovered at Petrograd Shuts Down Conspirators
Police reveal a revolutionary plot involving several duma members and anti war agitation. Eleven people were found at a Viborg road house on November 17. duma members Petrovisky Mouranoff Samiloff and Chagoff were detained while others were arrested and charged under Article 102 after seized documents were examined.
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Petrograd
London
Duma
Social Democratic Association
Russia
Viborg Road
Petrovisky
Daystff
Mouranoff
Samiloff
Chagoff
Fraternity Smoker Hosted by Phi Beta Pi Medical College
The Sigma Chapter held a Saturday night smoker at their hall with toastmaster Dr. Jere Watson. Addresses were delivered by Doctors Metcalf and Agnew and Messrs Adams Rosseaux Marlette and Dixon.
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Sigma Chapter
Phi Beta Pi Fraternity
Medical College
Jere Watson
Metcalf
Agnew
Messrs
Adams
Rosseaux
Marlette
Dixon
Big Cartridge Contract Awarded In Swanton
A local company won a $2,500,000 rifle cartridge contract expected to come from a country at war, announced last night in Swanton Vermont. The order signals wartime supply efforts involving foreign nations.
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Associated Press
Swanton
Rev Thomas J Beard Visits Old Pulpit at St Johns
The former pastor Rev Thomas J Beard D D visited St Johns Episcopal Church as part of his travel home from New Orleans. At eighty he spoke firmly to the congregation recalling ten years in charge before successors Gardiner C Tucker and H K Rees. Many old parishioners and younger members greeted him after services.
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St. John’s Episcopal Church
Thomas J. Beard
Birmingham
Episcopal Church
New Orleans
St. John’s
H. K. Rees
Gardiner C. Tucker
Beard
Destructive Thomasville Oil Mill Fire
In Thomasville Alabama yesterday about noon a major blaze destroyed the oil mill of the Thomasville Mill and Storage Company. The nearby cotton warehouse with 2,000 bales survived. the gin was saved. Estimated loss ten thousand dollars? fifty thousand dollars with partial insurance.
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Thomasville
Ala
Auto accidents leave two slightly hurt in city intersections
D Jennette of 902 Selma Street was slightly hurt after stepping into a slow moving car at the Dauphin and Royal intersection. police say the driver R G Richard was not at fault. Willie Banks of Jackson and Poe Streets suffered leg pain after being struck by an auto truck at Conception Street Sunday afternoon.
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D. Jennette
Selma Street
Dauphin and
Royal Streets
R. G. Richard
Willie Banks
Jackson and
Poe Streets
Conception
Belgium Before War A Portrait From World History
A historical survey contrasts Belgium on eve of World War I with the United States and Germany. It details population, territory, constitutional rights, voting rules, wages, farming yields, beer and wine consumption, milk logistics, railway fares, and Liege exports, highlighting Belgium’s global trade and daily life.
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National Geographic Society
Washington
Mississippi
Belgium
Texas
United States
Germany
Julius Caésar
Wva
Massachusetts
Connecticut
House of Representatives
Panama
Trade openings in end English buyers seek lines
The British Board of Trade invites firms to indicate ability to supply listed goods such as beads, brushes, batteries, alloys, furniture, glass, watches, zinc and more. Communications should be sent to the Commercial Intelligence Branch at 73 Basinghall Street, London, with a bare statement of capability and a note that the name be referred to the inquirers.
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British Board of Trade
Cnip
Bosch
The Maltese DerbyRace on Sliema harbor side
The Maltese Derby in Malta uses an open road race with no regulation as spectators back their favorites. Jockeys ride bridleless and saddle-free, carrying whips in both hands to control mounts. A spectator trips a horse, risking serious harm, as fatalities occur annually under the go as you please rules.
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Wide World
Sliema Harbory
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Thos. J. Beard
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