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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1913
Page
4
An editorial critiques the social and economic roots of Mexico's unrest, arguing peon hardship and land issues fuel rebellion while warning against sensational political promoters. It labels a Mobile pamphlet as misleading, cites inflated figures about saloons, and challenges the promoter to prove his charges.
Memphis News-Scimitar condemns the levee only plan for Mississippi flood control. It highlights Peter the Hermit style campaigns by John A. Fox and a Washington push to spend 60 million dollars on levee systems, while Congressman McKellar proposes a three-member river board to cut waste.
The case Acton Davies vs Edward J Bowes centers on a New York Evening Sun critic who printed a courtroom scene as fact. Judge Hough ruled that news cannot be copyrighted. Davies would have held rights if the piece had been published as fiction.
In a congressional session Kentucky Republican Robert Thomas urged passage of a privileged resolution to end the session and claim mileage pay. He said he could live on 7500 to 12000 dollars a year and claimed creditors also deserve the money. The House reportedly laughed as the measure failed and was later trimmed from the Congressional Record.
W. Ben Martin of Brownsville Tennessee a Spanish War veteran on rheumatism heart pension on 18 dollars a month has written to the pensions commissioner returning his last check and asking that his name be stricken from the rolls noting he is unable to continue the allowance.
Washington notes argue that US foreign policy has been built on isolation and Monroe Doctrine tradition. It contends a trained diplomatic corps is needed to handle crises like Mexico and European affairs, warning current policy may not endure beyond President Wilson’s term.
Mary seeks to help in a crowded New York flat causing tension with her mother-in-law. The infant’s illness worsens and a dispensary visit leads to a doctors visit uptown. Financial strain and pride challenge Mary as she fights to find care.
New York street railways carried 1,772,198,568 passengers in the past fiscal year, with regular fares totaling 88,494,464.20 dollars. Manhattan led with 4,098,282 riders, Brooklyn 3,212,391, and subway traffic surpassed four elevated lines for the first time. Total line revenues were 92,114,054.06 dollars. expenses rose to 48,661,244.41, leaving a profit of 12,232,872. The piece notes rising car traffic, and discusses fashion, a new Seaman’s Church Institute sailors hotel at Coenties Slip offering private accommodations and 25 to 40 cent rooms, including a separate officers’ wing.
The Gotham area used 1 019 250 000 bricks in recent construction, about 93 187 000 more than the prior year. Costs rose to 5 858 770 dollars from 4 717 633, with brick prices averaging 5.74 dollars per thousand last year and sourced mainly from Hudson River yards and riverfront sites north of Perth Amboy New Jersey.
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