Vice President's Lecture Tour Sold For 300
A 1914 letter to the San Francisco Argonaut details the Coit Lyceum Bureau plans to bring Vice President Marshall and his wife to multiple towns, outlining a $300 booking including a reception and banquet. The Chicago Tribune cites the arrangement as a notable example of presidential-era touring and liberal terms.
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San Francisco Argonaut
Coit Lyceum Bureau
Hippodrome
Cleveland
Ohio
Jeannette Street
Wilkinsburg
Penn
E. W. Tomlinson
Wilmerding
Tomlinson
Marshall
Mrs. Marshall
Kittanning
Greensburg
Catawissa
Mercersburg Academy
P. M. Neilson
Lyceum Bureau
Chicago Tribune
the Tribune
Bryan
Wauwatosa
Gallipolis
Grand Jury Recommends Cost Shaving Measure
Conecuh county grand jury reports to Judge Gamble urging a law to shift grand jury frivolous or malicious presentments costs to the prosecutor. The document notes frequent unfounded charges causing county expense and seeks a remedy to curb such actions.
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Conecuh County
Gamble
Legisla
Grangl Jury
Tennessee and Fia factions stir city political scene
Newspapers clash as factions vie for public favor in the city amid declarations of peace and competing loyalties during the Alabama Confederate Veterans week.
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Tennessee
Fia
Welcome the Veterans Arrive for Mobile Reunion Week
Mobile prepares to greet members of Alabama Division United Confederate Veterans for a reunion beginning Thursday. General Chairman Charles B. Hervey leads a strong committee urging every citizen to offer a friendly welcome and assist visitors, whose ranks are thinning.
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Mobile
Gulf City
Alabama
United Confederate Veterans
Charles B. Hervey
General Citizens’ Committee
Supreme Court Frees Father in Mississippi Kidnapping Case
The Mississippi Supreme Court rules the father not guilty of kidnapping for taking his child from the mother after a prior agreement that she would receive full control. The case hinged on whether the mother’s title to the children was granted by agreement. if not, a court decree would have made the father guilty.
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Supreme Court of Mississippi
E. O. Powe
Wayne County
State Supreme Court
High Court
Was Captain Wiener bluffing over Harvard offer
Captain Clarence Wiener a veteran artil lery commander in France is furious at Prof Hugo Munsterburg Harvard University for pro German remarks He allegedly offered ten million dollars to Harvard if the professor were fired His Philadelphia uncle J L Ketterlinus casts doubt on the inheritance and the whole bluff may collapse Harvard may face disappointment if the uncle’s claim stands
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Clarence Wiener
France
Hugo Munsterburg
Harvard University
Harvard Corporation
J. L. Ketterlinus
Artillery
Clarence
Harvard
W. P
Lesson in Optimism and Compromise in a Pine Belt News Pick
A prose poem urges optimism with lines about smiles and a bright outlook. The Pine Belt News notes a criminal case where a offered compromise of thirteen months at hard labor was declined, and a jury sentenced eight years in the penitentiary.
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Pine Belt
Thimble Rigging Legislation and Labor’s Magna Charta
Analysis in the Evening Bulletin argues Clayton Act section 6 does not alter unions or boycotts materially. Davenport for anti boycott group says law unchanged. Gompers calls it a Magna Charta for labor and plans celebrations. The piece likens the section to a shell game leaving parties unsure of rights and remedies.
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Daniel Davenport
American Anti-Boycott Association
Danbury Hatters
Supreme Court
United States
Evening Bulletin
Philadelphia
Mobile Leaders Rally for Confederate Reunion Despite War
Mr. Leon Schwarz of Mobile leads efforts at the Tax League Convention held at the Chamber of Commerce. He opposed the solvent credit tax and spearheads Mobile’s push for a bold Confederate reunion with strong local support and $1,800 already raised from small contributions as Europe’s war looms.
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Leon Schwarz
Mobile
Tax League
Chamber of Commerce
Schwarz
Alabama
Montgomery Advertiser
Russians Hold Bug Position Easier For Them
The Florida Times-Union notes the Russians are occupying the Bug with a more comfortable stance, suggesting a worse outcome if forces were reversed.
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Florida Times-Union
Farmers of Lamar Endorse Bankhead Plan
Vernon Oct 19 Several hundred farmers at a Lamar county mass meeting in Vernon approve Senator Bankhead plan to move the cotton crop and urge Governor O Nea l to call a special Alabama legislative session to vote on the constitutional amendment and related legislation to ease the cotton crisis.
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Vernon
Lamar County
Senator Bankhead
Bankhead
Daily Papers
South
O'Neal
Alabama
Immense Cotton Seed Meal Exports Planned Through Pensacola
Pensacola Florida reports a surge in cotton seed meal exports with 4 500 tons ready for a ship in days and sales of 10 000 and 18 000 tons under negotiation. Shipments go in bulk to Aalborg Denmark with sacked stock loaded in Louisville and Nashville warehouses by machinery.
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Pensacola
Fla
Aalborg
Denmark
Louisville
Nashville
Official Program Announced For Alabama Good Roads Session
The eighteenth annual Alabama Good Roads Association session will be in Montgomery October 21. Speakers include Gov Emmet O Neal, Gov-elect Charles Henderson, Senator John Bankhead, Congressman J Tom Heflin, W C Oliver, R E Spraggins, and Prof G N Mitcham. Mrs Nora E Miller and S A Reynolds also appear with farmers and rural carriers represented.
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Montgomery
Alabama Good Roads Association
J. A. Rountree
Birmingham
South
Emmet. O'Neal
John Craft
M. W. Richards
The
Southern Railway
John W. O'Neill
Charles Henderson
John H. Bankhead
J. Tom Heflin
Alabama
W. C. Oliver
W. S. Kellar
G. N. Mitcham
Peace Society Aims to End War by Global Patriotism
Washington dispatch outlines a new peace society seeking universal happiness and justice through world patriotism. The group pledges non sectarian, non political membership with no dues and opposes wars as final by replacing territorial loyalties with global citizenship.
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Patriots of the World
New Peace Society
Russell
Eeer Hete
Catie
Globe
Europe
Dothan High School Fire Damages Building In Alabama
The third floor housing the chemical laboratory and equipment burned Saturday night in Dothan Alabama. Defective wiring is suspected. The second floor also suffered damage. The structure valued at 45000 dollars with 22000 dollars insurance. School board members moved to keep classes going without delay. Desks and paraphernalia on the grounds were guarded by Boy Scouts.
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Dothan
Ala
Submarine Night Vigil: Leviathan in the Deep
A dark sea scene describes congers and an unseen menace stalking below the surface. A battleship lies wrecked with its frame split, the killer retreating beneath reddened foam as cod and conger hide. Written by Wex Jones.
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Wex Jones
Alabama's Bright Future Brightens State's Resource Image
The Alabama article notes rich natural resources in coal and iron near Birmingham and a diverse economy ahead. It urges crop diversification due to cotton low prices and boll weevil, highlighting wheat, cattle, dairy, poultry, and dairy farming growth.
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Union
Alabama
United States
Birmingham
Pittsburgh
America
West Cap
Texas
Kentucky
Tennessee
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Kansas
Age-Herald
Chewing Gum Complaint Sparks Local Chat in Crowell
In Crowell Texas two women on a street chat lament chewing gum messes at a home. They note tobacco stains and gum stuck to chairs windows and doors as a bothersome example, deciding against a public quarrel over the issue.
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Crowell
America
Europe
Foard County
Tex
Cardiff plans 250 workingmen's homes program
The city of Cardiff will build 250 workingmen's homes with municipal loans to residents. Tenants pay a quarter of the price up front and the rest is repaid over twenty years at 4 percent interest. The note also mentions Argentina's 260,000,000 acres suitable for wheat.
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Cardiff
Wales
Argentina
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