Price Passes In Mobile Fire Service After Twenty Years
Chief Thomas F. Price of Mobile dies at forty three from acute indigestion and heart failure after a life of fearless duty. He led a shift to a more efficient department and earned respect for courage and self discipline. His memory joins a distinguished line of chiefs honoring public service in Mobile.
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Thomas F. Price
Mobile Fire Department
Price
Chief Price
Mobile
Mobile Department
Rich
Tom Price
Matt Sloan
Mosely F. Tucker
England Must Be Crushed Says German Admiral Kirchoff
The Hamburger Fremdenblatt prints Vice Admiral Herman Kirchoff's call to crush England as the war’s main objective. He argues for destroying Britain’s influence globally, employing sea, air, land, and economic power, and vows no rest until victory over England is achieved.
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Hamburger Fremdenblatt
France
East
Europe
Albion
England
North Sea
Russia
Germany
Georgia and Alabama Farmers Urged to Grow Meat for Income
The Atlanta Constitution argues meat shortages persist as world demand remains high and European shipments rise. Georgia and Alabama farmers are urged to shift from cotton to cattle and pork to capture profit, stressing county-scale success and national independence from cotton prices.
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Europe
Atlanta Constitution
Georgia
Brooks County
Alabama
Esquimaux
Low Almanac Figure Shows Decline in Pauperism Rates
Census data show 84 198 paupers in U S almshouses on January 1 1910 with 88 315 admitted in 1910. The almshouse pauper population rose 3 percent since 1904 and annual admissions 8.5 percent while total U S population grew 12.4 percent. The ratio of paupers to population fell each census since 1880, but figures reflect almshouse inmates only.
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Bureau of the Census
United States
Clearing house idea to match jobs and workers gains support
The piece argues labor is a commodity sold in many licenses and markets. It favors centralized job matching via newspapers, philanthropic agencies, and private fee bureaus. A central clearing house would coordinate agencies, reduce waste, and improve employment access without cost to workers or employers. It cites Caminetti’s farm labor bureaus and Mobile’s Chamber of Commerce and Rotary Club effort as practical examples.
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New York City
Dalanee
Commissioner of Labor
Caminetti
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Chamber of Commerce and
Rotary Club
Department of Labor
Woodrow Wilson Hatchet Buried Says Watterson
Colonel Watterson states Kentucky prohibitionists will occupy all his time and attention. He implies Woodrow Wilson’s hatchet may as well be buried, reflecting partisan tension in political coverage.
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Watterson
Woodrow. Wilson
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Germany and the Monroe Doctrine stance on Canada
The German ambassador Count von Bernstorff asserts Germany views Canada as outside the Monroe Doctrine due to Canada’s wartime support for the Allies. He pledges to respect the Doctrine in South America but reserves the right to land troops in Canada if necessary, though Germany has no intention to send forces to Canada now and believes British power’s destruction would be required.
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Count von Bernstorff
Germany
Canada
South America
United States
Count Bernstorff
English Channel
Atlantic
Great Britain
Montgomery Advertiser
Interview With General Joffre From Mondao Front
Special War Correspondence from Mondao reports Gen. Joffre praising war correspondents and home office paper experts for timely analyses. He notes observers ahead of troops and trenches three stories high with individual rooms despite rain of shrapnel. The correspondent asks for funds and settles debts to Captain Fracasse.
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Mondao
Fracasse
Joffre
Josh Slinger
Chicago Tribune
What Little Willie Did
A mother tells the vicar how Willie’s attendance at evening plumbing and gas fitting classes changed their home. Willie rearranged a penny in the gas meter so the family could get gas for free, moving the meter outside the front door and writing Chocolates over the slot before.
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Willie
Met
National Monthly
Cotton Fund Plan Awaits Clearing House Action
Federal Reserve Board officials awaited approval from clearing houses for a 135 million dollar loan fund to finance surplus cotton. Details were ready and bankers’ support was sought. The plan would be administered by a cotton loan committee chaired by W. P. G. Harding with board members. It aims to raise 160 million dollars outside cotton states and the rest in cotton territory.
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Associated Press
Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Clearing House Associations
W. P. G. Harding
Arkansas Bankers pledge 2 percent stock to cotton pool
In Little Rock on October 28, about 150 bankers of the Arkansas Bankers Association pledged 2 percent of the capital stock of all banks in Arkansas to the cotton pool fund. The pledge aims to raise 2 million dollars of the 3 million dollar fund for the 135 million dollar pool, with one million already pledged by jobbers and wholesalers. The association also endorsed a standard uniform warehouse receipt.
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Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas
Arkansas Bankers’ Association
Paulding Drives Aground In Lynnhaven Inlet During Storm
The torpedo boat destroyer Paulding ran aground in Lynnhaven inlet in a gale Tuesday morning and remains fast in five feet of water. The crew is aboard and unharmed while warships stand by to assist and a dredged channel may be needed to float her. Fanning Burrows and Jouett are at the navy yard under repair for storm damage.
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Associated Press
Norfolk
Paulding
Lynnhaven Inlet
Navy Yard
Fanning
Burrows
Jouett
Lynnhaven
Tragedy in Galesburg as Father Shoots Family
W. W. Stromberg a confectioner in Galesburg Illinois shot and killed his three children and wounded his wife and himself. Mrs Stromberg lost her hand. Stromberg is expected to die.
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Associated Press
Galesburg
W. W. Stromberg
German cruiser Emden sinks small Japanese steamer Kamegasaki Maru
The German cruiser Emden sank the 138 ton Japanese steamer Kamegasaki Maru en route to Singapore. The vessel was owned in Nagasaki. The report notes 1,080,820 hogs in Spain.
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Emden
Associated Press
London
Singapore
Berlin
Amsterdam
Nagasaki
Spain
Butler County Farmers Seek Special Legislative Session
Senator John H. Bankhead urged a state special session to alleviate the cotton crisis as Butler County farmers, many Confederate veterans present, listened in silence to Dix ie. Bankhead spoke in Montgomery then continued to Tuscaloosa and Pickens County to campaign for governor action.
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Montgomery
Ala
John H. Bankhead
Tuscaloosa
Bankhead
Greenville
Butler County Farmers’ Institute
Butler County
Senator Bankhead
Pickens County
Final Appeal for Commutation in Pope Case
Thomas J. Harris of Anniston urged the governor to commute Ervin Pope's death sentence for the Calhoun county murder of James McClurkan. Pope has received several respites. the latest expires next Friday, with execution possible at the Calhoun county jail if no action is taken. The governor has weighed extensive evidence amid petitions for and against Pope.
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Montgomery
Ala
Thomas J. Harris
Anniston
Ervin Pope
James McClurkin
Calhoun County
Pope
War era servant shortage sparks feared European influx
Washington diary notes worry over how to recruit domestic help as war disrupts supply. It argues that postwar immigration could flood the United States with European women seeking housework, shaping hotel and apartment living dynamics and possibly restoring private home life.
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Washington
Mary
Jane
Lena
Rachel
Marie
Olga
Hilda
United States Department of Labor
Department
Europe
America
United States
Wisconsin Nabs New Idea for Minor Offenders
Wisconsin proposes a reform for minor offenses allowing offenders to keep work and earn wages for dependents. Prisoners must report for meals and nights while earnings go to dependents. program aims to lessen family hardship and reform the offender. Endorsed by a Wisconsin Police Chiefs' Association president and piloted in drunkenness and non support cases.
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Wisconsin
Pennsylvania
Lfe
Wisconsin Police Chiefs’ Association
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Cannibal Story Told by Jack London in Santa Barbara
Jack London recounts last cruise experiences in Santa Barbara including a missionary tale in Samoa. A cannibal king releases a captured preacher who carries a sealed packet. An English officer opens it to reveal a note promising he will be delicious with onions.
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Jack London
Santa Barbara
Samoa
Christian
Strain on Soldiers Bravery Under Prolonged Fire
The piece notes that modern infantry face brutal stress despite new protective tactics. Soldiers endure long under fire, crouching from dawn to dusk, hearing constant shell and bullet noises, watching dust clouds from bullets, and reacting to shrapnel bursts, a test Napoleon’s Old Guard did not face.
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Napoleon
Waldemar Kaempffert
American Review
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