Local Mobile News Update September 10 1913
Reorganized and reestablished at the mobile item in april 1912 details of the paper appear. The edition notes Sunday morning publication by the Mobile Item Inc with Associated Press service and a staff including Albert Hanson manager for foreign advertising. Located in Mobile Alabama with New York and mobile offices and long distance trunks.
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Mobile Item
Mobil Bie
ANY, Inc
Emanuel Eae
Abe Ieee Maa
Albert, Hanson
Steming
Mobile
Ala
Fifth Ave
New York
Centenarian Patrick Kenney Dies in Savannah at 107
The Augusta Chronicle reports Patrick Kenney, born 1806 in Kings County Ireland, died in Savannah at 107. A rope maker, sailor, and world traveler, he lived without rules but with optimism, tobacco use, and a daily three toddies habit noted by the Savannah News. He remained active and cheerful to the end.
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Patrick Kenney
Savannah
Kings County
Ireland
Augusta Chronicle
England
New York
Savannah News
Farm Women to Be Heard From Letter from Secretary Houston seeks farm women input
Secretary of Agriculture David F. Houston will address letters to 50 000 farm households asking farm women to share how the department can best serve them. Letters to housewives in crop correspondents homes include return envelopes and invite personal or group input by November 15 after harvest.
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David F. Houston
United States
Department of Agriculture
National Department of Agriculture
Department
Secretary Bryan Compared to Comedian in Satire
The Pall Mall Gazette mocks Secretary Bryan's Chautauqua tour comparing him to a pugilist or low comedian. It recalls Matthew Arnold’s American rail journeys and notes readers may find the charge of touring the circuit belittling for the nation’s foreign policy custodian.
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Pall Mall Gazette
London
Bryan
Matthew Arnold
United States
Arnold
Washington
Death of Mayor Gaynor Sheds Light on New York Leader
The sudden passing of Mayor Gaynor of New York marks a pivotal moment for the city. He led five million residents with integrity and independence, earning respect for his legal mind, judgment, and firm belief in the people’s right to govern. His death leaves New York with a recognized executive of notable ability.
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Gaynor
New York
Tammany
Lincoln
Mann Act debate over federal reach and moral law influence
The Kilobyte opinion piece discusses Lamar O. Kellar’s Mann Act conviction in Montgomery and the broader fight over the act’s scope. It cites Harper's Weekly and Memphis Scimitar criticisms, argues the law protects public morality like quarantine, and contends the act prevents cross state immorality and blackmail while curbing illicit mobility.
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Lamar O. Kellar
United States District Court
Montgomery
The
Chicago Tribune
Norman Hapgood
Diggs-Caminetti
California
United States
Memphis News-Scimitar
Memphis
Texarkana
Arkansas
Bristol
Tennessee
Harper's
Colorado
Passa Tion
Secret map spies guide US plans for Mexico invasion
Washington letter outlines how the United States guards map secrets and uses spy networks to collect detailed topography of Mexico. It argues maps are crucial to military success, noting Japan Russia and Huerta perspectives, and claims American agents have detailed knowledge to lead troops to Mexico City if war breaks out.
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Washington
Wilson
Maxie
War and Navy Department
War
Navy
Mexico
United States
Japan
Huerta
Russia
Army
Republic
Little Island Kingdom
Manchuria
Mexico City
Filipinized Debate Hint in Franklin Dalat Contest
A sharp item notes an Igorrote head hunter’s son Franklin Dalat at eleven. A reader asks if he knows baseball and about the umpire as part of a provocative quiz. The piece critiques fame seekers who pay press agents.
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Franklin Dalat
Mr. Sibley
Harpers
Brest Port Aims At Transatlantic Trade Challenger
The article notes growing port inadequacy in France for large modern steamships and highlights Brest as a potential rival to Havre Boulogne and Cherbourg. Brest offers direct rail to Paris a vast harbor area deep-water access the largest French drydock and a shorter rail distance to Paris than Cherbourg or Havre.
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Brest
Havre
Boulogne
Cherbourg
Paris
New York
Queenstown
Cunard Line
Dover
Southampton
Liverpool
Holyhead
Plymouth
Fishguard
Falmouth
Hamburg
Bremen
Marseilles
France
Queer Country Capers from Musket Ridge
Musket Ridge notes detail boy sought to open oysters at fifteen, Sydney Hocks fencing a mule, Dr. treating Atlas Heckhell who has 65 cents, Elleck Hellwanger trading for a new pistol and threatening a shooting near Thun, while many young men claim to earn about 150 dollars monthly and imply the business would falter without them.
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Dalton
Sydney Hocks
Atlas Heckhell
Elleck Hellwanger
Thunor
Mixups Fly as Papers Misidentify Figures in Political Buzz
The Mobile Item accuses a party of reading out a misprint showing John Armstrong Chaloner as Edward T. McCall, Tammany's NY fight figure. The Montgomery Advertiser and Union Springs Hi note similar mislabeling of Rev. Frank Culver as Henry D. Clayton, highlighting party rifts and media mixups.
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John Armstrong Chaloner
Edward T. McCall
Tammany
New York
Montgomery Advertiser
Frank P. Culver
Henry D. Clayton
Union Springs
Cuddling Cottages Neighbors In A Curious Accident
Dollabella helps the next door tenant after a ladder fall injures him on a sultry July day. She improvises splints from a putter and sticks, tends the injured man, fetches a doctor, and later contemplates the awkward dependence she had briefly enjoyed before returning to polite distance.
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Dollabella
Coventry
Miss Powney
Germany
Mother Earth
Sweet Williams
Bella
Red Cross
Apie
Deere
Morgan's Successor Rumored as Holland and Frick Discuss
New York Sept 1 Henry C Frick says Morgan successor likely to be his son head of J P Morgan Co The piece surveys contenders Theodore Vail Henry C Frick Judge Gary and others while noting no clear heir emerges until an emergency tests leadership.
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New York
Henry C. Frick
J. P. Morgan
J. P. Morgan & Co
Frick
Jude
Swift
Mr. Morgan
United States
John Gardin
National of Bank
Fred I. Kent
Bankers’ Trust
Chicago
Max May
Guarantee Trust
House of
London
Morgan
Henry Clay
James G. Blaine
Cleveland
Europe
Theodore N. Vail
Mr. Vail
Gary
United States Steel Corporation
Governor Flower
Rockefellers
E. H. Harriman
James J. Hill
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Associated Press Reportational News Service
Southern Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Ey Mall
Detty
Rery
Batterial En
News
Home
Alabama
John Kendrick Bangs
Victor Elliott
Queer Country Capers
Holland
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