Port progress through diversified cargo and industry in Mobile
The piece argues for a broad commerce program to boost Mobile’s port. It highlights diversifying cargo, manufacturing in the region, and attracting a wide range of goods to fill ships’ holds. General Sibert emphasizes local plants, financing, and a hundred varied products to strengthen the port’s pull and economic growth.
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Mobile
Im. Commerce
Promm of Commerce
Im Mobile
Prowidh
Docks Commission
Sibert
Jimerson
Injuries Suffered By Spright Dowell At Auburn
Citizens of Alabama were shaken by word of injuries in an automobile crash involving Spright Dowell president of Ala Polytechnic Institute at Auburn. Later dispatches reported Dr Dowell's condition improved though initial forecasts were grim and the nature of injuries not disclosed.
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Alabama
Spright Dowell
Ala- Polytechnic Institute
Auburn
Dowel
TWO MOBILE TRAFFIC NEEDS
The item notes improvements in traffic since a new ordinance but urges banning bright headlights on the wrong side of streets. It cites Dauphin Government and other roads as after dark problem areas and calls for enforcement or a new law to curb blinding oncoming motorists.
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Dauphin
Automobiles reshape homes and economy in Texas debate
The piece argues against auto hostility, noting rising home ownership and living standards since WWI. It contrasts car ownership with street cars, cites broader wealth shifts from liquor to better living, and ends with a quip about Prohibition agents in Atlantic City targeting bootleggers.
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Dallas News
Texas
Atlantic City
Short Stories Nonsense Snippets From Humorous Columns
A collection of brief, quirky quips from various humor pages. Lines include exchanges about work, suicide jokes, money, familiar faces, hotel rooms, and long-lived vegetable diets. The tone is light and period newspaper humor.
Miss Binks Mocks Calls While Husband Seeks Dinner Out
In a Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph note, the actress Miss Binks instructs her doorkeeper to tell visitors she is not in, then replies that all claim they have an appointment. A young man arrives asking to see her. the doorkeeper repeats the standard line, and he departs. The husband arrives for an outing, but the doorkeeper again says they all say that.
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Miss Binks
Fragmented Moral Musings on Faith and Family
A garbled paragraph offers scattered quotes on family, charity, religion, and sermons. It references a front parlor, a locksmith, preachers marrying for money, and the idea that many churchgoers miss the minister’s message, with stray phrases about a boy, a piano, and a funeral.
Ol Mistah Buzzard Finishes His Tall Tale
Peter Rabbit and Ol Mistah Buzzard conclude a tall tale about Grandaddy and Granny Buzzard delaying nest building. The elders laugh at their own secretive scrambling as other birds finish nests, while the Buzzards choose a simple ground nest solution and concede the difficulty of building a proper nest.
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Mistah Buzzard
Peter Rabbit
Ol Mistah Buzzard
Peter
OV Mistah Buzzard
Grandaddy
Granny Buzzard
Ol’ Mistah Buzzard
Grating Buzzard
Granny Busc
Granddady
Granny
Grandaddy Buzzard
Granny Bungard
Granny Bugsard
Buzzard
Mood from Nowhere Rockweed On Grasping Joy Of Family
A man named Rockwood, gloomy and detached, battles laziness and disillusionment on a sunny morning. He notices his wife Gertrude, their baby Annette, and the yard, then is overwhelmed by a surge of happiness and gratitude for his family as he recalls how much he loves them. He heads to the lawn mower with renewed energy.
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Rockweed
Bfe
Annette
Gertrude
Rockwood
Hiram
Yonder Moor
Uncle Hiram
Uncommon Sense Reflections On Fame And gift
John Blake argues that greatness is not guaranteed by birth or effort alone. He cites Keats and Longfellow, saying only innate gift sparks lasting fame, while daily virtue and personal progress improve lives and may aid others, even without immortality.
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Holmes
Sonny Zame
Surgeons Use Camera to Photograph Inside the Stomach
Surgeons are able to insert a camera into a patient's stomach to take pictures. The report notes advances shown at a Philadelphia meeting of medical specialists.
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Metting & Dill. Dickle
Philadelphia
Evening Public Ledger
One Radio Advantage Over Phonograph
The radio holds a single clear edge over the phonograph by avoiding repetition or echoes that may tire listeners, presenting a steadier stream of sound and information without obvious amplification or distortion.
Health Hints From a Patient Whose Voice Emerges
A patient shares candid, humorous complaints about hospital life. She describes noise from doors and nurses, disliked questions about her condition, and a wish for simpler comforts such as quieter hinges and a fresh glass. The piece conveys a brave, vulnerable view of illness.
Vacation of abundance ends as factory job returns
A family facing layoff plans a summer escape to northern fruit country. They rent a car camp to pick fruit with local workers earning three cents a quart plus board. The venture provides food and shelter, becomes a temporary idyll, and leads to Dick securing a picking job while the strike ends back home.
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Pick
Dicky
United States
Bessie
Jimmie
Here
Vick
Diseine
Erry
Jim
Eden
Kingston
Copeanel
I bane think a village motto and Eric's tale
The piece recalls Eric, a village handyman who solved unusual problems with the refrain I bane think. He repaired furnaces and cars, mentored others, and became the town's de facto mechanic in winter cold. His departure left a gap as a city contractor valued his skill and motto.
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Bostor
Thane
Eric
Bane
Rippling Rhymes By WAS My Uncle Hiram
A narrator recalls Uncle Hiram who outlived expectations and riches. The speaker laments poverty and idleness while imagining the uncle’s unending life and the chill of fate. The poem reflects themes of debt, mortality, and deferred labor.
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Ol “Brey
Mo Alin
Gore
Ala
DR. Dowell
Mr. Bryan
Mr. Darrow
Dayton
Rockefeller
London Mail
Sandy
West Virginia
Columbia
Lorcos
Jameson
Josets
Maurice Ketten
Aglar
Bedtime
Uncommon Sense
John Blake
Keats
F Bey
Mr. Longfellow
M. Jessie Leitch
A. Cony
Orion
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