Good Roads Days Set for August Across Alabama
The Alabama Good Roads Association executive committee met in Birmingham January 27. They planned a campaign to gain ten thousand new members in 1913 and urged county and state officials to cooperate. Life membership honors went to one hundred Alabama citizens. A resolution asked Governor O Neall to proclaim August 14 15 16 as Good Roads Days and urged public participation with labor, teams, and money. The committee also aimed to memorialize Congress to build five thousand miles of highways in each state and to send a delegation to the March federal aid convention in Washington. A follow up meeting was scheduled for February 18.
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Congress
Bama
Washington
Postoffice Burglarized at Mountain Creek Ala
Mountain Creek Alabama January 29 The post office was broken into Monday night about midnight. Thieves took all fractional currency and may have opened the big safe with a key or lock. Night operator Thomas McDonald heard the burglary and fired on the intruders. A search is underway for the criminals.
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Mountain Creek
Ala
Thomas McDonald
Family of Eleven Saved by Tree in Flood
In Memphis on President Island a flood swept away a home. Louis Dewnard his wife and nine children clung to timbers and climbed a tree where they rode until the Minnie rescued them at dawn. Three children are in serious condition from exposure. A bystander, Walter Malone, helped himself to safety after a rough attempt to cross a submerged bridge.
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Memphis
President Island
Louis Dewnard
Minnie
Walter Malone
Dennards
Doweniel
Fire threatens business block in Florence tele phone exchange blaze
Florence Alabama January 29 Special fire started in the telephone exchange damaged a major business block. The Bliss Block was saved after flames erupted from third floor and roof. Lucas grocery building burned after western wall collapse. Fire crews aided from Sheffield cut off telecommunication and helped curb the fire. Loss placed around 100000 dollars.
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Florence
Ala
Bliss
Lucas Retail Grocery
Safey
Sheffield
Man Kills Neighbor on Public Road Near Marion
Clarence Monts shot and killed Robert Donaldson on a public road near his home in northeastern Marion County Alabama Monday afternoon. Both men were well known locally. Deputy Wooley reported Monts fled to his home then returned with an uncle and killed Donaldson during a quarrel that began with women on the road. Monts was arrested at the scene.
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Marion
Ala
Clarence Monts
Robert Donaldson
Monts
Donald
Spreckles Proposes National Weekly Newspaper
Rudolph E. Spreckles, California millionaire, urges President elect Wilson to publish a government run national weekly for every voter. The paper would explain presidential actions and cabinet decisions, correcting misrepresentation and reducing costs versus the Congressional Record.
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New York
United States
Rudolph E. Spreckles
California
Wilson
Speckles
Spreckles
Nabors Case Continues Amid Bitter Courtroom Testimony
The Nabors case sees bitter contest as witnesses from Birmingham and local figures testify about the wreck night and related letters. Nabors denies all charges on a strong cross examination while defense and state debate admissibility and indictments.
Slever Faria 15 Arrested At Anniston
In Anniston on January 28 two youths disrupted by begging on streets during work hours and sleeping and eating at a hotel. Charlie Beard, age 0, was detected by Chief of Police Jarry Shiretzki at the TV hall and unmasked at the hall. Beard had engaged rooms at the Alabama hotel and Watched film. The veteran claimed locomotor traxia and provided a lecture to the chief. An arm graft was examined by the city physician.
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AnnIston
Alabama
Charlie Beard
Jarry Shiretzki
Beard
Alabamand
Alabama Suffragettes Meet in Selma Sessions Benefit
The Alabama Equal Suffrage Association will convene in Selma on a Wednesday morning with Mrs Solon Jacobse of Birmingham presiding. Delegates from across the state are expected to attend two sessions that day, with Laura Clay of Kentucky delivering a lecture at night.
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Selma
Ala
Alabama Equal Suffrage Association
Solon Jacobse
Birmingham
Laura Clay
Kentucky
Quiet home wedding joins Myrtle Radcliff to Edgar Sullivan
A quiet home ceremony was held yesterday at the bride’s parents’ Grant street residence uniting Miss Myrtle R. Radcliff and Edgar Sullivan of Memphis. Rev. T. B. Woodward of Central Baptist Church officiated. They departed for Memphis to begin married life.
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Grant Street
Myrtle R. Radcliff
Edgar ‘Sullivan
Memphs
Memphis
T. B. Woodward
Central Baptist Church
Pandy Program at Star Theatre Impresses Decatur Crowd
A Star Theatre program last night features "My Snittle Indian Model" "The coop" and "The Stroke Car" praised as among the best balanced pictures shown in Decatur. Today the theatre continues to screen unusually fine films.
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Star Theatre
Colonial Club Receives New Billiard Table
The Colonial Club has received and placed a new billiard table in their home for member use.
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Colonial Club
Suffragists Recall Hunger Strike Threat After Jail Term
General Flora Rummond and Sylvia Pankhurst lead raid on Lloyd George critiqued as protest. Rummond jailed fourteen days for window smashing and obstruction after refusing ten dollar fine. Thirty suffragettes arraigned at Bow Street with friends packing clothing and books at station corridor.
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London
Flora ‘Rummond
Migs
Sylia Pankhurst
Lloyd George
Bow Street
Kavanaugh Named Senator for Short Term in Arkansas
President W M Kavanaugh of the Southern Baseball Association was elected United States Senator from Arkansas for the short term. He had pledged not to resign the league presidency, ensuring the Southern League does not lose its leadership despite the political move.
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Southern Baseball Association
Arkansas
Little Rock
W. M. Kavanaugh
United States
Kavanaugh
Southern League
League
United States Senate
Three Men Survive Florida Boat Sinking Swim to Shore
In Palm Beach on January 29 Col. A. M. Shook a Nashville financier J. E. Rumbough of Asheville and Charles B. Bibbard of Chicago were forced to swim after their 20 foot motor boat sank a quarter mile from shore. Temperatures were mild at 78 degrees as the trio toiled to reach the inlet coastward and were aided by two women observers and a chauffeur who drove them to a hotel unharmed.
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Palm Beach
Fla
Col. A. M. Shook
Nashville
Tenn
J. E. Rumbough
Asheville
N. C
Charles B. Bibbard
Chicago
Robert Dunn Douglass
Llewellyn Park
South Orange
N. J
Daniel Karsner
Philadelphia
Ocean Front
Douglass
No More Peace Proposals From Mexican Rebel Leader
El Paso Texas January 29 rebel agents say Salazar will not accept further peace proposals. Two thousand rebels march on Juarez as Federals brace for renewed fighting. American troops patrol the border arresting twelve rebels who crossed overnight.
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el Pago
Texas
Salazar
Juarez
Flood conditions improve as Ohio River falls
Hickman Kentucky reports river conditions much improved and expected to hold with no additional rain. Beulah Mississippi plans immediate levee gap closure with pile driver and rapid repair after water subsides. Gap measures 260 to 300 feet wide with inundation similar to last year but slower and shallower. no loss of life or livestock reported.
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Hickman, Ky
Gap Amf
Clergyman Appeals for Williams Marriage Granted
London reports public indignation grows over Home Office refusal to permit John Williams, condemned to hang for the Eastbourne murder of Police Inspector Walls, to marry Florence Seymour. Williams seeks to legitimize his child and asks the Home Secretary. chaplain Rev. Hugh B. Chapman supports the request, citing sacred rights and humane considerations.
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Walls
Eastbourne
Florence Seymour
Home Secretary
McKenna
Home Office
Chaplin
Wilams
Hugh B. Chapman
Chapel Royal
Savoy
Fourth Army Corps Arrival Quietly Feared in Constantinople
In Constantinople on January 29 the Young Turks reportedly await the predicted marching of the fourth army corps. The semi official Turkish response to the powers draped in rumor centers on Nazin’s murdered soldiers as a key factor.
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Constantinople
Fourth Army Corps
Nazin
Liquor license ban moves through Arkansas Senate
State senators today signed a measure presented to the legislature to prohibit the issuance of liquor licenses in the state. An exception is allowed where a majority of voters approve the license.
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United Press
Little Rock
Ark
Jan
Bombing at Bisan fortification kills Turkish soldiers
Athens dated dispatch reports an explosion at the Bisan fortification and powder magazine during an armistice flare up. Crown Prince Constantine commands the army as Turkish troops suffer fatalities.
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Athens
Greece
Constantine
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