League Candidates Questioned on Women Policy Night
A state league event drew Grays McDowell and Phillips as women’s suffrage and reform questions dominated. They faced queries on placing women on boards limiting female labor to forty eight hours and funding for a detention home for delinquent women.
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Solon
Canfù
Take
Gromven
eRiegls
Andehildren
Col. Graves
McDowell
Fruithurst
Phillips
Jacobs
Gal
Graves
Phil
Tips
League Ndo
Genoa Conference Ends After Six Weeks Of Talks
Genoa delegates return home after six weeks of deliberations. Key outcomes include planning a June Hague meeting for a Russian problem study and possible loan to Russia, groundwork for US reconstruction talks, and open negotiations between allies and Russia on private property and debts.
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International
Genoa
Hague
Russia
Moscow
United’ States
Lloyd George
Europe
Bills seek removal of campaign button expenses
Westchester Pa May 19 George E Alter candidate for governor has been asked to defray expenses of an operation to remove a campaign button. Jacob Tearlman whose six year old daughter Sarah Walouka wore the button requested payment. The button was removed at West Chester hospital and Tearlman was billed $28. The bill with a letter was sent to George E Alter.
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Westchester
George E. Alter
Ted
Jacob Tearhnan
Sarah
Walouka
Chester Hospital
Tearlman
Shoals Operation Endorsed by Nitrate Expert Before Committee
Dr Richard C Tolman government nitrate expert testified before Senate committees that the Muscle Shoals nitrate project is commercially sound. He said the existing plant would be renovated and placed on a cost basis for fertilizer and drugs, endorsing the cyanimid process as the best nitrate fixing method with a wider range of products than others.
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Washington
Muscle Shoals
Richard C. Tolman
Department of Agricult
Yaar
Jonis
Xpert
Patterson Heads to Committees Meeting on Freight Rates
A. G. Patterson president of the Alabama Public Service Commission travels toward Atlanta to join a five member committee tasked with adjusting existing freight rates with the Interstate Commerce Commission. The panel will move to Ashville North Carolina for sessions after a general hearing in New Orleans to collect data on current charges. The aim is to adjust tariff schedules in the South to satisfy the public.
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A. G. Patterson
Alabama Public Service Commission
Atlanta
Committee of Five
Interstate Commerce Commission
Ashville
N. C
New Orleans
South
Still Found on State Line Between Alabama and Mississippi
State officials report a still of unusual size found on the Alabama Mississippi line in Mobile County. A Mobile engineering firm supplied field notes, but until notes are received it cannot be decided whether operators will be prosecuted in Alabama or Mississippi.
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Merv
Ala
Feu
William P. Ie Seem
Alabama-Mississippi
Mobile
Alabama
Mississippi
Mobile Engineering
Sto
Mostly cloudy with scattered thundershowers in Alabama
The forecast for Alabama calls for mostly cloudy skies with local thundershowers tonight or Saturday in the southern portion. No severe weather specified.
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Alabama
South Portion
Bowen appeals search warrant case to Alabama Supreme Court
Bowen justice of the peace of Mobile County appeals to the Alabama Supreme Court after a Mobile County circuit court found him guilty of issuing warrants in blank and removed him from office. The appeal, submitted on briefs, follows impeachment proceedings sparked by a grand jury report. Counsel R P Roach argued for Bowen as the court considers the legality of the removal order.
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Montgomery
bany-Decatur
Amery
Ala
Bowen
Bile County
Supreme Court
Circuit Court of
Mobile County
R. P. Roach
Grand Jury
Blankiete
State Law Enforcimen Department
Mobile
Plot to rob mail of Liberty bonds revealed
International News Service reports a large, organized scheme to steal Liberty bonds from the mails. The operation has allegedly caused losses nearing 51.5 million dollars, with postal inspectors investigating alleged insiders and suspicious moneyed spending uptown. Arrests suggest broad, secretive network links.
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International News. Service
New York
Liberty
Power company must keep plant ready to operate
A. G. Patterson, president of the Alabama Public Service Commission, said Alabama Power must keep steam plants in Albany Decatur and Huntsville ready to operate. Local managers will have full authority to prepare plants to serve the public immediately after any breakdown and may use oil for rapid firing to restore service after transmission line interruptions.
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Alabama Power Company
Huntsville
A. G. Patterson
Alabama Public Service Commission
Boys' Club Planned in Albany by Local Youths
Prominent men back a group of Albany boys who plan a civic fraternal social and athletic club. A meeting is set for Sunday at 2 PM at the YMCA to discuss formation and community benefits.
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Albany
Steel prices probe invites top steel executives to hearing
The New York Rockwood commission plans a formal inquiry into a nascent steel combine and alleged price fixing in breach of the Sherman act. Samuel Untermeyer leads the questioning as Judge B H Gary of United States Steel, Charles M Schulz of Bethlehem Steel, and Eugene Grace are invited to appear before the Lockwood committee this afternoon.
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E. H.' A En Grace
Steel Combine
New York
Rockwood ‘Commission
Samuel Untermeyer
B. Hi. Gary
United States Steel Corporation
Charles M. Schulab
Bethjefem Corporation
Eugene Grace
Lockwood Committee
Campaign pushes support for Morgan County cotton pool plan
Embers of the Morgan County ft burgan lead a drive this week to win backing for Victory Week and the cotton selling pool. Local officials with J M Kayser and county agent W G Johnson toured areas delivering speeches and signing up members to join the Span plan for the coming years, aiming to enroll cotton growers nationwide.
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Morgan County
Ft * Burgan
J. M. Kayser
W. G . Johnson
Nook
Ibase
Hall seeks new trial in Russellville murder case
Hall’s attorneys request a new trial claiming prejudicial evidence. They argue letters found in the victim’s trunk were illegal testimony and cite witnesses who saw Hall and the woman in an automobile near Russellville on the morning of the killing. The defendant has been jailed without bail for about a year.
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Hall
Russellville
H. D
J. H. Calvin Wins Guessing Contest
J. H. Calvin, a local wholesale grocer, won a guessing contest in St. Louis during the national convention. A jar filled with cherries at the Statler hotel drew over 800 guesses, but Calvin was the only entrant to guess the exact number, 892, and was notified of his win.
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J. H. Calvin
St. Louis
Wholesale
Edison plans relief for farmers with credit and storage schemes
The International News Service reports Edison proposing legislation to aid farmers before the next harvest. Aimed at stabilizing prices, the plan includes a warehouse credit system and government storage certificates to ease financial strain, allowing farmers to borrow from banks against stored crops.
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Edison
Ee Eogress
Pelle
Wa Credit
Goa
Sik
Aioe Ervdiek
Trial Trip of the Steamer Trexel
The Steamer Trexel has been in dock and is ready for its first trial run. Preparations were completed recently and the steamer was hauled. a Sunday afternoon voyage is planned to Lock A.
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Trexel
Trexell
Vni
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