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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1913
Page
3
Callao Peru Sept 23 Japan plans to join Panama Canal traffic with Osaka Mercantile Co ordering ships of 8000 tons each. Leading trans Pacific lines expand fleets, boosting competition and Peru's maritime ambitions at Callao and beyond.
In Morgan County Alabama the case Leta G Scruggs v Maurice H Scruggs requires the defendant non-resident and with unknown address to plead by October 2, 1913 or a decree pro confesso may be entered. Publication is ordered in Decatur Daily once weekly for four weeks. Judge Thos W Wert signs order.
About four thousand top US birds and several from Canada will be shown at the Alabama State Fair in Birmingham from October 9 to 18. The Alabama Poultry Association join the fair, mixing premiums from both groups, and the event features extensive sanitation and health measures, including Spratts metal coops and Parke Davis disinfection. The emphasis is on Indian Runner Ducks with over a thousand on display, and large entries of White Leghorns, White Indian Runner Ducks, and various Orpingtons and Rhode Island Reds. The Mulga Alabama White Leghorns Farm Company projects over 200 White Indian Runner Ducks and 1500 day-old White Leghorn chicks to observe daily.
Washington reports Alabama may not seat Henry D. Clayton in the U S Senate after Governor O Neal appointment, as twelve of fourteen Privileges and Elections Committee members see the action as invalid under the Seventeenth Amendment and fear bad precedent. The piece also notes related wartime and political events of Sept 23 including a train disaster and a mayoral funeral.
Telegraphic dispatch notes administration and Senate leaders plan a joint resolution to continue pending tariff pact extensions until new treaties can be negotiated after the tariff bill’s enactment. Federal Judge Pollock redefines the Mann White Slave Law in Caminett cases, requiring proof of the commercial interstate transport of women for immoral purposes. Judge Cochran orders taxes on increased 1912 valuation before injunctions in the I &Nn case. Currency Bill consideration in Senate Banking Committee session ends without progress. Reed Bris-
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