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The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Apr 27, 1913

Page

23

Advisory Board Named for Railroad Valuation Project

The Interstate Commerce Commission will announce a five member advisory board of engineers to oversee the physical valuation of U S railroads. About ten thousand applications have been received for positions. several hundred may be hired, with most staff drawn through the civil service process. President Wilson reportedly refused broad exemptions from civil service.

International News Service Washington Interstate Commerce Commission Civil Service Commission Wilson

Bailey tied to railroad assets during Senate tenure

International News Service reports H. Clay Pierce stated Senator Joseph W. Bailey managed corporation properties while a US senator. Pierce testified in a National Bank of Commerce case over 1.5 million dollars in Nashville Terminal Railway stock, detailing Bailey’s charge of the Tennessee Construction Company and options on Tennessee Central properties before 1908.

Mr. Pierce Senator Bailey Tennessee Construction Company Bailey Fin Pierce Baily Tennessee Central Railroad Ilinois Central Southern Railway Tennessee Central Railway Tennessee Central G. O. May Baiey

Eternal feminine seen in Dr Walker attire

Washington April 26. Dr Mary Walker displays bold attire at a suffrage hearing with masculine shirt plus black silk lace cuffs white silk elbow gloves a diamond brooch and lace handkerchief. She wears a black frock coat striped trousers bulldog shoes a high silk hat and carries an umbrella.

Hon Hannis Taylor on Panama Canal problem

Washington April 26 The Panama canal tolls controversy tests the moral alliance between English speaking nations, says Hon Hannis Taylor former minister to Spain. He urges calm diplomacy before congressional action and notes the canal as a world peace police.

International News Service Washington Panama Canal Great Britain United States Hannis Taylor Spain American Society of International Law Mr. Taylor Canal Panama Canal Zone Colombia Congress

Friedmann Sells Turtle Serum Rights for 1.93 Million

International News Service reports Dr. Fried rich Friedmann sold American rights to his turtle serum for 1 925 000 to Eisner Mendelson Company. He received 125 000 cash and stock in 36 Friedmann institutes planned in as many cities with 5 400 000 capitalization. States opening first include New York Colorado Arizona New Mexico and California with many TB outdoor cure patients.

International News Service New York Friedrich Frang Friedmann Eisner-Mendelson Company Colorado Arizona New Mexico California Friedmann Carl Schurz

Carranza vows to resist foreign loans to Huerta regime

Eagle Pass Tex April 26 Governor Venustiano Carranza said constitutionalists would use force if needed to stop any loan repayment to the Huerta government adding that Mexico will never pay a penny secured by foreign bankers. The statement marks a firm stand against foreign financing of Huerta.

Koreans Await Possible Acquittal On Appeal

International News reports a trial on appeal of five Koreans convicted on charges of conspiracy against the Japanese government. The court reserved judgment. Ninety nine other Koreans had been acquitted. Also mentions Cash Bargain Day at Weinacker's on Wednesday, April 30.

Weinacker’s

Sailor’s yarn of piracy ends with a shipboard scare

A bos’n recalls his pirate days aboard the Sorry Sue as his crew mutinies when a ghostly noise from a woman’s club aboard a chained prize ship petrifies them. The tale ends with a marriage and the bos’n’s relief at escape from piracy.

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