Critics Photograph Dead Chicken At City Dump Controversy
A report claims critics of the city health department placed a dead chicken on the One Mile Creek Franklin Street dump to lure rats for a photo. Commissioner Pillans orders rat controls. drivers and residents report few rats and dispute the stunt while praising waste disposal.
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One-Mile Creek
Franklin Street
Health Department
Harry Pillans
Pillans
Jake White
Mobile
Mary Taylor's
Sunday School Workers Convene in Mobile District Meeting
The Mobile county Sunday School Association District 6 held a Friday night convention at Franklin Street Presbyterian Church. Officials included President A L Bush, secretary and treasurer J E Patterson, with attendees testifying repeatedly that city dumps on Jackson, Conception and North Franklin have never yielded live rats during decades of garbage collection.
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Johanna Lewis
Claiborne and
Morgan Streets
Mobile
Claiborne
Franklin
Jackson— Street
Mobile County Sunday School Association
Franklin Street Presbyterian Church
A. L. Bush
J. E. Patterson
Jackson
Conception Street
NAMAN X_ KING
N. Conception Street
Jackson and
Maria Keno
Morgan
Washington Collings
Francis Garner
Morgan Street
Mary Taylor
Franklin Street
Albert Morris
North Franklin Street
Joe Burgess
Conception
Warren Cowart
James Murphy
Ala
Raton
Murphy
Mark
Fine cattle to be exhibited at Meridian fair grounds
Five carloads of registered and pure bred cattle arrive in Meridian Mississippi from Tuscola Chicago El Wisconsin Missouri and Indiana. Cattle will be on view at the Mississippi Alabama fair grounds before the sale on Thursday the 13th during the Southern Cattlemen's Association session.
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Meridian
Miss
Tuscola
Chicago
Wisconsin
Missouri
Indiana
Southern Catlemen's Association
Residents dispute rat claims at city dump site
Eyewitness statements from residents near the Mobile city dump dispute reports of rats and disease. AUNT BECKY TRAINER and Ellen Roggers defend the cleanliness of the dump, while Effie Robinson and Toby Olsen describe daily work and no live rats seen. Libibie Johnson and others affirm long-term residence with minimal health issues.
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Becky
New Jersey
St. Emanuel
Mobile
Toby Olsen
Delaware
Final Tribute for Mrs Wilson Set for Monday
Washington reports that private services for Mrs. Woodrow Wilson will be held in the White House East Room Monday afternoon. A special train will carry her body to Rome Georgia for Tuesday interment at Myrtle Hill cemetery. The Senate and House will name committees and honorary pallbearers likely from the president's cabinet. Tributes flow from rulers and citizens as President Wilson remains strong yet grief remains heavy.
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Washington
Senate
House
Woodrow Wilson
White House
Littl Georgia
Philippines Farmers Grow 15 Million Bushels of Corn
A 1914 report notes farmers in the Philippines produced 15 000 000 bushels of corn worth 12 300 000 dollars last year. Testimonies from locals describe conditions around a city dump with rats snakes and stagnant water amid urban growth. The statements are sworn as true by Jas M Mahon and others.
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Philippines
Mr. Helter
Birthday Party Invite For Local Children At Empire Theatre
The Mobile Item notes birthdays for Lillian Franco Dorothy Handley Willie West and Ethel Croxdale born Aug 8 1908 1906 1904 and 1899 respectively inviting them to a birthday picture party at the Empire Theatre this afternoon. Tickets mailed. Local youths under 16 urged to send full name address and birthdate to the Children's Editor two days before their birthday.
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Lillian Franco
Mobile
Ala
Dorothy M. Handley
Stocking
Willie C. West
Dauphin St
Ethel R. Croxdale
Bush Ave
the Item
Empire Theatre
Hale Qualifies as City Candidate for September Election
Foster K. Hale Sr a prominent brick manufacturer and longtime finance chair of the city council qualified Friday afternoon as a candidate for city commissioner in the September election. Other declared candidates are W. M. Doyle Thomas J. Young and Laz Schwarz.
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Foster K. Hale, Sr
W. M. Doyle
Thomas J. Young
Laz Schwarz
Sick prisoner removed to hospital
Sam Francis serving five months for assault and battery was taken to the city hospital Friday night for treatment of a complication of diseases measured in custody at the county jail.
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Sam Francis
Commissioner Brannan Supports Tax-Rate Reduction Plan
County revenue and road board member Henry Brannan voiced support for delaying action on the solvent credit tax and said he would vote for the resolution when it comes up at the meeting. He opposed the tax as unjust and favored reducing the rate rather than increasing it, arguing the current level is too high.
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Henry Brannan
County Revenue and Road Board
Brannan
Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy Ad
J Houghland of Eldon Iowa praises Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He says soldiers enlisting for the Spanish war should carry it and that no one should be without this remedy. For sale by all dealers.
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Chamberlain
J. H. Houghland
Eldon
Iowa
Executors Named In Price Estate Seeks Claims
In the estate of Elizabeth Byrd Price deceased letters testamentary were granted July 31 1914 by Judge Price Williams probate court Mobile County Alabama. All claimants must present claims within the legal period or be barred. Palmer Pillans Rush Price Strong Executors. Hanaw Pillans Attys.
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Elizabeth Byrd Price
Price Williams
Mobile County
Alabama
Palmer Pillans
Rush Price Strong
Hanaw & Pillans
Attys
Alabama Secre tary of State invites stationery bids
Se cretary of State Montgomery Alabama invites proposals for stationery supplies for two years starting October 1 1914. Bids due by 12 noon August 22 1914 at the office. Estimates and max prices available on application. Bids exceeding max prices will not be considered. Right to reject any or all bids reserved. August 18 1914. An unrelated note claims an elephant sleeps five hours daily.
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Montgomery
Alabama
Supreme Court
Cyrus B. Brown
Court of Appeals
Labama
Olympic Held In Port As British Reserves Reported
White Star liner Olympic awaiting orders from the British admiralty and held in port at New York. The Vaderland with 1,000 Belgian reservists booked for a British port delayed. Olympic prepared to sail for Liverpool with 150 first class and 60 second class cabins booked and 200 steerage passengers, mostly British army volunteers.
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New York
Olympic
Admiralty
Red Star
Vaderland
Liverpool
Poisoned mushrooms threaten two Hattiesburg women
Misses Irene Gass and Emma Hobson, two young Hattiesburg women, are in critical condition at their sister's home after eating suspected poisonous mushrooms described as toadstools. Dr. J. K. McKinnon attends them and hopes for recovery, though they remain dangerously ill.
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Hattiesburg
Miss
Aug. S
Irene Gass
Emma
Oftiesburg
Joseph H. Hobson
J. K. McKinnon
Ships to Carry Ex-British Soldiers Sail Soon
The Adriatic of the White Star line and the Minn of the Atlantic Transport line will carry former English soldiers. The Santa Anna of the Fabre line is expected to sail before night for Marseilles with all accommodations taken by French reservists.
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Adriatic
Minn
Santa Anna
Marseilles
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Mary X Taylor
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Hale
Commissioner Brannan
Shufixry
of Mobile
Foster K. Hale
E. E. Posey
Agent
van Antwerp
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Uncle Sam
AIG
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Athens College
Athens
Iive
Women of
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Tooth
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Storm Insurance
Southern Realty CO
B. F. Adams
St. Francis St
Bell
SION
Southern Railway
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Lake Toxaway, N. C
Hot Springs, N. C
Waynesville, N. OC
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N. C
Morehead City
Wilmington, N. C
Tate Springs, Tenn
City Ticket Office
N. Royal ST
Jas. Freeman
G. C. Robson
Trav. Pass. Agt
Mobile, Ala
D. & Lowry, JR
City Pas. & Tkt Agt Mobile
Maddox & Strauss
Cedar Grove
St. Stephens Road
Prichard Drug Store
Whistler, Prichard
Magazine
Neely Depot
Bay Shore Railroad
F. M. Maddox & CO
City Bank
Frank Bryan
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