Rates Cut on Pig Iron From Alabama and Tennessee
The Interstate Commerce Commission reduced rates on pig iron in carloads from Alabama and Tennessee furnaces to north of the Ohio. North railroads pay 12 cents less, south roads 23 cents less, with Birmingham Chicago joint rate set at 4 dollars, effective September 20 and retroactive to October 1, 1914. The decision follows a complaint by Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Co. Further rate rulings for Southern pig iron to trunk lines and New England territories to be issued later.
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Washington
Alabama
Tennessee
Ohio
Interstate Commerce Commission
Birmingham
Chicago
Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Company
New England
Foreign Enemy Could Seize Eastern States, Hold Them
Col Edwin F Glenn warned an audience at Plattsburg that a European nation at war with the United States could land a billion men on the Atlantic seaboard north of Virginia and capture New York, Virginia, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and New England. He said the invaders would entrench from Erie Pennsylvania to the Chesapeake Bay and control most wealth and factories for years.
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Plattsburg
United States
Atlantic Seaboard
Virginia
New York
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
New England
Edwin F. Glenn
Department of the East
Glenn
Erie
Chesapeake Bay
Evidence in Pryor Case Heard in Inferior Court
Willie Pryor, a young white man, faced a prohibition charge as evidence was heard in the inferior criminal court. Judge Henry Chamberlain reserved decision until August 7. Deputies Oberhaus and Soles found two half pints of gin on a salt barrel after a raid at the northeast corner of State and Kennedy streets. Pryor drew two guns and tried to keep officers out. He waived examination and was released on a $250 bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willie Pryor
Inferior Criminal Court
Henry Chamberlain
Oberhaus
Soles
State and
Kennedy Streets
Pryon
Pryor
National Negro Business League Opens Its Sessions
In Boston on August 18 the fifteenth annual convention of the National Negro Business League opens with about a hundred members gathering for three days. Booker T. Washington, the league president, will give the annual address tonight. Day one features brief addresses on farm, ranch, store management and Negro town building.
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Boston
National Negro Business League
Booker T.washington
League
Suits in Equity Court at Tulsa Afternoon
In the law and equity court this afternoon three suits were led. Napoleon Rivers vs. J Whit Gurley and W H Byers for 360 dollars for work and labor. Hieronymous Bros. vs. I E Moog for 95.60 dollars, amount of a judgment. Julia Pollock Claire Pollock and M Altmeyer for estate of J Pollock vs A O Murphree for 231.75 dollars due for rent.
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Equity Court
Law and Equity Court
Tulsa
Napoleon Rivers
J. Whit Gurley
W.H. Byers
Hieronymous Bros
I. E. Moog
Julia Pollock
Claire Pollock
M. €.Altmeyer
J Pollock
A.O. Murphree
Local Social Notes From Crichton Alabama
Aug 18 notes list guests and visits among Crichton residents and friends. Ed and Lena Freeland of Meridian join Mrs. Hamilton's guests, others travel to Satsuma Grand Bay Dawes and Union. Names include Schriber Scholtes Morgan Hogan Mitchell Swetman Fraser Roberts and Deakle among attendees and travelers.
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Crichton Crichton
Ala
Hamilton
Sam Dunnan
Lena Freeland
Meridian
Gladys Schriber
Margaret Scholtes
Sunflower
Banks
Amy
Gus Roberts
Satsuma
Wilks
F. W. Fraser
Item Avenue
Rose Howell
W. P. Roberts
Nailor
Bayou Seektoeher Gimar
Mra Peal
Barry
Urry
British Honduras
J. B. Fletcher
Ed Alien
James Edward
J. R. Aplin
Zetta Deakle
Willie Dealkie
Florence Newell
Union
Land and timber tracts offered by Mobile & Ohio R Lands Co
480 acres seven miles west of Chunchula in Mobile County Alabama with pine land soil and a stream, price 11.50 per acre as a whole. Also 40 to 10000 acre tracts at 4.00 per acre. Address Geo Kilborn president Land & Dev Co 408 N Royal St Alabama Bell 957 J.
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Chunchula
Mobile County
Alabama
Geo. Kilborn
Ate Land & Dev. Co
Royal St
Bell Phone
Weather Sketches and Superstitions from Mobile
A playful column notes Wednesday was partly cloudy with a high near 87 and light rain. It lists other cities temperatures, storms, and rainfall while sharing a Mobile superstition about Friday the Thirteenth and a flirtation with fate.
Midnight Prowler Confounds Police With Multiple Homes
Willie Reese, described as darker than night, has four listed residences per police. He wandered the city’s residential district at night, gave several claimed addresses, and then said he would sleep at Castle Crenshaw as a guest. The judge pressed him to state a definite home.
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Willie Reese
Africa
Edington
Willie
Macon
Baker
Castle Crenshaw
Conception
Jedge
Mason
Court entertains odd capers in darktown cases
A witless mix of petty crimes and comical claims unfolds as defendants face odd charges. Willie and Geneva Murray in Castle Crenshaw toil ten days while Charlie Lacey fights insults with pliers, a palmful of local mischief, and a shifting Panama hat tale.
J H Jackson Again Held for Prohi Violation
J H Jackson of this city was arrested Wednesday at the Southern Hotel by Deputy Sheriff Lee Soles on a Bay Minette warrant for violating the prohibition law. The offense is alleged to have occurred on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay in July. Jackson posted $300 bond. He faces an injunction and already has a bond on another prohibition case here and for operating a gaming table.
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H. Jackson
Southern Hotel
Lee Soles
Bay Minette
Baldwin County
Mobile Bay
Jackson
Carl Holzborn
Register In Chancery
Grant's
Holzborn
Ollinger & Bruce Dry Dock Company
Law and Equity
Mallory Steamship Company
Milton Singletorn
Plateau
George Mills
John Woods
New ‘Coast Guard Tallaper
Mobile
Sptember 1
Baltimore
Norfolk Navy Yard
Crinatie
Chip Rathroné Bas
Wage Earner James Owen Declares Bankrupt in Mobile
James Owen of Mobile filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in federal court listing liabilities of 151 dollars and no assets. He was adjudicated bankrupt and the case referred to Referee R. T. Ervin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Owen
Mobile
United States District Court
R. T. Ervin
AFL Chief Calls for Inquiry Into World Charges
Washington Aug. J Sammeth Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor urges a diligent inquiry into charges published by the New York World that German agents in the United States with high German officials approval have been fomenting labor troubles in war produc tion plants for the Allies He warns against attempts to involve him in labor strike schemes and cites possible harm if heads of unions were corrupted. Keppler warns of a possible general strike in arm and ammunition plants over eight hour demands and accuses the National Metal Trades Association of hostility hindering private settlements.
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Washington
Aug
J. Sammeth Gompers
American Federation of Labor
New York World
United States
Gompers
Lansing
State Department
Gregory
Department of Justice
Keppler
New York
J. J. Keppler
International Association of Machinists
Association
National Metal Trades’ Association
Arizona Family Makes Nine Day Auto Trip to Mobile
N. W. Moxley and his wife with two children arrived in Mobile from Phoenix, Arizona, by car after a nine day journey. Formerly with Moxley's Transfer and Storage in Phoenix, he plans to continue to Miami Illinois to pursue new business ventures. The family traveled with only one stop, driving twelve hundred miles into Texas before continuing to Fairhope then Pensacola.
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Arizona
N. W. Moxley
Mobile
Phoenix
Mr. Moxley
of. Moxley
Miami
Ila
Moxley
Texas
Fairhope
Pensacola
Attorneys tipped as candidate for circuit judgeship
In Mobile on official business, B V Wright of the New Orleans Mobile & Chicago railroad visited. Grove Hill lawyers Quincy W Tucker and T J Ebersole were in Mobile. rumor suggests Ebersole may seek the new circuit judgeship in his district.
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B. V. Wright
New Orleans, Mobile & Chicago
Laurel
Miss
Mobile
Quincy W. Tucker
T. J. Ebersole
Grove Hill
Army camp destroyed after Texas City tidal wave
Washington dispatches report the U S army camp at Texas City destroyed by a tidal wave and high tide. Water ranges three to five feet as rescue and medical crews search for the dead and tend the injured. The storm continues into the morning.
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Washington
War Department
Texas City
Houston
United States Army
Birthday Children Celebrated in Mobile Event At Empire Theatre
The Item notes a birthday party for mobile children, listing names and ages from Aug 18 birthdates between 1903 and 1914. Invitations were mailed for a birthday picture party at the Empire Theatre this afternoon, inviting five friends to attend.
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Jeannis May McCary
N. Frankli
Ruth C. Macdonald
Fulton Road
Katherine Kearrey
N. Claire
Earle Mountain
Congress
John R. Allen
Adams St
Robert Mims
State St
William F. Talbot
Mobile
Ala
Chas. J. Calmetti
N. Mallett
Norma Brigittman
Dauphin St
Allen Crowell
Augusta St
Gladys Berge
Monroe St. Adelita Valenzuela
Dauphin
John F. Barnes
N. Beaurega Herran Lovinghouze
Marin the Item
Empire Theatre
VESSELS IN PORT Vessel entries and ship listings
A catalog of ships in port with names such as Fort Gaines Mount Hope Evadne Teresa Sarkness Buland Glene Songing and others. Entries show destinations and ports including Belize Cuba New Brunswick Elfreda Progreso and Guantanamo with notes on repairs and docking at Turner Terminals, Gulf Dry Docks, and various piers.
Maritime cargo and ship movements listed
A rail of vessels bound for various routes appears with ships sailing from New Orleans Progreso Progreso Mex Puerto Padre Cuba Havana Cuba and more. The list includes steamships schooners and a bark with destinations such as Porto Rico Van Heynigen Moragues Lumber Company and Ward Line among others.
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Ponce
New Orleans
Porto Rico
Albert D. Mille
Puerto Padre
Cuba
Bahamas
Ines
Span
Huelva
Spain
van Heynigen Brokerage Co
Lizzie J. Dennison
Progreso
Mex
Vinegar Bend
Lbr
Dora Allison
Mexico
Carolina
Havana
Moragues Lumber Company
Mobila
Maniti
Atlantic & Mexican Gulf Line
C. W. Mills
Steamship Pacific
Munson Line
Kotonia
Dan
Ward Line
Freda
New York
Carribean & Southern Line
Prayer Meeting at Methodist Church in Toulminville
Aug 18 report notes a Thursday night prayer meeting at the Toulminville Methodist church led by Rev. D Register. Also covered are sermons by Rev. BE A. Donnelly at Government Street church and Rev. Ernest M. Daffin at Deer Park, with local social and church notes.
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Toulminville
Ala
Methodist Church
D. ¥. Register
BE. A. Donnelly
Government Street Methodist Episcopal Church
Ernest M. Daffin
Deer Park
Methodist Sunday School
Spencer
Williams
Everett Milstead
Baby
Birmingham
Mobile
Busy Bee Sewing Circle
St. Stephens Road
Carson
Delowee Buchanan Wilson
Woman's Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
FE. L. Cole
Flossie Brown
Cincinnati
Ohio
Rushville
Ind
Chicago
A. P. Schweitzer
Selma
Barrett
Flint
Meridian
Mins
C. Warren
D._T. Warren
Miller
Laurel
Mias
Sailors Seek Caribbean Lumber Trade Amid Gulf Storm Delays
The Roseway sails toward Sabine Texas to enter lumber transport between Port Arthur and Mexican and West Indies ports after a storm delay. Other ships including Trymar, Karen, Storfond, Viator, and Bodo face harbor delays or loading plans in Cuban, Belize, and Havana routes as the hurricane lingers.
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Roseway
Sabine Texas
Luther- Moore Lumber Company
Port Arthur
Texas
West Indies
Trym
Fort Morgan
New Orleans
Cuban
Munson
Karen
Havana
Cuba
Storfond
Buenos Aires
Chamelecon
Viator
Puerto Cortez
American
Mobile
Boston
Cuban Molasses Company
Chamelecon Line
Bodo
Corinto
Belize
Hond
United Fruit Company
Orr-Laubenheimer Company
Whistler notices and social headlines from a town bulletin
Postings announce July checks sent to Whistler on the 18th and a paymaster will cash them. Methodist stewards plan a Thursday church meeting to finish quarter business before the third quarterly conference. Church Home Guild hosts a lawn party and ice cream festival at Peterson's Park. Several locals travel or visit. A knife accident injured Aileen Link with nine stitches.
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Whistler
Ala
G. L.mbert
Francis M. Atchison
Methodist Church
Church Home Guild
Peterson's Park
Renter
Louise
Mobile
Pat McDonough, Jr
William P. McCarthy
New Orleans
F. E. Pringle
Biloxi
Miss
Ira H. Pringle
Jackson
Tenn
Marguerite Wooten
Peter Peterson
Aaron Hess
Directors Meet To Elect Secretary In Be Division
Y. M. C. A. directors planned a meeting Tuesday night but it was postponed until Thursday night. The Be division will elect J. H. Wright as secretary at the session.
Franklin Personal News Highlights From Franklin Alabama
In Franklin Alabama a social round gathers as neighbors visit relatives from Atmore and Hixon. Miss Anna Frye improves from illness. In Jones Mill a Sunday School convocation draws delegates from Monroe County with speakers on church work and note of local hospitality and good roads. Nearby locals travel to Oak Grove pre meeting and a Methodist series starts in Lower Peach Tree with pastors and guests visiting Camden and Pine Hill for weeklong events.
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Franklin Personals
Franklin
Ala
Ley
Olive
Atmore
D. V. McKinley
Hixon
Miss Jackson
Nel Springs
Rutherford
Jones Mill
Town Hall
Monroe County
Miss
Star County
Good
Nap
Finkley
Monro I
Fink
Ethel, Eddens
Bertha Bui Piterman
Dottie Jones
Katie Jones
Jan Jones
N. Jones
Claudfield
Perdue Hill
Oak Grove
Charlie B. Jones
Mond Range
Tuesda Amarillo
Texas
Bret Lambert
Clarence Hart
Range
Peach Tree
Cowand
Stripling
A. Liter and Son
Mes Irby
Ledge Jeffrey
A. L
K. A. Meyer
Camden
C. T. Slaughter
Irby
Selma
Helen Irby
Mobile
Miss He Irby
Francis Tappey
Huntsville
Torrey Sia
Georgie Will Packer
Unanimous jury hints at confusion in Arkansas trial
A judge asks the panel to confirm they are unanimous as the Arkansas circuit hears a case. The thin jury discusses the proceedings with a fumbled exchange, noting disagreements over guilt and whether the defendant fully understands the charges. The fragment reflects tense courtroom dynamics.
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Arkansas
Puck
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Ing
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Pringle
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Lambert
Harrison
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Jenkins Falkenberry
J. M. Falkenberry
Crooming Berry
Migs’ Mason
Julia
Lula
Marian Davidson
Washin
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M. M. Wood
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