General Booth Dies After Sixty Nine Years of Service
The Salvation Army commander General William Booth died in Hadleywood near London after cataract surgery and a week of declining health. Messages from Bramwell Booth and others paid tribute as officials prepared plans for interment, likely at Westminster Abbey, with a public memorial to follow.
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Wwile Booth
Salvation Army
P. m
Notam
Salm
Wepson
Hemrt
Mneral
Bramwell Booth
Im Booth
Evangelist
Hadleywood
Miles
London
Ter
Catherineth
Bernard Booth
Booth Helberd
Poner Howard
Ritch
Wardlaw Milne
Lic
Nation Army
Salvation Ss
Am Booth
Booth
Westminster Abbey
General Booth
Abbey
Abney Park
Oke Newington
West Congress Hall
Clapton
London Park
Branwell Booth
Syiny
Wanamaker
Mwell Booth
New Device for Modern Rifles Promises Huge Efficiency Gain
Captain Jack Mahon of the Mobile Rifle Company claims an attachment for the Springfield rifle will double life and boost efficiency by 100 percent. Army officials have reviewed it as a great advancement. The device reduces heating by about 50 percent, weighs five ounces, and can be fitted in minutes. Mahon seeks war department consideration. a foreign power offered negotiations but was declined.
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Jack Mahon
Mobile Rifle Company
Army
United States Army
Mahon
War Department
Captain Mahon
Anniston
Freckles vanish with ethine double strength drug
A cure arrives for freckled complexions promising rapid improvement. A one ounce bottle of ethine double strength from Van Antwerp Drug Co. is applied nightly with full money back guarantee if it fails to remove freckles. Even severe freckles should fade.
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van Antwerp Drug Co
Grand Circuit Meeting Opens in Granite State at Rockingham Park
Showers reduced attendance at Salem New Hampshire where the Grand Circuit opened at Rockingham Park. The 2:05 pace horse The Hub, valued at 3000 dollars, highlighted the afternoon. Branham Boughman driven by Longshot Cox led all three heats, with Keynote winning the 2:18 trot and 2:15 pace taken by Al Dillard.
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Granite State
Salem
N. H
Rockingham Park
Cox
New Hampshire
Branham
Frank Murphy
al Dillard
W Er
Haas Brothers Packing Company Sells Pickens Real Estate at Sheriff Sale
Under a writ of Fieri Facias from the Law and Equity Court of Mobile Alabama Haas Brothers Packing Company proceeds to sell for cash at noon on Monday September 28 1912 in front of the Mobile court house door the title and interest of Wesley Pickens in a lot on the south side of St Medar street two west of Monday street Mobile Alabama.
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Haas Brothers Packing Company
Wesley Pickens
Fieri Fabias
Law and Equity Court of
Mobile
Alabama
Court House
Mobile County
St. Medar Street
Monday Street
Orleans Man May Lead the Federation at New Orleans Meeting
The eleventh annual convention of the American Federation of Catholic Societies met in New Orleans with officers to be elected. Edward Feeney of Brooklyn was expected to stand, but Charles J. Denehau d of New Orleans was favored if Feeney did not run. Plans included possible city choices for 1913 to 1915 and a push to form a National Federation of Catholic Women.
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Louisville
American Federation of Catholic Societies
Milwaukee
Birmingham
Ala
San Francisco
Orleans
Edward Feeney
Brooklyn
Federation
Charles J. Denehaud
New Orleans
Feeney
Federation of
Catholic Women
Loulaville
Joseph Benning
Cincinnati
City hospital committee to meet on Friday at 10:15
Secretary Troy of the Chamber of Commerce calls a meeting of the city hospital committee. The group discusses retention of the University of Alabama School of Medicine and will convene Friday morning at 10:15.
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Co. OF C
Troy
Chamber of Commerce and Business League
City Hospital Committee
School of Medicine
University of Alabama
Washington and St Louis win in Herrman cup tourney
In Boston on August 20 Washington defeated Cincinnati 5 to 2 and St Louis beat New York 6 to 5 in the National Printers Baseball Association Garry Herrman championship. no games are scheduled for tomorrow.
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Boston
Washington
St. Louis
National Printers’ Baseball Association
Garry Herrman
Cincinnati
Louis
New York
Samose Flesh-Forming Food Promises Weight Gain
G Van Antwerp & Sons Drug Co promotes Samose as a flesh forming food not a medicine. The ad claims it builds flesh and fat, strengthens health, and guarantees refunds if it fails to make thin people fat after one to two weeks. A 50 cent price is noted.
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G. van. Antwerp & Sons Drug Co
van Antwerp
Mobile
Collision panic on Corsican after iceberg collision
Two Cambridge students Bethell and Stevens recount near fatal jolt as hundred tons of ice fell on deck and nineteen feet of water appeared. They say panicked passengers and Italians rushed to lifeboats while fog hid ships for days. captain defends calm conduct and reports no water in holds. Passengers presented Captain Cook with a gold watch and purse upon arrival in port.
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Cook
Cambridge
Bethell
Stevens
New Highway Engineer Appointed in Alabama
J. B. Converse of Selma has been named second assistant state highway engineer and began his duties Tuesday. The appointment comes as the department expands to meet increased county demands for state aid in road construction.
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Montgomery
Ala
J. B. Converse
Selma
Impure Drugs Enter New York, Inspector Says
Denver Aug 21 Fifty percent of drugs entering New York and passed as pure by inspectors there are declared adulterated by a San Francisco inspector before the American Pharmaceutical Association. A heated debate between Dr H H Busby and Prof Albert Schneider followed. The association seeks stricter laws to curb adulteration. Schneider cites tests showing over half of commercial pepper may be ground olive pits capsicum and pepper refuse.
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Denver
Col
New York
San Francisco
American Pharmaceutical Association
H. H. Busby
Albert Schneider
Schneider
United States
Use of voting machines barred in New York
Albany N Y Aug 20 The use of voting machines may be barred statewide in the coming election unless machines can be equipped to permit separate voting for presidential electors and for state and county candidates The attorney general holds it would be legal to use machines for state and county tickets and paper ballots for presidential electors This follows concerns over lengthy tickets and an extra Progressive column voting machines have been used in up state localities for years aiding quick returns
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Albany
N. Y
New York State
Carmody
Progressive Party
Dancing bull moose inventor dies by his own hand
Albert Funk was found dead in his lodging house with a gas tube in his teeth. Friends say he feared he could not raise funds to launch his dancing bull moose novelty. Funk had spent his last hours amid models of the invention and cost calculations. He came to New York from Cincinnati three weeks ago.
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New York
Albert Funk
Funk
Cincinnati
New Pastor for the Tabernacle
Rev W P Wilks of Louisville Ky has accepted the call to lead the Baptist Tabernacle on Claiborne Street Mobile. He will arrive September 1 to assume charge and a welcome service is planned September 5 with greetings from Mobile’s Protestant ministers. committees oversee arrangements with W E Lockler chairing.
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W. P. Wilks
Louieville, Ky
Baptist Tabernacle
Church
Claiborne Streets
Mobile
Wilks
Alabama
Tabernacle
H. W.fancher
W. E. Lockler
E.L. Welch
W.E. Lockler
Ladies’ Aid Society
Judge Hutton Withdraws From Darrow Case
Los Angeles August 21 Judge George H Hutton relieved himself from further prosecution of Clarence S Darrow by assigning the Bain indictment case to the presiding judge Willis. He said his fixed opinion from the recent Darrow trial negated any desire to preside at the Bain case.
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Los Angeles
George H. Hutton
Clarence S. Darrow
Willis
Darrow
Robert F. Bain
Hutton
Bain
Escape at Montgomery Jail Involving J M Lammons
Sheriff Hood says ex education chief J M Lammons who fled Montgomery jail with outside help is believed to be hiding in central Alabama. Deputies report a car stopped at the prison just before the escape and Lammons was known to carry sums of money, with funds kept in his own pocket rather than the jail safe.
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Montgomery
Ala
J. M. Lammons
Coffee County
Alabama
Horace Hood
Lammons
Heard Auto
Washington Street
Sammons
Endorse Stallworth for Supreme Bench
Mobile lawyers endorse Nicholas E. Stallworth former county solicitor for the vacancy on the state supreme bench caused by the death of Associate Justice Robert T. Simpson.
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Stallworth
Supreme Bench
Mobile
Nicholas E. Stallworth
State Supreme Bench
Robert T. Simpson
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Erable
T.T. Palmer
Corsican
Liverpool
Allan Line
Bellé Isle
New Foundland
Montreal
The
Friends
Pat J. Lyons
German Relief Hall
Harry T. Smith
Pine Crest
Perpetual Care
St. Joseph Street
Bell
Pine Crest Cemetery
Somerville
Sears
North Carolina
N.C
Astyptodyne Chemical CO
Wilmington
N. C
J. R. Bell
Astyptodyne Chemical Company
Front Street
Wilmington, N
Pitchpineoline
Bauer Drug Store
Dauphin
Conception Streets
Pitchpinkoline Sales CO
Royal and Beauregard Sts
Mobile, Alabama
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