Little Hope for the Marowhjne Held Out
Crawford H Ellis of United Fruit says the search for the Marowhjne yields little hope for the vessel, its passengers or crew. He praises the officers and crew, notes no signs of wreckage, and cites possible survival only if some boarded other ships. Mobile relatives remain hopeful though no definite news has emerged.
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Crawford H. Ellis
United Fruit Company
New Orleans
Cor
Ellis
Gulf
Yucatan
Miss Cowen
B. S. Cowen
Pones
John Ewing
Mobile
Honduras
Claude A. Quina
Marowhjne
A. G. Quina
Italian steamer Metlaoui ashore near Ajax reef
The steamer Metlaoui from Malta was found ashore off Ajax reef in Biscayne Bay Florida after a sighting of an unknown vessel. Coast guard cutter Miami is conducting efforts to assist and identify the ship amid hopes it might be the missing Marowline.
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Ajax Reef
Marowline
Washington
Biscayne Bay
Fla
Metlaoui
Malta
Coast Guard
Miami
New Orleans
United Pratt Company
Ues
Fourteen Die Near Cape San Antonio in Cuba Storm
Fourteen people died near Cape San Antonio Cuba when a tropical hurricane damaged the wireless station there. The schooner Caroline's captain H O Borden reported the disaster, with the station rendered unfit for use.
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Cape San Antonio
Tampa
Fla
Cuba
H. O. Borden
Caroline
Hayter picks up Windsor survivors after sinking
The Norwegian steamer Hayter, arriving from Barry, reports rescuing forty Windsor survivors on August 21 after the British steamer Windsor was sunk by a submarine. Martial law to end outside military zones in France on September 1. Direct Berlin to Warsaw service slated for mid September with thirteen hour travel. Hardy Wiggins and Merritt Miller arrested near Robinsville North Carolina for murder after bloodhounds aided a posse. Revolt in eastern Venezuela crushed according to Caracas dispatches. Peru proposes mining and agriculture profit taxes and a $2,500,000 internal loan secured by export duties. Arabic denies carrying gold or specie per White Star. William E. Foster, Buffalo Commercial editor, dies at 42. New York suffragists’ planned ont day strike called off. Miss Fannie Heck, longtime Baptist missionary leader, dies in Leigh North Carolina. F B Baille, pioneer newspaperman and former National Association president, dies in Cleburne Texas. Forest agent in Itesburg Kentucky killed by a gun accident.
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Lisbon
Hayter
Barry
Windsor
Paris
France
Berlin
Warsaw
Robinsville
N. C
Hardy Wiggins
Merritt Miller
Mountaineers
Here
P. I. Phillips
Phillips
Willemstad
Curacoa
Venezuela
Lima
Peru
Liverpool
Germany
Orth Today
White Star Company
Buffalo
N. Y
William E. Foster
Foster
NEW RK
New York
Leigh
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Cleburne
Texas
F. B. Baille
National Ciation
Itesburg
Young Biloxi Boys Sent to County Farm for Incorrigibility
In Biloxi Mississippi Henry Bills aged 10 and Ed Thian aged 12 were found incorrigible by the court. Judge Z T Champlin sentenced them to thirty days on the Harrison County farm and fined five dollars plus costs each. The city had tried reforming them but gave up in despair citing them as the youngest punished thus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biloxi
Miss
Henry Bills
Ed Thian
Harrison County
Z. T. Champlin
Lyons Seeks Amendment to Law Against Breweries
A. S. Lyons of Mobile Brewery urged an amendment to Alabama beer law in Montgomery. He proposed allowing Birmingham Mobile and Montgomery breweries to brew beer for sale in Alabama under state supervision, matching existing personal-use limits to keep money in state, arguing current imports deprive Alabama of tax revenue and employment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Mobile
Montgomery
Alabama
A. S. Lyons
Gulf City Gun Club Forms After Shoot Marred
The Gulf City Gun Club name was adopted after an accident at the Gulf City Club grounds marred the weekly shoot. Wednesday shooters included Dr J E Beck Dr S C Frederic D R Dunlap and others. a reorganization meeting elected officers with Dr G Ward as president and Bob Neville as vice president.
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Gulf City
J. E. Beck
C. Frederic
D. R. Dunlap
Kenneth Winter
Montague Whiting
J. W. Miller
A. E. Maumenee
Texey Haas
Russell Ladd
Rio Rubira
Wythe Whiting
Hubbard
Revenue Bill Amendments Face House Vote
In Montgomery on August 26 the general revenue bill with senate amendments and existing exemptions awaits House decision. Debate centers on exemptions for new industries, tax relief for homes under 2000 dollars, and farm property like silos. A clash between Senators Lusk Hill and Denson over power exemptions followed.
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Montgomery
House
Senate
Bales
Lusk
Marshall
Green
Tennessee Valley
Lewis
Macon
Alabama
Mr. Lusk
Hill
Mobile
Montgomery Counties
Senator Hill
Senator Denson
Denson
Nashville official Doc West returns amid city hall scandal
Johnson B. West Jr., known as Doc West, assistant city treasurer of Nashville, who had disappeared during the city hall scandal in mid June, arrived from Chicago. A bond of 10 000 was posted on arrival as authorities charge him with larceny and destruction of public records.
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West
Nashville
Back
Tenn
Johnson B. West, Jr
Doc West
Chicago
Bond
City Revenue Department
Louis
German Submarine Destroyed Near Ostend by Air Bomb
London officials announce a German submarine was destroyed near Ostend Belgium by a bomb from an aeroplane. The official statement was released this evening.
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Ostend
London
Belgium
Wire Painted Foliage Green for War Use
Pittsburgh August 26 barbed wire is being painted foliage green for military use. Workers and steel men prepare the product for army deployment.
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Pittsburgh
Suffragettes Offer Carmen Great Trade in Return for Vote
Suffrage party speakers toured streetcars in New York to urge conductors and motormen to support woman voting in the fall election. Posters promised safe travel and better service in exchange for votes, urging voters to back women’s suffrage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Womans ‘Suffrage Party
Johnny
Mobile Soldiers Guests of Honor at Concert
Professor Leo Suffich and the First Infantry band performed at Pickett Springs as National Guard troops relaxed from training. Local militia in uniform assisted visitors. the First Regiment set a busy pace on rifle range drills. Mayor Gunter urged merchants to grant guardsmen leave to attend encampments and support state and national military preparedness.
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Montgomery
Camp Hubbard
Leo Suffich
Pickett Springs
National
Groves
W. A. Gunter, Jr
John D. Cody
National Guard
Alabama National Guard
William A. Gunter, JR
Board Commissioners
Statue of Joan of Arc to Rest on Stones From Her Prison
A bronze statue of Joan of Arc on horseback will be erected at Riverside Drive and 934th Street in New York. It will rest on a pedestal made from the stones of Joan’s Rouen prison. The monument costs about 25000 dollars, funded entirely by private subscription. Anna Vaughn Hyatt designed the statue.
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Joan D’arc
New York
New. York
Joan of Arc
Riverside Drive
934 Street
Rouen
France
Anna Vaughn Hyatt
Weather forecast for Mobile and Deep South region
Partly cloudy tonight and Friday with possible thunder showers and little temperature change. In Washington on August 26 forecast applies to Alabama and Mississippi, with unsettled conditions tonight and Friday and possible thunder.
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Mobile
Washington
Alabama
Mississippi
Duty of the State in Dealing with Prisoners Discussed
Boston report on state duty toward inmates notes session outcomes and calls for reform. Illinois Governor Edward F. Dunne urges abolition of capital punishment, arguing it fails to deter crime and citing comparative homicide rates and moral grounds against executions.
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Boston
Dunne
Edward F. Dunne
Illinois
Kansas
Haitians Fire Upon Marine Patrols
American marine patrols in Port-au-Prince were fired on twice last night but no one was hurt. Rear Admiral Caperton reported conditions unchanged as the Nashville was sent to Port-Au-Paix with troops and machine guns. Haitian soldiers opposing disarmament appeared at the port again, with more expected. The Tennessee with 350 marines sailed from Philadelphia, possibly bound for Haiti, under handling directions by Captain Decker.
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Washington
Port-au-Prince
Caperton
Nashville
Port-Au-Paix
Tennessee
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Haiti
Decker
Sealeg
Germany seeks to maintain U.S. friendship over Arabic crisis
Berlin reports Germany intends to avoid discord with the United States over the Arabic sinking. Chancellor Von Bethmann-Hollweg cites instructions to submarines to prevent a repeat of Lusitania and protect neutral travel, while aiming to satisfy U.S. concerns and keep the alliance warm. Austria note on munitions shipment also discussed.
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Berlin
London
Associated Press
Germany
America
United States
von Bethmann- Hollweg
V Bethmann-Hollweg
United State
Fate of Belgrade and Balkan theater in new war notices
A Times Balkan correspondent reports that Austrian German forces threaten to invade Serbia by Danube routes via Vidin Belogradchik and Bucharest dispatches say Serbia may face a coordinated push. The report notes belief that resistance would be futile and that Serbia may be given a free hand if it acquiesces.
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Berlin
Byci
Danube
Tvasion
Serbia
Wilony Rrit Vidini
Belogradchik
Times
German Ambassador Bernstorff and Secretary Lansing meet in Washington
Count von Bernstorff, Germanys ambassador, conferred with Secretary Lansing for nearly an hour in Washington this morning. Both refused to discuss the meeting but it was understood the ambassador reiterated Germanys intent that no Americans should lose their lives on the Arabic. Continued on Page 6.
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von Bernstorff
Lansing Washington
Count von Bernstorff
Lansing
German instrument maker held on Monroe photos charge
Gustav Kopsch a German instrument maker at the Carnegie Institution is jailed in Norfolk Va on $5000 bail facing a federal count for photographing military reservations. He possessed images of Fortress Monroe and Cape Henry defenses while serving as a German reservist and was arrested after weeks of Justice Department inquiry.
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Washington
National Defense
Gustav Kopsech
Carnegie Institution
Federal District Court
Norfolk
Kopsch
Department of Justice
Fortress Monroe
Cape Henry
Rumor of Separate Turkish Peace Arouses Athens
A Paris dispatch reports rumors in Athens that Turkey may seek a separate peace with the Allies if Germany is not in agreement over Italy. News says Turkish leadership signaling possible negotiations amid war in Europe.
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Turkey
Germany
Paris
Athens
Italy
Morning Papers
Japanese to Establish Special Factories for Shells
Aug 26 report from London states Japan plans special factories to boost munition supplies for its allies. The entente powers discuss details with Premier and discuss Austrians and Serbians resuming hostilities on the front. Skirmishes are reported near Drenitz and Bortza as the war continues.
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Japan
Amentente
Haish
Serbia
London
Drenitz
Bortza
Lost Red Cow and Calf With Jim McKenzie Reward
Lost small black cow described as missing near Bell area with note to pay reward Bell 2486 3. Jim McKenzie identified as contact for recovery.
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Red Cow
Jim McKenzie
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U. S
Galveston
U. F. Co
Lyons
Gfin
Mobile Soldiers
Congert.dange
Dumne
Haitiens
Monterey, Mex
Gustave Esipinosa Mireles
U.S
Aubtrea
Vienna
Austria-Hungary
Europe
Foreign Ministry
Fates
Arme
Nort Saariouls
Kruecken
Saint Ingbert
Zweibruecken
Brest-Litovsk
Russia
Ossowetz
Cap
Bialystok
Gr Ossowetsk
Ossowet Kovno
Grodno
Riga-Kovne
Riga
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