Death Toll Rises in Texas Floods Amid Heavy Losses
Associated Press reports 96 known dead in Texas floods by noon with 25 deaths in the last day. Drownings near Brookshire and Wharton rise, rescue boats strained as hundreds remain trapped. Floodwaters flood sections of Brazos and Colorado rivers with homes and stores swept away.
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Associated Press
Houston
Tex
Texas
Brazos
Colorado
Brookshire
Waller County
Brooksire
Wharton
Bruce
Ray
Sunny Side
Relief plans discussed for Texas flood sufferers
In St Louis the Business Men's League executive committee meets to form relief plans after receiving a telegram from La Grange Texas mayor appealing for aid. The appeal cites urgent need for immediate financial assistance with La Grange area damage estimated at $500 000 and no railroad access.
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Associated Press
ST. Louis
Texas
Business Men's League
Henry W. Kell
la Grange
Congress Deliberates on Treasury and Naval Bids
Senate backs an administration currency bill led by Senator Swanson. House allocates funds to pay four years extra salary to Lt. Col. Gaillard's widow. Naval committee hears Navy to reach 51,500 enlisted by March 1, 1914. Murray of Oklahoma seeks to regulate stock exchanges and bar speculative advertising.
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House
Gaillard
Immigration Committee
Clayton
Judiciary Committee
Isson
Victor Blue
Naval Committee
Navy
Murray
Oklahoma
Bullet From Dropped Revolver Wounds Man Across Aisle
A passenger on a Southern Wain train near Carson Alabama drops a revolver from his pocket. The weapon discharges hitting a man seated across the aisle. the bullet pierced the seat and caused injuries. The incident occurred at night as the train traveled.
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Carson
Ala
County agrees to take up Shell Road proposition
The Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners considered purchasing two and a half miles of the Mobile Bay Shell road from Long Bridge to South End and restoring it as a premier drive. A Mobile Chamber of Commerce committee will inspect the road next Monday with a view to buying, while other items included jail security and school drainage improvements.
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Bay Shell Road
Mobile
Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners
Mobile Chamber of Commerce and Business League
Messrs
Horace Turner
J. W. McAlpine
Hagan
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Mobile Bay Shell Road
Longbridge
South End
United States
Coden
Shell Bank Street
Russell Street
Bay Front
F. G. Touart
Gallior Iron Company
Willie Smee
Superintendent of Roads
Fishers’ Alley
Chinquepin Street
Wilmer
Irvington
Dog River
William Jackson
Cedar ‘Point Road
Resolution Passes On Naval Holiday Proposal
The House approved the Hensley resolution urging President Wilson to cooperate with Winston Churchill's one year international naval holiday plan. The vote was 317 to 11, with Moore's substitute failing 184 to 40.
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House of Representatives
Hobson
Washington
House
Hensley
Wilson
United States
Winston Churchill
Alabama
Battleships of Atlantic Fleet Split at Sea
Vessels of the Atlantic fleet separated at noon in latitude 35 45 north longitude 38 06 west. The Kansas Ohio and Connecticut head to Vera Cruz Mexico via Guantanamo while others continue toward United States. The fleet lies about 8 000 miles from Guantanamo Bay and 2 600 miles from New York.
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United States
Wyoming
San Miguel
Agates
Kansas
Ohio
Connecticut
Vera, Cruz
Mex
Guantanamo
United
Guantanamo Bay
New York
Federal river improvement plans seek 1916 funding
The chief of engineers requests 41.49 million dollars for river and harbor projects for the year ending June 30, 1915, including Alabama estimates for the Alabama Coosa Mobile and Tombigbee systems, Florida harbor and river works, and Mississippi River works amid broader national needs.
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Washington
Mississippi River
Ohio River
Missouri River
Columbia River
Delaware River
Army
Congress
United States
Insular
Alabama
Florida
Mississippi
Coosa River
Rome
Mobile Harbor
Mobile Bar
Black ,Warrior
Warrior
Tombigbeg
Tombigbee River
Mobile Bay -Mississippi Sound
Fernandina
Apalachicola Bay
Apalachicola
St. Andrews Bay
Chétawhatchee
Holmes River
Santa Rosa Sound
Blackwater
Escambia
Conecuh
Lake Crescent
Dunn’s Creek
Dr Terrill Arrested Again Over Diphtheria Case
After a Mobile County Medical Society session, Dr J D Terrill was arrested on a warrant by Health Officer Dr P J M Acker for failing to report a diphtheria death. He posted $150 bond and appeared in court, having criticized the prosecutor at the meeting.
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Mobile County Medical Society
J. D. Terrill
Society
Terrell
P. J.M. Acker
Terrill
Annie Bell Talbert
Reake
Medical Society
Alabama Methodist Conference backs prohibition drive
The Alabama Methodist Conference urges voters to support candidates favoring state and nationwide prohibition. It endorses the Alabama Anti-Saloon League, praises newspapers refusing liquor ads, and nominates Revs. H. H. McNeill and W. P. Dickinson as trustees. The resolution emphasizes church-led efforts against the liquor trade and alignment with temperance groups.
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Montgomery
Ala
Methodists of
Alabama
The
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Andalusia
Florida
Alabama Methodist Conference
H .H. McNeill
Opelika
Alabama Anti- Ye and Ite Nation
Wesley
Methodist Church
Alabama Anti-Saloon League
Brooks Lawrence
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
H. H. McNeill
W. P. Dickinson
Evans Denies Resignation From Tax Commission
Special to Item reports there is no truth to a claim that Judge A A Evans will resign from the state tax commission. The piece notes it is expected that John B Powell may resign, likely on New Year’s, though his letter has not reached the governor’s office.
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Montgomery
Ala
A. A. Evans
State Tax Commission
John B. Powell
Tax Commission
German Dirigible Reaches Safe Haven in Hamburg
The Sachsen dirigible arrived in Hamburg Germany today after a perilous overnight in the open at Quirkborn about 20 miles north. The craft was escorted and then brought to a secure position in the port.
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Safe Haven
Associated Press
Hamburg
Ger
Sachsen
Quirkborn
Copelee
Indictments Named in Smuggling Case Tie Oberkirch and Shirley
A federal grand jury reported sixteen indictments from twenty four cases in the southern district of Alabama. Charles W. Oberkirch and Harold Shirley, shipping masters, are indicted for shanghaiing Emmett Smith and McLaurin Clarke aboard the Tilesian ship Mincio. Thor Strom and Nils Thomas, seamen on the Cratheus, are charged with smuggling three Chinese into the United States. Later, Shirley faced a hearing and Oberkirch awaited grand jury action.
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Federal Grand Jury
United States District Court For
Southern District of Alabama
Charles W. Oberkirch
Harold Shirley
Shanghaling
Emmett Smith
McLaurin Clarke
Columbus, Ga
Mincio
South America
Shirley
United States
Richard Jones, Jr
Thor Strom
Nils Thomas
Cratheus
Seeberg Line
Ea A
Jeph HW
Tandte Ing
Serrata
Winn Hangere Son
Washington County
T. J. Young
Mobile
T. A. Hamilton
Mobile County
G. F. Ray
Baldwin County
A. W. Strickland
Choctaw County
A. G. Cochran
A. B. Tennant
Escambia County
O. T. Arnold
Osborne Buholn
D. J. Brady
John Brown
Prescott Parker
W. N. Long
N. T. Gaskin
Conecuh County
R. A. Sadler
William E. Brannon
Charles B. Henley
Clarke County
Ernest Planck
W. BE. England
Toul
Second Trip to Dawes Delights Mobile Visitors
Mobile county's Orange Belt near Mann Station and Dawes drew about seventy-five excursionists on a Sunday trip via the Mobile & Bay Shore railroad. They viewed the Dawes Plateau and Kroner’s Satsuma trees, learned of potential cultivation, and watched the cooperative syrup mill in action as visitors toured the area.
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Mobile County
Mobile
Mann Sattion
Dawes
Satsuma
Mobile & Bay Shore Railroad
Dews Plateau
Kroner
Passengers Of Abandoned Motor Boat Missing
The cabin cruiser launch Berly S. from Mobile was towed into Pensacola by a fishing schooner after being found adrift 100 miles off shore in the Gulf of Mexico. It bore signs of explosion or fire damage on the side, yet no reason for abandonment was determined.
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Associated Press
Pensacola
Fila
B&erly S
Mobile
Gulf of Mexico
Missing crew on Beverly S sparks Mobile Pensacola search
Nick Gould and Hogan, reputed Millionaire, were aboard the Beverly S which left Mobile for Pensacola with a third passenger. The launch’s crew and timing are in dispute as missing persons follow reports of a return to Mobile and a later sighting.
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Nick Gould
Mobile Marine
Beverly
Abo
Mobile
Pensacola
William T. Smith
Smit Sons Lumber Company
Holt, Fila
Nellie P
Tar. Fish & Oyster Company
Beverly S
Wea
Athan Clarence Evans
Iture Company
Mr. Smith
Meyer Indictment Rumors Surface Over Bankruptcy Case
Rumors persist that Morris Meyer, former Mobile liquor wholesaler, has been indicted by the federal grand jury for violating bankruptcy laws. A Referee in Bankruptcy R T Ervin led a lengthy hearing on assets and schedules. officials would not confirm the indictment.
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Morris Meyer
Mobile
R. T. Ervin
Meyer
Bertrand Wiel
Alexandria
Ervin
Meeca
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Swanson
County
Shell Road
J. M. Sconyers
Oakdale
Atlantic
Connectcut
Vera Cruz
Chief of Engineers
Secretary of War
DR. Terrill
Temperance Committee
Anti-Saloon League
Lawrence
W. P
Evans
Oberkirch and
Crathens
Chamber of Commerce
Launch Left Mobile
Lower Bay
West
Frisco
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