National Progressive meeting shifts toward publicity
Oscar R. Hundley of Alabama claimed Alabama has two Lorimer senators and accused the Republican party of Cain branding at a Progressive love feast in Chicago. The gathering planned executive sessions on finances and propaganda, while editors discussed wider publicity and party magazines. Roosevelt spent the day in his room and attended a women’s Progressive luncheon with Mrs John F. Bass and Miss Jane Addams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Alabama
Lorimer
Republican Party
Cain
Oscar R. Hundley
National Committee
Roosevelt
Women’s Progressive Party
John F. Bass
Jane Addams
Idaho
Capital City News
Farmers Should Follow Up Work After Chicago Land Show
Inspector Ibach of the Farm Bureau urges Mobile county farmers to send yams to Chicago to sustain the demonstrations and meet rising demand. He warns Mississippi farmers may seize the opportunity if Mobile growers do not continue the effort despite the extra costs already spent by the local commercial organization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ibach
Farm Bureau
Chamber of Commerce and Business League
Mobile County
Chicago
Mobile
Mississippi
Mobile Commercial
Americans Seek Protecting Hand in Mexican Arms Trade
W S Pence H S Stephenson and E K Warren protested to the state department against US restrictions on arms exports to Mexico. They testified before Senate Committee led by William Alden Smith, arguing easing bans would aid both sides. officials cited neutrality rules and possible amendments or withdrawal of the proclamation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
W. S. Pence
Chicago
H. S. Stephenson
Los Angeles
E. K. Warren
Three Oaks
Mich
Mexico
State Department
United States
Madero
Orozco
Senate
William Alden Smith
Tragic Shooting In Nashville Leaves Hartsville Teen Fatally Wounded
Les ter Gammons, 19, of Hartsville, was accidentally shot in Nashville by Stanley Austin, a messenger boy, with a 44 caliber pistol. The bullet entered above the left eye and pierced the brain as the pair played with the weapon on a bed. Austin made attempts to secure the pistol after the blast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
Tenn
Lester Gammons
Hartsville
Stanley Austin
Austin
Efficiency Week at Railway Shops Highlights Health Talks
Health Week events at Louisville and Nashville railroad shops feature Dr. F Marion Inge discussing malaria prevention under Y M C A auspices. Earlier talks by Dr. Hastings and other physicians draw strong attendance as moving pictures on health are shown at Lyric Theatre and vaudeville venues.
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Louisville and Nashville Railroad
F. Marion Inge
Whistler
W. W. Hastings
Battle Creek
Mich
Inge
Lyric Theatre
Health League
Vaudeville Playhouse
Red Cross
Edison
Lake George
New York
Barton Academy
Jackson Street
DeWitte UC
Gordon
Catholic Church Planned for Crichton Neighborhood
A 240 by 160 foot tract at Spring Hill Road and Item Avenue will host a new Catholic church early next year. Men of the prospective parish have formed a fundraising drive, with 80 local Catholic families currently attending St. Marys on Lafayette Street. The plan includes a frame church with a later rectory, serving from St. Marys for about a year until a pastor is appointed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spring Hill Road
Item Avenue
St. Marys
Lafayette Street
St. Mary’s Church
New Anti-Trust Bill Aims to Stop Local Price Cutting
Washington Dec 11 Price cutting by monopolies or combinations to drive competitors out of business will be studied by the senate committee on interstate commerce. Senator Clapp introduced a measure urging a single plan to prevent interstate corporations from selling goods at different prices in one locality unless freight rates justify the variation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Committee On Interstate Commerce
Senate
Clapp
Hyde Given Chance to Prove Innocence
Charles H. Hyde former city chamberlain was sentenced by Justice Goff to prison for bribery in city funds a term not more than three years six months and not less than two years. A certificate of reasonable doubt and stay of execution were granted with bail set at 25000 pending appeal arguments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Charles H. Hyde
Goff
Cochrane Elected to Mobile County School Board
John J. Cochrane was chosen Wednesday as a member of the Mobile County School Board succeeding F. R. Peterson who resigned to pursue business. The board also reimposed a $2 high school fee and heard a report on the History of Mobile manuscript.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Tr. Cochrane
Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railroad
Mobile Chamber of Commerce and Business League
Mobile County School Board
Cochrane
F. R. Peterson
Peterson
Mobile
Vicinity
Peter J. Hamilton
W. T. McGlowin
D. T. McCall
Dorlon
County School Board
County School
R. A. Savage
D. T. Gimon
Vigor
Brannon’s
Murphy
Leinkauf School
Rawls
Marechal
Country
DeGrange
St.Elmo
Springhill
Country School
Gulfcrest
Fowriver
Delchamps
Prosser
Fowle River
Finance
J. Blocher Thornton
W. T. McGowin
Oklahoma Governor weighs militia over Delaware county seat clash
Governor Cruce awaits updates on possible militia order to Jay as Delaware county seat location spurs threatened clashes. Authorities report a near-violent confrontation a day earlier and broken telephone lines hinder communications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Okla
Cruce
Jay
Delaware County
Special Venire Illegally Drawn in Mobile Court
Defense wins. Judge Semmes voids the special venire in Dave Howard case for Charley Lewis killing. Pryper service lacked. case reset to January 2. New order requires juror summons details and proper two day prior delivery to residences or places of business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dave Howard
Charley Lewis
Thomas’ Store
O. J. Semmes
Leigh and
Chamberlain
Leigh
Semmes
Mobile
British Vessel Sinks Small Steamer Osprey
The small salvage steamer Osprey from Waterford, Ireland, was believed sunk in the English Channel yesterday by the British battleship Centurion. The vessel carried eight navigators and was due to arrive at Weymouth yesterday morning.
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Weymouth
Eng
Centurion
English
Osprey
Waterford
Ireland
Properties of Southern Steel and Iron to be sold in bankruptcy
Properties of the Southern Steel and Iron Company will be sold at public auction on the courthouse steps January 31 by decree of B H Dryer referee in bankruptcy. The sale marks the first step toward reorganizing the company under the Bowron trustee petition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Southern Steel and Iron Company
Court House
B. H. Dryer
James Bowron
Death of Mrs M B Day at Natchez is reported
Mrs Mary Boaz Schester Day died of heart failure in Natchez Mississippi on Tuesday at age seventy She leaves two sisters a brother six children twenty six grandchildren and eight great grandchildren Her sisters are Mrs Martha Clark and Miss Hen rietta Boaz of Memphis Tennessee She was a native of Saxony.
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M. B
Natchez
Miss
Mary Boaz Schester
Martha Clark
Henrietta Boaz
Memphis
Tenn
Saxony
Stock Exchange Transactions Revealed By Committee
Lawrence W. Scudder presented 1906 to date tables showing turnover in fourteen active stocks. Reading's capital stock turned over about 30.9 times yearly, US Steel about 5.6 times, with Union Pacific at 16 percent of sales since the Equitable Building fire. The testimony follows earlier notes on clearing-house charges and out-of-town collections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
New York Stock Exchange
House Money Trust
Lawrence W. Scudder
Samuel Untermyer
Scme
Stock Exchange
Clearing House
Untermyer
Frew
W. E. Frew
F. K. Lister
New York Clearing House
Inland Exchange Committee
Committee On Inland Exchange
Frank A. Vanderlip
New York
Vanderlip
Mr. Frew
Mr. Untermyer
Reading
Scudder
Commissiona
United States Steel Corporation
Union Pacific
Equitable
Vagrancy and gaming fines levied in inferior court
Anna Lawson Bessie Summerville Ruby Smith Ruby Braxton Susie Scott were fined five dollars or ten days in jail for vagrancy in the inferior criminal court. Will Safford Louis Adams Vince Boykin and Jesse Nack were fined one dollar or ten days for gambling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Lawson
Bessie Summerville
Ruby Smith
Ruby Braxton
Susie Scott
Inferior
Henry Chamberlain
Will Safford
Louis Adams
Vince Boykin
Jesse Nack
Decatur Car Wheel Works Sold to New Company
Announcement from Birmingham reports the Decatur Car Wheel Works with plants in Birmingham Atlanta and Savannah has been sold. W. J. Morrison and W. M. Nubert sold their interests. C. T. Esdale remains general manager and changes in operations will be made. President of the new company is S. P. Pryor of St. Louis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Decatur Car Wheel Works
Birtingham
Atlanta
Savannah
AT PANAMA CONFERENCE DELEGATES VISIT ATLANTA
Vice President and General Manager R V Taylor and Foreign Freight Agent J S Taylor of the Mobile and Ohio are among delegates at the Panama Canal Conference in Atlanta on Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama
R. V. Taylor
J. S. Taylor
Mobile and Ohio
Atlanta
Fair Directors to Meet Over Recent Exposition
Directors of the Mobile and Tropical Exposition are called to meet Thursday at noon to discuss important matters connected with the recent fair.
Day in Congress Sets Timetable for Antitrust Reforms
The Interstate Commerce Committee will convene to draft anti trust laws while the Omnibus Claims Bill is scheduled for action. Ways and Means outlines tariff hearing dates as New York bankers testify before the Money Trust Committee and New Haven inquiries move forward in Rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ways and Means Committee
New York
Money Trust Committee
New Haven
Rules Committee
Spanish Naval Program Set with Dreadnoughts and Escorts
A Madrid dispatch says Spain will build three 21000 ton dreadnoughts, two destroyers, nine torpedo boats, and three submarines in Spanish yards. Construction starts after the battleship Alfonso XIII is launched at Ferrol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Madrid
Alfonso XIII
Ferrol
Carnival Association Meeting Set for Thursday Night
The Mobile Carnival Association will meet Thursday at 7 20 p m in Parlor C Battle House. Reports from committees will be received and plans for the 1913 carnival discussed. all members are urged to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile Carnival Association
Parlor C
Battle House
Three Mountaineers deny writing letters to Woodrow Wilson
Newark dispatch reports three men arrested in Dover New Jersey as suspects in writing threatening letters to president-elect Woodrow Wilson. Peter Dunn 24 and Jacob Dunn 26 are brothers, Seeley Davenport 42, all held as federal prisoners awaiting Monday preliminary examination. Jacob allegedly dictated the letters with misspellings and sent from a rural free delivery box. All three protested ignorance when arraigned.
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Newark
N. J
Dover
Woodrow Wilson
Peter
Jacob Dunn
Seeley Davenport
Post Office
Jacob
Wilson
Pleaded Statute of Limitations Intervenes in Bet Suit
In an inferior civil court Montgomery Thrower sued Peter McHale for 25 dollars from a January 1911 bet on whether England or France had more foreign investments. The court sustained the defendant's plea of six month statute after the bet, under Civil Code 1907 Section 3338.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery Thrower
Peter McHale
England
France
Demand for medical license issued in Mobile court
Thomas P. Russell of Gainstown Alabama, through attorneys G L and H T Smith, filed in Mobile County Circuit Court for a writ of mandamus to compel the State Board of Medical Examiners to issue a certificate to practice medicine after exam and payment of the fee. The writ targets Drs V P Gaines Mobile W H Sanders J L Watkins Glenn Andrews L W Johnstone Montgomery S W Welch Talladega D F Taley T L Roberson Birmingham M B Carven Butaw F C Gray Selma.
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Thomas P. Russell
Gainstown
Ala
G. L. and
H. T. Smith
Circuit Court of
Mobile County
State Board of Medical Examiners
Board of Examiners
Montgomery
Drs. V. P. Gaines
Mobile
W. H. Sanders
J. L. Watkins
Glenn Andrews
W. Johnstone
W. Welch
Talladega
D. F. Taley
T. L. Robertson
Birmingham
M. B. Carven Butaw F
Seay to Investigate Choctaw Lynching
Governor O Neal ordered a thorough inquiry into the lynching of Azariah Curtis in Choctaw county. Assistant Attorney General Howard Seay is expected to depart for Choctaw county to conduct the probe, though he declined to confirm plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
O'Neal
Azariah Curtis
Ghoctaw County
Howard Seay
Choctaw —County
Christmas Market Opens This Friday At German Relief Hall
The Christmas market hosted by the ladies of Christ Episcopal Church will open this Friday and run through Saturday in German Relief hall. Organizers report strong preparation and expect it to be an attractive shopping venue for customers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies of Christ Episcopal Church
German Relief Hall
Weather Outlook Across States Turns Colder Tonight
Alabama forecast shows rain and colder tonight with Thursday clearing in the north. Florida expects local rains tonight or Thursday with a colder northwest, while Mississippi trends cloudy in the north and rain in the south tonight, followed by a colder Thursday.
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Alabama
North
Florida
Mississippi
South
Cornelius Becomes Senate Sergeant at Arms After Ransdell
E. L. Cornelius, assistant sergeant-at-arms, was named sergeant-at-arms to succeed the late Col. Daniel M. Ransdell of Indianapolis, in a Washington ceremony on December 11.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
E. L. Cornelius
Senate
Col
Daniel M. Ransdell
Indianapolis
Allen Jury Still Out in Hillsville Court Killings
Wytheville Va Dec 11 The jury trying Sidna Allen of the Hillsville court room killings in Carroll county for the murder of Attorney Foster remained out at noon today with no prospect of settlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wytheville
Sidna Allen
Hillsville
Corrall County
Foster
Counterfeiters Nabbed in Braddock Home Raid
In Pittsburg Pennsylvania Dee 11 secret service agents arrested Giacinto de Carrio and his wife at their Braddock residence after confiscating one hundred counterfeit dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Dee
Giacinto de Carrio
Braddock
Secret Services
Death of James McCormick Prominent Seventh Ward Figure
James McCormick aged 51 died at his home 219 Davis Avenue after a long illness. A Mobile native, he was well known in Seventh ward political circles and is survived by relatives and many friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames M’cormick
James McCormick
Seventh Ward
Davis Avenue
Mobile
Ways and Means Sets Tariff Hearings Schedule
The Ways and Means Committee announced hearings on tariff revision with schedules A to N and a free list. Hearings run January 6 to January 29 in two daily sessions at 10 am and 2 pm. Applicants must file briefs and documents and provide details on testimony and time requested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ways Means Committee
Ways and Committee
Cochran shoots man amid suspicion in Ashburn melee
In Ashburn, J Cochran brother in law of Minnie Marchman shoots at Marion Cleghorn and Colie Cleghorn during a street encounter. Tan Cleghorn wounded Sunday night. Tuesday Cochran and Lee Marchman arrested, bonded, later released. Marion and Minnie’s death prompted toxicology tests. no poison found.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
Colie Cleghorn
Ashburn
Tan
Cochran
Marchman
Minnie Marchman
Clergymen Take Police Roles in Los Angeles
Six clergymen were sworn as officers in Los Angeles today with police stars. They are assigned to enforce juvenile laws and regulate dance halls. As members of the Juvenile Protection League they prosecute parents who neglect their children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Cal
Police Department
Women Eligible to Office in San Francisco
Dec 11. Women were granted the right to run for public office in San Francisco after the city election ratified an amendment to the charter. Of seven amendments on the ballot, all measures increasing city officials or taxes were decisively defeated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Womi
Adop
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Oscar Hundley
Progressive Party
Marion Inge
Catholic Church For
Crichton
Hyde
John J. Cochrane
John T. Cochrane
Mobile Chamber of Com
Ard
Special Venire
Howard
House
Corporation
Congress
Interstate Commerce Committee
Spanish Naval Program
Carnival Association
Thrower
McHale
Seay
Cornelius
ALLEN
Ways and Means
Hearing Hall
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