Port officials probe tug charges and graft claim
Mobile port investigation hears Thomas W. Sims deny graft remarks as pilots and masters discuss tug extra pay and towing practices. Hargrove, Carrell, Hartwell testify on pilot earnings and possible reforms while sessions plan further hearings with towage and pilotage interests.
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Thomas W. Sims
Chamber of Commerce
Sims
Harry T. Hartwell
Mobile Towing and Wrecking Company
Hartwell
Rich
H. L.hargrove
Bar Pilots’ Association
Hargrove
Carrell
W. C. Carrell
Mobile Bar Pilots’ Association
Rule In Lyons Contest Seen As Non decisive
Lawyer Harry T. Smith says the supreme court rule nisi in Pat J. Lyons election contest only allows a hearing and does not pre determine merits. He warns public sentiment in newspapers cannot sway court decisions and vows to present evidence and rely on judicial process. The public will learn the charges in court.
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Supreme Court
Pat J. Lyons
Harry T. Smith
Bandit Capture Ties to Allied Escape Plot in Memphis
Memphis detectives raided the Wallace home and arrested Frank Holloway gang leader along with Brantley Mitchell and Luther B Wallace. Kinney Bergen was killed. Deggs Nolen was being moved from Savannah to Omaha. Nolen’s rescue plot failed after detectives redirected the transfer route.
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Memphis
Tenn
Atlanta
Birmingham
Frank Holloway
Brantley Mitchell
Luther B
Tex
Nolen
Savannah
Omaha
Neb
Roper
Holloway
Union Station
E. H. Clump
R. A. Utley
Ernest T. Nolen
Memphis Police Department
Deggs Nolen
Texas Penitentiary
Wallace
Brantley
Body of Gabrielle Eude Found in Fontainbleau Forest
The body of Gabrielle Eude, daughter of a retired surgeon general, was found in Fontainbleau forest three days after she disappeared on October 10. A railroad ticket to St Quentin was found on the body, fueling theories of elopement or distress, with family noting her reserved nature.
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Versailles
Fontainbleau
Gabrielle Eude
St. Quentin
Paris
Mlle. Eude
Governor O'Neal Returns to Montgomery Tonight
Governor O'Neal will return to Montgomery tonight after a ten day absence. He attended the governor's conference at Richmond then went to Washington where he conferred and dined with President Taft with other state executives. On Sunday he visited his son at Annapolis where he is a naval academy cadet.
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Montgomery
Ala
O'Neal
Richmond
Washington
Taft
Annapolis
Naval Academy
Purported Cure ORRINE Promises Alcohol Habit Help
An advertisement offers ORRINE as a liquor habit remedy for wives and mothers to save husbands or sons from drink. It describes two forms a tasteless powder hidden in food and a voluntary pill version, priced at $1 per box, with a money back guarantee and a free booklet. For sale by Dave S. Bauer in Dauphin and Conception.
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Orrine
Dave S. Bauer
Dauphin
Conception
Million Blaze in Cincinnati
Firefighters battled smouldering ruins at the Gibson Hotel Bendigs-Lothmann department store and upper Union Trust building in Cincinnati. Losses were estimated at 800000 to 1000000. Nine injured, no deaths, many residents saved by rescuers. Fire started in falsework of Gibson Hotel during reconstruction. torch or bonfire blamed.
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Cincinnati
Gibson
Bendigs-Lothmann
W. L. Douglas Shoe
Union Trust
Gibson Hotel
Strikebreakers Debate in Southern League Congress
Atlanta ga dec 11 that strike breakers should not be transported across state lines to replace strikers and seek better wages or conditions and that intrastate traffic be prohibited. A resolution with this aim is set for consideration at the southeastern league congress as 237 delegates attend the conference and plan to formalize the organization.
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Atlanta
Southeastern League Congress
Groom shoots sister in law on wedding trip
Miss Maud Nichols of Fort Meyers, Fla., was shot and fatally wounded in Tampa by R. Percy Jones, a Fort Meyers lawyer on his honeymoon. He allegedly believed she took money. Jones was arrested and held without bail.
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Tampa
Fla
Jones
Miss Nicholls
Misses Nicholls
Fort Meyers
Nebraska City
Neb
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Mobile
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Partridge-Mickle Grocery Company
Jos. Patt
Germany
United States
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Fort Meyers, Fla
Tutt’s
Crichton Lumber Co
Roche
Burke
Northeast Corner
St. Joseph
State Streets
North Royal St
Power Gribble
Boz
Lebanon
Cedarcroft Sanitarium
The
Bank of Mobile
National Banking Association
Simon
Dauphin & Conception
Mobile Daily Item
Abraham Lincoln
Cevreanen
Ieee
Tissot
Cardinal Gibbons
Farley
Sir
Mobile’s
United Fruit CO
Dé. J. Kelleher
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New Orleans
Brick & Coal CO
Bell
ST. Francis
OUR Bon Secour Oysters
Southern Hotel Buffet
E. Cor
Harry Horlock
Prop
Harrison Mutual Burial Association
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Dauphin Street
Tairs
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