Nine past masters honored with lodge jewels
Athlestan Lodge of Masons presented solid gold Masonic jewel emblems to nine past masters including Elliott B. Rickardy and John Mitchell at a social gathering attended by several hundred. The ceremony featured music, a stereopticon display, and remarks by Past Master R L Douglas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athlestan Lodge of Masons
Elliott B. Rickardy
Jold Temperance Hall
Frank B. Aunsjpaugh
John E. Mitchell
John D. Wilkins
Myron T. Sprague
Mark S. Andrews
Richard A. Christian
Charles 8. Shawhan
A. “Hancock
Robert L. Douglas
Mr. Douglas
8. Gaillard
Had
Mas
J. W. Cox
Jubél
von Weber
W. Evans
B. L. Tam
C. B. Hervey
W. S. Stewart, Jr
George B. Crossland
A. BE. Thayer
J. Leslie Taylor
T. H. Halliwell
Tom Hallett
R. L. Douglas
Lodge
T. H. Johnstone
All Saints Episcopal Church
Prendergast Cleared On Perjury Charge In City Court
Notary public Frank Prendergast was acquitted in the recorder's court of perjury linked to a police seizure of 12 cases of whisky on a wagon driven by Thomas Ross. State chief witness Thad Keyland refused to testify, claiming self incrimination. Forgery charge against Prendergast was taken under advisement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank
Prendergast
Recorder’s Court
Thomas Ross
Ross
Thad Keyland
Keyland
Wanderer Led to Police Court in Humorous City Tale
Lee Williams a colored man faced Mobile court after asking directions to 750 Dauphin street. A bottle package he carried was found to contain liquor, but the court released him. Another man, Joseph Hayward, was charged after a box of ties vanished at Simon Clothing, later found in his pocket. He received a $4 fine for road construction duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee Williams
Mobile
Lee
Recorder
James McGinnis
Dauphin
Scott Streets
Dauphin Street
Ami
Joe Hayward
Joseph
Simon Clothing Company
Joe
Jedge
Dar
Ali
United States Demands Clear Answer on Ancona Incident
Washington reports Vienna’s reply to the Ancona note remains incomplete and unsatisfactory. Officials fear a weak or evasive response could threaten U S Austro-Hungarian diplomatic relations while awaiting full text and presidential review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. 8S
Washington
State Department
Vienna
Austria
Ancona
Lansing
United States
Ambassador Penfield
Wilson
London
British order for 10 000 aeroplane guns awarded
The Griggs Seabury Ordnance Company closed a contract with the British government for 10,000 aeroplane guns, announced today. Remnant married Walter Loyd of Martin's Ferry in Cleveland, reported by the Martin's Ferry News.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sharon
Griggs- Seabury Ordnance Company
Ima Remnant
Walter Loyd
Martin's Ferry
Cleveland
Martin’s Ferry
Ohio
Children to Build Old Spanish Trail Highway
The Old Spanish Trail Association asks gulf coast school children from New Orleans to Tampa to plant flowers and trees along the route to promote the highway. The proposal calls for children to join as foundation builders, with five state responses required to advance the plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gulf Coast
New Orleans
Tampa
Ocean
Old Spanish Trail Association
America
Mobile
Pensacola
Tallahassee
High Labor Official Involved In Probe
New York December 15 authorities disclose a high official of a major international union is deeply entangled in the United States Attorney Marshall inquiry into the Franz von Rintelen conspiracy to incite strikes in munitions plants. The man, of German descent, played a leading role in Bridgeport strikes last spring and in the 12 000 worker walkout at General Electric in Schenectady. The grand jury questioning of Samuel Gompers AFL president was paused until he could appear. Gompers has arrived in Washington and was summoned to New York.
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New York
America
United States
Marshall
Franz von Rintelen
Bridgeport
Conm
General Electric Company
Schenectady
N. Y
Swann to prosecute fake advertisement publishers in New York
Judge Edward Swann, newly elected district attorney of New York county, prepares prosecutions of those who published fraudulent advertisements. Reports from Justice Department agents into the Hopewell Va fire say it was not the work of an incendiary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Edward Swann
New York County
Washington—C. CC
McChord
Interstate Commerce Commission
Wilson
Washington
Department of Justice
Hopewell
Florida Route of Old Spanish Trail Still Undecided
Pensacola led a meeting of the Old Spanish Trail group to back a gulf coast highway but a one million dollar bond for the Escambia river bridge was postponed for a year. West Florida backed Pensacola. county officials delayed the bond, delaying Escambia bay bridging and leaving the route unresolved while Florida directors decide the highway’s fate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pensacola
Mobile
Escambia River
West Florida
Tallahassee
Milton
Escambia County
Escambia Bay
Escambia
Forida
Florida
Deaths and Funerals for Amos Yeates Bishop and Others
The community records funeral services for William S Amos at 3:30 and 4 from the family home and Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception with Fr E C Gerow and Fr B J Hackett officiating. Mrs Mary Alice Yeates is buried at Pine Crest Cemetery with pallbearers William Tell Henry Caton and others. Mrs Julia C Bishop died and was buried at Mia Cemetery with pallbearers John Cowley Arthur D Davis and six more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William S. Amos
South
Hamilton Street
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
E. C. Gerow
B. J. Hackett
D. P. Baker
Daniel Crowley
E. J. Flournoy
G. J. Flournoy
M. A. Yeates
Mary Alice Yeates
Meridian
Miss
Pine Crest Cemetery
Charles A. Yeates
Spring Hill Avenue
D. Y. Register
Oakdale Methodist Church
William Tell
Henry Caton
F. A. Bolander
Ralph Knowles
Charles Webb
J. C. Bishop
R. A. Pearce
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
Spring Hill
Julia C. Bishop
Emile Ortmann
Mia Cemetery
W Flowers
John Cowley
Arthur D. Davis
William H.olcombe
Frank Hemley
W. T. Hieronymus
D. T. Gimon
Mrs Eva Ingersoll Minge Dies in New Orleans Widow of Collier Minge
Mrs Eva Ingersoll Minge widow of Collier Harrison Minge died after a brief illness at her New Orleans home. Her husband died ten days earlier and was buried December 6. Survived by three daughters Mrs Richard Walford Shreveport Mrs John Gatling and Miss Ingersoll Minge Mississippi City and son C H Minge Jr Greensboro N C. Body arrived Mobile and burial set Magnolia Cemetery Roche Burke in charge. Family accompanied the body. Mrs Minge once lived here.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eva Ingersoll Minge
Harrison Minge
New Orleans
Collier Harrison Minge
Moule
Minge
Richard Walford
Shreveport
John Gatling
Ingersoll Minge
Mississippi City
Miss
C. H. Minge
Sjr
Greensboro
N. C
Obituary notices for Mrs. C F Zundel and Mrs. Jennie Graham
Mobile obituary notices report the sudden death of Mrs. C F Zundel age 38 in Mobile at her sister’s home with funeral details in Mobile and Crichton. Separate notice for Mrs. Jennie Graham age 62 notes long Mobile life, church involvement and family, with services at her Highland avenue home and First Christian Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jennie Graham
Graham
Cahaba
Ala
Mobile
First Christian Church
Ladies’ Aid Society
Purity Rebekah Lodge No. 35
Noble Grand
W. P. Ward
T. F. Hodges
Edgar E. Graham
J. M. Graham
Chicago
Nellie Bailey
Vernado
T. E
la Point
Selma
John M. Nielen
Portland
A. H. Niolon
Meridian
Miss
Highland Avenue
South Spring Hill
Crichton
Rebekahs
Fruit Packing Progress Reported by Gulf Coast Citrus Leader
Dr O F E Winberg president of the Gulf Coast Citrus Exchange and W H Reynolds toured the Dawes and Theodore districts on Wednesday afternoon. He said fruit packing and shipping work proceeds steadily and that Congress should provide a large enough appropriation for a nationwide citrus canker fight to protect Gulf Coast industry from external contamination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dawes
Theodore
O. F. E. Winberg
Gulf Coast Citrus Exchange
W. H. Reynolds
Congress
Message to Thin Weak Scrawny Folks Promotes Fat-Building Tablets
An advertisement extols Sargol as a popular flesh-building agent to help thin people gain weight. It urges using emulsified fats and digestive aid to absorb oils, claiming tablets with meals will build body mass and reverse wasting. The piece cites drugstores in Alabama and elsewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erica
Ene
Hotel Men Choose Mobile for Next Alabama Meeting
Alabama Hotel Men's Association adjourned after one of its most successful meetings selecting Mobile as the next convention city to be held in July. The December session will be in Cohen to fight liquor business. Sheriff Waller issued an ultimatum against private mail order whisky supply. Peanut product rates cut as ACL and Mobile and Ohio RR announce 100 percent reductions. Virginia Vanderbilt football game date moved to October 28 in Nashville to allow Virginia to face Harvard in Cambridge on November 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Hotel Men’s Association
Mobile
Cohen
Waller
Alabama Public Service Commission
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company
Mobile and Ohio Railroad
Harvard
Charlottesville
Vanderbilt
Nashville
Commodores
Virginia
Cambridge
Dealer Arrested for Smoking on Municipal Wharf
Dave Streiffer, marine supplies dealer, was arrested Wednesday afternoon by Special Officer Levi D. Gibson of the Mobile and Ohio for smoking on the municipal wharf. Streiffer will be arraigned Thursday afternoon before the recorder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dave Streiffer
Levi D. Gibson
Mobile
Ohio
Streiffer
Recorder
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Lawrence
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Imperial Royal Navy
Washington Cabinet
Berlin
Penfield
Ite
Bnit
Merino
Spring Hill College
Parlor C
Battle House
Lawrence Lavretta
Jas. E. Duggan
Paramount Feature
Charlotte Walker
Jesse L. Lasky
Eva J. Minge
C. F. Zundel
Marie Louise Konstanzer Zundel
Charles F. Zundel
Sigmund Schettler
St. Anthony Street
Baden
Germany
Jacob Konstanzer
Antan
W. S. Kellar
Alabama
Keller
Jasper
Capitol
Walker County
Gabriel
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Waterman’s
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