ELS WILL OPEN HTH ORLEANS
Tennessee December 16 Mobile team will begin home season with New Orleans on April 12 under Southern League opening plan. Other games set for Atlanta Birmingham and Little Rock. H Baugh of Birmingham unanimously reelected league president despite reports. Clyde Shire mentioned as candidate. presidency not clarified. Player limit raised to fifty. no salary increase. Schedule set for 154 games with committee to draft details Saturday. Frank T Parker represents Mobile at meeting.
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Frank T. Parker
R to Be Destroyed Endants Released
Werneth, Morris Brooks and crews charged with inhibiting law violations faced trials. Prohibited liquor raiding cases led to the destruction of liquor and discharge for B. A chauffeur, Yost, was fined ten days for reckless driving after a collision at Conception and is streets. Kinch fined $5 for milk violation. Finch fined $25 for possession with allegations of transferring milk in the street.
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B’ Werneth
Morris Brooks
Crews
Met
Fee
Yost
Conception
Sion
Gray
Fire Threat At 69 Michael Street Quelled By Fire Department
A Friday night blaze at 69 Michael Street drew the entire fire department after an arm from Box 18 on Royal Francis streets was summoned. The fire broke out in a second floor opied room adjoining Rich & Hamilton law offices but was extinguished with minor damage.
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Royal Francis Streets
Michael Street
Law of of Rich & Hamilton
Caplan Found Guilty in Los Angeles Times Explosion Case
A jury in Los Angeles convicted David Caplan of manslaughter for complicity in the 1910 Los Angeles Times explosion that killed twenty people. He faces one to ten years in prison. sentencing is set for Monday, with a motion for a new trial already announced.
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Los Angeles
David Caplan
Los Angeles Times
Caplan
Hair pin production halted in Britain amid nonwar controls
Daily News correspondent reports Britain bans metal use in non war goods and halts new production of women hair pins. Four arrested in connection with labor unrest and deaths in 1910 are named as James B. and John J. McNamara face charges and pled guilty. Both brothers receive long sentences and remain at San Quentin.
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Associated Press
London
The
Daily News
Charles Hagerty
James B. McNamara
John J
International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
Llewellyn Iron Works
John J. McNamara
San Quentin Penitentiary
Soldier Smith to meet Shaughnessy on Monday
Soldier Jesse Smith will box Pete Shaughnessy Monday night at 8 30 oclock at Temperance Hall under the auspices of the Business Men's Athletic Club. Both boxers are popular in Mobile and a fast boxing exhibition is promised with six rounds and two fast preliminaries.
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Business Men's Athletic Club
Temperance Hall
Pete Shaughnessy
Jesse Smith
Soldier Smith
Denny
New Orleans
Shaughnessy
Mobile
Troop Train Wreck Injures Eight at Grapeland Texas
A special Iowa field artillery troop train carrying Batteries A and C from Brownsville to mustering out left the track one mile north of Grapeland Texas. Eight soldiers were injured and taken to a Palestine hospital. 326 men aboard helped clear wreckage and are expected to recover.
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Grapeland
Texas
Iowa Field Artillery
Brownsville
Palestine
Former bank officer of New York sentenced to five years
Henry J. Dorgelch, ex assistant cashier at the Coal and Iron National Bank in New York, was sentenced to five years in the Atlanta federal penitentiary. He pled guilty to stealing a $20 847 bank check tied to alleged stock speculation totaling $92 000. Use of bank funds in stock dealing was charged.
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New York
Henry J. Dorgelch
Coal and Iron National Bank
Federal
Atlanta
President and Mrs Wilson Dined by Vice President Marshall
The president and Mrs Wilson were entertained at dinner last night by the vice president and Mrs Marshall in Washington. Other guests included members of the Senate and friends of the vice president. It was the first formal entertainment of the season away from the White House attended by the president.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wilson
Marshall
Senate
White House
National League Plans to Cut Out Bleacher Seats
The National League moves to abolish the 25 cent bleacher seat with a gradual shift in cities where these seats exist. New York and Brooklyn have begun reductions, while Philadelphia St Louis and Cincinnati will raise most cheap seats to 50 cents next season. President Ebbetts of Brooklyn leads the push to boost revenue and reduce costs to keep clubs solvent.
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New York
Belacher
National League
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Ebbetts
National League Proposes Salary Cut and World Series Rule Changes
Before adjournment magnates urged unanimous retrenchment of players salaries as several clubs escrowed over 100000 last season. Plans drafted by Sterrman and Tener would set player stipends in the series and share receipts with higher finishers to boost second division interest, with final approval likely in February.
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National League
August Sterrman
Tener
Safe conduct granted for Tarnowski to travel from London
The entente powers decide to grant safe conduct to Count Tarnowski von Tarnow, newly appointed Austro Hungarian ambassador to the United States, following American government representations. The foreign office confirms and informs American ambassador Walter H. Page.
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London
Count Tarnowski von Tarnow
United States
Foreign Office
Walter H. Page
Pershing Raised to Major General Title News
Washington December 16. President Wilson nominates Winthrop M. Daniels to another term on the Interstate Commerce Commission. Brigadier General John J. Pershing in Mexico is nominated for promotion to major general along with colonels Eben Swift Francis H French Edwin St J Greble and Charles G Treat also nominated to brigadier general.
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Associated Press
Washington
Winthrop M. Daniels
New Jersey
Wilson
Interstate Commerce Commission
John J. Pershing
Mexico
Eben Swift
Francis H. French
Edwin St. J. Greble
Charles G. Treat
Psychological Society Meeting in Mobile This Sunday
The Psychological Society of Mobile will meet Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Cawthon Hotel. All interested in psychology are invited. Dr. Lewis Edelman will read a paper on Mental Evolution followed by a general discussion.
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Psychological Society of Mobile
Cawthon Hotel
Lewis Edelman
Candy and cake making in Italy forbidden
Rome decree bans two week manufacture of candies and cake and their post or rail transport. It also forbids hotels from serving meals with more than one meat course. The order aims to curb Christmas dainties sent to front line soldiers. Sir Ian Hamilton is noted as a prolific war poet using several pen names.
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Rome
Paris
Death of Atlanta man sparks murder mystery
T B Ashford 37 a prominent Atlanta businessman was found unconscious in a fashionable street area at Peach Tree and Fourteenth. He died from injuries with only a head abrasion as a clue. Dr H Ashford his father offered a 500 dollar reward for the arrest and conviction of the slayer.
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T. B. Ashford
Peachtree
Fourteenth Streets
H. Ashford
Ashford Trunk and Bag Company
Ashford
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