Justice case debated over jurisdiction and certiorari reach
A Mobile area case explores whether a justice of the peace had jurisdiction to try a suit and whether a writ of certiorari moved the matter to law and equity court required a full trial. The piece notes judges’ dicta on jurisdiction, abatement pleas, and reporting clarity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lemar Wa. Chandler
Acto Iage & Eens
Meys
E Hardeman
J. G. Bowen
Toulminville
Harde~m
Mitchell
Justice of the Peace
Justice Court
Berney
Law and
Equity Court
Law and Equity Court
Justices of the Peace
Chauffeur Fined for Striking Another Car
Richard Hughes a negro chauffeur was arraigned for injuring a man when he drove into Dr J C Olss car on October 27. He was fined 26 dollars or fifty days for speed and endangering life. Hughes appealed bond set at 160 dollars or aid with muffler cut out. was fined 65 dollars or ten days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Hughes
J. C.ols
Murphy
Hughes
Hes
Whipped for skating by orders of judge
A judge ordered discipline for boys seen skating around houses causing distress to residents. The action aimed to curb sidewalk skating and disturbances to sick or elderly neighbors, following parent complaints.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P Bell
Robert Smith
Martin Ph
Tenth anniversary of St Matthew's parish in Mobile
The article marks the tenth anniversary of St Matthew's church in Oakdale Mobile with New Year Day service at 7:10 led by Rev Father Dunne. It recounts history from founding on New Year’s Day, 1918, growth to 650 members, establishment of St Margaret's and St Peter's churches, land donations, debt progress, and parish activities including Sunday schools and the Lyceum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Matthew's Church
Oakdale
Ana Sone
Father Eee
Cromis
Itaene
Church Mobile
St. Matthew
St. Matthew's Parish
Edward P. Allen
Diocese of
Mobile
John W. Dunne
St. Vincent's Church
St. Matthew's
Dunne
South Cedar Point Road
Allen
Thomas Alonzo
Julia Russell
St. Margaret's
Mather Dunne
Fulton Road
Father Dunne
John
Donnié Gimon
Bishop Allen
St. Matthew’s
Spring Hill College
Alabama
Church of St. Matthew
Edward J. Hackett
Friends
St. Mattew
Church
Sisters of Charity of St
E Steiner
Slayers of Atmore Held for Manslaughter
John McGowan and Emanuel McGowan were arraigned in Crichton Inferior Criminal Court on December 10 night murder of James Atmore. Judge Chardberlain remanded them to the next grand jury under a five hundred dollar bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atmore
John McGowan
Emanuel McGowan
James Atmore
Crichton
Weers
Inferior Criminal Court
Chardberlain
Seema
Forgery Charge Against Birmingham Slavery Suspect
A warrant accuses Harry Davis of forging three postal savings certificates valued at $10 each in Atlanta. Davis and a 15 year old girl, Mrs J F Bowzee of Atlanta, were arrested in Birmingham by Deputy Marshal J H Gates and Det Burch and Det Pearson. Davis faces a $1000 bond and January 5 hearing on the forgery charge, while the Mann White Slave Act case with the girl awaits January 7 arraignment. both are in county jail pending hearings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sas Ae Oe
Davis
Birmingham
Ala
United States
J. H. Gates
Burch and Pearson
J. F. Bowzee
Atlanta
J. L. Adams
Police Department of
Montgomery
Couny
No Surrender Slogan Drives Federal Battle at Border
Federal generals led in defense under the battle cry no surrender as troops faced rebels near the Rio Grande. American officers on border duty warned of flight and kept vigilant, capturing deserters and guiding wounded federals to safety while Major Mc Namee planned to halt any retreat. Rebels must seize the hills around Ojinaga before firing into federal fortifications, aided by heavy artillery. the tempo favors the attackers despite limited gunpower on the federal side.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rio Grande
Mexico
McNamee
United States
Ojinaga
Terrazas Son Held for Ransom as Villa Demands Gold
In Chihuahua on December 31 General Villa agreed to a ransom of 250000 dollars in gold for the release of Luis Terrazas son of a wealthy landowner. The prisoner has been held five weeks for alleged support of the federal government. Luis Terrazas Sr. negotiates from El Paso to secure his son's liberty with safe conduct at the border. Women of the Terrazas family have traveled toward the border. General Choa is slated to become Chihuahua governor once Villa moves south, a plan delayed by the Ojinaga battle outcome.
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Associated Press
Chihuahua
General Villa
Luis Terrazas
Terrazas
Federal
el Paso
Villa
Chao
Ojinaga
Six Vagrants Fined One Dollar Or Ten Days
Charles Carson William Brown Arthur Arseman James Daily Michael Amhose Edward Braddy charged with vagrancy were fined 1 each or 10 days by Judge Chamberlain. Wiley Humphreys on gaming fined 20 or ten days. B C Burns on affray fined 5 or 10 days and John McAlister discharged. John Mullen assault and battery demanded a new trial bond 250. Mullen allegedly assaulted his wife after two weeks married.
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Charles Carson
William Brown
Arthur Arseman
James Daily
Michael Amhose
Edward Braddy
Chamberlain
Inferior Criminal Court
Wiley Humphreys
B. C. Burns
John McAlister
John Mullen
Mullen
Man fined for carrying concealed weapon in recorder court
Ernest Read was arrested Monday night at Government street foot by Officers Mabry and Moody. He was fined $50 and costs of twenty days after being arraigned in the recorder's court for carrying concealed weapons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Read
Government Street
Mabry and Moody
Recorder’s Court
Croup and Cough Remedy Advised for Children
Fragmentary ad copy urges parents to use a remedy at once for croup and cough in children. It claims the medicine is the best preventive against choking and asserts reliable results, though the text is garbled and incomplete.
Tenement Fire Slays Nine in New York District Blaze
A fatal blaze in a crowded East Side tenement killed nine people and injured fifteen as flames cut off stairway exits. Victims include Mrs Becky Kaplan 65 and her sons Barney 18 Louis 16, Samuel Cohen 64 and the Weisbergs, while Gussie Mazzin 19 died after aiding her family but returning to her room. The fire likely started from an incendiary act and left over twenty families homeless.
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New York
Becky Kaplan
Barney Kaplan
Louis Kaplan
Samuel Cohen
Isaac Weisberg
Pearl Weisberg
Gussie Mazzin
Israel Golden
Mazzin
Kaplan
Rescue and Loss Attend Christmas Day Storm at Sea
A mobile dispatch details a Christmas Day storm injuring several vessels including the Sirdar Milwa Cheslie and Lord of Avon. Crews sought salvage from the Echo tug while ships like the Dara C and the Glenaften reported in or overdue with no word from others.
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Welles
Avon
Milwa
Echo
McLaughlin
Claude Wilson
Mobile Bar
Lord of Avon
Barkentine
Whitney
Matanzas
Cuba
Mobile
Dara C
Lower Bay
Lord
Motley
McCarron
Edgar Randall
Campeche
Alice Lord
Sirdar
Cheslie
Lord of
Ancient City on Top of Mountain
A Peru discovery reports the ruins of Machu Picchu on a near inaccessible mountain ridge above the Urubamba River. Yale’s Prof. Hiram Bingham describes a larger site than any Peruvian ruin aside from Cuzco, with terraces and dual walls on a high summit built by stone tools.
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Associated Press
Ae Warne
Iica
Machu Picchu
National Geographical Society
Yale University
Cuzco
Hiram Bingham
Yale
Peru
Bingham
Urubamba River
Midwest Oil Company argues Taft lands order unconstitutional
Counsel for Midwest Oil petitions the Supreme Court challenging Taft's 1909 withdrawal of public oil lands in Wyoming and California from entry. The brief condemns concentration of power in the presidency as revolutionary and dangerous, urging policy changes through the constitutional departments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Taft
Associated Press
Washington
Midwest Oil Company
Wyoming
California
New Year's Holiday Office Closures Announced
The post office, courts, and city, county, and federal offices will be closed all or part of Thursday for New Year's Day observance. Additional methods of observance are noted.
Lorette Laurendine Bonded Over On Grand Larceny Charge
Lorette Laurendine was arraigned before Recorder Edington on grand larceny charges and bound over to the grand jury under a $500 bond.
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Lorette Laurendine
Edington
Tragic Paris Shooting Ends Life of Vaudeville Star
Paris reports a fatal nightclub tragedy as popular English vaudeville performer Harry Fragson is shot dead by his 84 year old father Victor Pott after a quarrel at their apartment. Fragson dies at Lamiboisiere hospital as police take the father into custody.
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Associated Pross
Paris
Harry Fragsen
Victor Pott
Fragson
Lamiboisiere
Pott
Hobson Demands Joint Debate With Underwood For Senate Race
Congressman Hobson, challenger to Cosman Underwood for the U S Senate, arrives in Mobile from Jackson Alabama and plans to debate Underwood in Atmore Escambia County tonight after charging misrepresentation in Gadsden speech. He says he previously urged a debate but now demands it.
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Richmond Pearson Hobson
United States
Cosman
Oscar W. Underwood
Mobile
Jackson
Ala
Cawthon Hotel
Atmote
Hscambia County
Underwood
Gadsden
Obson
New Year Celebration at Cawthon Hotel Wednesday
The Cawthon hotel hosts a New Year’s celebration starting at 9 o’clock and running past midnight. Tables are limited, supper is served 8 to 11, and Rowley Orchestra with Hazel-Winans-Selby as soloist performs a special program. Manager C B Hervey directs the midnight events.
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Cawthon Hotel
Rowley Orchestra
Nashville man dies in jail after poisoning
W S Cunningham of Nashville, returned Saturday from Paducah Kentucky on a charge of passing counterfeit money worth $300, committed suicide in the jail by taking poison. How he procured the poison remains undeveloped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Nashville
Tenn
W. 5S. Cunningham
Paducah
Vicks Vap-O-Rub Promoted For Croup Relief
An old remedy article touts applying Vicks Vap-O-Rub over the throat and chest for a few minutes then covering loosely with a flannel cloth to loosen phlegm and open air passages. One treatment may relieve in fifteen minutes and a bedtime application may prevent night attacks. The product comes in three sizes: 25¢, 50¢, and $1.00.
Berlin Plunged by 14 Inches of Snow at Year’s End
Berlin reports 14 inches of snow, a record for a century, stranding a passenger train near Halle and leaving crowds halted at midnight. Flood fears ease inland as a north coast gale accelerates winter storm effects across Germany and neighboring countries.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Halle
Germany
France
Spain
Portugal
Italy
Jad Salt Promoted To Support Kidney Health
An article extols Jad Salts as a remedy for kidney discomfort from high protein meals. It claims they flush urinary waste, ease backache and fatigue, and help the bladder function, recommending a spoonful in water daily. It notes the product is inexpensive and often sold by pharmacists.
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