New York Public Service Probers Hearings Start
A special joint legislative committee of the New York State Legislature probes two public service commissions for efficiency. Members include Senator Mills, Assemblyman Mater, and others as hearings begin at New York City Hall on the commissions’ conduct of public service corporations in the state.
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New York
Blymen
McQuist Ringel
Knight
Senator Mills
Assemblyman Mater
Son
Foley
Cromwell
New _ Bete
Mioners
Willac
Hartwell Mobile Commission Bill Faces House Hurdles
The Hartwell commission government bill stall rattled in the house after easy Senate passage. Key opponents include Chamberlain and Grayson who seek changes and oppose immediate action, preferring public submission or newspaper publication before any final vote. A separate oyster bill and tax-exemption water power measures also advance, with a recess committee to review Mobile port issues.
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Montgomery
Hartwell
Commission
Senate Ae
House
Chamberlain
Wilson
Grayson
Chamberlain Wednday
EF Am
Mobile
Finance and Taxation Committee
Senate
Sao Oes
Udge
Irito
Supreme Court
Lusk
Supreme
Senate Judiciary Committee
Marshall
Court of Appeals
Treasury
Rules Committee
Joint Rivers and Harbors Committee
Orduna flies American flag for nearly a day on voyage
Passengers aboard the Cunard liner Orduna reported the British steamer flew the U S flag for about 24 hours after leaving Liverpool. The flag was raised to protect American citizens among 240 passengers as the ship crossed the Irish Sea.
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New York
Cunard
England
Irish Sea
Sir Shaan
Liverpool
Liv
Mersey
Orduna
Ateree
H. T. Strong
Niot Ui
Cabutn
Thomas
Pipe organ to make music at the exhibit
Secretary G Card of the Chamber of Commerce and George A Maloney expert farm demonstrator manage the Home Products Show in Alba building with Clutter Piano Company for the installa tion of a pipe organ to provide music at the exhibit.
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Gemen
Ite
G. Card
Chamber of Commerce
George A.maloney
Alba
Miners Face Fatal Blast at Collier Coal Co Mine
One man is dead and another dying after an explosion last night in the Collier Coal Company mine at South Bartonville Illinois. The report also mentions other international and political items including Swedish shipowners painting national colors, an earthquake in Peru, and election fraud cases in Pikeville Kentucky.
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Collier Coal Company
South Bartonville, Il
Pikeville
Dharepe
Colorado Senate Passes Liquor Shipment Ban Bill
A volume of legislative activity is described with the Colorado senate approving a prohibition measure restricting interstate and state shipment of liquor for non medical or non mental uses. The move aims to curb alcohol distribution amid broader suffrage demonstrations and other policy actions.
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Colorado
Senate
House
New Orleans Cotton Market Drift Amidsteady Opens
The New Orleans cotton market opened steady with contracts showing March at 8.35 and May at 8.62. Other quoted dates include October at 8.07 and December at 8.04, with 9.35 and 8.35 noted for October and March respectively.
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New Orleans
Cotton Opens Higher Then Falls in New Orleans
New Orleans February 10 Cotton opened 3 to 4 points higher but quick selling pushed prices down. The market slipped about 3 points from yesterday's close as most activity came from professional traders and quick moves dominated early trading.
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New. Orleans
New York Cotton Opens Steady Amid Mixed Demand
Cotton opened steady up to 5 points higher in New York on February 10 as steadier cables supported prices and Southern spot markets showed strength. Liverpool buying was noted to undo straddles, but otherwise demand was light and prices later eased to around last night’s close amid scattered realizing and minor selling.
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New York
Liverpool
Liverpool Cotton Prices and Futures Report
Liverpool spot cotton remained steady with good middling at 5.43, middling 5.11, and low middling 4.70d. Sales totaled 6,000 bales with 2,000 bales speculative export. Receipts reached 24,512 bales. Futures were quiet and steady with May to June at 4.98 1-2 and January to February at 5.25 1-2.
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Liverpool
Wall Street Opens Firm, Then Dips Amid Foreign Rumors
New York stock market showed initial strength but slipped in the first half hour with leaders Reading and High Valley under pressure. Declines extended to other issues as rumors from abroad weighed. Southern Railway closed down 3 points at a new low of 50.
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New York
Reading
High Valley
Southern Railway, Ptd
Weather Report Notes Cold Fair Pattern Across East
A high barometer area brings cold and fair conditions across the eastern half of the country with above freezing in the Lake region. Low pressure affects the Pacific coast with higher Western elevations seeing warmups. Salt Lake City and Mobile record 42 degrees at 7 am. Forecaster Albert Ash Ashenberger reports attention to Alabama drops in 36 hours.
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Lake Region
Georgia
Florida
Pacific Coast
Salt Lake City
Utah
Mobile
Albert Ash Ashenberger
Demopolis
Alabama
Pembroke D. dies at home in Norfolk after long illness
Norfolk announces the death of Pembroke D a well known figure in the peanut trade after a long illness at his Norfolk home. The obituary notes his years of influence in Va politics and local business.
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Norfolk
Pembroke D
Oedas
United States Steel Unfilled Tonnage Rises in January
New York February 10 The unfilled tonnage of the United States Steel Sent tons January 38 totalled 4 71 tons an increase of 411 923 tons over December.
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New York
United States Steel
Long Senate Tie Ends Session After 38 Hours
A 44 to 44 tie vote halted Republican effort to end the extended session that stretched 38 hours. Senators Sherman Lea Smoot and Smith spoke long while others slept in committee rooms. the debate centered on government ownership and a leased ship provision.
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Sherman
Towncane
Sarby
Senator Lea
Tennessee
Reaper Seuss
Smoot
William Alden Smith
Michigan
Republc
Her
Stone
Nator Stote
Vic Rtor
James
Hughes
Gallinger
Lea
Robinson
Battle in Carpathians Hindered by Snow Locking Forces
Russian forces press sizable detachments against Dukla Pass amid deep Carpathian snow. Troop movements are limited to valley routes and battle deployment is difficult. Austro German operations slow, with local gains by both sides.
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Berlin
Hague
London
Carpathians
Lokal Anziéger
Dukla Pass
Coffee imports for 1914 near record highs
In 1914 the United States imported 1,011,000,000 pounds of coffee, a record equal to 1904 and 1909. Value reached $105,000,000, down from 1912. Brazil led by 726,600,000 pounds, with Colombia second at 99,000,000 pounds. Hawaii and Porto Rico provided notable amounts as well.
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Associated Press
Washington
Brazil
Colombia
Hawaii
Porto Rico
Smallpox Strikes Arizona Legislature After Briscoe Illness
In Phoenix on February 10, Samuel Briscoe a state representative diagnosed with smallpox triggered renewed health measures as another lawmaker W B Lanier reading clerk contracted the disease after attending recent sessions. Lanier was present during discussions on wholesale vaccinations.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Samuel Briscoe
W. B. Lanier
Reading
Lanier
Turpentine and Rosin Receipts Reported in Savannah
In Savannah on February 10, naval stores receipts include a turpentine firm with 73 casks and a rosin firm with 468 barrels. Quoted prices show FP 215, G 217, with various grades and agents listed including 5.00 W a and WW at 5.40.
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Savann Ga
Soonets
Mae
Handl
Nee
City Council Welcomes Leaders to Unemployed Relief Plan
Mobile officials invite Rev Gardiner C Tucker and G G Card to discuss a city wide effort to aid unskilled unemployed workers. The meeting aims to adopt a mutual plan of operation to prevent cross currents among organizations and ensure orderly job assistance. International Cigar Makers Union rep Farreli also to speak.
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Pega
Gardiner C. Tucker
Citizens’ Nonsectarian Relief Committee
G. G. Card
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Free Employment Bureau
Mobile Rotary Club
Farrefi
International
Cigar Makers’ Union
White man lynched by Kentucky mob near Maysville
Thomas Tinker, jailed on a charge of shooting Constable Richard Taft, was seized by about fifty men from Melber who rode to Maysville and hanged him from a jail beam before riddling his body with bullets. Taft was killed while attempting to arrest Tinker for home breaking.
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Maysville
Thomas Tinker
Richard Taft
Tinker
Weather forecast for Mobile and southern states
Fair and much warmer tonight and Thursday in Mobile. forecast for Alabama and Mississippi calls for fair skies, warmer air, and moderate east and southeast winds.
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Mobile
Washington
Alabama
Mississippi
Banquet Planned by Mobile Telephone Club at Cawthon Hotel
The Mobile Telephone Club, organized two weeks ago, will host a Thursday evening banquet in the Colonial room of the Cawthon Hotel with prominent Mobilians as guests. Board and livestock committee meetings of the Chamber of Commerce scheduled for Tuesday night were postponed at the last minute due to bellows of reports about Ed oan large travel.
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Cawthon Hotel
Mobile Telephone Club
Board of Directors
Chamber of Commerce
France Newspaper Reports Peace Bid Before Marne Battle
Paris dispatch reports French papers with government censor approval published an article claiming a peace party existed in France before the Marne, proposing cession of Lorraine and other provinces to Germany. The piece notes Prime Minister Caillaux and General Joffre faced Cabinet tensions and a war ministry reshuffle after the counteroffensive.
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Associated Préss
Paris
Demicrate de Belmont
Marne
France
Germany
Lorraine
Morocco
Anederete Ty
Joffre
Poincaine
Moat
Adolphe Mesaimy
the Marne
Joseph Caillaux
Belgium
Castellane Fails in Annulment Case
Paris reports in Rome that Count de Castellane lost a key step in his long effort to annul his religious marriage to Anna Gould. The Vatican Rota closed its third trial with decisions favoring Duchesse de Talleyrand and the case awaits final outcome.
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Associated ‘Press
Paris
Bont
Castellane
Anna” Gould
Count de Castellane
Vatican
Duchess de Tallyrand
de Castellane
Prince del Bargo
Jean de Castellane
Miss Gould
Anna Gould
Jay Gould
New York City
Prince Helle, Dé Sagan
Miners Drown in Sudden Flooding in British Columbia Mine
Rescue operations began after a wall of the Wellington mine was breached by a torrent, drowning twenty one miners. Big pumps will clear water from levels but recovery may take weeks due to extensive tunneling and rapid flooding at the Pacific coast coal mine near Nanaimo.
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Associated Press
Nanaimo
B C
South Wellington
Pacific
Coast
Southfield
Joseph Foy
Too Many Ills Laid to Prohibition in Kansas
Kansas lawmakers adopted a resolution rejecting circulated literature that blames prohibition for rising crime and death rates. The measure argues such statements are misleading and seeks to counter public claims about social decline tied to prohibition in Topeka on February 10.
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Kansas
Associated Press
Topeka
Kas
Mobile to gain one extra member in lower house
Montgomery Feb 10 Start Special Mobile will gain one additional member in the Alabama lower house when reapportionment follows the 1910 federal census Jefferson county will get eight members and some Black Belt counties now with two representatives will drop to one. Reapportionment is constitutionally mandatory and most fear shifts in power.
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Jefferson
Bechoff to Face Court Martial in Paris
Mme Bechoff wife of a Paris dressmaker will be brought before a court martial late this month. Desclaux also faces trial as an accomplice in a case alleging theft of military stores and related seizure of documents and mail from Desclaux's quarters to Bechoff’s home in Paris.
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Mme. Bechoff
Paris
Desclaux
Associated Press
Mme. Beehoff
F Desclaux
Hetoa
Ee Desclaux
Ambassador Gerard Annoyed by German Audience Incident
Berlin reports that during a theatre party an audience member heckled American Ambassador Gerard and his wife for speaking English. The man alleged the United States exported arms and launched a tirade before being restrained.
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Gerard
Berlin
A, Y
United States
Battleship Pennsylvania to be launched March 16
The Pennsylvania battleship now under construction at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock is set for a launch on Tuesday March 16 at 10 am. Miss Elizabeth Kolb of Germantown is named to christen the vessel, with Navy and Army officials likely to attend the event amid wartime precautions.
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Meited Press
Newport News
Pennsylvania
Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Elizabeth Kolb
Germantown
Navy
Jonenmine Daniela
Daniels
Army
Aneiien Tneke
Russia's Duma backs war aim until peace terms set
Petrograd reports the Duma adopted a resolution declaring Russia will keep fighting the war until conditions are imposed on the enemy and peace of Europe and justice are secured. Milukoff for the Constitutional Democrats urged guaranteed gains and military aims in support of the measure.
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Associated Press
Petrograd
Russia
Hur
Dum
Duma
Europe
Eee
Paul N. Milukoff
Democrats
Eas
Air attacks report over Thrace from Tenedos dispatch
Telegram from Tenedos says several enemy and French ships flew over Thrace on February 10. Two ships reportedly dropped bombs on forts while others possibly planned bombardment, with Allied response anticipated.
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Thrace
Vie Paris
Sses
Tenedos
Agav
Russians Advance Into Hungary Reported by Geneva Desk
Reports from Geneva via Paris describe Soviet forces advancing into Hungarian territory, pushing through river valleys and moving toward the Turja Ungvar rail line. The dispatch notes attacks against Austrian fronts and mentions positions near the Lyutta and Perecheny valleys with artillery dispositions along the Polonia-Rumanian mountain region.
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Hungary
Geneva
Paris
Ces
Serb and VENICH. ( to may W, or the b lack
Fragmentary OCR item reads as a fragment noting Serb and Venich with unclear context. No identifiable event, date, or location is determinable from the readable text.
Heavy fighting and artillery in the Carpathians amid war rumors
Reports describe fierce combat as German forces clash with Russians near Tukholka pass in the Carpathians with heavy artillery and counterattacks. Austro German forces reportedly occupy Warna after advancing toward Bukowina while peace whispers surface in the Prussian diet amid the Wilhelmina cargo dispute in Falmouth harbor.
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Carpenth
Tukholka Pass
Teutons
Carpathians
Bukowina
Warna
Baron Burian
Falmouth
New York
Germany
Raine Given Five Year Term For Bank Scandal
Raine, former president of the Mercantile Bank of Memphis, pleaded guilty to misuse of mails and was sentenced by U S district court to five years in Atlanta federal prison. He will be imprisoned tonight. The 1914 bank failure involved over $1,000,000 and the bank was a state institution.
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Associated Press
Memphis
Tenn
Bethelene Thursday concerts to continue in port town
The Bethel concerts will not be discontinued. Rev R A Pearce in charge says entertainments will continue thanks to local generosity and the ladies in charge.
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Reesmen’s Bethel
R. A. Pearce
Curbing Law Figures in Recorder Court
James Duggan and G W Costello were arraigned in the recorder's court on curbing ordinance charges. Both cases were continued until February 13. One Costello case involved a second charge regarding conduct on Church Street.
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James’ Duggan
G. W. Costello
Recorder’s
G. .W. Costello
S. 2
Church
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