Carnival Queen to Be Crowned at Lyric Theatre
Carnival's queen will be crowned at the Lyric Theatre on Monday March 6, culminating in coronation and recognition of the queen. A grand masquerade at the Old Orpheum Theatre is planned with special railroad rates for Mardi Gras visitors arriving by river steamers during Mobile's gala week.
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Lyric Theatre
Felix
Manassas Club
Mobile Carnival Association
M. A. McDermott
Lyric
C. B. Hervey
Orpheum Theatre
Conception Street
Carnival Committee
Cawthon Hotel
Battle House
Bienville Hotel
Mobile & Ohio
Louisville & Nashville
Gulf, Mobile & Northern
Southern Railway
Mobile
Union City
Tenn
Birmingham
Montgomery
Southern
Thomasville
Louisville
Miss
Laure Ellisville
Hattiesburg
Intermeate
Pensacola
Tues
E. H. Britton
Carnival Tion
Bienville
Carnival Associant
Ten Day Race Meet to Open Here March Fourth
The Mobile Carnival Association schedules a ten day horse race meet linked to Mardi Gras. It opens March 4 with March 14 as getaway day, offering five races daily and total purses of about $1,000 each day. Barney Sheridan Jr. to manage. racing officials to be named Monday as horses from New Orleans are expected to arrive.
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Mobile Carnival Association
New Orleans
Barney Sheridan, Jr
Mobile Amateurs Build Best Wireless Station in South
Mobile hosts the Souths most powerful amateur radio station at Spring Hill and Garnet Avenue known as 5 Z M. Operators Kron Seiple and Martin report 900 mile reception to Marion Ohio Lima and Colon Panama with night contacts and a government time signal from Arlington. Their homebuilt gear includes two receiving units, silicon crystals, audion valves, 90 foot umbrella aerial and 100 foot sending aerial.
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Mobile
Spring Hill
Garnet Avenue
Marion
Lima
Colon
Panama
Swan Island
United Fruit Company
Motile
Honduras
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Arlington
Government Observatory
B. W. Martin
United States
L. C. Kron
Gus Seiple, Jr
Martin, Kron and Seiple
United Wireless
Admiralty
Anaia
Illinois Society Session Saturday in Mobile
City Commissioner Harry Pillans welcomed guests at the Illinois Society meeting held at the Battle House. The program featured vocal numbers, a talk by Farm Demonstration Agent George A Maloney on Mobile County industry, and notes on tourism and local prospects. A boat trip to Fairhope was announced for next Saturday and the meeting ended with the song Trixie.
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Illinois Society
Harry Pillans
Battle House
George A. Maloney
Mobile County
America
Stennig
Chicago
Hennig
Maloney
Mobile
Baldwin
Pillans
Illinois
Ite
Tlinois
Louisiana Highway Viewed By Mobilian Engineers
T W Nicol consulting engineer for the Alabama and Mississippi Highway Association, along with Mobile and Baldwin county engineers Harry Fisher and J M Garrett, and Captain John Craft of the Alabama Good Roads Association, returned from Louisiana where they inspected a road built by New Orleans toward Chef Menteur and the Mississippi line. Craft praised the plan but noted flaws in the proposal.
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T. W. Nicol
Alabama and Mississippi Highway Association
Mobile-Baldwin Delta
Harry Fisher
Mobile County
J. M. Garrett
Baldwin County
Captain John
Craft
Alabama ,Good Roads Association
New Orleans
Chef Menteur
Mississippi Line
Police Court Short Session Costs Hit Five Dollars a Minute
Saturday’s police court session ran two minutes and a half with five cases. Four defendants were fined and one case set for trial. Fines totaled $5 plus a $10 fund contribution from Mrs. Belle Strouse. Winifred Newell George Cammack and Gordon Dacey were fined $1 each for skating on sidewalks. R N Campbell arraigned for violating the prohibition law and to be tried March 8.
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Edington
Winifred Newell
George Cammack
Gordon Dacey
Belle Strouse
R. N. Campbell
Brandeis Confirmation Hearings Move to Public Session
The Senate debates open versus closed hearings for Louis D. Brandeis and George Rublee with Progressive Republicans backing public sessions. Senator La Follette plans to vote for the resolution after missing last year by one vote. William S. Youngman testified Brandeis acted poorly in the Warren estate case but did not accuse him of fraud.
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Washington
Senate
Louis D. Brandeis
Supreme Court
George Rublee
Kenyon
la Follette
Brandeis
William S. Youngman
Boston
Edward B. Warren
Warren
Temperance Day Designated for Alabama Schools
Montgomery Feb 26 Special Superintendent of Education William F Feagin designated Friday March 3 as Temperance Day and urged public schools across Alabama to observe the program adopted by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
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Montgomery
Ala
William F. Feagin
Woman's Christian ‘Temperance Union
Tick Eradication Campaign Planned in Mobile County
A five team education campaign on tick eradication will begin March 1 in Mobile County under the Mobile County Tick Eradication Association. Led by L. C. Irvine and others, teams will visit Bayou la Batre Coden Semmes Toulminville Citronelle Calvert Union Church Dawes Georgetown Theodore and other communities to instruct cattle owners on protecting livestock and milk quality.
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Mobile County
L. C. Irvine
Matt Mahomer
Aubrey Boyles
J. H. Reichert
George A. Maloney
Bayou la Batre
Coden
Delchamps
Whistler
Semmes
Orchard and Tanner- Williams
Toulminville
Citronelle
Chunchula
Calvert
Mount Vernon
Axis
Saizuma
Spring Hill
Irvington
Grand Bay
Union Church
Dawes
Wheelerville
Crichton
Georgetown
Downs’ School
Wilmer
Tacon Station
Two Candidates Qualify For Election In Local Race
John T. Cochrane and Dr. D. T. Mc Call of this city qualified as candidates for school commissioners before Chairman D. B. Cobb of the Mobile county Democratic committee. B G Skinner also qualified as candidate for justice of the peace at Calvert. The qualification deadline is March 1.
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John T. Cochrane
D. T. McCall
D. B. Cobb
Mobile County
Democratic
G. Skinner
Justice of the Peace
Calvert
Location of Navy Base in South Still Undecided
Local officials report the final site for a new Navy base in the southern region remains unresolved. Public meetings have been held but no official agreement or timeline has been established as discussions continue.
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Navy Base
South
Mobile Committee Sees Navy Plant Feasible There
A Mobile business committee issued a statement on the possible location of a naval shipyard south of Cape Hatteras. They say Mobile meets the necessary qualifications for a major naval adjunct, including a construction plant, but the final decision will take months as a sub committee and Congress review the plan. The group notes a fourteen to eighteen month timeline under favorable conditions and continues to gather data and maps to support Mobile’s case.
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Washington
Cape Hatteras
Mobile
Mobilé
House Naval Affairs Committee
House Committee
Naval Affairs Committee
House of Representatives
Naval Committee
Congress
Senate
Secretary of the Navy
Alabama
Auctioneer Reports Theft Of Teeth From Hotel Room
A. A. Richards, an auctioneer, told police Saturday night a young unknown man robbed him of his false teeth a cigar lighter and a hat from his room at the Garage hotel. Officers later arrested Heinie Vietense a sailor and recovered the items hidden in his shoe.
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A. A. Richards
Richards
Rarage
Heinie Vietense
Crook Passes Worthless Check For Clothing
A worthless check for 36 dollars was passed on the Toggery Company at Dauphin and St Emanuel streets Saturday night by a man believed to be J. L. Crowley. He obtained two suits of clothes and 59 cents in change. The check, drawn on a local bank, was payable to J. L. Crowley with Wise Granite Construction Company listed and T. A. Lawrence signed. Investigation showed it was a forgery.
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Toggery Company
Dauphin
St Emanuel
Rman
J. L. Crowley
Wise Granite Construction Company
T. A. Lawrence
Storekeeper Held on Prohibition Charge After Beer Seizure
Robert L Campbell operating a store at Our Alley and Palmetto street was docketed at the police station Saturday for violating the prohibition law. Detectives say they found seventy five cold bottles of beer in the place. Officers found two cases of beer and two half pints of whisky in a mouse on Canal street near Warren t. New claimant appeared for the liquor.
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Robert L. Campbell
Palmetto Street
Murphy, Lacey
Burch and Pearson
Bressingham
New and Lacy
Canal Street
Warren T. New
Creamery project meets with favor in Mobile business world
E M Bailey reports broad backing for the Mobile Chamber of Commerce creamery plan as about twenty committees interview local business leaders. Subscriptions flow in, with Julius Hammel of Ham mel Dry Goods and Gordon Smith among those pledging stock and monthly support.
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Chamber of Commerce
E. M. Bailey
Julius Hammel
Hammel Dry Goods Company
Gordon Smith
Smith
Bailey
W. W. Croom
Aess
H.G. Rickardy
T? Harvey
Harvey Brothers
Ed Metzger
Otto Nack
Viator Chartered for Cuban Sugar Trade
General Manager Ashbel Hub of the Chamelecon Steamship Co announced Saturday night the company was temporarily out fruit business into this port and had rechartered the steamer Viator to operate between Cuba and New Orleans and Alabama and Mississippi. The charter aims to profits in the fruit business for years. Weather outlook indicates southern states faced rain and possibly Monday.
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Ashbel
Chamelecon _ Steamship Co
Steamer
New Ch
Cuba
New 3 Hubbard
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OLD Orpheum Theatre
River
Mardi Gras
BEST
Avenue
Felix Parade
Eastern Department
Governors Island
New York
Brown
Louisiana
Temperance Day
Crook
Ery
C. P. Dumas
Dumas Grocery Company
Soneston
Sace
Viator
Mississippi
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