Japan Sails Squadron for Suez to Protect Shipping
Jiji Simpo reports a Japanese squadron will sail to the Suez Canal to guard shipping. Armored cruisers Kasuga Tokiwa and Chitose assigned. Following sinking of Yasuka Maru and Kenkoku Maru, Japanese shipping routes disrupted. Maishaip Company withdraws from Suez.
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Jiji Simpo
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Tokiwa
Chitose
Mediterranean
Port Said
Vesaa
Japan Maiship Company
Suez
The Item claims AP news lead over Register in Mobile
The Item asserts it receives and prints the full Associated Press news daily before the Register, except Saturday afternoon, and accuses the Register of false claims. It argues The Item remains first with AP news, while the Register cannot surpass it.
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Associated Press
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Mobile
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Bae Mobile
Associated Press News
Crisis Deepens as Persia Sinks and Glengyle Losses Rise
President Wilson plans immediate return to Washington to manage the submarine crisis sparked by the sinking of the Persia and Glengyle with American lives lost. Secretary Lansing requests nationality data from Vienna on the submarine. details underscore strained U.S. relations with Germany and Austria. The Glengyle, a nine-thousand-ton liner, sank after departing Shanghai for London with about 100 passengers and crew saved except seven Chinese and others.
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Wilson
Mediterranean
United States
White House
Lansing
London
Shanghai
Sinapore
Suez Canal
Faean
Rene Ville de la Ciotat
Yasuka M
Ete Arges
Neaaemen
Servic
New Castle
Webster
Ford Peace Expedition Granted Pass Through Germany
The German government permits the Ford peace mission to travel to The Hague by a sealed special train via Germany. The Americans will be locked inside and forbidden to touch German soil. The group plans to disband in The Hague on January 12 with most members returning home.
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London
Hague
Germany
Justice Lamar Claimed by Death in Washington
Joseph Rucker Lamar associate justice of the Supreme Court died here last night at 58 from gradual heart failure. He would have completed five years on the bench at noon today. The court adjourned in his memory. Burial planned in Augusta Georgia where he long resided. Funeral party to leave Tuesday afternoon likely with fellow justices. Death attributed to overwork as justice and U S commissioner at the 1914 mediation conference. President Wilson expected to fill the vacancy promptly.
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Joseph Rucker
Lamar
Supreme Court
Supreme Bench
Augusta
United States
Mexico
Wilson
Committee Meeting to Close Year’s Business
The Ways and Means Committee of the Chamber of Commerce will meet tonight to close the year's business. Chairman J L Taylor urges all committee members to attend. A regular directors meeting follows Tuesday night with several important matters to discuss ahead of the election of a new board next week.
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Chamber of Commerce
J. L. Taylor
Chamber
Expert aids Mobile hog cholera campaign
Dr. Howard C. Wilson of the Bureau of Animal Industry at Auburn will join George A. Maloney in Mobile to assist in stamping out hog cholera and discuss disease control during a Tuesday visit. The note also mentions Wilson’s experience with serious epidemics. A separate item reports a thief stealing coins from a car.
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George A. Maloney
Mobile . County Farm Bureau
Howard C. Wilson
Bureau of Animal Industry
Auburn
Mobile
Wilson
Explosion on steamship Aztec causes deaths and injuries
A New York shipyard blast on the steamer Aztec in a Brooklyn drydock killed one man, seriously injured ten, and left eighteen missing. The Norwegian oil tanker, chartered by Inter Ocean Transport, had arrived from France December 24 and was engulfed by fire trapping crew in the hold.
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Brooklyn
Interocean Transport Company
France
Grayson to Run for Circuit Judge in Mobile County
Claude A. Grayson filed his declaration to seek a circuit judge seat in Mobile County at the May primaries under the new filing rule. The race includes six candidates for three posts: Oliver J. Semmes Safford Berney Thomas H. Smith Samuel B. Browne Norville R. Leigh and Grayson.
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Claude A. Grayson
Mobile County
Alabama General Assembly
Grayson
Oliver J. Semmes
Safford Berney
Law and Equity Court
Thomas H. Smith
Chancery Court
Samuel B. Browne
Circuit Court
Norville R. Leigh
Mr. Grayson
Destructive Gordonsville Fire Saved Key Buildings
Gordonsville Virginia saw a blaze threaten the business district before Charlottesville firefighters arrived by special train. More than a dozen buildings with stores and residences burned, with estimated damage of $60,000, partly insured. The fire reached control around 3 pm after crews saved the National Bank and post office buildings nearby.
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Gordonsville
Charlottesville
National Bank and Post Office
Knox Booth Death Not Poison Found in Autopsy
Doctors Centerfil and Anderson announced in Montgomery that Knox Booth exhumed in Prattville Alabama showed no poison in his stomach. Booth, a former internal revenue agent, died suddenly in Memphis while about to board a train for Ville amid moonshine conspiracy cases.
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Montgomery
Ala
Knox Booth
Internal Revenue
E. Centerfil
J. M. Anderson
Prattville
Booth
Memphis
Forville
Persia Gun Mounting at Alexandria Deepens Diplomatic Tensions
Officials compare the Persia incident to the Arabic and Lusitania crises as tensions rise. The Alexandria consul notes Persia mounted a 4.7 inch gun, location undecided, affecting interpretations of whether the ship was armed. The Hague rule allows stern guns for defense. Final explanations await full facts.
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Persia
Alexandria
North Sea
Mediterranean
British Isles
Austria
Ancona
Persia Sinking Off Mediterranean Claims 242 Lost
Unofficial Cairo reports say the steamship Persia sank after alerting a warning in the Mediterranean. Between 150 and 160 survivors were landed at Alexandria. American consul Robert N. McNeely is believed drowned. Charles H. of Boston was saved. Final loss tally: 242 passengers and crew 201.
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Cairo
Persia
Mediterranean
Alexandria
Egypt
Robert N. McNeely
Aden
Arabia
Reuter
McNeely
Charles H
Boston
Vessels Sunk In Six Weeks By Aria Vienna Claims
An Austro-Hungarian marine report asserts sixty seven vessels sunk in six weeks near Medina with troop ships and merchantmen, including the liner Transylvania. The claim lists 38 ships sunk from British registries and others from France Russia Greece and Japan totaling about 225 523 tons and up to 6000 men lost in October and November.
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Aria Vienna
Transylvania
Yasukuni
Lost items and rewards listed in town district notices
Local notice itemizes several lost items including a two twenty-dollar bills roll and eight ones, a small padlock, a bar pin with amethyst end, a mandolin, and a window reward offer. Contacts include D Nelson, Fred J Ala, Mi Fabbretta, C J Gayter Co, and others with rewards noted.
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First National Bank
D. S
D. Nelson
Fred J Ala
C. J. Gayter
E Warren
Orn Niet
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Glengyle
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Charles H. Grant
Boston, Mass
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Justice Lamar
Augusta, Ga
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Brooklyn Dry Dock
London Dispatch
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