Yearly Gulfport exports and imports detailed
Year 1915 saw Gulfport export lumber and timber and related goods totaling over 131 million board feet with oak products resin pilings creosoted items and coal among others. Imports included asphalt cement mahogany logs and phosphate rock as Governor Brewer signs a bill for a northern county split proposal stirring regional sentiment.
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Gulfport
Miss
River Platte
Guba
Brewer
Stone County
Another Large Coal Mine Opens in Tuscaloosa County
Ala, Jan 8 A Birmingham based company opens another coal mine on its Searles property. The project costs about 50000 dollars and will be electrically equipped. When active it will employ 250 to 300 workers in Tuscaloosa County with a payroll near 20000 dollars monthly.
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Ala
Tuscaloosa County
Alabama Company
Birmingham
Searles
Mobile County School Bond Interest Aids Rural Kids
Mobile County voters on January 18 will vote on a $150,000 rural school bond issue to build and equip schools to serve children ages 6 to 17. Officials cited lack of clothing, books, and facilities as barriers, with families ten miles west of Spring Hill needing access to education.
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Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners of
Mobile County
Ihus
Mobile
Board of School
E. Oliver Fowlkes
Spring Hill
Fowlkes
Wheelerville
Spring Hit
Opening of Coosa From Rome to Gulf Expected
Birmingham officials say Congress is likely to approve the Coosa river navigation project from Rome Georgia to the Gulf. Captain W P Lay states the plan includes large power dams reducing locks and saving about 5 000 000 dollars. Navigation would extend from Oostanaula above Rome to Lock 5 Taladega County.
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Birmingham
Ala
Congress
Coosa River
Rome
Gadsden
Gulf
Improvement Association
Mobile Newsies Must Wear School Badges
Dr W H Oates Alabama state jail and factory inspector arrived in Mobile to push enforcement of the badge law for newsboys under 16 showing school attendance. Chief Van Liew to issue orders to police. Oates to inspect the city prison sanitation. Also R G Anders files suit for 1000 damages against Gulf Coast Fair Association over injuries from a grandstand fall on July 29.
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W. H. Oates
Alabama
Mobile
G. M. van Liew
Oates
van Liew
R. G. Anders
Law and Equity Court
Gulf Coast Fair Association
Winter Visitors Crowd Coast Biloxi Gulf Coast
Biloxi, Miss on January 8 reports a surge of northern and eastern visitors escaping winter. The city expects a banner year for winter tourism as trains bring crowds and local development plans proceed. Meyer Eiseman of New Orleans seeks to reorganize Deer Island Pleasure Resort. G W Haynes of Sunkist Place plans a large scale cattle ranch. The Southern Film Corporation is formed in Biloxi with 100000 capital. Judge Henry Chamberlain remanded John Faulk under 200 bond for bribery. Karl trial postponed due to absence until next week.
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Biloxi
Miss
Gulf Coast
Deer Island
Meyer Eiseman
New Orleans
G. W. Haynes
Sunkist Place
Mississippi
Mississippi Gulf Coast
Jackson
Upstate
Henry Chamberlain
John Faulk
Faulk
Joe Montgomery
William Foster
Commercial Cable Co Suspends Deferred Traffic
The Commercial Cable Company announces delays due to interruption of others cables and their end of December service suspension. A volume of deferred traffic forced onto its lines made satisfactory service impossible, so the company will temporarily suspend this traffic until normal conditions return.
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Commercial Cable Co
New York, Jan
The
Commercial Cable Company
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Coosa
Newsies
Karl
Erhardt Karl
Edington
Columbia Theatre
Aills & Myers Musical Comedy Co
Ross Aills
Simon Myers
Driscall
Nell
Flo
Bijou
Atlanta
L. H. Meyer & Sons
Norfolk
Kuppenheimer
Boston
Newport Gartef
Meyer
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