Ten Thousand Dollar Memorial Fund Created for Mobile Infirmary Ward
Mrs. Lucille B. Lowenstein establishes a $10,000 trust to maintain the free public female ward at Mobile Infirmary. The Price Lowenstein Memorial Fund will endure as long as the hospital remains non sectarian. Trustees Curtis Bush and successors invest and manage the fund with income restricted to the ward, with provisions for reversion to the donor if conditions falter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maurice Lowenstein
Mobile
Lucille B. Lowenstein
Price Lowenstein
Curtis Bush
Wendentiy
Lowenstein
Strike Leaders Indicted by Houghton Jury
A special grand jury in Houghton Michigan presented true bills in the copper miners strike case. The court was told none of the felons is in custody and the defendants' names were kept secret.
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Associated Press
Houghton, Mich
P. H. O’brien
Interlocking directorates curb hailed with transition time
Washington officials say new anti trust reform laws will allow one or two years for big business to adjust to the prohibition on interlocking directorates. The Interstate Trade Commission would aid business, not set prices, and may mediate reorganizations under the plan. A joint congressional session is expected to hear the president’s message next week.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wilson
Interstate Trade Commission
Commission
Bureau of Information
Congress
Tax Commission plans Birmingham branch office
The Alabama Tax Commission announced on January 15 that it will establish a Birmingham branch to gather precise data on mineral properties across twelve North Alabama counties. Engineers C Huckabee and H C Allen were hired for supervision and field work with Mr. Allen accompanying the commissioners to Birmingham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
TAX Commission
Montgomery
Ala
Henry P
C. Huckabee
H.C. Allen
Commission
Birmingham
Allen
Alabama
Fire Threatens Hillman College at Clinton Mississippi
Jackson Mississippi January 15 In response to an appeal to battle a blaze that endangered Hillman College near Clinton ten miles west of here the Jackson fire department sent most of its force. Several residences burned and the flames reached the college as the call came in. Clinton a town of about two thousand residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Jackson
Miss
Hillman College
Clinton
Here
Jackman
National Furniture Protective Association Formed in Chicago
Announcement of a new National Furniture Protective Association was made in Chicago. Robert F. Irwin of Grand Rapids Michigan described the group as opposing unjust sum by organized labor and other influences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW Furniture Organization
Chicago
National Furniture Protective Association
Robert F. Irwin
Grand Rapids
Mich
Boosters Slogan Posters Pulled Down by City Officials
A Mobile Boosters' Club advertising stunt, featuring slogan posters hung citywide, was ordered discontinued after Mayor Lyons and Chief Crenshaw intervened. Police instructed Tebbetts to stop hanging the cards until further notice, ending a brief visible campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile Boosters
Pat J. Lyons
Frank W. Crenshaw
W. F. Tebbetts
Tebbetts
Crenshaw
Lyons
Boosters’ Club
Americans Send Sympathies After Japan Calamity
President Wilson cables Japan expressing deep sympathy for the earthquake and tidal wave disaster. He asks how the U S can help as the world watches rescue efforts and the small number of survivors found on the island.
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Emperor of
Japan
Associated Preas
Washington
Wilson
Emeror
Rescue of 33 survivors amid volcanic ruin at Sakura island
Kagoshima reports drastic devastation after a week of eruptions. A Japanese cruiser squadron restored order and ferried food to refugees sheltering in a cave. Thirty three people including a school master and village policeman were saved from ash and heat. Restoration of rail and telegraph services is underway.
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Associated Press
Kagoshima
Japan
Sakura
Ponts
Tiffanys Flooded by Automatic Sprinkler
Fire officials rushed to Tiffanys on Fifth Avenue as an automatic sprinkler pipe burst on the second floor flooding stock and show cases. Entrances were blocked while firefighters spread tarpaulins and bailed water with buckets and mops. The firm offered no damage estimate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Tiffany
Fifth Avenue
Fiermien
New York Bank Tightens Rules on Broker Collateral
The National City Bank, effective January 15, mandates collateral for any amount wired to a stock broker in a day. The reform ends the long practice of over-certification and sets a stricter standard for brokerage funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
National City Bank
Sakurajima compare to Alabama in Japanese Nursury head
SAKURAJIMA-ALABAMA President S Imura of the Alvin Japanese Nursery Company likens Sakurajima disaster to Alabama. He contrasts Mobile with Kagoshima, noting Japan’s ruin and Japan’s Satsuma orange ties to Alabama, while Mobile grows. He urges Alabama sympathy for Mobile readers.
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S. Imura
Alvin Japanese Nursery Company
Sakurajima
Island
Alabama
Japan
Wilson
Sakurajimi
Sakura Island
Goshima
Kagoshima
Kagoshima Perfecture
Satsuma Province
Satsuma
Asia
Mobile
Het
Pan
Pompei
Togo
Hobson
United States
Sakura-jima
Imura
Ala
Booster Club
America
Dam Breach Floods Piedmont Valley Potomac Drain
A 15 foot high wall of water from the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company dam at Dobbin, W V, floods the north branch of the Potomac. Residents flee to the hills as authorities fear for the district. No deaths reported. The dam spans 1 075 feet and holds three billion gallons of water, with a second large break widening gaps on both sides.
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Associated Press
Piedmont
W. Va
Potomac River
West Virginia Pulp & Paper Company
Dobbin
Western
Pense Ww
Western Maryland Railroad
Briridge
Behell
Wie-Wa
Woman Confesses Drowning Stepchildren in Tennessee
In Union City Tennessee Mrs Hennie Yates pleaded guilty to second degree murder for drowning two of her husband s children after luring them to bathe in a creek last summer in Obion County Resulting sentence ranges from ten to twenty years She was joined by a daughterFlo Ferris who was released to go to Kentucky and the boy survived to raise the alarm
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Associated Press
Nashville
Tenn
Hennie Yates
Obion County
Union City
Floy Ferris
Kentucky
Vice President of Southern By Victim of Gas
Richard D. Lankford the vice president and secretary of the Southern Railway died by gas in his Brooklyn apartment at age 46 a planned marriage to Miss Nellie Patterson was to take place on Saturday a porter found him after smelling gas and forced entry to the bachelor rooms the body was found unclothed in the bathroom a friend cited health and spirits prior to the event and doubted it was self inflicted.
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Associated Press
New York
Richard D. Lankford
The
Southern Railway
Brooklyn
Lankford
Nellie Patterson
Anderson Named Chief Justice of Alabama Supreme Court
Special to The Item Montgomery Alabama January 16 John C Anderson formally accepted the chief justiceship of the Alabama supreme court and was sworn in by General RK F Ligon. Justice Anderson pledged to uphold a just disposition of court business and expected co operation from his associates. He will serve as chief with the term expiring in January 1917.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
John C. Anderson
Alabama Supreme Court
RK. F. Ligon
W. L. Pitts
Uniontown
Justice Anderson
O’neal
Alabama
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appellate Courts of America
Anderson Ee
Royal Mail Liner Cobequid Breaks Up After Wreck Rescue
Captain Hanson and eleven crewmen stay aboard the Cobequid as rescue progresses with the Lansdowne, Westport, and John L. Cann assisting. Seventy-two passengers and twelve cabin crew aboard are saved, while the ship breaks up amid icy seas off Port Maitland.
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McKinnon
Westport
Ae Quid
Cobequid
John L. Cann
Lansdowne
Rappahannock
Trinity Ledge
Yarmouth
Seattle Chinaman Guilty Of Making White Girl A Slave
Harry Toy, a wealthy Chinese merchant, is convicted of violating the Mann white slave law. Goldie Goodell, a white woman, was alleged to have been lured from Portland to Seattle by Toy. The case centers on claims of forced servitude and trafficking.
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Seattle
Associated Press
Wash
Harry Toy
Goldie Goodell
Miss Goodell
Portland
Toy
Ceca Defense
Hartwell Fire Claim Refuted by Henderson Works Leaders
Hartwell's claim for salvage on the tank steamer San Cristobal is challenged by Henderson Iron Works and towboat chiefs. They say salvage charges are excessive, dispute Mobile Tug and Wrecking Co claims, and warn such demands threaten Mobile port business and future repair traffic valued at about 160000 annually with 25000 brought in during the San Cristobal stay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile Tig and Wrecking Company
L Cristobal
Echo
Claude
Sir Cristobal
Hetty Hartwell
Mobile
W Thompson
Inger
Bruce Dry Dock
Oree Pra Henderson
Herson Iron Works
Thompson
Olinger & Bruce Dry Dock
Flow
Thomipson
Jerson
Frank Hesson
Mobile Towing and Wrecking Company
Hartwelll
San Cristobal
General Holabird
Henderson
Holabird
Pearson Oil
Mexico
Vnsa
Hartwell
Bel
Hender
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Dows
Hus
Houghton
Clinton, Miss
Boosters
Tiffany’s
NEW York Bank
Southern
Bath
Anderson
Supreme Court
Royal Mail
Strik
ST. John
N. B
Hanson
Aberdeen
R. F. Powell
W. C. Zoller
Margarite
Dorothy James
R. H. James
St. Georges
Bermuda
Sisters of Charity
William
Wm. Thompson, Pinto Doki
San
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