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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1915
Page
3
The state seeks to arrange with Britain for a single special voyage of the steamship Dacia from Port Arthur Texas to Rotterdam with cotton. The transfer principle of belligerent owned ships to American registry would be waived if this one voyage can proceed without seizure.
In Montgomery on January 15 the Alabama House includes Laverty of Talladega, a blind member, and C. W. Brown of Jackson County, nearly deaf. Laverty acts in caucus and Brown jokes about his hearing as the chamber adjusts to his condition. Brown explains his deafness on the floor.
Schodja Ed Daculeh, former Azerbijan governor, says he and 400 guards held the Miandoab bridge for ten hours to slow Turk advance toward Tabriz. He and only three others survived the assault, fleeing to Julia after refugees escaped to Maragha and all Christians in Miandoab were massacred. Consulates and banks reportedly escaped.
Ben Howard and Eddie Reid two young white boys and J A Henderson a Creola farmer were arrested Thursday night on warrants from E D Coleman for grand larceny. Coleman says two beef cattle valued at 30 dollars were stolen, killed, skinned, and the skins found buried on Henderson's property.
In Bourbon circuit court, Mrs. Olivia Buckner Minakuchi files for legal separation from Rev. Yu taki Minakuchi. The Kentucky belle married the Japanese preacher in 1902 and cites non naturalization and lack of domicile, with an estate valued around $30,000 to $35,000.
Secretary David F. Houston, in Topeka, urged early rural credits registration and backed federal and state rural credits legislation. He said American farmers will dominate the home market and increasingly supply foreign nations, with private funds handling long term loans and cooperative credit unions encouraged under limited government support.
Dr Anna H Shaw and suffrage leaders met President Wilson in Washington and urged support for New Jersey's constitutional amendment. Shaw later said the president seemed likely to issue a favorable statement, though the White House gave no position.
Members of the Mobile Real Estate Exchange will discuss a proposed ejectment law at their January 20 meeting in the Cawthon reception hall. The group favors significant changes to the current law and broad support for helping productive farmers while discouraging less effective ones.
George A. Maloney reports from Prof. L. M Duncan that the movable school of agriculture will delay its Mobile county itinerary until after Mardi Gras. The visit was planned for late January and will align with three days of Agricultural sessions at Gulf Coast Home Products Days.
Montgomery January 15. Representative Claude A Grayson of Mobile introduced a joint resolution in the Alabama House urging the governor to direct state and county tax commissioners to halt further collection efforts tied to solvent credits and credits of value. The measure follows a Mobile meeting where a Tax League was formed.
The notes indicate talks planned for February 16 to 17 and mention the school will travel to Mobile later with the exact date to be announced.
Leon C. Palmer, prominent Sunday school leader from the South, will address the Mobile YMCA Hart Auditorium Sunday afternoon under the Father and Son movement. The talk centers on the Bring or Send theme for Sunday school participation.
The board re elected all officers at the annual meeting held Tuesday afternoon. Buck remains president, Lyons vice president, Tonsmeire cash and Cody and Thomas assistant cashiers, Baith trust officer, John F Lsen assistant trust officer. Colonel William A Mann promoted to brigadier general.
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