Columbus Beats Mobile YMCA in Basketball Showdown
Columbus dominates Mobile YMCA 64 to 21 as Columbus forward Ly alone scores 28 points on 11 field goals and 6 free throws. Mobile’s Penny and Soost struggle as Mobile eyes a February rematch on Mobile court to decide Southern title contenders.
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Ap Lin
Columbus
Mobile
Guardier
Radcliff
Soost
Viver Hiete
F.G
Ane
Peddy
Massey
Seeb Denen O Dozier
Newman
Etree
Etewtne
F.G. RF. Soost
Penny
Ebbecke
Tedeawee Baumbhauer
Bankrupt filing and largest in federal history for local firm
Mobilian's Southern Hardware and Supply Company enters voluntary bankruptcy after a second board conference. Liabilities reach 407300 while assets total 300600. Referee Ervin to hear Saturday on receiver selection as efforts continue to keep the business alive. Deposed president Hardaway Young blamed for mismanagement and missing for ten days with searches ongoing.
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Mobilian
Southern Hardware Ad Supply Company
United States
Operens
Ervin
Hardaway Young
Southern Hardware and Supply Company
Young
New York
Crenshaw
Mr. Young
El Dorado Officially Listed as Lost
The Morgan Line freight steamship El Dorado is entered as officially lost after days overdue at Galveston on January 1. The iron coastal trader, with a crew of 39 and no passengers, is believed to have foundered during the January 2 and 3 hurricane.
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New York
Morgan Line
Galveston
Tex
Baltimore
Maritime Exchange
Southern Pacific Railway Company
Golf Date Change To Lure British French Players
A proposed shift of the National Golf championship from June 4 to September would allow several British and French players to compete. Brookline Country Club officials favor the postponement which would bring Edward Wray, the current British champion, to the United States.
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Boston
Brookline Country Club
Edward Wray
Bicycle racers collide in Paris six day event
In Paris on January 18 Cyril Vanhouwaert the Belgian champion and Petit Breton collided during the six day race. Vanhouwaert sustained a broken collar bone a tampleura and internal hemorrhages and is reported in grave condition. Breton was uninjured.
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Paris
Cyril Vanhouwaert
Petit Breton
Bretoh
Women Foil Wreckers Plot In Denver Building
Three women living in a Denver building averted a gas explosion plot at the Standish Hotel area and Equitable building. Police investigated none arrested. Gas jets and supply pipe found turned on at 1615 Stout street, plate broken by a policeman and an A company employee.
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Denver
Col
Standish
Equitable
Stout Street
Miss Freeman Wins In Golf Tournament
Miss M. Eleanor Freeman of Dyker Meadow defeated Mrs. Herbet L. Jillson of Bethlehem NH in the final round of the advertisers midwinter golf tournament at Pinehurst NC. Freeman won three up with one to play. In the men's semifinals HR. M. Furness of Woodland MA will face Marshall Whitlack of Oakland Club NY in the final. Purves defeated D. M. Parker and Whitlack beat George C. Dutton.
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Pinehurst
N. C
M. Eleanor Freeman
Dyker Meadow
Herbet L. Jillson
Bethlehem
N. H
Miss Freeman
HR. M. Furness
Woodland
Mass
Marshall Whitlack
Oakland Club
New York
Purves
D. M. Parker
Garden City
Whitlack
George C. Dutton
Oakley
New Ice Skate Record Set at Western Carnival
Robert McLean of Chicago set a new world ice skating record opening the Western Skating Association carnival. He covered 440 yards in 36 145 reconds.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Robert McLean
Chicago
Western Skating Association
Governor Hooper Vetoes Library and Education Investigation
Governor Hooper vetoed a bill creating a state library and Department of Public Instruction investigation. He argued audits could be cheaper via the state auditor and cited past costs of 20 000 and 35 000 dollars over the last four years.
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Nashville
Tenn
Hooper
State Library
State Department of Public Instruction
Man Pleads Guilty to Assault and Receives 21 year Sentence
John Ray a Black man pleaded guilty in Nashville criminal court to assaulting Hannah Laws an elderly white woman with a handsaw. He received a 21 year penitentiary term after confessing he escaped from Alabama coal mines where he was serving a life sentence for murder.
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Nashville
Tenn
John Ray
Hannah Laws
Ray
Alabama
Weather Records Fall as Penn Team Trains Outside
In Philadelphia on January 17 the temperature reached 62 degrees at 3 p m setting a January high. University of Pennsylvania baseball candidates used the warm weather to practice outdoors breaking local niche records for winter workouts.
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Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
Rain Delays All-America Field Trials in Rogers Springs
Rain fell steadily delaying the derby of the All-America Field Trials Club in Rogers Springs Tenn. Six braces were run with Babblebrook Bob and Charley P selected for the second series. three braces remain in the first series and more dogs may join the second series once weather clears.
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Rogers Springs
Tenn
All- America Field Trials Club
Babblebrook Bob
Louis McGrew
Pittsburg
Charley P
F. M. Stephenson
Chicago
Pocketbook Snatcher Creates Commotion on State Street
Chicago January 18 Earl Bailey 29 from Oklahoma City attempted to steal a handbag from Mrs. F Ackley on State Street. Bailey caused panic as he knocked over a dozen women shoppers during a brief chase before police captured him.
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Chicago
Earl Bailey
Oklahoma City
Okla
State Street
F. Ackley
Ackley
Bailey
Policemen's Union Disbands Under Civil Service Probe
In Chicago on January 1 the Policemen's Union voted to disband following a civil service commission probe into alleged pernicious political activity. The organization once maintained a $60,000 fund used to influence police election matters and faced pressure from city officials and aldermen amid testimony of fear among council members.
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Chicago
United Police
Policemen’s Union
City Civil Service Commission
Civil Service Commission
Texas Railroads Sued For Violating Schedule
Texas files suits in district court seeking 620000 for alleged failure to run train on advertised schedule. The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe is named over No 5 Gainesville to Dallas with 5000 daily for 140 days. Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio Railroad faces separate suit for 30000 in penalties over train delays.
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Austin
Texas
State of Texas
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad Company
Gainesville
Dallas
Galveston
Harrisburg
San Antonio
Police Stop Planned Fight at Omaha Ring
A police squad at Omaha ringside tonight prevented a planned bout between Packey McFarland and Frankie Whitney after Chief Dunn banned boxing days earlier. The incident followed a city crackdown on the sport.
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Omaha, Neb
Packey McFarland
Frankie Whitney
Dunn
Foreigners Prevail Among Chicago Babies
Figures from the compulsory education bureau show 93 of 250,015 children under 11 in Chicago have American born mothers. Foreign born mothers lead with nationalities listed as German Jewish Italian Bohemian Irish Swedish in order. There were 128,351 boys and 121,664 girls. the death rate among children of foreign born mothers was higher than in American families.
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Chicago
Edu 1
Mount Athos to be declared an independent monastery republic
London reports that Saloniki will be declared an independent church republic with monks installed as presidents under the ecumenical patriarch. Mount Athos, 6 350 feet high, hosts many convents chapels and grottoes with monks living as hermits.
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London
Saloniki
Ecumenics
Balkan
Mount Athos
Postmaster in Branchville Resigns After Parcel Post Demand
Branchville New Jersey January 18 A local postmaster Warren C Hursh resigns after a surge in parcels post traffic. Hursh who held the office for many years says he worked seventeen days under heavier load and concluded he is not the right man for the job. He sent his resignation to Washington and plans to leave the post.
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Branchville
N. J
Warret C
Hursh
Washington
Cuban youth pardoned in white slave case in Mobile
Through Consul Leopold Dols the Cuban Mernandez paid a 150 dollar fine and was released after a federal court conference with Judge Toulmin. He will return to Havana where his father Dr M Mérnandes is a medical authority. A woman identified as Dorothy Gilderstein linked to the case aided his defense before the government secured the conviction.
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Leopold Dols
Mobile
M. Mernandez
Federal Court
Toulmin
Mermandés
Dols
Mernandez
Dorothy Gilderstein
New Orleans
Court Awards Pay to Rescuers in Mine
In Birmingham Alabama on January 18 Judge Sharp awarded two Black men $29 each for rescue work after the 1910 Palos Coal and Coke explosion in which 92 men died. The company said help was voluntary. plaintiffs said they were to be paid. The court approved $1 per hour for 29 hours of labor.
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Birmingham
Ala
Palos
Paris Imports Surge in Hair for Fashion Hats
France has increased hair imports to over one million pounds by 1900 with China and Japan as primary sources. A quarter is re exported while milliners drive demand for towering hats supported by hair with traders catering to bargain seekers amid a fashion craze.
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Paris
France
China
Japan
Unclear dispatch from Constantinople to Daily Telegraph
Fragmentary report from Constantinople dated January 16 and routed via Constanţa Romania mentions a mountainous area but lacks readable named facts or events.
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London
Daily Telegraph
Constantinople
Constanca
Romania
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Southern Hotel Buffet
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Harry Horluck
Prop
Mobile Coal CO
ST. Francis ST
EL Dorado
Amerie
George Washington
Bender
Charley
Athletics
Mack
Red Skin
Babeg
Havana
Murray Hill Club
JOS. A. Magnus & CO
Cincinnati, Ohio
U.S.A
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Aio Wala
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