Mobilians to Attend Foreign Trades Council Convention
S K Taylor reports strong turnout prospects for Mobile delegates to the Foreign Trades Council in New Orleans January 27 28 29 with at least a dozen attendees from Magnolia Warehouse Mobile Line and other firms plus Fairfax Harrison and Charles Lyon Chandler pledging support and travel offers.
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K. Taylor
Foreign Trades Council
New Orleans
Mobi
S. K. Taylor
Foreign Trade and Traffic Committee
Chamber of Commerce
W. D. Nesbitt
Magnolia Warehouse Company
J.S. Taylor
Mobile and Ohio Railroad
S. A. LeBlanc
Mobile
Fairfax Harrison
Washington
Southern Railway
Mobile and Ohio
Charles Lyon Chandler
Chattanooga
Lyons
South America
Sothern to Quit Stage at End of This Season
New York reports actor E H Sothern will retire from the stage at season’s end and move with wife Mrs Sothern Julia Marlowe to Warwickshire England to make a permanent home. Mrs Sothern had retired earlier due to ill health.
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New York
E. H. Sothern
Rotary Club Plan to Eradicate Ticks in Mobile County
The Mobile Rotary Club voted to back compulsory cattle dipping and place Mobile county on the tick free map. Rotarian A J Parsons urged action citing millions in losses from ticks and potential cattle imports from Mexico and South America. President Palmer Pillans reported on the New Orleans Rotary convention and Cincinnati plans, with committees named to gather signatures and invite visiting Rotarians for a stopover. A ladies entertainments committee was formed and other business items discussed.
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Mobile Rotary Club
Mobile
Board of Revenue and Road Commisioners
A. J. Parsons
H. W. Taylor
E. O. Fowlkes
Jack Ponder
S. A. LeBlanc
Frank W. Evans
Pillans
Cincinnati
Rotarian
du Bois
Rotary Clubs
Rotary
Swamp Root Kidney Remedy Endorsed in Mobile Ad
A medicinal advertisement touts Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a cure for kidney liver and bladder issues. It warns of widespread kidney trouble urges early use and offers sample and book by mail with proof of success stories.
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Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton
N. C
Binghamton, N. Y
Ady
Mobile as Navy Yard Site Feasibility Advocated
Bankhead argues Mobile has vast assets for a naval base including river and coastal access 2000 miles of waterways and multiple steamship lines. He cites low freight costs from the Tombigbee Warrior and Coosa rivers and argues for all year outdoor work and strategic location to support a major seaport and interstate commerce. The speech links Mobile’s advantages to potential naval base or arsenal funding at Gulf of Mexico sites.
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Gulf
Tombigbee
Mobile
Warrior River
Alabama
Coosa
Congress
Rome
Georgia
South
Middle West
Mexico
Cuba
United Kingdom
European
Congress of the United States
Gulf of Mexico
Will Form Plans for Mardi Gras Week
Mobile Carnival Association executives meet at the Cawthon Hotel to map a public carnival program including Bienville Square concerts river events Emperor Felix arrival and parade coronation ball. J G Mason says eastern travelers will boost attendance on routes via Louisville and Nashville.
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Mobile Carnival Association
Cawthon Hotel
Bienville Square
River Front
Emperor Felix
J. G. Mason
Louisville and Nashville Road
New York
Mr. Mason
New Orleans
Illicit Distillers and Retailers Receive Fines
Simon Middleton pleaded guilty to illicit distilling whisky and was fined 100 dollars and sentenced to thirty days in county jail. Virgil Johnson received a similar penalty for retail selling without an internal revenue license. George Childress was convicted of selling without a license and will be sentenced later. Harry Harris faced a mistrial after a hung jury on the same charge.
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Simon Middleton
United States District Court
Virgil Johnson
Internal Revenue
George Childress
Harry Harris
Planters' Cotton Company of Mobile Dissolves
A certificate of dissolution was filed in the probate court Thursday afternoon by the Planters' Cotton Company of Mobile. Stockholders listed are Martin Van Huevel, C. E. Vincent and E. T. Toomer. Children’s Dancing Contest at the Columbia Theatre after the first performance Friday night.
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Planters’ Cotton Company of Mobile
Martin van Huevel
C. E. Vincent
E. T. Toomer
Columbia Theatre
Mobile Urges Wilson Visit to Southern Cities
Mayor Pat J. Lyons forwarded a telegram to President Woodrow Wilson asking him to include Mobile in his proposed southern trip. The mayor promised a cordial reception and urged consideration of Mobile as part of the tour.
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Pat J. Lyons
Woodrow Wilson
Mobile
Toulminville News Briefs Include Church Activities and Local Fires
Prayer meeting at Methodist church and class reorganizations occupy Toulminville, Alabama notes. Sessions on Friday study and choir, plus monthly social planned. Fire destroys Mary Shelton home near Toulminville. Diehl home also destroyed. Various residents noted for illness travel visits and social matters.
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Toulminville
Ala
Methodist Church
D. Y. Register
Methodist Sunday School
Joe Stone
Birmingham
Woman's Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
Platt
E. L. Cole
Government Street Methodist Church
Mobile
la Grippe
George Toulmin
BE. L. Jones
Eleanor Thomas
St. Stephens Road
Edith Cole
Bess Stone
Beth
Alice Greer
Bettie Leonard
Louise Williams
Alice Pistole
Tom Mitchell
Virgil Brown
Ashley Toulmin
Merton Thomas
Diehl
Miss Gertrude Spike Hosts Eighteenth Birthday Party
Oakdale Ala January nineteenth twenty one special reports Gertrude Spike celebrates her eighteenth birthday with a party attended by Christine Dumas Amanda Land Glenna Gatewood Ella Tully Myrtle Tully Hat tie Spikes Edna Bassit Martha Spikes Rebecca Bar attendee list reflects a social gathering with gifts and well wishers in a local residence.
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Oakdale
Ala
Alkali danger in soaps and shampoos
An article warns that soaps and shampoos contain excess alkali which can dry the scalp and brittle hair. It promotes plain refined coconut oil as a cheap, greaseless alternative that cleanses well, lathers richly, rinses easily, and leaves hair soft, bright, and manageable.
Inside Bathing With Hot Water And Limestone Phosphate
A period advertisement urges starting each morning with a glass of hot water and a teaspoon of limestone phosphate to flush toxins from the stomach liver kidneys and bowels. It claims the regimen will cleanse purify and restore vitality for those troubled by constipation biliousness headaches and sour stomachs.
Private John Allen to Speak in Biloxi Adress Planned
Tupelo visitor "Private" John Allen draws Biloxi interest as the Biloxi Tourist Club aims to have him address the Northern and Eastern colony locals. Beach Road reconstruction in Biloxi will start within a week or ten days per County Engineer Galloway's announcement.
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Biloxi
Miss
John Allen
Tupelo
Better Housing for Negroes Is Discussed in Tuskegee
In Tuskegee Alabama a workers conference met to address housing for the race. Speakers highlighted urban white death rates of 14.7 per 1000 versus 12.5 in rural whites and 17.7 among blacks, attributing the disparity to poor housing facilities.
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Tuskegee
Ala
Mobile land sale offers large tracts at low prices
Tracts from 40 to 10 000 acres offered with one quarter cash and liberal terms on balance. Properties in Mobile County described as elevated level and high quality pine soil. Write George Kilborn at 409 North Royal Street Mobile Alabama for maps and price lists. Bell phones 957 J and 2585 J.
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Mobile
George Kilborn
North Royal Street
Union Terminal Station
Ala
Bell
J. Bell
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