Tew Fined for Liquor Violation in Prohibition Raid
Earl Tew was convicted Saturday of violating the prohibition law and fined fifty dollars plus costs with 20 days hard labor. Detectives testified to two bottles of beer found in the ice box and to Seizing a half-filled beer bottle from a customer, Harry Fitzgerald, who had taken it from a table. Tew resides near Washington avenue and the Louisville and Nashville railroad crossing. he denied selling alcohol. He gave notice of appeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Tew
Tew
Washington Avenue
Louisville and Nashville
Harry Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
Chamber of Commerce names committee chairmen
President E. M. Bailey announced chairmanships for the chamber of commerce standing committees. The list includes W. B. Delchamps civic improvements S. H. Peck conventions and tourists L. W. Savage entertainment John Craft fish and oysters and others for farm lands finance foreign trade and traffic grievance health and sanitation fire protection and insurance investigation inspection and classification legislation and arbitration manufactures and new industries marine affairs membership publicity retail merchants real estate rivers and harbors streets and roads trade expansion taxation wholesale merchants and ways and means.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. M. Bailey
Chamber of Commerce
W. B. Delchamps
S. H. Peck
L. W. Savage
John Craft
J. L. Locke
J. D. Sutton
S. K. Taylor
J.C. O’connell
D. T. McCall
L.E. Carroll
M. D. Kahn
J. T. Pope
Frank J. Yerger
J. H. Sheip
Louis Donald
J. F. Carter
G. W. Adams
FE. H. Britton
Alexander Foreman
Leon Schwarz
S. A. LeBlanc
Mark Lyons
J. Leslie Taylor
E. O. Fowlkes
J. B. Ans Drews
Mississippi teachers face large pay cuts and shortened term
Lauderdale County teachers learned that salaries were cut by five to twenty five dollars on average and the county term was reduced from seven to six months. County Superintendent T C Lockard cited a growing deficit and warned funds would be exhausted in five months without cuts. About twenty assistants were removed from the teaching staff amid protests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meridian
Mass
Lauderdale County Teachers’ Association
T. C. Lockard
J. R. Ellis
Progressiveness Plan Signals Major Political Moves
Progressive Republicans in the Senate and House push a program including government ownership of munitions plants and a rural credit system. They seek to curb taxes on automobile horsepower and repeal war stamp taxes, while advancing child labor and good roads measures. Senator Norris plans ongoing conferences, hinting at a potential split from Bull Moose in Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
House
Chicago
Norris
Nebraska
Mrs Mor May Take Stand In Mohr Murder Trial
Providence January 22 The defense for Elizabeth Mohr Cecil V Brown and Henry Spellman plans to call many witnesses next week amid conflicting testimony from Miss Gertrude Stevens and George W Healis. Captain George H Monahan of the Providence police is expected to corroborate Healis and his confession.
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Providence
R. I
Elizabeth Mohr
Cecil V- Brown
Henry Spellman
C. Franklin Mohr
Gertrude Stevens
Boston
George W. Healis
Mrs. Mohr
Healis
Dr. Mohr
Miss Stevens
George H. Monahan
Providence Police
Monahan
Prohibition Era Liquor Raids Net Large Seizures Across City
Deputy sheriffs Murray Oberhaus and Gunnis seized about 1800 dollars in liquor in raids near Hamilton and Elmira streets, with more than 2000 dollars in two days. Stores and homes along Elmira, Hamilton, Canal and South Water streets yielded whisky beer gin and wine, leading to several arrests and a city wide search ordered by Sheriff Holcombe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murray, Oberhaus and
Gunnis
Hamilton
Elmira
Holcombe
Elmira Street
Hamilton Street
Fishermen's Club
Water and
Eslava Streets
Gunnison and
Bernstein
Bienville Hotel
Rondeau
William E. Flinn
Gunnison
Puckett
Oberhaus
Murray
Walter Shaffer
South Lawrence Street
T. A. Harwell
Canal Street
George
J. F. Flinn
South Scott Street
C. J. Eastman
South Water Street
Feastman
January thunderstorm lifts upper lakes weather report
A fifty five mile gale on the upper lakes swept Detroit with a forecast of zero weather tonight as the storm moved southeast. Reports from the Sea indicated a severe thunderstorm elsewhere while a blizzard raged, and Seo weather records show no other January thunderstorm on record.
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Detroit
Mich
Upper Lakes
Seo Weather Bureau
Believed Schooner Centralia Lacked After Storm Off Oregon
Ten vessels scouring the Oregon coast cannot locate the steam schooner Centralia which sent distress signals this morning as a seventy mile gale rages offshore. The ship’s crew of about twenty men is feared lost as the vessel may have foundered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshfield
Oregon
Centralia
The Garden of Allah at the Lyric Theatre
The Lyric Theatre presents The Garden of Allah by Hichens and de Navarro this Friday and Saturday with a matinee. Scenes include desert dawns a desert town hotel garden sandstorm and monastery emblematic of a world restored. The spectacle features Arabs horses and elephants in a sequence of dramatic climaxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allah
Robert Hichens
Mary Anderson de Navarro
Lyric Theatre
Eee Rels Hae
Ovark Sgearetate
Burglars Enter Store at Clay and Glennon
Burglars broke into the RB, S&S, Edwards store near Clay and Glennon avenues shortly after midnight Friday. No injuries reported. investigation underway.
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S&s
Edwards
Clay and
Glennon Avenue
Thieves Recouped by Shots Fire in Grocery Heist
Officers Connolly and Jackson encountered the fleeing thieves, fired nine shots, nine of which hit the culprits while the robbers escaped with several hundred pounds of groceries and dry goods.
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Connolly
Jackson
Also Mentioned on This Page
TEWS
Lyric Box Fire
Liebler Co
C. OF
Bailey
Mississippi
Ipswich
Chambray
Choic
Mrs. Mor
Booze Crusaders
Mobile
Merchants Bank
ST. Francis Sts
Mobile, Alabama
Sons of the
Arabia
Sheik Hah-Med
Garden of Allah
Enchanting
OF Allah
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