Women’s League plans inaugural ball with dancing
Washington January 25 visitors in town for the inauguration may stay two extra days and attend a March 6 ball. The Southern League of the Women’s National Wilson and Marshall organization will provide a dance featuring turkey trot tango bunny hug and chicken flip as long as decorum is observed. Managers begin planning crowd control and hall arrangements with uncertainty over invitation policy and funding.
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Washington
Southern League of the W Omen
Wilson and Marshall
Golden Coin Record Shipment to South America
The Vérdi steamship sails today with the largest single gold shipment to South America. It carries 101 kegs of coins including half eagles eagles and double eagles totaling 5 050 000 dollars. Fifteen armed guards accompany the cargo as it heads to Buenos Ayres and Rio Janeiro, part of a cumulative 800 million dollars sent south.
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New York
South America
Hati
Vérdi
Buenos Ayres
Rio Janeiro
Peruvi an aviator crosses Swiss Alps in record time
Jean Bielovucci, a Peruvian flyer, crossed the Swiss Alps from Brig to Domodossola in under 30 minutes. He took off at noon and landed at 12:25 PM after awaiting favorable weather since January 9. He followed the Simpson pass route made by Chavez, who earlier died from injuries after a similar flight. A prior January 14 attempt ended at 6,000 feet due to motor trouble.
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Domodossola
Italy
Jean Bielovucci
Swiss Alps
Brig
Bielovucci
Simpson Pass
Chavez
Alps
Montgomery Medicos Honor Sims Memory
The Montgomery County Medical Society marks the centennial birth of Dr. J. Marion Sims with a banquet at the Gay-Teague Hotel in Montgomery. Local physicians include Dr. Edmund New Orleans, Dr. R. M. Dun Birmingham, and Doctors R. I. and E. J. Baldwin.
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Montgomery
Ala
Montgomery County Medical Society
J. Marion Sims
Gay-Teague Hotel
Edmund New Orleans
R. M. Dun- Birmingham
R. I
E. J. Baldwin
Sims
South
Mont
New York
Paris
Mae Freighter Arrives at Charleston After Disabled Voyage
The steam freighter Mae of the Philadelphia and Gulf line, bound for New Orleans from Philadelphia, arrived at Charleston after being disabled on Wednesday. The vessel was reported Lookout stalled and subsequently towed or assisted into port for repairs.
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Mae
Charleston
Philadelphia and Gulf Line
Philadelphia
New Orleans
Warships Rushed To The Porte Amid Istanbul Tensions
Constantinople is described as effectively besieged as Young Turks move to purge opponents. Allies rush warships to reinforce guardships. Italy fears Young Turk return after Libya war. Djavid Bey threatens to fight in Tripoli. Italy deploys cruisers and marines, with two squadrons ready in the Grecian archipelago and Taranto.
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London
Constantinople
Italy
United States
William Rockhill
Turkey
Djavid Bey
Committee of Union and Progress
Tripoli
Admiralty
Grecian
Italinan
Taranto
Action of Young Turks hailed by Bulgarians
The Times correspondent reports European observers find the new Turkish ministry weak since the constitution. Halil Bey, uncle of Enver Bey, is named commandant of Janina and holds the office of Sheik-Ul Islam. Sofia dispatch notes Bulgaria greets the Young Turks with secret joy as hostilities resume.
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London
Times
Constantinople
Halil Bey
Enver Bey
Janina
Sheik-Ul- Islam
The
Sofia
Turkey
Jewish Persecution in Russia Under New Form
In St Petersburg on January 25 the interior ministry will bring before the senate a proposal on allowing Russian Jews to use ordinary Russian first names for themselves and their children. The ministry has long held a man cannot arbitrarily take a different name than that recorded for him.
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Russia
ST. Petersburg
Senate
Ministry of the Interior
Prisoner escape from Mobile jail hospital youths use bed ladder
Nine juvenile inmates escaped from Mobile county jail hospital on Saturday at 1 30 am by breaking a window lock and descending a bed linen ladder about forty feet to the terrace. Five were recaptured by 11 am. Ages ranged five to fifteen. some headed to Mt Meigs reform school. Names and charges listed. five recaptured include Hickman Alexander Bee Davis. Sheriff reports most inmates recaptured by noon. two remain at large.
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Mobile County Jail
Reform School
Mt. Meigs
Ala
W. H. Oates
Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners
Clyde Rayford
Church and
Royal Streets
Marcus Harris
St. Emanuel Street
Church
Delchamps
Brown
Bernstein
George Washington
Cleland Smith
Leon Alexander
Emile Davis
Roland Smith
Sam McCants
Louis Carter
Carl Hickman
McKinley Bee
Mobile
Palmer
Georgian easy mark for Cincinnatians
A. V. Kitchen of Hiwasser, Georgia, was swindled out of 18 dollars by a duo posing as a Canadian guide and a riverbank player. After Kitchen handed over the money to the Canadian, the other man drew a revolver.
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Cincinnati
A. V. Kitchen
Hiwasser
Kitchen
Sisters Reunite After Twenty Five Years In Mobile
Mrs. Della Byron of Brooklyn and Mrs. Louise Bienvenu a Mobile nurse and former New Orleans resident, met for the first time in twenty five years in Mobile through a Times-Democrat story and a long distance call. Bienvenu used the name Louise Brouby to keep her location secret awaiting meeting.
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Della Byron
Brooklyn
Louise Bienvenu
New Orleans
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Byron
Teetzel
Mobile
Montgomery Five Become Directors of Manhattan Life
Five Montgomery citizens gained seats on Manhattan Life Insurance Company’s board at the New York meeting. Ke P Flowers Meyer L Greil Thomas E Lovejoy William H Samford and Broughton Whitfield were named to fill vacancies. Lovejoy reputedly heads the syndicate negotiating for Manhattan Life stock holdings. The May annual meeting is the next major event.
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Montgomery
Ala
Manhattan Life Insurance Company
New York
Lovejoy
Manhattan Life
JamiesonMust Do Time for Killing Conductor Buice
Louis Jamieson a white man must serve two years in the penitentiary for killing W J Buice a street car conductor in Montgomery Alabama last summer Jamieson was found guilty of manslaughter in the city court the case was affirmed by the court of appeals Jamieson shot Buice about his wife.
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Montgomery
Ala
Louis Jamieson
W. J. Bulce
Jamieson
Court of Appeals
Buice
Investigators Question Gay in Pass Investigation
In Denver on January 25 more than twenty witnesses were subpoenaed in the Interstate Commerce Commission inquiry into the use of telephone and telegraph franks. The day’s testimony included railroad and city officials and shippers under Commissioner James S. Harlan.
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Denver
Col
Government
Interstate Commerce
James S. Harlan
Weather forecast highlights cool weekend across states
Forecasts for Alabama and Mississippi call for fair conditions tonight and Sunday with slightly colder temperatures tonight. Light northwest winds prevail as conditions warm Sunday in Mississippi and warmer across the region.
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Mobile
Alabama
Mississippi
Beulah Levee Breaks Flood Waters Across Delta Lands
Beulah levee on the east bank of the Mississippi near Greenville Mississippi broke this morning after foundation settlement in section 6 of the new levee. Fifteen hundred men including several hundred convicts had worked to rebuild after last spring’s flood. The crevasse threatens thousands of acres of Delta farming as the river rises further.
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Vicksburg
Miss
Beulah Levee
Mississippi River
Greenville
Fitters
Lake Jefferson
Memphis
Tenn
Misa
Benoit
Delta
Mississippi
Ohio River at Record Low as Wabash Threatens Homes
Ohio river levels edge toward a record low of 44.7 feet while the Wabash at Terre Haute rises to 21.2 feet. Residents in Taylorville evacuate as flood danger increases and preparations begin for worsening conditions tonight.
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Ohio
Evansville
Ind
Wabash
Terre Haute
Taylorville
Mississippi River Stage Forecast for New Orleans
Local weather bureau predicts the river will rise to 18 feet at New Orleans by February 10, an increase of 2 to 3 feet from two weeks ago. Dr. I M Cline, the local observer, bases the forecast on water already in sight.
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New Orleans
Mississippi River
I. M. Cline
Water Will Rise Higher In Flooded Regions
The report notes Shaw and Beulah Mississippi areas flooded with no loss of life so far. Weather officials expect 40 feet stage with possible higher levels as the White River at Batesville rises and Big Lake water covers St. Francis bottom lands.
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Tenn
Shaw
Beulah
Miss
White River
Arkansas
Batesville
St. Francis
Big Lake
Beulah Crevasse Flood to Devastate Sixty Mile Strip
Waters from the Beulah crevasse threaten flooding along a sixty mile east to west farming belt from near Greenville to north of Vicksburg Mississippi. The Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad tracks lie within the impacted area and the line may be out of service in days.
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Vicksburg
Mias
Beulah Crevasse
Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad
Greenville
Alabama Good Roads Plan Promotes 10000 Members
The executive committee of the Alabama Good Roads Association will meet in Birmingham on Monday January 27 at 12 o clock. The group has mapped out plans to increase membership to 10000 this year to organize...
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama Good Roads Association
Gambling raid nets dozen arrests in uptown apartments
New York police conducted a second raid within a week uncovering gambling among women in uptown apartment houses. A score of men and women in evening dress were arrested, including a well dressed young woman who claimed to be Miss Alice Merrill and faced warrants for keeping a gambling house. She protested that she was entertaining guests at cards. Detectives gained entry by posing at the tables.
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New York
Alice Merrill
Horticultural Society Ends Annual Alabama Convention
The Alabama State Horticultural Society closed its annual convention in Bay Minette with reports from committees and a pruning and spraying demonstration led by Prof. J. G. C. Price. Delegates elected J. H. McCary as president and Prof. Price as secretary treasurer, and a committee was formed to seek a $10,000 state appropriation for horticultural work.
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Bay Minette
Ala
Alabama State Horticultural Society
J. G. C. Price
L. H. Read
Deer Park
Read
J. B. N. Bandsten
F. A. Wolfe
Auburn
J. H. McCary
H. P. Loding
Mobile
Birmingham
J. C. C. Price
Price
P. P. Williams
New Decatur
Expansion of Birmingham Library System Signals Growth
Dr. Thomas W. Owen, after talks with Birmingham city commissioners, states Birmingham has the greatest opportunity for wide expansion of any Southern city. He advises reorganization plans and submits an ordinance to provide library development for at least a half century.
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Montgomery
Ala
Birmingham
South
Thomas W. Owen
City Commissioners of
Owen
Alabama
French repel Moorish attack near Mogador with heavy losses
Near Mogador Morocco on January 25 French expeditionary troops repelled a Moorish assault after several hours of heavy fighting. About 300 Moors were killed or wounded in the engagement.
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Mogador
Morocco
Here
Hotel Men Confident on New York Strike Resolution
Five hundred police were distributed in the hotel district as rioting by striking waiters continued. The Hotel Men's Association abandoned a National Guard call, while 4 000 workers are out and a mass meeting was planned.
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New York
Hotel Men’s Association
Govenor
National Guard
International Hate Workers’ Union
Soldiers Rally in Honolulu Over Charges Against President
United soldiers met in Honolulu on January 25 to raise funds to prosecute Percy L for alleged sI der Horne. The mass meeting condemned the misconduct of soldiers as making the islands unsafe. A reelection to the war department was sought, a grand jury vindicated the soldiers, and a demand for a retraction was refused.
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Honolulu
United Soldiers
Percy L
Kamehamicha
Oahu
Slider Horne
Tar
Diers
T Diers
War Department
Art
Domestic relations court jails husband after quarrel
In Cincinnati on January 25 Judge Fricke heard Mrs. Bessie Belt charge her husband Harry Belt a traveling showman with failing to support and inflicting suffering. The judge sentenced Harry Belt to thirty days in the house after testimony that he was enamored with another woman and that the couple’s quarrel included fisticuffs.
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Cincinnati
Court of Domestic Relations
Bessie Belt
Harry Belt
Fricke
Port of Galveston Sets New Records in 1912 Wheat and Cargo
Galveston Texas reports new records for the season with the largest wheat and cargo handled. The British Ormiston cleared for steadily loaded 240000 bushels on the steamship Hillglede, valued by authorities, amid broad port activity.
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Galveston
Texas
Acco
Ormiston
Hillglede
France
Governor O Neal Returns to Business in Montgomery
Gov ONeill returns to business affairs in Montgomery amid talk of state military board recommendation. City officials and aides report extensive discussions yesterday about executive duties and possible changes in state leadership.
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O’neal
Montgomery
Ala
O'Ni
State Military Board
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Southern National Wilson and Marshall Organization
Buenos Aires
Montgomery Medicos
Inez Milholland
Wilson
the Porte
Montgomerians
Lovejoy and Associates
Ohio River
State Association
T. W. Owen
Gotham Hotels
Slders
Haswaiian Schools
Galvesti
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