Mobile ship work shown by Vivian overhaul example
The Vivian steamship for the Texas Oil Company is being rebuilt on Harrison Brothers' ways as a model for Mobile home workmen using home materials. Local ship workers praise Mobile as a future building and repair center with the city boasting a large drydock and strong foundries. The vessel’s overhaul highlights Mobile's facilities and potential to attract full scale shipbuilding contracts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vivian
Texas Oil Company
Harrison Brothers
Mobile
Gulf Ports
Texas
Gulf
Newport News
Texas Company
Cotton Price Rise as Export Demand Surges
The article notes strong spot cotton sales in the South lifting contract prices to a war era high. European buyers and rising U.S. exports push stocks down, with 200 vessels loading or chartered for March shipments. Domestic mills resume full operation amid improving demand and continued optimistic outlook for cotton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Henry Clews
Europe
Marshall Field & Co
River
Flint
Laurel Lake Mills
Ous
Fae
Campaign Promotes Crop Diversification in Alabama
A statewide drive begins February 3 to raise home food production through crop diversification live stock and poultry. The plan includes hog cholera prevention cattle tick eradication better markets and cooperative marketing with twenty five to 30 meetings planned on farms schools and towns. Leading Alabama farmers advocate diversification and improved marketing to boost success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama
Bryant Named Vice President of Telephone Association
The election of Mr. W. H. Bryant, head of the Home Telephone, to the vice presidency marks national recognition for a man who has built up a high reputation in the business and is regarded as an authority in the field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Bryant
Home Telephone
Telephone Association of
Public work and bond markets in the South analyzed
The Manufacturers Record presents a broad symposium on financing public improvements. It argues for short term serial bonds tied to road building and street work, urging caution and credit discipline while highlighting low material costs and plentiful labor. It notes improving demand for municipal securities in strong communities and urges a nationwide push to create jobs through well justified projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emporata Nnpaleieden Onal
South
Southwest
Cotton Belt
Sion
Bayou La Batre Oyster Fight Seeks State Resource Protections
A Bayou La Batre letter urges Alabama lawmakers to enact stronger natural resource protections for oysters and to shield local factories from interstate competition. The writer argues the 3 cent per barrel tax and $1.50 license burden oystermen, shows home industry supports local jobs, farmers, and Bohemian shuckers, and cites Alabama Canning Company as a past beneficiary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oystars
Oystermen
Oyster Commission
Oystermen’s Protective Association
Alabama Canning Company
State of
Alabama
Bayou LA Batre
Prize hog of the year butchered in Florence weigh 432 pounds
The prize hog of the year for Lauderdale county weighing 432 pounds dressed was butchered in Florence last week. It was raised by E. A. O'Neal, grandson and nephew of Alabama governors by that name. Clarke County Bar Association urged the legislature to preserve current courts or create a law and equity court, preferring to withdraw from circuit and chancery divisions. Dothan and the county may see a Sunday closure order by Sheriff John A. May affecting meat markets fruit stands barber shops and cigars and cold drinks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lauderdale County
Florence
E. A. O'Neal
Alabama
Clarke County Bar Association
Thomasville
Law and Equity
Circuit and Chancery
Dothan
John A. May
Masons Vote on Building Big Temple and Tick Eradication Move
Masons Blue Lodge Scottish Rite and Shrine in Birmingham vote on forming a committee to explore erecting a new Masonic Temple as the present Nineteenth Street and Sixth Avenue building proves inadequate. Probate Judge J H H Smith of Bay Minette names delegates to the State Live Stock Association meeting in Selma and the county backs compulsory tick eradication to be discussed there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blue Lodge
Birmingham
Nineteenth Street
Sixth Avenue
J. H. H. Smith
Bay Minette
State Live Stock Association
Selma
J. T. Bradley
Blacksher
E. 8. Tunstall
Tensaw
W. E. Bryant
George A. Robinson
Stockton
W. D. Stapleton
F. C. Hall
O. G C. Hall
W. J.hall
L. T. Rhodes
Dispensary Closure Forces Madison Huntsville Budget Comments
Officials in Madison county and Huntsville face a $56,000 annual loss after the dispensary’s discontinuance under a state prohibition bill. City commissioners anticipate spending cuts and a required rise in the privilege tax rate to cover the shortfall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntsville
Madison County
Creditors Accept 35 Cent Settlement for Montgomery Fair
The Montgomery Fair creditors accepted a 35 cent on the dollar settlement offered by H. B. Claflin Company at a conference before Referee Asa E. Stratton in the bankrupt court. Auburn men receive invitation to Panama-Pacific Exhibition opening February 20, 1915 from Allen Green Jones of the Auburn Alumni Association in San Francisco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
H. B. Claflin Company
Asa E. Stratton
Auburn
Alabama
South
Allen Green Jones
Auburn Alumni Association of
San Francisco
Man Arrests In Granger Murder Case
Henry Leslie, indicted two years ago by a grand jury for first degree murder in the shooting death of his brother Sam Leslie, was captured near Granger by Deputies led by Alex May and imprisoned in the Houston county jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Leslie
Sam Leslie
Alex May
Houston County
Granger
Gadsden Considers $200,000 Road Building Bonds
At a chamber meeting preliminary steps were taken toward expending 200000 for good roads. Bonds for the purpose had been authorized earlier. Work is expected to start this spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gadsden Chamber of Commerce
Suffrage Group Forms New Local League in Scottsboro
Mrs. Julia Bonelli state organizer for the Equal Suffrage Association and Mrs. Humes from Huntsville returned from a northern Alabama tour delivering lectures. After a Scottsboro lecture a new local league organized with Mrs. Susie Beach as president Miss Virginia Brown as vice president and Mrs. Snodgrass as secretary and treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julia Bonelli
Equal Suffrage Association
Humes
Huntsville
Alabama
Scottsboro
Susie Beach
Virginia Brown
Snodsgrass
Gallant Youth Faces Possible Leg Amputation After Accident
Frank Phillips thirteen year old son of John Phillips of Gallant suffered a leg fracture when a companion threw him during play. Complications arose and doctors fear amputation may be needed if he survives the operation.
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Frank Phillips
John Phillips
Gallant
German Navy Debuts 16-Inch Gun With 25 Mile Range
A German military newspaper in Amsterdam via London announces a new naval gun of sixteen inch caliber with a range of twenty five miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amsterdam
London
Weather Forecasting Proves Its National Worth
Washington letter notes 90 percent accuracy for thirty six hours ahead and outlines how weather reports aid lumbermen farmers railroads and farmers in Florida California fruit belts cattlemen and forest protection. It highlights forecasts guiding plowing thaws frosts floods and fire prevention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victor Elliott
Washington
Uncle Sam
Weather Bureau
Bureau
Florida
California
Fruit Belt
Forestry Service
Victims of Explosion on U S Cruiser Buried With Honors
Funeral services with full naval honors were held aboard the USS San Diego for five victims of the explosion that blew boiler tubes on the cruiser after a steaming trial. The bodies were transferred to the USS Saturn for shipment to San Francisco, with the San Diego set to sail for La Paz the next day.
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U.S. S. San Diego
Guaymas
Mex
San Diego
Cal
U.S. S&s. Saturn
San Francisco
la Paz
Lyceum program and student events at the college
The Lyceum course assisted by the Study Club presented lectures on Womanhood and Human Progress emphasizing education freedom for women. The Friday recital by Thuel Burnham and the mock faculty meeting by Y W C A students drew large crowds and applause for campus improvement ideas.
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Athens
Belle Mina
Decatur
Thuel Burnham
Music Hall
Elizabeth Armstrong
Annie Sloan
Elizabeth Frost
Edith Archibald
Mary Crawford
Laura Alice Harris
Maria Davenport
Annie Welborn
Annie Lawson Bailey
Ellen Wiseley
Pauline Murrah
Margaret Cameron
Merle Batson
Nettye Bagley
Lulu
Trip from Ohio tests Buick on hard drive South
Mr B G Rudder of Prospect Ohio and his son and friend Mr G W Newhall traveled eleven days from Prospect in a 1912 Buick Model 25 to Grand Bay Alabama to develop an orange grove. They faced a blizzard snow sleet and heavy roads but praised the Buick's engine and durability at Adams Machinery and Manufacturing Company in Mobile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B.G. Rudder
Prospect
Ohio
G. W. Newhall
Mobile
Grand Bay
Rudder
Adams Machinery and Manufacturing Company
Royal Street
Buick
Judge W. S. Thorington Dies in Montgomery
William Seawall Thorington former associate justice of the Alabama supreme court died in Montgomery Alabama at the age of veterans of the Civil War and a Confederate army veteran He also held multiple city and state offices and was once dean of the University of Alabama law department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Montgomery
Ala
William Seawall Thorington
Alabama Supreme Court
Law Department
University of Alabama
Adam Glass Shows Slight Improvement After Illness
Adam Glass Sr a famed Mobile furniture man rests at his home on Church and St Emanuel streets after a restless night but shows slight improvement on Monday morning according to bedside reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adam Glass, Sr
Mobile
Church and
St. Emanuel
Thieves Loot Gas Meter and Hen Roost on North Joachim
Police were told Sunday night thieves broke into Mrs. Emma Bates home at 13 North Joachim Street late Saturday. They stole the gas meter for its quarters and carried off six leghorn hens and a rooster, leaving no clue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Bates
North Joachim Street
Notice to non residents in Sutton probate case
Probate Court of Mobile County Alabama directs Mary Ann Sutton will hearing. Notice to Mrs I V Campbell of Memphis Tennessee and others in interest. Hearing set for February 7 1915. Judge Price Williams. Attorneys G L Smith H T Smith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I. V. Campbell
Memphis
Tennessee
Mobile County
Alabama
Mary Ann Sutton
Price Williams
G. L
H. T. Smith
Attys
City Bank and Trust Directors Call Stockholders Meeting
Notice to stockholders declares a meeting of the City Bank and Trust Company board at 11 o’clock on February 11, 1915, in Mobile to consider raising capital from 500,006.00 to 750,006.00. The directors urge stockholders to attend at the banks directors’ room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Bank and Trust Company
Mobile
City and Trust Company
Pickle Party At Oakdale Sunday School Event
The Baraca and Philathea classes of Oakdale Baptist Sunday school hosted a Pickle Party at Mrs Bertha Hempstead's Magnolia avenue home. Attendees enjoyed parlor games and dill pickles with crackers bearing the sign The war is on. Rev B S Vaughn won a large dill pickle in a cracker contest.
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Oakdale
B. S. Vaughn
Oakdale Baptist
Mobile City Limits Redrawn Under Proposed Legislation
Notice of intent to apply for passage of a proposed act to alter and rearrange Mobile Alabama's city boundaries. The description starts at Three Mile Creek and follows the east bank of the Spanish River to Government Street, ending at a concrete monument and returning to the starting point. Includes establishment of new corporate limits and repeal of conflicting laws.
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Mobile
Alabama
Legislatire
Abama
Three Mile Creek
Spanish River
Township Four
Government Street
Mary’s Lane
Mary's Lane
Executrix seeks claims in G A Gavin estate and stockholders meet
Notice by Amelia R Gavin executrix of the G E Gavin estate asks creditors to present claims within legal time. Also announces Mobile and Ohio Railroad annual stockholders meeting at Gulf Terminal Station Mobile on February 17 1915 with books closed January 27 1915. Includes secretary A W Mackintosh and local legislative note on Mobile city boundary changes in January 1915.
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G. E. Gavin
Price Williams
Mobile County
Alabama
Amelia R. Gavin
J. Irwin Burgett
Mobile and
Orio Railroad
Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company
Gulf Terminal Station
Mobile
Ala
A. W. Mackintosh
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Mobile Item CO
Bt Emanusi Gt
Als
International News Service
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Bel
Bankera
Ypres
Deadliar Ie
People’s Forum
U. S
W. S. Thorington
Adam Glass
Legislature
Mobile, Ala
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