From Frying Pan Into the Fire in Ohio Prison Case
Associated Press report from Ashtabula Ohio dated January 26 states Carl S try recently sentenced to an indeterminate Ohio penitentiary term has been fed as Charles Dewey from Wethersfield Connecticut who was sent to prison in a box last April. Authorities traced Berry's identity through letters with a Connecticut girl but halted when learning Berry must first complete his Ohio sentence.
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Associated Press
Ashtabula, O
Carl S.try
Thisty
Ohio State Penitentiary
Charles Dewey
Wethersfield, Conn
Berry
Connt
Ohio
Dewey Sentenced for Robbery and Escape at Prison
By Associated Press. Dewey was sentenced to the inecticul state prison here for way robbery. He was put to packing shirts in the prison fac. On April 3, 1913, he secreted iself in a box nearly filled with shirts, pulled in the board covers with which he had arranged for the se and was carried away to the lit depot. His escape was not veted until hours later.
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Associated Press
Wethersfield, Conn
Bixler to Address Mobile Trades Council Meeting
M H Bixler publicity man for the pro fair will speak to the Central Trades Council Monday night. He will outline purposes and benefits of a fair for Mobile and mobilize citizen support. Members are urged to attend and a full assembly is requested to familiarize all citizens with the project.
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Central Trades Council
Monnight
M. H. Bixler
Profair
Richmond Woman Credits Cardui With Curing Years of Ills
Mrs N V Willis of Richmond Kentucky says after three years of womanly trouble and ineffective treatments Cardui the womans tonic improved her quickly. She took four bottles and was cured able to work eat freely and feel like a 16 year old. She praises Cardui as life saving and continues to rely on it. The ad notes Cardui is a plant based remedy and offers a 64 page home treatment book from Chattanooga Medicine Co.
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N. B
Ladies’ Advisory
Chattanooga Medicine Co
Chat- Tenn
Woman suffrage circles split over division and rivals
Washington reports a split in the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage as Mrs Russell McLennan lead a faction to form a rival body. The break prompts alignment with the National Woman Suffrage Association under chairwoman Mrs Medill McCormick who welcomes new members. Major donors include Mrs O H P Belmont of New York with 5000 and Mrs Ella S Stewart with a 27 large contribution.
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Associated Press
Washington
Congressional Union For Woman Suffrage
Russell M. MacLennan
National Woman Suffrage Association
Medill McCormick
Alice Paul
MacLennan
O. H. P. Belmont
New York
Ella
Stewart
Illinois Equal Suffrage Association
County Board Grants Mobile Boys Detention Fund Increase
The Mobile county board approved continued funding for the Mobile Boys Detention school and agreed to an extra $25 monthly, pending a 30 day over period. They also allocated state aid road funds totaling about $3,277 for 1911–1913 and adopted temporary convict camp rules.
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Mobile Boys’ Detention School
County Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners
Mobile County
Rhett Goode
J. St. George Tucker
Henry Forchheimer
D. H. Edington
J. C. O’connell
F. I. Thompson
George Fearn, Jr
O’connell
Hagan
Gaillard
Mobile
John Craft
Don Farnsworth
George A. Maloney
Chamber of Commerce
W. A. Kenopke
Green
Broad Street
Virginia Street
Baltimore
Washington Avenue
Cedar Point Road
Virginia
Conception
Southern Structural Steel Company
San Antonio
Tex
W. S. Kellar
St. Elmo
Irvington
Speer Oppressive on Federal Bench Reported in Savannah
Savannah dispatch reports the congressional committee examining Judge Emory Speer of the U S District Court Southern District of Georgia began witness testimonies in Savannah after Macon sessions. Local attorney Alex A Lawrence contends Speer oppressed and rarely drew juries in open court, raising questions about jury selection practices.
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Associated Press
Savannah
Congressional Committee
Emory Speer
United States Court, Southern District of Georgia
Macon
Webb
Pro
Washington
Judge Speer
Federal
Greene-Gaynor
Speer
Lawrence
Woman's Heroism Saves Sleepers at Hotel Fire
Mrs Edward Walton wife of the Hotel Walton proprietor in Homestead Pittsburg suburb awakened fifteen guests by wrapping a blanket around her head and moving through blazing corridors. Guests escaped in night clothes before the hotel burned to the ground with a loss of 35000 dollars.
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Pittsburg
Edward Walton
Walton
Homestead
Mysterious Midnight Auto Trips Baffle Alabama Towns
In Gadsden Alabama City Attalla and Birmingham residents watch for a mysterious automobile circulating at midnight. Authorities suspect the car transports liquor illegal to state law and plan to pursue the vehicle. A prior holiday incident saw a liquor laden car halted in Attalla and the goods released due to lack of proof of illicit intent.
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Gadsden
Ala
Alabama City
Attalla
Birmingham
Magic City
Demand for Southern pig iron exceeds current supply
Southern pig iron manufacturers report selling more iron this month than they will produce, with expectations of further sales this week to cover output through most of the first quarter of 1914. Inquiry for orders into the last half of the year appears, and prices for No. 2 iron have risen about 11 dollars per ton and remain asked.
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Birmingham
Ala
Boh
Falling Trolley Wire Injures Motorman on Marine Street Line
A trolley wire on the Marine and Broad streets line broke Sunday at 7 45 injuring Motorman E Shipworth in the face. Traffic delayed about an hour as cars switched to the Wilkinson Street route. The report ends with a stray fragment about a guest in Tarley.
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Marine and
Broad Street
E. Shipworth
Marine Street
Wilkinson Street
L. N. Bulletin Offers to Promote Mobile Fair
The L. N. Passenger Bulletin proposes a write up on Mobile with prominence for the soon to be held fair. President A. J. Parsons of the Chamber of Commerce endorses the move and highlights Mobile attractions.
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A. J. Parsons
Chamber of Commerce
Mobile
Courts Hear Equity And Law Docket In Mobile Monday
In Mobile court notes Judge Safford Berney presided Equity Monday with George Rogers versus Dinah Reese et al set for January 27 on demurrers. The equity docket will be called Tuesday at ten for setting hearings in equity week and February. Law Side heard motions and demurrers including Pooley and Bachellor vs James McMahon and Abbie Debriere vs M C Martinolich Co. Judgment entries followed before Tuesday calls. Chancery Monday included Emma Watson vs George Harris decree pro confesso and several City of Mobile cases listed for hearings.
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Law and Equity
Hon
Safford_ Berney
Equity
George Rogers
Dinah Reese
Pooley and Bachellor
James McMahon
Abbie Debriere
M. C. Martinolich & Co
John Hakanson
Alice EB. Hedden
United Export Lumber Co
Gulf States Shipping Co
Alice M. Hedden
Haywood Bros
Bloch
Thomas H. Smith
Emma Watson
George Harris, Sr
Rosa Jones
Edgar B. Jones
John C. Dean
W. B. Paterson Mercantile Co
City of Mobile
Glass
Virginia Oberkirch
Julia F. Russell
Kate T. Touart
N. R. Leigh
Essemena Hanlon
Emilie de Riviere Et al
Claire A. Darling
de Murrers
Vinci restores health in a sick child, Brooklyn mother testifies
A Brooklyn mother praises Vinci for helping her 9 year old daughter Louise, who was anemic and weak. She reports appetite and vitality improvements within two weeks of starting the remedy and guarantees satisfaction with every bottle. Sold by Van Antwerp Drug Co. Mo.
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Louise
Vinci
Geo. E. Munro
Brooklyn
N. Y
Van-Antwerp Drug Co
Case of Oysterman Lossing Continued in Local Court
In Fowlriver a man charged with trespass on Mobile Fish and Oyster Co. property appeared in inferior criminal court. Louis Lossing, accused of pointing a firearm at Armisterts, was fined ten dollars or ten days. Alcey White, captured after escaping a county convict camp, received an additional six months hard labor. Gladys Broadnex and Sallie Williams were fined five dollars or ten days for vagrancy. Rosie Battles faced twenty five dollars or twenty days for public drunkenness. Randolph Weeks, charged with assault and battery, was fined twenty five dollars.
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Fowlriver
Mobile Fish & Oyster Co
Louis Lossing
Armisterts
Alcey White
Gladys Broadnex
Sallie Williams
Collision Kills Horse In Street Run In
A horse owned by grocer M. Rosner was killed after a collision at Eslava and Conception streets around 11 am Monday when struck by an auto. The vehicle fled the scene and the driver’s identity was not learned. The horse’s rider or handler did not confirm the car number.
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Eslava
Conception Streets
M. Rosner
Joseph Patt
Sumter canvass shows Underwood favored for senator
Reports from Sumter county hall indicate a canvass in one precinct found the entire voting population supporting Oscar W. Underwood for senator. News suggests Hobson may lose in his own district.
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Underwood
Sumter
Sumter County
Oscar W. Underwood
Hobson
Representative A W Duckett Opens New York Address
A W Duckett of 17 Battery Place New York N Y appears in a brief notice detailing his role as a representative. The item confirms his address and position in the surrounding civic record.
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Astern
A. W. Duckett
Battery Place, New York, N. Y
Railroad Schedules and Train Times Across Lines
Train listings show departures and arrivals for Mobile Ohio, Southern, and related lines. Entries include St Louis Chicago Limited, Mobile and Meridian routes, and Pensacola, with times ranging from early morning to late afternoon and notes on Sundays.
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Sssccore
Mobile
Ohio Railroad
Misc
Texas
St. L.cim-Cbhi, Ltd
Mobile & Meridian
N.o
Mobile & Bay Shore Railroad
Southern
Thomasville Ke
Union Leaders to Face Trial in Moyer Conspiracy Case
Charles H. Moyer head of the Western Federation of Miners and six other union officials are expected to be arraigned in Houghton Michigan this week on conspiracy charges. A Denver attorney for the Federation says the leaders will voluntarily return to answer indictments from a special grand jury tied to copper miners strikes. Thirty-one miners indicted similarly were ready to plead. The cases may not be reached this term due to a crowded docket.
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Houghton, Mich
Charles H. Moyer
Western Federation of Miners
O. N. Hilton
Denver
Moyer
Improvements Planned for St Marys School Grounds
Extensive upgrades are planned for St Marys Parochial School including new classroom furniture, an iron fence enclosure, flower beds on the south and west plots, and a playground with tennis and basketball courts. Outdoor swings gymnastic equipment and a circular cinder track will be laid out by an overseer. To fund the project the ladies of St Marys will host a lawn party on May 6 and 6.
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St. Mary’s Parochial School
Ladies of
St. Mary's
Civil Service Exams Announced For Navy and Plant Bureau
Civil service examinations have been announced for an assistant in paper plant investigation male in the bureau of plant industry and a nautical expert male in the hydrographic office navy department both February 18.
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Bureau of Plant Industry
Hydrographic Office Navy Department
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve Best for Frostbitten Skin
For frost bitten ears fingers and toes and chapped hands Bucklen’s Arnica Salve stops the pain at once and heals quickly. A best remedy for skin diseases itching eczema tetter and rough skin. 6 cents at all druggists or by H B Poe age & Co Philadelphia or St Louis.
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Bucklen
H. B | Poe “Age & Co
Philadelphia
St, Ip
Wheeler's bid for district office praised for reform and progress
The passage promotes Mr. Wheeler as a Mobile family representative with deep ties to local clans and a history of service. It warns against alliance with county subordinates and portrays Wheeler as advancing businesslike administration, highway work, and fair labor returns, noting his Civil War loyalty and postwar reconciliation with Northern settlers.
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Wheeler
Captain Murray
Charles Wheeler
Burgetts
Dunlaps
Murrels
Shields
Rubbas
Mobile
Elmore Davidson
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N. V. Willis
Cardus
Cardui
Congressional Union
Cheney
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P. O. Cafe
Dauphin Street
Harry
Shee
Government Street
Alabama
Norborne R. Clarke
Said
Revenue and Road Commissioner
Ben. L. Hamilton
Seeberg Steamship Line Incorporated
Leeward
Windward Islands
Ss. S. Crathens
Kingston
Jamaica
Jamaican
Port Au Prince
Haiti
Ss. S. Alm
St. Croix
Guadeloupe
Martinique
Barbados
Trinidad
Ss. & Cratheus
Hayti
S. S. Hilding
Santo Domingo
Port Aud Prince
West Indian
Crathens
Seeberg Steamship Line, Inc
City Bank Building
Ene
North Alabama
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N. O
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Cin. Ltd
Mail & Ex
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Orles
Chicag
Mont
N. Oo
Pi In. Ltd
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Gayfer’s
Houghton
ST. Mary’s School
Civil Service Examinations
S. P. Gaillard
Josiah Wheeler
Citronelle
John Simmons
Mr. Wheeler
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