Pillans Defends City Wharfage Charges as Fair Practice
Mobile wharfage charges apply to all freight, opposing claims of river-up bias. Commissioner Harry Pillans declares the city’s modern wharves and sheds require revenue from use, noting no discrimination against up-river traffic and detailing extensive improvements and cargo handling.
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Mobile
Alabama
Tombibee
Warrier
Harry Pillans
Tuscaloosa
City Commission
Pillans
New Orleans
Pensacola
Mississippi Coast
Bay
Sound
Albanian Front Shifts as Scutari Falls to Austrians
Across Europe reports detail Austrians occupying San Giovanni di Medua near Scutari and Montenegrin defenses collapsing at Tarabosch. British losses near Kut el Amara cited as 3,000 dead, while Bulgarians press into central Albania and Essad Pasha coordinates with Entente allies.
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Berlin
Sayville
Mesopotamia
London
Albania
Esead Pasha
Tiarana
Brindisi
Exchange Telegraph Company
Elbascan
Essad Pasha
Prohibitionists Lose in Louisiana Governor Race
Early returns from the state wide Democratic primary show Ruffin G. Pleasant winning the gubernatorial nomination with a 35 000 to 40 000 edge over Thomas C. Barret. Pleasant carried New Orleans about 25 000 of 30 000 ballots with parish majorities of 12 000 to 15 000. Prohibition was a key issue, Pleasant backing retention of the legal option law while Barret supported a constitutional amendment for statewide prohibition. Fernand Mouton led among lieutenant governor hopefuls. Other offices saw James J. Bailey win as secretary of state.
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New Orleans
Ruffin G. Pleasant
Shreveport
Mr. Pleasant
Thomas C. Barret
Barret
Fernand Mouton
Lafayette
Pleasant
James J. Bailey
Sioux Indian Joins White House Guard in Washington
A Rosebud Sioux man from Tripp County South Dakota has arrived in Washington as a member of the capitol police. He is one of the few native wards serving to guard the White House and public buildings. He took the job to show loyalty, owning a 940 acre Dakota ranch and an automobile.
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Tripp Co
S. D
Washington
Capitol
Uncle Sam's
White House
Dakota
Great Naval Show to Form a Part of Local Mardi Gras
Mobile plans a grand 1916 Mardi Gras naval display with cruisers destroyers submarines and other warships. General Chairman C B Hervey says a chamber of commerce committee will visit Washington to seek vessels and will meet Navy Secretary Daniels for support. Congressmen and senators from Alabama will aid, aiming to surpass prior city parades with strong naval participation.
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Mobile
C.B. Hervey
Chamber of Commerce
Washington
Capital
Secretary of the Navy
Josephus Daniels
A. J. Parsons
Horace Turner
Frederick I. Thompson
Rittenhouse Moore
John T. Cochrane
Oscar L. Gray
Oscar W. Underwood
John H. Bankhead
Alabama
Hervey
Congress
Daniels
Lucedale Doctors Fight Knife Duel in Drug Company Office
In Lucedale Mississippi Dr J A Dorsett and Dr W W Eley, partners in a drug business for years, fought in the Lacedale Drug Company office Monday night. Eley was slightly wounded. Dorsett cut deeply, two arteries severed, but not fatally. Eley is jailed on bond awaiting February 12 preliminary hearing.
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Lucedale
Miss
J. A. Dorsett
W. W. Eley
Lacedale Drug Company
C. E. Jones
J. C. Griffin
Dorsett
Eley
Mobilians Headed to Foreign Trade Congress in New Orleans
Led by S K Taylor a group of Mobilians will depart tonight for New Orleans to attend the conference of the Foreign Trade Congress council. The delegation includes James S Taylor A LeBlanc Horace Upton W A Powell W K Syson Le Baron Lyons J B Waterman J S Barstow L C Irvine A P Bush H H Wefel Jr F C Thompson J M Walsh W D Nesbitt Laeio W Hooper James Gibboney and J W Brumter.
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S. K. Taylor
New Orleans
The
Foreign Trade Congress, Council
Mr. Taylor
James S. Taylor
A. LeBlanc
Horace Upton
W. A. Powell
W.K. Syson
LeBaron Lyons
J. B. Waterman
Barstow
L. C. Irvine
A. P. Bush
H. H. Wefel, Jr
J. M. Walsh
W. D. Nesbitt
Ll. Ae Io
Government Will Build Ships But Not Run Them
President Wilson met with Senate and House leaders to discuss the shipping bill, a tariff commission, and the Philippines bill. The administration plans to buy or build ships and lease or sell them to private parties, with government operation only if no buyers or lessees exist, and a $50 million appropriation for ship construction or purchase.
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Washington
Wilson
White House
Senate
House
Philippines
Kitchin
Fitzgerald
Appropriations Committee
Clark
Senate Commerce Commission
Simmons
Senate Finance Committee
Fletcher
Shipping Board
Clarke
Finance Committee
Vardaman
Rivers harbors panel limits projects to authorized ones
Washington Jan 26 The rivers and harbors committee voted to include no new projects in the forthcoming bill and to confine appropriations to those already authorized, capping total at about 44 million dollars.
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Washington
Rivers and Harbors Committee
Postmaster to Install Sixty New Mail Boxes Citywide
To accommodate population growth, Postmaster Thornton will install sixty new mail boxes at convenient spots in residential sections. The boxes have been shipped and are expected daily.
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Thornton
Congress Actions and Treaty Debates Update
At noon the foreign relations committee discussed Colombian Nicaraguan and Haitian treaties. The military committee continued its hearings on army reorganization. Senator Hitchcock proposed an amendment to the Philippine bill granting independence in two to four years. House committees heard defense witnesses while Secretary Garrison urged passage of the general dam act to revise water power development.
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Nator Hitchcock
Garrison
House Interstate Commerce Commission
Tokio lists seven concessions not granted in spring
London reports the Japanese government sent a note to the Chinese minister in Tokio, reiterating seven demands from last spring. The Manchester Guardian warns the proposals threaten China's independence and would imply foreign tutelage, while Britain advocates a strong, independent China and stresses mutual interests.
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London
Tokio
Manchester Guardian
Guardian
China
Japan
the Guardian
Twenty One Demands to China January 1915
The article recalls Japan presenting twenty one demands to China on January 18 1915 in five groups. Group five the general group drew the strongest protests and included seven provisions on advisers hospitals police and arms deals. The United States sent a note to Japan querying three points and Japan replied March 22. May 25 treaties and notes outlined practical conclusions, with group five remaining a focus.
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Japan
China
Shantung Province
Germany
Shantung
South
Manchuria
Inner Mongolia
Hanyeh-Ping Company
Group 4
Group 5
General Group
Fukien
U. S
United States
American Consolidated Storages proposed chain of cold warehouses
Indianapolis January 26 plans for a cooperative chain of cold storage warehouses from Kansas City to the Atlantic coast were announced by William J. Hogan president of the Indiana Refrigerating Company. The holding company will have 10 to 20 million dollars capital and operate by April 1 with members in Indianapolis Kansas City Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus and Baltimore. Arrangements for export trade have been made in Baltimore.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Kansas City
Atlantic Coast
William J. Hogan
Indiana Refrigerating Company
American Consolidated Storages
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Columbus
Ohio
Baltimore
Hogan
Six Months Would Build Delta Road
Captain T W Nicol consulting engineer says the Delta road and bridge could be completed in six months real work time and ready for fall tourist travel. His firm Nicol Hume will handle surveys not contracts. Baldwin County to authorize a location survey February 14 to fix route and bridge site. Road built by dredging a channel and using soil for foundations. top surface of clay and gravel at least one foot deep. System shown successful in similar land elsewhere, speedy and not more costly.
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Delta
T. W. Nicol
Mobile
Baldwin Counties
Nicol
Nicol & Hume
Baldwin County
Dominion liner Norseman sunk report reaches London
A Riverpool message to the Exchange Telegraph Company reports that the Dominion liner Norseman has been sunk. The update comes from London dated January 26.
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Norseman
London
Riverpool
Exchange Telegraph Company
Dominion
War at a Glance Sets Key British War Position
The Bristol conference on compulsory military service and a proposed blockade of Germany dominate today’s debate. Labor’s stance is pivotal after past opposition. Austria pushes along the Adriatic toward Albanian ports, while Rome watches Italian gains in Durazzo and Aviona amid Entente alignment.
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Bristol
Germany
House of Commons
England
House of Lords
London
Great Britain
Adriatic
San Giovanni di Medua
Rome
Aviona
Durazzo
Eesad Pasha
Albania
Entente
Remember Orozco Rally Echoes in Villa’s Western Chihuahua War
Reports from the border say Francisco Villa on the western Chihuahua front uses the shout Remember Orozco to fuel hatred of Americans and recruit for his cause. Foreigner sources note Orozco’s death and Villa’s praise of him inflaming local followers. A Cheyenne exchange indicates 36 Americans jailed in Chihuahua City as Villa withdrew, with Chinese and Japanese shop looting and arson cited.
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EL Paso
Tex
Francisco Villa
Chihuahua
Carranza
Orozco
Villa
United States
Ojinaga
Texas
Chihuahua City
Americans Quit Minaca on Way to Chihuahua City
An American employee of the Yaqui Road or Yaquiro Development Company at Minaca Chihuahua left yesterday on a special train guarded by Carranza soldiers for Chihuahua City. The American Consul at Queretaro reported General Carranza showed a desire to comply with U S demands to protect Americans and their interests.
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Minaca
Chihuahua
Washington
Yaquiro Development Company
Carranza
Chihuahua City
State Department
el Paso
Silliman
Queretaro
United States
Coal Conference Postponed to February Eighth
Indianapolis January 26 The joint conference of bituminous coal operators and mine workers, scheduled for Mobile starting February 1, is postponed to February 8 at the request of President White. The United Mine Workers session opened with the workers unable to finish their work this week and deciding not to suspend work after contract expiry while negotiations continue.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Mobile
White
United Mine Workers of America
Mine Workers’ Convention
Presider
Boston University student dies from basketball injury
James Milne of Barre Vermont a second year BU student died last night from injuries suffered in a Saturday basketball game. Fifty three thousand dollars was raised in Cincinnati for Jewish relief in Europe at a meeting under the American Jewish Relief Committee. A Lloyds report says the Norseman was beached with three lives lost and a Reuters note says Ford peace talks committee arrived in Stockholm to stay until negotiations begin.
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Boston
James 8. Milne
Barre
Boston University
Inj J
Cincinnati
Europe
American Jewish Relief Committee
London
Llroyd
Norseman
Reuter
Stockholm
Lost suitcase and items on Tel graph road a note
A small tan suitcase marked J Everett and other papers went missing on Tel graph road between Saraland and Mobile. Rewards offered at St Andrew Hotel and at 55 George Street. A plain pink cameo pin is also lost. A bull terrier puppy nine months old, about 35 pounds, buckskin with white, strayed from 56 New Street Francis Street. Contact 1175. Red.
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Telgraph Road
Saraland Mobile
J Everett
St. Andrew Hotel
Childers
George St. Is
New St Francis Street
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