Allies move toward action as concert of powers coalesces
A note from allied plenipotentiaries to Rechad Pasha signals a detachment from peace talks begun December 16 as events in Constantinople and on the Chatalja lines stir Turkish politics. Germany asserts Asia Minor interests, pledging support and warning against foreign encroachment while Austria-Hungary readies two warships.
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Ted Press
Stojan Novakovitch
Proson
Rechard
Chatalja
Turkey
Ud‘ Shefket Pasha
Enery
Conople
Darda
Austria-Hungary
Tantinople
Tripolichard Pasha
Lindon
T. Theodoroff
Balkan
Asia
Baron Hans von Wangenheim
Germany
Asia Minor
Negro saved by rope breaks in transit near Athens
A dispatch from Athens Alabama reports Tom Mitchell, a Black railroad section hand, was hurled from a moving freight car north of Athens on a charge of injuring foreman W. R. Duncan. The rope broke, leaving Mitchell alive but imprisoned in Athens after recovery.
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Nashville, Tenn
Athens
Ala
Tom Mitchell
Ing
W. R. Duncan
Louisville Andville
R Ai
Mitchell
Syndicate Plans Restore Old Bay Shore Drive In Mobile
A Mobile syndicate of businessmen seeks to restore the Bay Shell road, destroy ed by 1996 hurricane damage, reopen it with a small maintenance toll, and eventually have the city and county purchase it. Negotiations focus on reviving the rights of the old company to preserve the drive for public use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bay Shell Road
Mobile
Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners
Bay Shell
Monroe Park
County ’ Board
Decision Expected On Mobile Sewer Bond Issue
The Mobile sewer bond of 100000 authorized by voters on September 2 faces a pending Supreme Court ruling next week. City Attorney Boone said a favorable decision is anticipated in Realty Investment Co. v City of Mobile, challenging ballot conformity in chan cery.
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Mobile
Supreme Court of Alabama
Boone
Realty Investment Company
City of
Smith
Supreme Court
Alabama
Saulsbury Elected U S Senator From Delaware
Willard Saulsbury, a Democrat, was elected United States senator from Delaware to replace Harry Richardson. The vote followed a week of Democratic deadlock as four lawmakers blocked the caucus nominee to push for the seat to go to their county.
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Associated Press
Dover
Del
Willard Saulsbury
United States
Delaware
Harry Richardson
Saulsbury
Woman Dies in Prayer at Holy Name Cathedral
In Chicago on January 29 Mrs. Kate Corby died while kneeling in prayer at Holy Name Cathedral. She was about sixty eight years old and had left home with her daughter shortly before while reported in good health.
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Chicago
Holy Name Cathedral
Kate Corby
Debutante Mar guerite Faust Delays Wedding Over Vaccination
In Philadelphia on January 27 Miss Marguerite Faust, a debutante, refused vaccination prompting a postponement of her marriage to Carold D. Haines. She has been quarantined and will stay in her apartment for eighteen days due to a nearby smallpox case.
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Philadelphia
Marguerite Faust
Carold D. Haines
Faust
Government Waste Flaunts Idle Treasury Funds Loss
A House committee report forecasts a Goeke bill for compulsory deposit banks. It asserts government idle cash could earn 2 to 3 million dollars yearly if banks bid for deposits and pay interest. The plan estimates up to 150 million dollars in potential gains since 1886 with a 2 percent rate.
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Associated Press
Washington Yan
Treasury
House
Goeke
House Committee On Expenditures
Treasury Department
Oil Prices Jump Again as Pennsylvania Crude Tops 1995 Peak
The South Pennsylvania Oil Company set Pennsylvania crude at 2.26 dollars, the highest since 1995, with Mercer Black at 1.79 New Castle and Corning, Cabell 1.86 Somerset 1.32 and Ragland 0.70. Industry excitement grows for a renewed oil boom across Western Pennsylvania Eastern Ohio and West Virginia.
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Associated Press
Pittsburg
South Pennsylvania Oil Company
Pennsylvania
Mercer Black
New Castle
Corning
Cabell
Somerset
Ragland
Ohio
West Virginia
Thousands Visit National Corn Show Livestock Day
Several thousand visitors flocked to the National Corn Show grounds in Columbia South Carolina for Livestock Day. The event featured the annual meeting of the South Carolina Live Stock Association with talks on how large crop yields affect livestock raising and remarks by agriculture department experts. The conference of plant breeders began with sessions last night drawing attention from attendees.
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Associated Press
Columbia 8. C
South Carolina Live Stock Association
Department of Agriculture
Conference of
New South Memphis Flood Threat Ends Mis North Rise
New South Memphis faces flood impact as Mississippi River waters return after the levee break at Big Lake. Weather officials predict crest today with a three tenths rise since last night and local plants race to build protection levees amid rising flood waters and damaged logs further down river.
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Associated Press
Memphis, Tenn
Mississippi River
Big Lake
Weather Bureau
New South Memphis
Owsing
Stoneville
Misa
Orty Mile
Patton Cotton Corner Case Reopened By Supreme Court
The U S Supreme Court ordered an immediate mandate to the federal court in South New York reversing a lower court ruling that indictments against James Patton Eugene B Scales Frank B Hayne and William P Brown for conspiracy to corner cotton did not state an offense under the Sherman anti trust law The action allows the case to return to trial and raises the possibility of new indictments as the statute of limitations nears expiry Solicitor General Bullitt cited time limits and the potential for further indictments or settlements before trial set to begin in New York once papers arrive.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Department of Justice
Patton Cotton
Federal Court of
South New York
New York
James Patton
Eugene B. Scales
Frank B. Hayne
William P. Brown
Solicitor General
Bullitt
R. M. Thompson
Chicago investor predicts Mobile county land boom
Charles Line of Chicago head of Mobile Chicago Development Company says many Illinois Iowa Indiana investors will put about one million dollars into Mobile county farm and fruit lands in the next year. He credits Mobile land congress and the Mobile exhibit at Chicago Land Show with boosting values and notes citrus fruit and year round truck farming as key advantages.
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Charles Line
Chicago
Mobile Chicago Development Company
Mobile
Battle House
Mobile County
Line
Illinois
Iowa
Indiana
Fined for Vagrancy in Inferior Court
Julia Noyd colored was fined 101 dollars or fifty days in jail for vagrancy. Lizzie Noyd was fined 51 dollars or thirty days. William Williams Oscar Rice James Woods Louis White Ed Johnson James Hughes and Charlotte Fleming were fined 25 dollars or twenty days. Ed Phillips bond for abusive language was ordered forfeited.
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Inferior Criminal Court
Julia Noyd
Lizzie Noyd
William Williams
Oscar Rice
James Woods
Louis White
Ed Johnson
James Hughes
Charlotte Fleming
Ed Phillips
Day in Congress Reports Debates And Committee Actions
Senate opened at noon with ongoing debate on the Lever agricultural extension bill. House discussion began on the Lincoln memorial bill. Sundries schedule reviewed by Ways and Means for tariff revisions. Currency reform hearing continues. McGuire bill for 2 200 000 state fair buildings rejected by the agricultural committee. Shipping pool probe with E M Bull testimony. Judiciary votes to act on workmen compensation next Saturday and interstate liquor shipments bills Monday. Railroad interests urge Kenyon uniform freight classification before Interstate Commerce.
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Ways and Means
Currency Reform Committee
McGuire
Shipping Pool
Merchants Marine Committee
E. M. Bull
Judiciary Committee
Interstate Commerce Committee
Weather outlook summary for region forecast
Forecast shows light variable winds and fair conditions across states. Tonight and Thursday expect fair skies in Alabama Mississippi and Florida with frost possible in some areas. Temperature trends indicate mild to cool temperatures through Thursday evening.
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Florida
Boundary dispute deepens as Austria Russia clash
In St Petersburg officials warn of a delicate standoff over Albania boundaries. Russia claims Scutari and Janina for Albania while asserting Drizend Joska and Ipek belong to Serbia. Austria may press further, prompting a conciliatory Russian reply amid public pressure.
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Associated Press
ST. Petersburg
Russia
Austria
Albania
Scutari
Janina
Drizend
Jakosa
Ipek
Servia
Puublic
Medical College Seeks Federal Pay for Mobile Claim
The Medical College now University of Alabama School of Medicine expects a federal payout of about 3500 to 5000 dollars for the Mobile occupation damage. The claim covers destruction and use of the building by federal troops during the Civil War era and has lingered in Washington for over fifteen years.
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Mobile Medical College
School of Medicine
University of Alabama
Washington
E. D. Bondurant
Medical College
Mobile
Rhett Goode
Yonge to Wed in Montgomery Miss Anna Tapia to Wed Walter D. Yonge
Walter D. Yonge of Mobile will marry Miss Anna Will Tapia in Montgomery tomorrow afternoon at 4 o clock. His best man is Dr L F Wilson and Philip Yonge of Pensacola will attend. The couple plans to return to Mobile around February 6.
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Walter D. Yonge
L. F. Wilson
Mobile
Montgomery
Anna Will Tapia
William H. Hicks
Flomaton
Yonge
Wilson
Philip Yonge
Pensacola
Suffragette Hunger Strike In Fourteen Day Jail Stay
London January 29. General Mrs. Drummond and thirty militant suffragettes begin a fourteen day jail term for insisting on a Commons deputation to Lloyd George. They pledge hunger strikes and denounce police treatment as they refuse fines.
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Associated Press
London
Drummond
David Lloyd, George
House of Commons
Demand Comfort and Happiness for Old Soldier
In a Senate report from Santa Monica Cal the special committee investigated the Pacific branch National Home for Disabled Soldiers. The authors urged more liberal appropriations for food and improved housing and cooking facilities to ensure comfort and happiness for veterans.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate Today
Pacific
National Home For Disabled Soldiers
Santa Monica
Cal
Heavy shortage on school lands in Alabama precedes Willingham
Special examiner of public accounts uncovers missing funds from sixteenth-section land sales set aside for education in Alabama. Governor’s briefing hints at a multi year discrepancy. Willingham’s tenure not implicated. Examiner McCall works to trace past sales and missing records. report due soon.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Department of Education
Willingham
McCall
Postal Employes S.Campaign For Taft To Be Investigated
Washington Jan 29 senate campaign expenditures committee plans early investigation into alleged post office department activity in President Taft campaign. Chairman Clapp may call Postmaster General Hitchcock and Republican national chairman Charles D Hilles, plus other campaign officials, to testify on receipts and expenditures.
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Taft
Associated Press
Washington
Post Office Department
Senate
Clapp
Hitchcock
Charles D. Hilles
Geo
Government Ready 10 Close U 5 Steel Case
Ore expert Nelson testifies in the government suit to dissolve United States Steel. He says Hill ore leases paid 85 cents a ton while 1907 royalties averaged 45 cents, and notes 1909 1910 leases reached 1.86 a ton. Witness claims the company takes out every ton before 1915.
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Associated Press
New York
United States Steel
Steel Corporation
P. H. Nelson
Frederick R. Kellogg
Trustees of
Hill Lands
Nelson
Lake Superior District
Hill Trustees
Minnesota
Great Northern
T Bret
Oliver Mining Company
Hill
Russians Will Ignore America In Agricultural Tools
The Russian department of agriculture tested over 100 reapers mowers rakes and other implements from Canada and Europe in 1912 to reduce reliance on American machinery. Results show many Canadian and European tools perform well and could be manufactured in Russia. The government will distribute the report to cooperatives and local boards to encourage substitution of non American implements. About seventy two percent of machinery business is currently held by American manufacturers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
St, Peter&surg
Russian Department of Agriculture
Russia
Canada
Department of Agriculture
Mongolians Call For Russian Assistance
An urgent request from Mongolia asked Russia for aid against Chinese forces in Manchuria threatening the new Mongolian state. Mongolian authorities said troops are ready and disciplined as they seek support after recognition of independence.
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Associated Press
ST. Petersburg
Manchuria
Jacana
Mongolia
Coach Pat Dwyer Named Georgetown Varsity Coach
Washington January 29 reports Pa Dwyer former Alabama football coach is engaged as Georgetown University varsity coach for the upcoming season. The move places Dwyer in charge of the Georgetown football program after his tenure with Alabama.
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Pat Dwyer
Georgetown
Associated Press
Washington
Pa Dwyer
Alabama
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