Aliens warned on citizenship
Thousands of aliens who declared intent to become citizens may be barred from naturalization if they do not file final applications by September. Richard K. Campbell, commissioner of naturalization, sent letters to chief examiners nationwide. About 40,000 have declared intention but not filed final papers, many before the 1906 law requiring finalization within two to seven years.
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Associated Press
Washington
United States
Richard K. Campbell
Jacob Treiber
Arkansas Federal Court
Mobile May Get First Regiment for Camp This Summer
The first and fourth regiments will encamp between August 4 and 11 with camps to be selected in the coming days. Colonel G. J. Twubbard and E. H. Graves were assured they could proceed with arrangements. Indications point to the First Regiment going to Mobile and the Fourth to Birmingham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
G. J. Twubbard
E. H. Graves
Mobile
Birmingham
Citizenship delays and sales update in local notices
The notice outlines that certain applicants must wait two years if they fail to file final applications by September 27 after the new act. It also reports ongoing sales for Odd Chair and Rocker items and notes a Rockers Tie event.
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Adam Glass &Ct
Ady
Garden Contest Prizes Awarded by Mobile Horticultural Society
Earle Macartney and Kirk Wilson were announced as Class A and Class B winners at the Mobile Horticultural Society Garden Contest awards meeting held at the Chamber of Commerce. Prizes included cash and plant equivalents from local firms with multiple class winners and a committee authorized to study ordinances on agriculture.
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Earle Macartney
Government Street
Kirk Wilson
North Ann Street
Mobile Horticultural Society
Chamber of Licommerce
John Douglass
H. A. Demeranville
CC. CC
Society
Warle Macartney
Paul Thublin
van Antwerp Drug Corporation
N. Ann Street
Mingo Floral Co
F. M. Wainwright
St. Michael Street
City
J. M. Chiepalich
Old Shell Road
Georgia Avenue
Mobile -Horticultural Society
Anita McNeil
Negress
Washington Avenue
Rapanel Semmes School
Mater of Better
Final farewell to Brazilian minister aboard Minas Geraes
Brazilian minister of foreign affairs Dr Laura Muller sails home aboard Minas Geraes as American warships circle and crews exchange cheers. A wireless telegram from Dudley Field Malone aboard the Delaware confirms the departure and note of official visit conclusions.
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Assocliated
New York
Minas Geraes
Dudley Field Malone
Delaware
Laura Muller
Brazil
United States
Dr. Muller
Montgomery Snake Charmer Ends With a Shot
Ragtime music drew a huge snake into architect T Weatherly Carters music room in Montgomery Alabama. Alarmed, Carter shot and killed the visitor after it approached the piano near 29 Burton Avenue. A rattler had invaded John Metcalfs dining room a week earlier on Finley Avenue.
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Montgomery
Ala
T. Weatherly Carter
Burton Avenue
Carter
Robert E. Lee
John Metcalf
Plitt Furnishes Whitman Facts on Graft Ties
New York July 18 Charles B Plitt Jr press agent for former Police Lieutenant Charles Becker submitted a five page confession to District Attorney Whitman detailing alleged graft links between the police system and the under world The document mentions a civilian attache at police headquarters and minor officials and is linked to Becker already under death sentence at Sing Sing for Herman Rosenthal murder the year ago yesterday
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Associated Press
New York
Charles B. Plitt, Jr
Charles Becker
Whitman
Underworld
Plitt
Becker
Sing Sing
Herman Rosenthal
Wells Fargo Stock Put Into Circulation
American Express directors decided to distribute 45 000 Wells Fargo shares to stockholders, valued at about 5 000 600 dollars, to be issued at one Wells Fargo share for every four American Express shares. The stock was acquired years ago in a Union Pacific agreement and was intended for eventual distribution.
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Associated Press
New York
American Express Company
Wells-Fargo & Co
American Express
Wells Fargo
American Company
Union Pacific Railroad
Wells-Fargo
Tampering Suspected With State Exam Questions
State Superintendent Henry J. Willingham reports possible tampering with sealed questions for the state teachers' examinations. An Florence applicant was offered the list for 160 dollars at a hotel. the offer was refused and reported to Florence police. The inquiry seeks to determine if any breach occurred before exams start Monday.
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Montgomery
Ala
State Department of Education
Henry J. Willingham
Florence
Willingham
Jasper Depot Case In State Supreme Court
Northern Alabama Railroad Co filed for rehearing in the Alabama Supreme Court seeking to overturn its Jasper depot decision. The court previously reversed a Montgomery city court ruling and dissolved an injunction, upholding the railroad commission power to require joining a union station at Jasper. The case stems from Rail Commission vs Northern Alabama Railroad Co. and may be acted on in the fall.
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Montgomery
Ala
Supreme Court
Northern Alabama Railroad Company
Jasper Depot
Railroad Commission
The
Jasper
Gunter
Crosby Delivers Slip for Union Pacific Dissolution
Frederick V. S. Crosby, treasurer of the Union Pacific, carried a paper representing about 88 million dollars into the Central Trust Company. The document completed the first step in dissolving Union Pacific and Southern Pacific as ordered by the courts. The trust company will distribute the stock to non-holders, with the certificate covering Union Pacific holdings of Southern Pacific.
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Associated Press
New York
Frederick V. S. Crosby
Union Pacific Railroad
Central Trust Company
Trust Company
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
Pennsylvania Railroad
Baltimore and Ohio
Reward for arrest of transfers fraudsters at Mobile Light
One hundred dollars reward will be paid for the arrest and conviction of any person defrauding this company by the unlawful use of transfers. Mobile Light & Railroad Co. adv-T-13-5t.
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Mobile Light & Railroad CO
Seeking Information Lands Bandit in Jail San Diego
J Elmer Vendll, wanted in Los Angeles for jewel robbery, was arrested in San Diego after detectives overheard him in a saloon asking where to pawn jewels. Missing jewelry found in his room. police say he confessed to Carson robbery. Vendell denied involvement in Pendell murder as LA cops link him to both crimes.
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Associated Press
San Diego
Cal
J. Elmer Vendll
Los Angeles
C. J. B. Carson
Carson
Veneil
Charles E. Pendell
Woman Held for Murder in Chicago Shooting
Mrs Elizabeth Desamone was formally charged with the murder of James Acques a West Side restaurant owner. Acques body was found with four bullet wounds in a vacant lot behind Mrs Desamone's home bail set at five thousand dollars.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Elizabeth Desamone
James Acques
West Side
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Hippe
A. B. Garretson
Order of Railway Conductors
Adam Glass & Co
Melody
G. Stengle
Plainfield
N. J
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Faust
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