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Newspaper

The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Jul 20, 1913

Page

2

Close Deal with Great Britain Stirs Senate Debate

A Senate debate centers on a resolution asserting constitutional rights of American citizens abroad. Senator Fall presses for reading of the Democratic platform while Senator Kern objects to the measure. The foreign relations committee shows strong support for maintaining the Monroe Doctrine.

Lution Mexico Kern Senate Fall Mr. Fall Tillman Senator Tillman Overman New Mexico Bryan Foreign Relations Committee

Downfall of Mellen Signals End of High Finance Tactics

The piece argues the collapse of President Mellen at the New Haven Railroad marks a warning to wealth power and monopoly. It urges capitalists to heed public sentiment, favors reform through democratic oversight, and predicts arbitration will balance wage and corporate demands amid volatile markets.

Mellen Morgan New Haven Railroad Morgan People Money Power New Haven Rockefeller Congress United States Board of Mediation and Conciliation Stock Exchange

Seattle Martial Law: Short, Violent Rioting Clears

Reported two day unrest in Seattle ended with limited injuries and few arrests as saloon openings resumed and ships forbid shore leave. Secretaries statements and a call for lawful reform frame the action while sailors and militia faced potential raids as Daniels defends free speech and ballot as remedy.

Times Office Washington National Park Inn Daniela Daniels Washington City Seattle

Girl Bandit Nellie Gray Arrested After Robbery

Brooklyn police arrest 18 year old Nellie Gray on charges of highway robbery against 11 year old Eunice Hail. Gray allegedly accosted the girl at Meserole and Manhattan Avenues, forced her into a hallway, and took 4.50 dollars before fleeing. Edward Reilly and Officer Eckman pursued and overpowered her. she offered no statement at arraignment by Magistrate Reynolds in Manhattan Avenue court.

Eunice Reynolds Manhattan Avenue Meserole Manhattan Avenues Nellie Meserole Avenue Edward Reilly Eckman Greenpoint Avenue

Heat records fall as Macon boils at 104.5 degrees

Macon Georgia records a new heat high at 104.5 degrees as a cloudburst near Jeffersonville causes crop damage and reports one death and two heat prostrations. An escaped convict named Buddie Chisholm is arrested by Patrolmen Conniff and Mabry for alleged escape from a Florida turpentine camp.

Buddie Chisholm Conniff Mabry Turpertine Florida Chisholm

Cumberland Sanitarium advert seeks patients in Lebanon

Morphine guarantee promises a cure with no payment until satisfaction. Treatment offered privately at home or at the sanitarium in Bandera Cumberland Sanitarium Lebanon. References available at Union Bank Trust Co American National Bank or any citizen of Lebanon.

Union Bank & Trust Co American National Bank Lebanon Cumberland Sanitarium Bandera Mgt

Larger Home Needed for Wayward Girls in Alabama

Miss Ophelia E. Amigh, superintendent of the Alabama Home for Refugees for Wayward Girls in Birmingham, pleads with Governor O Neal for a 200 acre farm to be held in trust until a legislative transfer. She urges sale of the current home and ongoing reform efforts while awaiting state action. The governor has publicized the appeal to urge immediate private support.

Montgomery Ala Alabama Birmingham Ophelia E. Amigh O'Neal Mists Amigh

Georgia socialite's husband found by neighbor sleuth

Mrs. D B Chiles, a Jones county neighbor and friend of Grace Barton Cuyler, located Telamon Cruger Smith Cuyler after detectives failed. Cuyler, a cosmopolite, was found at his Jones county plantation veranda, triggering renewed notes from Mrs. Cuyler in a California divorce suit.

Svho Cuyler Bearder Telamon Cuyler, Jr California San Francisco Jones County Georgia

Maedale dog becomes leader of wolf pack

In Butte Montana a large Airedale named Bisley owned by W H Reber was killed while leading a pack of wolves near Red Lodge. Three wolves were shot. Bisley had been a prized hunter on the Reber ranch and disappeared last winter, with locals noting his leadership of the wolf pack before the fatal encounter.

Rosebud Lake Bisley John Dunn Mr. Dunn Sifky Atill

Bryan outlines Nicaragua treaty with United States powers

Secretary Bryan told the senate foreign affairs committee Nicaragua is ready to ratify a treaty granting the U S the right to build an inter oceanic canal, naval access at Fonseca Bay, and control over Great and Little Corn Islands in exchange for a 3 million dollar lump sum, plus a US debt guarantee. The plan includes the Platt amendment applying to Cuba and drew Democratic surprise while Republicans kept silent.

International News Service Washington Bryan Senate Committee On Foreign Affairs United States Nicaragua Fonseca Bay Cuba O'Gorman Mr. Bryan Taft Mr. Chamorro

Woman in Auto Not Revealed at Moran Trial

In Mercer County, New Jersey, the identity of the woman in the car with Brooklyn’s Joseph F. Moran during the April 6 Princeton fatality remains undisclosed. Moran and chauffeur Irvan A. Hoffman face manslaughter charges as the defense argues innocence while Hoffman weeps and Moran appears deeply affected during proceedings.

Devlin Gaichiel Crossley Hoffman Moran Backes

Death of Swedish or Norwegian Woman Near Oak Forest

Unofficial inquiry into the death of a neatly dressed young woman found hanging from a fence post near Oak Forest indicates suicide. The body shows strangulation by a cloth noose. she was not bound and her possessions are not described.

International News Service Chicago Oak Forest

Cardinal Gibbons Says He Will Turn 78 and May Die Soon

The Baltimore cardinal spoke softly that next Wednesday he would be 78 and may not live much longer. He expressed readiness to answer when called and reflected on long life and a sudden passing.

North Charles Street

Mississippi Troops To Encamp At Biloxi

State troops will encamp at Biloxi for ten days starting July 21. They travel by Gulf & Ship Island Railroad in a three section special train with twenty four passenger cars eleven baggage cars and two palace horse cars. First section due Gulfport 6 am Monday. Sections assembled at Hattiesburg from soldiers arriving from east and west.

Gulfport Miss Biloxi Gulf & Ship Island Railroad Louisville & Nashville Railroad

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