Local Mobilian Adam Glass Left Charitable Legacy
A longtime Mobilian, Adam Glass, built a fortune through energy and uprightness while serving the city for nearly fifty years. Before his death he arranged a life insurance policy of ten thousand dollars with beneficiaries including three local charities at five hundred dollars each and two others at one thousand dollars each, along with gifts to a New Orleans charity and a Rockenhausen orphanage, reflecting his nonsectarian generosity.
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Iice
New Orleans
Homie
Rockenhausen
Gerrits
Prohibition Enforcers Seize Beer in Regional Raids
A Montgomery County sheriff led a raid seizing 3,000 beer bottles in one raid and a Mobile County effort recovered 10,440 bottles across eighty seven casks. The incident highlights ongoing prohibition enforcement actions as papers debate local police and editorial reactions.
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Montgomery
Mobile County
Capital City
Advertiser
Mobile
Mobile port praised as cheapest among rivals
The Item argues Mobile’s port charges are lower for pilotage towage and local port costs, even after a $6 rate for heavy draft vessels. It cites New Orleans analyses showing Mobile cheaper on wharfage shed rental and labor, and urges continued reform to maintain the port’s competitive edge.
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Mobile
New Orleans
Board of Commissioners of
Port of
Mobile and Ohio
Southern Railway
St. Louis
W. M. Rhett
Illinois Central Railroad
Gulf
Pensacola
Galveston
Savannah
Worfolk
Pillans
Chamber of Commerce
Midnight at Maxim's shown with extra feature and two films
The Empire presents Midnight at Maxim's a four act cabaret photo play featuring Baroness von Rottenthal and the Maxim Cabaret Girls. The Diamond From the Sky also appears with Lottie Pickford and Irving Cummings. Admission 10 cents adults 5 cents children. the program includes The Sins of the Mothers a V L B E masterpiece with 20 cents admission 10 cents children.
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the Empire
Maxim's
New York
Iomgard von Rottenthal
America
Maxim
Earle Williams
Question Box opinions on coins wind wings and seasons
Answers cover coin premiums for an 1811 half dollar a 1825 silver half and a twenty dollar gold coin with fifty cents. no quotes for the others. It notes linen with casein coatings as best for airplane wings and explains warm weather from Earth's orbital position and direct sunlight on the Northern Hemisphere.
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London Chronicle
Northumberland
Non-Cois of Mobile Form NCO School Details
Mobile battalion of the Alabama National Guard forms an NCO school after a meeting in the armory. The program runs Mondays and Thursdays under Col. F. M. Maddox and Capt. John Mahon until Cmdr. Capt. E. J. Groves returns from the Panama-Pacific Exposition. Capt. W. P. Screws contributed ideas. local officers present include Maddox Groves McMeans Mahon Verneuille and Ahearn.
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Mobile
Alabama National Guard
F. M. Maddox
John Mahon
E. J. Groves
W. P. Screws
Montgomery
H. L. McMeans
Quinn
McDonald
Verneuille
H. L. Ahearn
Mobile teachers examined after 126 applications filed
Superintendent S S Murphy announced 126 applications for public school teaching positions in Mobile county. He set exams at Barton Academy starting Monday through Wednesday, with 72 applicants white and 57 colored.
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Mobile County
S. S. Murphy
Murphy
Barton Academy
Mobile Quiet After Legislature Sacks Excise Board
Hon. Syd Douglass visits the Gulf City and notes Mobile’s excise board was eliminated by the legislature. He says Mobile is quiet since the move, despite Mobile County’s four to one vote for local option and self rule, which was overridden.
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Syd Douglass
Gulf City
Douglass
Excise Board of
Mobile
Mobile County
Governor Winston Quote Highlights Social Tastes Debate
The Montgomery Times cites Governor Winston saying you cannot curb social tastes of American freemen by law. The excerpt also notes Thareca man talks much about bass yet mostly eats bluegills, and remarks on the difficulty of success in certain so called gainful occupations.
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Montgomery Times
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