Bills on School Funding Stir Alabama Senate Debate
In Montgomery July special session lawmakers clash over funds for the University and Auburn as advocates press for quick action. Senator Lusk seeks postponement until school bills are addressed while suffrage and divorce amendments loom. House fast tracks local measures after revenue bill amendments.
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Auburn
Lusk
Senate
Benster Holmes
Lewis
Kilby
Holmes
Hartwell
Alabama
Mobile
Jones
Barbour
Withers
Gni
Hundley
Safage
Hills
Ways and Means Committee
House
Chamberlain
Mars
Justices
War Expropriation Orders Consume Household Goods
Order from military authorities expropriates all supplies of iron, brass, nickel in households including skillets and pots. Seismographs record strong quakes near Washington from 3 30 to 10 00 p m. Shipping delays persist as freight traffic congested between Sweden and Germany. General Von Vos reported wounded at Metz. Germany imposes travel restrictions at borders.
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Ret Ordans
Brandenburg
Berlin
Washington
Town University
London
Baltimore
Nykjobing
Savannah
Helsingborg
Kirkwall
Enhagen
Tr‘@ede
Stockholm
Sweden
Germany
Basenitz
Erdam
Telegraaf
von Vos
Metz
Rom
Too Many Committees for War Work in Britain
London July 31 The number of committees appointed since the war began has reached eighty eight says the Daily Mail Large numbers of departmental committees with no records to show their work have been formed. The continued multiplication of boards could interfere with the proper conduct of the war.
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London
Daily Mail
Ohio Officials Seek Jobs for Destitute Miners
Columbus Ohio July 30 Officials race to place unemployed southern Ohio coal miners in work, targeting Cleveland and other regions as resettlement efforts expand amid industry closures and hardship.
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Ohio
Solumbus. O
Cleveland
Americans Hold Port-au-Prince Amid Haitian Attacks
Washington reports from Port-au-Prince say the city remains quiet under American control as 400 sailors, marines, and bluejackets defend the town. Two American sailors were killed in Thursday’s attack. Reinforcements including the battleship Connecticut and the navy transport Hancock were ordered to Haiti.
Connecticut Leaves While Sailors Cheer Philadelphia
The battleship Connecticut with nearly 500 marines sailed from the Philadelphia navy yard for Port-au-Prince Haiti to reinforce duties there. Sailors aboard the Connecticut, along with the Minnesota cruiser and the Brooklyn and Columbia, lined the rails as bands played The Star Spangled Banner and cheered. The other note reports President Wilson, low in spirits, receiving word of two American sailors killed by natives in Port-au-Prince and directing full information be sent to him. He stayed indoors, working on correspondence and planned an afternoon automobile ride.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Port-au-Prince
Haiti
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N.H
Wilson
Washington
Miss Catherine Barker Weds Howard H Spaulding Jr Today
Harbor Point Mich July 31 More than 300 guests attend the 4 p m wedding of Catherine Barker of Michigan City Ind and Howard H Spaulding Jr of Chicago. Barker's fortune is reported between 20 and 30 million and she is an orphan. Spaulding, son of Mrs Howard H Spaulding of Chicago, recently graduated from Yale and has worked as secretary to the general manager of Baskell Barker Car Co. The ceremony occurs in Barker summer cottage sun porch with James B. Forgan guardian escorting the bride and groom to a trip to the Orient after the ceremony. Barker is 19 and Spaulding 21.
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Mich
Catherine Barker
Michigan City
Ind
Howard H. Spaulding, Jr
Chicago
Barker
Spaulding
Howard H. Spaulding
Yale
Baskell & Barker Car Company
Barseer
Barker Summer Cottage
James B. Forgan
First National Bank of Chicago
Negro Arrested Here Is Badly Wanted in Selma
A black man named Presley was arrested here late Friday by Detectives Burch Boltz and Hyland on a Selma warrant charging him with a statutory offense. Sheriff Doherty of Selma has been notified and Presley likely will be sent to Selma on Sunday.
Charges Dropped Over False Teeth Incident in St Paul
In St Paul on July charges against Emil Freiden and two doctors for kicking out a man's false teeth were dismissed by police for lack of proper evidence. The case description mentions missing teeth.
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ST. Paul
Emil Freiden
N. G. Mort
Florida Naval Militia Arrives Aboard Reid at Mobile
The U S Reid torpedo boat destroyer flagship of the First Destroyer Division arrives in Mobile from Key West with sixty two men and seven officers of the Florida Naval Militia aboard. The cruise sails gulf waters and docks until Monday before moving to Pensacola for drills and target practice.
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C. B. Mayo
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Key West
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Charleston
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McKenzie
Reid End
Fitemer Militia
Allege Negro Murderer Sheltered After Mob Tension
In Murphysboro Illinois July 31 a mob urged retaliation after the wife of attorney James H. Martin was slain with a hatchet. Sheriff James White aided by deputies moved the suspect Joe Deberry a Black man from the state penitentiary to Harrisburg avoiding a violent mob.
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Murphysboro
Tit
James H. Martin
Joe Deberry
Marion
Harrisburg
James’ White
Carranza forces to retain Mexico City and keep rail lines open
Washington says Carranza agents prepared for talks to assure occupation of Mexico City and continued railway service for food aid. Carranza troops had seized the capital against military advice after U S pressure. Officials say the shift may allow continued control of the capital.
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Washington
Carranza
Mexico City
United States
Carrifiga
Gonzales
Prisoners in Mexico City amid court martial threats
Paul Hudson president of Herald Publishing Company of Mexico City and his staff are prisoners in the capital. Allan Mallory, an American, was assaulted by Zapata followers while carrying diplomatic correspondence. Zapata tore the flag and destroyed the seized papers, calling Americans fools. The Brazilian minister sought Hudson's release but was flouted.
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Mexico City
Tampico
Galveston
Paul Hudson
Herald Publishing Company
High Paper
Hudson
Allan Mallory
Zapata
German Shell Drops in American Field Hospital Front Line
A German shell fell into the mess room of an American ambulance corps field hospital at Pont a Mousson, France. The shell penetrated the floor and burst in the cellar, killing a French orderly and wounding one American slightly. The unit moved its quarters farther back while praise from the French authorities followed.
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Pont-A-Mousson
France
American Ambulance Corps
Paris
Deserter From Regular Army Arrested in Mobile
Reuben Kent, said to be a deserter from the United States Army Twenty seventh Infantry, was arrested Thursday night in Mobile by Officers Mason and Crenshaw. A telegram from Adjutant General McCain, received Saturday, confirmed Kent’s status and that he would be turned over to authorities.
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Reuben Kent
Mobile
Mason
United States Army
Crenshaw
McCain
Kent
Twenty-seventh
United Infantry
Arma
Kent W
Negro Burned at the Stake as Mob Watches in Temple
On the Temple public square at midnight Will Stanley, a Black man, was burned to death after accusations he killed three Grimes children. A mob dragged him to a pyre, shouting and cheering as he struggled. Two other Black suspects were held in hiding after capture.
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Will Stanley
W. R. Grimes
Grimes
Temple
Stanley
Morgan to Return to Work Monday After Yacht Break
J P Morgan, apparently fully recovered from a bullet wound inflicted weeks ago by Eric Muenter, was at his Glen Cove summer home today and had just returned from a two week voyage aboard his steam yacht. He told a family member he was feeling fine as he stepped ashore.
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New York
Eric Muenter
J.P. Morgan
Glen Cove
I.L
Yeate
Mr. Aoe
Four More Trawlers Sunk by Submarine
London reports four Lowestoft trawlers sunk by a German U-boat on July 31. Crews were rescued. The vessels named include the Quest and another not fully readable in the dispatch.
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London
Quest
Evacuation reports as Russian forces pull from Warsaw
Dispatches from London and Geneva describe Russian withdrawals from Warsaw with inhabitants fleeing east. German and Austro German forces push toward Lublin and Vilna while rail links are cut. British observers stress Russia’s loss of initiative and ongoing strategic pressures across Poland and the Baltic region.
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Ivangorod-Lublin-Chelma
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Ghee
Radel
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Tyangorod
Great Britain
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Fee
France
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German Push on Kovno Stronghold Draws Russian Attention
Dispatch from London reports Austro German forces crossing the Vistula by pontoon bridges and preparing river crossings while German advance from the southwest pushes toward Kovno a major fortress in the planned new Russian line. Critics note Wieprz and Riga Poniewesch actions as equally notable.
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Kovno Petrograd
London
Vistula
Wieprz
Travnik
Musk
Riga
Poniewesch
Kovno
Iberian shelled after disregarding orders at Queenstown
Coast Frost from Queenstown reports the Iberian ignored the German submarine's orders to halt and was shelled as a result.
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Washington
Queenstown
Four Americans killed in shelling of Iberian turna-on
Washington awaited details as the United States sought the German submarine warning record and ship’s escape attempt. State Department officials pursued a report on neutral protection for travelers on belligerent merchant ships and the earlier case where twenty Americans were lost after a ship refused to halt.
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Sheila
Frost
Iberian
Surgeon Burns
America
England
Sunderland
F. Ley Cou Ltd
Liverpool
Manchester
Mersey
Jago
United States
Washington
State Department
Fitzgerald & Co. Closes After Forty Four Years in Mobile
Fitzgerald & Co. will close tonight at nine o'clock after forty four years in dry goods and department store business in Mobile. The firm founded by Nicholas Fitzgerald in 1871 ends with Mary E Fitzgerald and Edward T Fitzgerald guiding the closeout and sale by departments after inventory.
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Fitzgerald & Co
Mobile
Nicholas Fitzgerald
Mary E. Fitzgerald
Edward T. Fitzgerald
Ness Fitzgerald & Co
Fitzgerald
Atlanta Man Kills Wife Then Shoots Self After Quarrel
Edwin Ay Moore a former US Army private killed his fifteen year old wife at her parents home in Atlanta and fatally shot himself about an hour later. The couple had recently separated after a quarrel believed to have sparked the tragedy. Weather notes for Mobile Alabama and Mississippi evenings follow.
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Atlanta
Quarrel
Edwin’ Ay Moore
United States Army
Stray Dog Reported From Lexington Avenue Location
Lost and found notice for a medium sized black imaret lace dog with a leather collar on the left hip, strayed from 224 Lexington Avenue. Reward offered for return.
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Lexington
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