Shortage in Office of Tax Collector in Pass Christian
Pass Christian Mississippi report details resignation of tax collector Natit J. Northrop after shortages totaling 1635 dollars. Former ex-collector K L Thornton and others are cited for missing receipts and overdue taxes not turned in. Crook proposes actions pending further review.
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Pass Christian
Miss
Lewis E. Crook
Cothe
J. Northrop
Wasp
Natit
K. L. Thornton
Sewer Improvement Bonds Sale Ordered in Gulfport
The Gulfport board of mayor and commissioners approved selling a $15,000 sewer and fire improvement bond issue despite a protest from about 200 taxpayers and voters. Citizens consider seeking an injunction against the sale while Captain William I. Davemy, national rivers and harbors official, lectures.
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Gulfport
Miss
Board of Mayor and Commissioners
Prizes Announced for Spring Hill and Auburn Tech Players
The athletic director at Spring Hill College asks The Item to announce prizes from L Hammer Dry Goods Co for the best feature in today’s opening game at Monroe. Ed J Higgins Candy Co offers a box of candy to any player who gets a two-base hit or better in the series.
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Spring Hill College
L. Hammer Dry Goods Co
Auburn Tech
Monroe
Court actions and motions in chancery docket
Docket lists decree pro confesso in Anderson vs Exchange Land Co. and pro on amended bill in Sally Irby vs M Irby. Rochstein vs Exchange Land Co. taken from call. Holmes et al vs Star of Hope on motion to amend pit. Fehrle divorce decree after testimony. Wheeler vs Viola Wheeler dismissed for want of prosecution. Day vs Ahrendt et al submitted on report of reference. Vincent vs Vincent and Friday call includes Conniff and Cobb and Davis cases.
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Thomas H. Smith
J. D. Anderson
Exchange Land Co
Sally Irby
M Irby
Elizabeth Rochstein
Mary E. Holmes
Star of Hope
Norvine Thompson Fehrle
Harry Fehrle
Haywood Wheeler
Viola
Wheeler
J. W. Day
G. A. Ahrendt
Port
Lucinda Vincent
Henry Vincent
Georgia Conniff
William C. Conniff
George Cobb
Emma Cobb
Hattie Davis
Elijah Davis
Law Side Hearings Set For Saturday
Saturday call list includes John L. White against Mobile Hoe Co. R W Fagan against Herron Lumber Co. J P Schock against Mo Colg Co. Berney presiding in the matter.
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Hon
Safford Berney
John L. White
Mobile Hoe Co
R. W. Fagan
Herron Lumber Co
J.P. Schock
Mo Colg Co
Chancery Court Friday Motions and Submissions
Report of sale submitted in Sarah I. vs John R. Robinson case. Sarah Sutton sues Mobile Jackson and Kansas City Railroad Co. seeking security for costs with motion set for June 7. David Kenyon and Rose T. Kenyon motions noted to set aside submission on merits and amend bill. John Butt petition for disability removal. order for affidavits. George Cobb v Emma Cobb and Hattie Davis v Elijah Davis dismissed for want of prosecution.
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Thomas H. Smith
Sarah I
John R. Robinson
Sarah Sutton
Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Railroad Co
David Kenyon
Rose T. Kenyon
Ted
John Butt
John Henry Butt
Georgia Conniff
William C
George Cobb
Emma Cobb
Hattie Davis
Elijah Davis
Five Men Bonded For Good Behavior After Raid
Five of nine men arrested in a raid on a gambling house at 108 1 2 eee were each placed on $150 bond for six months or fifteen days in jail in the recorder’s court. Walter Shafer J W Dupree Robert Turner T H Harrison and Wiley Rawls were released while Aaron Middleton Chester Chandler and Jerome Warren were discharged for lack of evidence of gambling. The case hinged on whether gambling occurred though paraphernalia and $461 were found in the room.
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Harris and Newbern
Walter Burch
Recorder’s Court
Walter Shafer
J. W. Dupree
Robert Turner
T. H. Harrison
Wiley Rawls
Aaron Middleton
Chester Chandler
Jerome Warren
Medical College Muddle Settled in Mobile
Acting Dean T H Frazer says only hospital facility assurances remain to keep the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Mobile. He met with Dr George H Denny and officials in Tuscaloosa and reported that public threats to move the school to Birmingham have been addressed. Denny urged alumni and Mobile residents to press for legislature funding to cover a deficit expected at about 23 000 dollars annually. Governors Henderson and Searcy, plus other dignitaries, plan to attend Mobile events for the Alumni banquet and school commencement.
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School of Medicine
Mobile
T.H. Frazer
Tuscaloosa
University of Alabama
George H. Denny
Frazer
Birmingham
Denny
Sister Regina
City Hospital
Mobile Brid
City
Céephas
U. S. Public Health Service
United States
Marine Hospital
Charles
Formal Opening of Lyons Park Postponed a Week
The formal opening of Lyons Park is postponed from tomorrow June 5 to Saturday June 12 due to uncompleted hydrants and equipment. Commissioner Lyons announced the delay to keep the park unfinished out of public view until upgrades are complete. Two basic courts and decorative lighting are planned, with architect George B. Rogers overseeing lighting plans.
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Lyons Park
Lyons
George B. Rogers
Apoplexy Ends Raymond Nassano at Davis Avenue Pool Room
Raymond Nassano, 38, of Cincinnati and Mobile resident for fifteen years, proprietor of a pool room on Davis Avenue Fisher's Alley, died at 9 45 AM from apoplexy at his business. He is survived by his mother, two sisters in California, and a sister in Cincinnati. Nassano belonged to Mobile Lodge of Moose.
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Raymond Nassano
Cincinnati
Ohio
Mobile
Davis Avenue
Fisher's Alley
California
Moose
Countess Pardoned After Murder Sentence in Italy
Milan reports Countess Marie Tarnovsky, jailed since May 1910 for complicity in Count Kamarowsky’s Venice murder, has been pardoned and released. The trial, also involving Dr Naumoff and Attorney Prilukoff, drew wide attention as a dramatic criminal case in Italian history.
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Italy
Milan
Paris
Marie Tarnovsky
Kamarowsky
Venice
Dr. Naumoff
Prilukoff
Venetans
As You Naumofft
Rey
Vienna
Count Kamarowsky
Escatawpa Social Notes Include Visits and Ball Tie
Light showers graced Escatawpa on Sunday and Monday. Local residents, including Mrs. George Doughty and Miss Clyde Lane, are mentioned with visits to relatives, churchgoers at Oak Grove, and social gatherings. The Escatawpa ball team tied Browns Mill in their fourth game, with Browns Mill refusing a playoff.
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Escatawpa
Ala
George Doughty
Topton
Ruther Linam
Tibby
Oak Grove
J.G. Williams
Daphne
Mae
Fannie Blanch
Lina D Causey
Nathan Williams
Virgie Causey
Lane
Clyde Lane
Manton Wilson
Marietta Campbell
Williams
Joel Thornton
Susie Jordan
J. Williams
Mis
George Daughty
Bob Campbell
Jessie Lewis
Leo
Burns
Grary Personal Social Notes From Crary Alabama Picnic
Semmes and Crary schools hosted a well attended Saturday picnic with a large dinner and lemonade served by local children. Afternoon ball game Semmes beat Pine Grove 13 to 0. Numerous residents from Mobile and nearby areas attended and several visitors and teachers are named among those seen at the event.
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Crary
Ala
Semmes
Pine Grove
Burnis Graham
Mobile
Cora ‘Lee Davis
Tte
Walter Boyle
Charlee Cane
Henry Bethea
Goode
Annie l Hoffman
Annie Mae Krassin
Kate Curry
Lillian Stockman
Grace Snow
Weena Burfoot
Francis Ripple
Mattie Stewart
Otto Snow
Chas
Guy Adams
Wilton Lord
Clarence Berens
Cialis
Olive Cheney
John Sirmon
John Newton
B. Graham
J. A
Thelma Lewis
Charlies Cogburn
Doyle Erkenback
BR. B. Dies
Indian Springs
American Mine Guards Killed in Oaxaca Mexico
All guards of the American Consolidated Mining and Milling Company at Tavachie Oaxaca were attacked and killed last Tuesday night. The incident, reported by Vice Consul Catrera K. Robinson in Oaxaca, confirms the guards were Mexican. The mining property is described as very extensive.
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Oaxaca
Mexico
Waco
Texas
American Consolidated Mining and Milling Company
Tavachie
Offhcer Company
Catrera K. Robinson
Eeicttees Bryan
Robinson
Sues Justice of Peace for Losing Position
C. P. Smith of Whistler Ale sues Justice of the Peace J. N. Seabury and his sureties A. B. Baumhauer and W. T. Wadderslice for 260 damages. He alleges the garnishment on his Mobile & Ohio Railroad salary cost him his repair shop job and that no bond was executed.
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C. P. Smith
Whistler, Ale
Law and Equity Court
J. N. Seabury
A. B. Baumhauer
W. T. Wadderslice
Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company
Stier
Pollard School Closes Most Successful Term
Pollard High School ends a successful term in Pollard Alabama with four nights of commencement exercises led by Professor H N Lee Miriam Sherod and Miss Levette Coleman. Rev Mr Holt of Pensacola will deliver the sermon at the M B E church at 11 a m next Sunday. Parents praise the training and faculty.
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Pollard School
German Americans urge against drastic action
In Washington on June 4 messages poured into the White House from German American societies urging Wilson to avoid drastic steps in the U S German German Americans urge restraint amid tensions with Germany as telegrams arrive from communities nationwide.
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Washington
White House
Wilson
United States
Germany
Dr Pierces Golden Medical Discovery Ad
Paris dispatch lauds soldiers fortitude and urges use of Dr. Pierce s Golden Medical Discovery to purify blood aid digestion and restore vigor. Claims alcohol free formula from forest roots and bark strengthens stomach and blood and fights infections after injury.
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Paris
England
France
Russia
Alean
Dr. Pierce
Cotton Is Now Making Satisfactory Growth in Entire Cotton Belt
Washington June 4 The agriculture department says the cotton crop remains in splendid condition across the belt with adequate precipitation. Late-planted Texas stands good and cultivation proceeds well, though portions of Oklahoma Arkansas and eastern sections show overly wet soil and grassy fields. Corn in the South benefits from warm weather and rains and winter wheat yields in Texas are improved. truck crops in the South have lagged as rains arrived too late in parts of the middle gulf coast.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
National Weather and Crop Bulletin
Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Middle Gulf Coast
Jane Addams Seeks Neutral Peace Role in Switzerland
Jane Addams of Chicago and delegates from the International Congress of Women met Swiss President Motta in Berne. She spoke on neutral nations' wartime stance and Switzerland's outlook. Motta said the moment for peace was not yet opportune but Switzerland would aid neutrals in peace efforts when timely.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Paris
Jane Addams
Chi
International Congress of Women
Them
Berne
M. Motta
P. A. Stovall
Miss Adams
Cotta
Former Mob public works official returns to Mobile
F. F. Pillet once head of public works in Mob and Rimington North Carolina has returned to Mobile and likely will establish residence there again.
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F. .F. Pillet
Ae Ansteres of Public Works
Mob and Tely
Rimington, N.° C
Mobile
Van Camp's and Karo Syrup Can Deals Noted
Brief ad notes 10 cent Van Camp's Pumpkins and 10 cent Van Camp's Cream and 10 cent Karo Syrup with a two can offer mentioned but incomplete in the fragment. The item hints at a limited time grocery promotion likely from a mid century newspaper page.
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van Camp
Schoolmates Honor Lad Laid To Rest In Funeral
A large funeral assembled for Edward Reil son of William Reil at Conception Street. Relatives and friends gathered from Thursday onward as an elder brother spoke and the service proceeded with customary rites.
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Edward Arte Reil
William ©. Reil
Ieee
Conception Street
Late Maritime News About Anda and Cocaine Drink
A fragment from a maritime item mentions the Egian bark Anda and a drink described as consistently rigid and said to be Bettied Cocaine in a curious, unclear report.
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Late Maritime News
Egian Bark
Anda
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National Rivers and Har
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Easanay
Bauer
Ala. Tech
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Rolston
Coden
Beautiful Hotel Rolston
Medical College
U. of A
Escatawpa Personals
Grary
Palm Beach
Lyric Day Cleaning and Pressing CO
Jackson Street
GEO. Schwenk, Mgr
Justice of Peace
Pollard
Whetti
Eenee Best
Henry C. Meyer Dauphin and
Scott
Weinacker Ice & Fuel Co
Dauphin St
Wile Cer
Dauphin
Bay Steamship Co
Pleasure Bay
Magnolia Beach
Battles
North Wharf
Point Clear
South Wharf
Zandels
Sunday
Reece
E. D. Peppers
Serge
Nelson. & Bailey
Royal ST
American Tent and Awning Co
Bell
Empire Theatre
Julia Swayne Gordon and
L. Rogers Lytton
Easterbrook
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