Wall Street heralds armistice in steel suit boost for business
Business observers hail a decisive victory for the Steel Corporation in the long trust case. They say a government drop could renew confidence, ease fears of hard times, and spur progress despite European turmoil. Imports fall while exports stay steady and home conditions improve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steel Corporation
Taft-Wickersham
Wall Street
It Ia
Democratic Party
Wilson
Europe
White House
No Citrus Canker Found in Local County
The Baldwin Times reports no evidence of citrus canker after inspectors from the State Department of Horticulture examined about 1,000 acres in and around the county. The finding is welcomed as canker threatens growing trees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baldwin Times
the Times
State Department of Horticulture
Mobile seaport plant to hire thousands in Gulf Coast boost
The Bullock County Breeze reports Pa sees Mobile Alabama expanding with a new shipyard plant costing four dollars and a workforce of four thousand to operate it. The effort aims to boost the Gulf region and bring a needed, direct development to the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bullock County Breeze
Mobile
Alabama
Airbame
Fle
Alabama School of Medicine Holds Commencement at Lyric
The School of Medicine of the University of Alabama will hold its annual commencement exercises Wednesday evening in the Lyric Theatre. President George H. Denny will be present and turn over to the graduates their diplomas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
School of Medicine
University of Alabama
Lyric Theatre
George H. Denny
University
Four men boast of ewe power until eight doctors urge cessation
A report notes four men bragging about sheep force while eight doctors advise quitting smoking as a health measure.
Mobile Port Declared Free Except for One Rival
The Item defends Mobile as a free port with no fixed ship burden, contrasting it with New Orleans’ charges. A Birmingham editor’s claim is labeled damaging as Mobile’s wharfage charges apply only to goods passing the wharf, such as four cents per bale for cotton. The piece urges fair prominence of Mobile’s facts and cautions against inside and outside hostility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Los Angeles
United States
Birmingham
W. C. Shackelford
Birmingham Ledger
Mayor Pillans
National Association of Port Authorities
Shackleford
New Orleans
Alabama
Beret
Time to Reduce Burden of Taxation
The Mobile Chamber of Commerce general membership meeting will discuss tax relief as a long standing goal in Alabama. Protests against solvent credit tax and high levies across the state reflect a nationwide demand for economy and lighter burdens on taxpayers and businesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Alabama
Mobile
The
Cincinnati Enquirer
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Illiteracy Day Proclaimed in Alabama by Governor Henderson
The state marks Illiteracy Day on June T as part of an official drive to improve literacy. Citizens are urged to contribute toward lifting Alabama from its low educational standings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama
Hendersan
Barber in Seneca Finds Religion and Confesses
A barber in Seneca Illinois testified he shaped a young man’s hair with a “sea foam” tint and confessed his guilt. The youth departed for a Brame e origin, and the tale ends abruptly with the scene continuing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seneca, Ill
Steel Corporation Victory Triggers Birmingham Expansion Talk
The Item notes United States Steel Corporation victory in government litigation and predicts rapid industrial activity in the Birmingham mineral district. It expects Tennessee Coal and Iron to stay with the Steel group, boosting mill additions, shipbuilding at Mobile, export trade, and broader Alabama expansion as government clouds clear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Steel Corporation
United States
Birmingham Mineral District
Steel Corporation
Birmingham
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company
Big Steel Corporation
Alabama
Birmingham Ledger
Ledger
Mbp Joes Mills
Tennessee Company
Warrior For Navigation
Mobile
Efees
Birmingham Corporation
Unclear historic ship movements list across ports and companies
Fragmented OCR shows numerous vessel destinations and consignments including Cuban molasses, United Fruit Company routes, and ships bound to New Orleans Mobile Liverpool Genoa and Kingston with mixed incomplete names and locations. Details are garbled, but the record indicates a ledger of steamships and cargo trades among Am erican and foreign ports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sun
Cuban Molasses Company
Tjoabine
New York
Mallory American
Nor
Puerto Cortez
United Fruit Company
Amsterdijk
Puteh
New Orleans
Mobile
Porto Rico
Waikeaian
Liverpool
England
Verona Gvon
Puerto Cortes
United 2
Powers Cn Sebr
Genoa
Italy
Rosefield
Spain
Horace Furnes Lumber Catherina
Kingsdom
FourYearOld Girl Killed in Accidental Pistol Discharge
Nora May Bell, four, daughter of Mr and Mrs D W Bell of Brewton Alabama, died from an accidental pistol discharge in her own hands last Friday. The incident reported from Pace Florida states the weapon was mishandled, a tragic domestic accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brewton
Pace
Fila
Nora May Bell
D. W. Bell
New Rural Mail Routes Announced by Postoffice Department
The Postoffice Department announces 710 new rural routes with most starting June 16 and the first route operating August 1. Temporary carriers will be used until permanent staff pass exams while some routes consolidate and few carriers may be dropped. Local rates apply for residents within twenty five miles of the routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Postoffice Department
Tisbe Gion
Prtapush Ord
Tee
Genet Bere Ree
Goggstureson
HS Co
King Constantine's Fever Reported At 103 Degrees
June 7 bulletin notes King Constantine awake repeatedly, with temperature reaching 103 and pulse 125 while King Gelstine shows 102.8, respiration 26. Sleep disrupted throughout the night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constantine
Londo
Gelstine
Late City Breveties Reflect Local Court and Crime
Deputy Oberhaus arrested W M Brockman on a charge of assault to murder after a late night eval. C Overton is complainant. Brockman posted bond for inferior criminal court. Pollard et al suit J I Knox for 1600 damages over alleged land trespass. Marriage license issued to Murray Cawthon and Louise May March. Wit Carrick Negro jailed near Ichamps for speeding state law violation after nearly colliding with a horse and wagon. Public Accounts D T McCall reviewing county books. probate court records under study. Civil city court adjourned to Tuesday. Max Young arrested for assault and battery. Harry Kertzer noted. Deputy McMillan arrested Jim Burton for petit larceny and pistol loss reported by W E Gramer. Hermus Foster left for Georgia on extended visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bhoritt A. Oberhaus
W. M. Brockman
C. Overton
Brockman
Inferior Criminal Court
A Pollard
J. I. Knox
Law and Equity
Murray
Cawthon
Florala
Ala
Louise May
Carrick
Ornoon
Lchamps
W. H. Delchamps
D. T. McCall
Alabama
Max Young
Dennis Lynch
Harry Kertzer
McMillan
Jim Burton
W. E. Gramer
Burton
Hermus Foster
Georgia
Court dispositions in U S district on Monday
In the United States district court Judge Toulmin disposed of several cases. Victor Michael faced mail fraud charges continued to next term. Albert B. Robertson pleaded guilty to embezzlement of mail matter with sentence suspended. John Faulk pleaded guilty to illicit distilling continued to next term. John Porter pleaded guilty to liquor business without a license and was fined 100 dollars and 30 days in Mobile county jail. Cornelia Porter not guilty on same charge. Mobile Barge Co. versus machinery on barge No 5 at Choctaw Bluff ordered sale pendente lite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. Ss. Pig
United States District Court
Toulmin
Victor Michael
Albert B. Robertson
John Faulk
John Porter
Mobile County
Cornelia Porter
Mobile Barge Co
Choctaw Bluff
Obstacles to commerce in Mobile port questioned
J W C Shackelford, coal operator, argues in the Mobile Register that Birmingham export gains hinge on Mobile’s port openness and lower charges, not merely more ships. He cites current waterfront limits and prohibitive costs, urging radical front-end reforms to mobilize Mobile as a world seaport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Mobile Register
J W. C. Shackelford
Gulf Ports
Birmingham
Mobile
Ahackalford
the Ledger
Warrior River
Mobil
Man Behind the Federal League Revered in Hall of Fame
William T McLough, secretary of the Pittsburgh Feds and known as Smiling Bill, is credited with reviving the Federal League after 1912. He deflects praise to Garry Herrmann and Barney Dreyfuss, who owned the Pittsburgh Pirates, for balking at his Jersey City Skeeters plan.
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Hall of Fame
William T. Mclough
McCullough
Pittsburgh Feds
Bill
Garry Hermann
National Commission
Barney Dreyfuss
Pittsburgh Nationals
Jersey City
Skeeters
Pittsburgh
Smoky City
Dreyfuss
Herrmann
Portsmouth Sloop of War Sold for Junk
The old sloop of war Portsmouth, key in 1846 and 1856 actions, sold for 3662 dollars to John H. Gregory of Perth Amboy New Jersey. The vessel lies sunk at her berth in the Norfolk navy yard and is wrecked for hull material after years as a training ship since the Civil War.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sloop of War
Portsmouth
Washington
San Francisco Bay
United States
Canton
Admiral Farragut
John H. Gregory
Perth Amboy
N. J
Norfolk Navy Yard
Italian Government Orders Spare of Pola Amphitheatre
Venice June 7. The Italian government orders ships and airships to spare from injury the Roman amphitheatre at Pola, the Austrian naval base on the Adriatic. They claim the site is used by Austrians for military purposes but pledge to spare it.
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Venice
Pola
Adriatic
Hundred Guard Officers Attend Montgomery School
Officers of the Alabama national guard gather for an officers' school near Montgomery Country Club conducted by regular army officers. More than one hundred guard officers attend the weeklong training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama National Guard
Montgomery Country Club
Patepe Guard
Circuit Court Docket Highlights For Tuesday Call
Browne presides as circuit court lists business for Tuesday including Linch vs Mobile County and Williams vs Alexander. Equity docket shows law side with Berney and Moore cases for leave-to-amend motions and various counts. Railroad and fish cases are noted as sustained. other entries include Kelly vs Brannan and Johnson vs Whitehurst.
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Circuit Court
Browne
Mobile County
Caroline Williams
Gertrude Alexander
Sener Dees
Vinegar Bend
Lumi Ca
Nd Equity Court
Seerold Berney
T. L. Moore
Tamelia L. Abbott
Oma
R. G. Welch
Rose
S. E Railroad
Craft
Mobile
S. R. Kelly
Brannan
Mattie Johnson
Edward Whitehurst
Rose Ann Diamond
Progress II Sails Coastward for Munson Line South America
The Norwegian steamer Progress II departed the harbor around 2 PM on Monday, becoming the second Munson Line steamer to head to South America within two days. The American schooner Coniscliffe arrived around 10 AM and was moored in the stream.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marine News
Progress II
Munson Line
South America
Coniscliffe
Barge Breaks Tow Near Cape Hatteras
News from Virginia reports a British steamer named Sere lost its tow line after a ballast barge broke away near Cape Hatteras. The incident disrupted the strand of the tow and caused a minor mishap at sea with no further details available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
News
Cape Hatteras
Notable shipwreck anecdote sparks interest and memory
A fragment recalls a discussion on shipwrecks where presence of mind is praised. Friends debate what matters most in danger at sea, emphasizing calm, quick thinking and courage over luck or strength.
How to Make a Rose Jar
Gather rose petals in the morning and lay them to dry. Layer petals with salt in a large stone jar, repeating daily until enough petals are collected. After ten days stir daily, then mix ground cloves, allspice, cinnamon, mace, nutmeg, orris root, and dried lavender. Alternate petals and spice layers, add essential oils and rose extract, then store in a dark place to mature. This yields two quarts divided into two jars.
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P Macy
Race in Southern Closer Now Than Has Ever Been
In the Southern Association week ending yesterday no club won half its games. Birmingham and New Orleans trailed while Nashville pressed for second place with five wins in seven. Memphis rose to fourth with four wins in seven, Chattanooga beat Atlanta three of five, Mobile and Little Rock held even, and New Orleans played five games winning two.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ers
New Orleans
Birmingham
Associatio
Nashville
Memphis
Chattanooga
Atlanta
Mobile
Little Rock
Launch Parties Endure Squalls Off Middle River
A gasoline launch carrying Peter J. Blocker Thornton and friends was disabled by a Sunday squall in Mobile Bay near Middle River and towed to port with the passengers seasick. Nearby, a schooner Oyster Plant’s auxiliary engine failed near Battles, forcing an anchored, weathered ride as waves battered the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter J. Blocker Thornton
Mobile Bay
Middle River
Norie
Oyster Plant
Battles
Connors Arrested on Warrant in Inferior Court
C. C. Connors was arrested Saturday night on a warrant sworn out in the inferior criminal court after a complaint by C. Howell alleging abusive language.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. C. Connors
C. Howell
Inferior Criminal Court
Commencement Address at University of Alabama Medical College
The forty ninth annual commencement program of the School of Medicine pledges to honor graduates at night. The keynote notes Jesus as physician with Luke the physician as biographer. Rev John W Pullis of First Baptist will deliver the address at 8 pm with President George H Denny presiding. Bush and Rhett Goode prizes will be awarded by P J Lyons and D H Edington. Governor Henderson expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
School of Medicine
University of Alabama
Poe
Talereanns
Jesus
Luke
John W. Pullies
First Baptist Church
Willeover
Lyme
George H. Denny
Bush
Rhett Goode
P. J
Reily Gains Ground in Perry County Mississippi
In Richton Perry County crowds welcomed Marion W. Reilly as he campaigned for governor. He spoke to a large enthusiastic audience and claimed broad support across the county. Observers noted his growing momentum and predicted he would challenge opponents statewide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reily
Perry County
Miss
Richton
Marion W. Reilly
Se Price
Akwana
Governor and Staff Review Auburn Cadets
Governor and staff review the cadets of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Auburn in an afternoon ceremony. The governor and party traveled to Auburn on a special train car. The visit continued for several days.
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Auburn Cadets
Montgomery
Ala
Ende
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Auburn
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