Skyscrapers cars for New York
New York's streets and subways may go skyward with triple decker street cars to ease traffic as downtown real estate costs make horizontal expansion unfeasible. A mayoral race between Gaynor and Whitman shapes a heated fall campaign as plans for a vast freight terminal and a memorial for New York's first mayor evolve.
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New York
Public Service Commission
Gaynor
Tammany Hall
Whitman
Tammany
Union Square
Broadway
Rialto
Curbstone Fellowship
Waldo
Booths
Barrets
Ally Bankhead Pushes Tombigbee Lock Funding Effort
HON W B Bankhead of Jasper urges immediate work on the first Tombigbee lock seeking river and harbor funds. In a letter to John Mayo he notes a favorable survey and aims to secure a congressional appropriation for active construction before the next river and harbor bill.
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Little Tombigbee River
Tombigbee
W. B. Bankhead
Jasper
John P. Mayo
Tombigbee River
Bankhead
Board of Review
Washington
Self propelled barges to haul Alabama coal to New Orleans
The Alabama and New Orleans Transportation Co plans self propelled steel barges for freight from Tuscaloosa to New Orleans via Black Warrior Tombigbee Mississippi Sound and Lake Borgne canal. Fifteen 1000 ton capacity barges with twin 75 hp gas engines, two lighter barges, and a modern canal yard will launch starting May 1, aiming 192 miles daily compared with rail.
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The
Wall Street Journal
Alabama and
New Orleans Transportation Company
Tuscaloosa
Ala
New Orleans
Alabama
Mississippi Sound
Lake Borgne Canal
Alabama and New Orleans Canal
Gulfport
Mobile
Great Lakes
Firemen affidavits dispute policing controversy in Mobile
Affidavits from five ladder men challenge police chief Crenshaw's remarks about remarks during a June 18 1913 visit. Commissioned Pat Lyons denies saying no policeman would be turned on lights. Notaries public corroborate statements from Captain J W Anderson and others. Also mentions fleet and unit barge concepts with labor and draft details.
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United States
Anderson
Fire Department
Crenshaw
Pat J. Lyons
Mobile County
Alabama
Geo. R. Brabner
Ed Roberts
Ed Johnson
Manuel Tapia
Engine House No. 4
Frank W. Crenshaw
J. W. Anderson
James Strand
Yeshop
Anerson
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Panama Canal
Southern Commercial Congress
Mobile Chamber of Commerce and Business League
Morgan
Goethals
Gorgas
Colonel Goethals
Hobson
Richmond Pearson Hobson
Blechville Square
Mobile and Ohio Railroad
Congressman Hobson
Congress
Captain Hobson
Associated Press
United States Congress
Congress of the United States
Senate
House of Representatives
United States Senate
Talladega
Mother Earth
L. C. Irvine
Green County Democrat
Democrat
Oliver
Brownsville
Sumter County
South
Greene
Tick
Sumter
Hale
Yerby
Merrimac
Great Trunk Lines
Brooklyn
City of
Thomas Willett
Willett
Long Island
Thomas Willet
AIR
Hal. Coffman
People’s Forum
J. J. McMahon
County of
J. J
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