Civic Chamber and Legislators Face Port Reform Push
The Mobile port faces scrutiny as the Rich committee report prompts action. The Ways and Means Committee and Chamber of Commerce directors meet this week to discuss reforms with a Mobile legislative delegation under pressure to justify port charges. Public concern centers on stevedoring and towing firms and pilots associations alleged to influence pricing and monopolies. The city awaits decisive legislative relief to secure a free port and fair competition.
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Mobile
Richmittee
Ways and
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Comree
Chambers Commerce
Rom Mobile
SM. Walsh
Impany
Harry Z. Hartwell
Walsh
Rich
Hartwell
Pilots’ Association
Mobile Towing and Wrecking Company
Pilots Association
Laws Plainly Written for All to Understand
A discussion urges clear laws like the plain Ten Commandments. Crace recalls an ordinary education, noting many phrases are beyond lay comprehension. The piece questions whether simplified wording serves justice or obscures deeper purpose.
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Moses
Mount Sinai
E. Crace
Conspiracy Claimed Over Mobile Medical School Fate
The letter sequence argues against plans to move or close the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Mobile. It cites responses from The Item The Birmingham News The Age Herald and The Ledger while defending Mobile as a viable site and urging legislative clarity to avoid “rule or ruin” tactics.
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University At
Tuscaloosa
Physicians of
Birmingham
George H. Ettee
Mobile
School of Medicine
Press of
Birmingham News
Age-Herald
Ledger
University
Medical School
City Commission of
Commission of
Denny
City of
The
University of Alabama
Johnnie and Mary Outsmart Monkey in Hollow Stump
In a woodland adventure, Johnnie and Mary dodge a chimpanzee by disguising Johnnie as a doll to escape from a stump. Mary flies with her dolls while police dog helps, and they sew the doll back up after the retreat to Uncle Wiggily's bungalow.
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Johnnie
Mrs. Bushytail
Nioe
Jimmie
Uncle Wiggily
Eve Aa
Uncle Wiggily Longears
Vege
Mary
Gabriel Janet
Matilda Alvirah Soapbubble
John
Wastling Ganey
Dollie
Squirrel Boy
Billy Bushytail
The Billionaire photo drama leads Empire Amusement feature
The Empire presents The Billionaire a three part Biograph drama by Harry B. Smith and Gustave Kerker produced by Klaw and Erlanger. Naomi Childers and Charles Eldridge star in Philanthropic Tommy a light comedy. Vain Justice with R C Travers and Lillian Drew, plus To the Death with Alfred Vosburgh and Jack Mower and The Amazon Jungle with William Scott and Irene Wallace complete the program.
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Harry B. Smith
Gustave Kerker
Biograph Organization
Klaw & Erlanger
Naomi Childers
Charles Eldridge
Tommy
R.C. Travers
Lillian Drew
Alfred Vosburgh
Jack Mower
William Scott
Irene Wallace
Amazon Jungle
Plan of Prohibitionists Moves to Use Ouster Law
Montgomery, June 26 Special The prohibition majority plans to push a bill modeled on the Tennessee ouster law when the legislature reconvenes in July. It would allow a number of citizens to file removal proceedings against state, county and city officers who fail to enforce the law. Judge Samuel D. Weakley of Birmingham is said to be preparing the bill, which could aid enforcement efforts.
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Montgomery
Ala
Samuel D. Weakley
Ormingham
Mobile Boy Placed in Pensacola Reformatory
Detective Wilmer V. Pearson of Mobile police placed Val Forbes a Mobile youth in a Pensacola reform school. In Pensacola Pearson saw Grady Jim Percy Roberts and Elder Mitchell from Santa Rosa county jailed for safety amid lynch fears connected to the Wyman murder case. The prisoners were brought by speed boat from Harris Florida for confinement.
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Wilmer V. Pearson
Mobile Police Department
Pensacola
Val Forbes
Pearson
Grady Jim
Percy Roberts
Elder Mitchell
Santa Rosa County
Peter Wyman At. Harris
Fla
Harris, Fla
Mobile & Chicago Rail extends weekend trips in July August
Manager W L O Dwyer of the New Orleans Mobile and Chicago Railroad announces continued weekend excursions from Laurel Ovett Benmore Hattiesburg Mahned New Augusta and Beaumont Mississippi to Mobile for July and August. Businessmen say visitors spend money in Mobile during their stays.
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W. Ll. O'Dwyer
New Orleans, Motile & Chicago Railroad Company
Laurel
Ovett
Benmore
Hattiesburg
Mahwed
New Augusta
Beaumont
Miss
Mobile
Missing Uruguayan ship Domingos Joaquin de Silva reported
The Uruguayan ship Domingos Joaquin de Silva in command of Geta Morrell sailed from Buenos Aires on March 1 bound for New York and has not been heard from. Local owner Captain James J. Feore and A L Staples report her overdue to Lloyds and others as 117 days out. Two later Buenos Aires departures have already reached York.
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Domingos Joaquin.de.Silva
Geta Morrell
Buenos Aires
New York
James J. Feore
A. L. Staples
Lloyd's
Silva
York
Kitchener’s 4 Million Men Bluff Unmasked by Press England
A World War I tale asserts Lord Kitchener secretly doubled British forces to four million, using press manipulation to bluff German spies. J Herbert Duckworth cites an American Magazine article describing the scheme to mislead enemies while portraying England as lacking resolve.
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New York
Kitchener
Lord Kitchener
J. Herbert Duckworth
England
Mobile Suffers Severe Rainstorm and Lightning Damage
An intense afternoon storm drenched Mobile with 1.5 inches of rain in 90 minutes and a half inch in six minutes, plunging the city into darkness briefly. Lightning ripped a chimney from 409 North Joachim Street and ignited roof shingles, answered by Hose Company No. as flooding disrupted the wholesale district and delays for workers.
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Mobile
C.W. Haley
North Joachim Street
Hose Company No
Church
St. Louis
Nuavoo Wreck Charges Filed Against W G Davis
NUAVOO Ala June 25 Within twenty four hours after the Seminole Limited derailed near here by a spike on the rail William Green Davis years old living a mile from here was arrested and charged with wrecking the train. Officers claimed he confessed.
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Nuavoo
Ala
Seminole Limited
Illinois Central Railroad
William Green Davis
Indicted Knox Booth and 1 Others in Moonshine Case
Fort Smith June 25 two United States men were indicted for alleged government fraud through whiskey production without tax. John L Casper and Guy L Hartman face arraignments with trial tentatively set for Oct 18. Authorities say a closed Fort Smith distillery reopened last January and shipped product to a Kansas City company for retail sale avoiding taxes. About 400 gallons were seized in Kansas City with $23,000 revenue loss. Booth, who surrendered earlier this month in Montgomery, is named as head of the operation.
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Ario
United Pheys
John L. Casper
Guy L. Hartman
Rae
Government
Kansas City
Booth
Montgomery
Aes
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