Immense Cuban blackstrap imports boost Mobile port
The C A Snyder Company of Chicago plans large Cuban blackstrap imports via Mobile with 180 tank cars added by the Mobile & Ohio Railroad. A 2.6 million gallon storage tank, yarded by a 3 million gallon intake, feeds tank steamers and cars stamped Cuban Molasses Company Mobile. Rail rate battles and ICC rulings shaped Mobile’s emergence as a key blackstrap hub with future storage and gauging oversight by the Chamber of Commerce.
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Mobile
C. A. Snyder Company
Chicago
Urban Molasses Company
Cuba
le & Ohio Railroad Company i
Cuban Molasses Company
Ala
Mobile & Ohio Railroad
St. Louis
Memphis
Nashville
Louisville
C. A. Snyder Interests
United States
New Orleans
Interstate Commerce Commission
C.A. Snyder Company
Gulf Ports
Intersa‘e Commerce Commission
Louisiana
Nelson
Chamber of Commerce
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Mediation Talks Extend as Oil Well Issue Lingers
Secretary Bryan notes danger averted in Tampico oil wells while mediators seek neutral zone and avoid oil disruption. Factions agree not to molest wells though no concrete zone plan exists. Talks with Huerta and Carranza push representatives to confer, likely delaying mediation into summer.
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Bryan
Wilson
Tampico
Mexico
Huerta
Carranza
Veterans urged to buy reunion tickets Monday in Jacksonville
Delegates of Raphael Semmes Camp and eligible members must purchase tickets at L and N offices between 10 30 a m and 2 30 p m Monday for the Confederate Reunion in Jacksonville Florida. A special tourist car will be attached to the Mobile train and travelers must sign tickets and follow resolution restrictions.
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Raphael Semmes
Jacksonville
Fla
Mertis
Harry Pil
T. F. O’pourke
M. T
Samford Henderson clash at Northport rally in Alabama
William H. Samford defended Charles Henderson against prohibition questions as two Comer supporters interrupted the speech at Northport. Henderson spoke for hours in Tuscaloosa before a crowded audience, drawing strong support and new supporters.
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Tuscaloosa
B. B. Comer
William H. Samford
Charles Henderson
Northport
Robertson Brown
L. B. Cornelius
Henderson
Mr. Samford
Florence
Mobile
Comer
Walter D. Seed
Troy
D. Mallory
Samford
Charlies Henderson
Mr. Brown
Professor Cornelius
Comer’s Merciless Order Drove Miners From Alabama
Labor leader Robert E. Gann, head of the Alabama Federation of Labor, in Mobile, accuses Governor Comer of ordering troops into coal fields and tearing down miners tents. He says the 20 percent wage cut sparked the strike and that workers left the state to survive. Gann cites deaths from exposure and condemns the military action.
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Comer
Alabama
B.B. Comer
Robert E. Gann
Alabama Federation of Labor
Mobile
Battle House
President Gann
Mr. Comer
Mr. Gaillard
Henderson
Gann
Kolb
Birmingham
Uniontown
Engineer Nichols Fined Fifty Dollars in Harbor Case
William Nichols, engineer of the Pratt Consolidated Coal Company barge Blossburg, was arraigned in the recorder's court on resisting the harbormaster while in duty. He received a fifty dollar fine or twenty days in jail, appealed with bond set at one hundred fifty dollars. Senator Frank Moody and President George H. Denny observed, Moody praising Henderson and the meeting, which drew representatives from Tuscaloosa and surrounding areas. Henderson planned to stay in Tuscaloosa overnight and depart for Montgomery the next morning.
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Cornelius
Henderson
Samford
Northport
Tuscaloosa
William Nichols
Pratt Consolidated Coal Company
Blossburg
Recorder’s Court
Tim Dorgan
Nichols
George H. Denny
The
State University
Frank
Moody
Denny
Mr. Henderson
Holt
Montgomery
Specials catalog excerpt
Local advertisement lists Square Brand Milk three cans for 25 cents Palmetto Milk two cans for 15 cents and three more cans of a non specified item White Beans six pounds featured in the ad
W. T. Goubil The Busy Store on Phin Street Era
An item noting W. T. Goubil of The Busy Store located on Phin Street, with contact details 364 Home 1059.
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Phin
Louise Converse Engaged to Junius Spencer Morgan
Boston May 2 1910 Mrs and Mrs Fred Converse announce engagement of their eldest daughter Louise to Junius Spencer Morgan of New York now a Harvard senior Further a Philadelphia firm is giving away fifty pianos to musical families lacking funds to buy an instrument.
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Philadelphia
Deaths and Funerals Genevieve K Vincent
The funeral for Genevieve K Vincent was held at 4 30 pm Saturday from 162 South Cedar Street with Rev G C Tucker of St John s Church officiating. Interment followed in Magnolia Cemetery where the grave was covered with floral designs. Pallbearers were George Tew Vincent Pocase Sidney Swanson and Henry Ballard.
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Genevieve Kathaleen Vincent
Genevieve K. Vincent
South
Cedar Street
G. C. Tucker
St. John’s Church
Magnolia Cemetery
George Tew
Vincent Pocase
Sidney Swanson
Henry Ballard
Remains of Welcome P. Duke Laid to Rest in Alabama
Welcome P. Duke died in this city on Wednesday and was buried Friday at 3 o'clock in Cobbyville Alabama. Rev BE A Shafer of Grove Hill conducted the burial service with a large attendance. He resided in Mobile for five years and left a wife four sons two daughters and seven grandchildren.
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Welcome P. Duke
Cobbyille
Ala
BE. A. Shafer
Grove Hill
Infant Mildred Goldman Buried in Magnolia Cemetery
Mildred Goldman the infant daughter of Mrs. Fannie and Ed Goldman died Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock. She was buried Tuesday in Magnolia Cemetery.
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Mildred Goldman
Suffrage Address Urges Time-Saving Civic Duty
The Mobile Equal Suffrage Association held a Saturday meeting at the Cawthon Hotel with about 60 attendees. Mrs. W. K. Linscott spoke on “The Prerequisites of the Elective Franchise,” urging education, knowledge of government and law, reading habits, and active civic participation to advance equal suffrage.
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Mobile’ Equal Suffrage Association
Cawthon Hotel
W. K. Linscott
Eugenie Marx
Nelson
E. Q. Norton
Norborne R. Clarke
W. K. KR. Wilson
W. K. Linncott
Bii
Associated Press
Mobile
Wrestling Tourney at the Y M C A
The Y M C A hosts its second wrestling tournament with bouts in intermediate and open classes. A record crowd is expected as boys with solid skill compete for gold and bronze medals. Tryouts for all entries start Thursday and Friday with eliminations for losers.
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Getti
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Walter Harper
Federation
Birming
W. T. Goubil
Young Morgan
Louise Converse
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ER Bros
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