20 May 1914
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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1914
Page
1
In New York the Becker murder case takes a turn as the defendant shifts public persona, now presenting as a writer and lecturer. The development follows ongoing court proceedings and public interest remains high.
A famed Russian dancer at the Berlin Imperial Opera House frightened observers when a rouge kiss left lipstick on Emperor Wilhelm's gloved hand. The Kaiser treated the moment as a joke and moved on.
Charles S. Mellen testified before the Interstate Commerce Commission detailing the New York New Haven and Hartford Railway’s ties with the Billard Company, showing a profit of 2.7 million for John L. Billard. He attributed the Worcester Nashua and Rochester purchase to J Pierpont Morgan, noting Morgan’s control over the deal and a 306 million cost for the Boston and Maine line.
A guest at the Yerby Building manual training department ransacked a desk area last Friday night stealing a cake, soap, four electric globes, a razor, a shaving brush, a fountain pen and a desk set. The next morning the fountain pen and desk set were missing, replaced by an unfamiliar clock. secretary Richard Hines muses on the thief and a clock clue while Principal Florence Wiener seeks her clock.
Three barges laden with sugar from Hawaiian steamships passed through the Panama Canal and arrived at Aristobal. The sugar was transferred to ships Colon and Oregonian for transport to Philadelphia, marking the canal's first commercial use.
Senator Bankhead and Representative Underwood urged President Wilson to appoint W. P. G. Harding of Birmingham as a governor of the Federal Reserve Board. Harding had been named a board member, with Richard Olney of Boston declining earlier. The president had not yet decided on the full board lineup.
Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday with fresh east winds. Alabama forecast calls for fair conditions tonight and Thursday.
At Sagamore Hill Roosevelt maps a broad campaign plan with stops from Atlantic to Pacific. He criticizes the Wilson administration over Colombia and Panama Canal policy and seeks to arbitrate toll exemptions while promising a hard race in Pennsylvania and other states.
The morals court of Chicago will offer certified babies to adopting families. Foster parents receive certificates claiming the infant is free from organic disease insanity or constitutional weakness, with a scientific inventory of traits. The court's psychopathic laboratory must declare each baby fit before adoption.
The Alabama state executive committee calls a meeting in Montgomery on Tuesday May 26 1914 to canvass the Democratic primary returns from May 11 1914 and to conduct other business as needed. Tyler Goodwyn serves as chairman and John P Abbatt as secretary.
Five people were killed near Ashville, about 25 miles south of Columbus, when a Scioto Valley traction car crashed into an automobile at a crossing. The wreckage and car fire followed the collision as the gasoline tank exploded and ignited the third rail.
Annual commencement for the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Mobile May 27 28 features Surgeon General William C Gorgas as principal speaker and visits by Governor Emmett O Neal. Alumni Banquet May 27 at Battle House Auditorium and Lyric Theatre exercises public May 28 confer fifteen diplomas with Bush and Goode prizes and honors.
Herbert C. Brenon chief producing director of a major film company tours Mobile as a guest of J N Frankel. He plans to select a new producing base for the firm amid discussions of potential masterpieces to be produced abroad.
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