Roosevelt Defends Sobriety in Libel Suit Testimony
Theodore Roosevelt testifies in Marquette defending himself against drunkenness charges. He says he never drank cocktails or beer, limits wine to white varieties, and used champagne sparingly on trips and at dinners. He notes medicinal brandy by physician, mint juleps sparingly, and minimal alcohol since leaving the White House.
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Frisco System May Go In Hands Of A Receiver
St Louis and San Francisco Railroad facing possible receivership due to inability to meet a 2 250 000 loan. Directors and bondholders met to decide action with Judge Walter H Sanborn to receive petition filed in the name of Thomas West and other directors. The line carries 7 544 miles with total bonded debt around 237 872 962.
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New Orleans Mobile and Chicago Railroad Not Affected By Receiver Petition
At the company offices on Tuesday officials said the petition in St Louis for a receiver will not affect the New Orleans Mobile and Chicago Railroad. The Frisco is an owner but does not hold a controlling interest and the N O M and C operates as an independent company.
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Not Angry Japans Astounded by California Land Law
Hamilton Wright Mabie says Japanese feel California’s alien land law is surprising not hostile and should have been discussed between nations. Juichi Soreda and T Kemiya arrive from Japan stressing they came unofficially and oppose war talk.
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Fr Ryan Monument Base Set in Ryan Park
The base and pedestal for Father Ryan’s monument were placed in Ryan Park on Tuesday morning. Erection work is expected to proceed promptly, though an exact installation date has not been announced.
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Hooper Welcomes Vets at Confederate Veteran Reunion
Governor Ben W. Hooper of Tennessee addressed the United Confederate Veterans in Chattanooga amid initial hisses that gave way to cheers. The event drew a packed auditorium as General Bennett H. Young and Tennessee leaders praised bravery and Southern women, with officials ensuring no disturbance occurred.
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Governor Hooper Honors Confederate Veterans in Reunion
Governor Ben W. Hooper welcomed United Confederate Veterans at their 23rd reunion in Chattanooga Tennessee. He expressed hope diplomacy and arbitration may restrain war and prayed for lasting peace through the hearts of men. He saluted the Confederates as defenders of the republic, noting the generation since the Civil War.
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Wilson Nominates Land Office and Postmasters
President Wilson sent to the senate nominations for First Assistant Secretary of the Interior Andrieus A. Jones of Las Vegas New Mexico and Clay Tallman of Nevada as Commissioner of the General Land Office with Charles M. Bruce of Arkansas as Assistant Commissioner. Postmaster nominees include T M Muller of Hattiesburg Mississippi J H Weddington of Charlotte North Carolina and S S McClenson of Tyler Texas.
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Tyler
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Weather forecast for Alabama and Mississippi
Fair tonight and Wednesday with light to moderate northerly winds. Alabama warmer in the south portion and Mississippi also warmer on Wednesday.
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New York Linen Merchant Sentenced to Five Years
Henry W A Page a New York linen merchant and British subject who has lived in the United States twenty years must serve five years in prison. He had been convicted of criminal libel targeting the judiciary and public officials and fined$1000 plus parole which he violated by sending 117 pages of libellous copy to the White House. His complaints trace back to 1907 when his wife obtained a divorce and he accused courts and Congress of corruption.
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Flagler Will Names Parrott to Head Florida Railroad
Henry M. Flagler’s 1898 will, filed today, leaves most of a sixty to seventy million dollar estate to his widow. J. R. Parrott remains head of the Florida East Coast Railroad for life and receives 100000, with trustees and gifts to Memorial Presbyterian Church St Augustine, University of Florida, and Stetson University. The son Harry gets five thousand shares of Standard Oil of New Jersey valued at about five million dollars.
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Mercian Passes Quarantine After Fort Morgan Clearance
The British steamship Mercian, 4060, Captain Harrocks, released from Fort Morgan quarantine at 2 PM Tuesday. From Vera Cruz with eleven passengers, the vessel is bound for Liverpool via Mobile Liners, Inc., loading cargo.
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Mobile to vote on $150000 city school bonds
Mobile officials move toward a bond election to issue $150,000 for four new school buildings and land acquisitions. The school board proposes sites at Broad Augusta and Old Shell Road Gilbert Street with costs totaling about $99,000 and 51,000 for buildings on Raphael Semmes and Broad Street sites. The measure awaits next week’s council action setting the election date within at least twenty days.
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Spreckels Will Sustained by Territorial Supreme Court
Honolulu May 27 The territorial supreme court reversed a lower ruling and sustained the will of the late Mrs Claus Spreckels Involving a Hawaiian estate valued at about a million dollars The will left almost the entire estate to Rudolph C A Augustus Spreckels and Mrs Emma Ferris while two sons John D and Adolph D received small amounts as they had been provided for in life.
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Man Arrested for Threatening President Wilson in Philadelphia
Richard Lindsay, said to be from Chicago, is under arrest in Philadelphia on a charge of sending threatening letters to President Wilson. He will be examined as to his sanity. Lindsay wrote letters demanding 300000 damages for an assault in Chicago by a man he named Maxwell, with secret service involvement.
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Women barred from operating saloons in Mobile
The Mobile Excise Commission ruled it cannot transfer a liquor license to a woman as executrix or administrator. The body cites the Smiths Regulation Bill, section 33, and says such transfers would imply a woman selling or serving spirituous liquors. The commission insists executors must bond and oath, with personal control required, and denies any authority to grant licenses to women.
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