Fear for Christians as Bulgarian advance nears Constantinople
Five days into fighting the Bulgarian army pushes toward Constantinople while the Turkish defense collapses at Tchatalja. Foreign warships patrol to protect nationals as fears rise of massacres against Christians and European powers prepare patrol fleets to safeguard ports and civilians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Tchatalja
Constantinople
Saloniki
Kilisseh
Adrianople
Demotica
Europe
Macedonia
Scutari
Taraxosch
Chotice
Orbey
Estate of Mrs Eddy Settled in New Hampshire and Massachusetts
Boston reports the estate of Mary Baker Eddy founder of the Christian Science church is settled. Personal property valued at about 82 845.75 and real estate at 155 000 in Massachusetts. New Hampshire court allows the church to receive 2 000 000 from the estate and administer as a charitable trust with trustees appointed. Massachusetts Supreme Court rules the state cannot inherit the real estate but allows administration as a charitable trust.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Mary Baer Eddy
Christian Elence Church
Massachusetts
Thomas W. Streeter
Frederick Jennings
John W. Worthingtan
Josiah E. Foranald
Concord
N. H
Newmpshire
Christian Science Church
Supreme Court
Holy Hour Devotion At St Matthew's Church
The holy hour devotion at St Matthew's Church begins tonight at 7 00 and ends with benediction of the most blessed sacrament. Confessions follow devotions for the feast of All Souls celebrated tomorrow. Mass won t begin promptly at 7 30 m. The priest will hear confessions Saturday morning at 7 30 rereclock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Matthew's Church
Mrs Conway confesses murder in Singer case
Chicago reports that Mrs Lillian Beat rice Conway confessed to knowledge of the murder of Miss Sophia Singer of Baltimore, with Charles N Conway and an alleged plan to rob her. The fiancé William R Worthen reacts with relief, while police prepare to sequence further statements from Conway and the actress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Sophia G. Singer
Baltimore
Shicere
William J
Put
Conway
Billy
Charlie
Worthern
William R. Worthen
Singer
Beltimore
Charles N. Conway
Lima
Ohio
Sophia
Conways
Stanton Avenue
Michael Crotty
Worthen
John Halpin
Yhie
California Reporter Finishes Long Continental Walk
Harvey Thoren did a seven month trek across the continent to New York where Mayor Gaynor greeted him. He carried a letter from San Francisco Mayor Ralph and received one to carry home, with Gaynor joking he might walk back if time allowed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Harvey Thoren
Ukiah
California
Daily Republican
Gaynor
Ralph
San Francisco
Thoren
Arrest of Elmore Smith for 1907 Bettie Martin killing
Elmore Smith, charged with killing Bettie Martin in fall 1907, was brought to Mobile from Monroeville and jailed. Search for Smith had continued for years, traced to Monroe county about ten days earlier, with Deputy Sheriff Newell transporting him to Mobile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmore Smith
Bettie Martin
Mobile
Monroeville
Ala
Offcers
Smith
Monroe County
Newell
City 10 Collect Overdue Taxes in the Courts
Mayor Schwarz orders City Tax Collector Walsh to present back tax bills in person to the New Battle House Company and Battle House Company, Inc. City seeks to collect about 330,000 in back taxes this year with levies on property and court actions planned against delinquents led by the Battle House and Pattie House firms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. T. Luggan
Pattle House
Tts
Schwarz
Walter F. Walsh
Walsh
New Battle House Company
The
Battle House Company, Incorporated
Meyer Schwarz
Boone
Bocene
McMahon
Battle House
Pattie House Company
Mother Guilty In Son’s Death At Baltimore Trial
Albert J. Patterson and Mrs. Emma Bamberger were found guilty of murdering James Bamberger, 23, at the family home last July after a confrontation over Patterson’s relation with the mother. The son died from knife wounds on the street. witnesses testified the mother upbraided him as he lay dying. Sentencing was deferred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Albbert J. Patterson
Emma Bamberger
James Bamberger
Patterson
Bamberger
Hamburger
Oe Street
Opera Singer Fatally Injured in Auto Wreck
New York Nov 1 Lydia Locke a renowned opera singer in New York and London was mortally hurt in an early automobile collision after a late Halloween party Dwight Dana a chauffeur was seriously hurt Three other men and two women were badly shaken up
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Lydia Locke
London
Dwight Dana
Fire Hits Liberty Farmers Union Gin in Incendiary Blazes
CHATTANOOGA Tenn Nov 1 The Farmers Union gin at Liberty Ga was burned last night and is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary. The gin was practically new and the loss estimated at about 4000 with no insurance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chattanooga
Tenn
Farmers’ Union
Liberty
Mobile Port Pamphlet Showcases Growth and Trade
The Chamber of Commerce and Business League received press copies of a pamphlet promoting Mobile as a rapidly growing port. It features harbor illustrations, population and weather data, postal receipts, banking statistics, and Gulf port comparisons, noting Mobile’s ranking among U.S. ports for vessel tonnage and its Cuba trade figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce and Business League
Port of
Mobile
Troy
Ala
Wade
Colon
Panama
Gulf
Atlantic
Customs Department
United States
Cuba
Weather Forecast for Mobile Alabama and Mississippi
Fair and colder tonight with frost and 44 degree temperatures in Mobile. Saturday brings fair skies and further cold with moderate northwest winds. Alabama coastal areas cold with frost. Mississippi also fair tonight and Saturday with frost tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Alabama
Mississippi
Shippers' Forecast Predicts Cold Window for 36 Hour North East West Runs
Forecast warns shippers to guard cargo against 30 degree conditions for 36 hours as shipments move north east and west with 38 degree allowances.
O Neal orders swift action after Oakley Wood tragedy
Governor O Nea orders an urgent investigation into the Oakley-Wood tragedy in Montgomery. He enlists Solicitor Seibels and negotiates with Judge Armstead Brown, pledging swift grand jury action and instructing capitol police to bar armed individuals from the capitol. He cites need to improve pistol laws and public demand for enforcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montogmery
Ala
O' Nea
W.T. Seibels
Oakley-Wood
Juddge Armstead Brown
Capitol
O'Neal
Alabama
Mark of Respect to Vice President Sherman
The Mobile post office will close tomorrow out of respect to the memory of Vice-President Sherman. The custom house will also close. Postmaster Barker announced this action late today under orders issued by the Postmaster General Hitchcock. The treasury department notified customs houses to close tomorrow. Postmaster General Hitchcock ordered all flags on post office buildings nationwide to be flown at half mast for thirty days beginning November 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Sherman
Custom House
Barker
Hitchcock
Treasury Department
Witchcock
United States
Planning Efforts in Mobile Attract National Interest
A letter to Mayor Schwarz from Flaver Shurtleff, secretary of the National Conference of City Planning in Boston, asks about progress on Mobile's city planning project. Shurtleff notes widespread interest among landscape architects in civic improvement work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Schwarz
Flaver Shurtleff
National Conference of City Planning
Boston
Shurtleff
Fast
Bond Forfeiture in Petit Larceny Case At City Court
Pearl Benjamin was indicted by the grand jury for petit larceny and failed to appear in city court. An alias writ was issued and bond forfeiture ordered after the case was called. She is accused of stealing three pairs of shoes from the Southern Railway freight depot in this city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearl Benjamin
Grand Ury
Southern Railway
New Ship Channel Formally Opened
Special to The Montgomery Alabama dispatch reports a sensational damage suit in Montgomery city court. I F Boyette sues his father in law Richard Tillis for 100000 dollars over alleged alienation of his wife Ophelia Boyette Tillis. The plaintiff seeks to prove, via a negro witness Ike White, that Tillis and family traveled to St Augustine with Westhofen and that incidents near Montgomery involved the couple. Ophelia Tillis is a codefendant as testimony grows more sensational.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montogmery
Ala
Ophelia Tillis
Boyette
P. J. Westhofen
Geran
Ther
Tillis
St. Augustine
Westhofen
Montgomery
Local Manufacturers Offer Exhibits At Tropical Fair
Directors of the Mobile and Gulf Tropical Fair Association reported strong interest from manufacturers in accepting free exhibit space. Many plan immediate preparations for comprehensive displays, and overall fair conditions were praised by officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile and Gulf Tropical Fair Association
Port Investigators Meet Again Tonight
A committee investigating Mobile port charges will convene again with Chairman Joseph Rich presiding. The session will be public and several individuals are summoned to appear, including W. C. Carrell, port warden and secretary of the Bar Pilots Association. Names of others invited were not disclosed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph €. Rich
W. CC. Carrell
Bar
Pilote’. Association
Remarkable Escape Of People In Wreck Near Texas Line
A Missouri Kansas and Texas train struck a broken rail near Bonita Texas and every car overturned. Passengers were bruised and shaken but none seriously injured. Physicians were sent to the scene. a relief train was ordered out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Texas
Kansas and Texas
Bontat
Traveling man Hogan refuses New Orleans trial
James T. Hogan, a New Orleans traveling man, is jailed here for bond jumping and declines to return for trial. He plans to pursue habeas corpus tomorrow morning, and Police Chief Crenshaw says Hogan would be rearrested if the court orders dismissal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James T. Hogan
New Orleans
Crenshaw
Hogan
Sidney Sanders Wins Fine Bowling Trophy
The Mobile bowling championship concluded with Sidney Sanders receiving the silver trophy. A Greensboro Ala native now residing in Mobile, he rolled 629 points believed to be Mobile’s high three game score.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney Sanders
Mobile
Greensboro
Ala
Peter Nelson Sentenced After Guilty Pleas
Peter Nelson was indicted on four charges of petit larceny and pleaded guilty to two. Judge O J Semmes sentenced him to thirty days in jail for stealing two bicycles valued at ten dollars each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Nelson
O. J. Semmes
Nelson
Melford Hall Largest Vessel To Enter Mobile Harbor
Convoyed by a government tug the British steamship Melford Hall, 425 feet long and 6,000 tons gross, passed through Mobile’s new cut to reach the Mexican Gulf. The arrival marks a milestone for Mobile harbor, with 27 foot depth in the channel and cargo of 5,000 bales of cotton, 1,000 barrels of resin, and lumber for Manchester England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melford Hall
Mobile
Mexican Gulf
Las
Stewart le Blanc
Mobile Liners, Incorporated
Thomas P. Norville
C. A. F. Flagler
Melford
New Orleans
Manchester
England
Leyland Line
Wilerman Line
Hall Line
Ellerman Company
Mexico Gulf
Light frost expected in Mobile tonight
Forecaster Albert Ashhenberger warns of light frost with temperatures dipping to 44 degrees in Mobile. He notes a 50 degree drop from yesterday and cites a small craft warning from Washington as the cause. Winds from the northwest and north will bring a brisk day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Albert Ashhenberger
Worther
Washington
Money tension eased in London with $40 million dividends
London reports relief as $40,000,000 in dividends were distributed and monthly demand eased. Discount rates stay firm and brokers tread cautiously amid continental money concerns and Balkan war developments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Balkans
Notice to subscribers about address changes for Moving Day
The Item asks subscribers planning to move on November 1 to notify the Circulation Department promptly. Include both old and new addresses to avoid delays in delivery.
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New
Mobile Channel
Mrs. Conway
UNION
John Abram
Boost Mobile
Mobile Contained Inc
Faif
Seibels
Sh Woods
Oakley
Mark
Mik. Sherman
Richard Tillis
Iillionaire
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