United Daughters of the Confederacy convenes in Savannah
Delegates from Southern states attend the UDC convention in Savannah as Daisy McLaurin Stevens urges a $5,000 memorial window for the American Red Cross in Washington. The president general pushes a flag designer committee and notes deaths of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and Mrs. Caroline Meriwether Goodlet. Mrs. Josephus Daniels calls for eradicating lingering North South animosities.
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Associated Press
Savannah
the United Daughters of the Confederacy
Daisy McLaurin Stevens
Mississippi
American Red Cross
Washington
North Carolina
Alabama
Woodrow Wilson
Caroline Meriwether Goodlet
Nashville
Tenn
Gulfport Boys May Go Free On Killing Captain
Fletcher Harvey and Nathaniel Beggs both fifteen confessed to killing Captain Shummer of the schooner Santa Maria in Gulfport Mississippi. At a Bay St. Louis hearing Beggs faced a five hundred dollar bond and Harvey was released. Prosecution evidence rests on their confessions which claim self defense against an alleged attack by the captain.
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Gulfport
Miss
Fletcher Harvey
Nathaniel Beggs
Shummer
Santa Maria
Man jailed 30 days for street fight in Citronelle
Leslie Borden of Citronelle Ala was jailed for thirty days after a Tuesday night altercation on the streets of that town. The sentence followed a fight stemming from an incident involving Adrian deLong.
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Leslie Borden
Adrian deLong
Citronelle
Ala
Daughters of the Confederacy Address On Southern Honor and Memory
The group outlines three duties to honor the South. First, to honor those who wore blue and grey. Second, to preserve homefront wartime history and celebrate heroines. Third, to keep alive the memory of Confederate veterans and their valor. Mrs. Daniels praises Mrs. Woodrow Wilson as Southern womanhood.
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Henry Grady
South
Daughters of the Confederacy
Daniels
Woodrow Wilson
Kaiser Takes Dixmude After Violent Fight
German forces captured Dixmude after fierce fighting near Ypres as part of a broader Central Powers push. Reports from London and Paris describe heavy casualties and ongoing battles along the Ypres salient with troops wary of extended conflict on two fronts.
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Kaiser
Dixmude
Rumor of Kaiser Peace Talks Circulating in Petrograd
News from Petrograd reports suggestions Berlin approached Russia with peace overtures while German forces retreat from Russian soil. Dispatches claim Russian victories continue with Cossack raids near Cracow and Przemysl fully invested, prompting civilian evacuations as Russia presses its left wing advance.
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London
Petrograd
Berlin
Russia
East Prussia
Cracow
Przemysl
Knights Install New Officers at Mobile Council No 666
Mobile Council No 666 Knights of Columbus installed its elected officers Tuesday night at the hall on St. Joseph street. State Deputy James H. Glennon conducted the ceremony with a drill team. A luncheon followed. Officers installed include Peyton Norvill e grand knight Jacob Fermier deputy grand knight N Vickers chancellor James M King financial secretary Harvey Charest treasurer William J Goodman recording secretary John Toomey lecturer John W Phelan warden M L Campbell advocate Frank Dooley inner guard James Allen outer guard. Meeting adjourned until Sunday at 10 o clock for new member applications ahead of the December 6 initiation.
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Mobile Council No. 666
Knights of Columbus
St. Joseph Street
James H. Glennon
Peyton Norvillé
Jacob Fermier
N. Vickers
James M. King
Harvey Charest
William J. Goodman
John Toomey
John W. Phelan
M. L.campbell
Frank Dooley
James Allen
Distress in Antwerp Besieged Belgians At Rail Depot Fire
Amsterdam dispatch reports extreme distress in Antwerp with depots of the American relief committee besieged from early morning until late night by starving Belgians. A fire at Antwerp railway station destroyed forty wagons of provisions and fodder.
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Associated Press
London
Amsterdam
Reuter’s
Antwerp
Amerikcan Committee
Curb Market Resumes Regular Trading in New York
New York November 11 The committee on unlisted curb stocks formed after the war opened is dissolved as the stock exchange notes no need for continued supervision. Open market activity resumes in regular fashion on a limited scale for the first time since July.
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New York
Stock Exchange Committee
Hibernians Plan Thanksgiving Fowl Raffle in Mobile
At a Mobile Division Ancient Order of Hibernians meeting in the Y M B A hall on Jackson Street the group completed plans for its annual turkey festival. They will raffle four hundred turkeys ducks geese and pigs on November 23. All are invited.
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Order of Hibernians
Y. M. B. A. Hall
Jackson Street
Captain of Prescott Denies Sighted Fight
Captain Colbeth of the schooner Fannie Prescott denied reports of a naval engagement near Cuba involving a British cruiser and a German man-of-war. He stated the claim was groundless and that no European-flag vessels were seen on the voyage. He came up from quarantine in a launch to arrange a berth.
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United States
Fannie Prescott
Cuba
Colbeth
Cool pleasant weather with frost in the southeast
The east gulf and south Atlantic states enjoy fair weather with frost in Georgia and the Carolinas as a high pressure system drifts from the northwest and weakens. A low pressure area over the Great Lakes brings scattered precipitation and southerly winds with higher temperatures along the north Atlantic coast. A clear cold high persists from California to the Dakotas with Modena Utah recording 16 degrees. Albert Ashenberger, Local Forecaster, Weather Bureau.
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East Gulf
South Atlantic States
Georgia
Carolinas
Great Lakes
North Atlantic
California
Dakotas
Modena
Utah
Liverpool Cotton Prices and Trading Report
Spot cotton in good demand with prices steady. American middling fair at 7.624 pence, good middling 4.974, middling 4.664, low middling 4.054, good ordinary 3.36d, ordinary 2.86d. Sales 8,000 bales including 7,300 American and 500 for speculation. Receipts 5,865 bales. Futures closed quiet. May-June futures at 4.36.
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Liverpool
Amercan
Shipper Forecast Urges Cold Protection for Northbound Freight
The forecast warns shippers to guard shipments traveling north against 38 degree temperatures for 36 hours. East and west routes are forecast to experience moderate temperatures with no extreme conditions expected.
River Forecast Notes Stable Level Across Rivers
The Tombigbee river and branches will not change much in the next two days. The Alabama river at Montgomery will not change much, while at Selma it will rise slightly. Political motives and military strategy touch on the broader debate about Allied and German decisions during the war era.
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Tombigbee
Montgomery
Selma
Safe From The Law Conscience Drives Him To Confession
John Wood, a farmer, confessed to the Christmas 1912 murders of George Vosburg and his wife at a Pine Plains farmhouse. He said three companions assisted in killing the couple with an axe, robbing $800, and burning the house, with charred bodies found in the cellar. Wood’s arrest followed his claim that guilt drove confession. accomplices Jesse Polls Orvil Smith and Oscar Post were later arrested nearby.
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Associated Press
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
George Vosburg
Pine Plains
John Wood
Wood
Jesse Polls
Orvil Smith
Oscar Post
Tribute to J Meyer as 25-year lodge member dies
J Meyer a longtime Mobile resident and Jeweler passed away at 2 30 am after a year of ill health. Born May 14 1843 in Bergra bien Rheinpflatz Germany he came to America in 1865 and built a hat business before moving into permanent enterprise on lower Dauphin street. He married Fannie Kellar in 1871 and leaves two sons Carl G Meyer and Philip S Meyer a sister Julia Barbey in Germany and several relatives. He held Mason Odd Fellow Knights of Pythias Gulf Fishing and Hunting Club and Gesang Verein Frohsinn memberships. Funeral set for Thursday at 8 pm from 210 South Joachim Street.
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Battle House
Meyer
Pythians
America
Mr. Meyer
Bergrabien
Rheinpflatz
Germany
New York City
Camden
N. J
New Orleans
Victor Boudrow
Mobile
Charles Hurley
Lower Dauphin Street
Fannie Kellar
New York
Carl G
Philip 8. Meyer
Julia Barbey
Mobile Lodge
Knights of Pyt
Gulf
Gesang Verein Frohsinn
South Joachim Street
Robbery Case on Trial In City Court
Claiborne Walker and Robert Moore two alleged highwaymen stood for trial on seven robbery charges in city court. Attorneys sought a case reverence which was granted. Walker faced robbing Cedric Niolon son of J M Niolon as part of the charges.
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Claiborne Walker
Robert Moore
Walker
Cedric Niolon
J. M. Niolon
Tragedy in Hattiesburg as Hakemann shoots two
Hakemann fired twice at Mattie Edwards Haley Long and then killed himself with a shot to the temple after the woman fled across the street to the home of night lieutenant Reuben Dorion. Mattie Long Haley had sought help amid rumors of Hakemann's fixation and past trouble with illegal saloons.
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Hakeman
Mattie Edwards
Lem Haley
Mattie Long
Will Long
Hattiesburg, Miss
Hakemann
Drago
Dauphin Street
Cedar
Touart
Haley
Liverpool Exchange Amends Rules on Trading in Futures
Directors of the cotton exchange adopt a rule amendment allowing limited futures trading from tomorrow with no restrictions except prices must not fall below 4.25 pence for May June American and 7.06 pence for May Egyptian.
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Liverpool Exchange
Associated Press
Liverpool
Cotton Exchange Today
Birthday list of mobile children celebrates at Empire Theatre
The Mobile Item lists numerous children with names and addresses celebrating birthdays today. It notes they will entertain five friends at Empire Theatre this afternoon and invites others to submit full name, address, and birthdate to the Children's Editor two days ahead.
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Mary Lucille Yuckers
Augusta St
Daisy E. Dowling
S. Dearborn St
Edgar A. Mandrell
Semmes Ave
Mabel Lucille Harrison
S. Concepti
Clarence’ Chapman
Charleston
John A. Steadman, Jr
Franklin St
Robert Cooper
N. Hamilton St
Harry S&s. Peckinpaugh
Elizabeth Stone
Toulminville
W. F. Kenny, Jr
St. Emanuel St
Wallace E. Stout
Kennerly St. Thomas
Vernon Jordan
S. Broad St Marie Crotty
Adams St
Howard Rush, Jr
Washington Ave
Eugene E. Banow
New St. Brancis
Annie Mary Armstrong
Dauphin
the Item
Empire Theatre
Dodson's Liver Tone replaces calomel in tonic cures
An advertisement touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe vegetable alternative to calomel for liver and bowel cleansing. It claims calomel is harmful to the liver and bones, promising a drugstore guarantee that one spoonful will restore energy, purify the bowels, and keep the family well, without causing salivation.
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Dodson
Burglars Target Atlanta Home as Rambo Complains
In a wide ranging complaint Mr. Rambo laments repeated burglaries at his Atlanta residence. He rails at the police and notes four robberies this summer. He jokes about a closed season on his belongings and suggests burglars might move on to the police station.
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Mr. Rambo
West Peachtree
Sixth Streets
Atlanta
Suspect Arrested After Wearing Army Uniform
Police hold Frank Cannon of Pensacola on a disorderly conduct charge after arrest Wednesday afternoon. He was found at the station wearing a United States army suit beneath his civilian clothes. Government issue buttons, perfumery, scissors, castor oil and patent medicine cans were found in his pockets.
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Frank Cannon
Pensacola
New Orleans Cotton Spot Quotations Tue Nov 11
Spot cotton market quotations from New Orleans show prices in several markets with Savannah at 73 8, Norfolk 73 8, Augusta 71 2, Dallas 71 4, and St. Louis 71 4.
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New Orleans
New. Orleans
Savannah
Norfolk
Augusta
Dallas
St. Louis
Dr Swan Liver and Kidney Remedy Promoted
A testimonial extols Dr Swan Liver and Kidney Remedy for torpid liver and indigestion. The ad claims the product stimulates liver kidneys stomach and bowels and strengthens the system. It markets as purely vegetable and easy to take at 50 cents a bottle with a signature required for genuineness.
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Dr. Swan
National Remedy Co
New York
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