WEGRO QUESTION DIVIDES ALABAMA MEETING OVER PEONAGE
A Alabama gathering during a Chamber of Commerce smoker heard debate on removing Negro tenants from farming tracts and importing Northern farmers to eliminate peonage perceptions. L. C. Irvine argued long-standing South North contrasts, urging wiping out tenants to transplant Northern communities and social status to Black Belt lands.
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Alabama Nd Congress
Chamber of Commerce and Business League
House
Ohio
Illinois
Indiana
United States
L. C. Irvine
South
Allum
Irvine
Mr. Irvine
Arizona
California
West
Northwest
Black Belt
Aple Taing
Warmik Thompson
North Development Company
Errick
Columbus
Mississippi Attorney General seeks ban on near beer sellers
In Jackson on November 14, 193? Ross Collins filed a chancery court petition to restrain near beer dealers in Wickliffe from continuing sales and to impose civil penalties of 100 dollars for each drink violating prohibition laws.
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Ackson
Miss
Mississippi
Aftor
Ross Collins
Chancery Court
Wicksite
Alvil
Alabama Land Congress Sets 1913 Montgomery Meeting
The Alabama Land Congress read and adopted a resolutions report calling for the 1913 annual session in Montgomery starting the second Tuesday in November. It urges agricultural education, good roads, expanded boys and girls clubs, farm demonstration work, publicity on Alabama lands, and protection against fake land schemes. It also endorses forming a farm mortgage loan company and promotes honest real estate cooperation.
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Alabama State Lawa Congress
Montgomery
Congress
Alabama
United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Publicity
Lumber freight rate rollback stays in place
The Interstate Commerce Commission suspended an auto-crease rate increase from 5 to 26 1 2 cents per 100 pounds on lumber shipped from Texas and Louisiana to Des Moines Iowa and other listed destinations from November 15 to March 18. An investigation into the proposed advance is ongoing.
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Washington
Lunder
Texas
Louisiana
Des Moines
Iowa
Interstate
Wonderful Home Treatment Promises Catarrh and Asthma Cure
T. Gorham of Battle Creek Michigan advertises a free trial kit and book for a home remedy claimed to cure chronic catarrh and asthma, purporting to cleanse the system, stop throat drip, hawking, and sleepless nights, urging immediate request via plain wrapper mail.
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T. Gorham
Gorham
Battle Creek
Mich
Night session draws 600 at Alabama Land Congress smoker
A crowd of over 600 attended the Alabama Land Congress and Chamber of Commerce night smoker in Mobile. Joseph Thompson of Birmingham and Clarendon Davis of Huntsville spoke on farming and development. Resolutions endorsing local option taxation were adopted.
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Alabama Land Congress
Chamber of Commerce
N. F. Thompson
Joseph Thompson
Birmingham
Clarendon Davis
Huntsville
Matt Mahomer, Jr
Mobile
Will T. Sheenan
Montgomery
Committee On
Q. Norton
Baldwin County
Thompson
Joseph O. Thompson
Alabama
Madison County
Monroeville
Monroe County
G. Abercrombie
L. GO. Irvine
Well-to-do Young Man Victim of Tuberculosis
Colorado Springs November 14 J Wendell Marley aged 26 president of a Cumberland Maryland brokerage company died in a tuberculosis sanitorium here last night. Examination of his personal effects showed he was a stockholder in United States Steel, the Pennsylvania Santa Fe and Southern Pacific railroads also in American Sugar Refining and American Smelting. It was announced the body would be shipped to Charleston South Carolina for burial.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
J. Wendell Marley
Cumberland
United States Steel
Pennsylvania, Santa Fe
Southern Pacific
American Sugar Refining
American Smelting
Charlaston
S. C
Itch Relief From D D D Pre scription Ad
A vintage ad touts D D D Pre scriptions to end eczema itching instantly. It promises full relief with a 650c bottle, claiming the product washes away disease germs and leaves skin clear. Stores and distributors named include Van Antwerp Drug Co Dave 8 Bauer Roe Drug Co Sutton Bros.
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D.D.D
Onge
van Antwerp Drug Co
Dave
Bauer
Roe Drug Co
Sutton Bros
Kiamil Pasha Urges Bulgarian Armistice Directly
Official confirmation from Constantinople states that Kiamil Pasha addressed King Ferdinand of Bulgaria to end hostilities while peace preliminaries are negotiated. The move signals direct diplomacy during ongoing negotiations.
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London
Kiamil Pasha
Ferdinand of
Bulgaria
Constantinople
End of War in To Macedonia Reports and Hunger Fears
A Constantinople dispatch reports hostilities ending with formal cessation arranged by the war office and contracts canceled. A cholera camp opens at Tuzla with twenty new cases. Macedonian fighting largely over as Servian Greek forces defeat Turkish remnants. Express notes famine looming across Eastern Turkey with starvation feared this winter.
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War Office
Tuzla
Macedonia
Uskup
Daily Telegraph
OCR
The
Express
Hademkeui
Constantinople
Europe
India
China
Turkey
Atrocity Claims Tarnish Bulgarian Turkish War
Berlin dispatch cites Vosische Zeitung correspondent from Semlin alleging Bulgarian troops mutilated Turkish corpses after Kirk Kilisseh and displayed heads on bayonets. The report frames the war as barbaric slaughter rather than orderly combat.
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Berlin
Vossische Zeitung
Semlin
Hungary
Belgrade
Kirk-Kilisseh
Easy marks claim by New Orleans city fraudster
Rob ert Davis of Do than Alabama, a farmer's son, is jailed in New Orleans for passing bad checks after buying a $2,000 bill of goods bound for McLaurin Mississippi. He confessed, saying the idea came easy once it started and that he had never broken the law before.
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New Orleans
Robert Mr. Davis
Dothan
Ala
Davis
McLaurin
Miss
Rubber Workers Rally Dispersed by Police in Watertown
In East Watertown near Hood Rubber Company the Industrial Workers of the World strike disrupts work at the plant employing about four thousand. A second gathering led to the arrest of a woman striker charged with intimidation and stone throwing.
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Watertown
Mass
BPRTE
Jefferson county election fraud inquiry ordered by officials
County Prosecutor Paisley was summoned to Columbus to confer with Attorney General Hoan about alleged election frauds in Jefferson county. Authorities fear conditions similar to Adams county past disenfranchisement, prompting a thorough investigation.
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Steubenville
Paisely
Columbus
Hoan
Jefferson County
Blair
Adams
Jury asks leniency for convicted woman
Mrs Eva Walls Bailey was found guilty of attempting to poison her husband C C Bailey a wealthy lumberman The jury urged extreme leniency in sentencing Bailey was involved in a murder plot with Albert Watson who was convicted last week The plan included poisoning both Bailey and Watsons wife to allow their marriage The wife of Watson died and Bailey survived the poisoning then was struck on the head with an axe at his lumber camp
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Shreveport
Eva Walls Bailey
C. C. Bailey
Bailey
Albert Watson
Alfonso Acknowledges American Sympathy
The White House released Wing Alfonso of Spain's message to President Taft expressing gratitude for U S sympathy after the assassination of his prime minister. He asks the president to convey thanks to the U S government and people for their condolence.
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Washington
White House
Wing Alfonso
Spain
Tait
Taft appoints mining delegates from Birmingham and St Louis
President Taft named Erskine Ramsey of Birmingham and Philip N Moore of St Louis among several others chosen as delegates to the American Mining Congress. The convention will meet in Spokane from November 25 to 29.
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Washington
Erskine Ramsey
Birmingham
Philip N. Moore
St. Louis
Taft
American Mining Congress
Spokane
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Nero
Oss Collins
C. G. Abercrombie
Report of Resolutions Committee
Committee On Resolutions
Will T. Sheehan
H. M. Friedenthal
Dauphin
Joachim
SMITH
Ithaca
Parker, Fox
Winchester
Remington
Barney Cavanagh Hardware CO
Porte
Daily News
Paz
Fiaprdware
Mobile Bay
Bay Shore Railroad
Jos.espalla, Jr., & CO
Alfonso
Gabriel
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