Compulsory Education Slogan Marks Alabama Turnover
Henry J. Willingham retires as Alabama education chief, passing duties to William F. Feagin and Spright Dowdell. Feagin sworn in as chief clerk. Willingham endorses compulsory education and local school taxation to expand access, citing 1910 census illiteracy and urging constitutional amendments.
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Montgomery
Henry J. Willingham
Alabama
William F. Feagin
Florence Normal School
Feagin
Spright Dowdell
Birmingham
Willingham
Florence
O’neal
Tag Day Set By Mobile Boys Club for Charity
Tag Day will fill downtown Mobile Friday with tag sellers raising funds for the Boys Club and Detention School improvements. Volunteers list stations, chairmen, and locations as the event seeks wing additions, new equipment, and better grounds, inviting public support and donations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boys’ Club of
Mobile
Boys’ Club Corporation
Boys’ Detention School
L. H. Putnam
O. C. Wolcott
Altho
Onie Snow
Bell
St. George Tucker
City Bank & Trust Co
Rhett Goode
Peter Vredenburgh, Jr
D. P. Bestor, Jr
W. E. P. Wilson
Hirshfield
D. R. Burgess
Hays
Otts
Cole
Platte Roberts
Emily Roberts
Amy Wilson
Mildred Schaffer
Annabelle Courtright
A. P. Bush
Battle House
Mattie Cary
Clara Cary
Margaret Taylor
Margaret Horn
Josephine Chamberlain
Hilda Broadwood
Marguerite Wefel
L. H. Horn
E J. Gower
Cawthon Hotel
Charles Hervey
Gabriella Barrett
Luscher
Judith Quarles
Ella Blackshear
Mar
Huerta Faces New Mexican Congress and U S Pressure
Washington officials study Huerta's message to Congress as the United States maintains a financial blockade and weighs next moves. Huerta hints at possible elimination, while O Shaughnessy reports back amid a gala reception at Chapultepec castle. Senora Huerta greets Mrs. O Shaughnessy as the event generates a lavish, costly banquet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Mexican Congress
Huerta
Congress
Ome
O'Shaughnessy
William Bayard Hale
Nogales
Mr. Hale
Nelson O'Shaughnessy
Chapaultepec Castle
Mr. O'Shaughnessy
Good Roads Delegates Hear Opening Session in Mobile
More than 250 delegates from 45 Alabama counties and several neighboring states attended the opening of the Seventeenth Annual Alabama Good Roads Association convention at the Battle House. Speeches by John Craft and J. Asa Rountree outlined a year of work and future plans while Governor-elects and visiting officials were welcomed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Battle House
Alabama Good Roads Association
Alabama
Tennessee
Mississippi
Florida
Louisiana
Kentucky
Pennsylvania
John Craft
J. Asa Rountree
William H. Armbrecht
Chamber of Commerce
J. D. Bloch
Alabama Association
Craft
George H. Davis
Cantonment
Fla
M. T. Kerr
Mr. Parks
M. R. Shreve
J. E. Kavanaugh
Columbus
Ohio
New Orleans
O’neal
Emmet O'Neal
Mobile
Jesse Taylor
Better Roads
Jamestown
John H. Bankhead
Don Farnsworth
Monroe Park
Block
Matthew Brewster
J. D. Block
Pat J. Lyons
Huerta Faces Pressure Over Possible Self Elimination
Mexico City reports say Provisional President Huerta could resign under heavy foreign pressure and congressional ratification of his acts. The cabinet considered Aldape as successor, but John Lind insisted Congress be kept, altering Huerta’s posture before the session today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Mexico
City
Huerta
United States
Congress
Eee
Pace
Tyne
Aldape
Manuel Garza Aldaupe
John Lind
Wilson
Senor Aldape
Diver finds sunken Civil War era wreck near Mobile Bay
Diver Edward Gorman clearing an outer bar obstruction at Mobile Bay discovers an old sunken vessel. Officials say the wreck, long submerged, was marked and a light will be placed on it. Initial speculation it was a Civil War warship was denied. Large debris surfaced as the wreck’s rifle-like portion emerged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Gorman
Mobile Bay
United States Engineers Office
Rght
Whch
Morris fined in concealed weapon case
Charles Morris was arrested Tuesday night for carrying a concealed weapon and arraigned in recorder's court Wednesday afternoon. He was fined 101 dollars plus fifty days costs and an additional thirty days. A large automatic Colt was seized with Morris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Morris
Recorder’s Court
Morris
Alabama appoints Red Cross delegate in Washington meeting
Governor O Nea l names Dr L L Hill of Montgomery as Alabama delegate to the American Red Cross Society in Washington on December 10.
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Montgomery
Ala
O'Neal
L. L. Hill
Alabama
American Red Cross Society
Washington
Hilliard Rice Pleads Guilty in Axe Assault Case
Hilliard Rice appeared in city court and pleaded guilty to an assault with an axe on Leon Richardson. He was remanded for sentencing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hilliard Rice
Leon Richardson
Conductor Thames Fined for Bar Punch Clash
M Thames, conductor on the Dau Phin street line of Mobile Light and Railroad, was fined 25 dollars or twenty days in jail in the inferior criminal court. Judge Henry Chamberlain required the fine after Thames struck W F McGrew on the left ear with a transfer punch during a dispute over fare. Thames plans to appeal the decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Thames
Dau Phin Street
Mobile Light and Railroad Company
Inferior Criminal Court
Henry Chamberlain
Thames
W. F. McGrew
Crichton
McGrew
Currency Bill Set for Senate Report Saturday
Washington November 20. The administration currency bill will be reported to the senate by the banking committee on Saturday. Opposing factions agreed to submit divided reports, one signed by Chairman Owen and the administrator Democrats, and another signed by Senator Hitchcock and the five Republicans.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Banking Committee
Owen
Htchcock
Familiar figure in courts gets a year
Virginia Robinson, known in police and inferior courts, was sentenced to twelve months in jail in the inferior court on Thursday for threatening to kill Thomas Bennett, with $500 bond to keep the peace.
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Virginia Robinson
Thomas Bennett
Weather Forecast for Alabama Mississippi
Fair tonight and Friday with warmer conditions in central Alabama and southeastern Mississippi. Friday brings unsettled weather to parts of Mississippi and warmer readings statewide.
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Alabama
Mississippi
Bleeding Mexico Blamed on Traitors and a 1094 Mile Ride
A Mobile Item report recounts L. J. Dawson and wife driving 1094 miles in sixteen days in a two stead Buick with only eleven days moving time, despite axle trouble and rain. They traveled through Illinois Kentucky Tennessee Mississippi and Alabama and plan to settle near Dawes Alabama. The article also cites Huerta in Mexico City addressing Congress about national dangers and the rebels.
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L. J. Dawson
F Peoria
Mobile Item
Hattiesburg
Mrs. Dawson
Illinois
Kentucky
Tennessee
Mississippi
Alabama
Dawson
Mobile County
Dawes
Ala
Poitevant Convicted in Carnal Knowledge Case
The Alabama supreme court affirmed John W. Poitevant's conviction for carnal knowledge of his thirteen year old step-daughter. He received a life sentence after a June trial. Poitevant escaped briefly from county jail while under guard but was recaptured near Pascagoula, Mississippi.
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Montgomery
Ala
John W. Poitevant
Supreme Court
Poitevant
Pascagoula
Miss
Officials Return From Hearing On Molasses Rate Dispute
Vice-President R. V. Taylor General Manager 8. R. Prince and J. Taylor of the Mobile and Ohio road returned from Washington after testifying before a special examiner over the 15 cent per hundredweight black strap molasses rate from Mobile to St Louis protested by New Orleans dealers. Hearing to resume in New Orleans Monday with more evidence.
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R. V. Taylor
R. Prince
J. & Taylor
Mobile & Ohio Road
Washington
Mobile
St. Louis
New Orleans
Leach Held on $100 Bond Over Cream Pitcher Claim
EB Leach was arrested as a dangerous suspect on a waiter’s complaint in a Post Office case. He was arraigned before Judge Edington and ordered held on a $100 bond for good behavior for six months. The waiter testified Leach took a small cream pitcher from the restaurant, which Leach denied.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leach
Post Office
Edington
Death of Robert H Bowman at Whistler
Robert H Bowman age 65 died at Whistler after several weeks illness. Formerly with Mobile and Ohio in repairs at Whistler he was a former New Orleans resident and is survived by relatives in Whistler.
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Robert H. Bowman
Mobile
Ohio
Whistler
New Orleans
Renegade Navajos on Beautiful Mountain Face Tense Stand
At Farmington New Mexico on November 20 four hundred renegade Navajo Indians encamped on Beautiful Mountain near Ship Rock prepared for possible armed clashes. Sentries watched signal fires as Chief Be Sho She followers risked violence while Indian agent W T Shelton and police prepared to negotiate to avert bloodshed.
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Associated Press
Farmington
N. M
Beautiful Mountain
Ship Rock Agency
Ship Rock
Be Sho She
W. T. Shelton
Agent Shelton
Three Navajo Indians Sentenced For Ship Rock Assault
Federal Judge W. H. Pope sentenced three Navajo Indians among eleven implicated in the Ship Rock agency assault to ninety days in jail but withheld commitment. They had surrendered and were ordered to return to the reservation to urge eight fugitives to surrender, with promise of fair treatment.
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San Juan
Associated Press
Santa FE
N. M
W. H. Pope
Ship Rock Agency
Rikiciotiak
Officer Chandler Cleared by Jury in Mobile Assault Case
Mobile traffic officer William Chandler was found not guilty by a city court jury of assaulting John R. Danzy with a revolver with intent to murder. The trial stretched through the day before Judge 9 J. Semmes, with numerous witnesses and disputed accounts of the July 30 confrontation at Dauphin and Royal streets. Chandler testified self defense, saying Danzy instigated the fight and that he fired only to prevent harm.
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William Chandler
Mobile Police Department
J. Semmes
John R. Danzy
N. R. Clarke
Foster K. Hale
D. H. Edington
Charles W. Tompkins
Chandler
Danzy
Dauphin and
Royal Streets
Danny
Postman Edgar Harris Accused Of Assault on Matron
Ter Dimmick investigates a charge against Edgar Harris a postman accused of attempting to grab a highly respected matron on G street early this week while in mail service. The deposition details are under review.
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Ter Dimmick
Edgar Harris
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