Dr Siler Investigating Pellagra in Montgomery
Dr v F Siler a U S Army medical corps captain and member of the Robert M Thompson pellagra commission is in Montgomery for a four to five day survey of the disease He will then go to Jacksonville Fla to read a paper on Sanitation before the American Public Health Association in session there The Thompson commission has worked nearly three years to determine pellagra's cause and will assemble data at its New York headquarters Siler was reared and educated in Troy and was assigned to the pellagra commission years ago
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Montgomery
Ala
V. F. Siler
United States Army
Robert M. Thompson Pellagra Commission
American Public Health Association
Thompson Commission
Siler
Commission
New York
Troy
Pellagra Commission
Unexpected Return Shifts Information Access Methods
A remark notes that information gathering can occur through many means, including actions by a person who arrives home unexpectedly. The line hints at covert or informal methods of obtaining knowledge.
Pinex Syrup Claims Quick Cough Relief and Savings
An advertisement touts Pinex Syrup made from 214 ounces of Pinex and a pine extract formula. It promises fast relief for dry or painful coughs, chest and throat colds, and claims cost efficiency versus store-bought defense. The text urges buyers to ask for 214 ounces and notes a money-back guarantee.
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Pinex Co
T. Wayne, Ind
Daring Aeroplane Raid on Friedrichshafen Claimed Successful
Romanshorn reports detail a Sunday raid by French and English aviators on Friedrichshafen. Bombs damaged a Zeppelin shed, one house was destroyed, soldiers and civilians killed, and two aviators were captured or drowned. Churchill announced three English planes participated, one hit by German fire and pilot captured.
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Associated Press
Geneva
Paris
Friedrichshafen
Romanshorn
Constance
Wurtemburg
Belfort
Zeppelin
House of Commons
Winston Spencer Churchill
Admiralty
Churchill
E. F. Briggs
Naval Air Service
Railroads in South Granted Temporary Cotton Rate Waiver
Interstate Commerce Commission orders railways in the South to waive long and short haul limits for cotton shipments from Atlanta to Virginia cities and southern ports until August 31 1915. Southern Railway, Central of Georgia, Georgia Railroad and others may set proportional rates subject to later review.
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Associated Press
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission Today
South
Atlanta
Virginia
South Atlantic
Gulf
Southern Railway
Birmingham and
Atlantic
West Point
Central of Georgia
Georgia Railroad
Louisville and
Peruna praised by nurse for stomach catarrh cure
A Chicago nurse Emma Rooke testifies Peruna helped her catarrh of the stomach. She describes sour stomach gas belching painful indigestion and sleep disturbance and says relief came after using Peruna with slow but sure recovery.
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Emma Rooke
W. Erie St
Chicago
No Disturbances in Vera Cruz as Constitutionalists Take City
Vera Cruz Mexico November 24 Politically tense but calm as Constitutionalist troops consolidate control after American occupation ends. Flags fly over public buildings officials named by the Constitutionalist government begin work while more troops arrive. Telegraph wires remain down delaying communications with Mexico City and United States.
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Carranza
Vera Cruz
Mexico City
John R. Silliman
Wilson
United States
Gorman Reports On Alabama Mine Inspection Salaries
Montgomery Ala Nov 24 Salaries of eight Alabama mine inspectors totaled 21 591 22 for the past year according to Examiner of Public Accounts J T Gorman Chief inspector is C H Nesbitt of Birmingham with assistants J F Webb Frank Hillman David Kelso Thomas Roscoe W P Smith T H Tinney and W R Ray The report notes the law governing appointments allocates one associate inspector for every two and a half million tons of coal mined The department has a 25 000 appropriation and in four years inspectors salaries plus expenses totaled 51 865 98 and 22 481 30 Coal mined in the last fiscal year reached about 16 000 000 tons valued at 21 600 000.
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Montgomery
Ala
J. T. Gorman
C. H. Nesbitt
Birmingham
J. F. Webb
Frank Hillman
David Kelso
Thomas Roscoe
W. P. Smith
T. H. Tinney
W. R. Ray
Ole Hickory Heroland Grant Named in Alabama Suit
United States v W M Carney Mill Co in Escambia county is set for December 9 in district court. The government asserts trespass on lands granted by President Andrew Jackson to Creek Indian Lynn McGee and his descendants.
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United States
W. M. Carney Mill Company
Escambia County
United States District Court
Ole Hickory Jackson
Lynn McGee
General Jackson
Alabama
McGee
Gabriel Jewelry Issues Handsome Gift Book This Week
The Gabriel Jewelry Company releases a Christmas Gift Book featuring illustrations of rings chains watches pins and brooches bound with an embossed blue cover. Thousands of copies are mailed to Mobile residents and nearby areas as Mr. Gabriel predicts a strong Christmas season highlighting the liquidation stock at half price.
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Gabriel Jewelry Company
Gabriel
Mobile
Lyric and Dreamland Show Big Crowd at Local Theaters
Packed houses at the Lyric welcomed two matinée and evening performances of Bringing Up Father and the Silent Voice with Otis Skinner. At Dreamland, the Gay New Yorkers Company opened with In Gay New York, featuring D C Thomas and Shadow Baker and a strong chorus led by Nadine Wilson and Billy Boyd.
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The
Lyric
Father
Gus Hill
Lyric Theatre
Jerry Hays
Tom Briggs French
Count
Clyde Kern
Billy McGee
Daisy Davenport
Peggy
Tom Haverly
Skinner
Otis Skinner
Montgomery Starr
Jules Eckert Goodman
H. H. Frazee
New York
Chicago
Dreamland
Dreamland Theatre
Chappelle
D. C. Thomas
Evans Honey Boy
Shadow Baker
Nadine Wilson
Billy Boyd
Bessie Layton
Boyd
Lucy Culliname
Henry Culliname
Edward Morton
Seven Conecuh men charged with peonage conspiracy
Seven Conecuh county men including Tom Brantley and J E Dean face arraignment December 1 in the United States district court on charges of peonage and conspiracy to commit peonage in the case of Wiley Jourdan. Jourdan, a Black man, was allegedly kept in involuntary servitude to pay his debt and whipped when he ran away.
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Conecuh County
United States District Court
Tom Brantley
J. E. Dean
Evergreen
Wiley Jourdan
Dean
Jourdan
Brantley
Foster
United States
Joel M. Foster
Delilah Bradley
Pemberton
N. J
New York
Doyle
Schooner Boynton
William Gardner
Steamboat Charles May
Evans Wood
Dora Allison
Barge Bank Ship Line
Morris M. Meyer
Jerrome Adelyott
Fletcher C. Lindsay
Dewey Holcombe
Lillie White
Lillie Steel
Man Confesses Virginia Murder After Years on the Run
In Bellingham Washington a man using the name Charles Fowler confessed to police that he killed Claude Martin in Addington Virginia six years ago. He said he was tired of dodging about the country and a clothing slip suggests money was deposited in an Addington bank in 1908.
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Associated Press
Bellingham
Wash
Charles Fowler
Claude Martin
Addington
Harvard Graduate Lieut Williamson Dies From War Wounds
London reports Lieutenant George Williamson, Harvard class of 1905, the first American college graduate to die from war wounds, listed among casualties. He served in the Duke of Wellington's regiment and his death follows injuries sustained during combat.
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Lieut. Williamson
Harvard
Associated Press
London
George Williamson
Duke of Wellington
Williamson
Quaker Remedies Report Aid For Mobile Girl Health
A Mobile health officer notes prevalent ailments in the city including stomach trouble and biliousness. Helen Mackie of 162 Madison Street improves after using Quaker Extract from Braswell's Drug Store, with a week of treatment easing chills fever and headaches.
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Mobile
Mackie
Madison Street
Braswell
Claiborne Streets
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DR. Siler
R. M. Thompson Commission
Pat Byrnes
Royal Street
T. G. Bush Grocery Co., Distributors
Mobile, Ala
Turkey
City
Mex
Funston
Gorman
Marion
Monroe Park
Mobile Truck & Draying Co
Adams ST
Chone
Bell
OLE Hickory
U. S
L. Hammel Dry Goods CO
Morton
Faust
Maull Bros
St. Louis
Helen
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