Herrick Departs Paris as Ambassador Retires
Myron T. Herrick leaves Paris for Havre to sail to New York aboard the Rochambeau. He is bid farewell by Americans, French officials, and British residents, with deputies, the chamber of commerce and ambulance corps offering tributes.
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Associated Press
Paris
Myron T. Herrick
Herrick
Alexander H. Thackara
Thackara
General Gallieni
Fevrier
Austin Lee
Bordeaux
Edward Grey
Herricks
Lieutenant Read
Aviation Corps
Turkish Army Marches on Suez Canal
A Cairo telegraph report via Berlin says 76,000 Turkish troops under Izzet Pasha advance toward the Suez Canal. The force includes 10,000 Bedouins and 500 camels. a field railway to Elnakel oasis is built. British trenches and artillery block the canal road.
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Associated Press
Amsterdam
London
Berlin
Telegraaf
Cairo
Izzet Pasha
Suez Canal
Elnakel Oasis
Deaths of Samuel B. Matthews and Captain Chris Johansen
Samuel B. Matthews 50, once a West Virginia bank examiner, died in Mobile after a brief illness. His remains were sent to Charleston for interment with a short service led by Rev. G. W. McRae. Captain Chris Johansen 74, native of Denmark and Civil War Confederate navy veteran, died at home on Warren Street. Funeral Sunday, Magnolia Cemetery.
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Samuel B. Matthews
National Bank
West Virginia
Joseph Clare
Live Oak
Bay Front
Oakdale
Charleston
W. Va
Dixon & McKay
G. W. McRae
Oakdale Baptist Church
Chris Johansen
Svendborg
Denmark
Mobile
South
Warren Street
Lovett Johansen
Magnolia
Action delayed on Lyric matter in court hearing
The Lyric Theatre bondholders petitioned City Bank and Trust Company for a receiver but the hearing before Judge Safford Berney was postponed to Monday at the law and equity court. Attorneys Bestor Young & Bestor and Lyric Theatre Company lawyers agreed that if a receiver is appointed it would take effect starting today Saturday November 28.
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City Bank and Trust Company
Lyric Theatre
Lyric Theatre Company
Safford Berney
Law and Equity Court
Messrs. Bestor, Young & Bestor
Otis Skinner Returns in The Silent Voice at Lyric
Otis Skinner performs tonight at the Lyric in The Silent Voice by Jules Eckert Goodman from Gouverneur Morris story. Frohman presents a modern drama featuring a renowned American stage artist for local theatergoers.
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Otis Skinner
Kismet
Lyric Theatre
Mr Skinner
Charles Frohman
Jules Eckert Goodman
Gouverneur Morris
Fine Feathers at Lyric theatre Monday
Eugene Walter play Fine Feathers has sparked wide debate in New York and Chicago and will be staged at the Lyric on Monday with matinee and night showings. Critics call it the era’s most powerful American drama, provoking discussions on cost of living fashion graft and compensation.
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Eugene Walter
H. H. Frazee
New York
Chicago
Lyric Theatre
The
Lyric
Dreamland Theatre Presents Baby Incubator with New Acts
At the Dreamland the Gay New Yorkers Company will showcase the Baby Incubator with novelty singing by the chorus. Baby Lucy will perform songs for children who receive a present and a cinema ticket after the show. George on performs the Iron Man act with a car passing over his body. Tomorrow Chappelle plans a set of motion picture films.
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Dreamland
New Yorkers Company
Dreamland Theatre
Baby Lucy
George On
Chappelle
Travers and Holmes lead Empire program with two reels
Richard C. Travers and Miss Gerda Holmes headline The Means and the End at Empire a two reel feature drama about the battle between capital and the underworld. The Lubin comedy The Tale of a Coat closes the Saturday bill.
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Ernest Maltravers
Alan Hale
George Morgan
Louise Vale
Vivian Prescott
G. M. Anderson
Marguerite Clayton
Broncho Billy
Alice Joyce
Miss Joyce
Lady Duff- Gordon
Missing Pennsylvania boy sought in Mobile
Chief of Police Crenshaw receives a letter from West Chester detective Robert O. Jefferies asking a search in Mobile for 16 year old Robert B. Schell. He is described as five feet six inches, about 120 pounds, dark brown hair and blue eyes. Last seen in a dark grey suit, red sweater and black shoes.
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Frank W. Crenshaw
Robert O. Jefferies
West Chester
Mobile
Robert B. Schell
Juvenile Court Appeals In Mobile District Cases
Tallom convicted on assault and dismissed from the court after appeal. Norvie Brown appeals a charge of immoral conduct from Mobile juvenile court with related proceedings ongoing.
Russians claim bold Baltic fleet raid against Germany
London reports in a Morning dispatch that Russia’s Baltic fleet under Admiral Von Essen attacked German warships in the Baltic in September. Russian cruisers and destroyers, flying German colors under fog, sank one German cruiser and damaged another before returning home. Several German destroyers and torpedo boats reached Kiel in damaged condition.
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Associated Press
London
Poland
Germany
von Essen
Baltic
St. George
Kiel
Kiel Canal
Seamen at British Ports Demand Higher Wage Scale
Correspondence from Monmouth England Nov 20 reports South Wales seamen securing wage hikes as German and Austrian detainees and naval reserve calls reduce experienced hands. The Seamen's Union pushes for a permanent scale with increases from 20 to 60 percent, raising ordinary seamen pay to about 383 to 50 dollars a month from prewar levels around 27 dollars.
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Associated Press
Monmouth
Eng
South Wales
Seamen's Union
Flooding plans for Yser positions win high honors
An AP report from Dunkirk dated Nov 20 states the man who organized flooding of German Yser positions has been decorated with the Order of King Leopold. The keeper of the Nieuport sluices, controlling water in canals and dykes, is unnamed publicly but may receive further Allied recognition.
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Associated Press
Dunkirk
Yser
Leopold
Retrenchment in Car Service Shows Declining Earnings
Mobile Light and Railroad Company announces reduced street car schedules due to falling earnings. President Wilson cites October declines across lines from 7 to 22 percent, with November around 15 to 16 percent to date. One man car lines will be used on Michigan avenue and Franklin street. Wages are to be preserved as the company adjusts service.
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Mobile Light and Railroad Company
Wilson
Michigan Avenue
Franklin Street
Selma
Ala
Hot Springs
Ark
Marine
Cedar
Wilkinson
Franklin
Charleston and
Beauregard
Davis Avenue
Government Street
Dauphin
Prichard
Crichton
Ann Street
Tennessee Street
Saetmacaat
Russia Slow in Claiming Victory
Two British steamers were sunk off Havre by German submarines. Petrograd reports claim victory in Polish fighting, but officials say the front between the Vistula and Warthe remains favorable to Russia though no decisive defeat is shown. Casement visit puzzles London papers amid Irish negotiations. Churchill reassures naval position as French reports note Mediterranean command and Adriatic blockade. A delayed Petrograd tale claims a September Baltic fleet disaster for Germany.
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London
Petrograd
Poland
Sedan
Russia
Napoleon
Grand Duke
Nicholas
Grand
Vistula
Warthe
Berlin
Vienna
Holland
Bri
Roger Casement
Germany
Winston Spencer Churchill
Admiralty
Mediterranean
Adriatic
Dardanelles
Heavy Artillery Faces Reduced Activity in Belgium Front
Paris dispatch reports November 27 artillery exchanges continued with less German heavy artillery activity. A single infantry attack south of Ypres was repelled. A German biplane with three aviators was shot down near sunset, leaving one dead and two prisoners. No major changes noted near Arras, Aisne, Argonne, or Vosges.
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Paris
French War Office
Belgium
Ypres
Arras
Aisne
Champagne
Argonne
Vosges
Burglar Strikes Downtown. Loots Cash Register Souvenirs
A burglar damaged a local shop on Joachim street and took a bar after smashing the cash register. Officer George Smith reported passing the scene at 3 am and finding everything in order elsewhere. Another thief sought money in two offices above the Mobile Business College on Wednesday night but found nothing.
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Joachim Street
George Smith
Mobile Business College
60 Mile Gale Lashes Pensacola Coast
Washington reports Gulf storm lingering near New Orleans bringing heavy rains and a southeast wind reaching 60 miles per hour at Pensacola. Weather fair inland except along the coast with storm warnings posted from New Orleans to Apalachicola Florida.
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Pensacola
Washington
New Orleans
Gulf Coast
Apalachicola
Fila
Post Office Grants Fifteen Extra Clerks for Christmas Rush
Postmaster J Blocker Thornton learned Friday that the department approved his request for additional help. Fifteen clerks will be hired for the Christmas season from May civil service qualifiers. Thornton will add stamping booths and weighing stations and set up an information bureau in the corridor.
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J. Blocker Thornton
Post Office Department
Mr Thornton
Warranted Hunters Charged With Trespass on Private Lands
E. M. Flower Jim Pippin Jr Jim Pippin Sr Hillary Glass John W. Thompson and C. H. Riddle were served with warrants Friday charging them with hunting on lands of another without permission in violation of state game laws.
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E. M. Flower
Jim Pippin, Jr
Jim Pippin
Hillary Glass
John W. Thompson
C. H. Riddle
President Wilson reiterates stance on woman suffrage
President Wilson maintains the issue is best left to state action in a letter to government employee Mary M. Childs. He argues that amending the national constitution would outrun public opinion and says he does not expect to change his position. He plans to meet suffragists soon and will see Henry Van Dyke when possible.
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Associated Prena
Washington
Wilson
Mary M. Childs
Henry van Dyke
Holland
van Dyke
Eight Executions of Arkansas Men Due in December
Eight men, four whites and four negroes, are to be electrocuted in Arkansas within sixteen days starting December 4. Neal McLaughlin, to be executed December 8, is the first white man to die in the electric chair in the state. Others named include Arthur Hodges for killing a constable near Arkadelphia and Joe Strong and Clarence Dewein for killing W. H. Cross near Benton.
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Associated Press
Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas
Neal McLaughlin
McLaughlin
Ozark
Negro man punished for shirt theft at Baum Clothing
Herman Jones was fined 25 dollars and costs for stealing several shirts from Baum Clothing Company. Recorder Eolington ordered twenty days plus ten additional days. the fines were paid and Jones began serving the extra ten days in jail.
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Baum Clothing Company
Herman Jones
Eolington
Jones
Ladies of Charity File Papers of Incorporation
Incorporation papers for the Ladies of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul in Mobile were filed in probate court by trustees Florence B. Glennon Helen O Vickers Julia F Russell Lily H McPhillips Mary McKeon Belle Daly and Maggie F Drea. The group aims to care for the poor sick and maintain them for three years.
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Ladies of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul
Mobile
Florence B. Glennon
Helen O. Vickers
Julia F. Russell
Lily H. McPhillips
Mary McKeon
Belle Daly
Maggie F. Dreaper
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Mall Invest
N. Gene Nie
Pennsylvania
Havre
Ladies OF Charity
Mobile Chamber OF Commerce
Butte Goshen
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Oan Eee OF Commerce Siness League
Nat Grain and Feed
M ’ Ov
Timothy
Ceedveses Reese
United States
Pollock Building
Victor J. Evans & Co
Washington, D. C
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Ivanhoe Ee Do
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Dauphin Street
Lawrence and
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Bell Pate
Cedar Mt Road
Thomas Alonso
Ae Fie Realty Company
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Modarn
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Bell Phone
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Pine Bis
Geri
Cross Railroad
Spring Hill
Burton Avenue
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Bell Pubes
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Smith Piano Co
Sonic Temple
Fok Sharp
Hemington
Panama Auction Company
St. Francis Street
E. W. Cawthon Plateau
B. Coleman
Texas
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Gle Mfg. Co
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Whistler
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