Alabama Registration Law Shortens Lists for December Elections
An attorney general ruling states Alabama registration law consolidates and repeals earlier rules. Probate judges cannot supply elector lists at polling places for the December 27 election. No compensation is allowed for making such lists. The January 16 vote involves a state bond issue of 1,500,000 dollars and a constitutional amendment.
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UUM . Ale
Keno
Alabama
Aty
Wm. L. Martin
Hendr
Alabama Education Department Report Praises Transformations
Superintendent Feagin reports the 1914-15 year as one of remarkable achievements due to a complete transformation of antiquated machinery. The document outlines receipts, disbursements, teachers, enrollment, and new educational measures from the legislature, highlighting local taxes compulsory attendance and better supervision as key advances. He cites a growing public sentiment that reshaped lawmakers toward needed reforms.
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Montgomery
Ala
Henderson
Department of Education
William F. Feagin
Feagin
Superintendent of Education
Alabama
Commonwealth
Union
Russell Sage Foundation
Vocal theory and stalled stars at Lyric Theatre
May Bouton known as Mrs Thorne explains why many good voices fail to reach stardom. She notes singing talent must combine voice with intelligence for success, in Arthur Hammerstein’s musical jollity at Lyric Theatre on December 4 matinee and night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
May Bouton
Thorne
Arthur Hammerstein
Lyric Theatre
Miss Bouton
Alabama Education Laws Mark Forward Step in School Progress
Superintendent Feagin highlights fifteen educational laws passed at the recent session, including women on boards, literacy commission, first grade certificates, age limits for teachers, a proposed statewide school tax, compulsory schooling, teachers institutes, and broader modernization of the state’s school code. The report covers expenditures, enrollment, attendance, and salaries, noting increases in state and county funding and a decline in overall enrollment and attendance. Masons Grand Lodge convenes in Montgomery with several Mobile members traveling to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama
Feagin
State Board of Examiners
Department of Education
New Schooner Bought By Captain J. M. Scott
Captain J. M. Scott, veteran Mobile shipper, purchased a new four masted schooner of 1156 tons net register. He will take command in New York to load coal for Cienfuegos Cuba, then lumber for the west coast of Italy. Vessel capacity is 850000 feet of lumber.
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J. M. Scott
Mobile
New York City
Scott
New York
Cienfuegos
Cuba
Italy
Prohibition Week Opens in City Court With 31 Cases
Prohibition week begins in the city court at 10 a.m. with thirty-one cases on the docket through Saturday. Several defendants face multiple hearings and some may be postponed to next week. One defendant, Carl J. Schmidt, was accidentally killed Sunday afternoon October 24 on the Kaver farm. Jurors summoned for duty are listed, including Joseph M. Walsh and Henry G. McAllister among others.
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Carl J. Schmidt
Kaver
Perry Geary
Dave Abrams
Edward P. Barrett
Harry Harris
Frank J. Levene
Dennis Packer
Charles Schimpf
John Nielen, Jr
Tom Henry
Carl
Schmidt
Adolph Weiss
William Abrams
Mary Fort
Frank Allen
L. W. Brown
Charles Densmore
T. J. Goulding
Edward Smith
James Conway
Adolph S. Picker
George H. Rhodes
W. Reese Farnell
Tom M
Gurganus
James S. Watson
Eugene
Minor Cases In Police Court Detained Five Days
Willie Davis who interfered with Bessie Stokes hair dressing business was sent to jail for five days after disorderly conduct arrest. Aubrey Jones, charged with disorderly conduct after a disturbance at the Mobile and Ohio fruit wharf, received five days or a five dollar fine. Deputy Sheriff Paul Cazalas left for Montgomery to bring Hale Clark, a negro wanted for burglary at Askin and Marine store last month, where several suits of clothes were stolen.
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Willie Davis
Bessie Stokes
Edington
Aubrey , Jones
J. G. Jones
Mobile
Ohio Fruit Wharf
Paul _Cazalas
Montgomery
Hale Clark
Askin & Marine
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Phate
Shanna
Broadus
Schuiling
Murphy Guilding
Indianapolis
Ind
Dreaper
Jakaa
Dreaper & Burns
Dreaper & Burns Fey
THE
Mobile’s Quality Theatre
Masonic Grand Lodge
Grand Council
Grand Chapter
Grand Lodge
J. H. McCormick
Percy B. Dixon
James Adier
J. Wade Cox
Dr. Atkinson
Albert D. Bloch
Masonic Home Committee
Baby
Dave S. Bauer
Rexall
Gabrifl
Irving L.simon
Jack Mann
First National Bank Resources
Montevallo
Red
Cahaba
Atlantic
Perton
Atlantic Coal Co
G. McGonigal
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