Mobile and Good Roads Ushers Southern Travel Boom
The piece notes great Missionary Ridge, Moccasin Bend, and the Tennessee River as part of a South in transition to highway networks. It highlights a December meeting in Mobile for the Old Spanish Trail convention shaping routes to link Dixie coastal highways and attract tourists, with rivalries among communities to control the corridor.
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Gulf
Dixie Land
Mobile
Europe
America
South
Try
Gulf Coast
Covention
Jackson
Jacksonville
Tampa
Keen
Dixie
Jackson North South
Automobile Book
Mobile Tourists of America
Rotary Club approves highway plan and Christmas festival
Mobile's Rotary Club endorses reestablishing the Old Spanish Trail from South Florida to New Orleans. Delegates to Mobile's December convention will be entertained. The club backs a Bienville Square Community Christmas Festival with a stone fountain base Christmas tree and a song festival.
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Mobile
Rotary Club
Florida
New Orleans
West
Palmer Pillans
Home Economics Club
Bienville Square
Cers
Beatry
California
New York
Ibs
Doc” Taylor
Mobile Rotary
Pillans
Rotary
Rotary mm
City
J. W. Hunter
Chamber of Commerce
Terminal Transfer plans $1.35 million Mobile terminal
Moores & Dunford of Chicago to take options on river front property for a Terminal Transfer and Storage Company project in Mobile. Improvements estimated at 1.35 million dollars with 200k to 250k for labor, boosting Mobile payroll. local firms to benefit in construction purchases. Moores telegram confirms financial deal and mobile arrival plans.
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Terminal Transfer & Storage Company
C. H. Moores
Moores & Dunford
Chicago
Mobile
George R. Smith
R. Moores
George R
Mississippi Day Observed At Vancleave Exhibition
The Second Mississippi Day celebration and agricultural exhibit were held in Vancleave near Ocean Springs under the Vancleave consolidated school. Numerous exhibits from Jackson county were shown, followed by a "Grown in Mississippi" supper and a basketball game. A late night program featured a class play presented by the grand group.
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Ocean Springs
Miss
Vancleavée
Vancleave Consolidated School
Jackson County
Mississippi
Cluss
Grend
Bryan Attacks Preparedness Plan in Mobile Lecture
Former secretary of state William J. Bryan spoke in Mobile at Dauphin Way Baptist church on The War in Europe and Its Lesson for Us. He argued that sentiment against preparedness exists nationwide, blamed metropolitan papers, and linked preparedness to financial interests and war-mongering by special interests.
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William J. Bryan
Mobile
Dauphin Way
United States
Root
Wall Street
Satsuma Day to Feature Governor Henderson Visit
Gov. Charles Henderson will attend Satsuma Day in Mobile on December 9, delivering an address to newcomers to Mobile and Baldwin counties. A grand ball honors visiting citrus and pecan growers, with Two Novel Decorations transforming Bienville Square into a Garden of Japan and a Battle House citrus display.
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Charles Henderson
Alabama
Mobile
Henderson
Baldwin Counties
W. H. Reynolds
Satsuma
Battle House
E. M. Bailey
Bienville Square
Japan
Gulf Quarters
Police foil Black Hand blackmail plot against cotton broker
Police and Kirchner Cabinet Works proprietor trap a Black Hand letter scheme targeting H. G. Grimley. Walton H. Fisher, jailed, accused of using the mails to defraud and conspiracy. authorities say two accomplices do not exist. Evidence centers on 16 South Water Street and the capture at Kirchner’s plant.
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H. G. Grimley
Reinhold Kirchner
Kirchner Cabinet Works
South Water Street
Walton H. Fisher
Locust Street
United States
Fisher
Grimley
van Liew
Mobile
Ala
J. Ford
Dam America
Blackhander
R. Kirchner
Kirchner
Seas
Louisville & Nashville
Kirchner’s
Genes
Lodge of Sorrow Program Complete at Elk Hall
Mobile Lodge No 108 of the Elks plans its annual Lodge of Sorrow Memorial Exercises at Elk's Hall on Sunday December 6. Rev John W Phillips and Rev Matthew Brewster will deliver the eulogies with a musical program led by Mrs H B Rowley. Decorations by J B Reiss. Committee includes J D Bloch chairman and others.
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Mobile Lodge No. 108
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks
Lodge of Sorrow
Elk’s Hall
John W. Phillips
Matthew Brewster
H. 8. Rowley
Rowley
J. 8. Reiss
Mobile Lodge No. 168
Russell
John P. Dacov
J. D. Bloch
Charles B. Hervey
Dr. Toulmin Gaines
William Gass
F. L. Roche
J. W. Phillips
C. W. Soost
J. Reiss
Travelers prepare for big Alabama Travelers' convention
The finance committee of the Mobile branch met in the Cawthon with General Chairman H. M. Hopper. Sub-committees asked for more time, postponing the final report on subscriptions to fund hospitality for the January 1 and 2 convention until next Saturday night. Prospects for large attendance were reported.
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Mobile
Alabama Travelers’ Association
Cawthon
H. M. Hopper
Hopper
Caribbean Officials Leave Mobile for New York Conference
President H. F. Kerr Vice President T. K. Jackson and Dr. H. T. Inge director of the Caribbean and Southern Steamship Company depart Mobile on Sunday afternoon for New York. They will hold a conference at the company's office there to discuss business plans for the coming year.
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H. F. Kerr
T. K. Jackson
H. T. Inge
Caribbean & Southern Steamship Company
Mobile
New York City
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