Georgia Cities 10 Send Delegates to Mobile Convention
Georgia towns along the Old Spanish Trail pledge delegates for the December 10 11 Mobile convention to press for the east west highway. The pathfinding scout car travels through Bainbridge Valdosta Thomasville Live Oak and other points as Florida enthusiasm grows. Plans call for returning to Mobile by December 2 after touring Suwannee Columbia Baker counties and other routes.
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Bainbridge
Georgia
Mobile
Florida
South Georgia
South
Thomasville
Valdosta
Live Oak
Fla
Gulf Coast
Ocala
W. J. Williams
National Highways Association
Tampa
Lake City
Board of Trade
Suwannee
Columbia
Theutside
Gainesville
McIntish
Lake ‘City
Baker Counties
Marianna
Jacksonville
Henderson mob hangs accused attacker near jail
Henderson Ky Nov 29 Ellis Buckner a black man charged with assaulting a young girl was taken from the county jail by a mob of fifty masked men and hanged to a tree shortly after midnight near Henderson courthouse.
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Henderson
Ellis Buckner
Montgomery Girl Killed by Motorcycle
A Montgomery girl was killed when struck by a motorcycle in Montgomery Alabama on November 29. The accident details remain under investigation by local authorities as responders assisted at the scene.
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Montgomery
Satsuma Day Parade Attracts Automobiles And Prizes
Baldwin County automobiles join plans for Satsuma Day parade with Mobile merchants donating substantial prizes for decorated cars and floats. Steamers offer low round trip rates for participants, encouraging eastern shore owners to enter. Dr. Winberg says Mobile County may win many awards for decorative effects while railroads promote low fares for several days.
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Satsuma
W. H. Reynolds
Reynalds
O. F. E. Winberg
Mobile County
Mobile
Submarine Triggers Panic Aboard Barulos
Eyewitness Eleanor Egan reports a Turkish submarine surfaced near the British steamer Barulos in the Mediterranean. After 25 people drowned and 250 passengers were in peril, lifeboats were launched and rescue efforts followed amid chaos and fear aboard the ship with Greek crew and mostly Greek and Oriental passengers.
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New York
Mediterranean
Eleanor Franklin Egan
Egan
Europe
Piraeus
Alexandria
Crete
Beteish
Barulos
Res
Marine Sede
Ssa
Acelin
McKellar Resumes Senatorial Campaign in Tennessee
Nashville Tenn November 29 Congregation Kenneth Douglas McKellar resurfaces as Democratic candidate leader in the first primary race.
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M’kellar
Nashville
Tenn
Kenneth Douglas McKellar
Government asked if Boy-Ed a conspirator in trial
In New York, lawyers pressed whether Captain Karl Boy-Ed, German naval attaché, was considered a conspirator in a conspiracy case involving Hamburg American Line officials. The government declined to answer, citing no necessity to name individuals, as evidence continued in court about ships’ movements and related payoffs.
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New York
Karl Boy-Ed
Hamburg- American Line
William Rand, Jr
Karl Buenz
Roger B. Wood
United States District Attorney
Rand
Captain Boy-Ed
Mr. Rand
Judge Howe
Mr. Wood
Christian Bentsen
Marina Quesada
Quesada
Gladstone
Newport News
Pernambuco
Philip Volz
Baltimore
Lloyd
Suhren
Philadelphia
Adolph Hachmeister
Buenz
Hamburg-American Line
Heina
Thorwald Olsen
la Guiara
Herr Deckwolf
Hachmeister
Caribbean
Olsen
St. Thomas
West Indies
Conde
Martinique
New Terminal Company Promoter Visits Mobile
Charles H. Moores of Moores and Dunford Chicago is in Mobile at the Battle House regarding the erection and operation of the Terminal Transfer and Storage Company plant. He expects his financial partners to arrive late this week and hinted the deal may move toward certainty.
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Charles H. Moores
Moores & Dunford
Chicago
Mobile
Battle House
Moores
Terminal Transfer and Storage Company
Pilot boat sighted British cruiser near Pensacola
The pilot boat Alabama reported a British cruiser believed to be the Sidney passed Fort Morgan early Saturday bound toward Pensacola. The vessel, from Ship Island, skimmed within three miles and nearly struck the pilot boat. The cruiser’s crew laughed off warnings as rumors of ammunition shipments from Gulfport and Pensacola circulated.
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Sidney
Fort Morgan
Pensacola
Fla
Alabama
D. A. Smith
Ship Island
T. A. Johnston
Johnston
Gulfport
Kern Again Senate Leader As Democrats Reelected
Washington Nov 29 Senate Democrats re elected Kern as caucus chairman and floor leader by unanimous vote. Pittman Nevada named secretary. Other posts postponed to Wednesday. Kern to appoint steering committee. cloture reform report due then. Republicans seek more committee seats amid party division on increases. New senators Beckham Hastings Johnson Phelan introduced. several absentees noted with expected arrivals tomorrow.
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Washington
Kern
Democratic Senate Caucus
Senate Democrats
Pittman
Nevada
Senate
Owen
Mann
Ways and Means
Broussard
Louisiana
Underwood
Alabama
Beckham
Kentucky
Hasting
Wisconsin
Johnson
South Dakota
Phelan
California
Bryan
Florida
Culberson
Lane
Oregon
Lea
Ten Lewis
Illinois
Martin
New Jersey
Shively
Indiana
Smith
South Carolina
Interned German Escapes for a Time at Norfolk
Ernest Schwertzker, a sailor aboard the interned German vessel, escaped confinement in Norfolk, Virginia, on November 29, as part of a reported breakout incident involving a time in captivity.
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Norfolk, Va
Ernest Schwertzker
Alabama Boy Among the Canadian Wounded
A casualty list from overseas forces shows an Alabama boy among the Canadians wounded in action. Details on unit and location are limited in the notice.
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Alabama
Shortage of New York Harbor Could Shift War Freight
New York officials report 17 000 carloads of freight held in the harbor awaiting sea transshipment. While some say other lines may follow Lackawanna in embargoes, a ship shortage of floats and lighters exists but the impact may be limited. Some traffic could reroute to other ports, though loss is not expected to be severe.
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New York
United States
Lackawanna
Aslhis
Threat of Allied Moves Alters Teutons Plans
Reports from Geneva and Rome indicate possible shifts in Teuton strategy as Allied threats influence Balkan operations. The Greek government offers neutrality support while discussions address Serbian front and Danube theater changes amid Turkish and German high command talks.
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Teutons
Watson Goes On Stand In His Own Defense
Thomas E. Watson testifies in his trial charging obscene mail matter. He contends motives behind prosecution and challenges grand jury and district attorney. Court restricts evidence but allows publication tables and source notes for Latin quotations.
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Thomas E. Watson
Augusta
Ee Inst
Watson
Maria Monk
New Jersey
J. Gordon Jones
Cordele
E. M. Donaldson
R. L. Pulliam
Mercer University
W. W. Lambdin
Charles Chiniquy
Chiniquy
Peter Dens
Alabama Legislator's Son Accused in Deputy Killing
Graves Kelly, son of state representative L. E. Kelly of Houston County, is charged with shooting and killing Deputy Grady Granger in Dothan. Deputies scoured the county to locate Kelly after the alleged attack while Taylor Spivey, who says he rode in the buggy with Kelly, testified to the events surrounding the shooting.
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Dothan
Ala
Graves Kelly
L. E. Kelly
Houston County
Grady Granger
Young Kelly
Taylor Spivey
Kelly
Granger
Mobile Seamen's Bethel Hosts New Work Aid Plan
A. J. Willis, a New Orleans carpenter's helper, visits Mobile seeking cooperative support to run a modest shelter for unemployed men. The plan offers two nights shelter, coffee, bath, shave and shoe shine then aims to help secure work, with vagrants sent to police if noncompliant. Willis, aging with a white beard, hopes to fund the venture from his labor.
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A. J. Willis
New Orleans
Mobile
Seamen's Bethel
Mr. Willis
W. P. Dickinson
St. Francis Street Methodist Church
Willis
Lagard
Chief of Police
Cotton Fire Destroys 15,000 Bales at Pine Bluff Compress
A blaze at Pine Bluff Compress Company ruined about 15,000 bales of long staple cotton stored in Pine Bluff Arkansas. The cotton valued at roughly 1.25 million dollars was destroyed or badly damaged in the warehouse yesterday.
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Pine Bluff
Ark
Pine Uff Compress Company
Bigamist and forger sought in nationwide marriage scheme
Harry J. Neff is sought by detectives as an alleged bigamist and forger. He is said to have married in Kansas, Mountain Grove Missouri and Gainesville Georgia. Checks drawn on banks in towns where he lived and posed as wealthy have surfaced totaling several thousand dollars.
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Laporte
Ind
Harry J. Neff
Neff
Kansas
Mountain Grove
Gainesville
War at a Glance Headlines From Fronts and Balkans
Greece signals readiness to meet non compromising demands on neutrality. Serb retreat toward Albania noted as winter closes in. Italian gains on the Carso and at Oslavia reported by Rome. Kamerun battles yield heavy German losses. Warsaw reports great famine and mass suffering among civilians.
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Greece
Paris
Athens
Balkans
Katchanik
Albania
Gorizia
Oslavia
Rome
Warsaw
Serbian Front Developments Amid Balkan Uncertainty
Several conflicting dispatches describe Serbian positions in the Balkans as retreating north toward Montenegro while Austro German forces may push near Saloniki. The Entente in Athens seeks Greek neutrality while little action occurs along the eastern front and a naval clash is reported off the Belgian coast.
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Montenegro
Saloniki
Balkan
Athens
Greece
Germans Evacuate Mitau Petrogard Wagons Requisitioned
Nov 29 dispatch reports Germans hurrying evacuation of Mitau Petrogard with daily requisitioning 400 wagons. A German captured in the Czartoryski region claims the army ranks stay filled but quality of new troops is falling as replacements in Ivangorod Warsaw Lodz and Lomza cannot keep up.
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Mitau Petrograd
Mitau
Franco British advance in Kamerun drives gains
London reports another Franco-British push in German Kamerun after capturing Tih. Official statement says the Puque river has been reached and French forces have Makondo in western Africa.
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Kamerun
London
Africa
Tih
Puque
Makondo
Special Meeting Schedule At First Christian Church
Special services continue nightly at the First Christian Church with a 7 30 sermon and special music programs. The schedule aims to cover timely topics each evening as announced.
Steamship to Run Between Norway and South America
London dispatch reports a new steamship to begin service in January linking Norway with the western coast of South America. A Morning Stockholm correspondent references talks to negotiate an agreement between Sweden and the United States. In New York Gustave burg, recently identified as...
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London
Christiania
Norway
South America
Stockholm
Sweden
New York
Gustave~burg
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