Needler May Rev Motor Revolutionize Gasoline Engines
Mobile inventor T E Needler introduces a sixty horsepower noiseless gasoline engine named Needler Noiseless. Demonstrations in Mobile show its near silent operation and potential for cars boats and airplanes. He plans to form a factory or license production and cites eighteen years of automotive experience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. E. Needler
Needler
Neeedler
Tem
St. Michael Street
Louise D'Olive
Mobile Electric Company
Mobile
Chicago
Probate Judges Plea to Pay Licenses by October 31
State and county licenses for all kinds of business are due at the probate court now and delinquent after October 31. Judge Price Williams notes merchants are slow to pay. Corporation licenses due January 1. A courtesy notice urges payment before November 1, 1916 to avoid penalties.
Fireman A Criminale Dismissed From Hose Company
Fireman A Criminale of Hose Company No 6 was suspended by Commissioner Schwarz for refusing to obey orders and was dismissed from the department on Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Criminale
Hose Company No. 6
Schwarz
Russ Report Details Turbulent Balkan Fronts and Turkish Armenia
British dispatches report Romania’s invasion of Bulgarian territory near the Danube largely destroyed according to Bucharest and Berlin, with Allied sources denying. The Russians announce a new offensive in Turkish Armenia and say they advanced along a wide front from the Black Sea coast west of Trebizond into the interior. Petrograd claims progress as Russians push toward Lemberg amid ongoing heavy fighting on multiple fronts.
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Associated Press
London
Danube
Bucharest
Berlin
Central Powers
Armenia
Black Sea
Trebizond
Vladimir-Volynski
Volhynia
Dniester
Haliczin
Galicia
Lemberg
Petrograd
Storm protection report to be heard at joint chamber meeting
A joint meeting of the Chamber of Commerce general membership and the ways and means committee will hear the special committee report on protecting the waterfront from storms. The session, at the Cawthon Hotel, aims to act before the state harbor commission meeting on October 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big Harbor
Ways and
Chamber of Commerce
State Harbor Commission
Cawthon Hotel
Chamber committee to study waterfront storm damage plans
At the last chamber meet a committee led by W. E. P. Wilson was named to study waterfront storm damage and propose city protections. The ways and means panel will meet at 7:30 pm Monday in a joint session with the chamber membership, with supper at 7 and the business session at 7:30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
W. E. P. Wilson
Ways and Means
Chamber
Ways and Means Committee
Mayor appoints three Mobilians as waterway delegates
Mayor Pat J. Lyons on Thursday appointed E. F. Horton, C. A. Cunningham and John Gaillard as delegates to the Inter coastal Land and Water League convention. The meeting will be in Lake Charles, Louisiana, on October 20. The association aims to promote a canal from the Mississippi River to the Rio Grande.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pat J. Lyons
Messrs. E. F. Horton
C. A. Cunningham
John Gaillard
Intercoastal Land and Water League of
Louisiana and
Texas
Lake Charles
Mississippi River
Rio Grande
Produce Exchange Moves to Southern Market
The Gulf Coast Produce Exchange will relocate to the Southern Market after November 1. Manager E B Davis says the new quarters will be more commodious with improved grading and packing facilities and a bulletin listing products wanted and those available for sale will be introduced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gulf Coast Produce Exchange
E. B. Davis
Minnie Norwood Sentenced for Assault on Ida Davis
Minnie Norwood, a black woman, jailed for fifty days after an assault and battery on Ida Davis. Judge Chamberlain ordered a $101 fine and costs, which Norwood could not pay, leading to imprisonment. The knife wound cut Davis on face and head. A. B. Etheridge’s pool room license case continued to October 11.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnie Norwood
Ida Davis
Chamberlain
Inferior Criminal Court
Davis
A. B. Etheridge
Weather Forecast for Mobile and Vicinity
Forecast calls for generally fair conditions in Mobile and surrounding areas with little temperature change tonight and Friday. Moderate northeast winds. Alabama and Mississippi regions expected to remain generally fair tonight and Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mobile
Alabama
Mississippi
Fire devastates Christian Brothers College in St Louis
Fire destroys the main building of Christian Brothers College in St Louis. Two elderly faculty members Brother Cormac 93 and Brother Clemens 72 are missing and believed dead. Assistant nurse Lewis Nolean leaped from a fifth floor window and is seriously wounded. Over 100 boarding students and 30 to 40 faculty members were at breakfast when the blaze started.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Christian Brothers College
Cormac
Clemens
Lewis Nolean
Nolean
Fire Claims Life As Building Burns In City College
Flames engulfed a six story building after a fourth floor collapse. Nolean leaped to the lawn as firemen on scaling ladders fought the blaze. The college chapel vessels were saved by brothers while the natural history museum and corridor curio area were destroyed. Seven to twenty firemen fell into the basement. three were badly injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nolean
College Chapel
Natural History and Curio Museum
College
Armours besieged over hire trip to Kansas City
Several hundred Black workers gathered at the Armour Packing Company plant in protest after hearing officials were sending laborers to Kansas City. The crowd questioned staff about who arranged the trip, causing notable disruption to the offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armour Packing Company
Kansas City
Armour Office
Rotarians Hear Talks Favoring Educational Amendment
Educational Day observed at Rotary Club session with S S Murphy presiding. Speakers included W F Feagin state superintendent of education and H T Hartwell addressing the group on education as school board members attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rotary Club
S. S. Murphy
Mobile
Fraf. W. F. Feagin
H. T. Hartwell
McDonalds Admit Role in 1911 Train Wreck for Revenge
Detroit police report Frank McDonald an alleged vagrant confessed with his brother Henry to wreck a Michigan Central train at Bridgetown Ontario on May 20 1911. Two people died. He waived extradition and was sent to Windsor Ontario. The motive cited by police was revenge. Henry McDonald a former road employee had joined a wage strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Detroit
Mich
Frank McDonald
Henry
Michigan Central
Bridgetown
Ont
McDonald
Windsor
Henry McDonald
World Series Games Broadcast Free by The Mobile Register
The World Series between the Brooklyn Nationals and Boston Americans will be called in full by The Mobile Register and Mobile Item for Mobile fans. Play begins at 2 o'clock Saturday in Boston, 1 Mobile time, with Barney Sheridan Jr. handling the play by play via AP wire from the grounds to The Register building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn Nationals
Boston Americans
Mobile Register
Mobile
St. Michael Street
Register
Baseball Gladiators
Associated Press
Register Building
Boston
Barney Sheridan, Jr
Prohibition Cases Heard Across Three Tribunals
Several defendants faced fines and continuances in prohibition matters. Will Petit pled guilty in the inferior criminal court and paid 50 dollars plus costs or 20 days labor. Other cases included continuances for Simon Haas Cliff Parker and John Strowder until October 16 and John J Sullivan with evidence gathering on stairways for an upcoming October 17 hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Petit
Inferior Criminal Court
Simon Haas
Cliff Parker
John Strowder
Tobe Bangle
Nolle
Allen P. Smith
Robert J. Eldridge
Mose Heidelberg
Arthur Tew
A. B. Jones
Eugene Jemmerson
John J. Sullivan
George Pearson
Recorder's Court
R. 11. Smith
Prohibition Offense Fines and Court Withdrawals
Frank Chines, fined 50 days or 590 dollars, withdrew appeal from June 6 prohibition charge and pleaded guilty for 50 dollars. Jim Hestle faced the same offense with a 50 dollar fine. Thomas Coburn failed to appear and was re arrested with a Friday hearing. Frazer Hillway’s case continued to October 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Chines
Edington
Jim Hestle
Thomas Coburn
Frazer Hill Way
Raids Find Prohibited Liquor At City Soft Drink Stands
Deputy sheriffs raided three soft drink stands and found prohibited liquor. Suspects Pat Collins Frank Prendergast and Joe Williamson tied to locations on Jackson Bloodgood Cedar Canal Sts Cedar St Louis Sts. Eugene Mintel and Cliff Parker jailed on prohibition charges and released on bonds signed by local residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sgekis
W. H. Holcombe
Pat Collins
Jackson
Bloodgood
Frank Prendergast
Cedar Ana Canal
Joe Williamson
Cedar
St. Louis
Eugene Mintel
Cliff Parker
P. J. Collins
Clark
A Db. Davis
J. G. Friedhoff
School of Medicine Here Today Opens Fifty Ninth Session
The fifty ninth annual session of the School of Medicine opened this morning with full attendance of old students and a promising freshman class. Dean Frazer said matriculation books would stay open until Monday and enrollment was expected to rise. He called the opening indications a most successful session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
School of Medicine
Dean Frazer
Rifle Match Director Departs for Jacksonville
Colonel Samuel W. Miller executive officer of the national rifle match to be held at Jacksonville left Washington with his staff to oversee the meet starting October 20. He said all arrangements are complete and though army and navy teams cannot compete this year the event should yield satisfactory results with forty seven teams entered from marine corps national guard groups and many civilian clubs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Samuel W. Miller
Jacksonville
Miller
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
National Guard
Rumanians Press Claim Danube War Developments
A Bucharest dispatch via Rome says Austrian monitors did not destroy the Danube bridge south of Bucharest as claimed by German and Bulgarian offices. Troop passages and supplies allegedly continue while fighting in Dobrudja grows more intense and German Dalgetian losses mount. timing suggests the report may predate Bulgarian attacks on the invaders and their supposed defeat announced October 3.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
London
Bucharest
Rome
Danube
Bulgaria
Dobrudja
Enkn Dalgetians
War Office
Suffrage Trip Leads to Babylon Wedding
Miss Dorothy Nicoll of Babylon returned from a suffrage campaign last election to marry William Kert. The couple met during a suffrage whirlwind tour of Suffolk County in October, when Hep Nicoll joined a party of women in New York State. William Hubert steered the auto for part of the journey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy ‘Nicoll
Babylon
William Kert
Hep Nicoll
Suffolk County
New York
Raymond Brown
New York State Suffrage Association
William Hubert
Romanian Invasion of Bulgaria Ends In Heavy Losses
In Sofia reports Romanian troops crossed the Danube near Rahovo into Dobrudja and were driven back in a disastrous diversion, their force scattered and largely wiped out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
London
Bulgaria
Danube
Rahovo
Dobrudja
Sofia
Bulgarians Strike Rumanians Near Crossing Point
Bulgarian forces from Rustchuk and Turtukal struck against a 12 000 to 16 000 strong Romanian column trying to cross. Rumanians allegedly reached the pontoon bridge only to find it ruined by Austrian monitors. Sofia claims the intruders entered in disorder and that the Bulgarians finished destroying the crossing yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rustchuk
Turtukal
Sofia
Von Mackensen Wins on Southern Front
Bulgarian and German forces repelled Russian and Romanian advances along the Dobruja line south of the railway. Bucharest claims progress near the center and Black Sea coast with over 1,000 prisoners and seven guns captured from Field Marshal von Mackensen's forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
von Mackensen
Dobruja
Tchernavod-onstanza
Sofia
Bucharest
Black Sea
von Mackenzen
Intermittent Shelling on Ancre Front Reported
London dispatch reports intermittent shelling south of the Ancre on the Somme front during the night. British artillery caused many enemy casualties north of Schwaben redoubt while a London territorial battalion conducted a successful raid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
London
Anccre
Somme
Schwaben
Small Field to Face Barrier in St Leger at Churchill Downs
One of the smallest St Leger fields in history will run two miles and a quarter at Churchill Downs. The $3,000 race features Hanovia Kilanna Embroidery as the three starters with weights 105 106 and 113. Jockeys Connolly Buxton and owners E R Bradley A B Hancock are listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Louisville
Churchill Downs
Hanovia
Connolly, Jr
Kilanna
L. Gentry
E. R. Bradley
Embroidery
Buxton
A. B. Hancock
All Militia Units Ordered to Border by War Officials
Washington Oct 5 war department orders army departmental commanders to mobilize militia units still in state mobilization camps for border deployment. About 8,000 troops in Alabama Georgia Florida North Carolina Mississippi South Carolina Tennessee Virginia West Virginia Colorado New Hampshire and New York to move, including Mobile’s First Regiment and other Alabama contingents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Department
Alabama
Georgia
Florida
North Carolina
Mississippi
South Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia
West Virginia
Colorado
New Hampshire
New York
Mobile
Capture of Bremen Corroborated by British Captain
Captain Reaviey of the British steamer North Point reports the Bremen a German commercial submarine bound for the United States was captured in a net in the English channel. The vessel was raised by the British and will be prepared for use against its former owners. Details on crew losses remain unverified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Newport News
New York
Bremen
Germany
United States
English Channel
Reaviey
North Point
Reavley
Selma Men Jump in Ring for Judge Toulmin's Job
A Dallas county push forms to promote W B Craig and Chambliss Keith for the federal bench vacancy created by Judge H T Toulmin retirement. Letters and telegrams sought support for Judge B M Miller of the fourth judicial circuit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selma
Ala
Dallas County
W.B. Craig
Chambliss
Keith
H. T. Toulmin
B. M. Miller
Fourth Judicial Circuit
Chattanooga union votes to accept non closed shop contract
Members of the local street railway employes union vote to accept the company refusal to establish a closed shop and authorize a contract to be signed tomorrow offering preference to union conductors and motormen for future employment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chattanooga
Tenn
Street
Chattanooga Railway and Light Company
President Wilson Visits Omaha for Midwest Campaign
President Wilson arrived in Omaha and was greeted by thousands as he rode through streets in gala celebration. He spoke at the Commercial Club, planned two more speeches, and joined a parade honoring Nebraska's history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Omaha
Neb
Wilson
Commercial Club
Nebraska
President Wilson Visits Omaha for Ak-Sar-Ben Celebration
A large Nebraska crowd greeted President Wilson as he passed through Omaha during the Ak-Sar-Ben celebration marking statehood. About 100000 people lined the streets while six hundred business leaders welcomed him at the Commercial club with Governors and Senators in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
Omaha
Wilson
Commercial Club
Moorehead
Hitchcock
President Wilson For Votes At Council Bluffs Rally
President Wilson told a large Council Bluffs crowd he wished women could vote and praised their support as he traveled en route to Omaha. A woman urged voting rights and he replied that it is mighty fine for them to greet him, believing it shows they will vote for him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Wilson
Omaha
President Wilson Praises Midwest Receptions in Iowa
President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson appeared on train platforms in Carroll and Denison Iowa early today to thank crowds for their reception in the middle West. The president remarked that Mrs. Wilson could be elected easily while a man at Carroll asked about appointing a tariff commission if he is re elected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri Valley
Iowa
Wilson
Freenne Iowa
Uri Valley
Middle West
Carroll and Denison
Carroll
Mr. Wilson
Denison
President Wilson in Denison Crowd Cheerfully Welcomes
A visiting president jokes with schoolchildren at Denison as crowds gather to greet Mr. and Mrs. Wilson. He quips about elections and tether while engaging with locals and thanking attendees at the station.
Open Aviation School Planned at San Diego
San Diego Cal Oct 56 A class in aviation for training officers including majors colonels and lieutenants will be established at NorthAd shortly. The course aims to familiarize these officers with training required in the use of aircraft rather than creating active aviators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
San Diego
Cal
North Ad
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Biles
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Recorder’s
Recorder’s Court
Clay
Ancre
Carmen
Umara Rutally
Wild Ap
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Tiny -Miss
Tariff Board
U.8
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