Boll Weevils Reach State Capitol Grounds Invasion
Reported sighting of boll weevils in cotton bolls on the south wing grounds of the state capitol prompts officials to quarantine the area. The story also notes legislative debates on dog tax law and updates on Alabama pharmacy licensing changes and a motor vehicle department audit.
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J. A. Wade
Nt of
Agriculture
Capi
Brown
Tusca
Legisla
Was
Alabama
State Board of Pharmacy
House of Representees
Ugh
Georgia
Florida
Tennessee
Mississippi
State Board of Pharmacy Law
Pure Food and Drug
Department of Agriculture and Industries
United States Tament
Craig
J. H
Board of Pardons Meet and Discuss Revenue Law
State board of equalization chair Thomas W. Sims conferred with county tax assessors and probate judges on features of the new revenue law. The board of pardons held its monthly session, receiving many clemency applications though few were acted on favorably.
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Sims
D. E. McLendon
Jefferson County
David Crosland
Montgomery
W. M. Hendon
Macon
Thomas W. Sims
State Board of Equalization
Board of Pardons
Shake-up plans around City Hall raise chief pull
City politics show a hitch in removing Chief Crenshaw as Mayor Lyons aims to place his loyal chief. Recorder Edington defends his post and nomination options while Gilbert Van Liew emerges as a potential successor, with Lyons insisting he will name the police chief.
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Hitch
Crenshaw
Edington
Lyons
Police Department
Giblin
Gilbert M. van Liew
van Liew
Hanlon
Pillans
Mayor Lyons
American Seals Violated at French Consulate in Beirut
Paris reports that French officials were informed the Turkish authorities violated the French consulate in Beirut Syria despite protests by the American consul there. They began an examination of consulate archives under Turkish authority.
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Beirut
Syria
Paris
Ford Executive James Couzens Resigns Over Public War Utterances
Detroit October 13 James Couzens announced his resignation as vice president treasurer and premises manager of the Ford Automobile Company citing disagreement with Mr Ford's public utterances on war and other subjects of importance.
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Ford
Detroit
Mich
James Couzens
Ford Automobile Company
Couzens
Twelve New Haven Directors On Trial
In New York district court today the case of twelve current and former directors of the New York New Haven and Hartford railway opened for trial under the Sherman act criminal clause. Among the defendants are William Rockefeller and George MacCulloch Miller, who is spared press due to age. Pratt entered a not guilty plea. Seventeen defense attorneys argued, and voir dire suggests a lengthy jury selection with many talesmen summoned.
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New York
United States District Court
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railway
William Rockefeller
Lewis Cass Ledyard
Newton Barney
Robert W. Taft
A. W. Heaton-Robertson
Robert Robbins
James S. Hemingway
Charles EF. Brooker
Charles M. Pratt
Henry K. McHard
Frederick F. Brewster
George MacCulloch Miller
George MacCullough Miller
Delancey Nicoll
R. A. Lindabury
John G. Milburn
John D. Lindsey
Thomas D. Thatcher
John W. H. Crim
Alton B. Parker
Jinx Delays Barker Cotton Mills Trip Again
The Know Your Own City committee delays a planned Wednesday visit to Barker Cotton Mills as rain foils Chairman B M Bailey for the third consecutive week. About forty people planned to attend before weather again halted the trip.
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Jinx
Barker Cotton Mills
Chamber of Commerce
B. M. Bailey
Bailey
Barker
Stackpole Fights Anthrax Belief of Physicians
Physicians caring for George F. Stackpole report the government serum is slowly overcoming his anthrax. After a feared decline he showed improvement following another serum injection as swelling around the throat and his temperature declined. Emperor William has arrived at Austro German headquarters in Serbia per a dispatch.
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New York
George F. Stackpole
London
William
Serbia
Mhagen
Gulf Coast Fair to Showcase Twenty County Exhibits in Mobile
Gulf Coast Fair Association announces twenty county exhibits for Mobile fair running October 26 to November 2. The event features agricultural horticultural and livestock displays with women’s exhibits. a circus wild west reunion and carnival. glowing pavilions. a November 2 cattle sale and a major horse show. Fireworks promised by Johnny J. Jones Exposition Shows.
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Gulf Coast
Gulf Coast Fair Association
Mobile
Fai
Highwaymen rob vegetable peddler at Broad and Tennessee
A masked pair halted Thomas Broadus at 3 am on Broad street in Oakdale as he headed to the Southern market. They held the horse and forced him from the wagon taking $15 under heavy rain and an electric light. Broadus offered heights of the pair: about 5 feet 10 inches and 6 feet 4 inches.
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Broad and
Tennessee Streets
Oakdale
Thomas Broadus
Dorlon
Broadus
Broad Street
Tennessee Street
Mobile Sailor Held by British Officials as German Suspect
Frank Westmund an ordinary seaman aboard the Norwegian steamer Dictator may have to remain in British Honduras until the European war ends. He was arrested on arrival at Belize for failing to show papers and identified as a German citizen. Mrs Westmund, from Mobile, learned of the detention when the steamer docked.
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Frank Westmund
Orr-Laubenheimer Steamship Line
British Honduras
Frank
Belize
Westmund
Mobile
Japanese Army May Be Sent to the Balkans
TOKIO Oct. 12 Bulgaria's participation in the war and advices from London that British opinion in some quarters favors sending Japanese troops to the Balkans have reopened the question in Tokyo of Japan's future course.
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Bulgaria
London
Balkans
Japan
Family cow celebrated as great institution and money saver
George F. Thomas, recently from Wise and then Toulminnville, argues the family cow proves its value in Mobile. He says local cows produce first class butter and milk at lower cost than Northern imports, and calls for support of Mobile area creamery operations. He notes milder Gulf Coast winters and recalls northern fires until late July.
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North
George F. Thomas
Wise
Toulminnville
Mr. Thomas
Mobile
Indiana Company
Gulf Coast
Peary Weathered Hydroaeroplane Crash During First Flight
Rear Admiral Robert E Peary and friends celebrate the first hydroaeroplane flight ending in a water volplane off Long Beach after engine failure at 1200 feet. Peary said he believed the descent was part of the game and did not notice a problem with the aircraft.
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New York
Robert E. Peary
North Pole
Long Beach
L. L
Peary
Wright Sells Interest to Syndicate in Aeroplane Firm
Orville Wright sells his entire stake in the Wright Aeroplane Company of Dayton to a New York syndicate led by William E. Thompson August H. Wiggin and T. Frank Manville. The firm holds key aeroplane patents and is capitalized at 1 million dollars, with 800 thousand outstanding. Wright becomes consulting engineer and stockholder in a new company formed by the syndicate.
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New York
Orville Wright
Wright Aeroplane Company
Dayton
William E. Thompson
August H. Wiggin
Chase National Bank of New York
T. Frank Manville
H. W. Johns- Manville Company
Wright Company
Wilbur Wright
German Submarine Crew Said to Have Been Shot in Water
German consul in Atlanta quotes Lamore Holland the Chattanooga sailor discharged from the English navy affirming the U N U twenty seven sinking after Baralong attack. Holland says three Baralong shots hit the submarine causing a gas explosion and crew to dive and be shot as they attempted to board the Nicosian.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
W. Muller
Atlanta
Lamore Holland
Holland
Nicosian
Pensacola Goes Wet by Big Majority in Local Option Election
In Pensacola Florida on October 13 almost complete returns show a decisive wet victory in the local option vote. With 29 of 35 precincts reporting wets lead by 948 votes and about 200 country precincts still unreported. wets won 19 of the 29 early precincts expanding their tally by 15 wet precincts. Only one city precinct 27 stayed dry.
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Pensacola
Fla
Alabama Congressmen Decide Gray Should Stay on Waterways Committee
A Birmingham meeting of Alabama lawmakers set no changes for incumbents. They plan to recommend new members including Gray for rivers and harbors and Huddleston for interstate and foreign commerce, with others assigned to roads judiciary banking and currency and appropriations.
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Alabama
Gray
Waterways
Birmingham
Ala
Burnett
Almoh
Blackmon
Huddlestone
Oliver
Dent
Heflin
Almon
Huddleston
Stovall
Abercrombie
VESSELS IN PORT AND SHIP LISTING SUMMARY
Vessel names from Am Br Nor and other flags appear with owners and port entries. Vessels include Am Santa Emilia Perez Kylhmore Nor Pathfinder Nor Dictator Nor M A Anchorn Laguna D Pickles Bey Evadue Hildegara Pleasure Bay Apollo Daphne Beaver etc. Ships in port reference Turner Terminals Gulf Dry Docks Munson Pier Mallory Pier Louisville and Nashville lines and Cuban Belize Porto Rican port notes.
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Earlswood
Emila
de Perez Kylhmore
Karen
Nor
Pathfinder
Dictator
Turner Terminals
Gulf Dry Docks
Munson
Harbor
Municipal Docks
Mallory Pier
Louisville
Nashville
Upper Stream Harbor
Barrentines
Hieronymus Docks
Foot of Dauphin Municipal Docks
Mobile
Carolina
Urug
Havana
Cuba
Moragues Lumber Company
New York
Alex Lawrence
Liverpool
England
Oaklands
Havre
France
Perceler
Antilla
Anna
Australia
Walsh Stevedoring Co
Bailey
Boston
Mass
J. M. Scott & Bros
Mavisbrook
Newport
Eng
Gulf States Ship’s Co
Viator
Puerto Cortez
Hon
Chameleon Line
Corinthia
Horace Turner & Co
Fort Morgan
Tela
United Fruit Co
Procyon
Russ
Alexandrian
Stewart
Mobile Liners Inc
Building Plans for Navy Contemplate a New Fleet
Washington October 13 Fifteen to twenty fighting ships of dreadnought and battle cruiser type plus submarines coast submarines scout cruisers destroyers and auxiliaries are contemplated for a five year navy building program. President Wilson and Secretary Daniels favor nearly doubling the fleet in five years and another meeting scheduled Friday will fix the total ship count to be asked for. The plan would add near a hundred submarines about seventy destroyers and several support vessels in addition to the dreadnoughts and battle cruisers.
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Washington
Daniels
Wilson
Navy moves and harbor weather disrupts port activity
No ships arrived or departed at the harbor Wednesday morning amid an exceptional daytime high tide. The tug Echo towing the Oscar G. from Tampa is missing near Mobile, while the gunboat Wheeling will relocate to New Orleans as Navy officials announce. The Petrel is damaged by a hurricane and lies near dredge Caucus and the Stranger, sunk at New Orleans docks, will be removed by the government. The Havana line ends freight service between Boston and Havana due to lack of ships.
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Mobile Towing and Wrecking Company
Oscar G
Tampa
Fla
Mobile Bar
Wheeling
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Portsmouth
N. H
New Orleans
Navy Department
U. S
Petrel
Mobile Bar Channel
Mobile
U Havana Line
Boston
Havana
Cuba
Weather and river forecasts for shipment routes
The report calls for moderate temperatures over the next 36 hours for shipments north east and west. The Tombigbee river and its branches are expected to rise in 36 hours while the Alabama should fall and hold steady through Thursday. Rain persists in the lower Mississippi Valley and middle gulf due to a low pressure area near south Louisiana with Burwood barometer at 29.90 inches and New Orleans reporting 6.76 inches of rain.
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Alabama
Mississippi Valley
Middle Gulf
Louisiana
Burwood
New Orleans
Atlantic States
Yachts Outfitted on Gulf as German Commerce Raiders
British agents investigate yachts prepared for use against oil ships from Mexico for the British navy. Reports from Norfolk Pensacola and the Gulf of California describe a German manned ship with a gun and a small German crewed vessel fitted with warship supplies leaving Pensacola October 4. Investigations link officers of interned German auxiliary cruisers at Norfolk to the Pensacola ship and probe bases for streh ships in the West Indies.
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Washington
Mexico
Norfolk
Pensacola
Gulf of California
Tuxpam
Fla
West Indies
Several Million Cripples Must Learn to Produce After the War
New York report notes 2,000,000 European men suffer limb or faculty loss from the war. Frank B. Gilbreth, from Providence, R I, says Germany asked him to train teachers to help cripples become productive citizens. He cites engineers urging machine design for cripples.
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New York
Europe
Frank B. Gilbreth
Providence
R. I
Germany
Gilbreth
Society of American Engineers
Church Approves Movies and Other Attractions
The New York conference of the Methodist church endorsed moving picture showings in churches to attract the public. It also approved brass bands or orchestras and gymnasiums connected with church facilities as modern methods of drawing congregants.
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New York
Vitalitas praised in Georgia testimonials for health benefits
Georgia residents report relief from stomach disorders catarrh indigestion and general vitality after using Vitalitas. J M Morris Douglassville cites stomach and heart discomfort improvement. A S O Nea l Jonesboro notes throat relief. Roy Belmont Ingleside says it toned his system. C C Heard Atlanta reports daily indigest ion cure and better sleep. Suttons drug store selling it locally.
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Douglassville
J. M. Morris
Vitalitas
Jonesboro
A. S. O'Neal
C. Ef G. Ry
Ingleside
Roy Belmont
Atlanta
C. C. Heard
Sutton
Adv
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