Local notices span collisions fires and civic updates
Sunday night a C. G. Wilson auto collided with a buggy at Claiborne and Dauphin. A fire at Water and St. Francis streets caused minor damage from matches in a rear lot. Deputy W. M. Parsons pursued a white slave case suspect in Birmingham. Officials report road improvements over 40 000 miles started. Riverside tickets and staff changes noted. Crime inquiries and theatre ads appear alongside probate notices and court sale calls.
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Western Ion
Water and
St. Frenncis
W. M. Parsons
Birmingham
Marie Evana
Mary Wanda
Wanda
Laura Baxter
John Craft
Alabama Highway Commission
W. ®. Keller
Insolvency Hearing Set in Han gen Estate Finalized
In Mobile County probate court on September 28 1912 administrator John C White reported the estate of Christopher M Han gen is insolvent. A hearing was ordered for November 6 1912 to allow interested parties to contest the report. Judge P Williams Jr presiding. Attorneys J A and E W Faith.
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State of Alabama
Mobile County
H. Earle
J. W. Bushong
S. H Earle
Price Williams, JR
Gordon & Eddington
Att’s
State of
Alabama
Mobile
Christopher M. Hangen
John C. White
P. Williams, JR
J. A
E. W. Faith
Judge Berny Rules Lyons Eligible in Contested Seat
The document outlines demurrers sustained in a contest over Lyons for an office. It cites lack of factual basis for alleging bribery, malfeasance, or improper hiring and rejects claims of ineligibility as mere conclusions without details. It notes insufficient certainty about who hired solicitors and when and where they acted.
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Board of Supervisors
Board of Commissioners
City of
Mobile
Boost for Mobile docking facilities highlighted in bulletin
A monthly bulletin from the Southern Commercial Congress, received by the Chamber of Commerce and Business League, showcases an attractive outline of Mobile's docking facilities and potential improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Southern Commercial Congress
Chamber of Commerce and Business League
Webber details plot and murder tied to Rosenthal case
Bridgie Webber testified at the Becker trial that Becker admitted seeking Rosenthal and claimed he would shoot him. Webber corroborated Bald Jack Rose’s account that gunmen met at Webber’s Forty-second Street gambling rooms before the murder. He identified Becker and described prior conversations about harming Rosenthal.
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New York
Webber
Forty-second Street
Herman Rosenthal
Becker
Rosenthal
Jack” Rose
Rose
Charles Becker
John M. McIntyre
Tood
Justice Goff
McIntyre
Pell Street
Wren
Be on Guard as Webber Details Rosenthal Murder Plot
Webber testified that Becker pressed to have Rosenthal killed and that Jack Rose, Bridgie, and others plotted the July 15 hit. He described watching Becker, Rose, and associates at poker rooms and a Metropole sighting of Rosenthal before the plan unfolded, with Becker boasting of the job.
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Becker
Rosenthal
Webber
Charley
Rose
Jack Sullivan
Keftie Louie
Jack Rose
Harry Vallon
Gug the Blood
Sam Schepps
Dago Frank
Bridgie
Jack
Rentals List in Apple Pie Order Modern
A classified roster lists multiple rental properties with prices and addresses. Properties include cottages and two story dwellings on South Broad Street Spring Hill Avenue Dauphin Street Cedar Street Palmetto St El Mina Savannah Lafayette Brown and more priced from 12.50 to 60 dollars monthly. The note ends with All In Apple-Pie Order Modern.
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Roper St
Spring Hill Av
Spring Hill Avenue
South Broad Street
Dauphin Street
Sto Handsome
Sk. Chute
Hamilton
N. E. Conti
S. Savannah
W. Cedar
Palmetto St
Elmira
S. E. Lafayette
Rebels seize train passenger cars and kidnap El Paso broker
Rebels 150 miles south of El Paso halted a passenger train, looted mail and express cars, and abducted John T. Cameron, a wealthy El Paso stock broker en route to buy cattle for import. A Mexican passenger also was seized. others were not harmed.
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EL Paso
Tex
John T. Cameron
Cameron
United States
Biloxi Considering New Sanitary Jail On Main Street
A Biloxi report says a petition will go to the city council to issue bonds or take steps to fund a modern jail on Main Street behind the city hall. Mothers clubs are cited as originators with many citizens supporting a new facility valued around 2500 dollars.
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Biloxi
Mies
Main Street
Moving in Cleaned Rooms Offered by Local Service
We will thoroughly clean your new residence when you move. Our methods are quick and quiet and without confusion. Mattresses, pillows, rugs and portieres cleaned at your home. Call The Mobile House Cleaning Co. 65 St Francis Street. Bell 7111 Home 1401. A young man wanted to learn engineering with stationary engines and pumps experience. Address P. Box 481.
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The
Mobile House Cleaning Co
St. Francis Street
Bell
Home
Dynamiting fund alleged in McNamara case
Government charges that the executive board of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers approved a $1000 monthly payment to J. J. McNamara to buy explosives. Witness Mrs. Hull testified checks were signed by Frank M. Styvan and McNamara as emergency funds and that accounts were suspended to facilitate the payouts before the Los Angeles explosions.
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Indianapolis
Ind
International Association of Bridge and Structural Tron Workers
J. J. McNamara
Mra
A. J. Mull
Hull
McNamara
Iron Workers
Frank M. Styvan
McNamahon
Los Angeles
Convicted Thief Appears in Recorder Court
Tony Flores testified Eddie Hall had his pocket book snatched containing $9.75. Hall was convicted this morning and given a $200 bond with notice of appeal filed.
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Tony Flores
Eddie Hall
Recorder's Court
Hall
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C. G. Wilson
J. T. Wright
Claiborne
W. 8. Igou
Selma, Ale
City
Southern Railway
Porter King
Anniston
Ala
E. C. Roberts
Chattanooga
Southern
Atlanta
St. Medar Street
Adele Hayes
George B. Haynes
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad
Mr. Haynes
Panama Canal
Crenshaw
Charles Schall
St. Louis
L. M. Howell
Mrs. Lowell
Lawrence Street
Ed Douitty
Madison Street
Crown Theatre
Thanhouser Company
Sie
Selma, Alabama
South Royal Street
Lon
Berny Holds Lyons
Bank of Mobile
National Banking Association
Union Savings Bank
Winfield R. Sheehan
Waldo
Sheehan
Jack Rowse
Harry Walton
Whitman
Norville Bros. Bell
St. Francis St
W. E. P. Wilson & Son
Central Trust Company
Zimmern
van Antwerp
Church Street
Jackson and Claiborne Streets
F. C. Horton
Accountant van
Antwerp Building Mobile
United Fruit CO
Superior
New Orleans
Colon
Bocas del Panama
Barrios
Simon and Colon
Belize
Cortez
Panama
Pacific Coast
Central and South America
Bocas del Toro
Whely
Port Limon
Costa Riga
Ceibaaire Tela
Ballweg
Dauphin
Joachim Street
Dauphin and
St. Francis Streets
Morrill & Lyons
W. H. Cooper
Bank of Mobile Building
Mobile, Alabama
Government Street
Butler’s Pantry
Wilkinson Street
Church
Wilkinson Streets
Texas
St. Emanuel
Dearborn
Augusta
M. J. Vickers & Son
J. Francis
Montgage
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