Evacuation of Goldap Reported as Military Move
Reuter dispatch from Amsterdam cites Cologne Gazette on East Prussia civilians fleeing Goldap due to military reasons. Trieste fire at government arsenal damages ships. several torpedo boats and destroyers affected with officials arrested. Servia reports pension payouts resume in Belgrade and ample food supply. Austria conscripts men to fortifications. Archduchess Elizabeth appeals to Austrian women to abstain from frivolity.
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Associated Press
London
Reuter
Amsterdam
Goldap
East Prussia
Cologne Gazette
Rastenburg
Trieste
Austria- Hungary
Rome
County Treasurer Ordered to Pay for Hounds
Judge J. J. Semmes in city court granted County Road Superintendent H. Jackson a mandamus against County Treasurer George E. Stone to pay 200 for county blood hounds to be used at the convict camp. A bill was paid by the treasurer Thursday afternoon.
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J. Semmes
H. Jackson
George E. Stone
Imiss Harvell Hurt In Automobile Accident
Lenore Harvell was struck near Government and Chai streets at about 9 30 pm Wednesday by a car driven by Glenn Ainspaugh. Harvell was taken to Inge Building hospital. Ainspaugh was arrested on a reckless driving charge. He said he could not avoid the two pedestrians when they began to cross.
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Sitss Lenore Harvell
Government
Chai
Glenn A. Ainspaugh
Jes Harvell
Nts
Inge
Aunspaugh
Ing
Garment Street
Heated debate over Mobile County school heating plan
The Mobile County Board of School Commissioners held a special 1 pm meeting to approve temporary heating for Barton Academy and defer permanent heating and ventilation to the November meeting. The minority favored a separate independent ventilation system, citing health concerns about combined heating and ventilation.
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School Commissioners
Mobile County
Hartwell
Harry T. Hartwell
Board of School Commissioners of
Schoo Board
Barton Academy
Nicholas Stallworth
R. P. Roach
A. G. Quina
M. J. Vickers
John T. Cochrane
D. T. M’call
G. T. Jordan
Nicholas E. Stallworth
Stallworth
Vickers
Cochrane
McCall
Roach
Quinn
Jordan
American Architect
Charles L. Hubbard
Hubbard
Charles A. Mobs
Jordan and
Cocorade
City’ Health Officer
Mohr
Snower
Gaines
Epenioort Hartwell
Murphy
Rotary plan to manufacture cotton by states discussed
Dr Seale Harris Mobile Rotary Club president urged states of the South to build cotton mills to handle idle one third of the crop with stock held half by states and half by cotton owners. A committee was formed at the Thursday luncheon to study the idea and a second plan for a Mobile cotton mill under buy a bale was outlined.
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Seale Harris
Mobile Rotary Club
South
Segular
A. J. Parsons
Chamber of Commerce
W. PD. Nesbitt
Warrant Warehouse Company
Sang Ste
Cote
Culebra Cut Landslide Halts Panama Canal Traffic
A major landslide in the Culebra cut interrupts Panama Canal traffic after close to midnight. Several ships are delayed, dredges are active, and authorities led by Colonel Goethals work to assess damage and restore navigation, hoping to reopen the channel in a few days.
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Associated Press
Panama
Culebra
Panama Canal
Canal
Goethals
Cucaracha
Cristobal
Balboa
Landslide at Culebra cut quiets Canal fears
Isthmian Canal Commission offices report no alarm over the Culebra cut slide despite temporary canal closure. The event is seen as hastening subsidence of mobile material and proving ongoing earth movement will continue after opening. No official report reached the commission today.
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Washington
Culebra Cut
Isthmian Canal Commission
Goethals
Economy Now But Great Prosperity Later Declared
H K Walters urged President Wilson and the Federal Reserve Board to back the Wade plan for a 150 million dollar loan fund to aid cotton farmers. He said the plan is the most practical so far and would steady cotton prices, noting the South must adopt strict economy for two years before broad prosperity returns.
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Associated Press
Washington
Federal Reserve Board
H. K. Walters
Atlantic Coast Line
Lauisville and Nashville
Wilson
Wade
Walters
Ef Goton
European conflict teaches armaments fail to guard peace
Bishop Greer warns that the present European war must teach the world a lesson. If the lesson is ignored a new and greater war will follow with harsher consequences.
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Bishop Greer
Tax Reform League of Alabama Forms to Tackle Unfair Laws
Resolutions adopted in Montgomery declare Alabama tax laws unequal and oppressive and form the Tax Reform League of Alabama. The meeting calls for a statewide Dec. 3 convention with 67 counties represented and invites Gov. O NeaI and the next governor to speak.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Tax Reform League of Alabama
M. Mahomer
Mobile
O’ Neal
Charles Henderson
Leon Schwarz
Charles Bb. Teasley
W. W. Quarels
Selma
League
Charles B. Teasley
T. M. Hill
George Fearn, Jr
W. 3Vis
R. D. Crawford
W. W. Quarles
U. Sima
Germans Reach Within Fifteen Miles of Ostend
AP dispatches report German forces approach Bruges near Ostend while British actions sink ships off Sumatra. Paris war bureau notes German movements from Antwerp toward Bruges and Thielt with Allied countermeasures and stalled offensives along the Lys Somme Meuse fronts.
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London
Rivers
France
Nord
West Flanders
Antwerp
Ghent
Belgium
Ostend
Paris
French War Office
Bruges
Thielt
Lys
Canal of
la Bassee
Lens
Arras
Albert
Somme
Vise
Oise
Meuse
Craonne
Berry Au Bae
Rheims
Primay
Beine
Moselle
Verdun
Metz
Ban de Sapt
Saint Die
Russia
Warsaw
Vietula
Przemys
East Prussia
Innes Couple Granted Bail in Murder Case
Victor E. Innes and his wife Gene were granted bail at a habeas corpus hearing in San Antonio Texas. They faced charges of murder and conspiracy tied to the disappearance of Mrs Blots Nelms Dennis and her sister Miss Leatrice Nelms Dennis of Atlanta Georgia last June.
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Associated Press
San Antonio
Texas
Victor E. Innes
Ove
Blots Nelms Dennis
Leatrice
Atlanta
Habeas Corps
Grand Jury Indicts Mrs M Gowan for First Degree Murder
Florence McGowan of Mobile is held without bond after a grand jury indicts her for murder in the first degree for the August 6 shooting of J Loren Brown in Pensacola Florida. The jury returned the indictment this morning.
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Pensacola
Fla
Florence McGowan
Mobile
Follo
J. Loren Brown
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Archduke Rudolph
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Gulebra
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Europe
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Ades Bi
TAX League
France du Nord
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Admiralty
Yarmouth
Sumatra
Pontports
New York
Lisbon
Africa
Germany
Rangel de Sampaio
York
Portugal
Sauna
Innes
M Gowan
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