Watson on Trial in Georgia Federal Case Over Obscene Material
Publicist Thomas E Watson faced federal charges in Sta Georgia with alleged obscene questions published in 1911 1912 in the Jeffersonian aimed at the Roman Catholic Church and priesthood. The case, tied to a federal warrant and indictment returned November 12 1912, was expected to last about two days with limited witnesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sta, Ga
Thomas E. Ywyer
People’s
Rufus Foster
Watson
Augusta
W. Hlldwin
Georgia
Federal
Jeffersonian
Romer
G. Ic Lendon
Alexader Akerman
Macon
Wattson
McLendon
United States
Parisian Sage Promises Hair Growth and Satisfaction
An advertisement touts Parisian Sage hair tonic to stop hair loss and dandruff, claiming immediate scalp nourishment and strengthened hair. It promises money back if not satisfied and notes sales through G. Van Antwerp & Son in 50 cent bottles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. van Antwerp & Son
Wreck at Fort Morgan kills nineteen soldiers and guards
Telegraphs from Buckatunna Miss report nineteen soldiers killed and many injured in a wreck involving Fort Morgan units and the Eighth Regiment. A relief train with physicians, ambulances, and heavy wagons dispatched. bodies prepared at a Mobile undertaking room.
Local guardsmen respond to Mobile and Ohio wreck rescue
After a fatal wreck on the Mobile and Ohio line Captain Jack Mahon called for volunteers from the Mobile Rifle Company. Within fifty eight minutes twenty men were ready for duty and distributed blankets arrived in minutes. Major Burgess and officers from Fort Morgan took charge of the injured and guardsmen transported victims to government boats and hospitals. The unit worked all night and praised for their training and dedication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile and Ohio
Fort Morgan
Jack Mahon
Mobile Rifle Company
Mr. Wise
Vernaille
Mobile Rifles
Burgess
Weimar
Mahon
Kin Hed
Vermille
R‘fics
Hyde
Pryor
Dolphy
Orr
Pringle
Deneven
Davis
Mayes
Morton
Army Hospital Corps
Horton
Rifles
Morbid Crowd At The Morgue Names Seventeen Dead Soldiers
Hundreds were turned away at Roche & Burke morgue as seventeen dead of the One Hundredth and Seventieth Company were identified. A few relatives entered to view maimed bodies under artillery orders, with two men missing from the unit. Corporals Fritz Kohler and others listed, including H. B. Bishop and Corporal Joseph S. Johnson of the Eighth Company Band.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roche & Burke Company
One Hundred
Fritz Kohler
A.yl Klavinsky
Frank T. Chelewski
Joe Leben
Ernest Parquette
Clyde Tweel
W. H. Brin
G. W. Goodes
W. A. von Stebbens
George Grunkle
E. C. Burleson
W. C. Akers
E. W. Panek
Joe Provance
H. B. Bishop
Joseph S. Johnson
Prompt removal of injured soldiers to local hospitals
A list shows 71 injured arriving by special trains and ambulances to Roche and Burke Company and city services. Hospitals received numbers including Southern Infirmary 18 Mobile Infirmary 17 Inge Bondurant Sanitorium 17 Providence Infirmary 16 U S Marine Hospital 3. Forty nine men were later moved by government steamer General Holabird to Fort Morgan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roche and Burke
Undertaking Company
City Hospital
United States Marine Hospital
Allen and Company
Southern Express Company
Mobile Transfer Company
Southern Infirmary
Mobile Infirmary
Inge-Bondurant Sanitorium
Providence Infirmary
U. S. Marine Hospital
Fort Morgan
Captain Taylor To Report With Injured To Major Burgess
Captain Bernard Taylor led twenty two men from Meridian Mississippi toward Fort Morgan after ensuring the dead were cared for and the injured sent to hospitals. He will file a full report to Major Burgess of the artillery battalion. Taylor praised his men and officers, noting it a miracle the unit was not wiped out in the accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernard Taylor
Meridian
Miss
Fort Morgan
Burgess
Taylor
Holabird
Detour Planned for Mobile & Ohio Trains After Wreck
A Mobile & Ohio statement says trains will be detoured via the Southern to Selma and Meridan until possibly Tuesday morning. The Citronelle line remains in service while the wrecked trestle is rebuilt. through traffic may resume Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selma
Mobile & Ohio
Southern
Meri‘alan
Why the Ninety-Ninth Escaped the Wreck
The Ninety-ninth Company of coast artillery at Fort Morgan will depart Mobile on October 30 for the Philippines via San Francisco. Some members of the One Hunted and Seventieth and Thirty ninth Companies will join to form a 140 man unit. The move saved part of the command from a fatal Sunday voyage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ninety-ninth Company
Coast Artillery
Fort Morgan
Mobile
Philippine Islands
San Francisco
Ninety-ninth
Philippines
Lieutenant Edwin Barlow Known Mobile Officer
Lieutenant Edwin Barlow, injured on the troop train, is a well known Mobile artillery officer stationed at the fort for over six years. He married Katherine Donald of this city, and Mrs. Barlow was anxious until news arrived that he escaped with slight injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin Barlow
Katherine Donald
H. G. G. Donald
Arguments Heard in Hasty Impeachment Case
Pleadings in the impeachment case against Probate Judge Hasty of Marengo were argued in the Alabama Supreme Court. The main issue concerns whether charges can reach into the governor's former administration and related actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Hasty
Marengo
Supreme Court
Crash at Fort Morgan Wreck Claims Soldier Casualties
A wreck south of the trestle near State Line injures and kills soldiers. Officers Taylor Cunningham Smith and Colton lead relief with Chief Surgeon Inge supervising. Fourteen bodies placed in a box car, Corporal Klavinsky dies en route. first relief train reaches Mobile at 2 45 am, second at 4 30 am.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taylor
Roy T. Cunningham
Calvin Smith
Colton
Barrancas
Inge
Mobile
State Line
Klavinsky
Holabird
Fort Morgan
List of wounded personnel from 39th 8th and 170th units
A compiled roster shows numerous individuals from the 39th 8th band 170th and related units with injuries including internal wounds head cuts facial wounds fractures and bruises. Several lieutenants captains sergeants corporals and privates are named alongside roles such as passenger agent chief musician and hospital sergeant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perry Dabeimont
T. J. Carey
Carey H. Grace
J. E. Edwards
Walter L. Millery
Jerry Meager
G. W. Hunt
John Ayers
Walter Finn
R. D. Pasquale
Sth
Robt
M. Campbell
J. F. Ball
E. H. Green
A. D. Pearson
Harvey
E—. Jones
W. R. Gilligan
Edgar Stephenson
D. D. Boles
Seregant
W. C. Kellar
T. J. Kirby
David D. Gordon
T. K. Shearer
Frank McCreary
Edward L. Gosnell
Joseph Meek
Donald Ball
Gabriel Andrezzi
Fay Dickson
A. H. Henderson
Thompson J. Arnold
Lawrence A. Watt
B. Ray Payne
John H. Stoor
Americus Luciano
Albert Mersch
W. G. Bleibaum
Ellis Allen
Charles Summers
W. H. Carter
Arthur Dukes
W. W. Wells
Robert M. Cain
B. Taylor
George Scholes
Wilfred Wheeler
E. E. Stephenson
Daniel C. Sanderson
John T. Tadrick
H. E. Kidwell
A. M. Campbell
H. B. Houk
W. L. Butsier
George W. Thompson
J. G. Freleke
Frank Geere
Frank Thomas Hannon
D. E. Lathrop
E. F. Barrow
F. Meder
M. A. McGraw
E. Frelich
E. A. Taylor
H. J. Herman
Fred Williams
Charles A. Schulz
Samuel T. Bailey
T. G. Grace
Frank A. Kazeda
M. D. O'Neal
Amos R. Reid
B. Morris
John T. Murphy
A. W. Stoll
Oliver E. Kernick
Frank A. Bonner
H. &. Morris
D. C. Leys
Walter Obroblewski
J. S. Martin
Ammon Gingrich
Joe Young
H. “We Beasley
Seregant Hospital
E. M. Spigings
Saigina Sixberry
U. S. Court of Appeals Meets in Montgomery
The United States court of appeals convened in Montgomery at noon to hear cases appealed from Alabama. Judges Shelby and Pardee are sitting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Court OF Appeals
Montgomery
Ala
United States Court of Appeals
Alabama
Shelby and
Pardeie
Panama souvenir buttons to aid Mobile kindergartens
Mobile School Improvement Associations promote sale of Panama buttons as official celebration souvenirs. Net profits fund music for kindergartens, extra books and equipment, with commissions shared with city students. Headquarters at Bayley Piano Co. store. Top seller earns stand with President Wilson. Contact Bell 268 for details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama
Mobile
Bayley Piano Co
Conception
Dauphin
St. Francis
Wilson
Bell 268
van Antwerp’s
Bauer's
Reiss
Hammel’s
Schwarz
Goldstein's
Gayfer’s
Nielon’s
Staub’s
Experiences of Two Who Escaped Train Wreck
Private Wilfred Wheeler of the Thirty-ninth company recalls the wreck of a train in which he says the speed was about 56 miles per hour. He describes the darkness after impact, heroic rescues, and the role of officers in restoring order while Private Charles A Schulz details a man saving him by breaking a pane of glass and says the crash caused most deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilfred Wheeler
Thirty-ninth Company
Wheeler
Taylor
Greer
Smith
Barlow
Charles A.schulz
Schulz
Finley Honors Soldiers After Wreck at Meridian
Col. W. W. Finley president of the Mobile and Ohio praised the artillerymen who died and the others who acted heroically after a train wreck en route from Fort Morgan to Meridian Mississippi. He spoke Monday at the Alabama Mississippi fair opening in Meridian detailing the tragedy and bravery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Morgan
Meridian
Miss
Col
W. W. Finley
Mobile & Ohio
Finley
Indigestion Remedies Highlight Vinci Tonic
An advertisement urges simple eating and Vinci cod liver and iron tonic to cure stomach trouble. Mrs. H. J. Smith of Thomasville Georgia reports relief and renewed appetite after using Vinci, claiming lasting digestive improvement and good health from Vinol. The ad notes a money back guarantee if Vinol fails and lists Van Antwerp Drug Mobile Alabama as a seller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vinci
H. J. Smith
Thomasville
van Antwerp Drug Mobile
Ala
Wreck aftermath: Fort Morgan soldiers among the injured
The wreck scene shows a torn tender and three coaches at the ravine edge. Most dead are from the 170th company Fort Morgan, with Corporal Johnson of the Highth Band Fort Barrancas among the few known killed. Captain Geere and conductor Pruitt badly hurt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Testle
170Th Company
Fort Morgan
van Stebbens
170
Remsen popularity at Fort Morgan reservation after wreck
Private Virgil Remsen of the Thirty ninth company, a famed athlete and star pitcher for the Fort Morgan baseball club, was killed in the wreck. He was popular and trained, living about an hour after injury. he was crushed in the hips and lower body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virgil Remsen
Thirtyninth Company
Fort Morgan Reservation
Fort Morgan
Remsen
Bodies of two corporals to be sent to New Orleans
The bodies of Corporal Fritz Kohler and Corporal Frank T Chelewski of the One Hundred seventieth company, Buckatunna wreck victims, will go to New Orleans for interment Tuesday afternoon. Kohler has relatives in Oak Grove Alabama and once lived there. Both men were well known in Mobile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fritz Kohler
Frank T.chelewski
One Hundred and Seventieth Company
Buckatunna
New Orleans
Kohler
Oak Grove
Ala
Mobile
Doans Kidney Pills Endorsed By Mobile Residents
Two Mobile residents express strong approval for Doan's Kidney Pills. Mrs. Jennie Johnson of 405 St. Francis St says the remedy relieves backache and sudden attacks, purchased at Van Antwerp's Drug Store, and that she has used it for years. The ad notes 50 cent price and Foster Milburn Co as sole U S agents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Doan
Jennie Johnson
St. Francis St
Ala
Dean
van Antwerp
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
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Eighth Regiment
Fort Barrancas
Fla
Walden
Smail
Calvin McClelland Smith
H. E. Jones
Railroad Company
Marion J. Wise
E. C. Rendell
Terminal Staion
J. B Ballard
H. T. Inge
Kitted
Wise
Sidney R. Prince
Southern Xpress Company
Peter Burke
Roche and Burke Undertaking Company
Terinal
John A. Mahon
Marine Hospital
Inge- Bondurant
Stebbens
Grueldruehlki
Stevens
Major Burgess
Lieut
FT. Morgan Garrison
Vinsky
Private Haralson
Frank Widman
QO. F. Whiteside
A. R. Shipley
Private Ostrander
Fred Wilson
Louis D. Stanish
H. S. Slaughter
George Yeske
Paul A. Barbity
Cheeney’s
Cheney
Harvey E. Jones
S. D. Pruitt
S Company
Puckatunna
Jones
Harry T. Inge
The
Bank of Mobile
National Banking Association
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