Acting Chief Chit Myrick Leads Fire Dept After Chief Price’s Death
Assistant Chief Chit Myrick is named acting department head pending a successor to the late Chief Thomas F. Price. Myrick expressed shock at the death Tuesday night and recalled Price as a hard worker for the city. On orders from Commissioner Pat J. Lyons the engines will be draped in mourning.
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George W. Myrick
Thomas F. Price
Myrick
Price
Mr. Myrick
Pat J. Lyons
Harry Wilians
Lyons
Schwarz
Fire Department
Chief Price
Tom Price
Mobile
Three Thousand Horses Sent From Fort Worth to Europe
More than three thousand horses shipped from Fort Worth to Montreal for use by English and French armies in Europe. Train consignments will follow at regular intervals during the week, according to officials.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Montreal
Canada
Savannah Turpentine Market Report Steps
In Savannah on October 28 turpentine nominal at 45 1 2 cents with 190 casks received. Rosin receipts noted as barrels. Quotes show various grades and prices from D to WW with ranges from $3.50 to $6.35, reflecting market activity.
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Savannah
Rosin
Ewer
Liverpool Cotton Spot Gains as Demand Strengthens
Liverpool October 28 cotton market reports good demand with old prices irregular. Good ordinary and ordinary rise ten points while others hold. Sales total 4,500 bales with 3,800 bales American priced at 4,850 and no imports.
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Liverpool
Miss Genevieve Clark Plans Romance of Cotton Book
Genevieve Clark daughter of the speaker of the house and originator of the U. S. B. More Cotton will write a book titled The Romance of Cotton. The work will trace cotton history from ancient times to modern developments.
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Genevieve Clark
U. S. B. More Cotton
Deaths and Funerals in Local Community
Burial of Mrs. Mabel Lillian Murfee held at 2:30 PM from the family home on State Street with Rev. Dewitt Du Bose officiating. Interment in Pine Crest cemetery featured moral designs and pallbearers Miltons Barnes John Pippin Horne Fringle Hunter Murfee Roy Davis Leo Clark. Roosevelt McMillan, 13, died after brief illness at home in Prichard. Funeral from the family home at 2:30 PM Wednesday. Pauline J. Stillman, 55, widow of Frank Stillman, died after short illness at her brothers’ home. Remains sent to Point Lear, Baldwin County, Alabama for interment. Funeral from home at 10:30 AM with Rev. Father Brown presiding.
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Mabel Lillian Murfee
State Street
Dewitt DuBose
Government Street Presbyterian Church
Pine Crest Cemetery
Messrs
Miltons Barnes
John Pippin
Horne Fringle
Hunter Murfee
Roy Davis
Leo Clark
Roosevelt McMillan
W. T. McMillan
Prichard
Pauline J. Stillman
Frank Stillman
Alabama
C. B. Ladnier
John
B. Ladnier
Edward
Joe
German Loyalist Adam Sieben Predicts German Victory
Oakdale resident and German American Alliance treasurer Adam Sieben returned to Mobile after months in Germany. He said the war costs lives but Germans will win with divine aid, praised German patriotism, noted German siege guns as pivotal, and claimed noncombatants in Germany suffer no hardships.
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Adam Sieben
Oakdale
German-American Alliance
Mobile
Germany
Sieben
Mr. Sieben
Red Cross
Red Cross Nurse. Mr. Sieben Was At Strassburg
German Empire
British War Vessels Exchange Shots With Ostend Guns
American Consul Henry Albert Johnson at Ostend reports German shore artillery engaged British ships offshore on October 23. Hotel Majestic property was destroyed and several people were injured in the exchange.
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Ostend
Washington
State Department
Henry Albert Johnson
Johnson
Holland
Vitalitas praised by BrunsWick postmaster in testimonial
Mr. R. L. Jones, a 72 year old postmaster and railroad agent in BrunsWick Tennessee, extols Vitalitas as a miracle builder of the system. He credits three bottles with curing years of indigestion and general weakness and invites readers to sample at Suttons drug store or request information.
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Jones
Brunswick, Tenn
R. L. Jones
Vitalitas
Suttons Drug Store
Fire Chief Price Dies. Funeral Set For Thursday
Veteran fireman who served the city twenty years including thirteen as chief died suddenly. Funeral from 256 South Royal Street Thursday at 2:30 pm then from Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception at 3:00 pm. Interment in Catholic Cemetery.
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Captain Price
South Royal Street
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Catholic Cemetery
Thomas F. Price
Mobile
Mobile Fire Department
Death of Mobile Fire Chief Tom Price Shocks City
Chief Thomas F. Price of Mobile dies at 44 after a 45 minute illness at home on South Royal Street following a day of alarms and theater duties. Price, longtime firefighter and former chief since 1901, left a record of major fires and service to Mobile, survived by wife Mary Marques and four children. Public figures lauded his faithful service and friendship.
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Thomas F. I'Rice
Mobile Fire Department
Broad and
Congress Streets
South Royal Street
Price
Matthew Stown
Oelock
Cage
Commerce Street
Conti
Government Streets
Sloan
St. Emanuel Street
Government Street
Scheible
Chief Price
Mobile
Battle House
Michael Lyons Grocery Company
Mobile Theatre
Southern Docks
Captain Price
Mary Marques
Antoinette Price
Thomas Price
Matthew
Sterling Price
Mobile Council Knights of Columbus
The
Old Veteran Volunteer Firemen
Cost of United States Cavalry Horses Rising on Foreign Demand
British and French buyers are driving up remount costs for U S Army horses. Young horses at remount stations now cost 17 dollars more per head than last year, with overall cavalry horse prices up 20 dollars per head. The army fears sufficient horses cannot be procured for current needs.
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United States
Associated Press
Washington
Biritish
Quartermaster’s Department
United States Army
Tremendous Conflict on Vista and San Rivers
Petrograd reports an Austrian attempt to envelop General Brussiloff's left wing failed. On October 24 Russian forces trapped the 38th Honved division south of Sambor in a mountain valley, with many killed or captured. An entire artillery division with twenty cannons and trains fell into Russian hands.
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Petrograd
Brussiloff
Sambor
Russians Fail to Push Advantage in Galicia Battles
Morning Post dispatch from Petrograd reports that Russian left and center did not extend gains as far as hoped in Galicia. Analysts warn any German left smashing may come at cost to other Russian sectors. a German spy was captured near Petrograd and shot after court martial for plans tied to Kronstadt and other stations.
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London
Morning Post
Petrograd
Galicia
Germany
Russia
Kronstadt
Russians Take Radom and Lodz in Polish Campaign
London dispatch reports Radom fifty seven miles south of Warsaw fell after a hard fight and Lodz thirty five miles south of Warsaw was occupied by Russian cavalry amid strong resistance. The British note anti German sentiment grows in population, signaling a potential German setback on the left flank and pressure toward Cyenstochowa.
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London
Warsaw
the Times
Poland
Radom
Lodz
Vetrograd
The
Times
Cyenstochowa
Galicia
Chronicle
Woman's health aid for Europe misery and feminine disorders
The article extols Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a universal remedy for women's ailments from headache to fatigue. It urges women to use the product for menstrual, bearing down, and related disorders, noting its herbal, non alcoholic formula and free expert diagnosis offer from the Invalids' Hotel in Buffalo.
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America
Europe
Dr. Pierce
Pierce
Invalids
Buffalo
N. Y
Gravel spill arrest in city streets case
Will Carter, a Negro, was arrested early Wednesday by Officer McGinnis for violating city ordinance section 801 prohibiting gravel spillage by wagon drivers. He faces trial in the recorder's court Thursday evening.
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Will Carter
McGinnis
Recorder’s Court
Notary Public Bond Filed By Joseph A Jones
Joseph A. Jones filed his bond in the probate court on Tuesday afternoon to engage in business as a notary public. The action confirms his authorization to perform notarial duties in the jurisdiction.
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Joseph A. Jones
Suspects of copper theft at Crichton held to grand jury
Ed Miles and James Osborne were arrested by Deputy Sheriff Paul Cazalas for stealing copper from Crichton Pine Products. They were arraigned in inferior criminal court before Judge Henry Chamberlain and held to the city court under $250 bond each. G Girard’s case on prohibition violations was continued to November 4. Haywood McCormick was fined $100 and costs for public drunkenness.
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Ed Miles
James Osborne
Paul Cazalas
Crichton Pine Products Company
Inferior Criminal Court
Henry Chamberlain
G. Girard
Haywood McCormick
Dodson’s Liver Tone Offers Calomel Alternative
Advert describes Dodson’s Liver Tone as a safe vegetable remedy to replace calomel for bilious symptoms and constipated bowels. It promises quick relief, no salivation, and gentle cleansing, with a money back guarantee if not effective.
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Dodson
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