International complications may follow Merida Belgian consul case
The Belgian consul at Merida Yucatan is reportedly arrested by the Mexican government. Washington officials anticipate a possible Belgian inquiry if the consul is not released promptly. Rebellion in southern and central Mexico has slowed, with insurgents active in Morelos and the federal district while northern Mexico remains quiet. Authorities suspect the envoy aided Mexican rebels, though charges are unconfirmed.
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Washington
Merida
Yucatan
State Department
Mexico
Morelos
Federal District
Justice Sayre Letter Sparks Court Debate
Associate Justice J C Aniserser issues statement criticizing a newspaper letter from five Supreme Court members as an improper attack. He calls for internal consultation, favors reforms via legislative aid, and opposes revolutionary judicial statutes or rules. He says he will back beneficial rules but resist changes infringing on the legislative department.
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Ala
Supreme Court
Sayre
J. C. Anierser
Legislative Department
Government Seeks Free Bicycle Licenses in Mobile
City officials debated whether Uncle Sam should pay for three mail delivery bicycle licenses. The measure was filed with City Attorney Boone for investigation as commissioners weighed tax liability for government supplied or required bicycles. Hundreds of bikes were licensed recently amid police arrests and renewed demand for tags.
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Uncle Sam
Mobile
B. B. Boone
Pillans
Roosevelt Resting for His Final Speech
Oyster Bay N Y October 29 Colonel Roosevelt rested today to save strength for tomorrow nights speech at Madison Square Garden He suffers soreness on his right side and will likely be out of full use of his right arm for several weeks His doctors say he is not strong enough to direct the campaign though he has partially resumed leadership
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Oyster Bay
N. Y
Roosevelt
Madison Square Garden
Taft Commutes Bank Cashier Sentence To Permit Christmas Return
President Taft commuted the five year sentence of J Otic Wilson cashier of the Peoples National Bank of Salem New York who pleaded guilty to making a false entry in the bank books. He was convicted of aiding a wife friend overdraft with no intent to defraud the bank to allow replenishment and avoid notice to officers. The release expires December 23 so he can be home for Christmas.
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Washington
Taft
J. Otic Wilson
Peoples’ National Bank of
Salem
N. Y
Wilson
Will Facilitate Port Business Through Lumber Freight Talks
President John T. Cochrane of the Mobile Chamber appoints a committee to confer with ship owners on pre payment demands for lumber cargoes. Members include Thomas W. Wate Horace Turner W. A. Powell W. H. Buck and W. B. Paterson. The aim is to ease lumber shipping and reduce cash tie ups, boosting Mobile business.
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John T. Cochrane
Mobile Chamber of Commerce and Business League Today
Messrs
Thomas W. Wate
Horace Turner
W. A. Powell
W. H. Buck
W. B. Paterson
Cochrane
Mobile
Poison linked to Lindloff family deaths in trial
Milwaukee witnesses testified that Mrs. Louise Lindloff foresaw her husband Julius Graunke’s death and predicted more insurance money as she planned a saloon. Experts stated Arthur Alma and Lindloff were poisoned, while Dr Harrington described Frieda Graunke’s mineral poisoning symptoms in the trial of the defendant for her 15 year old son’s death.
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Chicago
Louise Lindloff
Arthur
Milwauke
Martha Greiner
Milwaukee
Julius Graunke
Wis
Louis Lindloff
Harrington
Frieda Graunke
Austria requires cookery for girls seeking clerkships
The Austrian minister of education, pressed by feminists to widen girls schooling, approves adding cookery to courses for those taking modern languages or other subjects aiming at government clerk jobs. Cookery will be taught in schools with linked restaurant classes where dish prices scale by pupil level, after which women may compete for clerkships.
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Vienna
City Commission Amends Stable Ordinance and Tax Rates
Mobile commissioners adopt amendments to sections four and seven of the stable ordinance permitting concrete or other mineral flooring in stalls and extending the effective date to January 1 1913. They fix general and special tax rates, grant refunds on licenses, consider a reduced fireworks license, and honor John Forsyth on his centennial.
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Pillans
Lyons
John Forsyth
B. Hervey
Monroe Park
Hervey
United States
Mobile
Merchants Bank
T. de Leon
Milk Wagon Collision On Government Street Loop
An inbound Government street loop car collided with a milk wagon near Tuttle Avenue this forenoon. Two young men in the wagon were thrown out but escaped serious injuries. Considerable milk spilled and the wagon’s rear wheel demolished. Names of wagon occupants not learned. vehicle bore health permit No. 8.
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Government Street
Tuttle Avenue
Heir to the Russian throne gravely ill after attempted death
Reports from Berlin say prayers are offered in churches across the empire for the eight year old heir to the throne whose condition is described as very serious. The empress is said to have attempted suicide by leaping from a high window after learning of her son’s illness.
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Berlin
Russian Empire
Eczarina
Mobile Woman Heads Wilson and Marshall Club Vice President
Mrs. S. S. Murphy named vice president for Mobile of the Women’s Wilson and Marshall Club of Alabama as one of three state vice presidents. She chairs county women’s committee for Wilson Day events with rallies and barbecues planned across the South to boost Democratic candidates. Mrs Murphy helps mobilize campaign funds with a target contribution of one thousand dollars from Alabama women, with L. L. Duggar as local treasurer.
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S. S. Murphy
Mobile
Wilson and Marshall Club
Alabama
Murphy
Ace
Cattelghan Mn Arge
South
Vice President Sherman Suffering Recurrence of Kidney Trouble
Utica New York October 29 After a restful night and improved condition the vice president again developed distressing kidney symptoms. At 11 am Dr. Peck, the physicians, rushed back to find his condition aggravated but the family was told there was no immediate danger of termination.
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Utica
Sherman
Peck
Fear of Another Rise in English Bank Rates
Berlin October 29 reports rising money rates in Paris and London fuel fears of a further general increase in bank rates across England France and Germany amid a troubled political horizon.
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Berlin
Paris
London
England
France
Germany
Weather forecast for Mobile and region
UNCLE ZEB the WEATHER. Mobile forecast for Oct 29 to Wednesday night shows fair conditions, highs around 60 degrees, with moderate southeast to south winds. Alabama areas expect fair, warmer in the north and central portions with light to moderate winds. Mississippi coastal forecast calls for fair, colder in the north with light to moderate southerly winds. Shippers' Forecast urges protection against 36 degree lows for 24 hour shipments, temperatures moderate east and west.
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Mobile
Mississippi
Balkan Allies War Plans Progress Amid Turkish Strain
Balkan allies including Bulgaria Serbia Greece and Montenegro press advances as Nazim Pasha commands four Turkish corps at Tchorlu Luleburgas to stem Bulgarian gains. He risks isolation by Eski Baba and a cut Thorly river bridge limits Constantinople reinforcements and supplies.
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London
Balkan
Fiubaria
Servia
Greece
Montenegro
Adrianople
Nazim Pasha
Tchorlu
Luleburgas
Eski-Baba
Thorly River
Constantinople
Austro Hungary Seeks Peace. Premier Says Allies Back Move
In Vienna the premier Count Stuerghk stated in parliament that the Austro Hungarian foreign office works in harmony with allies and other powers. He pledged government effort to help end the conflict promptly and denied reports of mobilization orders.
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Austro-Hungary
Vienna
Count Stuerghk
Unusual bid to Mobile County for bridges and culverts
A. Farragut representing the Merrillot Calvert Company of Winfield Iowa presented a formal bid to Mobile County Roads Commissioners. The proposal promises to supervise bridge and culvert construction using their cores and materials at set prices with a demonstration to justify payment.
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Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners
A. Farragut
Merrillot Calvert Company
Winfield
Iowa
Fartsgut
Mobile
Ala
Mobile County Roads Commissioners
A. Varracut
Morday
Ctober
Caih
Morrillot
Laws
Merrillot
Mobile County
Merrillot Culvert Core CO
Thompson Killed by Former Secretary in Greensboro
George G. Thompson, division freight agent for the Southern Railway, was shot and killed in Greensboro North Carolina. His private secretary W R Blair, whom Thompson had dismissed, was arrested at the scene, muttering I have killed my best friend as the crime occurred.
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Greensboro
N. C
George G. Thompson
The
Southern Railway
W. R. Blair
Blair
First shot in Grabow riot fired from mill office
Testimony in the Grabow murder trial claims the opening shot of the labor riot came from the Galloway Lumber Co mill office. Witnesses Williams Glasscock and Gahlman, all Brotherhood members, described gunfire from the mill, with Galloway seen entering the office with a gun.
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Lake Charles
Grabow
Galloway Lumber Company
John Williams
Henry Glasscock
WE. Gahlman
Brotherhood
Emerson
Glasscock
Havens
Nill
Williams
John Galloway
Gahlman
Mississippi Woman Dies By Gas In New York Boarding House
Miss Fontaine Freeland, a Mississippi heiress from a well known Warren County family, was found dead in a West Fifty-fifth Street boarding house, having inhaled gas. An old will and a new codicil were found, detailing about 10,000 acres of plantation land in Warren County and jewelry. The will dated Port Gibson Miss. identified her as a Warren County resident.
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New York
Fontaine Freeland
West Fifty-fifth Street
Woman Sails to USA in Quest for Man She Married in Vigan
In Manila a young woman travels on army transportation and a substantial advance to find her husband, a Twentieth Infantry officer married in Vigan last April. Officials refuse to name either party. The marriage was kept secret amid claims the officer was engaged in Albany, and he later moved to other postings. A middle aged man who performed the ceremony accompanies her.
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Manila
United States
Quartermaster’s Department
Army
Vigan
Fort Santiago
Twentieth Infantry
Albany
N. Y
Washington
Wigan
Parcels Post Hurts Express Business
The United States Express Company declared no regular dividend this semi annual period. Directors cited parcels post establishment and lower earnings since last year as reasons for the failure to declare the usual $30 a share dividend.
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New York
United States Express Company
Taft Seeks Ohio Victory in Taft Letter Attack on Wilson
President Taft urges Ohio Republicans to back the ticket and warns that a Democratic Congress under Wilson would bring financial disaster. He attacks tariff policy and accuses Wilson of vetoing Democratic measures that saved the economy. He cites third party aid to Democrats and says some leaders fear Wilson victory.
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Wilson
White House
Congress
Aocratic Congress
Republican Party
Free Space for Local Manufacturers At Mobile Exposition
The Mobile and Gulf Tropical Exposition will allocate free display space to local manufacturers to boost interest in the “Mobile Made: Goods” exhibit. Directors discussed the plan after noting insufficient local participation and invited numerous firms to participate, including A. D. Davis Packing, Hut chisson & Denham, McCreary & Slater, Home Industry Iron Works, Mobile Art Glass Works, J. B. Hellams Fireless Cooker, International Asphalt Southern Roofing, Crichtom Lumber, and many others.
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Quinn
Mobile
A. D. Davis Packing Company
Hutchisson & Denham
McCreary & Slater
Home Industry Iron Works
Mobile Art Glass Works
J. B. Hellams
Asphalt Manufacturing Company
International Asphalt Southern Roofing Company
Crichtom Lumber Company
Ere Manufacturing Company
McKinnon (Brooms
Geoacement Boat Company
Charles Lagman Cigars
Weinaclie Test and Fuel Company
Mobile Columm Company
B. F. Round
Bienville Cooperage Company
Alabama Cotton Oil Company
Southern Creamery
Hass Brothers Packing Company
Republic Creosoting Co
Maxwell Decorating Co
Jos. J. Aynsley
E. M. Wheeler
Webster
Mobile Nursery
Boston Shoe Shop
L. J. Mahle
Gabriel Jewelry Co
Verona Lumber Co
Elmer Maddox
Agricultural Marble Co
Mobile Mattress Co
Gulf City Milling
Ney Turpentine Co
F. C. Turner & Co
Notice to Subscribers on Change of Address
Subscribers planning moves on November 1 should notify The Item Circulation Department immediately by letter or telephone. Provide both old and new addresses to avoid delivery delay during the annual moving day.
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Schwarz
Hkoone
Czarina OF
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Freeland
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Ohio
Fred A. Grier
Cinccinnati
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