Rebels loot Durango consulate and raid cost Americans
An Associated Press report describes a Durango raid by about six thousand Mexican rebels who looted the city and occupied the U.S. consul Ham's residence. Dozens of Americans fled toward Mazatlan via a mountain pass. several have since vanished. Bayonet wounds and other injuries are noted by rescued evacuees returning to the U.S. aboard the cruiser Pittsburg.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
San Diego
Naymas
United States
Pittsburg
T. L. Findley
Durango
Findley
Ham
Mazatlin
C. K. Siggie
Abbott Dom Gasquet Sends Wireless From New York
Abbott Dom Gasquet president of the English Benedictines and papal Bible commission chair travels by steamer George Washington near American coasts. He plans visits to major cities to explain five years of Latin Bible revision progress and notes the project may take about fifty years to finish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Knights of Columbus
Supreme Knight
Abbott Dom Gasquet
George Washington
Father Michael
James A. Flaherty
National Conservation Exposition Opens in Knoxville
The first National Conservation Exposition opened in Knoxville Tennessee with labor groups and officials celebrating Labor Day and the opening. A large parade featured thousands and floats moving to the exposition grounds as President Wilson sent a congratulatory wireless message. Governor Hooper and Mayor Heiskell welcomed attendees and highlighted educational benefits while exposition head T Asbury Wright outlined aims to conserve forests and streams with federal exhibits on agriculture and livestock. The exposition runs through November 1.
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Associated Press
Knoxville
Tenn
Exposition
Exposition Grounds
Wilson
Joy
Exposition City
B. W. Hooper
8. G. Heiskell
T. Asbury Wright
Esperanto Congress declines San Francisco 1915 invitation
Berne Sept 1 The international Esperanto Congress declined to hold the 1915 gathering in San Francisco because the long voyage offends European participants. Paris was chosen for 1914 and Edinburgh for 1915.
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Associated Press
Berne
Switzerland
International Esperanto Congress
San Francisco
Paris
Edinburgh
Dancing school dates corrected in Sunday ad
An error in the want ad misstated Sophie Seipler’s dancing school nights. The notice should show Monday and Friday nights at 8 o'clock, not Monday and Tuesday. A separate line notes France’s coffee consumption has doubled in fifty years.
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Want
Sophie Seipler
France
Escape of Florida Lawyer Augustus F. Lee Sparked Georgia Reward
Sheriff of Emanuel County Georgia offers a $100 reward for Augustus F. Lee, a Florida lawyer, who escaped a deputy near Richland after being moved from Hattiesburg to Swainsboro. Mobile received a letter from Judge H R Daniels praising Crenshaw for aiding the capture effort and noting Lee’s escape from a moving train.
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Hmanuel County
Georgia
Augustus F. Lee
Richland
Lee
Hattiesburg
Miss
Swainboro
Mobile
F. W. Crenshaw
H. R. Daniels
Swainsboro
Georgia Jurist
Chief Crenshaw
Daniels
Bell Has Record in New Orleans
J A Bell alias J S Ainsworth bound over to city court grand jury after forgery charges. Ainsworth allegedly presented a 31 check drawn on List and Gifford Construction Co of Houston at Greenwall Theater Cafe New Orleans and skipped a board bill. He is wanted on a Monroe Louisiana charge and held in county jail awaiting grand jury action.
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J. A. Bell
J. S. Ainsworth
City Court
Grand Jury
Edington
Chief Crenshaw
Jay Braunig
Greenwall Theater Cafe
New Orleans
Ainsworth
Gifford Construction Company
Houston
Texas
Braunig
Bell
Monroe
W. J. Burns National Detective Agency
Successful Exams for Teachers License in Mobile County
Applicants from Mobile County who passed the final teachers license examination are listed by race and locale. Names include White group members Daisy Idell Holman, Annie J. Jackson, Vivian Hollman, Beatrix Hinson, Fannie Berry, Leslie Bell, Annie Washington, Sadie Beck, Willam Robbins, Ysobel Hunter, Josephine Sayles, and others from Bayou La Batre, Citron Elle, Crichton, Toulminville, Gulfcrest, Whistler. Colored and Creole entries are noted.
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Montgomery
Ala
Mobile County
White
Ursula Delchamps
Mary Vivienne Waller
Inez Helen Garrison
Maude Vernon Clarke
Gertrude Vink
Addie Curley Wyatt
Ethel Savage
Lillian, Allman
Annie Carroll Hoffman
Florisette Boullemet
Lillian Allene Stockman
Lucille U. °.Savage
Lillian Mae Martin
Mobile
Jerminia Lola Rush
Annie Washington
Sadie H. Beck
Willam D. Robbins
Ysobel Hunter
Josephine Sayles
Bellairere Durette
Mon Duis
Personal notices from Mobile area guests and visitors
The column lists guests and visitors at Mobile hotels and residences. Names include B. B. Dials Campbell Alabama W. J. Taylor Owen Bluff Alabama N. D. Montgomery Jackson Alabama B. B. Davis Waynesboro Mississippi Kk. W. Davines Wallace Alabama BE. F. Smith Enterprise Mississippi J. A. Reiff Calvert Alabama T. J. Lewis Columbus Mississippi W. K. Harding Montgomery at the Cawthon Hotel. Mrs. Annie Conniff and relatives return from Biloxi. Dr. J. J. Peterson returns from North Carolina. Julius Goldstein leaves Mobile for New York City. Mrs. J. G. Hines and Miss Mae Barkman go to Dauphin Island. Reed Wood ill at Providence Infirmary. John Phillips returns to Ridgian? Meridan Mississippi.
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Windsor Hotel
B. B. Dials
Campbell
Ala
W. J. Taylor
Owen Bluff
N. D. Montgomery
Jackson
B. B. Davis
Waynesboro
Miss
Charters Train 10 Death Scene
A special train chartered by Martin Lindsay of Mobile carried mourners to Pace Florida after Henry Lindsay son of Mr Lindsay was killed when his car overturned in a tire blowout. Henry Lindsay died from internal injuries. body to be sent to Pollard Alabama for burial. He was known in Mobile social circles.
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Martin Lindsay
Dauphin Street
Mobile
Pace
Fla
Henry Lindsay
Young Lindsay
Pollard
Ala
Lindsay
Floridatown
Missing Son 15 Wanted in Canada
Police seek William Story a white male who left Trenton Ontario nearly a year ago after a show. A friend Ira Mountney says Story’s mother is ill and money will be sent for his return. Detective J W Murphy says Story was in Mobile and later in the local hospital and last seen in June at the banana wharf. authorities are searching to locate him.
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William Story
Trenton
Ontario
Story
Ira Mountney
J. W. Murphy
Mobile
Banana Wharf
Harte to Return to Mobile After Seven Years Abroad
A C Harte national general secretary of Y M C A alliances in India and Ceylon departs Calcutta July 29 for a year long furlough and will set Mobile as his southern headquarters around October 11. He built associations in twenty Indian cities and established a training school for secretaries, earning high regard from fellow secretaries.
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India
Ceylon
A. C. Harte
Calcutta
Mobile
Harte
Mr. Harte
South
College Boys Night at Mobile Y M C A
Invitations have been sent to all men planning to attend college for the annual College Boys Night at the Y M C A. The event runs Tuesday evening from 8 to 10 o'clock and is a longstanding social tradition. Attendees are asked to notify the committee if they plan to attend and have not yet received notice.
Body Found Wedged in Steamboat Wheel in Cincinnati
The body of Edward D. Willis of Norwood Ohio was found wedged between the left wheel and its covering aboard the steamboat City of Louisville after a dockside search prompted by a steering complaint. Willis, a carpenter on the steamboat Chile, fell from that boat and was picked up by the City of Louisville as the two vessels passed.
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Associated Press
Cincinnati
Louisville
Edward D. Willis
Norwood
Ohio
Willis
Chile
Louis- Mies
Watchman Albert Smith Drowns On River Steamer
Albert Smith a watchman on the river steamboat American fell overboard late Saturday night near Salco Alabama as the vessel neared that town bound for points up the Alabama river. The body was not recovered and crews are alerted to search between Mobile and Salco.
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Albert Smith
Salco
Ala
Alabama River
Mobile
Salo
House insurgents push currency on anything good
A Houston Post quotation notes insurgents in the house urging broad currency issuance and cashing in on good intentions, framing the plan as a readiness among some members to adopt such a policy.
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Houston Post
Butler Arrested For Prohibition Law Violation At Home
Deputies Laurendine and Bra non arrested Ben Butler for selling beer and liquor from a blind tiger on Marys Lane in the western city. Butler will be arraigned in the inferior criminal court on Wednesday before Judge Henr Chamberlain.
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Laurendine and
Branon
Ben Butler
Butt
Mary’s Lane
Butler
Henr Chamberlain
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Consul Han
Mazatlan
Abbott
DR. Pierce
R.V. Pierce
Buffalo, N.Y
Ogly Talon
Emer Vy
Pont
Graham
Pate
National Biscuit
Wan
Sterling
Royal
Dauphin
Kk. W. Davines
Wallace, Ala
St. Andrew Hotel
BE. F. Smith
Enterprise
Battle House
J. A. Reiff
Calvert, Ala
Bienville Hotel
T. J. Lewis
Columbus, Miss
Cawthon Hotel
W. K. Harding
Cawthon
Annie Conniff
Bernice
Audrey
Mrs. F. Connolly
Biloxi
T. G. White
Lucille
Maurice
Mary Louise
Fairhope Summer Colony
J. J. Peterson
North Carolina
Julius Goldstein
Sewler
Louisville & Nashville
New York City
J. G. Hines
Mae Barkman
Dauphin Island
Frank White
Reed Wood
Providence Infirmary
John Phillips
Paul Arata
Battles
Meridian
Charters
Pace, Fla
Son
Canada
A.C. Harte
G. Hardy Smith
ST. Michael Street
B. Luscher & Son
Dagshin St
Realmn
Columbia.ice Cream CO
Saftey
Mobile’s
Tutt’s
Columbia Ice Cream CO
Nelson & Bailey
S. Royal Street
Mostags
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