Special January Legislature Call Depends on Adjournment
In Montgomery Alabama a rumor says the governor would call a special session in January if no judiciary faults or prohibitory measures exist, and only if the legislature adjourns by September 20 to allow the December 20 bond issue election.
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Montgomery
Ala
Chamberlain
Mobile
Rogers
Sumter
Sorrell
Tallapoosa
Alabama
Game, Fish and Forestry Committee
John A. Rogers
Mr. Chamberlain
Walden
Alden
Hartwell harbor commission bill clears senate in Alabama
The Hartwell harbor commission bill passed the Alabama Senate with a bare quorum, designating seven state harbor commissioners five from Mobile and two from Jefferson Walker or Tuscaloosa counties. The bill aims to identify port and mineral belt interests serving unpaid. The Weakley uniform warehouse bill also passed 22 to 10 after lengthy debate, while the governor may withhold approval in its current form. Continued on Page 5.
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Harbor Commission
Senate
Montgomery
Atla
Hartwell Harbor Commission
Hartwell
Mobile
Alabama
Jefferson
Walker
Tuscaloosa
Friends of
Senate Committee On
Hartwell Commission
New York Enacts Vagrancy Law For All Street Loiterers
Police matrons will patrol for enforcement of a new vagrancy statute that places male and female street loiterers on equal footing. Previously men could only be arrested after a complaint. now both sexes may be jailed from ten days to six months with no fine.
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New York
French Technical Agents Arrested on Corruption Charges
Paris reports the French government has arrested two technical agents from the marine and war departments for corruption in war supply procurement. They inspected shells at Sant-Du-Tarn works. Director M. Le Biond was also arrested for allegedly paying monthly subsidies to the agents in exchange for lax inspections.
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Paris
Marine
War Department
Sant-Du- Tarn
M. le Biond
Britain Rejects Any Distinction Between Liners and Merchant Vessels
British and London papers debate Germany's submarine policy and Count von Bernstorff's note to Secretary Lansing. The Westminster Gazette and Pall Gazette insist no distinction exists between liners and merchantmen, urging full law protection for all noncombatants. The Evening Standard calls for Germany to abandon submarine piracy to uphold humanity.
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Count von Bernstorff
Lansing
Westminster Gazette
Wilson
London
Great Britain
United
Pall - Gazette
Germany
America
Only survivor tells of tug Helen Henderson wreck
T G Taylor engineer says he was the sole survivor of the tug Helen Henderson lost in a Texas coast storm. He endured hours adrift after the vessel swamped at 1 30 AM on the 17th with eighteen men aboard and drifted ashore bruised and nearly unclothed after clinging to a log until rescue.
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T. E. Taylor
Helen Henderson
Texas
Mr. Taylor
Taylor
Henderson
Storm Off North Carolina Coast Moves Northeast
A storm of moderate intensity centered off the North Carolina coast this morning appears to be moving northeastward with fresh northeast gales along the middle Atlantic coast. Storm warnings were posted from Cape Hatteras to Cape Cod.
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Washington
North Carolina
Middle Atlantic
Atlantic
Cape Hatteras
Cape Cod
Three Negroes Say Wife Plotted Doctor Mohr Murder
Providence Rhode Island September reports Mrs Elizabeth Mohr wife of a physician plotted murder of Dr Mohr and Miss Emily Burger with three black men who confessed Brown gave details saying Mohr offered pay and estate motives Healis Spellman and Brown were named in charges with inciting and murder related offenses authorities disclosed a threatening letter from Mrs Mohr and arraignments followed the confession continuing on page 5
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Providence
R. I
Elizabeth I
Hien Spellman
Brown
Mohr
Healis
Emily G. Burger
Hessis
Nayatt
Spellman
Dr. Mohr
Spell
Miss Burger
Rose
Hammell
George Rooke
Newport
Elizabeth Mohr
Cecil Victor Brown
Hammond Street
Boston
Mass
Elizabeth T. Mohr
George
One
Henry
Beach Street
Ir d
Improvements on Upper Tombigbee sidelined by War Department
The War Department will not entertain further improvements on the Upper Tombigbee from Demopolis to Columbus, Mississippi for now, per a communication to Colonel P. W. Maer. Officials cite ongoing projects and the need to utilize the Black Warrior Warrior Tombigbee system before new river works proceed.
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Tombigbee River
Demopolis
Columbus
Miss
War Department
P. W. Maer
Customs
United States Engineer's Office
Clatoms
Tombigbee
Warrier
Cordova
Black Warrior
Birmingham
Wington
Binbee
Maer
Orleans Branch Bank of Federal Reserve Delayed Opening
New Orleans announced the Orleans Branch of the Federal Reserve District Atlanta will not open on September 1 as planned. Officials say opening shifted to September 19 due to unresolved details.
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Orleans
Bank of Federal Reserve
New Orleans
Sitch District
Atlanta
Federal Reserve Bank
Taft Is Frisco Honor Guest at Pacific Exposition
W H Taft was the honor guest at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. He prepared to deliver an address on preparedness and would receive a loving cup in memory of his friendship when San Francisco sought official exposition city status. A redwood tree was planted by Taft with the silver spade he used four years earlier.
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San Francisco
W. H. Taft
Taft
Sheriff’s Wife Foils Mob to Save Negro Lynching
In Bowling Green Missouri the wife of Pike County sheriff held off more than 100 men demanding the surrender of Harrison Rose a black man accused of murder. Rose was jailed after a posse race to lynch him. the sheriff was out of town. The wife persuaded the mob to disperse saying she was alone at the jail.
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Bowling Green
Pike County
Harrison Rose
Rose
Dudley Davidson
Embezzlement charge filed against Dresden bank ex-cashier
John Hornung, 61, former Dresden National Bank cashier, arrested in Indianapolis on embezzlement charges. He admitted stealing about 60 000 dollars from the bank.
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Indianapolis
Ind
John Hornung
Dresden National Bank
Dresden
Ohio
Hornung
Nome Alaska
Corwin
Cape Serge
Siberia
Siberian
Vilhjalmur Stefanson
Alr
Ashington
State Department
Carranza
Tera
San Mac Anitista
St. Paul
Wee
San Francisco
W. H. Taft
United States
Peking
Yuron Shi Ke
New Orleans
Ashey
Hershey Chocolate Company
Paris
Saya
Journal
Madrid
Braga
Oporto
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Chicago
Illinois
Federal Reserve Board Today
Tennison
Dallas Reserve Bank
London
Sayona
Latih
Attempted assassination targets dairy employee in sleep near Mertz Station
About 1 a.m. Thursday a would be killer fired buckshot at William Haynes of Tunstall Dairy while he slept with his wife. Haynes escaped five bullet wounds to the leg, likely crippling him, as deputies investigate a possible revenge motive. Sheriff Holcombe and deputies pursue leads. a prior shooting against Haynes occurred weeks earlier at the dairy milkhouse.
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William Haynes
Tunstall Dairy
Mertz Station
Jeff
Lene Gineare
Holcombe
Cou Jcil
W. H. Cotorabean
Pucket and
Mullaney
Hayiea
Sheri
Tunatall's
Haynes
Dry Law Fight Shapes Newfoundland Politics
In St John’s Newfoundland the push for prohibition dominates political debate with bitter campaigns looming. Government plans an election in November on a prohibition bill referred by the first legislature as residents debate temperance measures. The island’s water-surrounded status underscores the potential nationwide impact of any prohibition outcome.
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ST. Johns
N. F
Politioa
Newfoundland
Counly
Leader of Kentucky Raiders Is Sentenced
Hartford Kentucky September reports state farmer Jesse Fulkerson pleaded guilty to manslaughter and received ten to fifteen years in state prison for his role as the ring leader among a nighttime band blamed for months of depredations. Witnesses testified he helped organize the locals guiding the group.
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Hartford
Ohio
Jesse Fulkerson
Wana
Fulkerson
Fifty German submarines taken in sixty days says officer
An Adriatic survivor reported the sinking submarine captured and the U boat crew imprisoned in England. He claimed Britain has seized fifty German submarines in the last sixty days as Sir Herbert Holt commented on exchange and Allied munitions needs. Survivors including Mrs Atkinson and John Doherty told of the attack scene aboard the liner.
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W York
Liverpool
Hmngland
Herbert Holt
Royal Bank of Canada
New York
Canada
United States
Sir Herbert
Great Britain
Sam Hughes
France
Flanders
England
Robert Borden
Margaret Atkinson
Arthur Atkinson
J.C. Alison
W. Bathurst
M. Christopherson
John Doherty
Doherty
British Submarines and Attacks Reported in Dardanelles
A dated wartime summary notes calm in the Dardanelles last week and describes British submarine actions near Gallipoli. It mentions attacks by British forces against transports at Achashilimam and near Anafarata, with battleships firing on anchored vessels and multiple transports sunk or damaged.
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Paris
Dardanelles
Sion
Anafarata
Achashiliman
Essary
Outer Forts of Grodno Captured by German Forces
German headquarters announced the capture of the outer forts of Grodno, the fortress stronghold near the German lines. The report, relayed via London, confirms a territorial advance in the ongoing campaign.
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Grodno
Geri Berlin
London
Dardanelles Advance Report Sparks Allied Optimism
London dispatch says official report on heavy fighting at the Dardanelles pleases the British public. Sir Ian Hamilton claims a captured position along the Buruk Anasta valley and notes potential advantage for bombardment of Turkish supply routes toward Achi Baba. Russians report a Galician victory near Zborow. German naval policy leads to talk of Von Tirpitz vacation amid cabinet tensions.
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Dardanelles
London
Ian Hamilton
Constantinople
Jan
Buruk Anasta
Anafarata
Achi Baba
Zborow
von Tirpitz
Von
Bethmann-Hollweg
Preliminary agreement signed by Paris on Grecian navigation
Athens dispatch reports final Entente Greece accord. Greece to curb contraband and allow free export of tobacco and raisins. Allied warship searches end. Greek internal shipping to be unimpeded between Greek ports. Import and export statistics to be adjusted, with colonies supplying goods for individual use.
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Paris
Athens
Havas
Entente Powers
Greece
Fortress of Lutsk Taken by Austrian Forces
Vienna reports the fortress Lutsk and nearby fortifications in a military triangle north of the frontier were captured by Austrian troops yesterday. The gains aim to push Russian forces retreating through the Pripet arches toward the Pripet region and threaten their flank.
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Lutsk
Vienna
London
Lutak
Dubno Ag Rovno
Pripet Arches
Tela
Tutsk
Nicholas appoints new chief of staff amid Caucasus shift
Official dispatch from Petrograd reports Grand Duke Nicholas’ staff appoints General Alexiev as chief of staff. The move follows General Yanushevice’s decision to name an assistant viceroy of the Caucasus, with Alexiev serving as commander in chief of the armies at the northwestern front.
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Petrograd
London
Yanushevice
Grand Duke
Nicholas
Caucasus
Alexiev
Mander
Northwestern Front
Weather Report Fragments From Washington Notebook
Forecasts show fair, mild conditions with light to moderate temperatures tonight. Fresh northeast winds in Mobile and fresh east winds in Alabama and Michigan into Friday.
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Mobile
Washington
Alabama
Lost items scattered in Spring Hill and Bienville area
Lost and found notices reported for various items including back ear Yreeeta books on Spring Hill Ave between G and Crichton with Bell phone reward. a carved gold harping side of a band stand in Bienville on Tuesday night. contact Dr. F. L. Tapia 153 Dauphin St for reward. a white dog with dark liver spots last seen on Lafayette street. a small cameo breast also offered for reward. contact J. W. Little 956 Dauphin.
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Yreeeta
Spring Hill Ave
Crichton
Bienville
F. L. Tapia
Dauphin St
Ceive
Lafayette Street
J. W. Little
Dauphi
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