Proposed Washington Memorial Approved By Royal Arch Masons
The Royal Arch Masons approved a half million dollar Washington Memorial to be built in Alexandria Virginia with dedication to George Washington the Mason and Man. The next convocation will be in Washington and delegates enjoyed an excursion on San Francisco Bay. New officers were elected: George E. Carson Thomas G. Shyrock and Henry Banks. Nearby, the National Dental Association wrapped its annual session in San Francisco with Louisville Kentucky chosen for next year and Dr. Thomas M of Atlanta named president.
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San Francisco
Alexandria Masong
Alexandria
George Washington
Mason and Man
Washington
San Francisco Bay
George E. Carson
Washington, D. C
Thomas G. Shyrock
San
Francisco
National Dental Association
Louisville
Thomas M
Atlanta
Senate to Act Friday on Prohibition Bill in Alabama
Montgomery Sept 3 Special The Bonner prohibition bill is set as a special order this afternoon with amendments from both sides. Prohibitionists seek looseness while optionists push tightening. The dry faction aims to show support for more liquor and wets for less or none.
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Montgomery
Ala
Senate
House
Another Port Bill Offered in Senate
Montgomery Ala Sept 3 Special Another harbor improvement measure to enhance Mobile port facilities was introduced in the Senate by Senator Hartwell It covers waterways within city limits including rivers bays and lands abutting wharves docks and bulkheads with assessments on affected property to fund improvements and maintenance
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Montgomery
Ala
Mobile
Senate
Hartwell
Alabama
Irvington Civic League Pushes Fifty Mile Auto Mail Route
Irvington citizens form a civic league teaming with the Irvington Citrus Growers Association to win a fifty mile automobile mail route. B. H. Scott is president and A. F. Vila secretary. A petition has been sent to the post office department for the route, with an inspector to review concuctions and road conditions.
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Civic League
Irvington
Mexican Bandits Shot and Killed Near Brownsville
Three bandits operating north of Brownsville were killed by county officers at Los Cuatros fourteen miles north of Brownsville. A Mexican woman accompanying them was accidentally killed by U S soldiers. The gang earlier burned a trestle and killed two Americans. Troops remained in the field and hundreds of citizens aided the pursuit. Aniceto Pizano identified as bandit leader.
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Brownsville
Texas
Los Cuatros
Here
Earl Donaldson
J. S. Smith
Fort Brown
United States
Rio Grande
Mexico
Bart Bon
Fayett
J. H. Smith
Stanley Dodds
Dodds
Aniceto Pizano
Forged Telegram Ties Two Men to Larceny Probe
H E Bradford and B F Williams, two young white men, were arrested a month ago for forging a shoemaker Frank M Ballweg's name to a telegram to a St Louis shoe machinery company. They admitted guilt when confronted, pointed to a machine at Louisville and Nashville depot, and agreed to return with intent to make good. The duo, real names Harold E Ferguson and Ben F Watkins, will be handed to St Louis authorities to answer grand larceny charges.
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H. E. Bradford
B. F. Williams
Frank M. Ballweg
St. Louis
Crenshaw
Chief Young
Tew
Harold E. Ferguson
Ben F. Watkins
Mobile
Burch
Louisville and Nashville
Nevada to have official trials on Penobscot course
Quincy Mass September 3 Arrangements for official trials next month of the battleship Nevada nearly completed at Fore River Shipbuilding yards were announced yesterday. The Nevada will go into drydock at Brooklyn October 11. Trials begin October 15 on the Penobscot course. The Nevada is similar to the New York in armament, though 500 tons larger.
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Quincy
Mass
Nevada
Fore River Shipbuilding Corporation
Brooklyn
New York
Jackson Highway route chosen to Buffalo and New Orleans
Buffalo and New Orleans were selected as termini of the Jackson Highway at a Louisville meeting. A branch would run via Louisville Indianapolis and Chicago. Permanent organization will set exact routing at Nashville on September 23 with Indiana Kentucky Tennessee and Alabama represented. Peter Lee Atherton led the push for a lakes to gulf national highway.
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Louisville
Buffalo
New Orleans
Jackson Highway Association
Indianapolis
Chicago
Nashville
Tenn
Indiana
Kentucky
Tennessee
Alabama
Peter Lee Atherton
Lakes
Gulf
Jackson Highways Association
Birmingham
Alar
Mobile
Montgomery
Glasgow
Lexi
Maysville
State of Ohio
Moir Funeral Managed by Elizabeth Tiffany Blair Moir
Accused of having incited murder wife Elizabeth Tiffany Blair Moir, released on $10,000 bond, directed funeral arrangements for her husband Dr Franklin Mohr. She sent invitations, asked Rev Francis J Bassett to perform the Episcopal rite, planned burial at Swan Point, and hosted a small service at the residence with family present. Detectives search a brook near Navatt road Barrington as a key witness details emerge.
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Providence, .R
Franklin Mohr
Elizabeth Tiffany Blair Moir
New York
Navatt Road
Barrington
Oppose Restoring Justice's Courts in Mobile County
Mobile delegation unites to fight a bill to abolish Mobile inferior criminal court. Merchants petition to reinstate justices of the peace citing relief from costs. Representative Wilson notes opposition while Mr Chamberlain plans a bill to halve current costs for unlawful detainer suits.
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Montgomery
Ala
Mobile
Inferior Criminal Court of Mobile
Wilson
Justices of the Peace
Inferior Criminal Court
Chamberlain
Senlis Commemorates German Entry and Executions
The Sept 2 ceremony marked the German entry into Senlis and the execution of Mayor Eugene Odey and seventeen citizens. After a cathedral service, residents gathered at the soldiers' monument in the cemetery for addresses praising the mayor’s heroism by Deputy Mayor De Parseval and Deputy Paisant.
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Senlis
France
Eugene Odey
de Parseval
Paisant
Geese Shod at Vilna to Protect Feet in Long Market Trip
The Vilna district in Russia produces thousands of geese sent to distant markets. Geese are shod with boots by autumn to prevent foot sores on the 200 mile trek to the Warsaw market, enabling a safer seasonal migration.
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Vilna
Patrog
Warsaw
Remington Plant Strikers Clash With Workers in Holdy Stone
Several hundred men building the Remington Arms plant at Holdy Stone joined strikers who walked out during the week to press higher wages and union recognition. Other items note Clark's response to a lynching threat in Pike County, a Beta Theta Pi convention in Oakland, and deaths and events from London to San Francisco.
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Philadelphia
Remington Arms Company
Holdystone
Casiles
Bowling Green MO
Champ Clark
Pike County
Harrigan Lowe
Dirdiey Davidson
Oakland
Cal
Beta Theta Pirate
Paity
Francia HH. Sixson
New York
Chicago
Mastland
Taft
Greenville
John H. Earle
First
South Carolina Infantry
Paris
Germany
United States
France
Berlin
Cologne
San Francisco
Silvio Pettirossi
San Francisco Bay
Amsterdam
South
Central America
Bernhard Dernburg
Washington
Wilson
Storm to strike Gulf coast between New Orleans and Cedar Keys
Hurricane warnings were ordered for the Gulf coast from New Orleans to Cedar Keys and storm warnings for south Florida. A tropical storm near the Isle of Pines moves northwest toward the middle Gulf coast. The storm is expected to reach the coast tonight or Saturday morning.
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New Orleans
Cedar Keys
Washington
Weather Bureau
Gulf
South Florida
Bermuda
Isle of Pines
Gulf Coast
Tampa
Middle Gulf Coast
Lowie
Chinese Subscriptions Fund San Francisco to China Steamship Line
Five million dollars has been subscribed by Chinese merchants in San Francisco and the Orient to finance a steamship line plying between San Francisco and China in competition with Japanese liners, an announcement said today.
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San Francisco
Orient
China
Cutter Tallapoosa Doing More Relief Work
The coast guard cutter Tallapoosa is ordered to Galveston Texas to aid in salvaging a vessel blown ashore in the recent storm. Previously it aided an Italian steamer off Ajax reef on the Florida coast and then returned to Key West before the latest order. The cutter is due in Mobile Sunday or Monday.
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Coast Guard
Galveston
Tex
Ajax Reef
Florida
Key West
Mobile
Weather outlook for Mobile and Gulf Coast
Increasing cloudiness and rain tonight and Saturday with northeast winds rising to gale force. In Alabama expect rain coastal tonight and Saturday with strong northeast gusts. Mississippi likewise anticipates cloudiness and rain with Gale force winds along the coast tonight.
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Mobile
Alabama
Mississippi
German forces capture Grodno in Poland near Vilna
A Hindenburg-led German army reports the capture of Grodno after forcing the Niemen crossing. The victory follows Warsaw’s fall and secures a key fortress near the Grodno Vilna railway. Russians suffer heavy losses as German troops push toward the east. About 40,000 residents live in Grodno, the regional capital.
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Cap Grodno
von Fijinden
Grodno
Faß
Niemen
Augustawecant
Swislocz-Lennewarden
Vilna
Merecz
Vo Gallwitz
Alexszyce-Swiss
Marshal von Hindenbe
Warsaw
Poland
Nerths
Nist
Petro
Russian Forces Evacuate Grodno Fortress
A Russian war office statement reports the evacuation of Grodno fortress by Russian forces and their retreat to the right bank of the Nemen river, signaling a strategic withdrawal.
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London
Russian War Office
Grodno
Nice Men River
Russian Forces Withdraw From Grodno Front
Russian troops begin retreat to safety along the Niemen bank as Grodno fortress falls. Generals Nicholas and Ivanoff engage Austro German lines with heavy losses, while German forces push in other sectors. Local success near Vilna claimed as Western artillery duel persists.
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London
Grodno
Peta
Bank of the Niemen
Gra
Nicholas
Galician
Gé Ivanoff
Vilna
New London to be first submarine base for coast defense
Washington reports New London Conn will host the first inner defense submarine base along the Atlantic coast. The former school building will house crews for coast defense submarines with crews living ashore and ships cruising by day then returning to the bay at night. Additional coastal bases are proposed along other coasts in time.
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New London
Conn
U. S. Coasts
Washington
Atlantic
Navy Department
Not Opposed to Sunday Baseball Says Church Organizer
Hammond Ind Sept 3 Jn Street rural church organizer of Nashville Ind told delegates to the National Efficiency Church Conference here yesterday that he did not oppose Sunday baseball. He described the pastime a the natural expression of buoyant young life. Three thousand ministers and delegates from various parts of country were in attendance.
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Hammond
Ind
Jn. Street
Nashville
National Efficiency Church
Lost Items and Rewards Notice
Lost items listed include a cloth back car record book on Spring Hill Ave between Ira and Crichton with contact 2527 for reward. A carved gold bar pin found on a band stand at Blenyille Ba Tuesday night. F. L. Tapia offers reward at 3 Dauphin St for return. A Friday morning cameo breast pin gold band lost near Government and Marine or streetcar. Liberal reward for safe return to 353 Chad St. A white pointer dog with dark liver spots lost west of Lafayette street. return to J. Little at 956 Danny. Small cameo breast day high lost. reward. Studio.
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Spring Hill Ave
Ira
Crichton
Blenyille
Pr. F. L. Tapia
Dauphin St
Chad St
Lafaffette Street
J. Little
Dany
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