Doron Motorman Dies After Runaway Car Wreck
In Montgomery Alabama Tom Doron the motorman died Friday afternoon after his car was telescoped by a runaway flat car. He suffered crushing injuries to his legs and body and a severe head wound. Stewart Missildine another motorman remains in serious condition with one leg amputated and possible second amputation. Passenger Mrs. John Fay hospitalised with facial injuries and nervous shock.
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Montgomery
Ala
Tom Doron
Doron
Stewart Missildine
Missildine
John Fay
Mildred Street
Same Sad Old Story of Children and Pistol
Mike Molnar six years old was accidentally shot Thursday by ten year old playmate Joe Loush. The Bohemian children, new to Sumball, were in a room playing with a pistol when Mike attempted to take the revolver from Joe and was shot through the heart.
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Sumball
Miss
Mike Molnar
Joe Loush
Mike
Joe
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Praised by Ohio Woman
A Trenton Ohio woman declares improved health after a year on Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She says she could not sit up before, became less nervous, and now works for others. She also notes giving it to her daughter, who slept better and improved. She endorses the remedy for others and cites confidential advice from the maker in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Trenton
Ohio
Lydia E. Pinkham
Rena Bowman
S. 10Th Street
Ironton
Lydia E.pinkham
Montgomery County Premium List Announced
The Montgomery county premium list for the state exposition was announced Friday by a joint committee of the Chamber of Commerce the Livestock Association and the Ladies County Club. Prizes include cash for farm products canned goods cotton forage corn oats sugar cane and other farm displays with entries canvassed by W. H. Pace county farm demonstrator and premiums printed for distribution.
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Montgomery
Montgomery County
Chamber of Commerce
The
Livestock Association
Ladies County Club
J. Beane
Merchants of
W. H. Pace
Buy Cotton Bale Movement Gains Atlanta Backing
In Atlanta a group of prominent citizens agreed to purchase 301 bales of cotton to relieve wartime market stress. Similar meetings are planned across the South to push a campaign urging every Southern household to buy at least one bale at ten cents per pound directly from farmers and store it for a year.
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Atlanta
200 Ships to Seek American Registry Under War Order
Washington reports the executive order suspending parts of the old navigation law clears the way for foreign built ships to obtain American registry. Domestic corporations with fleets under foreign flags plan to register their vessels, with about 200 applications expected in the coming days under President Wilson’s war emergency measures.
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Associated Press
Washington
War Insurance Bureau
Wilson
Stop Talking War Get Busy placard hung in probate office
In Montgomery on September 5 a large red lettered placard reading Stop Talking War Get Busy was hung in the probate office beside the marriage bureau. Clerks discuss war and cotton problem chatter while probate deeds are not recorded as the office stays busy.
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Montgomery
Teddy
Birmingham
Montgomery Cotton Exchange Elects Officers
Montgomery September 6 All officers and directors of the Montgomery Cotton Exchange have been re elected. President J Weil F H Elmore Jr vice president T L Samuel treasurer D F Lowe secretary J H Hardaway John McIntyre A L Lehman T L Samuel L W Weil will continue in office. Secretary Lowe predicts an early reopening of world cotton exchanges amid optimism for a near normal market for the South’s crop.
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Montgomery
Montgomery Cotton Exchange
D. F. Lowe
Exchange
J. Weil
F.H. Elmore, Jr
T. L. Samuel
J. H. Hardaway
John McIntyre
A. L. Lehman
T. L.samuel
L. W. Weil
Lowe
South
Husband’s shot intended for rival kills his own man
Plaquemine Louisiana September 5 1900 An drew Polite a Black man living on Bayou Plaquemine was shot and killed Thursday by his wife. She is jailed here. She had attempted to shoot a man named Fred Pierce when Polite intervened the gun misfired killing Polite.
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Plaquemine
Andrew Polite
Bayou Plaquemine
Fred Pierce
Pierce
Natchez Citizens Seek Pardon for Mier Schwartz
A petition signed by Police Justice J. J. Lambert Jailer Mike P. Ryan and 600 others from Natchez and Adams County asks Governor Brewer to pardon Mier Schwartz 20 who was convicted in November 1911 for murdering Jackson Fletcher a negro hackman and was sentenced to life. The petition notes Fletcher's dying declaration as the sole evidence.
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Natchez
Miss
J. J. Lambert
Mike P. Ryan
Adams County
Mier Schwartz
Brewer
Schwartz
Jackson Fletcher
Fletcher
WIFE DESERTION RISES IN NEW ORLEANS REPORTS
The Charity Organization Society reports a surge in wife desertion in New Orleans with 150 cases in August, up from 50 in January. Officials link increased dependency to intemperance and drug use and plan investigations and a campaign against begging and winter tramp influx.
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New Orleans
Charity Organization Society
Charles H. Patterson
Sage sues Barker Cotton Mills for $10000
Catherine G. Sage filed suit in the law and equity court Thursday afternoon against the Barker Cotton Mills Company seeking ten thousand dollars claimed as due by account.
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Catherine G. Sage
Law and Equity Court
Barker Cotton Mills Company
State Tax Commission Orders 1182 Montgomery Tax Raises
More than a thousand notices of tax increases were mailed in Montgomery county after the state tax commission overrode the board of revenue. The commission scheduled 1182 hearings for November 2 and will proceed to Marengo county after Montgomery cases.
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State Tax Board
Montgomery
Ala
Montgomery County
State Tax Commission
Board of Revenue
Frank Peabody
Eugene Brien
State Commission
The
Revenue Board
John 8S. Mooring
Marengo County
Submarine Rescues German Aviator Pair Off English Coast
A British submarine recovered a German airman and his mechanic after finding them afloat on their crashed aeroplane sixty miles off Harwich. The submarine then sank the aircraft.
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Associated Press
Harwich
Eng
Ulster Volunteers Rush to the Colors
In Belfast 700 men from the North Belfast regiment enlisted for foreign service within an hour of the recruiting office opening. Sir Edward Carson addressed a battalion promising enough volunteers will stay in Ulster to defend it.
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Belfast
Ireland
London
Ulster Volunteers
North Belfast Regiment
Edward Carson
Ulster Unionists
Ulster
Good Roads Convention Plans Divided Committees
The Alabama Good Roads Association convention committee in Montgomery split into four sub committees to handle reception, headquarters, program and badge, and entertainment for the October event. John Craft of Mobile, president of the association, is due in Montgomery to discuss headquarters. Governor ONeal, Mayor Gunter Jr., and Duncan May invited prominent state leaders to attend the road improvement gathering.
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Montgomery
Ala
Chamber of Commerce
Alabama Good Roads Association
Duncan May
Hall
Luke Thompson
Fred B. Shireman
J. F. Stukenberg
John Craft
Mobile
Emmet O'Neal
W. A. Gunter, Jr
Scoutcraft Development Planned for Gulfport
William Kennedy of Gulfport and Mississippi Coast Traction leads a move to establish boy scoutcraft in Gulfport. Ralph Dickey and peers formed a scout patrol months ago. Kennedy becomes scoutmaster and will secure parent consent and merchant support. Monthly hikes will follow once organized to develop youth physically and morally.
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Gulfport
Miss
William Kennedy
Mechanical Department
Gulfport and Mississippi Coast Traction Company
Ralph Dickey
Kennedy
Mr. Kennedy
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Star Kalem
Joyce
Germany
Charity Society
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Jos. A. Magnus & CO
Cincinnati, O
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