Britain Confiscates American Meat Shipments in War Time
London prize court condemned part of four steamship cargoes valued in the millions of dollars. American meat, rubber and other goods were seized en route to Germany with most items forfeited to the Crown. The decision cited shipments toward Copenhagen and substantial wartime accommodations for German needs, while eight claims were allowed including Cudahy of Chicago. the State Department noted results but planned no immediate protest.
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London
Sir Samuel T. Evans
Kim
Alfred Nobel
Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Fridland
Germany
Sir Samuel
Copenhagen
Great Britain
Vetpre
Prige
Samuel
Morris, Armour, Hammond, Swift and Sulzenberger
Cudahy Company
Chicago
Meat car confiscation causes total loss to packers
Chicago Sept 16 The meat cars confiscated by Great Britain will be a complete loss to the packers, says Thomas E Wilson president of Morris and Co, as there were no advance payments on the shipments.
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Chicago
Great Britain
Thomas E. Wilson
Morris & Co
German Treachery Blamed for Okhta Explosion and War Plan Change
The Daily News credits German treachery for the Okhta munitions factory blast near Petrograd, cutting Russia’s ammo supply and delaying a spring offensive. The blast disrupted the Archangel supply route and reduced Allied striking power, forcing Britain to focus on rushing munitions to Russia.
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London
The
Daily News
Okhta
Petrograd
Archangel
von Mackengen
Russia
Great Britain
Hartwell Bill Seeks Pilotage Rate Reductions at Mobile Harbor
Montgomery Sept 16 Reductions proposed in pilotage rates for Mobile harbor by Sen Hartwell's bill would cut the current drafts per foot from 2.25 to 2 3 to 2 . The act leaves other provisions of the law intact and outlines specific rate drops from 2.25 3 to 2 . 3.25 to 2.25 . 3.50 to 2.50 . 5.50 to 4 and 6 to 5 respectively.
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Montgomery
Ala
Mobile
Hartwell
Girl Shoots Down Father in Nelson County Tragedy
In Nelson County Virginia Dora Kidd twenty shot and fatally wounded her father John Kidd sixty six at their home after allegedly witnessing him beating a younger child. She fired seven shotgun shots, two took effect, and the father died the next day as Dora Kidd was jailed without bail.
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Lynchburg
Dora Kidd
John Kidd
Nelson County
Mexican Independence Day Passes Quietly on Border
On September 16 in Brownsville Texas thousands of U S troops stood ready for rapid mobilization amid fears of protests against Americans. The dawn celebration passed without incidents though tensions with Mexican residents and authorities were noted. No disorders were reported despite nighttime shooting across the border. A second item from Laurel Mississippi notes Tallahala Lumber Co at Ellisville may rebuild its ruined mill.
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Brownsville
Texas
United States
Dead Mee Nominated Over His Opponent in Primary at Salisbury
In Salisbury Maryland on September 16 a deceased candidate was nominated for clerk of the circuit court after dying suddenly Monday. Ernest A. Toadvine received 200 more votes than opponent J. Clayton Kelley, forcing election officials to declare him the nominee. Kelley plans to contest the result in court.
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Dead Mee
Salisbury
Ernest A. Toadvine
J. Clayton Kelley
Kelley
Birmingham Negro Taken To Scene Of Big Burglary
Detective R D Crenshaw of Birmingham police took Robert Powell a Black man back to Birmingham to answer for participating in the robbery at the Fies home. Jewelry and ladies wear valued near $2000 were recovered by Mobile police. Jerome Bluster a dancer for the Fies family was arrested in Birmingham for allegedly planning the crime committed July 17 with Powell confessing Bluster supplied the stolen items. Powell said Bluster gave him the silverware to ship to Mobile but he planned to discard it unless a woman named Jeabilla Smith stopped him.
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R. D. Crenshaw
Birmingham Police Department
Robert Powell
Ralph L. Fies
Birmingham
Crenshaw
Jerome Bluster
Fies
Negro Powell
Bluster
Jeabella Smith
Mobile
Goremykin Authorized to Prorogue the Duma
Premier Goremykin has been authorized to prorogue the duma. Public feeling has been stirred deeply by this announcement. It was made known today that a meeting of district councils and municipal leagues would be held in Moscow next week.
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Petrograd
Goremykin
Duma
Moscow
Passenger Scene at Louisville Station Ends With Bulldog Embrace
Nervous woman on the Louisville and Nashville platform pursues the New York Limite as it arrives at 1 35 am. She hovers near the gate and finally rushes the baggage truck area clasping a brindle bulldog, provoking stunned reactions from traveling men.
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Louisville and Nashville
New York
Hartwell bill for Mobile county council government passes
Montgomery Sept 16 Special Senator Hartwell's commission form of government bill for Mobile county passed the Senate this morning. It requires a constitutional amendment and a county election before it can take effect. Hartwell may push it through instead of both the salary bill and the measure due to time. The Senate also removed Laverty's bill creating a trade school for blind men from the adverse calendar, with the blind representative mounting a strong fight, led by Hartwell.
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Montgomery
Ala
Hartwell
MoBile
Senate
Warships to Attend Southern Commercial Congress in Charleston
Secretary Daniels announced that a large portion of the Atlantic fleet will be in Charleston harbor for the Southern Commercial Congress on December 13 to 15. Delegations from South Carolina and Florida met him, and ships will host the delegates on December 14 with a harbor cruise, while the public may board on December 15. Daniels plans to attend and speak, with Secretary Garrison also likely to attend.
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Washington
Charleston
Southern Commercial Congress
Daniels
Smith
South Carolina
Fletcher
Florida
Grace
Congress
Garrison
Alleged Arson Syndicate Under Grand Jury Probe
A grand jury began investigating an alleged arson syndicate in St Louis today with profits claimed in the millions. Principal witness Herbert C Baker, an insurance agent, testified he arranged a large arson fire. Police say at least one combatant is involved.
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St. Louis
Grand Jury
Herbert C. Baker
Russia Calls Reserves of the Territorial Army
PETROGRAD September 16 an imperial ukase was issued calling to the colors reserves of the territorial army. The senate is instructed to determine the ages and numbers of the reserves and the districts from which they shall be called.
Marines Occupy Gonaives Island Off Haiti
American marines will occupy Gonaives Island off Haiti to quell uprisings. Rear Admiral Caperton told reporters at the Navy Department.
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Gonaives Island
Haiti
Washington
Qtell
Caperton
Navy Department
Weather forecast for Mobile and Gulf Coast region
Partly cloudy tonight and Friday with likely showers and notable temperature changes. Fresh east winds affect Alabama and Mississippi coastal areas as forecasters expect unsettled conditions.
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Mobile
Washington
Alabama
Mississippi
Riparian rights defined in Grayson bill
The measure grants riparian landowners along navigable Alabama waters the right to install wharves docks warehouses and similar facilities to receive discharge store protect transfer and load freight and to dredge approaches and charge reasonable fees while allowing regulation and eminent domain. The bill was enacted but does not alter the state title to lands beneath navigable streams.
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Montgomery
Ala
Hartwell
Grayson
Mobile
Alabama
Officials of Berlin see Balkan state's early entry in war
A Copenhagen dispatch reports German papers hint Romania may join the war soon. German Austrian troop massing near Romania prompts mobilization and homeward orders for reservists. Rome says talks aim to form a Balkan league of Romania Serbia Greece. Bulgaria excluded due to the Ded hatch agreement. Montenegro likely to align with the allies.
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Berlin
Balkan
Bulgaria
Rome
Roumania
Serbia
Greece
Turkey
Dedhatch
Montenegro
Gun inventor on Munitions Board
Hiram Maxim, inventor of the gun, has been appointed to England's new Munitions Board to consider war munitions for land forces and related defense needs.
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Tir Hiram Maxim
England
Board of War
Bulgarian moves in Balkans prompt diplomatic protest
Rome dispatch says Bulgarian foreign minister seeks immediate explanation from Greek and Roumanian agents in Athens and Kragujevac over actions near the Bulgarian frontier. Bulgarian troops left Karags hatch barracks and destroyed river forts, moving guns and barbed wire toward Gallipoli. Stara Zagora prefect heads to Adrianople to arrange formal cession on December 18 in a scene with Turkish and Bulgarian ministers. Adrianople official travels to Constantinople for Porte instructions on the matter.
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Paris
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Kr Pa
Gofia
Giornale d
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Maritsd
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Stara Zagor
Adrianople
Constantinople
Turco Bulgarian Accord To Be Ratified Sept 26
London dispatch reports the imperial decree ratifying the Turco Bulgarian accord will be issued September 26. Constantinople advices cited in Athens and relayed by Reuters say a German staff will trace the new frontier.
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London
Constantinople
Atheny
Reuter Telegram Company
Financial Institutions Leaving Constantinople Area
Advices from Constantinople via the Athens correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Company report that all government financial institutions including the Ottoman Bank are preparing to move to the in Continuea on Page 5.
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Constantinople
London
Athens
Exchange Telegraph Company
Ottoman Bank
Wilson to vote in New Jersey primary and speaks on suffrage
President Wilson plans to travel to Princeton New Jersey on September 26 to vote in the New Jersey primaries and may address the woman suffrage issue at the October election. Heat deaths rise in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh as cooler weather is awaited.
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Washington
Wilson
Princeton
N. J
New Jersey
Philadelphia
San Francisco
International Engineering Congress
Lansing
Mich
Jonathan L. Snyder
Michiseta Agricultural College
Snyder
Pittsburgh
Boston
Massachusetts
Los Angeles
William Howard Taft
Miami
Fla
J. B. Southall
Turin
Italy
Gaette del Popolo
Petrograd
Nicholas
London
Dardanelles
Florence
Land mortgage bank bill moves through house committee
The Alabama house committee on banking and insurance favorably reported the Harding plan land mortgage bank bill. It would create a $500000 capital bank with $3000000 authorized, funded by statewide subscriptions to aid low interest farm loans under an amortization plan. Profits fund state schools after safety allocations.
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Montgomery
Ala
Wilson
Mobile
House Committee On Banking and Insurance
Chamber of Commerce
L. C. Irvine
W. P. G. Harding
Feral Reserve Board
Alabama
State University
Davis
Burns Funeral Notice Details
Entered into rest S¢ 15 1915 at 6 30 pm Burns. Funeral Friday morning from the residence 55 Canal Street at 9 30 and from St Josephs Church requiem mass at 10. Interment Catholic Cemetery.
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Burns
Tek Burns
Lost and Found Notices Mixed File
Lost Downtown keys return to 200 St. J or call Bell 608 after six. Reward. Lost on Str. Pleasure Bay night trip purse contains $7 checkbook scissors return to Capt. Ressijac for reward. LOST White poodle female answer by name Trixie return to 927 Dauphin for reward. STOLEN premises 412 Franklin street after midnight one dark boy horse frosty head and small white streak top of tail small white on flank finder to receive reward by reporting to Police or office. LOST Red cow legs horns milk return to Ingersoll Dairy Fulton and Hall’s Milroads. FOUND Jersey yearling apply 927 Dae tre Dost. No $40 in bills written to Mrs. Smith reward. LOST Child’s Allandal ker Brothers iy Jene Monroe Bayou.
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Ressijac
Trixie
Dauphin
Franklin Street
Ingersoll Dairy
Fulton and Hall’s
Jersey
Smith
Allandalker
Jene Monroe
Wes . Bayou
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