Police raids questioned as sheriff shows better results
In Montgomery Alabama the city commission discussed failed police raids on gambling dens while special excise commission men secured evidence wholesale. The Business Men's League urged rearranging commissioners for efficiency and several dens investigated by police yielded arrests only after sheriff raids. Governor O Nea l ordered a probe after an anonymous tip claimed shops operated openly.
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Montgomery
Ala
City Commission
Excise Commission
Brussell
Business Men’s League
League
Joseph
MclIntyre
O'Neal
Bagwell Exonerated in Taylor Killing Case
A not guilty verdict was returned in Anderson South Carolina in the trial of Furman Bagwell charged with killing Milton Taylor last July. Bagwell fired after Taylor and other Woodmen of the World initiates began firing blanks. Taylor was mortally wounded. he had asked Bagwell not to be prosecuted before dying.
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Anderson
S. C
Furman Bagwell
Milton Taylor
Bagwell
Taylor
Order of the Woodmen of the World
Samose Weight Gain Formula Promises Flesh Increase
Mobile readers are invited to try Samose a fattening preparation guaranteed by Dr Howard Co. The ad claims a near one hundred percent success rate with a money back guarantee if weight does not increase, urging thin readers to use the product with daily meals.
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Dr. Howard Co
Mobile
Bathers tar coated after tar spill in bay
Confusion arose as bathers at Monroe Park found the bay surface coated with creosote oil or tar. Night darkness and slick clothes forced many to walk home rather than ride, as they tried to wash off the sticky substance without success. A grocer reported demand for kerosene to remove tar.
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Monroe Park
Free delivery to small post offices tested
Postmaster General Hitchcock plans a limited free delivery trial at second and third class post offices. The program will serve about 36 million people who now must pick up mail. Congress appropriated 100000 for the experiment with a per office cap of 1800 annually. Carrier delivery currently reaches cities of 10000 population or higher or with annual receipts of 10000.
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Washington
Hitchcock
Congress
Osage Oil Lands to Open for Lease in Oklahoma
Bids for leases on 100,600 acres of Osage Indian oil lands will be opened November 2 at the Osage Indian agency in Oklahoma. This is the first of 360,000 acres opened. A bid of 200,000 acres by Uncle Sam Oil Co was rejected for lack of competition. Each bid must cover 26,000 acres or less per company if not a transporter under ICC rules.
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Washington
Osage Indian Agency
Oklahoma
Uncle Sam Oil Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Girls Shouldn't Train Says Miss May Sutton
Los Angeles Sept 17 Miss May Sutton, the tennis star, declares girls should never train for athletic events. She says she follows this rule and claims to have lost forty seven pounds by systematic starvation. She insists she never trained except once when she says she lost the international title in England.
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Miss May Sutton
Los Angeles
Cal
May Sutton
England
Help Wanted in Mobile Kidney Aid by Local Resident
Mobile residents praise Doan's Kidney Pills for kidney and bladder relief. Mrs J R Brown of 107 St Emanuel St Mobile reports severe kidney trouble with inflammation and back pain, finds cure after using Doan's Pills from Van Antwerps Drug Store. Sold nationwide by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY agents. 50 cents a box. Remember the name Doan's.
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Dean
J. R. Brown
St. Emanuel Street
Mobile
Ala
van Antwerp
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Doan
Export and Import Boom in U S Trade Records
The foreign commerce of the United States reached new highs in August with exports at 167 million and imports at 155 million. Over eight months, exports rose by over 150 million and imports by about 130 million from the previous year, marking record totals in U S trade.
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Washington
United States
America
Campbell the One Who Started the Trouble
Walter Campbell a builder maker said he was assaulted with bottles boxes and stocks in a rear alley at Conti and Royal streets last Saturday night his complaint led to the arrest of Henry Williamson T J Medicus
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Walter Campbell
Conti and
Royal Streets
Henry Williamson
T. J. Medicus
Campbell Troubled by Blalack Case Before Recorder Hale
R. H. Blalack and one or two others failed to make their case before Recorder Hale this morning. Testimony of Williamson and others went to show that Campbell started the trouble.
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R. H. Blalack
Hale
Williamson
Campbell
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Dog River
George Fearn & Son
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Mobile Gas Co
OSAGE
Grocery Department
F. V. Lippman
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