City water no charge for fish proves humorous meeting
Otis MacMahon presented a dead inch long catfish to Kansas City officials saying it came from his bathtub faucet. Mayor Lyons confirmed the waterworks never charged for fish. MacMahon planned to show Health Officer Mohr the specimen amid laughs at the city commission session.
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Otis MacMahon
North
Conception Street
City Commission
Soast
Waterworks Department
MacMahon
Lyons
Charles A. Mohr
Harry Pillans
Amendment exempts tall smokestack plants from spark catcher law
At the last meeting the amendment to the spark catcher ordinance was adopted exempting plants with 100 foot smokestacks. Monthly bills totaling 9118 dollars and 82 cents were approved. Police Chief G M Van Liew reported 3858 dollars in fines collected for August and 610 arrests, 208 of them white, with 709 days of labor by prisoners. The report notes 522 streetlights out overnight and the commission met for about fifteen minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. M. van Liew
Sesson
Prohibition Violators Feared Amid Martin Visit News
The recorder's court docket shows only one prohibition case with Jesse McAlpin pleading guilty and fined $59 for excess liquor. Sheriff and police raided stand, Crooks place, and warehouse finding beer whiskey wine and liquors, while four men Willie Edwards Tobe Bangle George Powell Mitchel Dillard were released on bond after arrest for violation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Recorder’s Court
Police
Sheriff's Department
Martin
Jesse McAlpin
Charles Medicus
Joachim Street
St. Michael
A. Crooks
St. Michael and
Water Streets
St. Joseph Street
Beauregard
Willie Edwards
Tobe Bangle
George Powell
Mitchel Dillard W
J. H. Robins, Jr
Frank J. Levene
J. H. McEvoy
Rainy Weather Slows Somme Offensive Across Front
Bad weather halts Anglo-French attacks along the Somme in northern France. London and Paris report a pause after gains near Bapaume and near Combes, while Peronne and Chaulnes remain affected. German diversions and renewed action in Champagne follow. Allied forces press in Western Macedonia as Serbians, French, and Russians push Bulgarians from Vlorina.
Rate Hearing Protest Planned by Mobile Chamber
Mr. R. G. Cobb traffic manager of the Mobile Chamber of Commerce leaves Wednesday for New Orleans to attend a rate hearing Thursday. Railroads seek higher rates on farm products from Mobile and Gulf Coast points, with Baldwin county and local producers to send delegations to protest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. G. Cobb
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
New Orleans
Mobile
Gulf Coast
Mobile Chamber
Cobb
Baldwin County
Rail rate protests prompt ICC hearing in New Orleans
The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered suspensions of proposed railroad rates after protests. In New Orleans a hearing was held on a Cobb statement that Mobile county shipments to Cincinnati and St Louis would rise almost twenty five percent for cabbage beans and similar farm products.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Interstate Commerce Commission
New Orleans
Cobb
Mobile County
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Payroll for August at Whistler Shops
The Monday payday at the Whistler shops proved very satisfactory as the August payroll surpassed any recent month. Paymaster William Demony and his assistant handled the payroll during the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whistler
William Demony
Reese Fined and Wife Released in Grange Charge
Jack Reese, a white man, was fined 250 dollars plus costs after last Friday’s arrest on a grange charge and was ordered held for ninety days with labor by Recorder Edington. His wife Billie Reese was discharged. testimony stated Reese had been in Mobile about three weeks behaving improperly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Reese
Edington
Rieese
Lewis Ludlow
Mobile
Billie Reese
Commerce Chamber's Directory Soon Ready
The Mobile Chamber of Commerce directory copy is with printers and will be ready for distribution within ten days. It lists Chamber members, their businesses and addresses.
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Commerce Chamber
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Sunday School Convention Concludes in Brewton
Escambia County Sunday School convention ends in Brewton Alabama after a two day session. Dr N C Pater from Atmore delivered a lecture on Our Bars at the Methodist Church and a lengthy program was presented. The meeting was presided over by the association president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brewton
Ala
Escambia County
N. C. Pater
Atmore
Methodist Church
Association
Birmingham Endorsed for Armor Plant by Mobile Chamber
At a Mobile Chamber of Commerce meeting 118 cities seek the government armor plate plant. Birmingham is endorsed as the logical Alabama site with Mobile pledging support and urging regional cooperation to win the plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
United States
Philadelphia
Coast Chamber backs Mobile projects fueling Alabama growth
Birmingham backs the armor plate plant and Montgomery backs the farm loan bank as proof Mobile is doing its part in cooperative effort to bring prosperity to Alabama. Both projects would greatly benefit the state if approved and brought to Alabama by Chamber of Commerce officials.
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Birmingham
Montgomery
Farm Loan Bank
Chamber of Commerce
Mobile
Alabama
Three New Inspectors Appointed for Tick Eradication
Dr Selkin in charge reports three new inspectors Gaillard Willard Theodore ten Deakle Grand Kay and Ad Lord Moffatt road added to handle increased dipping work in Mobile county. Dipping of cattle proceeds rapidly with more cattle to be dipped this month than any prior period.
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Mobile County
Dr. Selkin
Gaillard Willard
Theodore
Ten Deakle
Grand Kay
Ad Lord
Moffatt Road
Selkin
Minimum Wage Scale Defended and Attacked
Washington Sept 19 speakers before the National Conference of Catholic Charities defended and attacked the minimum wage principal. Advocates said it upholds standards society requires for decent living while opponents argued it could exclude low earners and burden others. Discussion on parents responsibility noted most juvenile delinquency linked to parental indifference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
National Conference of Catholic Charities
Hughes Charges Democrats Break Promises in Illinois Rally
Charles E. Hughes opening his second presidential campaign in Veroria Illinois calls the Democratic party a party of broken promises and says Wilson's acceptance speech makes extravagant claims not yet fulfilled.
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Associated Press
Veoria
Ill
Charles E. Hughes
Democratic Party
Wilson
Peace Conference Progress Patchy in Border Talks
New London Conn September 13 The joint American Mexican commission resumed discussion of plants for protecting the international border. American members will insist on keeping internal affairs out while Mexican members signal willingness to treat internal questions as incidental to border issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New London
Conn
Nist
Confederate Drum Returned to South by Continentals
In Richmond Virginia the Worcester Continentals presented a Confederate drum recovered on a Winchester battlefield to the Confederate Memorial Literary Society at the White House. Colonel Coes spoke, W W Scott accepted for the society, and Lt Governor Ellyson presided as crowds cheered the gesture.
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Associated Ress
Richmond
White House
Confederacy
Confederate Memorial Literary Society
Worcester Continentals
Winchester
Coes
Continentals
W. W. Scott
5Th Virginia Regiment
Memorial Society
J. Taylor Ellyson
Davie
State Hibernians Name J A Hughes President Again
John A. Hughes of this city was reelected president of the Alabama division of the Ancient Order of Hibernians at the state convention in Birmingham. Other officers elected were T. J. Kelly vice president Hugh Lynch treasurer T. J. O Neill secretary and Rev T J Eaton chaplain. A Mass at St Pauls Cathedral was followed by a business conference and a banquet. The convention endorsed efforts to erect a monument to Father Ryan of Mobile and the national order pledged support.
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John A. Hughes
Alabama
Ancient Order of Hibernians
Magic City
T. J. Kelly
Montgomery
Hugh Lynch
Pratt City
T. J. O'Neill
Birmingham
T. J. Eaton
Mobile
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Father Eaton
Patrick Turner
Father T. J. Eaton
Father Ryan
Confederacy
Mather Eaton
Boston
Jather Ryan
South
Fullman Hotel
Hughes
Joseph W. McNoy
Patrick Turker
F. J. Thompson
Governor Refuses to Order Return of Pastor in Embezzlement Case
In Montgomery Alabama on September 19, Governor Henderson revoked his prior approval of a Florida requisition for Thomas W. Weaver a Methodist Protestant minister held on embezzlement charges. Weaver was released from jail as habeas corpus actions were dismissed. The governor said a Montgomery ministers committee would probe Weaver debts and payments.
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Montgomery
Alia
Henderson
Florida
Thomas W. Weaver
Methodist Protestant Church
Weaver
W. W. Parrish
Vernon
Washington County
Labor Congress Draws Large Attendees to Memphis
Memphis Tenn Sept 19 Fourteen states will be represented by more than three hundred delegates at the Southern Labor Congress fifth annual session opening here tomorrow The gathering will span three days President Jerome Jones and secretary treasurer W Parkett of Atlanta arrived today Labor Federation head Samuel Gomper is unable to attend.
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Associated Press
Memphis
Tenn
Southern Labor Congress
W. (. Parkett
Atlanta
Congress
Jerome Jones
Samuel Gompears
American Federation of Labor
Weather notes for Mobile and vicinity
For Mobile and vicinity fair to night and Wednesday with warmest Wednesday and moderate northeast winds. A and Mississippi fair to night and Wednesday with rising temperatures on Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Mississippi
Dramatic British Battle Told in Detail on Sept 15
A detailed AP report from the British front recounts the September 15 battle in France notable for a multinational force including Canadians New Zealanders English Irish and Americans and for the breakthrough role of tanks commanded by an engineer officer. The article describes the tank named Cordon Rouge advancing across shell craters to reach a brigadier and receive orders as the battle unfolds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
London
Associated Press
Episcopalians Seek to Omit Jews from Prayer Book
A special commission proposes removing prayers for Jews Turks infidels and heretics from the Book of Common Prayer. The change aims to avoid insulting Jews by grouping them with infidels and to prevent confusion with Mohammedans. The measure will go to the Triennial General Convention in St Louis this October.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
St. Louis
Special Commission
Episcopal
Florida Prohibition Amendment Seen Assured
Kent Pendleton from the Florida Anti-Saloon League said the state wide prohibition amendment will be submitted when the 1917 legislature convenes in April. He noted twenty four of thirty two senators and sixty of seventy five House members have pledged in writing to vote for the submission to voters in the 1918 general election. Last year the measure failed by one vote in the Senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Jacksonville
Fla
Kent Pendleton
Florida Anti-Saloon League
Senate
House
Pennsylvania Guards To Relinquish Border Duty
Three Pennsylvania infantry regiments will be sent home from the North Carolina guard at the El Paso station. The likely units are the First, Second and Third regiments of the First Pennsylvania Brigade.
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Associated Press
San Antonio
Tex
Pennsylvania Infantry
North Carolina Guard
el Paso
Pennsylvania
Nearly 100-year-old Lovejoy defies tobacco life trend
Mrs. Mary A. Lovejoy of Newark Ohio nears her 100th birthday on October 26 presenting herself as living proof that tobacco does not shorten life. The note mentions her small town ties and a few scattered phrases about local people and events.
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Mary A. Lovejoy
Newark
Ohio
Frederick
Barbara
Whittier
Search for alleged gunman ends in failed pursuit
Detectives from New Orleans abandoned the search for Charles Goyena a Guatemalan wanted on two highway robbery charges and the shooting of two people. Long and detectives Gregson Poretto had traced Goyena who allegedly killed five police officers in Guatemala City and had a New York gunman record. The sleuths left the city Tuesday afternoon after arriving last Monday at 3 pm to pursue the case.
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Charles Goyena
New Orleans
George Long
Gregson
Poretto
Goyens
Guatemala City
New York City
Captain Long
New Orletings
Chief Long
Goyena
Police pursue Goyena after days near depot in New Orleans
Residents watched a house at Dauphin street and Reed avenue for three days hoping for a call from Goyena but no contact occurred. He was seen near the Louisville and Nashville depot last Sunday and then vanished. Chief Long Tuesday said New Orleans police are eager to capture the desperate figure and will not quit. Detectives enlisted help from Chief Van Liew and Mobile police during their stay.
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Dauphin Street
Reed Avenue
Goyena
Louisville and Nashville
New Orleans
Long
Gayena
van Liew
Mobile Police Department
City
Court Upholds Right To Persuade Workers To Join Union
United States court of appeals upheld the right of workers to peacefully persuade others to join a union in a Arkansas case. The ruling denounces lawless methods and sustains a judgment against miners accused of beating mine foreman E. T. Looher of Bache-Denman Coal Company in Sebastian County.
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Denver
Col
United States Court of Appeals
Arkansas
E. T. Looher
Bache-Denman Coal Company
Sebastian County
Looher
Mike Cisco
Tennessee Guard Deploys to McAllen Texas Border
Nashville news discloses the Third Tennessee regiment was ordered to the Mexican border. a New Orleans dispatch changed their destination from Gayle Pass to McAllen Texas and reported they were en route early today.
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Nashville
Tenn
New Orleans
Gayle Pass
McAllen
Texas
Bulgars Leave Monastir Take Archives Away
Slavic heavy artillery and rain hinder operations as Bulgarians retreat from Monastir in Western Macedonia. Serbian, French, and Russian forces push forward, surrounding Bulgarian units and driving them back toward the Flo rina area amid ongoing river Naraguvka fighting in Galicia.
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Monastir
Macedonia
Germans Renew Offense in Champagne Against Russians
Paris dispatch reports five German attacks on Russian troops in Champagne last night between Souain and Somme-Py. Each assault was checked by Russian machine guns and artillery. Somme front operations were hampered by bad weather.
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Associated Press
Paris
Champagne
Souain
Somme-Py
Somme
Rainy Franco-Belgian Front Advances Reported
Heavy rain fell for a day as operations continue on the Franco-Belgian front. Allied forces entered enemy trenches near Richeborg l Aouve, capturing prisoners and machine guns with light own casualties, while five more Allied aircraft failed to return.
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Associated Press
London
Richeborg l'Aouve
Lasee
Bulgarians Fail in Counterattacks Against Serbians
Paris dispatch reports on September 19 that Bulgarian forces on the Macedonian front mounted two counter attacks against the Serbians but gained no ground. No Bulgarian German counter action against French troops at Florina. no change on the Struma front.
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Associated Press
Paris
Florina
Struma
Will Distribute Seeds in Mobile County
Mesere J. P. Quinely and J. T. Watt arrived in Mobile to distribute seed oats and other seeds to residents north of the city still recovering from July floods. They met with George A. Maloney, Mobile county farm demonstration agent, and Auburn agents have received 10,000 sacks for Alabama distribution to aid river bottom farmers harmed by heavy rains.
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Mesere
J. P. Quinely
J. T. Watt
Alabama
Mobile
Battle House
George A. Maloney
Mobile County
Auburn
United States
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Mohr
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French War Office
Viorina
Sibia
Uskub
Saloniki
Cerna
Prilep
Reese
Chamber of Commerce At
Gether
Plant
Viva Veece
Hibernians
J. A. Hughes
Mobilian
Order
Labor Congress
England
Associated Preas
Episcopalians
Mary Lovejoy
Tennessee Guard
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Champagne District
Diers
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Rina
Petrograd
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Galicia
Russian War Department
Athens
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Maloney
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