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Newspaper

The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Sep 23, 1912

Page

8

Beachy’s stunt creates alarm in Chicago crowd

Lincoln Beachey, disguised as a woman, swooped from 3900 feet in a bi plane then skimmed ten feet above heads near Grant Park and down Michigan Avenue causing cars to seek safety. Beckwith Havens and Stanley Twist suffered a puncture in a hydro-aeroplane and sank, rescued. Anthony Janus towed in after a similar accident.

Chicago Grant Park Lake Front Michigan Avenue Lincoln Beachey Beckwith Havens Stanley Twist Anthony Janus

Fire destroys Glass Hotel landmark in Linden Alabama

A Friday night blaze in Linden Marengo County wiped out the Glass Hotel, a historic landmark linking the present to the past. Nearby structures were saved.

Demopolis Times Linden Marengo County Marengo

Nation wide dynamiting conspiracy cases in Indianapolis

Fifty one men linked to the so called dynamiting plot are to face trial October 1 in Indianapolis before Judge Albert B. Anderson. The defendants, many connected with the Iron Workers' Association, face charges of transporting explosives across states to aid non union contractors, tied to the Los Angeles Times explosion that killed twenty one. Evidence includes Ortie McManigal's confession and letters seized from the Iron Workers' offices. Senior figures named include Frank M. Ryan Herbert S. Hockin and John T. Butler with numerous local union officials. Senator John W. Kern will serve as chief counsel for the defense.

Indianapolis Albert B. Anderson Los Angeles Times Grand Jury John J James B. McNamara San Quentine California J. J. McCray Tron Workers’ Association Ortie E. McManigal Detroit Los Anglese Times Federal Iron Workers’ Association McManigal Ortie McManigal McNamara Brothers Herbert B. Hockin Actin Frank M. Ryan International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers Herberts. Hockin John T. Butler Buffalo Michae J. Young Boston Philip A. Cooley New Orleans Olaf A. Tveitmoe Building Trades Council of California Willam K. Benson Detroit Federation of Labor Clarence E. Dowd International Association of Machinists Hiram Cline Muncie Ind Association of Carpenters and Joiners Spurgeon P. Meadows Carpenters’ and Joiners’ Unions of United States John W. Kern Charles W. Miller Clarence Nichols

Startling Tuberculosis Statement on Dental Hygiene

Dr. C Adolphus Knopf told the Fifteenth International Congress on Hygiene and Demography that bad teeth are a mass disease like tuberculosis and must be fought, especially in public school children. He estimated 3 percent of U S schoolchildren are tuberculous and urged open air instruction for 600000 tuberculous kids, noting 20000,000 children in schools and a yearly $75,000,000 social cost from child deaths.

Washington C. Adolphus Knopf International Congress On Hygiene and Demography United States Commissioner of Education Knopf

Ulster Unionists Plan Covenant Protest Against Home Rule

English observers note Ulster Unionists will sign a covenant on Saturday in Belfast pledging to resist any Dublin rule. Carson and Smith to sign at Belfast city hall with public prayers and a possible mass turnout.

London Ireland United Kingdom Home Rule England Lloyd-George Mr. Redman Ulster Smith Lahore Tom Mann Carson Edward Carson F. E. Smith Belfast Belfast Corporation Presbyterian Church Church of Ireland Becaues House of Lords Liberal Party Orangemien Hibernians Winston Churchill

Hot Springs Hearing in Rosenthal Case

In Hot Springs Arkansas on September 23 editor Douglas Hotchkiss was to testify first in a hearing before Special Commissioner Huff. Interest centers on a stipulation allowing Gilbert Hagaboom to be orally examined possibly affecting statements by Sam Schepps, detained as a witness. Schepps frequented the theatre managed by Hagaboom.

Hot Springs Ark Douglas Hotchkiss Huff Rosenthal Hart Whitman Gilbert Hagaboom Hagaboom Sam Schepps Schepps Theath House Hogaboom

Gov Hooper's Daughter to Campaign in Knoxville

Nashville Tenn Sept 22 When Governor Hooper begins his campaign for re election with a speaking engagement at Knoxville next Wednesday his daughter will accompany him and appear on the stump in his behalf.

Hooper Nashville Tenn Knoxville

New Home Location and Contact Update Note

The writer reports moving to a new residence at the northeast corner of Government and New streets. A local phone number is given as 2081, with office lines unchanged and current office contact for Dr. W. P. Hirshfield retained.

W. P. Hirshfield

Suffragette Daughter Plans to Attend All Father’s Meetings

A ten year old suffragette, Anna B., will accompany her father to fall meetings. She previously spoke to the Nashville Equal Suffrage League about women voting. Governor Hooper, a Yaft supporter, may be influenced by his daughter to support equal suffrage.

Anna B Nashville

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