City Board Revises Station Solicitation Controls Also Grants Good Roads Exhibits
City commissioners approve a new ordinance restraining solicitors at railway stations with fines from ten to one hundred dollars and require drivers to stay with their vehicles. They back Alabama State Good Roads Association support and authorize market space and steel shed use for convention exhibits in Mobile November. Also allocated Good Roads exhibit space in municipal buildings and wharves. Routine August bills approved and tax abatements granted. An ordinance regulating station solicitors was adopted.
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Alabama State Good Roads Association
John W. McAlpine
Ogburn-Griffin Grocery Company
St. Joseph Street
John Craft
Jacob D. Bloch
Don Farnsworth
Commercial Club
Mobile
Captain Craft
Pillans
F. K. Hale, Jr
Schwarz
Counterfeiters Working Europe
A U S Express Company report says a band of international swindlers pass wholesale counterfeit $50 travelers checks in Europe. Checks dated August 22 to 29, signed by Robert T. MacDonald and William T. Riley, were cashed at Carlsbad and Nice. Detectives across Europe hunt the two men described as an elderly American and a smooth shaven, small-framed man.
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Associated Press
New York
States Express Company
T Band of International Swindlers
Europe
Carlsbad
Nice
Robert T. MacDonald
William T. Riley
Weinerverein
Vienna
Cadet Nominations Rise At West Point Amid Shortage
Washington reports 613 cadets in instruction at West Point against a 580 cap. Senators and representatives nominate third year applicants to fill next vacancies. Some lawmakers have yet to respond to the call for nominations.
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Associated Press
Washington
West Point
Academy
Bankhead
Alabama
Clarke
Arkansas
Smith
Georgia
Gore
Owen
Oklahoma
Real Fight for Freedom of Thaw at Concord
Hearing opens on extradition of Harry K. Thaw as Governor Felker weighs legal points. William Travers Jerome arrives with Franklin Kennedy to seek Thaw’s surrender while Thaw’s mother Mary Copley Thaw and brother Josiah attend. A crowd gathers outside the capitol before the session.
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Associated Press
Concord
N. H
Harry K. Thaw
Felker
William Travers Jerome
New York
Thaw
Franklin Kennedy
Senate Chamber
Executive Council
Senate
Mary Copley Thay
Josiah
Capital
United States
Nate
Drew
Colebrook
Josiah Thaw
State House
Capitol
James H. Tuttle
Large Docket In Escambia Court At Brewton
Escambia county circuit court convened for the fall term in Brewton with Judge E A Gamble presiding and Charles R Bricken prosecuting. Seventy four civil and twenty nine Brewton city court appeal cases are set for trial, with the grand jury of nine precincts chaired by W W Lowery. Over one hundred criminal cases await next week as the term spans two weeks.
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Brewton
Ala
Escambia County
E. A. Gamble
Greenville
Charles R. Bricken
Luverne
Brewton City Court
W. W. Lowery
Atmore
Wedded without religious rites denied in Rome notice
Prince Joseph Rospigliosi who died at Stresa did not marry Mrs. F H Parkhurst of Bangor Maine in a religious rite. Prince Camillo Rospigliosi, former papal guard commander, issued an emphatic denial noting the church never accepted the annulment of Mrs Parkhurst’s prior marriage.
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Associated Press
Rome
Prince Joseph Rospigliosi
Stresa
F. H. Parkhurst
Bangor
Maine
Marie Jennie Jennings Reid
New Orleans
Camillo Rospigliosi
Papal Guard
Camillo
Day in Congress Sees Banking Committee Hear Untermyer Views
Not in session. Banking committee continued hear Samuel Untermyer's views. Tariff conferees continued work. Not in session, P meets Wednesday.
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Banking Committee
Samuel Untermyer
Pan American Union Leader Set to Address Mobile Meeting
Director General John Barrett of the Pan American Union and Dr. Clarence J. Owens of the Southern Commercial Congress arrive in Mobile Tuesday afternoon from Montgomery for a sixteen state tour. They will speak at a Lyric Theatre mass meeting on the Panama Canal and Southern Commerce themes with invitations extended to Mobile women and Chamber of Commerce members. If possible they may attend Wednesday luncheon of the Chamber’s ways and means committee.
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John Barrett
Pan-American Union
Clarence J. Owens
Southern Commercial Congress
Mobile
Montgomery
South
Lyric Theatre
Panama Canal
Chamber of Commerce
Owens
Barrett
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Florida
Congress
Executive Mansion
Chamber of Commerce Ways and Means Committee
Murder of Indianapolis merchant by traveling man
Joseph Schlansky a local merchant was found dead in a hotel room. A man registered as W R Anderson Louisville Ky lured him to the room, shot him and tied a cord around his throat. The killer washed hands, took about 20 dollars and the merchant's watch, and left two robbery notes.
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Associated Press
Indianapolis
Ind
Joseph Schlansky
W. R. Anderson
Louisville
Anderson
Schlansky
Murderer Suspected in Double Robbery and Slaying
Police believe the Louisville hotel killer in Indianapolis last night is the man who lured M Raff a local merchant to a Louisville hotel room Saturday and robbed him of 62 dollars and a gold watch at gunpoint. A telegram identifies the registered guest as Robert Duncan but authorites say the man is Joseph Ellis of Richmond Virginia. Ellis is believed demented and was in Louisville last week.
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Associated Press
Louisville
Joseph Schlansky
Indianapolis
M. Raff
Robert Duncan
Joseph Ellis
Richmond
Virginia
Ellis
Ellis Employed in Richmond Before Going on Road
An apothecary's clerk named Joseph W. Ellis was employed in Richmond during the latter part of 1912. He left to become a traveling salesman. His home is said to be in Church Hill Tennessee. No other Joseph Ellis is known here.
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Associated Press
Richmond
Joseph W. Ellis
Church Hill
Tenn
Joseph Ellis
Train fatality shocks family in Huntingdon
Alighting passenger Will Dunn, a local schoolteacher, learns the victim is his sister Viola Dunn killed by a train as she rode home to visit. The incident occurred in Huntingdon Tennessee as the train halted.
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Associated Press
Huntingdon
Tenn
Will. Dunn
Ee Viola Dunn
International tariff revision looms with four month extension
Washington Sept 23 The tariff conferees resumed work as a plan to supplement the bill with a joint resolution aims to assure foreign nations continued trade for four months while Wilson and Bryan negotiate new treaties. The resolution would be introduced in both houses to prevent automatic tariff reprisals and preserve favored nation treatment during talks. The committee also worked on administrative portions and income tax provisions under Rep Hull.
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Washington
Wilson
Bryan
State Department
Simmons
Joint Tariff Committee
United States
Hull
Tennessee
Weather Outlook for Gulf States and Neighboring Regions
Fair and warmer tonight with Wednesday forecast as fair. southeast to south winds moderate. Alabama and Mississippi share warm Wednesday, with fair skies and increasing temperatures, and light to moderate winds across the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Alabama
Mississippi
Prospects of Compromise on Irish Home Rule Improve
London reports from the Wall Street Gazette that informal talks between British cabinet ministers and opposition leaders have yielded “important” progress toward a compromise on the Irish home rule issue. Sir Edward Carson campaigns in Ulster as Liberal papers debate possible sedition charges or privy council removal. Ulster MPs are briefed on civil and military plans and the projected provisional government for the north. A Labour leader warns the party struggles to restrain followers amid threats of resistance to home rule.
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Privy Council
Ireland
North of
Labor Party
Ula
Gambers Hope for Gambling Return in Panama Cities
Rumor circulates that gambling may be allowed again in Panama City and Colon after October 10. Authorities linked to canal work see the Gamboa dike incident as ending obligations that kept the ban in place. Gambling remains prohibited in the canal zone.
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Associated Press
Panama
Colon
Gamboa Dike
Canal Zone
Two Rabbis Chosen to Represent State at New York Protest
Montgomery Sept. 23 Rabbis B C Ehrenreich of Montgomery and M Newfield of Birmingham were named by Governor O Neal as delegates to a mass meeting in Cooper Union New York Sept 30 to protest Jewish treatment in Roumania. The conference will appoint delegates for an international congress in Berlin in January 2014.
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Montgomery
B. C. Ehrenreich
M. Newfield
Birmingham
O'Neal
Cooper Union
New York
Roumania
Berlin
Henry Gr
Green
Pation
Coamenittes
York
Farmers National Congress Calls for Aid to Average Farmers
In Plano Illinois Charles F Sanford president of the Farmers National Congress opens the thirty third annual session urging action to reduce the margin between producer and consumer and to make farming permanently profitable for the average farmer. He cites rising land values rising tenant rates and slow production gains and warns that only broadly beneficial policies will stabilize agriculture and support home ownership.
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Associated Press
Plano
Ill
Charles F. Sanford
Farmers’ National Congress
Sanford
Congress
Colorado Coal Miners Strike for Union Recognition
Several thousand miners in Colorado's Southern district No 15 walked out in a strike led by United Mine Workers aiming to win union recognition. Labor leaders foresee most workers following the call, while operators vow no compromise and report no widespread crippled operations.
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Associated Press
Trinidad
Colo
Colorado
United Mine Workers of America
Governors Against Huerta Rally In Mexican Rebel Move
Dr Nicholas Camorra governor of Yucatan arrived in Tucson en route to Hermosillo to meet Venustiano Carranza. He said insurgent state leaders would seek closer ties and oppose any election under Huerta rule.
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Associated Press
Tucson Ariz
Nicholas Camarra
Yucatan
Mexico
Hermosillo
Sonora
Huerta
Venustiano Carranza
Coahuila
Camorra
Eagle Pass
E. Florila
Carranza
Wilson Party Goes to Jersey to Cast Votes
President Wilson travels to New Jersey to vote in state primaries for acting Governor Fielder. He leaves Washington at 8 a m and plans to return tonight accompanied by Secretary Garrison Secretary Tumulty and Professor Stockton Axson with Garrison and Tumulty also heading to Jersey City to vote.
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Washington
Wilson
Princeton
Fielder
New Jersey
Garrison
Tumulty
Stockton Axson
Jersey City
Sulzer Trial Judge Delays Trial as Governor Relinquishes Office
Governor Sulzer quits exercising executive powers as impeachment trial proceeds. Counsel D Cady Herrick argues failure to file campaign contributions is not a crime and election law does not require such statements. Court hears supplemental brief surprising to prosecutors amid morning session.
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Associated Press
Albany
N. Y
D. Cady Herrick
Sulzer
High Court
Judge Herrick
Wall Street
William Sulzer
Edgar T. Brackett
Convict Camp Controversy In Alabama Escapes To Mobile
R G Orvin of Huxford Orvin Company defends convicts camp in Escambia and denies brutal treatment claims. He testifies in Mobile stating no beatings occurred and disputes affidavits while acknowledging Will Dixon was whipped for cocaine use. He identifies a jailed man as not Sandiford but Joseph Murphy and questions affidavit truth.
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R. G. Orvin
Huxford-Orvin Company
Naval Stores
Escambia County
Alabama
Mobile County
Mobile
Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners
Orvin
Will Dixon
Mr. Orvin
J. T. Sandiford
County Board
County
Sandiford
Texas State Penitentiary
Joseph Murphy
Hale
Iit
Montgomery Ward Founder in Serious Condition After Fall
Montgomery Ward head and founder, known as the watchdog of Chicago’s lake front, lies in serious condition at his Highland Park home after a fall fractured his hip in the bathroom. doctors say he is in critical condition but improving, following a spell of illness.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Montgomery Ward
Lake Front
Highland Park
Governor Names Delegates to Mobile Convention
Montgomery Alabama governor announced roughly sixty delegates would attend the Commercial Congress in Mobile from October 27 to 29. Delegates hailed from various towns and sectors across the state.
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Mobile
Montgomery
Ala
the & Commercial Congress
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