Forty Special Cars Chartered for Mobile Congress
Forty special cars have been chartered to move delegates from many cities to Mobile for the Commercial Congress on October 27 29. The Southeastern Passenger Association secured a special round trip rate, with railroads nationwide launching an advertising drive. Major lines including Southern Railway and Louisville and Nashville will canvass routes from Washington south and from Louis, Cincinnati north.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Congress
Southeastern Passenger Association
Potomac
Ohio
Missis
Southern Railway
Washington
Louisville and Nashville
Louis
Cincinnati
Mobile and Ohio
Mississippi
Tennessee
Missouri
Illinois
New
Orns
Chicago
Frisco
Alabama
Tennessee and Northern
No Skating In Parks At Night Edict Issued
Chief of Police F. W. Crenshaw prohibits skating in city parks after 9:20 PM citing noise from adults and late outings in Ryan Park near St Michael and Scott streets. He plans to urge the city commission to enforce the curfew noting children should be home by 9:30 and parks reserved for youth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. W. Crenshaw
Ryan Park
St. Michael and Scott Streets
Chief Crenshaw
Mobilizes Envelopes for Wilson Visit at Southern Congress
Mobile chambers urge all firms to print a Panama Canal opening invitation on envelopes inviting visitors to greet President Wilson and cabinet officers at the Southern Commercial Congress in Mobile on October 27 28 1912. Rates are 3 cents per mile round trip and local printers have begun soliciting contracts to print the invitations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
Wm. J. Bryan
Josephus Daniels
Southern Commercial Congress
Mobile
Ala
Panama Canal
Chamber of Commerce
Armbrecht
Clergyman Subdues Drunken Brawler on Train
The Rev Father Kennedy of St Margaret s Catholic Church Bayou la Barre Ala subdued Eugene Hieronymus a drunken white man on a Mobile and Bay Shore train. Hieronymus insulted the priest and fought another party at Coden before Kennedy knocked him under a car seat. Deputies at Cohen were notified to investigate and arrest the man responsible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Father Kennedy
St. Margaret's Catholic Church
Bayou la Barre
Ala
Mobile
Bay Shore
Eugene Hieronymus
Sheriff Palmer
Hieronymus
Kennedy
Coden
Cohen
Woodmen of the World Camps Invited to Mobile Event
Forest Camp No. 1 of Mobile will invite all Mobile district Woodmen of the World camps to send delegates to the lodge celebration tied to the Southern Commercial Congress. Sovereign Commander Root will visit Mobile for the event and drill teams from several cities are expected. District camps invited include Whistler Wilmer Fairhope Coden Prichard Cironelle Bon Secour Pascagoula Oak Grove Daphne Bayou la Batre and Moss Point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Forest Camp No. 1
Southern Commercial Congress
Forest Camp
Root
Whistler
Wilmer
Fairhope
Coden
Prichard
Cironelle
Bon Secour
Pascagoula
Oak Grove
Daphne
Bayou la Batre
Moss Point
Despondency Linked to Indigestion and Constipation
Advertisement notes despondency is caused by indigestion and constipation and quickly disappears when Chamberlain Tablets are taken. For sale by all dealers.
Drowned Man Identified as Patrick Mason in Mobile
The drowned man found Monday night on a Home Dredging Company mud scow off Beauregard street in Mobile river was identified Friday as Patrick Mason a 45 year old Ireland native and Mobile resident. John M Clark a saloon keeper identified the body Exhumed Friday from the potter's field it was interred in the Catholic cemetery by the dredging company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Home Dredging Company
Beauregard Street
Mobile River
Thurgoday
Patrick Mason
Ireland
Mobile
John M. Clark
Mason
Conti
Commerce Streets
Potter’s Field
Be Pretty Turn Gray Hair Dark
Almost everyone knows that Sa Tea and Sulphur properly compound restores natural color to faded hair and stops dandruff and hair loss. Years ago it was homemade. now Wyeths Legend Sulphur Hair Remedy offers the famous recipe publicly for about 60 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tany Drug Store
Wyeth
Republican women urged to back side wind plan for suffrage
Harriet Stanton Blatch writes to state presidents urging support for changing national convention representation to reflect vote totals. She envisions a political side wind aiding suffrage where women are not yet enfranchised, citing Illinois as an example where legislative action helped gains already.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Harriet Stanton Blatch
Women's Political Union
New Oyster Inspector Named for Mobile
Martin Burns named by Alabama Oyster Commission as inspector for Mobile with office at foot of Eslava street. He succeeds Jasper Johnson and will conduct rigid inspections of all retail oyster houses ensuring proper handling and cleanliness. President Craft notes oysters from Mobile Fish and Oyster Company planting grounds are in excellent, best condition this season.
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Martin Burns
Alabama Oyster Commission
Mobile
Eslava Street
Jasper Johnson
Burns
Joullian
Craft
Commission
Mobile Fish and Oyster Company
County May Pay Costs Of Court
County board of revenue and road commissioners will report on reimbursing costs after a judge ordered road operator William McDonough to pay court costs for failing to convict road defaulters. The finance committee will review county fault and a report from County Architect C S Hutchinson on courthouse roof and gutter repairs and improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners
Wiliam McDonough
Plateau
Prichard
Henry Chamberlain
Inferior’ Criminal Court
C. S. Hutchinson
The Fifth String at the Bijou Today
A two reel Selig feature titled The Fifth String headlines the Bijou today with admission noted as single price. Moviegoers are urged not to miss the showing.
Farmers Congress Chooses Fort Worth or Mobile
A telegram to W H Monk indicates the Farmers National Congress plans a 1914 convention in Fort Worth or Mobile. G A Maloney, the government farm demonstration agent, sent word from Plano Ill where he serves as Mobile’s delegate. Invitations were wired to the congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Fort Worth
Mobile
Farmers’ National Congress
Chamber of Commerce Entertainment Committee
G. A. Maloney
Government Farm
Plano
Ili
Attack Reported by Charles Williams on Conti Street
Charles Williams reports he was attacked on Hercules and Marmotte streets last Saturday night. An unknown assailant struck him with a bottle, causing two long scalp lacerations. He could not report the incident earlier due to pain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Williams
Conti Street
Hercules and
Marmotte Streets
Williams
Missing lad found in ten minutes time
Ten minutes after a message to pick up Gladys Sasser a white lad fourteen years old fled from his home tippeney and was found by police.
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Gladys Sasser
Whit
Tipeney
Four American suitors seek Tokio heiress husband role
Mr. Imura reports strong interest from four Americans claiming to be ideal husband material for a Tokyo heiress ward. Applicants vary from farmers to a Alabama tax assessor, with education and size concerns filtering those considered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Imura
Larry
Theiddle West
New Orleans
Iran
Alabama
Guardian
Strikers Await National IL A Leader As T V OConnor Delays
National IL A head T V OConnor from Buffalo failed to arrive Friday delaying strike talks for white and black longshoremen in Mobile. District President J H Fricke denied signing an agreement allowing negro workers with Rider Dempster Company unless barred from union membership. Negro crews continue loading ships on the riverfront.
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T. V. O'Connor
Buffalo
New York
I. Ll. A
Mobile
J. H. Fricke
Rider-Dempster Company
Victim of convict camp case to be heard re hearing
G. E. Glover of Greer South Carolina was sentenced by Recorder D. H. Eddington to twelve months at the Huxford Orvin camp in Atmore Alabama on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. He is to be brought back to Mobile Monday at 4 PM for a re hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. E. Glover
Greer
8. C
Atmore
Ala
D. H. Eddington
Moile
Glover
Street Dips Foot in Mobile River
A sinkhole opened behind the wharf at the foot of St. Louis Street as dredging deepened the river channel. Mayor Laz Schwarz and Commissioner Pat Lyons supervised emergency work to fill the gap with bricks and sand while noting similar issues elsewhere on the riverfront. No bulkheads or pilings at the foot of St. Louis Street were damaged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis Street
Ayor Laz Schwarz
Pat J. Lyons
Pat
Mayor Schwarz
Soceissioner
Marty ’ Pilanes
Capitalists Visit Dauphin Island by Launch
A visit to Dauphin Island is planned Friday by J. M. Dewberry head of Tidewater Company and landowner. He arrived in Mobile from Birmingham with two capitalists whose names are unknown, met at the car at 5 48 and driven to Coden to board a fast launch for the island. Dewberry and party expected to return to Mobile that night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dauphin Island
J. M. Dewberry
Tidewater Company
Mobile
Birmingh
Louisville and Nashville
Coden
City bonds bid debated as sale by commission ruled out
Mobile's 150000 dollar school bond issue draws commission offers but law blocks disposal by sale through the commission. Birmingham interests propose contractors take over bonds and self manage construction and disposal, but Mayor Schwarz says this plan is untenable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Birmingham
Schwarz
Bijou Show Admission Today
Selig. Don't miss it. Admission onl Be. At the Bijou today.
Small Craft Warning For Gulf Near South Texas Coast
A small craft warning was issued with a ten am advisory. A disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico is reported near the south Texas coast. Expect strong northeast winds today.
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Gulf of Mexico
South Texas
Nellie F. Sawyer Sinks After Shoal Strike Off Chatham
The coal laden three masted schooner Nellie F. Sawyer of Portland sank after hitting a shoal in Pollock Rip channel. Six crewmen reached the lightship by boat. The report notes an odd line about someone finding many shoes that fit and hurt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Chatham
Mass
Nellie F. Sawyer
Portland
Pollock Rip Channel
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S. C. C. Tions
Oads
Crenshaw
Jno
Cerials
St. Francis Street
Fr. Kennedy
Blatch
Women’s Political Union
Repubs
Bijou
Adv
O'Connor
the Bijou
Interral
Botan
Boos van Antwerp
Drag Corp
Tutt
Aastel Newark Tou
Bath Street
Borwate
Hotele Sregorian
New York City
Fifth Ave
Broadway
Stokes
DB _RITCHEY
Prop
Graham-Rush Clothing Co
Dauphin Street
Greensboro
N. C
J. H. Taylor
Dauphin ST
First National Bank
U. 8
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