German Counter Attack Crushed With Big Losses
British foreign secretary Sir Edward Grey urged support for Balkan friends in a Commons speech as Allied forces repelled a German counter attack on the western front after three days of bombardment. Notices warn of taxes due, an auction of unclaimed packages, and a federal suit involving Humphrey O’Brien on Tombigbee river dam work, plus a stockholders meeting for Southern Leather Products in Mobile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Balkans
Edward Grey
House of Commons
District Court of the United States
Alabama
United States
Henry M. Lindsey
P. H. O’brien
Frank Nelson, Jr
Leo K. Steiner
O'Brien
Tombigee River
Congress
Hanaw & Pillans
Southern Leather Products Company
G. F. & B. Chemical Company
Mobile
O. E. Ploc
Ardmore Tank Car Explosion Kills Fifty Five
A gasoline tank car explosion in Ardmore Oklahoma killed fifty five and sparked fires across Main Street. Rescue crews searched rubble as a special police force kept order while two blasts were confirmed and dynamite in a nearby storehouse added to the devastation.
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Ardmore
Okla
Main Street
Whittington Hotel
Ira Woods
Woods
Spring Hill to Meet Tulane in New Orleans Saturday
Tulane's 1915 football schedule lists Spring Hill College visiting New Orleans on October 2 and other games including Southwestern Industrial Institute Alabama Mississippi College Jefferson College Howard College and Louisiana. Also reports four seamen wanted on a federal warrant after desertion from the Norwegian bark Deverom with Nils Nilsson in custody.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Tulane University
Shaughnessy
Spring Hill College
Southwestern Industrial Institute
Alabama
Tuscaloosa
Mississippi College
Jefferson College
Howard College
Louisiana
Baton Rouge
Sheriff's Department
Deverom
Nils Nilsson
War statement on Paris prisoners and heroic sacrifice
A statement compares the storm of battle to earlier events and questions Paris figures on prisoner captures as possibly exaggerated. It notes a large number of prisoners and acknowledges grievous losses while praising defenders who kept the shield before them.
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Paris
Allies advance further in Artois and Champagne
Paris reports new Allied gains in Artois near Souchez and additional progress in Champagne. German counterattacks in the Argonne were repulsed, leaving dead on the field. German retreats are covered by barbed wire entanglements as they mount resistance in Champagne.
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Paris
Artois
Souchez
French War Office
Champagne
Argonne
Russians Claim Recapture of Key Kovel Junction
London dispatches report that Russians retook the strategic railway hub of Kovel with press comments calling it a startling potential turning point if confirmed. The Chronicle notes the claim would show rapid Russian gains in the south, though officials offer no corroborating dispatches.
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O Kovel
London
Kovel
the Chronicle
The
Times
Serbians Repulse Two Crossings of Drina River
An official war office report states two enemy attempts to cross the Drina during the night of the twenty third were repulsed. One effort targeted the Ratcha customs house and the other near Vishegrad in Bosnia.
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Drina Nish
London
War Office
River Drina
Ratcha Customhouse
Vishegrad
Bosnia
Petrograd Reports Bombardment Losses At Gulf Of Riga
Official ministry statement dated September 25 says during a bombardment of enemy land positions on the Gulf of Riga by Russian ships an enemy projectile struck a ship killing Captains Viazemsky and Ivineme. Five sailors were killed and eight wounded with batteries silenced.
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Petrograd
London
Ministry of Marine
Gulf of Riga
Viazemsky
Ivineme
Greek resolve after Cham pagne victory steadies stance on Bulgaria
Reuter's Athens desk says Bulgarian demobilization remains the only factor that could change Greece's firm position. Allies' Cham pagne triumph dampens central power sympathy. Serbian front reports cap Austrian German forces at about 300000, mainly old men and youths with strong artillery. Serbia attack is likely postponed.
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London
Athens
Greece
Reuter
Champagne
Panscova-Orsova
Serbia
Germans claim gains after counterattacks on western front
Berlin reports that the German army has halted the Allied general offensive and, through counterattacks, has gained considerable territory. The official statement from army headquarters, dated September 28, asserts these advances as part of the day's military news.
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Berlin
London
Gulf Coast Highway Group Forms At Mobile Convening
The Alabama Mississippi Gulf Coast Highway Association organizes with officers a president two vice presidents and a secretary treasurer to be chosen by delegates from Mobile, Pascagoula Biloxi Gulfport Pass Christian Bay St. Louis and Ocean Springs. Committees will draft by laws and a bridge plan linking Baldwin and Mobile counties is proposed with a special delegation assembled at Mobile court house.
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Mobile
Pascagoula
Biloxi
Gulfport
Pass Christian
Bay St. Louis
Ocean Springs
Alabama-Mississippi Gulf Coast Highway Association
Baldwin
John Craft
Delta
Boards of Revenue and Road Commissioners
W. M. Clemens Hamed
George W. Robinson
John Wilson
W. D. Stapleton
E. B. Gaston
W. McR. Schowalter
van Iderstein
Oscar Johnson
W. B. Thomley
C. A. Boller
T. H. Webb
L. C. Irvine
A. LeBlanc
Max Rothberger
T. J. Duggan
R. G. Cobb
Tuesday Markets Cotton Receipts Across Multiple Lines
Cotton receipts listed by line and company for Mobile and Ohio Railroad Southern Railway steamer City of Mobile and L N R R totals cover 246 es 930 bales 396 bales and 681 bales with Planters Cotton Co Clarke-Davis & Co F M Ladd Co Touart Quinn Bashinsky Bayer Lyons and Co and others named as buyers or exporters in transit or exports compressed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Ohio
R. R. Co
Planters Cotton Co
Clarke-Davis & Co
F. M. Ladd & Co
McMillian & Harrison
Virginia- Carolina Chemical Co
Es. Southern Railway
FP. M. Ladd & Co
Baker-Lyons & Co
City of Mobile
Baker- Lyons & Co
Touart & Quinn
N. Gavis & Co
Winston-Jones Co
Lott Produce Co
Bayer-Lyons & Co
Clarke- Davis & Co
Bashinsky ,& Co
In “Transit
New Orleans and New York Cotton Markets Rally on Storm Fears
Good cables and tropical storm warnings spurred demand in New Orleans with prices climbing beyond yesterday's highs for October and July contracts. New York opened higher on Gulf storm fears and bullish spot tips, while London and Liverpool showed firm or rising tendencies amid varied daily gains and renewed selling.
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New Orleans
New York
Florida
Louisiana
Western Belt
Commission House
Valeccies
Regional delegates to Biloxi set next meeting date
Mobile sent about thirty delegates as regional representatives gathered with Hamp ton D. Ewing and others from New York and various Alabama towns. The meeting approved plans and set October 6 in Biloxi to adopt the constitution and by laws.
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Lar
W. D. Stapleton
J. 8
Lambert
A. T. Cacuchin
Charles Hall
Atmore
C. C. Huxford
E. E. Cadman
H. H. Patterson
Gulfport
George M. Foster
Fitch Bay
St. Louis
Robert T. Genin
Stockton
George A. Robinson
George R. Bryant
Hampton D. Ewing
New York
Baldwin County
B. F. Feist
F. B. Snevely
H. S. Weston
Leyton
Miss
C. EB. Littlefield
Fairhope
Ala
W. D. Randall
Montrose
E. L. Wilson
Dahphine
James A. Carney
Carney Station
H. H. Marchmeier
Mobile
Biloxi
Market closes with mixed gains and losses across major stocks
Trading ended with a 73-4 to 68 1-2 swing in some shares and broad activity in rail and industrials. Baldwin Locomotive surged to 160 then fell to 123, while other names such as American Can, General Electric, General Motors, and United States Steel showed varied moves.
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New York
Baldwin
General Motors
Bethlehem Steel
Lackawanna Steel
United States Industrial Alcohol
Crucible Steel
Republic Steel
Sloss- Sheffield Steel
Cast Iron Pipe
Tennessee Copper and Distillers’ Securities
Colorado Fuel
Westinghouse
Allis-Chalmers
American Beet
American Can
American Car & Foundry
American Locomotive
American Cities, Ptd
American Cotton Oil
American Smelting
American Sugar
American Tel. & Tel
Anaconda Copper
Atchison
Atlantic Coast Line
Baldwin Locomotive
Baltimore & Ohio
Brooklyn
Nsit
Canadian Pacific
Chesapeake & Ohio
Chicago
Mil. & St. Paul
Consolidated Gas
Erie
General Electric
Great Northern
Illinois Central
Interborough Consol
Seaboard Air Line
Sloss-Shef. Steel and Iron
Studebaker Corporation
Southern Pacific
Southern Railway
Tennessee Copper
Texas Co
Union Pacific
United States Rubber
United States Steel
Pfd
Virginia Caro
Chem
Western Union
Westinghouse Electric
Great Northern Ore
Chicago Livestock Market Strong As Receipts Rise
Chicago livestock report lists hogs at 7.30 to 8.25 for bulk and pigs 6.00 to 8.00. Cattle receipts 5,000 with native beef 6.10 to 10.40 and cows 2.90 to 8.40. Sheep receipts 13,000 with wethers 5.70 to 6.55 and lambs 7.26 to 9.25.
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Chicago Livestock
Chicago
Seer Neee
Serene Eenne
California
Evods Covcees
Haitien Killed When He Fires on Marines
A Haitian man was killed yesterday when Marines under Colonel Cole occupied Quartier Marine near Cape Haitien. Rear Admiral Caperton said the detachment met an organized force and the native fired from an ambush at the rear guard.
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Washington
Cole
Quartier Marine
Cape Haitien
Caperton
Russian and German actions in Riga region and Dvinsk
Petrograd dispatch notes a series of attacks and countermeasures as German forces press near Dvinsk and Riga. Russians claim gains at times while maintaining strong defenses and steady ammunition deliveries. The piece portrays cautious assessment of German momentum and Russian resolve amid ongoing frontline fighting.
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Petrograd
Don
Serbia
Dvinsk
Riga
Beltran Blames Border Clashes on Magonista Factions
Beltran, Carranza consul in San Antonio, told Assistant Attorney General Gene Warren the border troubles stem from adventurers and Mexicans in Texas. He denied Carranza soldiers participated, blamed Magonista followers led by Jesus Magon in Los Angeles, and noted seditious articles in Texas border towns. He reported 217 Americans and 39 women still in the northern district, with conditions quiet on the west coast and in the Yaqui valley.
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Washington
Beltran
Carranza
Santonio
Gene Warren
Texas
United States
Republic
Cihua
Sonora
Yaqui
Jesus Magon
Los Angeles
Cal
Monarchy or Republic for China Up to Citizens' Convention
Peking reports President Shi Kai says the decision on China’s form of government must wait for the citizens' convention. Yuan Shikai notes the constitution will be settled by the convention, with final elections set for November 20. Separate legal proceedings in New Orleans involve the sale of a Chicago railroad.
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J. G. Wisns
Crichton
Ala
Sawyer
China
Yun
Peking
Shi Kai
Yuan
N. O
United States District Court
Toulmin
Laura McDonald
Stalle Roap
New Orleans
Chicago
Residences For Rent From Various Neighborhoods
A list of rental properties including one and two story frames and brick homes. Entries show addresses such as 1029 Government St and 318 8. Conceptis St with 6 to 9 rooms, many with halls baths and kitchens. Some listings include explicit rent figures like 300 dollars and notes on outside painting.
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Spring Hill
Convent
Government St
Ann & Rooms
Hall
Bath
Miami
Mein
Conceptis St
Old Shi Dath
Cosdows
N. W
Old and
Ann Street
New
St Street
Washington We
N. Brown
New Hall
W. Broad
Kentu
St. F
St. Ann
Lawrence
Saa
Ew Street
Conti St
St. Louis St
Old Shell Road
E. Garnet Ave
St. Stephens Road
Morris
Brill & Lyons
ST. Francis Street
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Office of Bookkeeping
R O
van Antwerp
R. Hubbeginbard
St. Joseph St
D. E
Mary Perkins
Delaware
Conception
South Water St
Congress St
S. W
Cuba St
North Carolina St
W. S
Bay View
Point Clear
Ivanhoe Mfg. Co
Ttp
Dauphin Street
P. O. Box
Bell Phone
West Side
Everett
Second South Government
Southern Realty Company
Neces Alapasane Idieeec
Oa Tive Claggeel
Bay Front View
Bay Shell Road
Second North Bay Avenue
B. T. Dulaney
Pauphin Street
Rapier Avenue
Selma Street
Ase
Best Shoe Store
Palmetto Street
Southern Realty
Savannah
Broad
Bell
St. Anthony Street
Bella
St. Anthony St
Eslava Street
Mr. Reed
Smith Piano Company
Henderson
Panama Auction Co
Call- Bell Phone
Jersey
M. J. Vickers
S. B. Church
Warren Streets
J. D. Antoine
Fulton Road
Government
Dixie Stables
Spring Hill Avenue
S. E. Bay Avenue
Washington Avenue
Government Street
Cee Eee
Julia
S. Dauphin
Penchant Homes Menaesinerenemees Meee
W. W. Thompson
Savannah St
Bank of Mobile
Panama Hotel
Ganthonne
Church St
Meyer
Dauphin
W. M
Monroe St
W. J. Koral
Thos. Wagner & Co
St. Francis
S. E. Corner
Reed
D. Box
Prichard
W. J. Goodwin
P. QO
Broad St
Care Mobile
Bell News
Mayer
Peoples Bank
Mobile Bay
de Point Road
E. M.iley
Houston St
Phelan B. Dorson
Amsterdam
Frankfurter Zeitung
Agkison & Cleveland
Palm Beach
Imperial Pressing Club
St. Emanuel
Southern Express Company
Corner Royal and
St. Michael Streets
Tulane
Gulf
Liverpool
Wall Street Review
Dumont & Croom
St. Michael St
Magonista FA
Magon
United
Sage-Burgett & Yuille
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