Two Mississippi Banks Granted State Guaranty
The Bank of Lucedale in George county and the Bank of McLain in Greene county became the first banks in their counties to be guaranteed under the 1914 Mississippi banking law. Certificates were issued after strict examinations and payment of guaranty fund assessments, strengthening depositor protections.
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Jackson
Miss
Bank of Lucedale
George County
Mississippi
Bank of McLain
Greene County
Lucedale
McLain
Siege of Antwerp Being Planned
Reports from Brussels indicate German troop trains have brought up to 150000 men for a planned siege of Antwerp. The city’s fortifications are among the world’s strongest, with modernized outer works and an inner line of forts on the Scheldt’s right bank completed by recent years.
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Brussels
Antwerp
Brialmont
Scheldt
Froeden
Resseest
Bredonk
Burglary Traced to Man Arrested in City Police Station
The home of farmer P. W. Antoine west of the Government street loop was robbed Sunday afternoon. Forty one buffalo nickels a fifty cent piece fifty cents in small change six copper cents a .32 caliber revolver a razor and a Winchester rifle were taken. Deputy Sheriff James McKenzie traced the burglary to James Webster 28 who is now in custody on drunkenness and concealed pistol charges. The revolver was found on Webster and is with the sheriff. Webster once worked for Antoine.
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P. W. Antoine
Government Street Loop
T. T. Palmer
James McKenzie
James Webster
Webster
Antoine
Poydras Street
Taylor Co., Ltd
Continental Commission Company
Burtz
Chartres Street
Second City Criminal Court
Panna Ares
Gale warning for vessels near Mississippi mouth
A gale warning extends several hundred miles south of the Mississippi river mouth with winds near gale force sweeping northwest Florida Alabama Louisiana and Mississippi coasts. Vessels urged to stay in port as storm intensity grows. Also a mobile county report notes high winds unroofing box cars at Theodore station and no damage at Coden despite persistent wind and normal tide.
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Mississippi River
Florida
Alabama
Louisiana
Mississippi
Bowie
Mobile County
Theodore Station
Mobile
Bay Shore
Coden
Weather bulletin on northeast storm advance from Gulf Coast
Washington D C September 29 Weather Bureau Mobile Alabama continues northeast storm warning at 9 30 am disturbance south of Louisiana coast advancing slowly northward strong easterly winds likely to increase The bulletin is signed by officials of the Weather Bureau.
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Washington, D. C
Weather Bureau
Mobile
Ala
Louisiana
Wilson praised by New Hampshire Democrats convention
The New Hampshire Democratic state platform endorsed President Wilson in the strongest terms and pledged unwavering support. The platform backed initiative and referendum and called for railroads to earn reasonable revenue while rejecting abnormal operating expenses and improvident contracts.
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Associated Press
Concord
N. H
Wilson
New Hampshire
Camden Negro Barricades Home With Lynch Rush Feared
A negro man who killed Emmet Ervin on Friday is barricaded in his Camden Alabama house and resisting arrest as threats of lynching grow. Governor O Neal ordered militia to avert violence.
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Camden
Ala
Emmet Ervin
O'Neal
Terrific German Attacks Repulsed On Aisne Front
Reports describe heavy German assaults along the Aisne line from Ribecourt to Chaulnes with repeated prisoner captures. Dispatches from Paris and London note bombardments at Malines and Deynze, weather hindering movements, and shifting focus to eastern fronts with Russian advances in Galicia.
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Aisne
Oise
Somme
Ribecourt
Lassigny
Roye
Chaulnes
Albert
Combles
London
France
Galicia
Carpathians
Hungary
Brussels
What is Yesday’s Close in Textile Trade?
The note shows a terse ledger style indicating a closing quote labeled Yes'day or Yesday with terms Close Middling Good middling and two numeric codes 7 T-881-8 and 81-481-2. It reads like an old market or commodity price snippet with no explicit event or persons.
Arrested for Shooting Across Public Road
Will Howard was arrested Tuesday morning on a complaint by Arthur Marchean for shooting across a public road. He was docked at the county jail and made bond for the hearing.
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Will Howard
Arthur Marchean
City board mulls rat and fly proof stable ordinance
At noon the city board led by Mayor Lyons reviewed minutes and discussed a sanitary ordinance requiring stables housing horses, mules, cows and other stock to be rat proof and fly proof. The measure was tabled until the next regular meeting. The report on Twelfth paving sewer work noted completion and estimates. payments to E H Robertson and W H Diamond approved. The Mobile Transfer Co claim for damages due to a broken catch basin was approved. A transfer for a case license to R E Grightman was granted.
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Lyons
Schwarz and Pillans
Board of City Commissioners
E. H. Robertson
W. H. Diamond
Wright Smith
Jett Bros. Contracting Co
Smith
Mobile Transfer Co
Pillans
Schwarz
R. E. Grightman
Atlantic Gas & Electric Files Voluntary Bankruptcy Petition
A federal court in New York heard a voluntary bankruptcy filing for Atlantic Gas & Electric Company, a Connecticut corp with New York offices. The petition lists assets at 20000 and liabilities at 2478212, noting stock, bond and note claims against its subsidiaries totaling 5238000 whose real value is unknown.
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Associated Press
New York
Federal District Court
Atlantic Gas & Electric Company
Connecticut
C. N. Phil
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Arkansas Cotton Conference To Act
A resolution to pledge all farmers to cut cotton acreage and substitute foodstuffs will be presented at the Arkansas cotton conference in Little Rock with about 150 delegates including bankers brokers merchants and farmers attending.
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Little Rock
Ark
State Conference of Cotton Interests
Hays
Sears Left 25 Million Fortune After Death
Chicago heiress founder Richard W. Sears of Sears Roebuck & Co. died yesterday at his Wisconsin summer home. He left an estate valued at about 25 million dollars, authorities indicated today.
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Chicago
Richard W. Sears
Sears, Roebuck & Co
Waukesha
Wis
Cotton Exchange cuts January February price to 5d
Liverpool report notes the four members of the Cotton Exchange lowered the price for January February to 5 pence, with the change set to take effect tomorrow.
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Liverpool
Cotton Exchange
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