Public doubts over Mobile Electric Company rates and contracts
Citizens question why the Alabama Public Service Commission permits the company to charge up to twelve cents and keep profits high while seeking rate increases. They ask why the City Commission waived a contract and whether it had constitutional authority, demanding immediate restoration of contract rates and clearer public accountability.
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Mobile Electric Company
Alabama Public Service Commission
S. P. Gaillard
Mobile
Electric Company
Public Service Commission
City Commission
Supreme Court
Light Company Shows Profit Two Months in 1919
Auditor George Rosson reports Mobile Electric Company earned a profit in January and February 1919, despite a boiler explosion in late February. The Alabama Public Service Commission orders a rate cut from 13 to 12 cents per first 100 kilowatt hours and monthly financial statements, effective April 20, 1919.
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George T. Rosson
Mobile Electric Company
Alabama
Ars Earace
Commission
George Rosson
Pee
8S. P. Rd
Mobile
Alabama Service
le Had Been’ Asking: How Much Reduction Will Mr. Gaillard
Alabama Public Service Commission
Smith
R. H. Smith
Mobile Electric County
Francis J. Inge
Het T. K. Jackson
Public Commission
Audito
Ees
Aly
Thesaad Ks
Scheurmann Placed At Chickasaw Office
First Lieutenant Blosson Scheurmann of the United States Army aviation service has returned to Mo and assumed his position at the office department. He has led the vonmeeas at law and commands a force of everce Ee him. Scheurmann trained at Sea Texas and later went to France where he flew behind American lines for several days before the armistice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blosson Scheurmann
States Army
Everce
Renenant Scheurmann
Texas
France
Work Cars of Tl. & N. Robbed at Magazine Point
Thieves stole $160 in money and a gold watch from Tl. & N. work cars at Magazine Point while workmen slept. Deputies have been unable to locate the culprits, according to a report to the county jail by BR. Floyd.
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Magazine Point
BR. Floyd
Chilean embassy to visit Mobile shipbuilders
The Chilean financial embassy, led by Sen or Eliodoro Yanez, arrives in New Orleans and plans a Gulf and Southern itinerary including Mobile brief visit. It aims to boost commercial ties via Panama Canal and seeks talks with U S shipbuilders on transportation and North American investment.
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Mobile
Chile
Panama Canal
New Orleans
Cartago
Eliodoro Yanez
Council of Ministers
Hague Court of Arbitration
Juan Enrique Tocornal
Chilean Congress
Augusto Villanueva
Bank of Chile
Luis Fidel Yanez
United States
Birmingham
Chattanooga
Atlanta
Washington
Yanez
North America
Chickasaw Land Deals Expand in North Mobile
Three property transactions surface in North Mobile as Chickasaw Land Company buys from Chickasaw Shipbuilding a tract at 16 500 and the Alabama Tennessee and Northern Railroad sells forty lots for 3 600. A parcel on St Francis near Claiborne changes hands from E M Bailey for John Spalich and Simon Klosky Rabby to Edward Halin with no price disclosed.
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Mobile City
Chickasaw Land Company
Chickasaw Shipbuilding Company
North Mobile
Nee
Fourth Street
Eighth Avenue
Mabama, Tennessee and Northern Railroad Company
Chickasaw Land Comets
Mobile
St. Francis
Claiborne
E. M. Bailey
John Spalich
Simon Klosky Rabby
Edward Halin
Raphael Valle Named Consul of Honduras in Mobile
Raphael Heliodoro Valle, secretary for the Honduran special diplomatic mission to Washington and former chancellor of the Honduran consulate in Mobile, is appointed consul in place of Dr. Alex Cordova. Valle, who also serves as education commissioner, previously headed the Mobile consulate in 1914 and held posts in Belize and Washington.
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Raphael Heliodoro Valle
Honduras
Washington
Mobile
Alex Cordova
New Orleans
Senor Valle
Belize
British Honduras
Peria
Dauphin Street Traffic Law Postponed Again
The city commission again tabled an ordinance to regulate traffic on Dauphin Street amid day by day conditions. Property owners on Chamberlain Avenue petitioned for pavement while five residents urged delaying work citing majority signers against it. A Pillans resolution calls for a full cost report and owner canvassing.
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Dauphin Street
City Commission
Pillans
Chamberlain Avenue
Weather Outlook for Alabama and Mississippi
Forecast from WALMINGTON on April 8 warns Alabama should be generally fair tonight and Wednesday with cooler temperatures. Mississippi expects unsettled conditions with probable showers tonight and Wednesday and cooler readings tonight in parts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walmington
Alabama
Rom Taslesiop
Ippi
Rarth Statian
Sunday School Convention Opens in Alabama
The Alabama Sunday School Association opened its annual convention at Government Street Presbyterian Church with 400 attendees. Spright Dowell urged that democracy remain safe through Christ’s life, and the session featured music by local groups and readings by church leaders.
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Alabama Sunday School Association
Spright Dowell
State Association
Government Street Presbyterian Church
Lloyd M. Hooper
Alabama
Mr. Dowell
Law Encourages Hog Raising by City Ordinance
At the regular city commission meeting an ordinance to promote hog sheep and goat raising outside the city was read. Meat animals may be butchered on premises if flies and filth are absent. Inspections cost ten cents per animal at the Southern market, proposed by Health Officer Charles A Mohr. The measure was laid over until the next meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Commission
Board of
Charles A. Mohr
Federal officers detain a woman over allotment fraud case
A woman living at 1 was taken into custody by U S Marshal Ed Lizzie Fantro 202 Beauregard securing warrants related to treas checks paid as allotment allowances to the wife of Albert Fantroy a cook in Geneva. The article notes the accused has not received her allotments and involves De potheneers in the investigation in this city.
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U.S
Ed Lizzie Fantro
Beauregard
Depotheneers
Charis
U. S. Treas
Alberta Fantroy
Geneva
Fantray
Albert
Retreat 10 Begins at St Marys Church
The men of a story gather for a church retreat at St Marys Church starting tonight at 7 30 led by C Gearns 1 College S J president. The retreat continues Thursday and Friday with services each night at 7 30 and a 5 30 mass on Thursday Friday and Saturday morning. The formal closing occurs next Sunday night.
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C. Gearns
1 College
S. J
Ao B
Army hospitals report 56 979 patients in treatment
Washington dispatch states 56 979 patients were under treatment in army hospitals on March 31. Of these, 35 214 were men from overseas, in a war department statistic.
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Washington
War Department
Public insurance wrangle stalls city schedule move
Public awaits next move as city insurance schedule faces a dispute over policy refusals by agents not aligned with two major companies. Officials and stockholders tied to insurers are named in letters alleging favoritism, with Lyons announcing the entire schedule to two firms as a remedy while the city vetos current policies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ehane
Hanessors Office
Ee Sh Tag Bevesnor
Pat Apne
Raders Insurance Company
Rere
George EE
Stonewall Insurance
Lyons
Pat J. Lyons
Ae Nee City Aches Tos Insurance
Wege
Zecko
Tende
Tern Tage
W. W
A. J
Gi Herman
Urance
Ten Young Women Consecrated as Missionaries in Memphis
Ten young women were consecrated for foreign missionary service and three as deaconesses at the Woman's Missionary Council session in Memphis. The group includes Miss Blanche Dashiell Hager born in Kobe and assigned to Japan, Miss Marguerite Hobson to China, Miss Alice Alsup to China, and Miss Dora Ingram serving in Nogales Mexico.
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Memphis
Tenn
Japan
Woman's Missionary Council of the
Methodist Church
South
Bish
M. Moore
Nashville
Sarah Gibson Brinkley
Waynesboro
Africa
Alice Alsup
Coleman
China
Marguerite Hobson
Sunny Side
Blanche Dashiell Hager
Kobe
Missouri
Crene
Fennia Virginia ‘Scott
Creek
D. C
Brazil
Airie Mc Craig
Austin
Texas
le Elizabeth
Fee Texas
Gattall
Chicago
Carer
Bremond
Korea
I Dora Ingram
Nogales
Ariz
Mission
Ico
Annie Alford
Mag- Te
Mine Kenma Vogel
Tise. Mo
Wilson Ship Ordered to Prepare for Journey
Paris dispatch reports the four power council met at Lloyd George's residence while President Wilson was absent. The George Washington was ordered to Brest and prepared for sea, with delays at the peace conference cited as the reason for the change. Assistant Secretary Roosevelt said the sailing was moved to Friday from Monday, pending final arrangements and possible return timing to Brest.
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Associated Press
Paris
Council of Four
Lloyd George
Wilson
White House
George Washington
Brest
Washington
New York
Roosevelt
Admiral Benson
France
New York Navy Yard
Ben
Wen
Thut
Objections Heard On Texas Oil Tank Expansion
Objectors from adjacent property to the Turner Terminal area will speak at noon Thursday as the city commission considers extending the boundary for storage tanks. Horace Turner warns tanks would increase hazards to property and shipments. the Texas Conc?re with the commission discusses docks, dredging 750 feet, and tank ships to serve Gulf coast trade.
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Texas Oil Company
Commission
Turner Terminal Company
Reublic Creosote Works
Exas Company
Horace Turner
Thursay
Texas Conc
Gulf of Mexico
Atlantic
Gulf Coast
Comesny
Ve Tuk
Etter
Aolls
Port Arthur
Tex
Ports Laexico
Michigan Bolts Prohibition Vote and Road Bond Passes
Detroit returns show voters approve a $50 million road-building fund while a liquor amendment fails to legalize light wine and beer. Michigan electors cast the heaviest spring ballot to date as women vote for the first time, with partial counts indicating broad support for the road plan and rejection of the liquor proposal.
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Associated Press
Detroit
Mich
Michigan
Bexver
Supreme Court
Ukrainian forces menace Kiev near city limits
Reports from Budapest dated April 6 say forces commanded by Simon Petiura, identified as Ukraine’s peasant leader, are approaching Kiev and are within a few miles of the capital, signaling a potential menace to the city.
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Budapest
Simon Petiura
Ukraine
Kiev
The
City
Soviet split in Bavaria imminent
An Associated Press dispatch from Copenhagen reports imminent secession moves in Bavaria as Communist factions refuse to collaborate with socialists. Munich declares a state of siege while a new soviet government outlines a council of revolutionary workers and a provincial move toward socialization and worker control amid calls for severing ties with the old German government.
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Associated’ Press
Copenhagen
Herr Landsberg
Magdeburg
Prussian Saxony
von Kleist
Fourth Army
Brandes
Filkel
Social Democrats and Members of the Bourmajority of the Magdeburg i
Stuttgart
Associated Press
Bavaria
At Juhrblatt
Munich
Ebert-Scheidemann
Germany
P Tiow
Lie of Revolutionary Workers
P of
Rsh
Eve Workingman
Landtag
Contem Ebert-Scheidemann
A. Republic
United States seaplanes aided curtail U Boens subs
From Boston April 8 Associated Press reports Captain Thomas C. Craven of the U S Navy says French records show U S naval air forces in France damaged or destroyed several German submarines. He describes a growing U S air fleet at Brest and notes cautious figures on sinkings and aging of craft.
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Associated Press
Boston
United States Naval
Thomas C. Craven
U.S. N
Avia
France
Amermnon
Conserva
Craven
United States
Brest
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Il. and
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Raphael Valle
WEA
Superintendent of Education
Deid
Nvention
T. M. Makin
Ethel Beane
Gadsden Music Club
Angs
8. S. Tam
Narha Mears
V. Henry Wade du Bose
ST. Mary’s Church
FB. Adams & Son
F. M. Backes
H. Butler
Adolph Brown
Croom
Ti Ire
D -Ta Realty Company
Jos. Espa Jr. Co
Foreman & Mr
Thomas J. Geary
J. K. Giennon & Gordon
Hermann & Hynde
Mc. Maury
Poe
G. Horn Realty Do Realty & Insurance Company
McHugh & Hamilton
Note House
Dm France
Siqn
Patt
Petit Parisien
Mestions
Pa 6
Reiter
Acme
Hamburg
Berlin
Fenberg
Bremen
U. S
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