Bay Bridge Route Approval Sees Feasibility and Savings
Colonel W A Mc Calla reports the Mobile Baldwin bridge from Saraland to Old Blakeley Landing is feasible and cheaper than other routes. Route C is deemed unfeasible, Route B would cost over 2.5 million, while Route A is put at about 1.492 million. The commission will review the proposal at the state capital.
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Mobile- Baldwin
Saraland
Old Blakeley
Mobile Bay
W. A. McCalla
Gate Highway Commission
McCalla
MccCalla
Delta
Alabama
Mobile
Baldwin
Bagier
Civic clubs hear legion men speak at state convention
Kiwanis and Rotary members will hear speeches from American Legion leaders as the state convention opens tomorrow at the Battle House. Legion Commander Matt Murphy will address a luncheon, and national vice commander EB V Cocke of Dawson, Georgia will speak to Rotarians. The talks center on the aims and purposes of the American Legion.
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Kiwanis
Rotary Clubs
American Legion
Matt Murphy
Armier
State Legion
Battle House
EB. V. Cocke
Dawson
Rotarians
Leon
Inspection of culvert on road near Crichtonville
Towle of the board of cavipoar and the county engineer were inspecting the culvert at the road between Crichtonville where Matthew Keen died Saturday night after plunging in the water. He was tied against the side of the culvert when the accident occurred.
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Rman A
Towle
Board of Cavipoar
Thie Eheracon
Crichtonville
Matthew Keen
Reduction in fruit shipping rates through Mobile to Shreveport
Freight rates on tropical fruits moving through Mobile to Shreveport La were reduced today to the same level as fruit moving through New Orleans. The move, urged by the Mobile Chamber of Commerce, aims to restore fair competition with Louisiana ports for business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Shreveport
Tra Department
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Louison Ports
Louisiana City
Erie Erates
County Plans Add Three Bike Officers If Legislation Passes
Indications show a flood of applications for three cycle officer posts to be created if a motor bill from Native William H. Holcombe becomes law. Revenue and road commissioners report strong interest from residents seeking the $200 monthly positions.
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William H. Holcombe
County of Revenue
Lawn Party at Palmes Chapel Details
A lawn party will be held on the Palmes Methodist Church lawn at Government Street Road and Mohawk Street from 6 30 to 16 30. Games and sports for all ages with refreshments served. A 3 o'clock wedding is noted in the program.
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Palmes Methodist Church
Government Street
Mohawk ‘Street
Manly
Unclear Weather Forecast From August Site
Fragmentary weather note predicts showers in Mississippi with warm temperatures and possible clearing by Wednesday. The garbled text limits precise timing and locations but indicates unsettled trend through midweek.
Taxi Driver Bolling Arrested On Vagrancy Charge
Robert Bolling, a taxi driver, told the recorder he was arrested while standing at Government and Royal streets soliciting votes for Dr. A G Ward against City Commissioner George E Crawford. The recorder dismissed the vagrancy case after hearing evidence that Bolling had not worked for years and was in ill health.
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Robert Bolling
Recorder
Royal Streets
A. G. Ward
George E. Crawford
Bolling
C. W. Tompkins
Jack Harper
Tross
Tomp
Ollie Hubbard
Government
Taxi Company No. 10
Harper
Larry Minto
Taxi Company No. 19
City Split Over No Man's Land Bill For Streets
Read into minutes were exchanges between Mayor R. V. Taylor and Commissioner H. T. Hartwell about making county streets city streets without county compensation. Hartwell urged state legislators to set the compensation, while Taylor questioned the idea. July bills totaled 13 378.31 and August payroll 16 620.80.
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R. V. Taylor
H. T. Hartwell
No Man's Land
City Commission
Hartwell
Taylor
Hamilton
Maryland
Sutton Avenue
F. L
Sisters of the Poor
Ocean Department
Gebhardt Fined $101 in Prohi Law Case
Gebhardt, charged with using a Choctaw playground as a drinking place, was fined 101 dollars plus costs or thirty days in recorder's court. He appealed and demanded a jury trial on an assault and battery charge linked to an alleged seaman assault. John Kruse Jr. was discharged.
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Ward Gebhardt
Recorder’s Court
Gebhardt
Recorder
John Kruse, Jr
Reeb
Maryland Street
Eae Ee
William Aere
Voters Cast in Bond Issue Election
Voters in the city cast ballots on a 350000 bond issue for city improvements including sewerage and streets. Polling places reported very light forenoon turnout with only a few voters at most stations.
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Steekely
Election officers named for September 16 municipal vote
After a heated commission session this morning the panel for election duties on September 16 was set. Taylor Crawford Ward bid representation, Hartwell opposed, final roll assigns inspectors clerks and returning officers across eight wards with multiple polling boxes and precincts.
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Taylor and Crawford
A. G. Ward
Crawford
Hartwell
Taylor
Dr. Ward
Taylor and Awtord
First Ward
Cea
Northeast Royal
State Streets
Price W. Tompkins
A. B. Mody
W. M. Wood
James Farrell
Henry Horst, Jr
Hallett
Oeeaene
Bob Aoe
Meranville
J. W. Little
J. M. van Liew
Bidgood
Frank Laurendine
Fifth Ward
Forth Side
Charleston
Conception Street
Tom Gadik
R. B. Turner
J. B. Crow
W. E. Flynn
Remy Nelson
Mike Steeber
Northwest Conception
New Jersey
N. W. Stubbs
Walton L. Sink
Henry Stiller
J. W. Hester
Richard Sullivan
William Hahn
Sixth Ward
Southeast Canal
Cedar Streets
L. B. Freeland
James J. Doyle
J. A. Hughes
Peter E. Claussen
M. Metz
J. F. Bullock
Texas Street
Lawrence Street
W. E. Lemp
F. Harrison
William J. Hyde
W. D. Sketoe
A. 8
Tew
Joe McNamara
Seventh Ward
Omas Taylor
Eighth Ward
Ann Street
Government Street
A. B. Stovall
J. L. Moulton
B. F. MecMillan
Alvin Farmer
N. E. Bragg
Terry L. Moore
Sawmill man Walter Randall appeals illness excuse in court
G R Randall of Mississippi, accused of intoxicated driving on Lafayette Street, swerving onto a sidewalk and striking a fence, failed to prove illness caused the act. The recorder fined him 25 dollars after testimony by Police Officer Mayher and Detective Moody. the city merged the charge. Randall claimed sudden blindness and illness, and said he was treated at City hospital after arrest.
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G.R. Randall
Mississippi
Lafayette Street
Frank S. Roche
Recorder
An & State E
Randall
Nee
City Hospital
Treatmen
Mayher
Moody
Mobile delegate to attend meeting
A member of the Mobile Chamber of Commerce traffic department will represent Mobile shippers at a Southeast Shippers' Regional Advisory Board car service division meeting in Atlanta or Montgomery. The aim is to report fall freight car needs and offset a car shortage, with October expected as peak movement month. R G Cobth of the Mobile Chamber serves on the naval stores committee.
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Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Mobile Shippers
Car Service Division
Southeast Shippers’ Regional Advisory Board
Atlanta
Montgomery
Man and Wife Win Emory Masters Degrees
Atlanta editors report Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Hubbard Crowson Jr. earned masters degrees from Emory University after meeting at Ashbury College Kentucky. The couple, married in 1930, welcomed a two and a half month old baby as Crowson took post graduate work with a church mission.
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Atlanta
Ernest Hubbard Crowson
Emory Unive
Ashbury College
Kentucky
E. Wee
J. Crowéon
Crow
Broadway Mystery Deepens in Sutphen Death Case
Police probe murder of John H Sutphen private secretary found dead with a warm pipe and cyanide allegedly in his stomach. Investigators note two women connected to Sutphen in New Jersey and New York as potential leads while exploring poisoning method and motive.
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York
Aus
Daetites Pree
Broadway
Ly Ie
John H. Butphen
Sutphen
New Jersey
Cenme
Fire Breaks Out in Capitol With Minimal Damage
Fires of undetermined origin erupted in the basement of the United States Capitol early today and were extinguished before spreading. Workers flooded the area with hundreds of gallons of water, confining the blaze to a room storing cordwood for Senate office building fireplaces. No damage estimate available.
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Washington
United States Capitol
Senate
Mobile to Send Delegate to Meet Board of Governors
The Mobile Chamber of Commerce will be represented at a meeting of the board of governors of the Southern Traffic League in Atlanta in September. The body will discuss the commodity rate revision undertaken by carriers and the important rate changes on goods moving through Mobile.
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Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Ned and Ned’s Bondage in a Swift Transition
From Sybarite to the new life, Ned faces a swift transition and bondage shared with the woman he believed would be his wife. He fights no master yet endures an ordeal few could survive, discovering his true mate beside him.
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Ned
Gunmen Fire At Labor Leader William Z Foster In Chicago
William Z Foster, radical labor figure, was targeted by three gunmen who invaded a meeting of striking workers in Chicago. Shots were fired as the assailants fled down a fire escape, none touching Foster. audience chaos followed amid claims of anti Foster elements.
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Chicago
Tila
William Z. Foster
Coke Axe
Organ
Ty IP
Foster
Mine Workers Conference Averts Anthracite Strike
Members of the United Mine Workers have been summoned to Hazleton Pennsylvania for a conference with miners chiefs and operators and Governor Pinchot to act on proposals to avert an anthracite coal strike. The meeting follows talks in Harrisburg and aims to resolve issues before September 1.
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Hazleton
Fee
United Mine Me
Harrisburg
Matc
Hese Ane Capocese
Pinchot
British yachtsmen win third Seawanhaka Cup race
ROTHESAY Scotland Aug 28 The British cutter Colla II won the third Seawanhaka cup race against the American six meter Lea giving Britain two races to one after Lea was disabled in today’s contest Lea won yesterday and Colla II won on Saturday
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Rothesay
Scotland
Associated Press
Colla
Lea
Case 1S Continued for Eighth Time in Burglary Case
The recorder denied dismissal for Johnny Jones Mores charged with burglary and reset the case for Friday. A subpoena was ordered for A J Paterson of Biloxi Mississippi, said to have robbed a home at Dauphin and Lafayette streets. This marked the eighth postponement.
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Recorder
F. K. Hale
Johnny, Jones
Mores
Biloxi
Migs
A. J. Paterson
Dauphin
Lafayette Streets
Negro Granted Bail in Shooting Case
Vincent Bassinger, a defendant described as a negro, was granted bail of 2500 dollars in a shooting case against Jules Dunlap alias Ben Cohen. The court did not enter evidence at the defense request through attorney EB G Rickard y. Dr T N Harris testified Dunlap's condition was very unfavorable and in grave danger. A new trial date was set for October 16.
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Vincent Bassinger
Jules Dunlap
Ben Cohen
EB. G. Rickardy
Bassinger
T. N. Harris
Dunlap
Reily Names Coolidge as G O P Nominee in 1924
E Mont Reily of Kansas City former Porto Rico governor predicted in St Louis that Coolidge would secure the Republican nomination on the first ballot in 1924. He also said Senator Ralston of Indiana would be the Democratic nominee.
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Louis
E. Mont Reily
Kanneas City
Porto Rico
Coolidge
Republican National Committee
Senator Ralston
Indiana
Democratic Party
Coolidge Cancels Cabinet Meeting
Washington August 28 The semi weekly cabinet meeting was canceled again by President Coolidge and cabinet members were informed no meetings would be held for an indefinite period or until officials on vacation return to Washington.
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Washington
Coolidge
Arbitration acts postponed by uniform laws conference
Final adoption of a uniform arbitration act and a uniform chattel mortgage act was postponed until next year’s meeting at the closing session of the national conference of the uniform state laws. Next year’s meeting will be held in the same city chosen by the American Bar Association.
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Minneapolis
Minn
National Conference of the Uniform
American Bar Association
Mississippi Democrats cast ballots for governor nomination
In Jackson Mississippi on August 28 Democrats voted in a state election seen as effectively choosing the governor nominee. The race focused on H L Whitfield and Theo G Bilbo, with Bilbo led in country areas and Whitfield drawing substantial female support from his long presidency at the Mississippi State College for Women. The total vote set a new state record, surpassing forecasts by about 22 000.
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Jackson
Miss
Polis
H. L. Whitfield
Theo G. Bilbo
Iting Far
J. HL Holton
Railroad
Aoae
Bride
Beidine
Bilbo
Mary
Abe
Firat
Venga
Gethermen
Whitfield
Mississippi State College For Women
Possible New Parleys in Reparations Near
Paris reports an Alpine shift toward negotiating a settlement on reparations after Belgium’s reply to Britain. Each major power shows a prepared stance with similar money figures. The question is who will initiate talks, with British Prime Minister Baldwin likely to meet French Premier Poincare before his London trip.
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Paris
Associated Press
Belgium
Stanley Baldwin Ie
France
Poincare
London
Missing Denver Woman Suspected in Camp Death
An officer reported searching the Italian section late at night and again at dawn for a man linked to Emma Vascovic 19 and Mrs Laura who were involved in a Denver vacation camp incident. Authorities consider the death possibly a self-inflicted act following nursing investigations.
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Ydenver
Denver Athletic
Emma Vascovic
Vormmer
Laura
Tomate Ra
Records smashed by daring flight across continent
Associated Press reports a bold long distance flight setting multiple speed and duration records. The aims included 2500 kilometer legs and a cross country attempt from Rockwell field, with pilots achieving hours and minutes milestones and edging past previous marks set by Oakley Kelly and John A. Mine.
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Associated Press
Rockwell Field
Cops Push Back Against Portrayals In Film
Los Angeles police object to film depictions of crime training schools and violence. August Vollmer, chief of police, condemns constant scenes of men being assaulted and saloons with flour, beer, and serving girls.
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LOS Angelee
August Vollmer
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