County bonds fund first loan payment to keep roads going
Tone sends 909,100 for loan charge with semi annual payment ment for county way and bridge bonds from the 5,000,000 issue. Guaranty Trust of New York received the interest as the first bond payment. Funds from early sales of bonds should cover highway and bridge work until spring. John R. Peavy, highway engineer, says reappointment funds will enable continued improvements.
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County Way
Guaranty Trust of
New York
George Stone
John R. Peavy
Ty Bagrd
Northcott Ill Charged With Slaying Across Counties
Gordon Stewart Northcott, awaiting trial in two California counties, faces pending Riverside and Los Angeles cases over the murder of Alvin Kea. He has confessed to prior killings linked to the Mojave desert graves and was remanded to custody after pleas of not guilty were entered.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Gordon Stewart Orthcott
Wiself
Riverside
Mojave
Alvin Kea
Puente
Macy
Los
Northcott
Man Arrested After Death of Pearl Potoskey in Missouri
In St Louis area authorities arrested Sol Hohenthal a DeSoto merchant after Pearl Potoskey was found dead with a bullet to the head. A .38 pistol was found on Hohenthal who claimed the woman killed herself. Relatives and investigators pursued the case as services were held.
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Hohenthal
Stone Laboring On Budget Ahead Of January Meeting
County treasurer George Stone works on the annual report and tentative budget for 1929 as the county board prepares for a January session. Departments seek more funds, with maintenance chief C L Strange pushing for increases. The budget includes a $200 monthly county share for tuberculosis control, with the city and state to follow.
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County Board of Revenue
George Stone
C. L. Strange
Charles Mohr
Azalea Plant Orders Flood Mobile Neighborhoods
The Azalea Trail Committee of the Junior Chamber of Commerce reports a large list of orders for azalea plants at its weekly meeting. Marion Draughon heads the committee with 184 orders led by Dr. Russell Goodloe on Government Street. Other reporters note numerous orders across Dauphin, Ann, Laurel, Macy places, Georgia Avenue and nearby streets, with full participation in some blocks and several vacant-home exclusions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Marion Draughon
Russell Goodloe
Government Street
Donald Smith
Dauphin Street
Curtis Kendall
Ann Street
Dauphin
Springhill Avenue
Dan Dix
South Ann Street
Government
Mr. Dix
Macy Place
Macy Street
Capt
A. J. Tellier
Laurel Street
Bert Sells
Georgia Avenue
Will Todd
Fire Truck Collides With City Car in Dallas
Dallas M Ward assistant manager Waterman Steamship Company injured when his car hits Fire Truck No 6 at Claiborne and St Louis streets. Ward assisted to city hospital by Fire Captain Robert Ruse and was not seriously hurt. Firemen unharmed and car heavily damaged.
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Dallas M. Ward
Waterman Steamship Company
Claiborne
St. Louis Strets
Ward
Robert Ruse
Suit Filed for 25000 Damages Against Mobile Bay Bridge
Lonnie Flowers sues the Mobile Bay Bridge Company in circuit court seeking 25000 for injuries from a May 28 incident when the draw span was raised in front of his truck, causing a collision and severe injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile Bay Bridge Company
Lonnie Flowers
Officials Flounder in Maze of Contradictions in Coffee Case
A broad hunt for Christopher C. Coffee's body continues in Alabama as four accused Black suspects confess. investigators from Clarke Washington and Mobile counties with state and federal officers fail to locate the body or key items. Carson Lewis is named as the killer. other suspects and informants provide inconsistent versions. A missing shotgun a diamond Masonic ring and Coffee's funds remain unfound.
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Alabama
Mobile
Hal's Lake
Christopher C. Coffee
H. N. Stevenson
Carson Lewis
John Lewis
Coffee
Clarke
Washington County
Mobile County
Percy Lang
Bill Lang
Jerry York
Beauregard Street
Jackson
Caroline Lang
Co Ity
Dudley McFayden
G. McVay
Carson Lang
Mr. Coffee
Hester Re elected Secretary at New Orleans Cotton Exchange
Col. Henry G. Hester, veteran cotton man, was reelected for the 58th term as secretary of the New Orleans cotton exchange. He heads into his fifty ninth year and is regarded as a world authority on cotton statistics whose figures underpin government reports and Liverpool Cotton Association analyses.
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New Orleans
Henry G. Hester
Mussolini to address chamber in solemn last session
Premier Mussolini will give an important speech in the chamber on Saturday marking the last session of the outgoing legislature. Fascist deputies are ordered to attend in black shirts with their decorations for the solemn session.
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Rome
Mussolini
Chest Plea for Quick Payment to Mobile Community Chest
An appeal was made at the chest office for immediate payment of 1928 pledges to fund monthly allocations to member agencies. About $12,000 is needed as checks to agencies are due on the 10th, with many pledges delinquent and the 1928 fund low. A $10 donation from Mobile barbers union was announced alongside moves to relocate the executive secretary.
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Mobile Community Chest
the Chest
Peoples Bank
Thomas 8
Ellis
Lowenstein
Barbers’ Union of Mobile
Haugen Doubts Adequate Farm Relief Bill Prospects
Chairman Haugen said there is grave doubt about passing an adequate farm relief bill this session. He noted division among supporters on how far to push relief and tariff revision, with concern about conforming aid before a new tariff schedule is set. He criticized McNary-Haugen as lacking sufficient tariff teeth.
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Washington
Haugen
House Agriculture Committee
Congress
Friends of Farm Relief
Ways and Means Committee
Relatives Sought for Woman Identified as Mrs Morton
Authorities pursued relatives of a woman identified as Mrs H Morton of Sanaco California found asphyxiated yesterday morning in a Government street apartment. She rented the unit the day she checked in and had a savings account of 400 dollars with Canal Bank and Trust Company. The body was held at Dixon Mell funeral home. The woman registered at Battle House Saturday and checked out Monday morning. She was about 34 years old, 5 feet 4 inches, 129 pounds. She had stopped at Jung hotel in New Orleans and appeared en route to Florida for the winter.
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8. Morton
Sanaco
Cal
Government Street
Dixon & Mel
Battle House
Canal Bank and Trust Company of
New Orleans
Jung Hotel
Florida
Slain Wayward Widow in Towanda on Robbery Motive
Police sweep Towanda Pennsylvania after a wealthy widow is found slain in her home. Bloody prints on a lamp shade and on a car tonneau suggest robbery as the motive. Notes implying departure and a cryptic code alarm relatives, who doubt handwriting and identify no clear suspects.
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Towanda
M. O
Directors Confer at Family Welfare Bureau Meeting
The regular monthly meeting of directors of the Family Welfare bureau will be held Friday at 4 PM at the Lowenstein building offices. Reports on activities will be given and relief work discussed as cold weather increases calls for help. Dr. C. A. Mohr is president and Miss Florence Van Sickler is executive secretary.
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Family Welfare Bureau
Bureau
Lowenstein Building
C. A. Mohr
Florence van Sickler
Turkey approves funding terms for historic railway deal
The Turkish government definitively ends the German built Anatolian Baghdad railway dispute. Turkey agrees to repay 530 percent back interest and four and one half percent interest on various stocks, shaping postwar transport finance.
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Constantinople
Bagdad
Turkey
Tip of Her Nose Worth $22,500 as Jury Rules
A jury in Oklahoma City awarded Miss Mounts 22500 damages after a bus crash caused her to lose three eighths of an inch of her nose. Mounts, a freshman at Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, is depicted in the image.
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Miss Mounts
Oklahoma City
Okla
Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College
King George’s Condition Improves Slowly in Illness
Buckingham Palace reports King George’s health shows a fair night, lower fever, and slowly improving general condition after 17 days of illness. Doctors note the infective process remains severe but more localized, urging cautious optimism.
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London
George
Buckingham Palace
Lord Dawson of
Penn
Sir Stanley Hewett
C of C Resumes Work After Move to New Building
The Mobile Chamber of Commerce restarts regular duties after relocating to the Title Insurance Company building on St Francis Street. A temporary setup handles work while new furniture arrives. The Mobile office of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce moves its manager L W Jamen here. The Automobile Club also relocates from the Cawthon Hotel and will assume road and tourist information duties.
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Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Title Insurance Company
St. Francis Street
L. W. Jamen
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Automobile Club
Cawthon Hotel
Chamber of Commerce
Officers Elected at Maple Camp Woodmen of the World
Officers of Maple Camp Woodmen of the World were elected for the coming year at the annual meeting. They will be installed at the first January meeting. Named are Henry Ledebur past chancellor E F Koppersmith banker Charles Delhomme clerk Adolph Jacob escort R H Calloway watchman Peter Untrevier sentinel Thomas P Lynch M Denmark F T Kopper smith auditors Dr J T Inge H F Hale and Dr H R Cogburn physicians.
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Maple Camp
Woodmen of the World
Henry Ledebur
E. F. Koppersmith
Charles Delhomme
Adolph Jacob
R. H. Calloway
Peter Untrevier
Sentinel
Thomas P. Lynch
J. T. Inge
F. Hale
H. R. Cogburn
Odell to Speak From WJAX On Gulf, Mobile and Northern
P E Odell vice and general manager of the Gulf Mobile and Northern railroad will address the Jacksonville chamber of commerce this evening. The 6 25 pm broadcast from station WJAX will cover the development of South Inc and related railroad plans.
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P. E. Odell
Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad
Jacksonville
Fla
Interstate Commerce Commission Seeks Rail Regulation Reforms
In its annual report the Interstate Commerce Commission requests major and minor changes to federal railroad law. It seeks broader powers to consolidate systems, authority to delegate hearings to members and staff, and exemptions from jurisdiction for electric railways except for interchanging standard freight equipment with steam lines and participating in interstate freight rates.
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Washington
Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Vince
Portahonat
Prohibition agent dies in underground whiskey cave incident
In Houston a Prohibition Bureau team investigates the death of Pat Sharpe age 40, found in a liquor cave after descening with Victor Guthod and two others. Sharpe cried go back then collapsed. colleagues hauled him out as searchers battled fumes and darkness.
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Houston
Tex
Prohibition
Pat Sharpe
Sharpe
Victor Buthod
Dredge Pasco goula deepens Gulfport channel to 25 feet
Announcement by Colonel W. D. A. Anderson, U S engineer in charge of the Mobile district, states the Pasca goula dredge has completed deepening the Gulfport channel to 25 feet. The project began in September.
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Gulfport
W. D. A. Anderson
United States
Mobile District
Pascagoula
Ambassador MacVeagh sails home from Yokohama
United States ambassador Charles MacVeagh and his wife sailed from Yokohama for the United States today aboard the Empress of France. The departure marks the end of their Tokyo stay as diplomatic representatives.
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U. 8
Japan
Tokyo
Charles MacVeagh
United States
Senate Battle Delays Cabinet Officer Confirmation
Senate fight looms over a cabinet nominee linked to the Insull public utility. The administration has sent the Interior Secretary hopeful's name, but opponents plan to block the submission until the next Congress.
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Interior
Bones
Vieweiner 6
Senate
Onse
Coolidge Nominates West and Whiting for Interior
President Coolidge sent to the Senate for confirmation the appointments of Roy C. West as Interior Secretary and William F. Whiting in the same post. West faces potential opposition due to Insull connections, while Whiting faces no open opposition as Congress opens.
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Senate
Washington
West
Insull
Far West
Coolidge
Congress
Whiting
Farrell Nominated for Vermont and District of Columbia
Names submitted list Patrick J. Farrell of Vermont and the District of Columbia as nominees. The item notes a formal nomination and references the date December 6 in Washington.
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Washington
Patrick J. Farrell
Vermont
District of Colum
Navy Chiefs to Be Presented to King Victor Emmanuel in Rome
Rome reports King Victor Emmanuel will receive Rear Admiral John H. Dayton commanding the U S Mediterranean squadron and Captain William K. Riddle chief of staff and others. They will be presented by Captain Holmes the naval attaché at the American embassy. Premier Mussolini will meet the officers tomorrow at the ministry of the marine.
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Rome
Victor Emmanuel
John H. Dayton
Mediterranean
United States
Wiliam K. Riddle
Holmes
Mussolini
Ministry of Marine
Panama hires American economist for national survey
Panama announces the government engaged George E. Roberts, a statistician from National City Bank of New York, to conduct an economic survey of the republic. He will be paid a salary matching his bank remuneration plus travel and other expenses.
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Panama
George E. Roberts
National City Bank of New York
The
Republic
Roberta
National City Bank
Concert to Win Federal Waterworks Aid Urged
Washington dispatch reports the need for federal waterway aid urged by Senator Shipstead Minnesota and Senator Ranadell. They call for midwest and coastal cooperation to develop waterways, flood control and transport, arguing ocean rates must be regulated to remove port discrimination at the Mississippi mouth.
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Washington
Middle West
National
Rivers
Congress
Shipstead
Minnesota
Ranadell
Ees
Panama Canal
George J. Miller
Secre
Tary
Missouri River Navigation Associa
Mississippi Valley
Missippi Valley
Senator Shipstead
Mid-West
Midwest
Mississippi
1000-Gallon Gasoline Tank Explodes Off Port Canaveral
Four men remain unaccounted for after the yacht Aero burned four miles off Melbourne Beach during the night. Only survivor identified is George Sergos of Jacksonville Florida. Search for other crew members continues as wreckage is spotted on the sea.
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Aero Bound
Jacksonville
Palm Beach
Port Canaveral
Fia
Aero
Melbourne Beach
George Sergos
Fla
Robbery Report From Local Yards and Car Theft
Residents report thefts in their yards and nearby streets. Mary B. King at 707 Davia Avenue says intruders entered her yard Tuesday and fled when confronted. Hol Eaton at 454 Short Beauregard Street lists stolen rooster and two hens. Susie Bell Rowland at 1 Julian Avenue Crichton reports a generator distributor taken from her car.
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Ieves
Mary B. King
Davia Avenue
Hol Eaton
Beauregard Street
Susie Bell Rowland
Julian Avenue
Crichton
Paris Moves to Tighten Unlisted Stock Market Control
A bill to tighten control of the unlisted stock market will be introduced in Parliament following the Gazette du Franc case. Publisher Marthe and her ex-husband were arrested with two more arrests expected as Premier Poincare directs a funds movement shakeup with stock brokers and bankers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Gazette du Franc
Marthe Aa
Ery
Segirainn S
Poincare
Sheron
Zimbalist Improves After Abdominal Operation
New York December 6. Bifrem Zimbalist the Russian violinist who had a serious abdominal operation on November 23 is reported so well on the road to recovery that he may be discharged before Christmas.
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New York
Bifrem Zimbalist
Weather Summary for Alabama and Mississippi
Partly cloudy tonight with a cloudy, warmer Friday in Alabama and a chance of rain in the extreme southwest. Moderate northeast winds. In Mississippi, partly cloudy and warmer with moderate winds and southern areas also warmer.
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Alabama
Mississippi
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