Cold Wave Forecast Strikes Mobile With Freezing Night
The Weather Bureau predicts a killing frost tonight with temperatures near 30 degrees in Mobile. A high barometer area moves southeast from Texas to the Alleghenies bringing fair weather elsewhere, while snow reaches Aberdeens and Columbus, Mississippi.
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Mobile Wednesay
Toring
Ne Weather Bureau
Uring
Weather Bureau
Aberdeen
Columbus
Miss
Atlantic States
Mississippi River
Texas
South Dakota
Allegheny Mountains
Mobile
Washington Drys Hold First Test on Wet Speech and Appropriation
Washington observers report the session will vote on the proposed appropriation to purchase Celt or falsehood in a debate about enforcing the dry law. Speakers denounce agents aiding violations, while party loyalties and dry defense dominate the discussion as wets seek support.
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Washington
San Senate
White Christmas Service Pageant Arrives at Broad Street
A White Christmas service and pageant are planned at Broad Street Methodist with children performing Christmas stories and songs. Lucile Arnold leads readings from The Pilgrim's Quest and The Story of the Nativity as students present carols and scenes including Clap Your Hands and Santa themed numbers.
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Broad Street
Ei Lucile Arnold
Bill Kyle
J. T. Reese
Helen Grube
Richard Brown
Santa
Marvin Green
Dorothy Burke
Margaret Rush
Man Held on Larceny Plea in Memphis Case
Claude Mitchell of Memphis Tenn 16 pleaded guilty to grand larceny in Recorder D H Edington s court after being caught by Officer Charlies Du Tmas selling stolen jewelry valued over 100 dollars The case involved a purse theft from Mrs Berrott s home and a missing 28 dollars. Freddie Lett was bound over for grand jury on similar counts.
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Claude Mitchell
Memphis
Tenn
D. H. Edington
Mitchell
Charlies du ™Mas
Freddie Lett
Ad Jury
Peter Berrott
MacPhillips Place
Park expert to be brought to city for planning talks
A park and playground specialist will be brought to the city under a resolution to confer with the park planning commission. The consultant will discuss parks and suburbs with city officials for up to eight weeks at a cost not to exceed 105 dollars weekly. The city also approved issuing 200000 dollars in school bonds. Fire department members sent thanks for waterproof suits the city provided.
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Park Commissio
Peoence
Incoming Mail Floods Local Post Office as Peak Arrives
Crowds gathered at the local post office as yesterday marked the peak for outgoing mail and today and tomorrow are expected to bring the heaviest incoming mail shipments. The influx overwhelmed counters while many patrons stood in line seeking service.
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Mona
Weather forecast for coast and Mississippi region
Weather note says fair tonight and Wednesday with colder temperatures near freezing or below along the coast and a killing frost. Northwest winds diminish. Mississippi area remains fair tonight and Wednesday.
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Aena
Mississippi
Market opens with uneven price moves across tensions
Trading at the New York open shows mixed gains and losses among major issues. Fleischmann up four points while Postum, Hudson and several others rise or fall modestly amid variable volume and a bear market pause.
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New York
Fleischmann
Postum Cereal
Hudson
Pan-American
Colorado
United States Rubber and Marine Preferred
Bearng
Bullis
Chrysler
Canadian Pacific
General Electric
General Motors
Pressed Steel
Cotton futures open barely steady in early trading
New York price quotes show January at 18.39, March 18.70, May 18.40, July 18.10, October 17.75 as futures begin trading on December 22.
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New York
New Orleans Cotton Futures Open Steady
New Orleans December cotton futures opened steady with December at 18.67 cents per pound. January 1845 contracts at 18.45, March 18.16, May 17.83, July around 17.? and October 17.15.
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New Orleans
Four Men Held on Robbery Charge in Montgomery
Four men, represented by licitor Jack Courtney, were ordered to remain in custody as witnesses prepare. They are accused of robbing Bias Johnson a Louisville fireman of $9 and a Waltham watch at St Emanuel and Auguste streets on December 15. A continuance was granted to December 24. Defense attorneys E J Grove and Ben McMillan represent them.
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Licitor
Jack Courtney
Montgomery
Recorder
Bias Johnson
Louisville
Waltham Watch
St. Emanuel
Auguste
E. J. Grove
Ben McMillan
Still Located by Raiders Struck in Mississippi Raid
Federal agents and state officers raided a still west of Tanner Williams near the Mississippi line destroying eighteen barrels of mash and a 50 gallon drum setup. A 50 gallon drum still and sixteen barrels of mash were also destroyed three miles west of Buck's Crossing. George Jackson, 14, was among those arrested and sent to federal court in Biloxi. Officers Graves Hughes and Robbins led the operation.
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Tanner-Williams
Mississippi Line
Graves
Gillespie
Pruitt
George Jackson
Biloxi
Miss
Buck's Crossing
Graves and
Hughes
W. O. Robbins, Jr
Luckenbch Steamship Rate Case Set for Washington Hearing
The Luckenbey Steamship Line sues railroads for failing to give proportional rates from Pacific coasts to Gulf orta and interior points. A hearing is scheduled in Washington in January. Mobile Chamber of Commerce may intervene and send a representative.
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Luckenbech Steamship Line
Pacific
Gulforta
Interior Points
Washington
Mobile
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Heavy storms sweep France and Spain as Paris suffers
Storms rage across France and parts of Spain with Paris and its surroundings hit hard. Buildings lose walls, streets blocked by debris, and a major highway out of Paris is damaged. For a time disaster seemed possible as the area endured the worst of the weather.
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Paris
France
Spain
Bandits Strike Car Barn in Toledo
In Toledo on December 22 three masked men robbed a car barn, entering the premises and taking valuables. Police source reports the incident as a bold daytime raid with no injuries yet confirmed.
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Bandits
Toledo
City Votes Bond to Buy Incinerators in January Election
City commissioners adopt an ordinance for a special bond issue of 856000 to fund two incinerators. The election is set for January 25 the same day as the library bond vote. Mayor Crawford supports the need for the equipment and its benefits. A related resolution endorses linking the Tennessee river to the Tom Bigbee system with plans for a southern states meeting. The new license ordinance is postponed, and December 26 is declared a holiday for city workers.
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Board of Health
Googe H
H Crawford
Tennessee
John
Brewers Secret Panels and Beer Smuggling Schemes Revealed
Reported in Chicago the claim that brewers used hidden panels and a subterranean steam pipe to move beer. Agents describe near beer production by de alcoholizing real beer and slipping full strength beer out openly, guarded by stockades and police dogs.
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Wight
Peeservice
Lewis Says Miners Forced to Fight
John L. Lewis president of the United Mine Workers says despite concessions there is no peace in the industry and warns there is nothing left to do but continue to fight for miners. The statement was issued from Philadelphia on December 22.
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Philadelphia
John L. Lewis
The
United Mine Workers of
Train Strikes Car. Wife and Children Recover
Mrs W B White and two children were reported recovering after their car was struck by a Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis railway passenger train near Aulon station Memphis. Husband W B White was killed instantly in the Christmas shopping tour accident.
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Memphis, Tenn
W. B. White
Nashville, Chattanooga and
Girl Quizzed in Atlanta Grocer Killing Case
An unidentified twenty year-old girl was questioned by Atlanta police on December 22 as part of the investigation into the slaying of W. H. Cheek, a local grocer, at the hands of two young bandits on the previous Saturday night.
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Atlanta, Ga
W. H. Cheek
Atlanta
Flea Powder Ordered To Save Foxes Off Plymouth
A wireless demand from the Naer Rotterdam sought three pounds of powder to treat 161 silver foxes aboard for a famine relief cargo. The foxes, arriving from the United States, needed the powder before landing, and Plymouth townspeople conducted a townwide search to fill the order.
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Plymouth
Eng
Rotterdam
United States
Nominations to I C C Roma la Follette Burns Woodlock Fight
Washington dispatch reports Thomas F Woodlock of New York faces opposition from Sen Robert La Follette Jr over his Interstate Commerce Commission nomination. Democrats split decisions risk delaying confirmation after Christmas with Coolidge’s plan to press the Woodlock appointment.
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Washington
International News Service
Bob la Follette
Oppost
Thomas F. Wock
New York
Inte Commerce Commission
Woodlock
Young LaFollette
Senate
Gare
Coolidge
Richard Wyler
Mobile
Fening
Lafollette
AL Mette
Interstate Commerce Commission
New Yorker
Taylor
Ee Interstate Commerce
Thomas F. Woodlock
Jury Secured to Try Chief in Texarkana Murder Case
A jury was completed in Texarkana today to try former Chief of Police Henry Adams for the murder of Chief Deputy Bob Smith. The trial began November 14 in Miller County Circuit Court. Witnesses testified Adams shot Smith after Smith threw down his gun as Adams pursued him, and another storekeeper reported Smith entering with a wound and pleading not to be shot.
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Texarkana
Ark
Henry Adams
Miller County
Adams
Bob Smith
Ruth Shumaker
Barber
Smith
J. H. Scott
Scott
Forces to Protect Japanese in Tianjin
Tokio dispatch reports army orders sending Japanese soldiers from Port Arthur to Tianjin to guard Japanese residents in that city.
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Tokio
Port Arthur
Tien Tein
Tidal Wave Sweeps Yap Island As Island Faces Disaster
A huge tidal wave overwhelmed the island of Yap on December 22, sweeping shores and forcing alarm among residents. Official word confirms widespread damage and evacuation efforts are underway as authorities assess the impact.
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Torio
Yep
Mountaineer Willie Fleming Faces Last Fight in Pike County
Pikeville Ky December 22 Willie Fleming a noted mountaineer known as a bad man is cornered by Sheriff J M Johnson and a ten man posse after a nightlong search in Pike County near the West Virginia line He refuses to surrender and is wounded in a gun battle Our reporting notes a family history of deaths tied to lawmen and a volatile Fleming settlement about two miles from Pikeville as authorities move to bring him to prosecute indictments for murder and prohibition violations.
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Pikeville
Pike County
Wille Fleming
Fleming
Aes
Borene
Willie
Shodak
John
John Fiemhingsoll the Bank of Aeelby Creek
Levi
Sol Fleming
Ben Begtly
Sol
Ely
Elmer Fleming
Ely Fleming
Bill
Dowager Princess of Monaco Dies in Paris
Paris dispatch reports the death of Miss Alice Heine of New Orleans the Dowager Princess of Monaco. Born February 10, 1868, she married the Prince of Monaco on October 30, 1889. Their marriage was dissolved by Monaco's judiciary in 1902 and separation was confirmed by the Paris civil tribunal the following June.
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Paris
Monaco
Alice Heine
New Orleans
Prince of
Civil Tribunal of
Winter Officially Starts Reign In Global Climate Report
Winter stole upon the northern hemisphere at 3 37 am signaling the solstice while the southern hemisphere enters summer. The article notes a global shift in days length and urges awareness of seasonable changes in weather as the earth orbits toward the next solstice.
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Washington
Memphis Braces for White Christmas Snowfall Ends Day
Memphis in Pa reports a light snowfall began last night and continued today with about one inch fallen by mid morning. Despite the weather, business continues as usual in Memphis.
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Memphis
Tenn
Ill health forces return trip of Mrs. Dwight F. Davis
Mrs. Dwight F. Davis wife of the secretary of war has been forced to cut short her inspection trip and return to Savannah Georgia due to ill health. The report notes the visit was paused while she attended to her condition and planned to resume later if possible.
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Savannah
Dwight F. Davis
Secretary of War
Le Breton Locked In By The Equity Ruling
New York December reports that Flora Le Breton cannot break her four year theatrical contract after a dispute with Henry Savage over double entendre lines. The equity court ruled the actress must honor the agreement, despite claims of engagement and lost job prospects.
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NEA Service
New York
Gu Weiner
Miss le Breton
Henry Savage
Peeduest
Flora le Breton
Equity Board
Aia
Equity
Weill
Mother's Kiss Before Death For Boy's Christmas Wish
Craig Frantz of Reynoldsville Pennsylvania is dying in St Petersburg Florida after severe burns from a park accident. Doctors say his mother’s embrace may ease his passing and a fundraiser seeks to bring his parents to his bedside for Christmas. He wrote to them promising a return next year with gifts and joy for his family.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
Craig Frants
Reynoldeville
Star of Bethlehem
Craig Frantz
Frantz
Reynoldsville
Roe
Perors
Craire Frantz
Dad
Evolutionists Claim proofs for Peabody Museum
New Haven Conn December 23 Announcement from Yale notes the Peabody Museum's forthcoming opening will feature a biologically and evolutionarily arranged display of existing specimens dating from the protozoa era. The collection ranks with Edinburgh for size and includes notable items such as jaws and teeth of tiny animals to illustrate life classifications.
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New Haven
Conn
Peabody Museum
Yale
Museum of Edinburgh
America
Actress Wife and Companion Abroad in Europe
Elsie Mackay wife of actor Lionel Atwill and Max Montesole, a young English actor, arrived in Liverpool aboard the Samaria from the United States. Mise Mackay said her lawyers in New York had been instructed to file.”
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Liverpool
Elsie Mackay
Lionel Atwill
Max Montesole
Atwill
Samaria
United States
Mise Mackay
New York
Jazz in Opera’s Discussed by Met Orchestra Figures
New York December 22. Arturo Bodansky proposes jazz as a dance element in opera but Metropolitan creators resist. Ted Lewis and others argue jazz belongs in a diamond Metropolitan stage, not as a separate form. Irving Berlin notes ragtime opera potential and a future full tempo composition as a path to true American opera.
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New York
Arturo Bodansky
Metropolitan Opera Company
SF Ae Opera
Metropolitan
Ted Lewis
Mr. Lewis
America
Irving Berlin
Ganeen
Dapper figure Collins arrested in Philadelphia
Philadelphia police report arrest of a well known figure named Collins, described as a dapper person in police circles. He was seized after a prior rum running charge and told officers he was on the move when apprehended.
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Philadelphia
Dapper Ae Ee
Collins
Santas Call On War Veterans Christmas Cheer
A fragmented report notes Santa's aid to veterans with three days to carry grain and meals provided by Salvation Knights of Columbus and veterans' groups. Christmas Eve hospital visits and holiday meals unite workers and families as President Coolidge and Frank T. Hines express goodwill to disabled veterans.
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Salvation
Knights of Columbus
Christian Pepe
Claus
President Coolidge
Frank T. Hines
Elans’ Bureau
Engineers to Request Salary Raise in Major Cities
Representatives from five large cities met in New York to discuss an engineering salary raise. A proposed base of $20,000 per year for chief or salting engineers in cities over a specified size was favored, with varying pay scales and higher percentages for larger employments.
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New York
Dec
Boston
Philadelphia
Chicago
Foreign Minister Says America Meddles Worldwide
A Soviet Foreign Minister Cherin declares in Berlin that the United States and Britain will face grave privations over China policy. He labels America the real victor of the war by meddling across the globe, warning of economic and political consequences.
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Berlin
Munist
Mircherin
Russia
England
América
South America
America
Tennessee Woman Instantly Killed In Kingsport Crash
Wiley Eaton of Kingsport witnessed a fatal street collision near Johnson City. Mrs with a broken neck was thrown from a car onto the pavement at a street intersection.
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Kingsport
Tenn
Wiley Eaton
Johnson City
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