Mobile Welcomes 1923 with quiet New Year observances
Mobilians mark New Year with subdued civic celebrations and church services amid a citywide holiday. Police report sixteen arrests from 10 p.m. Sunday to 6 a.m. Monday. one fire alarm. a large raid on a negro gambling house yielded seventy three arrests unrelated to the holiday. Autopsy planned for Mrs Maude Fuller Delius in Chicago as investigators weigh heart disease against other causes.
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New Year War Plans Shade Great Britain and Allies
London reports Great Britain massing a fleet in Turkish waters and moving ships to the Mediterranean as tensions rise over Turkish resistance at Lausanne. Washington outlines heavy funding needs, debt refunding, and Mellon driven economies to meet six month maturities and new revenue drives.
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Sunflowers Bloom In December At Mobile Office
The Mobile Register and News-Item received several sunflower blossoms from Duplan Floral Company cut from a stalk growing in the open. The stalk measured 12 feet and the rare bloom comes amid an unusually warm winter with azaleas and japonicas also flowering early in many city sections.
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Commodity Rate Hearing Slated January 10 in Atlanta
A hearing on commodity gates tied to the southeastern investigation will be held in Atlanta on January 10. The proceeding concerns a revision of commodity rates across the entire southeast.
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Southeast
Hungary excludes Whitman Marx Lenim writings
Budapest on January 1 reports Hungary bans writings by Walt Whitman Karl Marx and Nikolai Lenin as destructive. The decree also bars 105 Magyar language newspapers printed in Central Europe and the United States, including most American papers except the Amerikais Magyar Nepsiava. Many Vienna and neighboring state papers are included.
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Walt Whitman
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Nikolai Lenim
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United States
America
Amerikas
Burglary at Kansas City Home Yields Looted Cash and Jewelry
Mrs. Max Epstein woke her husband to burglars in the house and was struck with a gas pipe. The raiders escaped with 135 dollars and 1659 dollars in jewelry and clothing, while insurance did not cover the loss.
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Max Epstein
Weather summary for Florida and Deep South Jan 1
The bulletin reports fair and warmer conditions in Extreme Northwest Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi tonight, with cloudy unsettled conditions and likely showers Tuesday. Florida is forecast fair tonight and Tuesday.
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County Board To Meet Lawmakers Here Wednesday
The Mobile County Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners will meet at 1 30 pm Wednesday with local Alabama legislators. A noon conference precedes the session as the first half of the legislative session nears, focusing on plans to ratify a 350000 warrant redemption bond issue and bids for the old county jail property and unused portable voting booths.
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Cosgrave Sets Conditions For Truce In Ireland
Dublin Jan 1 Michael Cosgrave head of the Irish Free State outlined peace terms to Republican groups. The basis requires the Anglo Irish treaty stand unaltered, a single sovereign parliament under the treaty, no armed forces, no unauthorized arms, no extraneous government interference, and free elections without outside interference. He warned any so called peace without these points would be a false peace endangering national unity.
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Snake Bite Cry Hoax Says WCTU
Kansas City January 1 No snake in Kansas City so why sell liquor here for snake bites This is the war cry adopted by the WCTU in fighting bootleggers who are dispensing thousands of gallons of liquor yearly in the city.
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Polls show Holcombe defeats Jones in Houston primary
Complete returns in the Democratic city primary give Mayor Oscar Holcombe 10,268 votes and Judge Murray B. Jones 9,091. Jones was backed by the Ku Klux Klan, which allegedly opposed by Holcombe and by several department commissioners who were renominated.
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Production of Petroleum Grows in United States
Production in November rose by nearly 10,000,000 barrels year over year to 47,089,000. Wells producing increased to 1,450, with 451 more than last year. Imports were 3,364,000 barrels, exports 856,000, and estimated consumption 534,443,000. Stockpiles at month end stood at 275,456,000 barrels, a 155 day supply, compared with 178,260,000 barrels a year earlier and 114 days.
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United States
Geological Survey
Archbishop Curley Says U S Favors Free State in Ireland
Dublin dispatch reports Archbishop Curley of Baltimore condemns de Valera's riotous actions and says about 110 million Americans support Ireland's move to a Free State with broad good wishes for its government.
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Owsley Seeks Immigration Ban For Fixed Years
Alvin M. Owsley national commander of the American Legion told a Los Angeles audience in the Hollywood stadium that the legion stands for the total exclusion of immigrants for a fixed period of years. He spoke during an inspection tour of posts and hospitals and then left for Bakersfield California.
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Dr Walter Bowie Accepts Episcopal Rector Post
Grace Protestant Episcopal Church in New York announces that Rev Dr Walter Pipasei Bowie of Richmond Virginia has accepted the call and will be installed as rector early in March He succeeds Rt Rev Charles T Slattery who recently became bishop coadjutor of Massachusetts
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Grace Protestant Episcopal Church Today
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Richmond
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Coadjttor
Massachusetts
Turks Gather For Attack On Constantinople
Athens reports Turkish nationalists concentrate troops for attacks on Constantinople Mosul and other strategic points. Kemalist forces move toward Djizamart and Tigria while another column mobilizes before Ada bazar as it vows to press toward the Bosphorus if Greece and the allies do not back down.
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Labor Knows Invincibility Says Gompers in New Year Message
Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, declared on New Year’s Day that labor organized in federation and united its ranks now knows its invincibility and looks forward with confidence and courage to its cause's truth and righteousness.
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Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Alfred E. Smith Re sworn In as New York Governor
Alfred E. Smith is sworn in again as governor of New York at the executive mansion. The oath is administered by the same justice with the same pen and many witnesses as four years ago. Smith and retiring Governor Nathan L. Miller review the inaugural parade and he delivers the inaugural address at noon.
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Two British Air Bombers Killed in Midair Accident
A British plane pilot and his observer were killed when a bomb from another bomber exploded in midair after a bombing mission over Massad country in India. The crash occurred as two British aircraft overlapped during the attack, according to Peshawar dispatches.
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Chen Forces Quiy Wuchow Canton Battle Report
Forces under General Chen Chiung Ming, who helped dethrone Sun Yat Sen, have withdrawn from Muchow on the Kwangsi border near Canton. Sun Yat Sen loyalists advancing from Yunnan and Kwangsi reportedly occupy the town.
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Four Held for Georgia Murder Near Knoxville
Four men were arrested in Knoxville on January 1 in connection with the murder of Zonie Bryant whose skull was found split open and buried under sawdust at a local sawmill on December 23. Police continued to search for others involved in the crime.
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Earthquake Shocks Felt in Wales
An earthquake shock was felt at Llanilleth in South Wales today as about a thousand miners at a convention were terrified. Houses shook but damage was slight and there were no fatalities reported.
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Two Killed in Fort Worth Dallas Pike Crash
Two people were killed and six injured when two autos collided at the Village Creek crossing on the Fort Worth Dallas pike this morning. The wreck occurred near Fort Worth Texas as rescue crews responded to the scene. Names and further details were not released.
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Mailed Fist Thrust in Northern Louisiana Roundup
Federal agents move into Morehouse parish to round up suspects in hooded mob murders from August in Mer Rouge. Louisiana National Guard backs operations in Morehouse and Bastrop as authorities target Ku Klux Klan members linked to Watt Daniels and Thomas F Richards slayings.
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Kidnapping hunt expands for Southern Carbon worker in Spyker
Authorities press a vigorous search for H L Teegeston of Southern Carbon Company after he vanished following questioning. Witnesses report a midnight abduction by masked men near Spyker, as Burnett linked to killings in Bastrop remains in custody.
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