Shrimp Oyster Laws Conference Set for Thursday
A state conference of shrimp and oyster industry representatives and lawmakers will be held Thursday at the Chamber of Commerce Building to discuss proposed laws and amendments. The draw includes state officials and Mobile Baldwin county delegates to align fisheries regulation with anticipated legislative action.
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Representa
LT. Inn
Mobile
Baldwin County
General Assembly
John Craft
Quinn
Craft
Chamber of
Mobile- Baldwin
W. S. Keller
W. A. McCalla
Smith
County Board of Revenue
Estate Highway Commission
Chamber of Merce
Prices Turn Upward In New Session
New York began the first stock market session of the year with an upward price tendency. Gains were broad with oil steel copper equipment and automobile shares leading. Studebaker rose two points California Petroleum and several others advanced one and a half to one point.
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New York
Studebaker
California Petroleum
Standard Oil of
New Jersey
American International
Virginia- Carolina Chemical
Marland Oil
Ten Days Hard Labor For Trainbreakers In L and N Car
A gear breaking incident on a freight car of the L and N Railroad caused grain spill and led to ten days of hard labor for the men found beating their way from Texas. Detectives could not identify the breaker of the seal. Sentenced to work out ten days for improving city drainage were L Mitchell, Robert Bassett, Roy Bibb, Milan Vincenzo, John Lynn, John Banly, E V Merrill, Gob Thompson, Albert Knot, Joe Burks, Sam Parks and P Eastman.
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Texas
Recorder
L. Mitchell
Robert Bassett
Roy Bibb
Milan Vincenzo
John Lynn
John Banly
E. V. Merrill
Gob Thompson
Albert Knot
Joe Burks
Sam Parks
P. Eastman
Mobile Immigration Office Moves to New Orleans District
Effective January 1 the Mobile immigration office is transferred to the New Orleans district with headquarters in New Orleans. Previously the Mobile office reported to Jacksonville within its district. The redistricting shifts reports from Mobile to New Orleans and redirects offices accordingly.
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Mobile
New Orleans
H.C. Brownlow
Arters
Jacksonville
Cooler Weather Forecast For Mobile Area
A forecast from the local weather office predicts somewhat cooler conditions for Mobile on Wednesday. Occasional showers and fresh east winds are possible tonight or Wednesday, with a low around 45 degrees last night. River levels show the Black Warrior falling and the Tombigbee rising below Columbus, while the Alabama River at Montgomery rises in the next two days and at Selma over the next three or four days.
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Mobile
Ted
Weath Bureau
Columbus
Alabama
Montgomery
Selma
Hillman Injured In Savannah Street Runaway Wagon
Hillman of 306 Imetto Street suffered painful injuries this morning at 9 45 when he was thrown from a wagon on Savannah Street near Bayou. A wagon shaft broke causing the horses to run away and knock him unconscious. He was taken to City Hospital for attention after the runaway struck a wagon in charge of W H Chevalier and stopped on Jefferson Street near Savannah.
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D. CG. Hillman
Imetto T
Savannahet
Bayou Street
City Hospital
Hillman
Wise
W. H. Chevalier
Jefferson Street
Savannah
Cobb to Attend Hearing on Rates in Mississippi
R. G. Cobb traffic manager of the Mobile Chamber of Commerce will travel to Jackson Mississippi for a hearing on shipping rates. He will advocate Mobile interests as interstate rates are higher than Mississippi rates for shipments into the state.
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R. G. Cobb
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Jackson
Miss
Atend
Mississippi
Weather Summary for Alabama Mississippi and Florida
Weather forecast notes rain and cloudy skies across Alabama and Mississippi with colder air. Florida shows improved conditions after a storm system. Changes expected into Wednesday with cooler readings overall.
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Washington
Alabama
Mississippi
Florida
Cotton rises on holiday buying in New Orleans market
In New Orleans on January 2, steady demand from dry goods markets and buying orders lifted cotton prices. Early trading saw March up to 26.62 cents a pound, later easing to around 26.40 cents as selling pressures reduced gains.
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New Orleans
Elong
Cotton futures open firm on February receipts
New York January 2 cotton futures opened firm with March at 26.90 cents per pound May at 26.95 July 26.64 and October 24.85, reflecting steady demand and market outlook.
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New York
New Orleans Opening Futures Data
New Orleans market notes cotton futures opened with January at 26.61 cents per pound, March 26.58, May 26.49, July 26.16, and October 24.40, reflecting early trading on the session.
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New Orleans
Thieves Active in Western City Neighborhood
Thieves continue robbing several homes in the western city section over the past ten days. They broke into locked premises, damaged furniture, and searched for silverware and valuables. Homes on Demony Place and an automobile stolen from a Monterey street garage are noted as recent incidents.
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A. M. Wing
Dr. Turrentine
Demony Place
Monterey
Plan To Protest Arbuckle Film Showing Here
The Mobile County League of Women Voters plans a protest against Roscoe Arbuckle films shown in Mobile. A special meeting Thursday at 11 in the Mobile Public Library will decide if the matter becomes a formal order of business. The committee on public morals is reviewing the issue as the league sets its 1923 program.
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Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle
Mobile
Mobile County League of ‘Women Voters
League
Mobile Public Library
Committee On Public Morals
Answers Cry of Woman Officer Struck Over Head
Police officer Mike Connolly was wounded while answering a woman's cry for help near Virginia and Franklin streets. He was struck as he entered the doorway and knocked unconscious. Three suspects, two women and a man, are under arrest on a general charge as police continue the investigation.
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Mike Conolly
Virginia
Franklin
Connolly
Court settles auto accident case and fines two drivers
The recorder ruled that criminal end of auto accidents cannot be compromised. Willie Childs, a Negro, was fined 25 dollars for reckless driving after evidence showed Foxworth’s eastbound car on St Michael street collided with Childs coming north. Foxworth had not pursued prosecution. John Williams, a Negro, was fined 25 dollars for riding a motorcycle from Ann to Catherine streets during the hour.
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Willie Childs
William Foxworth
Childs
Foxworth
St. Michael Street
John Williams
Government Street
Ann
Catherine
Prize fighter and county road team in court case
L. T. Joseph alias Louis Th ee eeek faced charges after entering a dance hall and taking an overcoat. Robert Constaey testified Thomas admitted the act. George Lowe and Stephen Dunn of the steamer Susquehanna were ordered to the bounty road for sixty days after officers testified to stealing ship linen from the ship. The two men denied the charge.
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L. T. Joseph
Louis Thee Eeek
Qecena-Depe
Wg Wong
Robert Constaey
Thomas
George Lowe
Stephen Dunn
Susquehanna
Bounty Road
Recorder
Dog Receives Credit in Liquor Arrest Case
In Los Angeles on January 2, federal agents jailed contractor George E Patterson for violating the Volstead act after a search failed to reveal liquor. A dog digging in Patterson's garden led to a burlap sack containing ten quarts of liquor found by the officers.
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Los Angeles
Cal
George E. Patterson
Patterson
District Court Upholds Verdict In Trade Secrets Case
Washington January 2 district of Columbia court of appeals affirms district supreme court ruling barring the federal trade commission from forcing Claire Furance Co and 21 Pennsylvania iron and steel firms to file monthly reports of production costs balance sheets and other trade secrets
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Washington
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Federal Trade Commission
Claire Furnace Company
Iron and Steel Corporations
Pennsylvania
Pierce Butler Sworn In as Associate Justice
Price Butler of St. Paul was sworn in as associate justice of the Supreme Court as the court reconvened after the holiday recess. Chief Justice Taft administered the oath at noon. The seat became vacant upon Justice Mahlon Pitney of New Jersey retiring.
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Washington
Price Butler
St. Paul
Supreme Court
Senate
Taft
Butler
Mahlon Pitney
New Jersey
New Year Toll Tops City Fatalities and Arrests
Chicago records nine deaths from automobile crashes and one shooting in the New Year celebration. Six wounded and thirty arrested in liquor raids. Five fires and ten cases of alcoholic poisoning reported. One man killed, two officers wounded, four wounded by roof shots.
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Chicago
Railroad Granted Permit for Bonds
Washington Jan 2 The Carolina Clinchfield and Ohio Railroad won ICC approval to issue 9.5 million in 5 1/2 percent gold bonds priced at 91 1 2. Eight million dollars of proceeds will be used to pay railroad debts owed to the government.
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Washington
Carolina Clinchfield and Ohio Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
Ruhr Miners Say Pact Expires Feb 28
Ruhr region miners meeting at Bochum announce notice that their overtime agreement now in effect will terminate on February 23. The move follows a conference in Berlin as January 2 informs.
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Ruhr
Berlin
Bochum
Wil] Terte
Invisible empire weakens as Klan gathering unsettles Morehouse
In Sistroupt Morehouse Parish, members of the Ku Klux Klan led by J Skipworth held a courtroom like gathering in a public square. Federal agents watched as townsfolk condemned federal guards at Mer Rouge while the Klan contingent fled into earnest talks with newcomers.
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Oogurt
Sistrop
Invisible Empire
Morehouse Par
J. Skipworth
Burley
Yg 8
Mer Rouge
Extradition Fight Looms Over Louisiana Murder Suspect
The case of Dr. B M McKeown, wanted in Louisiana for alleged complicity in the Mer Rouge murders, faces a extradition fight led by attorney Robert R Carman. In Bastrop, the Morehouse parish mystery widens with Harold Teegerstrom’s disappearance as state and federal agents press the case against masked band depredations.
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Baltimore
B. M. Mce Koin
Louisiana
Watt Daniels
Thomas Richards
Morehouse Parish
Mer Rouge
Robert R. Carman
Bastrop
Morehouse
Harold Teegerstrom
Spyker
Thomas Fletcher Richards
Justice
Uisiana
Daniels
Richards
Free State denies seizure of American ship claim
Dublin officials told the American consul there had been no seizure by a British destroyer. A Queenstown dispatch on December 31 had claimed the Venomous halted an American steamship off Castletownbere and towed it to port under Free State orders.
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Dublin
Associated Press
Irish Free ‘State
Diablin
Queenstown
Venomous
Ireland
Castletown Bere
Free State
Secret Irish Peace Pacts Held Up
Dublin January 2. Secret peace negotiations between the Free State and the Republican irregulars were halted to give the Republicans time to draft a reply to the Free State demand that irregulars surrender their arms before the conference proceeds. An answer was promised by next Sunday.
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Dublin
Free State
New Rochelle Man Swims 20 Minutes in Icy Sound
Philip Nussbaum of New Rochelle began a New Year tradition eight years ago by plunging into the icy waters of the Long Island sound at Ridgeway Park. At the stroke of 1923 he dived alone and swam for twenty minutes as bells tolled.
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New York
Philip Nussbaum
New Rochelle
Long Island Sound
Higdeon Park
Princess Xenia Loses Trunk Keys in New York
A hotel employee’s remark spurs a tale that Princess Xenia wife of William B Leeds Jr misplaced a jewel case valued up to 260 thousand dollars or more though a hotel detective later recovered a little key case with common iron keys in it The loss threatened the voyage trunk arrivals for her finery in a new world as she traveled.
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New York
Xenia
William B. Leeds
Young Leeds
Anastasia
Greece
Tin Plate Kings Authority
Legislature Opens in Oklahoma City Amid Farmer-Labor Push
The ninth Oklahoma legislature convened with farmer and labor reform as a priority. After organization both houses will hear Governor Robertson’s address. Speaker Murray F. Gibbons and President pro tem Tom Anglin were confirmed as officers, aligned with the administration and the Farmer-Labor faction.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Oklahoma
J. B. A. Robertson
House
Senate
Murray F. Gibbons
Purcell
Tom Anglin
Holdenville
Gibbonse
Farmer-Labor
J. C. Walton
Final Action Expected On Bursum Bill Near Washington
President Harding moves toward final action within days on the Bursum bill granting increased pensions to civil and Mexican war veterans. The measure went to the interior department for study and report as officials prepare its consideration and possible enactment.
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Washington
Harding
Interior Department
Irish dispute ends in riots at Nassau Street consulate
Irish Free State representatives and Irish Republicans clashed over the Nassau Street consulate in New York. The dispute erupted into a riot as efforts to seize control escalated. Police were called to restore order.
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New York
Premiers In Paris For Talks On German Debts
Paris officials report Allied leaders at a conference consider a German debt settlement proposal. France offers a two year moratorium and uses Class C bonds to extinguish interallied debts. Talks follow recent British and French tensions and pressures from American opinion.
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Paris
Associated Press
der Renier
France
Germany
Auto siren stops burglar at senator's home
A burglar alarm built by Naval Commander Sweet, son of Senator Sweet, alerted the home when a honking horn sounded from the attic as a key opened the back door. The intruder fled after the alarm frightened him while the family was away.
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William Li
Sweet
Senator Sweet
German proposal not sent France
The state department announced that the German plan for a four power agreement to refrain from war for a generation with plebiscite authority was not formally transmitted by Secretary Hughes. It was found not acceptable to France, and an informal inquiry revealed France’s lack of acceptance.
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Washington
State Department
France
Italy
Germany
United States
Hughes
German Bombers Blow Up Berlin Monument Attempts
Reports from Halle describe an attempt by German bombers to destroy a large group statue of William I and monuments to Bismarck and Von Moltke. The obelisk base was toppled by the blast, while attempts against the Victory column near the post office and a banker’s home were thwarted by police.
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Berlin
Halle
Willian T
Bismarck
von Moltke
Steamer Satsuma Reaches Astoria After Gale
The steamer Satsuma arrives at Astoria with damaged deck gear and broken chains after heavy gales. Captain Jones, near the engine room, sustains injuries including scalp wounds but is not severely hurt. The vessel is being repaired and used for hospital treatment on arrival.
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da Satsuma
Comox
Peart
Mory
Runaway Chinese Girl Returns Home After Family Search
A 17 year old Chinese girl named Wen has returned to Washington after running away to pursue an arranged marriage. She had expressed plans and discussions with friends about marriage, noting a sense of weeks of resolve. Her family had earlier reported her missing.
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Washington
Wen
City
Aia
Migs- Wen
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