Warrior river barge line funding debated in Washington
The Mobile Chamber of Commerce reports a sub committee in Washington will consider next year’s appropriation for the Warrior River division of the Mobile barge line. Local officials press for adequate funds to improve equipment and service, while J D Youman returns to discuss operation matters.
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Warrior River
Washington
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Oscar Underwood
Underwood
Mobile Clearing House
J. D. Youman
Henry D. Derdeleben
Chamber of Commerce
Armor River
Clearup E. Louse
Mobile
Exponent Americas Tour Amid Frank Message of Help
A noted exponent of a simple life plans a two week States tour, with lectures in New York and other cities to dispel myths about his intentions. He will use proceeds for a charitable foundation and aims to uplift fellowmen toward a higher life.
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New York
Cone
Trench
the United
Paris
Hearing Set Jan 7 On Accident Case Involving Truck And Street Car
Investigation of a collision between a government street car operated by Christy and conductor W S Smith and a truck driven by David Kniez. Two persons were hurt though not seriously. The crash occurred at Government Street and Georgia Avenue. Kniez and Morningstar were injured and rest easy. crew of the street car charged with reckless driving. The matter will be heard in the recorder's court January 7.
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David Knier
Christy
W. S. Smith
Morningstar
Kniez
Government Street
Georgia Avenue
Detective Heads to Columbus to Fetch Prisoner
Detective Ollie Hubbard leaves the city for Columbus Georgia armed with a war rant for J A Morris under arrest on grand larceny charges. He will obtain requisition papers in Montgomery before going to Atlanta for governor approval. Morris allegedly stole a car from U Drive It Company over a year ago and escaped after relocation through Montgomery Mobile.
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Ollie Hubbard
Polce Department
Columbus
J.A. Morris
Mont Fonery
Atlanta
Georgia
Morris
U-Drive
Montgomery
Mobile
Three People Hurt In Auto Collision On Ann Street
An auto crash on Ann Street near Dauphin left Mrs A S Lyons her mother Mrs A L Garrett and sister Mrs E L Fos se injured. The other driver Freddie Wallace faced reckless driving charges and a January 11 hearing. Mrs Garrett sustained the most serious injuries, confined to bed.
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A. S. Lyons
South Ann Street
J. Jacobson
Freddie Wallace
Ann Street
Dauphin
Mrrs. Lyons
A. L Garrett
E. L. Fosse
Allace
Wallace
Mia
Carter
Garrett
Police Seek Help to Locate Miss Maggie Donahue’s Brother
New Orleans resident Miss Maggie Donahue of 1126 Decatur Street asks city authorities to locate her brother Pat Donahue. She says she has not heard from him in an extended period and requests assistance from the police in this matter.
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Maggie. Donahue
Decatur Street
New Orleans
I Egor
Pat Donahue
Weather Summary for Alabama Florida Mississippi
Fair skies across Alabama Florida and Mississippi with light winds. Friday brings warmer temperatures tonight increasing.
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Alabama
Mississippi
New Orleans and New York Cotton Open Steady
Cotton futures opened steady in New Orleans and New York on January 4. In New Orleans the early quotes were January 26.38, March 26.39, May 26.40, July 26.19, October 24.43. In New York the opening quotes were January 26.58, March 26.72, May 26.80, July 26.50, October 24.72.
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New Orleans
New York
New Engineer to Assume Charge of County Duties
A. E. Holder Jr. is named county highway engineer and arrives to take charge tomorrow. He was selected by a majority of the county commissioners in December. The engineer will appoint assistants and oversee five camps across the county. Each camp averages fourteen convicts at work.
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A. E. Holder, Jr
Newh
Holder
Board of Commissioners
Aggee Vee
Chie
County Poor Asylum
Welchamps Station
Citronelle
Dog River
Prine
Chinchula
West Fowl
Pascagoula
Protective nang Calls Meeting To Name Officers
Major H. BE, Davis of Oak Grove presides as Protective Association calls a Mobile Chamber of Commerce assembly room meeting at 11 a m on Monday to elect officers. Bond issues in Mobile city and Mobile county, totaling over a million dollars, will be discussed and action awaited during the session.
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Mobile
League
Arbuckle
Bixler
James Hagan
Mobile County Protective Association
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Major H. Be, Davis
Oak Grove
Mobile City
Chief Deputy Named as Cazalas Names Charles Smith
Sheriff-elect Paul Cazalas announced the appointment of Charles Smith of Whistler as chief deputy sheriff for four years. The current department staff remains with a few precinct changes. Sheriff Cazalas takes office on Tuesday January 16. Smith has long been a special agent for the Mobile and Ohio Railroad.
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Paul Cazalas
Mobile County
Charles Smith
Whistler
Cazalas
Mobile & Ohio Railroad
Milder Weather Forecast For Mobile Friday
The forecast today from the weather bureau calls for fair tonight and Friday with warmer temperatures tomorrow. A record frost was noted after a sharp drop in temperatures last night. The thermometer read 38 degrees at 7 this morning and is expected to rise to about 48 degrees tomorrow.
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Weather Bureau
Bankmen and executives head to Cuba and Cleveland
A. L. Staples of Peoples Bank A. M. Moragues exporter and T. K Jackson Mobile Electric go to Havana for three weeks. W. H. Fitzpatrick and Edward H. Kelly of State Savings Bank depart for Cleveland to attend the Cleveland Discount Co convention.
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A. L. Staples
The
Peoples Bank
A. M. Moragues
T. K Jackson
Mobile Electric Company
Havana
Cuba
New Orleans
W. H. Fitzpatrick
Edward H. Kelly
State Savings Bank
Cleveland
Ohio
Ant poison distribution planned in city
A League of Women Voters committee announces leftover ant poison will be issued to residents in areas not treated during the eradication campaign. Thousands of cans have arrived and will be handed out Friday through Tuesday at the city market rear room from morning to noon.
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League of Women Voters
Theft of Turkey Reported by W Woods in St Louis area
W Woods of the north east corner of St Louis and Joachim streets reports to police that a thief entered his yard Tuesday night and stole a turkey gobbler and a wing of meat. The incident was recorded by the police department today.
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W. Woods
St. Louis
Joachim Streets
Peace Move in Ireland Echoes
Dublin dispatches report a secret meeting of anti treaty leaders in the Second Dail attended by former general election Republicans. The AP notes De Valera’s immunity may signal progress in peace talks, while officials deny any foundation for peace rumors though background activity suggests a possible objective.
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London
Associated Press
Dublin
Eamon de Valera
Free State
Bergdoll Brother Must Serve Four-Year Draft Evasion Sentence
Erwin Bergdoll, brother of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, must serve his full four year term in prison for draft evasion. Federal Judge Pollock denied a writ of habeas corpus, ruling the sentence valid despite claims tied to wartime proclamations.
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Topeka
Ken
Erwin Bergdol
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll
Pollock
Wilson
Bomb Blast Hurts Two Girls at Dublin Location
A bomb blast in Dublin wounded two girls and several people at Fowler Memorial wall end the 2-92-01 post office building. The incident caused injuries among bystanders and disrupted nearby traffic as authorities investigated the explosion.
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Dublin
Jan
Fowler Memoriat
Murder Case Casts Shadow Over Morehouse Parish
In Bastrop and Mer Rouge authorities move 20 mounted officers under Major Roy S. Miller to assist Sheriff Fred Carpenter as a murder case tied to Morehouse parish kidnappings unfolds. Dr. B. Moe McKoin, once Mer Rouge mayor, travels with deputies to Monroe amid contested warrants and political tensions.
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Mer Rouge
Roys. Miller
Fred Carpenter
W J
Adaivalrymen
Bastrop
Baltimore
B. Moe Eo
Peieanes Trie
Atrect
Monroe
Aes
Glynn
Ritchie
Parker
Louisiana
Dr. McKoin
Morehouse Parish
McKoin
Dr. McKain
Petition Drives for Dassy Rivers Life Sentence Commutation
Petitions to commute the death sentence of Dassy Rivers to life imprisonment are circulating in Mobile. Rivers was convicted for killing Deputy Sheriff A C Brill at Calvert in January 1922, mainly on his confession and that of accomplice G Wash Sullivan. The Mobile circuit court had withdrawn the execution date of January 26 while the Supreme Court considers a re hearing request by Rivers' lawyers Rogers and Feibleman.
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Thomas K. Kilby
Dassy Rivers
Mobile
Frank W. Gibson
Rivers
A. ¢. Brill
Calvert, Ala
G. Wash Sullivan
Supreme Court
Mobile County
Rogers and
Feibleman
Stone Knocks Workman Down And Saves Life
In Chicago on January 4 a stone weighing half a ton toppled from an iron girder five stories above Michigan Avenue. Ted Reid, a stonecutter at the skyscraper site, was knocked from the beam but the falling block pinned his shoe to the girder, saving him from a deadly plunge. Workmen rescued him.
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Chicago
Ted Reid
Michigan Avenue
Rheid
Fossil bones found in North Carolina near Enfield
Archaeologists in Enfield report petrified remains of a giant plesioran like creature found by farmers. Experts debate the species with Dr Collier Cobb suggesting whale ancestry tied to ancient submerged conditions 260000 years ago.
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Enfield
Florida
Mverglades
Collier Cobb
University of North Carolina
Six Have Narrow Escape From Fire in Greenwich Street Flats
A fire on Greenwich Street in New York drove over a hundred residents into the snow and trapped Carl Kuhn, his wife, and four children on the fourth floor. Firemen reached them after climbing from the adjoining roof and evacuated the family to safety as flames spread from a paper box factory to nearby tenements.
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New York
Greenwich Street
Carl Kuhn
Woman Dies After 60 Hours Slumber at Waukegan
Mrs. William Neiss of Waukegan Illinois died after a continuous nap of 60 hours. She went to rest last Monday and did not wake. Physicians could not rouse her and they cited an unexplained nervous disorder rather than sleeping sickness as the likely cause.
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Waukegan
Iil
Associated Press
William Neiss
Reiss
Receivers Seek to Abandon Line in Oklahoma
Washington Jan 4 Receivers of the St Louis El Reno and Western Railway filed with the S C C for authority to abandon the entire road 42 miles long in Canadian and Logan counties Oklahoma The suit notes the line built in 1902 has never earned operating expenses or taxes since construction
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Washington
St. Louis, el Reno
Chicago Auto Death Toll Reaches 736 in 1922
The Chicago police reported 1922 violent deaths totalled 736 from autos and murders. Auto fatalities reached 136, homicides 106, with 242 named murder and manslaughter victims, up 36 from 1921.
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Chicago
Jan
Start in Dry Vessel Rule Case Reaches Supreme Court
In Washington on January 4 the ten cetamates and groups tied to Arabica Operators sought oral appeal before the Supreme Court challenging Attorney General Daugherty’s prohibition enforcement. Government contends the amendment makes the United States dry and bans intoxication on sea stores aboard foreign ships in American ports. Wickersham argues the law does not explicitly bar liquor in foreign vessels sea stores, risking broad port searches and vessel confiscations if enforced.
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Washington
Ten Cetamates
Sta
Daugherty
Supreme Court
Hand
New York
Wickersham
United States
American
Bond
Congress
Consel
Ancient Egyptian Ruler Garments Found In Luxor Tomb
In Luxor on January 4 a box from the outer chamber of King Tutankhamun’s tomb yielded linen garments believed to be his underwear, badly fragile and hard to preserve. Also found were a ceremonial crosier with prisoner figures, a bronze gold mace, an ebony ivory footstool, and a tiny decorated stool for a child, all crafted by skilled artisans.
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Luxor
Egypt
Tutenkhamun
Cratta
Oleomargarine cases reopen in Chicago
Three Chicago oleomargarine manufacturers H Hammond Company Manhattan Manufacturing Company and the William J Moxley Company face theft and unpaid tax charges totaling about three million dollars The action dates to 1912 when Judge K M Landis ordered a special grand jury to investigate the factories and recommended tax payments be pursued by subpoenaed testimony and trial.
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Chicago
H. Hammond Company
The
Man Manufacturing Company
William J. Moxley
K. M. Landis
Sapulpa Quiet After Disorder
Sapulpa Oklahoma residents stay under patrol as police guard against further trouble after the killing of Policeman Brumiee and injuries to four officers when gunfire erupted Monday night from hidden Black residents in a darkened restaurant. A posse hunts Ed Glass, alleged ringleader, with police believing Glass is wounded or dead.
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Sapulpa
Okla
Brumiee
Ed Glass
Glass
Offi
Mrs. Alexander Bell Dies in Washington
Washington today mourns Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell widow of the famed inventor after a long illness. She was 63 and died at the home of her daughter Mrs. David Fairchild. Messages of condolence poured in from friends and admirers as plans for burial beside her husband at Beinn Breach were noted.
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Washington
Alexander Graham Bell
David Fairchild
Bell
Bell ‘Summy
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Chamber Commerce and Clearing House
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Women’s League
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Jeanne d’Arc
Joseph Dantonio
Dantonio
D Rt
Kanbas City
Jennings Bryan
Bryan
Department of Justice
District of Columbia
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Abs Amy
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Platess
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William Jennings Bryan
WSKS
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Turkey
Ireland
Erwin Bergdoll
Louis
Toombs
D. Rivers
Stone
Workman
North Carolina
Alexander Bell
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