Calvert Road plan details in making headlines
Preliminary work on the Satsuma Mt Vernon link of Mobile Calvert highway continues. Residents opposing right of way deeds threaten delay while state plans await final approval and voter outcome on the 5 million dollar program.
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Satsuma-Mt. Vernon
Mobile-Calvert
Arthur D. Davis
Board of Revenue
John R. Peavy
County Highwayen
E State Highway Department
Pons
Board to Meet Budget Ask For 1929 Proposals
The board of controllers will convene to consider a tentative 1929 budget drafted by J C Prine chair of the finance committee. The maintenance engineer requests an increase from 200000 to 300000 and other routine items are on the agenda.
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J. C. Prine
Finance Committee
C. L. Strange
Burglar Strikes East Murphy Street Residence
A burglary on Murphy Street and Virginia Street is reported with a .32 caliber Winchester stolen after a thief cut a screen and ransacked the home. Police logged the incident with times around 7:20 and 9:30. Miss Melvin Haas reports a sneak thief took two quarts of milk from her front porch.
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C. O. Reese
Murphy Street
Virginia Street
Melvin Haas
Kilmarnock Street
Red Cross re elects Mobile chapter officers at annual meeting
Mrs. St John Wilson was re elected chairman of the Mobile chapter of the American Red Cross at the annual meeting. Other officers were re elected. The session included election and reading reports on the past year's activities, including nursing services and aid to ex service men and families, plus fundraising for hurricane victims in Florida and Puerto Rico.
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St. John “Wilson
Mobile Paior
American Red Cross
Musical Tonight at Franklin Street Baptist Church
Reverend U announces a concert at Franklin Street Baptist Church tonight for locals and visitors. The church opens at 7 and the program begins at 8 with performances by the ec choir from the church.
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Franklin Street Baptist Church
Rev
Auditor's paving project eyed for Cedar Point road extension
The county board discusses extending paving from Dog River to Cedar Point road to the club house and plans a 11 mile highway paving program funded by a possible spring bond issue. President Arthur D. Davis announced the report will determine if the project is feasible and whether to extend the road to Dauphin Island via a bridge from the southern terminus.
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Roobile
Hardoe
Cedar Point
Bay Ceder Point
Dauphin Island
Arthur D. Davis
Board of Revenue
Boosters’ Club
Cedar Point Road
Dog River
City to Seek Reductions in Commercial Electric Rates
Mobile officials move to force cutbacks on Alabama Power by petition for reductions for commercial consumers. City attorney Vincent Kilborn to present the petition at the next commission meeting unless relief is granted earlier. The action follows failure to obtain relief in domestic rate orders and aims for a more equitable commercial electricity schedule.
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Alabama Pubic Service
Alabama Power Company
Vincent Kilborn
Mobile
Commission
Plans Laid Out For Mobile Wilmer Road Upgrade
Arthur D. Davis announces county highway department focuses on completing plans for the Mobile Wilmer road for state approval. John R Peavy says plans will be ready to forward within three weeks after a minor change near Semmes.
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Davis
John R Peavy
Mobile-Wilmer
State Highway Department
Mr. Davis
Semmes
Quartet Fined for Prohibition Violations in Local Court
Four individuals Bessie Smith Mrs Ambrose Reese Tom Redwine and Leonard Noyd were convicted by Acting Judge Touart of inferior criminal court for violating the prohibition law. Each was fined 50 dollars and costs for the offense and 100 dollars and costs for a related charge of theft of an automobile. Louie Helmer was held on grand larceny charges after a theft arrest in Athens.
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Bessie Smith
Ambrose Reese
Tom Redwine
Leonard Noyd
Tisdale ‘Touart
Inferior Criminal Court
Prohition Oo
Louie Helmer
Helmer
Athens
Early Passage Bill Moves Fast in Congress
A proposed bill moves quickly through congressional stages as supporters urge rapid approval. Key sponsors push for swift passage to secure funding and implement new policy measures before deadlines.
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Congress
Mobile Women's Democratic Club Meets for Civic Talk
Senator John Craft addresses the group as the governor calls for a year ban. The Mobile county club plans an afternoon meeting at hall No 9 St Emanuel street. Mrs M J McDermott to speak as interest grows in territorial expansion and municipal finance under new commission measures.
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John Craft
Women's Democratic Club
Mobile County
St. Emanuel Street
M. J. McDermott
Ay Commission
Wharfage and Handling Charge Proposal for Sugar Imports
Assessment of a wharfage and handling charge on sugar at Gulf and South Atlantic ports arises from efforts by Birmingham and related interests to R. G. Cobb Mobile Chamber traffic manager. Rates were published as applied by the lines, shifting costs from importers to carriers and altering Mobile’s advantage in routing sugar inland.
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Gulf
South Atlantic
Bile
Birmingham
R. G. Cobb
Mobile Chamber
Prica
Fonda
Mobile
City Officials Hear Recreation Experts at City Hall
Experts led by William Weir national recreation director and J B Williams southern division head conferred with Mayor Cecil F Bates and Commissioner Schwarz at city hall. They studied Kiles recreation centers and outlined several recommendations chief among them that the city should pursue improved facilities and programs.
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William Weir
National Recreation Director
J. B. Williams
Southern Division of Recreation Work
Cecil F. Bates
Ae Schwarz
Kile
Bandit Killing Sparks Detroit Robbery Shootout
A drug store heist in Detroit ended with the bandits fleeing in a taxicab after taking 35 dollars and express checks. Police pursued the taxi but the suspects opened fire and escaped as officers closed in. Harlin Vance, 27, is believed dead. Officer John Lockridge, 28, wounded. An 11 year old boy Steven Thomas hid as the robbery unfolded.
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Harlin Vance
Detroit
John ‘Lockridge
Steven Thomas
Theodore Artopolides
Trotzky Exiled to Turkey and Constantinople
Reports say Leon Trotzky, former Russian leader, is en route to Turkey with onward transport to Batum and Constantinople, as exile decision is confirmed by Soviet authorities. A five to one vote among council members endorsed the exile measure.
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London
Leon Trotzky
Turkey
Batum
Constantinople
Angora
Trotzky
Saintboneen
Ned
Owen
Galinin
Aekeear
Tomsky
Captain Carr denies Duke of Gloucester engagement rumor
Reports from London dated January 31 claim Captain Howard Carr equerry to the Duke of Gloucester dismissed as false the gossip that the duke is engaged to Lady Angela Scott. The Eve…
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Duke of Gloucester
London
Howard Carr
Angela Scott
Goatees Gather For Tonight's Annual Meeting and Election
Readable fragments indicate a 30.0 time noted for the gathering. The text mentions an annual meet and election of goatees, implying a club or group event at an unspecified location this evening.
Crime Wave Strikes Memphis As Robbers Hit Twice
In Memphis on January 31 two robbers held up a drug store, stole 140 dollars, and fled after pinning a pistol threat on clerks and officers. A second drug store yielded 151 dollars in a similar incident. Police later detained suspects. a college girl narrowly escaped a knife threat nearby.
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Memphis
Tenn
Apate Cleo
Will E
Guardsmen Attend Gasparilla Fete Before Mobile Mardi Gras
The cutter Pontchartrain, home-ported in Mobile, sails in February for a cruise after Gasparilla festivities in Tampa. Officers and crew join the Florida celebration with cannons and parades before returning to Mobile for Mardi Gras preparations and a reefer voyage. Gasparilla legends cast the event with Gasparilla as the chief figure.
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Cutter
Tampa
Pontchartrain
Mobile
Coeneriim
Mabie
Air Mail Back-Stamp Time Receipts Adopted
The practice of stamping mail with receipt time at the back stamp to show hour of arrival was used on air mail and will now apply only to mail requiring special handling.
Misissippian Banker Charged With Multiple Bank Frauds
In federal court Judge Edwin R. Holmes presided over charges against Dodds former Planters Bank official accused of fraud in selling certificates of deposit without proper backing and of approving loans beyond legal limits. The suit lists 11 banks including Continental Bank and Trust Chicago Citizens and Southern National Atlanta Chemical National New York Bank of America New York First National Boston Hanover New York Illinois Chicago Mississippi Valley St Louis National Bank of Kentucky Philadelphia Girard National Bank Philadelphia as co defendants or associated parties.
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Sheaia’'‘ Tely
Ae Yews Saith
United States District Court
Edwin R. Holmes
Dodds
Planters’ National Bank
Pengle
Onaeen
la Eleventy
Continental Bank and Trust Company
Chicago
Clarkedale Bank Ma
Citizens and Southern National
Atlanta
Chemical National Bank
New York
Bank of America
First National Bank
Boston
Hanover National Bank
Illinois Recr Ae and Trust Company
Ohio
Mississippi Valley Trustmpany
St. Louis
National Bank of Kentucky
Louisville
Philadelphia Girard National Bank
Philadelphia
Hoover to Withhold Cabinet Announcements Until Inauguration
President elect Hoover plans to keep cabinet selections private until March 4 and may present them in a Senate session at the east front of the Capitol. Anticipated picks include Mellon as treasury secretary and Donovan as attorney general, with Jardine possibly slated for agriculture. Hoover also prepared for a second trip for big game fishing aboard the yacht Saunterer off Long Key.
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James L. West
Long Key
Fra
Hoover
Senate
Capitol
Andrew W. Mellon
Saunterer
Rockefeller party to sail from Cairo on Seraphis
John D Rockefeller Jr and party plan to leave Cairo Saturday aboard the Seraphis, stopping at points of interest on the way to xor and staying several days. They may travel to Abou 1 near Haifa and possibly visit the Nile cataract. Dr Hafez Bey Fifi, foreign minister and Mahmoud Lamy ington brother, hosted them yesterday at a villa near Cairo.
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Cairo
Egypt
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Seraphis
Xor
Abou 1
Haifa
Nile
Hafez Bey Fifi
Mahmoud Lamyington
Rockefeller
Prohibition funding debated as House weighs 24 million ask
Washington lawmakers haggled over the 24 million dollar prohibition enforcement fund as part of the first deficiency bill. Secretary Mellon opposed the rise, saying most funds would boost personnel for the Bureau of Prohibition and the DOJ. Pennsylvania delegation shifts to oppose the increase.
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Washington
House
Rules Committee
Senate
Tilson
Mellon
Anthony
House Appropriations Committee
Bureau of Panel
Department of Justice
Pennsylvania
Chinese tariffs and Japan recognition stir Beijing Nanking notices
The Nanking consul formally informed the foreign office that Japan recognizes the nationalist government of China and will enact tariff reforms. The decision to proceed with tariff changes and related measures was conveyed as China braces for a new regime and affects trade ahead of the February 1 chess event.
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China
Nanking
Foreign Office
Japan
Chess
Governor Long Faces Last Recourse Over Executions
The article notes a condemned woman awaiting death on July 1 1927 after the governor refused to commute the sentence despite a board's life imprisonment recommendation. The state court of appeals weighs defense counsel claims as the governor faces final options.
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Sander
J. LeBouef
State Board
Court of Appeals
Long
Northcott Case Sees Mother to Take Stand Under Court Protection
In Riverside California Judge grants protection as Mrs. Sarah Northcott prepares to testify about alleged boy slayings linked to her son Gordon on a California chicken ranch. Gordon Northcott was sentenced to life in San Quentin for a separate murder, while both face threats amid the ongoing case.
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Riverside
Cal
Sarah Northcott
Gordon
Here
San Quentin
Walter Colline
Glendale
Drically
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