Election set for Prichard incorporation on August 4
Probate Judge Price Williams fixed Tuesday August 4 as the election date to decide if Prichard Alabama will incorporate as a city with a police and fire department. He will appoint three election officers and one will represent the plan. The anticipated area covers about 13.10 miles with defined boundaries along Bay Shore and College Street through Butler Street and John Craft Highway to form the new township.
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Prichard
Price Williams Anny
Williams
Vct
Elec
Ala
Bay
John Craft
Modilect and Railway Company
Tochmin’s Lane
Avenue G
College It
Collége Street
Jewelry Heist Reported as Police Nab Suspects
Police recovered jewelry valued at $100 after an auto crash led to the capture of three individuals. The incident occurred near 125th Street and involved a man driving the car as witnesses reported a scuffle and shackled suspects. Further details remain unclear as investigators process the scene.
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Theina
Men Convicted for Theft Auto Tires
Deputies Sullivan and McCrary returned from Calvert Alabama with Dan D Dykes and Bill Schwarzweizer residents on the Washington county line. They’re charged with grand larceny for stealing two tires from a Mobile based Jordan U Drive It Co vehicle. Dykes confessed and tires were recovered on Schwarzweizer property. The car was wrecked at Calvert near Mobile county line. two balloon tires two headlights and two cushions were removed.
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Sullivan
McCrary
Calvert, Ala
Dan D. Dykes
Bill Schwarzweizer
Washington County
Mobile County
Chatom
Ala
Jordan U-Drive-It Co
Mobile
Schwarzweizer
Masonier
Calvert
Junior Chamber Plans Baldwin Tour
The regular meeting of the Junior Chamber of Commerce will be held at the Cawthon hotel tonight to discuss plans for a "good will" Baldwin county tour. A motorcade from Mobile will visit all Baldwin sections to boost the Mobile Baldwin bridge project and promote business ties between Mobile and Baldwin people. George Lining, former Mobile Chamber of Commerce president, may organize a musical program.
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Chamber of Commerce
Cawthon Hotel
Baldwin County
Mobile
Baldwin
Mobile-Baldwin
George Lining
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Creighton to Attend YMCA Summer School Meet
J. H. Creighton general secretary of the local YMCA will leave Mobile today for Blue Ridge to attend the annual YMCA summer school. Mrs Creighton will accompany him. After a two weeks vacation at Point Clear Biloxi and Mobile B Jones YMCA physical director returned to his office.
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OP Cenaca
YM. CA
J. H. Creighton
Mobile
Blue N.C
Hull Trader Arrives With First Ashbel Hubbard Cargo
The twin-screw steamer Hull Trader from Frontera with a cargo of Kapamas is due to arrive this evening marking the vessel’s first port arrival since being purchased by Ashbel Hubbard & Company in England. It sailed from Mobile on April 4.
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Frontera
Ashbel Hubbard & Company
England
Mobile
Weather Note for Seaport Fair and North South Regions
A brief weather update notes pair in the north and local overs in the south portion through Friday with mention of Seaport Fair. The fragmentary text implies a forecast or conditions affecting the fair event.
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Seaport Fair Tenia
Sait
New advance in stock prices signals market upturn
July 16 reports from New York indicate a broad early rally in stocks led by American Can and steel shares. Public utilities, International Telephone, and electric power issues rose, with gains in Giant Goose and others while crude rubber prices boosted tire stocks.
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New York
A.P
American Can
United States
Bethlehem Steel
International Telephone
Anon
Page Sera
Savage Arms
General Electric
Royal Dutch
Otis Elevator
Havana Electric
American Agricultural
Fisk
New Orleans Cotton Futures Open Steady
New Orleans July 16 Cotton futures opened steady with July at 23.59 bid. October 23.43, December 23.51, January 23.70 and March 23.70 indicated. Market shows firm tone as trading begins for the season.
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New Orleans
A.P
New York Cotton Futures Open Slightly Steady
New York July 16. Cotton futures opened nearly steady with July at 23.94 cents per pound, October 24.00, December 24.10, January 23.50, March 23.80, and May 24.03.
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New York
A.P
Large fines levied in liquor cases state court
Charles Nelson shipping master fined 300 dollars or 90 days hard labor for possession of a large quantity of liquor with 500 quarts of red whiskey found in a Cedar Point road barn. John Jackson and Frank Martin fined 300 and 50 dollars respectively with additional penalties. O B Schneider Carlton Craig and George Olson similarly fined. Deputy Gregg Tanner reports destroying an illicit still and two barrels of beer mash in Wragg swamp during a solo raid.
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Charles Nelson
N. R. Clarke
Inferior Criminal Court
W. O. Robbins, Jr
Nelson
Cedar Point Road
John Jackson
Jackson
St. Michael
Frank Martin
O. B. Schneider
Carlton Craig
George Olson
Gregg Tanner
Schwarz
Wragg Swamp
Plans for Buyers Week Entertaining for Visiting Merchants
Mobile merchants schedule activities for Buyers Week opening August 10. Tuesday features a river ride to the new state docks, Wednesday includes a Dog River club house visit and possible ball game, and Thursday offers a boat outing at Fairhope. Last two days focus on hosting by local wholesalers with refunds for auto travelers.
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Mobile
General Committee For
Chamber of Comerce
New State Docks
Dog River
Fairhope
County speeding brings hard labor
George Braxton arraigned in inferior criminal court for speeding on a county highway. He was today given a day hard labor to a fine of 5 dollars and costs of court. It was the second offense for this de-
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George Braxton
Probe Explosions On Government Patrol Boat AB-20
An official inquiry into the AB-20 patrol boat explosion last week aims to determine cause and any negligence. Coast Guard cutters will form the investigating board, likely including officers from the US cutter Comanche upon its return. Four men were seriously injured and treated at the Marine Hospital. Armour faced the most serious injuries.
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Coast Guard
Washington
L. Armour
Holger Nielsen
George Thomas
Marine Hospital
Armour
Take Rate Hearing Under Advisement
The Interstate Commerce Commission recommended Alabama officials consider Birmingham Mobile rate. The panel found Birmingham Pensacola rate not unreasonable and said the new rate applies only to domestic shipments, not exports.
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Cobb
Comi
Mobile
Pensacola
Interstate Commerce Commission
Alabama
birmingham-Mobile
Birmingham- Pensacola
Auto chase ends with seized car and bootlegger escape
Deputies report Four occupants fled after tossing bottles from a Dodge touring car in Three-mile Creek district east of Davis. The car was ditched and officers seized it. Earlier they seized a Ford at Virginia and Marine streets with home brew and arrested George Olsen on a violation charge.
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Davis
Butcher's Lane
Burch
Shreve
Virginia
Marine Streets
George Olsen
Free Defendants In Auto Collision Case
An investigation of a collision between an automobile driven by F A Tremer and a truck from The Mobile Register Company by D C Simpson on May 3 near Warren and Savannah resulted in both defendants being discharged. Absence of witnesses delayed a case involving two street cars to July 21 as next trial date. Defendants Nina Jackson driving the car H Kartrex and M Dixon motormen of the streetcars. The woman attempted to drive between street cars moving on the double track near the Theatre.
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F. A. Tremer
Mobile Register Company
D. C. Simpson
Warren
Savannah
Nina Jackson
Acre
H. Kartrex
M.—Dixon
Theatre
Open Sunday Store Fined $10 in Recorder's Court
George Poras was arrested by police on a charge of keeping an open store on a Sunday and was arraigned in the recorder's court this morning. He was fined $10, which he paid, and the court warned that he had been let off for the last time for $10. Poras claimed that sects evidence shove tg steeper, but the defendant had made sales of goods.
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George Poras
Recorder’s Court
Poras
Transport of Five Passengers From Tela to Mobile
Five passengers from Tela arrived in Mobile aboard a Norwegian steamer associated with the Fruit Company. The report lists names including Edmanean, John Fy Mul, Ratfsel Angel, Elvis, and others among the rescued or transported individuals.
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Tela
Honduras
Mobile
Ver ° Fruit Company
Aaron
Edmanean
John Fy
Angel Elvis
Scopes Trial Arguments Focus on Expert Testimony
In Dayton Tennessee on July 16 the Tennessee motioned to bar expert witnesses in the Scopes trial. Malone opened for the defense urging that scientific facts be admitted and that banning expert testimony would substitute opinion for evidence.
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Dayton
Tenn
Ten-néssee
John T. Scopes
Ivolution
Jennings Bryan, Jr
Malone
Toba
Metf
Darrow
Loeb-Leopold
Ex Pote
John Thomas
Bryan Dy
Supreme Court of Tennessee
Arthur G Hays
Scopes
Young Scopes
Profesor Scopes
Bryan
Ee Uni
Foreign Wedding Sees Louise Fletcher Wed German Count
Berlin dispatch reports Miss Louise Fletcher daughter of Indiana banker Fletcher to wed Count Bernard in a August ceremony at Pommerzig. The wedding unites German and English aristocracy with a six month American sojourn planned after a Sweden honeymoon. Fletcher will attend, and the estate Valeskahof passes to the couple on marriage.
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E. A. Mathis
United Press
Berlin
Germany
Louise Fletcher
Givenshipn Fletcher
Indiana
Bernard Fread Ecbinetitow
Prince Royal
Sweden
Schmettewestte
Pommerzig
Miss Fletcher
Trousseau
Valeskahof
America
Coolidge Hosts Luncheon For Polish, Egyptian Envoys
In Swampscott, Mass the President and Mrs Coolidge host a luncheon for Count Alex Serzysnki Polish foreign minister and five guests. Melville Stone guests include Hipolito Gliwic and J Butler 7. An Egyptian minister arrives to present credentials as Charles Hilles seeks an audience.
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Swampscott
Mass
Ceert
Alex Serzysnki
United States
Institute of Politics
Williamstown
Melville BE. Stone
Coolidge
Hipolito Gliwic
J. Butler
John Hays Hallond
James C. White
Boston
Sr .Coolides
Charles D. Hillés
Repubiies National
New York
Mountain climbers feared after Mount Logan ascent
Cordova Alaska July 18 fear was expressed for the safety of Captain A H McCarthy New York city and two members of a nine expedition who reached Mount Logan summit on June 23 They descended the mountain by raft from Chitina and four others of the party left a raft behind Two men suffered frozen feet and were in a hospital at Chitina.
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Cordova
Alaska
A. H. McCarthy
New York City
Mount Logan
McCarthy
Foster
Carpe
Canada
Chitina
Prohibitionists Drive German Local Option Petition Drive
Prohibitionists push a local option bill in Germany aided by a large petition campaign. About 16 000 signed cards per district totaling 15 000 000 pledges, with Evangelical Women’s League support. Debate centers on beer classification into simple up to 6.6 percent full 11–14 percent and reinforced 16 percent plus.
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Germany
Nesreichtag
Reichstag
Lee
Evangelical Women’s League
Two Dead in New Chicago Gangland Feud Sharp Gunfire
Chicago July 16 A P two men died and another wounded in a city gangland feud. Tony Compagno son of a wealthy merchant was killed when a closed car halted and occupants fired scores of pistol and machine gun shots. Taxi driver Bartucci brought a fatally wounded man to a hospital. the victim’s identity was not known.
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Chicago
Ess Oes
Tony Compagno
Svatere Ae
Res Barr
Pugilists Plan to Organize Union
Havana reports pugilists move to form a union to establish a standard wage and working conditions after a dispute over payment. Details sketchy as the group considers organizing to secure fair treatment for fighters.
Bryan makes gjar in evolution tri dayton jury case
Dayton Tenn July opening of court drew attention as the defense and prosecution presented closing statements. The judge and courtroom audience reacted with applause as the trial neared a verdict after a year of testimony and hearings.
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Bryan
Ghar
Tri
Dayton
Tenn
William
Bedday
Tennessee Fares Serious Flare Back
A fractured OCR fragment discusses a symposium of educators about evolving credentials and attitudes toward slavery era intellect. It mentions Dr. Henry Ras of a college, the Scopes case, and figures from Tennessee and New York in a chaotic report.
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New York
Tennewaste
Ameom
Henry’ H. Ras
College of Pharr
Bia. University
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