25 Jul 1928
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Newspaper
The Mobile News Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1928
Page
1
Details trace a bank robbery attempt at Cintronelle Bank where a cashier was wounded and died. The attackers Collins and Willie Hanson were involved with an eight year old Hanson boy killed by Jarvis amid an alleged signed confession. Jarvis identified by W Walden of Gadsden as the robber from a New Orleans incident five years prior.
Examinations for engineers in formation are announced with salaries tied to grade levels. The notice calls for qualified applicants and outlines criteria and pay scales.
John W. White, assistant to the port docks commission, returns from a business trip to New York and other eastern cities. He traveled to solicit tonnage for the port this week.
Mobile fight fans are invited to be guests when a title bout is announced at the scheduled venue. Organizers say spectators can sign in at the box office and enjoy event facilities as part of the show.
R G Cobb of the Mobile Chamber of Commerce traffic dept says the Interstate Commerce Commission ruled against the carriers canceling sugar transit privileges at Warrior River ports. The decision was made in New Orleans after a Chamber of Commerce appeal. Cobb heads to Atlanta for railroad executives meeting then to Montgomery to discuss Mobile sugar rates.
Alterations to the La Clede Hotel on Government and St Emanuel streets were approved last Monday by the Jett-Quillion Company. The project expands the hotel with fifteen new rooms and updated editions.
Final action on Mobile's 2 million paving project was delayed after a two hour hearing at city hall. 30 written protests and numerous verbal objections from property owners along proposed streets were filed for study. Citizens cited danger to trees and parkway impacts as key concerns during the session.
Hugh M Seath announces Mobile will host two telephone exchanges Dexter and Jackson starting midnight August 4. New switchboard equipment and directory resets implement the Dexter and Jackson central office prefixes. To call, callers must say the prefix for the desired exchange, for example Dexter one two three four.
Three men died after a collision between a car from Bee and St. John’s Quebec and a freight train at Sand Point about 60 miles west of Ottawa. The 22nd regiment, a permanent unit bound for Petawawa for its annual maneuvers, was mentioned in connection with the incident.
A strong tremor hits the Island of St Michael causing severe shock on Center Isle with reports of damage and shaken residents. Authorities assess aftershocks and urge caution as crews survey affected areas.
Shanghai dispatch reports a mutinous ship's crew on a Tacoma-Oriental Line steamer in Shanghai. Police and American consul from Olympia were to meet the vessel with U.S. materiel to restore order after officers and desperadoes clashed aboard.
R. J. Cullen, president of the International Company, will visit Mobile today after touring lands the firm has options on. The company expects to obtain timber from these lands for kraft production at its new plant now underway.
R V Mace of the Western Weighing and Inspection Bureau New Orleans C B Smith superintendent of terminals at Birmingham port H A MacKinzie superintendent of terminals Mobile and Harry M Wilson commercial agent Mobile are named.
R G Cobb traffic manager of the Chamber of Commerce announced reduced fruit shipping rates from California to Mobile. The new rate is 93.88 cents, down from 4.24 dollars, placing Mobile on par with New Orleans.
A fragment of silver bronze colored fabric attached to debris was picked off the Jutland coast. Authorities hope the wreckage may aid identification of a missing aircraft or its owner with ties to potential Port of entry or Tagmensen.
Stanford Cal July 2 Herbert Hoover keeps to his planned routine at his California home as he prepares for an August 11 campaign opener. He seeks cohesion among eastern Republican factions and aims to deliver a formal acceptance speech after a staged rest.
New York July 25 Senator George H Moses begins laying plans to mobilize the eastern states for the Republican party. He keeps a low profile until a formal campaign launch after the Hoover nomination and Curtis selection. He aims to start campaigning in late August with a cautious road tour focusing on campaign issues.
New York World reports Colonel Robert W. Stewart chairing Standard Oil of Indiana has 51 percent stock control, blocking John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s bid to oust him after Stewart refused to testify to the Senate Teapot Dome committee. Potential oil industry alliance with Harry F. Sinclair could consolidate crude, pipeline, and refining.
Washington report says the one and a half percent rise in rediscount rates forces the federal reserve to add about 697 dollars per veteran annually on adjusted service certificates loans. Veterans' Bureau notes the impact could rise if banks further increase rates and vows no relief beyond the law.
Atlanta police report details a gas station holdup where the robber learned the cash drawer maximum was five dollars. The operator surrendered the cash after the robber claimed the safe opened automatically from the main office and the remainder could be kept for transportation, then fled.
Roy O West of Chicago was sworn in as secretary of the interior in a ceremony in Washington. The oath was administered by W Bertrand Acker, with retiring secretary Hubert Work expected in attendance.
A Mobile group leaves for Birmingham to attend the Alabama Furniture Dealers Association convention. The Mobile delegation is led by Earl R. Gaston, president of the state organization, with Adam Glass and Milton Klein of Adam Glass and company, C. E. Webb of Webb Furniture, and B. S. and W. D. Edwards of Edwards Brothers Furniture company among those traveling.
In a labor focused campaign event Kenneth Clark cites the American Federation of Labor in a bid to back candidates friendly to union measures. The federation warns against anticipated injunctions while labor leaders avoid premeeting comment.
The traveling minister known as a cowboy evangelist from Covington County Mississippi, Joseph Robert EB. Lee Duckworth, will preach in Miss. The date and location in M are to be announced later. He has written several books including To Hell and Back.
Reading of a damaged OCR text shows garbled phrases and missing context. Readers encounter incomplete lines with stray letters, making it impossible to determine a clear event, names, places, or dates from the fragment.
A fragmented report notes Goodrich showing a large initial price movement in New York trading. It references quarterly dividends and preferred shares, with unclear figures and fragmented phrases about common stock.
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