Mallory Line Mobile service halted by Southern Railway space dispute
News from Mobile reports the Mallory Line's New York to Mobile service was withdrawn after Southern Railway refused to renew berthing space. A letter to Senator Underwood cites lack of cargo and space for export needs as reasons, with remaining goods moved on the Lake Freeland led Elkmont. Local shippers and officials seek port relief and new municipal piers to restore service.
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Mobile
Mallory Steamship Line
New York
Port of
United States
Oscar W. Underwood
Steamship Company
Southern Railway Company
Underwood
R. G. Cobb
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Shipping Board
Mallory Line
Southern’railroad
Steamship Service
Mallory
Southern Railway
Shipping ‘Board
Southern Railroad Company
Elkmont
Lake Freeland
Tor
City Commission
Mallory Company
Arrests Expected After Still Seizure Near Cedar Point Road
Federal prohibition officers and deputy sheriffs located a still about 14 miles from the city near Cedar Point road yesterday afternoon. They found two beers hidden nearby and stated information will lead to arrests in the cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C.pape
Blackan
Donaghue
Cedar Point Road
Weather Outlook and Local Show Flags Tonight
The brief notes a chance of party cloudy conditions tonight with a local show mentioned. No concrete dates, times, or entities beyond Alabama Mississippi region appear in readable text.
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Washington
Alabama
Mississippi
Claims Canvass Finds City Poll Lists Inaccurate
Edwin A Dele Ps enumerator reports that the city polling lists omit dead voters and those moved to other wards while including ineligible names. In three wards the enumeration found 30 percent fewer qualified electors than the polling lists show, with totals under 2 000 in Sixth Eighth and Ninth wards.
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Raekapa
Edwin A Dele
Bontain
Delchamps
Delc
Mobile Protests Plan to Charge Dockage Fees
R. G. Cobb of the Mobile Chamber of Commerce filed protests with a sub-committee of the Southern Freight Rate Committee in New Orleans. Railroads proposed dockage fees for handling goods at Mobile wharves, which would raise shipping costs. Cobb noted these charges aren’t in effect at New Orleans or other ports and will be addressed further by a full committee.
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Mobile
Southern Freight Rate Committee
New Orleans
R. G. Cobb
Chamber of Commerce
Cobb
Tablet Mobile City to be Shipped July 18
The bronze tablet honoring Mobile for the Chickasaw plant site and ship naming will be shipped from New York around August 18, ensuring it reaches Mobile in time to be installed on the steamer Mobile City before its maiden voyage to Japan. The design details and shipping timeline were confirmed by the local chamber of commerce.
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Mobile City
Mobile
New York
Obile Chamber of Commerce
Vcaiperanpye
Japan
Funeral for Mobile Detective Capt Ron deau Largely Attended
Funeral services for Edward T. Rondeau chief of detectives of the Mobile police department were held at his residence 16 New Conti street and at St Marys church. Delegations of Confederate veterans police and fire departments and other groups attended. Interment followed at Magnolia cemetery with captains of Fire Department and off duty police escort. Pallbearers named.
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Edward T. Rondeau
Mobile Police Department
No. 16
New Conti Street
Fire Departments
Captain Rondeau
St. Mary's Church
Father Rogers
George Myrie
Magnolia Cemetery
P D.b. Dorlon
Hyman Baerman
Levine
Baune William
Urgey
Pillans
Lyons and Craword
Bo Lees Leapets Towers
Laz Schwarz
Congressmen Reach Manila Destination
Manila July 27 The army transport Great Northern carrying a party of congressmen arrived here today. The travelers clashed with showers of rain between stops as they proceeded to their destination.
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Manila
Great Northern
Congress
Harbor Board and Engineers Discuss Future Projects
Mobile harbor commission and federal engineers conferred on district projects and conditions with Major Earie D. North set to succeed the board. The session, led by Murray Brown, included most members except George Gordon Crawford who planned to arrive with Chick Shipbuilding executives tomorrow.
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Harbor Commission
Thin
Earie D. North
Anuther
Commission
George Gordon Crawford
Birmingham
Elks Hall
Traffic law fines set in recorder's court
Two defendants faced fines of 10 for speeding in the recorder's court this morning. Others paid 2 to 10, with one dism issal and a case continued by Judge D H Edington. Several defendants charged with no lights and reckless driving saw fines from 2 to 30, including 30 for passing a street car and 20 for no lights.
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Recorder’s Court
D. H
Edington
Edward Taylor
Frank Ortman
Robert Marshall
Dauphin
Tom
McCauley
G. W. Knompan
Marine Reet
Brown
Charlies
Mitchell and
Harris
Barstow
Lou Moore
Open Store Charges Delayed to July 30 in Court
Five men owners and managers of corner grocery stores were arraigned in recorder's court on receiving stolen property charges. Grants for two accused, Grayson and Pappas, involve ham thefts from Morris & Co. Other suspects Cheatom Bell and Lignos face related larceny and receiving charges. All cases continued to July 30 with further hearings set for Friday.
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Recorder’s Court
Nick. Pap Walpole
William A. Dusang
William. Grayson
Walter Cheatom
William Bell
Grayson
Morris & Co
Pappas
Roo
Cheatom
Bacon
George
Mike Lignos
Walpole
Man driven to suicide by quake shock in Los Angeles
In Los Angeles on July 27 a brief earthquake was felt at midnight. A. M. Brewer, 42, frightened by the tremor, sprang from bed, grabbed a revolver, and ran outside in his night clothes. He leaped a high tree and shot himself through the heart, dying almost instantly.
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Los Angeles
Cal
A. M. Brewer
Earthquake Shakes Central Chile Rattling Los Andes
Reports from AGO Chile indicate a strong quake this morning with vertical movement affecting central provinces. The tremor lasted over a minute in Los Andes near the Andean foothills causing notable alarm and damage reports.
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Chile
Los Andes
Kentucky Rushes to Quell War on Tug River
Troops moved to the West Virginia line near Tug River to establish a neutral zone and quell fighting across the border. Details are incomplete due to damaged text but indicate a military response to border tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
Jille
West Virginia State Line River
West Virginia
Beithe Aimiting
Chamber Plans Statewide Push for Port Erection Amendment
Business leaders in Mobile coordinated with the Chamber of Commerce to secure a statewide vote on a port erection amendment. State officials engineers and local leaders will attend, with further meetings planned to rally support across Alabama for the project.
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Mempere Ut. Nission
M B. Barkin
Messrs
Murray
Elube
Chamber of Commerce
City Commission
County Board of Revenue and Road Commission
United States
Mohr to Conference in Galveston Health Meeting
Dr. Charles A. Mohr city and county health officer was authorized to attend the Galveston conference called by Surgeon General Hugh B. Cummings on August 3. The commission also urged a city lab for rat surveys at the city stables and debated docking provisions for small craft at the city wharf.
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Charles A. Mohr
Galveston
Hugh 8. Cummings
Gulf Ports
Mohr
Harry Pillans
W. Welch
Dr. Mohr
Commissioner of Health
Crawford
H. C. Murnan
Murnan Shipbuilding Corporation
Maylr Pillans
Seong
Marine recruiters distribute baseball scorecards
A number of scorecards have been received at the Marine Recruiting Station on the second floor of the Federal Building for distribution. Local fans may call at the office to obtain the cards.
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Marine Recruiting Station
Federal Building
Coolidge Addresses Adherents on New Beliefs in Northampton
Governor Coolidge spoke at Smith College Field about observance of law and public restraint. He urged reducing government expenditures, cutting private extravagance, and forging interdependent relations among capital management and labor while supporting a League of Nations in principle, preserving American independence.
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Coolidge Phat
Brovest
Alle Field
Smith Collge
Exere
Fran Goyvernor
Badwin Pow
Kentucky
Coolidge
League of Nations
América
Germany Denies Joining Russia to Escape Obligations
Berlin July 26 Lt Walter Simons German foreign secretary addressed the Reichstag denying any temptation to join forces with Soviet Russia to escape obligations. He asserted Germany remains neutral in the Russo Polish situation and warned that if Germany backed Russia its territory would become a battlefield between Eastern Bolshevism and Western imperialism. Poland should be a bridge not a barrier between Germany and Russia.
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Berlin
Germany
Russia
Walter Simons
Reichstag
Se Ee
Simons
Poland
Woman Implicated in Diamond Plots Named in Court
New York July 27. Customs Inspector John W. Roberte named a conspirator with Nils Jacobbs son a Swedish sailor in an attempt to smuggle 40000 dollars worth of cut diamonds into the country. Mitchell i ron of Brooklyn was held in 3600 bail when arraigned before United States Commissioner Hitch cock. Last Friday Jacobbsion failed in an alleged attempt to leave his ship with 231 diamonds on his person. A third defendant was named but her name was not disclosed.
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New York
John W. Roberte
Nils Jacobbsson
Mitchell i
Ron
Brooklyn
United States
Hitchcock
Jacobbieson
Appeal to Wilson in Mooney's Case
An appeal in behalf of Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings, convicted in San Francisco over the 1916 preparedness parade bombing, was presented to the White House today by a committee of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of America led by John J. Mooney of San Francisco.
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Washington
Thomas J. Mooney
Warren K. Billings
San Francisco
White House
Associaton of
America
John 3. Mooney
Cleveland Barber Freed From Custody
James H. George a 42 year old barber was released after six days in jail. Birmingham police had mistaken him for fugitive Robert L. Dix. a detective failed to correctly identify the suspect before Dix was to be executed.
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Cleveland
James H. George
Barber
Erm Here Hief
Birmingham
Ala
Robert L. Dix
Stone Key
Trunk Murder Victim from Sturgis Highlighted in Birmingham News
The Birmingham News reports the case of a Sturgis Mississippian murder victim tied to months of investigation. Other details reference a mother’s death years earlier and a missing spouse never divorced, with relatives in Idaho and Sturgis.
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Ae Railway
Katherine Ceeder
Sturgis
Missy
Iile
Birmingham News
Birmingham
Nashville
Jackson
Harry Fondren
Idaho
Star- Sienee
J. A. McGee
Oktibbeha
Starkville
Barnum Style Claim Reveals Embezzled Funds Allegation
A fragmented news item mentions a claim about concealment of about $1,608 from an alleged embezzlement. The text also references Barnum and a message about a cheerful giver, with unclear details and away-from-home context.
Detroit detective to interview A. A. Tatum
Birmingham police expect a Detroit detective to interview Allen A. Tatum early today. Tatum said he would answer questions here or accompany the Detroit officer to Michigan. He has not been taken into custody and gave a telephone number for contact.
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Birmingham
Ala
Detroit Police Department
Detroit
Allen A. Tatum
Michigan City
Tatum
Boy Drowns While Swimming in Lake West Lake Near Here
Walter Laird, 17, son of Mr and Mrs H Laird of Bessemer, drowned while swimming with friends at West Lake resort near Pe July 27. He attempted to swim under water to a raft, did not surface, body recovered hours later.
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Walter Laird
Hs Laird
Bessemer
West Lake
Sur
M’curdy
Lowndsboro
Burns
Gas Explosion Injures Twelve at Bethlehem Steel Plant
A gas explosion at Bethlehem Steel's Steelton plant injures twelve men, two of whom are not expected to survive. The blast wrecks a gas engine room and blast furnace area, shattering thousands of panes of glass.
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Harrisburg
Bethlehem Steel, Company
Steelton
Businesswomen convene in St. Paul national federation session
Delegates from across the country gather for the opening of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs convention in St. Paul. The four day meeting aims to set a nonsex based standard of service in business and profession.
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Business Women
ST. Paul
National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clibs
Bolsheviki Declared Inactive in Mexico City
Mexico City governor Celestino Gasca said no Bolsheviki activities violating laws have been found in the capital. The governor based the statement on a preliminary government commission report and said the investigation will continue.
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Mexico City
Celestino Gasca
Federal District
Governme Commission
Shamrock and Resolute Chase Lead in Yacht Race
In Sandy Hook New Jersey Shamrock leads Resolute as both yachts start and falter under two minute handicaps. Shamrock crosses the line first at 2 17 06 while Resolute finishes 2 17 45 amid light winds and shifting tide.
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Sandy Hook
Jul
Shamrock
Resolu
Leeward
Ambroise
Ash Park
Resolute
Jepsey
Barnes Saenine
Sta
Ture
Wey Shamrock
Fortica
Professional roper's wife held for death
Grace Wilson of Winfield Kansas is jailed on a degree murder charge for killing her husband Homer Ridgeway a cowboy and ranch foreman after a quarrel near the road. The victim, Homer Ridgeway, was shot following a dispute over oxen and a car the two were using. The case involves Frank Anthony the foreman's son and a claim by the woman’s husband’s family.
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Etaryee Winfield
Kan
Grace Wilson
Homer
Foremanl
Tahiequi Thony
Mra
Anthon
Army Recruiting Brisk for Summer Season
Army recruiting shows a strong summer push with high enrollments. Officials report 14 600 recruits in the period and note a record pace since peacetime expansion, amid initiatives in major cities including Atlanta and Chicago.
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Washington
Atlanta
Chicago
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Rondeau
Thortes
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Rurmany
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Mooney
Cleveland Barber
Katherine Lou Fondren
Barnum
A. A. Tatum
L. H. McCurdy
McCurdy
L. Ho McCurdy
Bolsheviki
Mexico
Challener Ward
Roper
Deat
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