Tragedy Unfolds Near Lucedale Campground
The body of an unknown woman, about six feet tall, with signs of blunt force trauma, was found near a camping and fishing area by BE O Neal. Sheriff C T McLeod said the victim appeared white and between 60 and 60 years old. The coroner issued an open verdict and the body was buried pending identification.
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Lucedale
Miss
C. T. McLeod
George County
BE. B. O’neal
McLeod
B. O'Neal
R. F. Ratliff
W. J. Hurst
Canees
O'Neal Springs
Disbarment Trial Reveals Payments and Threats in Boyles Case
The Aubrey Boyles disbarment trial enters day two with testimony about a $300 fine paid in a liquor case and a $250 court fine. witnesses also discuss a claimed offer to kill Boyles, with Tom Corso unable to recall details. Percy Kearns testifies about a potential law partnership tied to bootleg profits and office arrangements as defense cross examines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aubrey Boyles
Boyles
Tom Corso
Hes
Smith
Corso
Percy Kearns
Virgil C. Griffin
Soarces
Laurendine
James Co. Smith
Griffin
Grubb
Johnson
Bob Ennis
First National Bank
Attorney Johnson
Mobile
Mr. Boyles
French
Kearns
Two Young Men Drown Near Mobile After Boat Capsize
A fishing launch capsized near McIntosh landing north of Mobile killing Josh Bryant Jr and John Everett Jr. Both men, 25 and from well known local families, drowned last night while a third man remained unidentified. Searchers used boats and dynamite to recover the bodies as relatives rushed to the scene.
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Tombigbee
McIntosh Landing
Mobile
Josh Bryant, Jr
John Everett, Jr
McIntosh
John Everett
Naval
Everett & Boykin
Everett
Young Everett
Saraland
Josh Bryan
Mount Vernon
L. L. Duggar
Bay Front
Frank Boykin
Boykin
Knights of Columbus to Sponsor Post Session Entertainment
Members of Mobile council No 666 will receive a surprising and unique entertainment after the semi monthly session. The entertainment committee will provide the fun once the meeting is closed.
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Mobile Council
Knights of Columbus
Alabama and Mississippi Weather Outlook
Partly cloudy in Alabama today and Wednesday with showers this afternoon or tonight. North and central Alabama may see thunder showers and moderate northerly winds. Mississippi expected to be mostly fair tonight and Wednesday with gentle northerly winds.
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Alabama
Mississippi
Bears Begin With Tight Game Inning By Inning
In Mobile Little Rock and Mobile traded early chances with singles and walks. Susko was ejected after interference as Stock argued with umpire Rick Campbell.
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Little Rock
Senne
Hatie
Mulvey
Eee Meer
Mates
Ird
Clancy
Susko
Hatle
Williams
Stock
Phe
Rick Campbell
Ritchie
Cueto
Joyce Hawley Released From Chicago Hospital
Joyce Hawley who played a Horseless Lady Godiva at Earl Carroll's bath tub party was freed from the Chicago psychopathic hospital early today. She returned to her parents' home on Chicago's west side after an overdose incident. She declared she is sane and eager to return to New York.
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Chicago
Joyce Ead
Godiva
Earl Carroll
West Side
Joyce
New York
I C C asked to deny spur line in Wilson County Kansas
The Interstate Commerce Commission was urged by examiner W J Schutrumpf to deny Southern Kansas Industries Belt Railway authority to build a four mile switching spur in Wilson County Kansas The plan would run parallel to existing facilities and would not provide any new service.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
W. J. Schutrumpf
Southern Kansas Industries Belt Railway
Wilson County
Kansas
Railroad valuation set by ICC for Duluth, Mehmed and Pacific
The Interstate Commerce Commission placed a tentative rate making valuation of 4,225,136 dollars on the Duluth, Mehmed and Pacific Railway as of June 30, 1919.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Duluth, Mehmed and Pacific Railway
Second Laymen's Retreat Ends Quietly
The second laymen's retreat concluded with participants departing peacefully as organizers reported a successful gathering without incident. Several attendees praised the program for reflection and community ties.
Weather forecast for Mobile says little change expected
Partly cloudy conditions with only slight temperature shifts anticipated tonight and Wednesday per the Mobile forecast. No significant weather events noted.
Abduction Plots Foiled in Nashville Early This Morning
In Nashville three attempts to abduct young women were thwarted when victims awoke. No arrests were made by early afternoon. The incidents occurred within the city as police investigated the cases.
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Nashville
Tenn
New Market Proposal Deliberated by City Commission
Walter Lord and L F Pearce representing Mobile County Protective League urged a new market building in Mobile Missouri but the commission took the matter under advisement. The body allocated 150 to send Confederate Veterans to the state reunion and postponed action on a million dollar paying ordinance until the next meeting.
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Walter Lord
L. F. Pearce
Mobile County Protective League
MoDile
Woman Struck By Auto Injures Lillian Collier at Home
Miss Lillian Collier of 503 Selma Street, employee of C J Gayfer & Company, was injured when an automobile driven by James McCulloch struck her on the way to her home. McCulloch was detained at police headquarters on a reckless driving charge and later released.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillian Collier
Selma Street
C. J. Gayfer & Company
James McCulloch
McCulloch
Reward posted for vat dynamiters in Mobile County
Deputy sheriffs began distributing rewards today in Mobile County offering 500 dollars for the arrest of each of five men accused of destroying Rootea vats. The program pays 500 dollars for information leading to arrests by officers or citizens.
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Mobile
Heirs Sought of Former Mariner Jack Waring
Silas Axtell of New York seeks the heirs of Jack Waring after the steamship O. T. Waring explosion drowning in March at New Orleans. Axtell claims to possess valuable information for the dead man’s relatives.
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Silas Axtell
New York
Potion Department
Jack
O. T. Waring
New Orleans
Axtell
Carmichael Denies Withdrawing From Race in Alabama
Archie Carmichael of Aosa Alabama declares he remains in the governor’s race addressing a Mobile crowd. Carmichael outlines roads education health and child welfare plans with a 35 million bond for roads and convict labor, opposes broad ad valorem tax while proposing taxes on electricity and railroads. He pledges to seek General William L Sibert’s supervision for highway work after the seaport project is finished.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archie H. Carmichael
Oosa
Ala
Mr. Carmichael
St. Joseph Street
Bienville Square
R. E B. Gordon
Mobile
Carmichael
William L. Sibert
No danger from storm seen here
Local meteorologist Albert Aschenberger announced no danger from a tropical storm touching Mobile today or tonight. Storm warnings remain in effect with advisories to vessels, as the center drifts slowly northwestward east of the Florida coast between Miami and Jupiter Island.
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Mobile
Albert Aschenberger
Florida Peninsula
Titusville
Charleston
Miami
Kay
Florida
Jupiter Island
Larceny Charged in Auto Theft Case
M. L. Loyd of Hall's Mill road convicted in a pen hearing of grand larceny for stealing an automobile from Mrs. Mary Martini of 412 Conti street and held to the grand jury under a $750 bond. Jerome Young, a four Negro, convicted in a preliminary hearing of burglarizing Le Baron Lyons summer home and taking a revolver, held to next grand jury under $750 bond. Ethel Brown alias Allen, a Negro woman, convicted in a preliminary for theft of 127.50 from Dad's hamburger stand and held to the grand jury under $750 bond.
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M. L. Loyd
Hall's Mill Road
Recorder
Mary Martini
Conti Street
Jerome Young
LeBaron Lyons
Dog River
Ethel Brown
Allen
Dauphin
Italian steamer Ansaldo San Giorgio Secundo in distress near Jupiter Inlet
Wireless reports from the Orizaba and Savannah confirm the Italian steamer Ansaldo San Giorgio Secundo battered in a hurricane off Jupiter Inlet Florida with crew of 30. The Orizaba and Ward liner responded but could not aid. later signals indicate abandonment and sinking with the Giorgio stating we are in a gale. The vessel, 3275 tons, carried lumber and other cargo from Mobile to London with Captain Curraine aboard.
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Miami
Fre
Orizaba
Jupiter Inlet
Florida
Ansaldo
San Giorgio
Galveston
New Orleans
Mobile
Hull
London
Reco
L. Curraine
Antonio Gavisso
Francisco Quartatenlo
Giobatti di Billo
Savannah
Ansaldo San Giorgio Secundo
Jupiter
Hillsboro
Giorgio Secundo
ST. Augustine
Fila
Anastasia Island
Ansaldo San Guirogo
Curraine
Italian liner seeks aid near Miami as gale hampers return
The Ansaldo San Giorgio Secondo, 80 miles north northeast of Miami and eight miles off Hillsborough, calls for help with its rudder missing and limited headway in an eight mile gale. The Ward Line steamer Orizabe stands by unable to tow due to high seas.
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Miami
Fla
Ward Line
Orizabe
Ansaldo San Giorgio Secondo
Hillsborogh
Hileah
Tropical Madio Corporation
Hurricane isolates Miami and West Palm Beach area
A hurricane sweeping the lower east coast cut off wire communication with Miami and West Palm Beach early today. A message intercepted at Tampa from the oil tanker Charles M Everest reported the Miami barometer at 8 o clock.
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Atlanta
Miami
West Palm Beach
Fla
Caribbean Sea
Charles M. Everest
Tampa
Burch Returns From Chiefs of Police Meeting
Chief Warren F. Burch returned to the city after attending the convention of Chiefs of Police in Chicago Illinois and a short visit to Waukegan. He said the gathering broke all records and was very instructive.
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Chicago
Ill
Waukseba
Warren F. Burch
Yestery
Bandits Hold Up Clothing Store in Chicago
Five armed men robbed a Chicago clothing store shortly before noon today. They held five men up at gunpoint and escaped with about $1,000 in cash and more than 100 suits from wall cases. A diamond ring valued at 850 dollars was taken from an employee.
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Chicago
Mobile City Finances Show Per Capita Expenditure $17.25
The Commerce Department releases Mobile Alabama 1925 fiscal year finance summary. General department maintenance and operations cost $1,134,015 or $17.25 per person, with total city and service outlays including schools at $2,672,436 and revenues of $1,749,580.
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Washington, D. C
Department of Commerce
Cor On
Mobile
Ala
Board of Education
Mobile County
Maintena
General de Ents
Amoun
Torsey
Trade Week in City Debated by Two Experts
At a Mobile Retail Merchants Association meeting at the Chamber of Commerce plans for a Fall Trade Week were aired. Samuel Wilson of Ex position Organization Company New York and Charles Pressey of Pressey Brothers Producing Co Beeville Tex presented proposals for the exposition. If adopted, sections for Sateuma pecan and automobile shows and a pure food exhibit will be added. the Chamber will sponsor the move if the investigating committee accepts either plan.
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Mobile Retail Merchants Association
Chamber of Commerce
Samuel Wilson
Exposition Organization Company
New York City
Charles Pressey
Pressey Brothers Producing Company
Beeville
Tex
Messrs
Burton Butler
Harry Haverman
Bernard Baum
H. B. Gayfer
HE. H. Britton
Death of Robert Todd Lincoln Ends Lincoln Line
Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln, has died in Vermont ending the Lincoln family line. He served as secretary of war under Arthur and Garfield, was U S ambassador to the court of St James, and directed Pullman Company affairs. He may be buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
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Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Vermont
Robert Todd Lincoln
Lincoln
Lincoln Memorial
Arthur and Garfield
U. S
Court of St. James
Pullman Company
Arlington National Cemetery
White House
Appomatox
A. &. Grant
Robert E. Lee
Ford
John Wilkes Booth
Virginia fisheries patrol to mount gun on vessel Maury
The Virginia fisheries patrol boat Maury will mount a machine gun after a long clash with Maryland crabbers in Chesapeake Bay dating to 1924. Commissioner Harry R. Houston authorized the weapon to protect the boat while Marylanders were firing on it during crab protection efforts. The Maury’s commander reports order restored aboard the flagship.
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Hampton
Virginia Fisheries Patrol
Marguerite
Virginia
Chesapeake Bay
Commissioner of Fisheries
Harry R. Houston
Rum Agreement Submitted For Approval In London
Washington officials announced that a rum agreement reached in London will be submitted to American authorities for approval before being made public. Co. Andrews, city chief, and officials prepare to present details to the United States state department.
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Washington
London Co. Andrews
American
Fish
State Department
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