Birmingham City cargo lifts Alabama steel to ship Far East service
A half million dollar cargo aboard the steamship Birmingham City, built by Chickasaw Shipbuilding, prepares to sail from Mobile for Kobe and Yokohama marking a new Mobile Far East service. The ship carries 8,264 tons of freight dominated by Alabama made steel. Captain John Murphy takes command as loading continues amid possible Tuesday departure. In Chicago port news, a Pere Marquette passenger train collided head-on with a standing freight, killing conductor A D Bateman and injuring seven. Engineer Louis Bekkering and fireman Carl Bradley were questioned.
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Birminghamity
Thehickasaw Shipbuilding and
Car Comany
Mobilé
Kobe
Yokoama
Mobile
Birmingham City
ER. V
J.8. Taylor
Alabama
Tennessee Goal, Iron and Railway Company of
Birmingham
Chicka
John’ Murphy
Moile
Tme
Chicago
A. D. Bateman
Holland, Mich
Here
Ateman
Michigan
Louis Bekkering
Carl Bradley
Harding Home Clears Desk For Campaign
Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio arrives in Washington with Mrs Harding and aides after midnight. He plans a week in the capital to tidy Senate business and prepare for campaign setup with Will Hays and GOP managers. formal nomination not yet received and congratulations pour in.
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Washington
Warren G. Harding
Ohio
Capitol
Hays
Harding
Associated Press
Will H. Hays
Republican National Committee
Marion
Senator Harding
Coolidge Receives Plenties Of Wires In Nomination Day
Boston dispatch reports Governor Calvin Coolidge as the Republican nominee for vice president receiving hundreds of congratulations. The article notes Coolidge’s claims of three distinctions in fourteen years, his past play record, a $32 monthly payment, fear of a raise, and his smoking habit cited as for his mother’s sake.
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Boston
Mass
Calvin Coolidge
Coolidge
Western shippers press for higher freight rates
Western shippers urged the commission to raise freight rates to secure an additional billion dollars in revenue. H W Pickett of the traffic bureau in Salt Lake City cited trans continental line costs and presented data on rings and expenses to back the demand.
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Washington
H. W. Pickett
Falfic Bureau
Salt Lake City
Car Struck by Machine on Cedar Point Road
Mrs. W. R. Brint of 59 South Joachim Street reported to police that her automobile was struck late yesterday on Cedar Point Road near the river. The vehicle sustained considerable damage and the complainant provided the car’s license number, which officers could not verify in records.
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W. R. Brint
South
Oachim Street
Cedar Point Road
G “River
Fire destroys caboose and two freight cars
A blaze in the wholesale district last night burned a caboose and two freight cars of northbound train No 62 in the Southern Railway yards on Royal Street. The fire drew many onlookers before the crew saved two oil cars from the Gas Company and the cause remains undetermined.
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Southern Railway
Royal Street
Holesale
LKS Flag Day Exercises Tonight Invitations
Tisdale J Towart will speak at the flag day exercises of the KS unit tonight at an undisclosed venue. The program will honor national symbols and include a brief address by Towart.
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LKS
Weather Summary for Alabama and Mississippi
Generally fair and continued warm tonight and Tuesday as issued from Washington. Light winds and high temperatures expected across the two states with little chance of rain.
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Washington
Alabama
Mississippi
Market opens steady as stocks hold after convention impact
New York investors see little reaction to Republican convention and local market gains in early trading. Shipping, textile, and railroad shares rise with United States Steel flat. Mexican Petroleum and Republic Iron fall. In New Orleans cotton futures face initial pressure though weather maps temper selling. July hits 38.30, October 35.22, while New York futures quote steady at 38.45 for July and 35.60 for October.
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New York
Bariet
Gusifiess
Atlantic Gulf
American’ Woolen
Northern Pacific
United States Steel
Mexican Petroleum
Republic Iron and Steel
New Orleans
Squall Hits Mobile Bay Vessels Causing Minor Damage
A Sunday squall swept Mobile Bay causing slight damage to light structures and awnings on several sailing craft. The 36 mph gusts were higher in the lower bay with estimates near 50 mph. Vessels including the Apollo and Aquam faced delays though no serious harm occurred.
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Apollo
Mobile
Bay
Out Bay
M Rower
Fairhope
Era Shore Resort
Wairnope
Pleasure Bay
Battles Wharf
Daphne
Upper Way
Will Aller
Bay Pilot
Aquam
For
Morgan
Weather Bureau
Red Ruin in Russia Near End
Washington reports predicted collapse of Bolshevik rule in Russia within a month with uprisings led by General Brusiloff and old imperial officials. Hunger and worsening conditions cited as key factors, amid claimed rifts between Lenin Trotsky and Lepine affecting the revolutionary program.
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Alexis Brusiloff
Russia
Soviet
Brusiloff
Lepine
Troteky
Sonra
Neils Oe
Pathe to Film Dredge Scenery and Turpentine Camps
Pathe People film crews will shoot views of the Wahalak dredgeboat widening Mobile Channel and turpentine camps near Mobile. The effort aims to advertise nationally and create educational films, with the Wahalak’s world dredging record featured in titles. The completed films will be distributed to subscribers and used by Mobile officials to promote the city.
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Mobile
Pathe. Film Company
Pathe
Tangled Love and Murder of Essad Pasha Shocks Paris
Paris reports a scandal after the assassination of General Essad Pasha premier of Albania. An Albanian student killed him beside the Continental hotel as a mystery unfolds about his alleged attachment to a French actress and possible Italian singer involvement.
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Paris
Essad Pasha
Albania
Tress
Ad Pasha
Mile
Lucie de Four
Essad
Italy
Kesad Pasha
Mile. de Four
Deauville Beach
Police Seek Woman in Elwell Murder Case
In New York detectives pursue a woman tied to Joseph Brown Elwell, found dead in his home last Friday with a bullet wound. Authorities plan to question several alleged intimate friends of Elwell to obtain information that could solve the case.
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New York
Joseph Brown Elwell
Elwell
Census Reports See Shifts in City Populations
Census figures show Milledgeville Georgia up 4,619 residents by 5.3 percent to 4,619. Marion Virginia 3,2523 with 42 percent rise. Sandusky Ohio 22,897 up 2,908 or 14.5 percent. Fort Scott Kansas 10,69 percent up 220 or 2.0 percent. Cumberland Maryland 29,837 up 7,993 or 36.6 percent. Hoboken New Jersey 68,16 with a 2,158 decrease or 2.1 percent. Revere Massachusetts 28,823 up 10,604 or 58.2 percent. Granite Illinois 14,757 up 4,854 or 49.0 percent. Moundsville West Virginia 10,669 up 1,571 or 19.6 percent.
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Washington
Milledgeville
Marion
Sandusky
Ohio
Fort Scott
Kas
Cumberland
M4d
Hoboken
N. J
Revere
Mass
Granite
Ill
Moundsville
W. Va
King Albert to Brazil for economic ties visit
Brussels reports King Albert plans a Brazilian trip aimed at closer Belgium Brazil economic relations. The visit is expected to wrap a law favorable to Brazilian imports into Belgium.
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King Albert
Brazil
Brussels
Albert
Belgium
Janitors Clean Up After Political Row In Chicago
Chicago desk report surveys Harding Coolidge headquarters after victory. janitors and scrub women sweep up debris from gilded chairs and torn campaign signs as other candidates’ rooms show signs of wear. Coolidge and Hoover spaces receive minimal crowds while Johnson and Poindexter have signs and damage.
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Hugh Baillie
Wise Trees United Patte Start
Chicago
Harding
Coolidge
Johnson
Hiram
Lowden
Wood
Theodore Prersen
Natare
Carpenters
Poindexter
Massachusetts
Boston
Hoover
Butler
Burns
Fines Mezzo in City Traffic Court Report
Charles Section, a negro taxi driver, received the heaviest speeding fine of 15 dollars after police and railroad workers testified he did speed and crossed a track narrowly ahead of a locomotive. Reuben Brazier paid 10 dollars for 25 mph on Church Street. Emile Ortman, charged with reckless driving, was acquitted after proof his car was in an Elks parade. Smith Gaither, a Mobile Transfer Company driver, fined 5 dollars for nearly hitting Vidmer with his mule team. F. M. Rainey, Chickasaw, fined 10 dollars for reckless driving and disorderly conduct after a collision near the ball park. he questioned the officer, while C. H. Moody and Raifley were discharged.
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Charles
Adams
Seaton
Reuben Brazier
Church Street
Hamilton
Marshall
Emile Ortman
Monroe Park
Vestry
Ortman
Smith Gaither
Mobile Transfer Company
John R. Vidmer
F. M. Rainey
Chickasaw
Uck Taylor
Rainey
Recorder
C. H. Moody
Odges
Raifley
Italian Officials Call Avalona Safe After Losses
Italian officials declare Avalona safe as 12 are dead and 50 wounded with 800 soldiers and 60 officers captured or missing after recent fighting. A brigade originally bound for Turkey was landed in Avalona and Swiss-like isolation contributed to surrender.
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Avalona
Turkey
Ammuni
Third Part Talk Heard On Capital
Washington reports from June 14 indicate Amos Pinchot expects a new party candidate to emerge after the Republican convention. Rumors center on Senator La Follette while a Harding campaign is to begin promptly if he secures the nomination. Harry M. Daugherty pushes for swift, energetic outreach.
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Washington
Amos Pinchot
Committee of 48
la Follette
Warren G. Harding
Pinchot
Roosevelt
Johnson
Senator la Follette
Harry M. Daugherty
Harding
National Committee
Melee Law
Third party movement grows from Republican rift
Chicago June 14 formation of a new political group formed from Republican dissidents, Prohibition era stalwarts and other critics pushes for a definite pro reform platform. Amos Pinchot and others sign a call for a convention to nominate president and vice president and craft a new platform. Johnson and Borah face renewed pressure to join.
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Chicago
Third Political Ag
Epublican Party
Committee of 48
Setutete of the Union
Republican Party
Amos Pinchot
Ers McCurdy
George Record
J. A. H. Hakins
Proessive Party
Johnson
Borah
California
Californian
Death of John W. Green After Ill Health
John W. Green a member of the Or phar's brigade in the Confederacy shot himself at his Louisville home on Sunday and died in a hospital two hours later. In ill health, he was 79 and served as president of the brokerage firm John W. and Davis 8. Green and a director in several banks.
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Louisville
John W. Green
Orphar’s
Army of the Confederacy
Green
John W
Davis
Income Tax Payment Near 750 Million Expected
Washington reports the second installment of income and excess profits taxes for 1919 due tomorrow will yield about 750 million dollars. March collections of income and excess profits taxes totalled nearly 919 million, including first installments and additional 1917 and 1918 assessments.
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Washington
Bureau of Internal Revenue
German Coal Deliveries to France Under Versailles Treaty
Berlin June 14 German deliveries of coal to France under the Versailles treaty through May 30 totaled 4,686,000 tons, announced by the reparations commission. Of this, 405,000 tons went to Luxemburg, 316,000 to Italy, and 98,609 to Belgium in the same period. Additional shipments included 3,116 horses, 43,489 head of cattle, 2,644 sheep, 6,149 goats and 28,289 fowl.
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Berlin
France
Force Bonus Upon Soldiers, Vance's Idea of Best Way
Dr. James J. Vance, founder of the Interchurch World Movement, spoke in Nashville on memorial day, arguing against bonuses to soldiers and urging legislative aid for the weak and broken. A Distinguished Service Cross was pinned on the mother of Captain Meade Frier, who died in action.
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Nashville
Tenn
James J. Vance
Interchurch World Movement
Meade Frier
Vance
Mexicans Begin Widespread Arrests of Bolsheviks
Mexico City reports wholesale arrests of Bolshevik agitators in populated areas as the government vows to eradicate red organizations that gained footholds during the Carranza era. Several Russians are seized with more arrests noted at Monterey and San Luis Potosi.
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Mexico City
Republic
Asco Ey
Red
Carranza
Monterey
San Luis Potosi
New York Prosecutor Sued for 1 Million Dollars
In federal court Gaston B. Means sues District Attorney Swann and ADA Dooling for 1,000,000 alleging they conspired with Northern Trust Company officials to bribe witnesses and corrupt testimony in his murder trial of Mrs Maude A Robinson King near Concord North Carolina in 1917 and to defeat probate of James C King's will.
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New York
Gaston B. Means
Swann
Dooling
Northern Trust Company of
Chicago
Maude A. Robinson King
Concord
N. C
James C. King
London Dispatch Doubts Moscow Collapse Report
Skeptical officials in London on June 14 questioned a Tokio sourced rumor that the Lenine Trotzky regime collapsed in Moscow with General Brusiloff in power. The report claimed Trotsky was slain and Lenine fled Moscow.
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London
Tokio
Lenine-Trotzky
Moscow
Brusiloff
Vladivostok
Trotzy
Lenine
Nationalists Raid Marmora as Greek Villages Burned
Turkish nationalist troops raided Marmora island on Saturday and attacked the Greek steamer Arghelike from Rodosto, which escaped to raise the alarm. Two British destroyers sailed from Constantinople to investigate the incident.
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Constantinople
Associated Press
Marmora
Arghelike
Rodosto
Democrats Call to Jackson Wednesday in State Delegation Plan
Jackson Miss June 14 Democrats called to Jackson for a Wednesday morning state convention to name 20 delegates to the San Francisco convention. Administrations supporters aim for a large majority of county conventions with resolutions praising President Wilson and the Nation. Delegation expected to be uninstructed.
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Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
San Francisco
Baying
Wilson
Nations
Pere Marquette Train Wreck Near South Chicago Fatal
A Pere Marquette passenger train from Grand Rapids to Chicago collided head on with a freight train near South Chicago. Initial reports claim multiple deaths as firefighters and medical crews respond to the scene at a sharp curve where the trains could not be seen in time.
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Chicago
Pere Marquette
Gran Rapids
Michigan Sun
Per Marquette
Jobe
Pere Mar
Quette
Grand’ Hands
Michigan
Robbery Ties Suspected to Caruso Theater Bomb
Authorities investigate a jewel theft from Enrico Caruso's summer home valued at 400000 and seek links to a bomb explosion at the National Theater where Caruso was performing. Six people were seriously injured in the Hayaccc explosions. Caruso remained unharmed.
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New York
Enrico Caruso
National Theater
Caruso
At. Havangy
Ead
Crim
Hay
Cartso
Britain Orders More Marines to Ireland
Dublin reports another battalion of British marines sent to Ireland as part of the government's free ee program. A policeman, formerly a British sailor, was shot to death at Glengariff on Bantry Bay while returning to duty. Sinn Fenners raided rooms in Cork after hours. all warned against drinking after closing.
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Dublin
Ireland
Glengariff
Bantry Ba
Sinn Fenners
Cork
Coolidge Plans speaking tour if endorsed by GOP
Boston June 14 Governor Calvin Coolidge Republican nominee for vice president said he would tour the country if the Republican national committee decides. He will serve out his current term as governor which expires in January and commented on a Northampton rent issue noting it may be taken advantage of.
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Boston
Calvin Coolidge
Belican National Committee
Northampton
Norman H. Davishs Named Under Secretary of State
Norman H. Davishs of Tullahoma Tennessee was appointed by President Wilson to be under secretary of state and will assume duties tomorrow, succeeding Frank L. Polk who signed due to state of health. Davishs previously served as assistant secretary and was a key adviser at the Paris peace talks. he is brother of Representative Edwin L. Davis of Tennessee.
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Washington
Norman H. Davis
Tullahoma
Tenn
Wilso
Frank L. Polk
Davis
Pepe
SS Seteder
Paris
Edwin L. Davis
Polish and Turkish Troops Reported in Constantinople
Unclear dispatch notes June actions in Paris with troops from Poland and Turkey reported in Constantinople, mentioning Saturday events and occupation rumors amid shifting Allied forces.
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Paris
Constantinople
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Trotzky
A. L. Bradford
Trotsky
Bondon
Len Ine
Pathe People
Tangled Skein of
Census
Greece
Rome
Capital
G. O. PR
N. Y
Britain
Norman H. Davishs
F. L. Polk
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