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Newspaper
The Mobile News Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1925
Page
3
Chicago florists reveal the American Beauty rose has been supplanted by the Premier as America's top cut flower this fall. The display notes factors like higher rents and labor costs, Lake Michigan climate benefits, and seasonal campaigns pushing chrysanthemums for Thanksgiving and poinsettias for Christmas.
The Chicago Carols committee announced a bold Christmas carol effort visiting hotels schools churches theatres and public institutions to sing crime out of the city. Groups including church and opera singers will visit many sites and broadcasts are planned via radio.
In a toyland scene Jack and Dotty, with Mother Goose, hear music and discover King Cole's three fiddlers. The king requests his pipe and bowl as the fiddlers play, prompting a suggestion to leave before the king grows displeased.
Leo Kid Roy the Canadian featherweight champion defeated Europe’s champion Euardo Mascart by decision in ten fast rounds in Montreal.
Dixie highway motorcade reaches Atlanta from Chattanooga after the tenth annual highway association meeting. The convoy began in Sault Ste. Marie and travels through Macon and Jacksonville before reuniting at Miami. Officers elected and a women's auxiliary fund drive announced. president empowered to appoint a finance committee.
American infantry patrolled Panama restoring order after broad strikes that prompted President Chiari to request help. Troops quelled a crowd at a striker’s funeral and are expected to withdraw once the emergency ends.
Italian scholars digging at Cyrene on the North African coast report major archaeology finds. They say the Apollo temple, a centerpiece of Cyrene in the fifth and sixth centuries BC, was originally built by the Greeks.
An army fighting plane from Mitchel Field caught fire while maneuvering above the Lincoln memorial. It fell burning to Bowling Field and turned turtle with its lone occupant, Lieut. E. W. Meriweth of Selfridge Field unhurt. The craft then resumed to Langley Field for more maneuvers en route to Aberdeen for a Saturday program.
The Rock River conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church voted 217 to 12 for unification with the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Admission of laymen into annual conferences carried 209 to 20.
Edmund C. Foster aged 39 died in a Memphis hospital from loss of blood after a tooth extraction. The incident occurred October 13 and was reported by Associated Press.
New London reports the steamboat inspectors wrap up the S-51 sinking inquiry begun in Boston. Witnesses cite bridge navigation over conning tower and lost contact with City of Rome. Inspectorate will forward findings to Washington.
A. S. Wagner, jewelry salesman for I. Press & Sons of Philadelphia, was jailed in Orange county on a warrant by Abra ham Press charging embezzlement of 382 dollars and a false report on diamond receipts. He claimed a robbery on October 5 near Fairville road, but investigators found discrepancies.
Tokyo reports the government will ship three million yen in additional specie to the United States tomorrow. This follows a four million yen shipment on September 20 aimed at improving the exchange situation.
Amoy China October 14. South Fukien province endures its worst drought in years. Rice crops ruined and famine threatens inland districts. Bandit soldiers ravage the countryside, worsening the burden on residents.
Funeral services were held in Cleveland for Air Pilot Charles Ames killed in a plane crash twelve days earlier near Bellefonte. He was a member of a Masonic lodge and is survived by his widow and brother Paul Ames of Jackson Michigan.
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