Fugitive Convicted Murderer Captured in Florida
Police in St Peters burg Florida report the arrest of Jim Hardin also known as Jim Butler a man convicted of first degree murder in Chilton County Alabama in 1910. He escaped from an Alabama state prison camp in 1911 and was recaptured after several days on the run.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Petersburg
Fla
Jim Hardin
Jim
Chilton County
Alabama
Hardin
Albama
Fila
A.P
Ww. 7
Gro
Alaba
River Falls
Butler
Ben Butler
Montgomery
Ala
Mobile Cotton Rate Held Fair by Interstate Inquiry
An examiner for the Interstate Commerce Commission recommended dismissal of the Mobile Chamber of Commerce complaint seeking equalized cotton rates by rail and barge to New Orleans via Memphis. The finding cites differing rail and river-haul comparisons and lack of demonstrated preference for New Orleans, noting current shipments mostly originate in Alabama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
New Orleans
J. E. Smith
Interstate Commerce Commission
Mobile
Arkansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Memphis
Mississippi
Alabama
Poins
Mobile Doctors to Attend AMA Convention in Philadelphia
Drs. William T. Henderson W C Hannon W W Perdue and Emmett Frazier depart tonight for Philadelphia for the American Medical Association meeting opening next week Henderson a board member of the AMA and of the American College of Surgeons will present a paper on The Hospital the Doctor and the Nurse As Co-Operative Factors in the Care of Patients The last three local physicians will receive the degree of Fellows of the American College of Surgeons at the convention
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William T. Henderson
W. C. Hannon
W. W. Perdue
Emmett Frazier
Philadelphia
American Medical Association
Quaker City
Henderson
The
Association
American College of Surgeons
Mobile tugs to get dock at Key West
Ten thousand ton drydock will be relayed to Mobile in sections from Todd yard at Texas street. Frank W. Crenshaw of Gulf Towing and Wrecking Co orders the seagoing tugs Lytle and Daugherty to Key West to relieve dock towing tugs and bring sections here. The New York start plan sends ships back for remaining sections. Plans to install the extra docks at Todd yard are under way.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Todd Drydock Corporation
Texas Street
Mobile
Frank W. Crenshaw
Gulf Towing and Wrecking Company
Lytle
Daugherty
Key West. A
New York
Todd Yard
Blame for Auto Car Smashup Arouses Court Scrutiny
C E Harper of Harter street and Washington avenue arraigned in the recorder s court on reckless driving after a collision with a street car at Broad and Charleston streets Friday afternoon. Harper and street car motorman W R Martin faced reckless driving charges but both were dismissed. Harper testified he was blinded and drove into the car. he sustained facial and chest injuries and his automobile was wrecked.
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C. E. Harper
Harter Street
Washington Avenue
Recorder's Court
Broad and
Harleston Streets
Harper
W. R. Martin
Senators World Series funds distributed after division series
Twenty one players, coaches Altrock and Schacht and trainer Martin shared 3734.40 dollars from the division of the Washington Senators portion of the World Series funds. Bobby Veach received 1320 dollars, pitchers Ogden and Ballou 1000 each, Buddy Myer and Tex Jeanes 500 each. Washington's total was 95100.37 dollars.
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Chicago
Altrock
Schacht
Martin
Washington Senators
Bobby Veach
Ogden
Ballou
Buddy Myer
Tex Jeanes
Birmingham
Washington
Weather outlook for southern states and adjacent regions
Mostly cloudy with showers tonight and Sunday, cooler Sunday in northern areas. Week outlook starts Monday with rain and cooler in the South Atlantic and east Gulf, warmer midweek. West Gulf mostly fair with showers possible Thursday and cooling early week. Terminology garbled at end.
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Alabama
Missisippi
South Atlantic
East Gulf States
West Gulf States
Testare
Sauk
Collegiate Football Scores From Several Games
A stream of halftime and final football scores across multiple colleges. Alabama, Georgia, Bucknell, Georgetown, Pittsburgh, Carnegie, Michigan, Illinois, Harvard, Dartmouth, Colgate, Princeton, Maine, Bates, Niagara, Hobart, Sewanee, Kentucky, Northwestern, Tulane, Georgia vs Vanderbilt, Pennsylvania vs Chicago, Ohio State vs Iowa, Penn State vs Michigan Aggies, Yale vs Brown, Syracuse vs Providence, Army vs St Louis.
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Iowa
Penn State
Michigan Aggies
Ketties
Michigan
Illinois
Yale
Brown
Syracuse
Providence
Army
St. Louis
Liquor Shipping from Mobile Probed by U S Grand Jury
Government circles report undercover agents have tracked liquor shipments leaving Mobile. Evidence allegedly shows cargo masked as fish or bedclothes on trains and ships bound for distribution. A Mobile butcher was once arrested with liquor and a disguised shipment was seized in St Louis. The grand jury began a special session to hear these cases.
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Mobile
United States Grand Jury
St. Louis
Wall
Training School Closes After Major Alabama Conference Event
The Alabama Conference Training School in Southing concluded with 249 attendees and 103 certificates to be awarded. In Mobile, four instruction courses were led by experts including Dr. John W. Frazer on New Testament and Rev. John L. Ferguson on Principles and Development of Religious Education. Clarence M. Donnelly and Margaret Patterson supervised units on The Sunday School and Principles of Religious Teaching.
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Standard Training School of
Alabama Conference
Episcopal Church
Southing
Mobile School
John W. Frazer
St. Francis Street Methodist Church
John L. Ferguson
General Assembly
Nashville
Clarence M. Donnelly
Margaret Patterson
Alabama Conference Sunday School Board
Craft Pleads for Continuation Work
State Senator John Craft returned to Mobile from Tuscaloosa and Montgomery where he attended the United Confederate Veterans reunion and was named chairman of a statewide effort to erect a Women of the Confederacy monument. He spoke at the capitol meeting opposing federal discontinuation of river work on the Alabama and Coosa rivers, urging continued projects tied to Mobile’s $10,000,000 port terminals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Craft
Mobile
Tuscaloosa
Montgomery
United Confederate Veterans
Women of the Confederacy
State Capitol
Alabama
Coosa
Bishop Reifsnider to Speak at Christ Church
The Rt. Rev. Charles S. Reifsnider suffragan bishop of north Tokyo will preach at 11 o clock service at Christ Church tomorrow. Evening union services will feature his remarks on conditions in Japan and the Orient. He has served in Japan since his ministry began and since 1912 led St. Pauls College in Tokyo.
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Charles’s. Reifsnider
D. D
Tokyo
Japan
Christ Church
Reifsnider
Orient
St. Paul's College
Injuries Fatal to Mississippi Youth
The body of Silas Green eight, who died Friday afternoon at a local infirmary from injuries received at Leakesville Mississippi when run over by an automobile truck was sent to Lucedale for burial. The boy was brought to Mobile for surgical attention but died. He was the son of Robert and Lula Green of Leakesville Mississippi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silas. Green
Leakesville
Mtiss
Lucédale
Miss
Dixon & McKay
Mobile
Robert and
Lula Green
Stolen Car Found Abandoned in Ditch
A car stolen from Ross Rodgers of 18 Monterey Street was discovered abandoned in a ditch on Fulton Road five miles from Rib Cetta. No further details available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ross Rodgers
Monterey Street
Fulton Road
Rib
New City Recreation Center Planned at South Georgia Site
A city to build a recreation center like Lyons Park at the recently purchased south end of Georgia avenue. Mayor Crawford says it will include a football field baseball diamond and swimming pool. A large area for young children and much play apparatus will be installed serving the southern part of the city. The parkway along New Jersey street from Broad to Magnolia Cemetery will be planted with shrubs and flowers.
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Lyons Park
Georgia Avenue
George E. Crawford
Lyon’s Park
New Jersey Street
Broad
Magnolia Cemetery
Bulgaria Says It Will Stand Against Greek Advances
Bulgarian authorities report troops deployed to defend the Neuilly corridor as Greek forces push across the border into seven Bulgarian villages. Bangkok, Sofia, and Athens dispatches note Greek advances threaten the Struma line, with 10,000 Bulgars fleeing and arming in response to ongoing bombardment and pressure for arbitration by the League of Nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Softa
Bulgaria
Neuilly
Sofia
A.P
Bulgarian Telegraph Agency
Greece
London
League of Nations Council
Aristide Briand
Council of the League
Athens
Petrich
League Council
Paris
Struma
Council of the
League of Nations
Eric Drummond
Austen Chamberlain
Briand
International Court of Justice
League
Macedonia
Demir Kapu
Beles Bathe Duloarae
Young People Meet at Oakdale Baptist Church
The sixth annual session of the Young People's Council auxiliary to the Baptist Woman's Missionary Union is held at Oakdale Baptist Church. Rev W E Lockler leads the service. Miss Lillian Sims, former leader, tells a Sunbeams story. Annie Dix discusses the Boards of the Southern Baptist Convention. Performances include Spring Hill Avenue Sunbeams song, Martha Evans reading, Gladys Day piano, and exercises by Theodore Royal Ambassadors and Oakdale Sunbeams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young People’s Council
Baptist Woman's Missionary Union
Oakdale Baptist Church
Phim Lenihan
Bennett
W. E. Lockler
First Baptist Church
Lillian Sims
Louisiana Baptist Woman's Missionary Union
Daily Vocation Bible School
Sunbeams
Annie Tdix
Southern Baptist Convention
Spring Hill Avenue
Police Ball Planned to Fund Uniform Purchases
A police department meeting named an eight officer committee to organize a public ball whose proceeds will fund uniforms for officers. Members include W. A. Barry chair and Chief Warren F. Burch with LeGear Bauer Untreiner Pitroff Brunson Lilly. Boxers and an orchestra provided entertainment. date and venue to be announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Police Department
Police
W. A. Barry
Warren F. Burch
W. N. LeGear
Levine Bauer
J. M. Untreiner
P. Pitroff
J. W. Brunson
Pat Lilly
Woman Fined For Reckless Driving In City Collision
Mrs G H Gustafson of 1112 North Jackson street was fined 15 dollars after a collision with Salvatore Granato s horse and buggy at Water and Dauphin streets. She offered no defense and claimed no explanation of the accident. Frank Graham Jr and C Jones were dismissed on reckless driving charges after a Dauphin and Dearborn streets collision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. H. Gustafson
North
Jackson Street
Salvatore Granato
Water
Dauphin Streets
Frank Graham, Jr
C. Jones
Dauphin
Dearborn
Mrs. Duke Shows No Improvement
Mrs. Lillian N. Duke widow of James B. Duke remained in critical condition at her New York home. Dr Byron G. Clark reported she was weaker than yesterday and lingered in a semi conscious state with paralysis and no night since yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Lillian N. Duke
James B. Duke
Byron G. Clark
Amnesia Victim Ends Life After Hospital Jump
Paul Blose a 40 year old civil engineer who was found amnesia struck in a cave near a Pittsburgh suburb leaped from a hospital window where he was taken after a mushroom hunter found him.
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Pittsburgh
Paul Blose
Seaplane Crash Kills Two Near Miami Beach
Carl Lanham the pilot and Al Wickham a newspaper photographer died when "Miss Venice" the seaplane plunged during an early morning sharp bank in Miami Beach Florida.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami Beach
Fla
A.P
Carl Lanham
al Wickham
Venice
Three Die in Bootleg War in New York Basement
In New York on October 24, three men were killed in a basement brawl among about fifteen bootleggers. Two corpses appeared in the hall and a third died later at a hospital. Police arrested John Magliterretti on suspicion of homicide as gunmen fled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
A.P
John Magliterretti
Michael Orsen
Yonkers
N. Y
Vincenzo Schiamameo
Manhattan
Willie
Bay Front Property Sells for 22500 to Crescent Realty
A tract of Mobile bay front land extending to Cedar Point road owned by John Hankanson and wife was sold today to Crescent Realty Company Inc of New Orleans for 22500. The deed was filed in the probate court. The property lies south of the Sprague place with bay frontage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile Front
Cedar Point Road
John Hankanson
Crescent Realty Company, Inc
New Orleans
Sprague Place
Greeks Advance on Bulgars Near Macedonian Frontier
Vienna dispatch reports from Sofia state that Greek forces resumed their advance against the Bulgars last night near the Macedonian border and bombarded the town of Hetrit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Vienna
Exchange ‘Télegraph Today
Sofia
Hetrit
Civilian flier plans transcontinental nonstop flight
In Shreveport on October 24 a plan was announced for a civilian nonstop flight from San Francisco to New York in the first week of November. Edwin Evans and pilots Leigh Wade and Lihton Wells would fly the Sikorsky S-29-A with two 1,500 hp engines, aiming to prove air travel can be commercially viable and boost public confidence in aviation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shreveport
A.P
San Francisco
New York
Leigh Wade
Lihton Wells
Edwin
Evans
Detroit, Mich
Lieuts. Kelly and
MacReady
U. S. Army
San Diego
Cal
Whic
Kelly
Rocky Mountains
America
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Valued At 110 Million
The Kentucky state tax commission fixed the total value of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad properties at 110,193,310 dollars as of yesterday. The announcement came from Frankfort and centers on the railroad’s assessed worth for tax purposes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frankfort
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
State Tax, Commission
Verdict Sealed In Alienation Suit In Mineola
The jury awarded Mrs. Margaret Frey $100,000 in a sealed verdict against Miss Wilda Bennett after a trial over alienation of affection. The judge cautioned jurors against improper influence and emphasized that the case weighed love against money. Miss Bennett left court smiling as the filing neared final judgment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mineola
Charles
Wilda Bennett
Jeneune Conance
Frey
Alvin + Edwards
Miss Benne
Fri
Margaret Frey
Miss Bennet
Persian Gulf swept by hurricane causes heavy losses
Early reports from Bahf say a rare hurricane struck the Persian Gulf with widespread destruction. Forty vessels sunk and over 1,000 feared dead or missing as chaos and confusion spread from port towns along the gulf.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Karachi
India
Gulf
Porte
Bahf
Exchange suspends brokerage firm over solvency issue
New York Oct 24 The firm of W MacDon Co was suspended from operations due to solvency concerns. The brokerage house faced temporary suspension as auditors reviewed financial stability and regulatory compliance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
W. MacDon, Co
Naval court inquiry questions authenticity of Shenandoah dispatch
Washington October 24 naval court inquiry questioned a Post dispatch about a Shenandoah river disaster. The probe asked if a late Commander Zachary Downe article, appearing posthumously, was authentic and complete as received from the river Struma.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Naval Court
Andoah
Urdgy Evening Post
Zachadowne
Accu
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Examiner
Pasteur Institut
Katy Lacy
Texas Orphans' Home
Texas Pasteur Institute
Pasteur
Key West
New City Playground
Balkans
Oakdale
Samuel di Stugieo
Bay Front
Millionaire
Frisco
Persian Gulf
Hurrican
Exchange
FIR
Inik
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