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Newspaper
The Mobile News Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1925
Page
2
The Roane Iron mine disaster near Tennessee yields six victims found in the blasted entry. Names confirmed include John Green Sam Givins Roy Limburg Tom Sullicoat and Superintendent Snow. Officials say deaths were instantaneous. investigation continues.
In Macao harbor the anti-Red cruiser appears prompting strike pickets to abandon stations. The anti-Red gunboat captures a Red gunboat and nine steam launches whose crews abandon ship. The fleet now flies the anti-Red flag.
In Bow Street magistrates court a hearing began for 12 communists charged with inciting sedition. Prosecution alleges leaders of two illegal groups the Communist Party of Great Britain and the Young Communist League of Great Britain with Moscow orders. The case notes purported calls to smash capitalism and educate workers for soviet rule. A spectator waved a red flag outside and was arrested.
In Juigy France Judge Ernest Leblanc 70 facing retirement hanged himself in his office after killing his wife 73 and his niece seven year old Mamie Louise Kolion. Police report cites strangulation and a pension of 4000 francs annually.
Trenton N J Oct 24 A P Vice Chancellor Buchanan refused to reduce the 5000 bond under which Mrs Margaret Turner is held in Mercer county jail to answer the suit for an accounting and recovery by Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company to recover the proceeds of a 20000 policy paid after the death of her husband in a Kentucky mine explosion
The body of 17 year old John Nelson Mixon, a dredge boat worker, drowned off the pipeline of the government dredge Blackwater in Mobile river opposite Three mile Creek. It was sent to his mother Mrs Draper Wallace at Dothan Ala for interment. The accident occurred yesterday afternoon when Mixon fell from the pipeline and disappeared in eighty feet of water. Henry A Bosarge recovered the body within twenty minutes. Coroner Dr S F Hale certified death by drowning. He is survived by a sister Jo of Dothan a brother Theodore Mixon of the United States navy and several other relatives.
The St Louis Post Dispatch set a world record for a regular weekday metropolitan issue by printing seventy six pages. The edition carries more than 480 columns of advertising due to high space demand. The article also notes trivia on camels hair brushes and a Cork inventor, Dr Cork.
In Rochester Minnesota on October 24, the man known as Santa Claus will return home to begin the Christmas rush after medical treatment. Visitors crowded his hospital room despite physicians barring access. the man, who admits to being Santa Claus to eager children, is really Thomas Tracy from Douglas Alaska. The article notes a separate statistic that cigarette manufacture in the United States rose sharply in the past decade.
Louisville and Nashville will run a football special train Sunday November 8 to New Orleans for the Spring Hill College versus Loyola game. Train departs at 7:00 a.m. from here and returns before midnight leaving New Orleans at 7:45 p.m. Contact H C Geron or Spring Hill College athletics director for details. The Virginia State Baseball League marks its twentieth season.
Washington reports house ways and means committee hearings on revision of the revenue law. Mellon supports repeal of automobile trucks and accessories tax but urges keeping admissions levy for tickets above 50 cents. Tobacco tax cut proposals target cigars and small products to reduce prices for consumers. Estates tax views supported by American Farm Federation Bureau against outright repeal, suggesting higher state inheritance tax credit instead.
Most people think diamonds last long but in fine glass engraving shops they wear out in six to eight weeks. Also noted is that freezing point of salt water is four degrees lower than that of fresh water.
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