Texans in Frenzied Line for Dixie Series Tickets
Fort Worth fans camped two miles long awaiting sale of Dixie championship series tickets between Mobile of the Southern Association and Fort Worth of the Texas League. Early buyers paid high prices and lined up overnight as vendors hawked hot dogs and coffee while police guarded the queue.
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Texans
Fort Worth
Tex
Mobile
Southern Association
Texas League
Newsie
John Jacob Atz
New Orleans
Memphis
Chicago
Jake
Clarence Kraft
Cats
Arz
Art Phelan
Edgar
Dutch
Frank Haley
Phelan
Railroads clash over peace terms as unions stall
General chairmen of striking shopcraft unions fail to sign the Warfield Willard Jewell plan for settlement with Southern Railway after a conference. Several railroads sign separate accords with various unions, including the Baltimore and Ohio and the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, amid ongoing talks and injunctions.
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Washington
Southern Railway
Road
Warfield- Willard-Jewell
Southern
Chicago
United States Railroad Labor Board
Ben W. Hooper
Pennsylvania
Cleveland
Pittsburgh
Milwaukee
St. Paul
Chicago and Northwestern
Baltimore and Ohio
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Baltimore
Bert M. Jewell
Shopcrafts
Eaat
Rail Head
Troday
James H. Wilkerson
Daugherty
Radio concerts on Pan American trains by Louisville and Nashville
Louisville and Nashville announces installation of radio connections on Pan American fast trains for patron entertainment. A private car with radio picked up local broadcasts during tests reaching Kansas City, Chattanooga, Atlanta, St. Louis and more. Car demonstrated clear reception at speeds 25 to 55 mph and will travel to New Orleans.
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Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company
Louisville and Nashville
Mobile Radio Company
R. R. Hobbs
Louisville
Courier-Journal
Nashville
Kansas City
Chattanooga
Atlanta
St. Louis
Birmingham
Alabama Power Company
Longview
Montgomery
New Orleans
Big Supplies Loss After Wharf Blaze in New Orleans
Five lives lost and damage pegged at six million dollars after a massive fire destroyed the 2000 foot government wharf and a 24 story shed in front of the army supply base. The blaze began in a burlap laden box car and swept along a half mile, drawing thousands despite heavy rain. Losses include Bemis Bay burlap, cotton bagging, war ordnance, lumber, and other goods. several crewmen reportedly died or were lost at sea as vessels fled.
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New Orleans
United States
Florence Luckenbach
Hugo Stinnes
Arf
Bemis Bay Company
War Department
Ford Closes Plant Over Coal Prices Protest
Detroit reports Henry Ford begins closing his plants to protest high coal and steel costs. About 100000 workers idle as River Rouge blast furnaces suspend, with Highland Park and Dearborn Tractor parts affected. Ford cites coal gouging and federal agency failures as causes.
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Detroit
Associated Press
Henry Ford
Ford Company
Ford
River Rouge
Highland Park
Dearborn
Lincoln
Northville
Michigan
Ford Industries
Kentucky
Toledo
Ironton
Federal Fuel Administration
Interstate Commerce Commission
Where They Play National Baseball Schedule
National league games listed with cities including Cincinnati New York Chicago Brooklyn Pittsburgh Philadelphia St Louis Boston York Cleveland Washington Detroit and Boston Chicago. Weather notes partly cloudy cloudy clear for various matchups and starting times around 1 30 to 3 30.
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Cincinnati
New York
Chicago
Brooklyn
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Boston
York
Cleveland
Washington
Detroit
Weather forecast for Alabama to West Florida clouds and rain likely
The forecast notes cloudy conditions with possible showers along the coast tonight and Sunday across Alabama Mississippi and West Florida. Interior regions should see cooler temperatures and a generally fair outlook in the Middle Atlantic and South Atlantic East Gulf areas with frosts possible in elevated zones. West Gulf eyes considerable cloudiness with some rain and below normal temperatures amid a Caribbean disturbance.
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Washington
Alabama
Mississippi
West Florida
Middle Atlantic States
South Atlantic
East Gulf
Caribbean Sea
West Gulf
Kruse Discharged After Warning to Quit
John Kruse, 23, was discharged by the recorder after arraignment on robbery and assault and battery charges. A warning was given that further arrests of Kruse or his alleged gang at Galvez Square would bring heavy sentences.Witnesses placed Kruse at the scene, but he testified he was at home and later in jail for drunkenness. The case included fluctuating statements from the complainant and a judge’s admonition amid a court disruption when the defendant’s father fell ill.
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John Kruse
Recorder
Galvez Square
Louis S. Thompson
Pascagoula
Miss
Kruse
Galveza Square
Tropical disturbance moves northwest near St Christopher
A tropical disturbance in the Caribbean has center near St Christopher in the Windward Islands and is moving northwest. The Weather Bureau in Mobile reports increasing intensity but no immediate Gulf coast danger. Mariners heading there are advised caution and no Mobile warning was issued. Forecast calls for showers tonight and Sunday with little temperature change.
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Caribbean Sea
Island of
St. Christopher
Weather Bureau
Washington
Mobile
Bureau
Gulf Coast
Wrong Mile Posts Ordered Removed
The board of revenue and road commissioners will remove all incorrect county road mile posts and replace them with new signs. President John D. Hagan announced the action, noting the effort has run for weeks to correct sign posts and remove advertisements from right of way.
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Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners
John D. Hagan
Federal court to probe liquor case
Charles Parnell a negro was held to the federal grand jury after a preliminary hearing before U S Commissioner J J Burgett on a charge of violating the prohibition law Frank Prendergast arrested in the same case was discharged The hearing of Margaret English was postponed
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Charles Parnell
United States
J. J. Burgett
Frank Prendergast
Margaret
English
Mexican Bandits Rob Peymaster Crew at Tampico
Six Mexican bandits held up the Atlantic, Gulf and West Indies Company paymaster at Tampico Mexico and robbed 42000 pesos. An affray followed leaving one Mexican dead one wounded and one American wounded. American Vice Consul Shaw informed the State Department and urged authorities to seize the attackers.
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Washington
Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies Company
Tampico
Mexico
Shaw
State Department
Mexico City
Dallas Firemen Overcome by Heat in Warehouse Fire
Five Dallas firemen were overcome by smoke and heat and one seriously burned as a blaze gutted the six story Interstate Forwarding Company warehouse in downtown Dallas. The fire began among furniture on the second floor and after about three hours was brought under control. Loss was placed at 150000 to 200000 dollars.
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Dallas
Tex
Interstate Forwarding Company
Birmingham Man Named by Society at Convention
Formal sessions of the twenty third convention of the American Roentgen Bay Society closed with officers elected. Dr. W. H. Stewart of New York was chosen president and Dr. Frank C. Potter of Chicago became president elect. Dr. A Edmondson of Birmingham Alabama was named first vice president.
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Los Angeles
Cal
American Roentgen-Bay Society
W. H. Stewart
New York
Frank C. Potter
Chicago
A. Edmondson
Birmingham
Ala
Bottle Blowers Take Wet Stand
Bellaire reports the National Glass Factory Blowery Association adopted resolutions favoring modification of the Volstead Act to permit legal sales of light wines and beer, and support for national old age pensions.
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Bellaire
Glaes Fottie Blowery’ Association
Ex Kaiser Bill Demands Republic Pay Him
Berlin reports that the ex-kaiser and his followers press for full retention of German properties, pensions, and war benefits with added concessions. The socialist press notes he has paid no taxes while receiving pensions and gratuities totaling hundreds of millions of marks.
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Bill
German Republic
Berlin
Hohenzollern
Kaiser
Hns
Bonus Reaches End Of Gauntlet
Washington reports President Harding plans a veto of the soldiers bonus bill and will send his message to Congress Tuesday. Pro and anti bonus camps count votes, hoping to override in the House and Senate, with lawmakers watching a tight margin on the Senate outcome.
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Washington
Associated Press
Harding
House
White House
Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon
United States Chamber of Commerce
Congress
House of Representatives
Senate
Nine Injured by Bomb Blast in Belfast
Nine persons were wounded by a bomb explosion early today. South Ireland railways and bridges were destroyed cutting off the south from the north.
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Belfast
South Ireland
Be Our Guests for Mobile Bears Fort Worth Series Radio
The Mobile News Item announces Sunday 43:30 oclock as the start for live play by play from the Mobile Fort Worth inter league series. Special wires and a megaphone will carry every detail of Dixies premier games from Fort Worth. Gummy Flournoy to serve as expert announcer.
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Mobile-Fort Worth
Dixie
Fort Worth
Bears
Gummy” Flournoy
Fire devastates federal wharves and warehouses in New Orleans
A blaze wiped out five blocks of Mississippi riverfront wharves and storage facilities built by the federal government in 1918 1919, with more than five million dollars in damage. About forty box cars were destroyed and two German crewmen from the Elsa Hugo B Stinnes leaped overboard as the ship caught fire. Second Officer Schall suffered a broken leg.
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New Orleans
Associated Press
Mississippi River
Elsa Hugo B Stinnes
Schall
Kuntzer
Elsa Hugo Stinnes
Muriel McCormick Opens Millinery Shop in Chicago
Muriel McCormick, granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller, opens a millinery shop near her Chicago flat at twenty, moves into private quarters, and states she will pursue vocal and grand opera ambitions while running the business. She seeks independence from her father Harold McCormick of International Harvester.
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Chicago
Muriel McCormick
John TD. Rockefeller
Harold McCormick
International Harvester Company
Sheriff Thomason Arrested For Possessing Whiskey In Georgia
Chattanooga Tenn Sept 16. Sheriff Franklin Thomason of Catoosa County Ga was arrested by Coroner John Dalton on a charge of illegally possessing whiskey. The arrest follows information given to the grand jury by farmer E P Waters whose farm was raided by Thomason. Thomason denies the accusation saying Waters seeks revenge.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Summerville
Frank Thomason
Catoosa County
John Dalton
E. P. Waters
Thomason
Waters
U. S. Pensacola Repor ted Aground
Guam reporters state the U S Pensacola ran aground in Apra harbor during a typhoon. The vessel is not seriously damaged and weather conditions continue with a falling barometer nearby.
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Guam
Associated Press
U. & Rok
Pensacola
Apra Harbor
Rescuers Near Contact With 47 Miners in Kennedy Mine
In Jackson California rescue crews drill toward the Argonaut mine barrier as 70 feet remain to reach 47 men trapped since August 27. Officials expect a breakthrough within 24 hours with 30 feet daily progress possible. Public barred from Kennedy property as work climaxes.
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Jackson
Cal
Associated Press
Kennedy Mine
Argonaut
Thousands Drawn To Get Glimpse Of Big Dirigible
BELLEVILLE ILL Sept 26 The army dirigible C-2 on its coastward flight moored at Scott Field drawing thousands of spectators. Major H A Strauss heads the crew as the blimp lands quietly under powerful searchlights en route from Langley Field Virginia to Fort Sill Oklahoma with stops planned at Little Rock Arkansas and other points along a 3086 mile journey.
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Belleville
Associated Press
Conat
Scott Field
H. A. Strauss
Fort Sill
Oklo
Langley Field
Little Rock
Ark
Britain vows open Dardanelles straits at all costs
British forces with heavy arms land at strategic Dardanelles positions as London calls for empire unity to hold the straits. The move comes as Mustapha’s army advances toward Constantinople amid Turkish resistance and the broader Near East crisis following Smyrna’s fall and the treaty era shifts.
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London
Great Brihag
Straits of Dardanelles
Europe
India
England
Balkan States
Dardanelles
Catinople
Mustap
Bur
Kno Mean
Ine
Near East
Smyrna
Constantinople
Vles
British Land 80 Atheni s Constantinople News
British forces landed at Constantinople to reinforce defenses as Kemalist troops massed nearby. Turkish attacks and a Greek naval bombardment damaged the city, with mass killings and fires reported in Smyrna. US Consul General Ho witnessed massacres and endured a nervous breakdown.
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Athens
Constantin
Pha Kemal
Smyrna
United States
Constantinople
London
the Diligence
Trinidad Smyrna
Chanak
Dardanelles
Chanaking
Bar of Smyrna
Typographical Men Vote Political Move
The International Typographical Union reversed its stance and voted to join a regional political movement. Delegates urged official representation at a December national conference for political action, with conservatives and others expressing mixed support and opposition to the union plan.
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Atlantic City
N. J
International
The
Ars
H. M. Wi
Police hold man’s leg in downtown incident
A fragmentary report from Youngstown Ohio describes police detaining a man whose leg injury or condition prompted authorities to intervene. The owner, identified as Souge, is involved as a witness or claimant in the confusion near the lice headquarters location.
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Youngstown
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