Meeting on New Tariff For Mobile Bay Ships
Shippers of Mobile Bay boats invite all auto freight operators to an 11 o’clock Wednesday meeting at the Chamber of Commerce to discuss a proposed tariff filed with the Alabama Public Service Commission. The schedule, likely similar to current charges, covers transport between Mobile and the Eastern Shore including Daphne and Orange, with rates based on vehicle weight and a one way trip. Bay Steamship Company vessels and the packet Daphne are included in the tariff plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile Bay
Office of the
Amber of Commerce
Alabama Public Service
Commission
R. G. Cobbic
Mobile Chair of Commerce
Mobile
Hope
Daphne
Public Co Commission
Bay Steamship Company
Bay Queen
Shore
Inhope
Opig
Grant seeks clemency in tea store murder case
Chicago dispatch reports Bernard Grant, sentenced to hang October 17 for murder, is asked to sign a clemency petition to Governor Smoot. His lawyer plans to cite Leopold Loeb precedent and new statements by Walter Krauser denying Grant’s involvement in the tea and coffee store holdup and killing of Ralph Sanders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Len Natober
Mary Grant
Hal
Toni
Gri
Walter Grant
Orel
American Legion
Grant
Savage
Agment
Illinois
Poe
Cain
Am Legion
Crowé
lLttle Loeb
Bernard Grant
Thomas B. Swanson
Agnes Lewis
de Cloud
Minn
Citionns St. Cloud
John R. Caveerly
Nathan Leopold, Jr
Richard Loeb
Robert Franks
Leopold-Loeb
Walter Krauser
Ralph Sanders
Souders
Fatal tetanus from toe injury to 12 year old girl
A 12 year old girl, Catherine McCabe, died of tetanus hours after a toe wound. The McCabe family of near Whi were notified. funeral held at Roche funeral home with Rev. E Lacomire at St. Bridier church, interment in Whistler cemetery.
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Pater
Catherine McCabe
Joseph Jamderine McCabe
Whi
Roche Funeral Home
Rever E. Lacomire
St. Briderie Church
Whistler
Speeding fines levied in St Stephen road case
Ailtiker, a negro, was fined $20 for speeding on St Stephen road from Threfreek to Ann street after a hearing in recorder's court today. Wallt arrested Monday after nooner Brown spent the night in default of payment. Piste pleaded guilty with his car at the pace Shan 39 miles an hour, fined $15 or 15 days. Docketed at the entineer by Deputy Sheriffs MiracCrary on a charge of speed arresting officers allege 35 miles an hour near Chickasaw.
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Ailtiker
St. Stephen
Ann Street
Brown
Cly
Pate Shan
A.l
Chickasaw
Louisiana Ships M Products at New TM Rates
Mobil pants and overalls will ship in Louisiana at about 20 percent higher rates than current. The Southern company instructed public notes on these articles. Louisiana points waived the traffic office of commerce. The city sets 5 and ships them to the territory.
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Mobil
Louisiana
Mouisiana Points
Chaimmerce
Unclear Weather Forecast Fragment for Mobdi Area
Fragmentary weather item describes a fair continued forecast with cool conditions. Mentions Mobdi and Jacksonville with partial temperature details 67 degrees and a 2 degree variance. Text is garbled and lacks a clear date or full data.
Stocks Open Higher as Oils Lead Irregular Market
Stocks moved irregularly higher at the opening with Mexican Sea board Oil rising after a 2 point drop on 2,400 shares while other oils showed supply from Western price cuts. Industrials and rails gained fractionally as cotton futures opened steady in New Orleans and New York. Potatoes traded slowly in Chicago with early Ohios steady and other stock weak. receipts were 81 cars and shipments 735 cars.
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New York
Mexican Seaboard
Chicago
U. S
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Kansas
Missouri
City approves 485000 bond sale agenda in weekly session
City commission authorized a 485000 bond issue after the recent vote. Bids will be opened within three weeks. Planned spending includes 200000 for fire and police signal systems 175000 for a central fire station 75000 for sidewalks and 36000 for municipal improvements. Caroline avenue paving is approved and Conti street to be made one way eastbound with traffic from Broad street to the river. The realty group seeks auto exemptions from the one hour parking rule.
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Central
Ute
Caroline Avenue
Conti Street
Broad Street
Real Estate Association
Arrests After Dances Near Hight Mile and Eight Mile
Police report multiple arrests after dances near Hight Mile station and Cosgrove park. Offenders faced charges including affray public drunkenness reckless driving and violating prohibition law. An automobile was seized after several half pints were thrown from it.
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Hight Mile Station
Prichard
Eight Mile Station
Moses Bernstein
Ernest Brewster
Shirley Cochran
Jesse Cochran
St. Stephens Road
Bernstein
Jack Smith
Henry White
Claude Smith
Lillian Warner
Lamie Allen
Oranthe Rigby
Cosgrove’s Park
Burch
Stringfellow
Eugene Harris
Ross Burch
Jack Thompson
Frankie
Hance Thompson
He Thomas
Consecration of Bishop Richard O. Gerow Set
Rt Rev Richard O Gerow is to be consecrated Bishop of Natchez Mississippi on October 15 Mass at Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. Bishop Allen will officiate with Bishops Jeanmard and Griffin assisting. The consecration sermon will be given by Very Rev Edward A Cumming SJ.
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Richard O. Gerow
Natchez
Miss
Edward P. Allen
D. D
Diocese of
Mobile
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Alen
Jules Benjamin Jeanmard
Lafayette
James Aloysius Griffin
Springfield
Edward A. Cumming
The
Fathers of the Society of Jesus
South
Auto Stolen From St Joseph Street
O R Moore of the First National Bank building reported to the sheriff that his Ford was stolen from the St Joseph street front of the bank. Telegrams and long distance messages were sent to nearby towns asking officers to locate the missing automobile.
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O. R. Moore
First National Bank
St. Joseph Street
Sheriff's Forces
Murder and Prohibition Charges Hit Vallescura Crew
The Italian steamer Vallescura, bound for Mobile with cargo, faces murder and liquor law charges as its master Captain Anselo Cairlo is killed by a crew member. First mate suffers appendicitis after a shooting that followed a liquor raid by sheriff’s deputies. The case draws Italian consul visits and federal probes amid ongoing misfortune.
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Vallescura
Mobile
Anselo Cairlo
New Orleans
Florida
Gulf
Gulfport
Hle
Amon
Recorder’s Court
Liverani Ettore
Recorder’s
Draw Jurors for County Grand Jury in October Term
Eighteen names will be drawn from the list to serve as jurors for the first week of the October term. The grand jury will convene at noon on October 6 under Sheriff Paul Cazalas who oversees juror service.
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Paul Cazalas
John P. Wheeler
George W. Headley, Jr
Thomas J. Burns, Jr
Charles H. Mader
Robert J. Hyde
James G. Roberts
August Buerger
Oliver
James
Li Sear Non Aca
P. Orris
Nims
Marcel
Steiner William E. Lyles Hatter
John R. Vidmer
Dutch Queen Opens Hague Parliament With Speech From Throne
Queen Wilhelmina opened the Hague parliament delivering a throne speech. She said the economy showed slight improvement and that the budget could balance in 1925 if pending financial measures are approved.
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Hague
the Hague
Wilhelmina
Telegraph Chief Regains Consciousness After Ticker Message
J T Phelan superintendent of the Dominion Telegraph Company awoke from a six day unconscious spell after a bedside Morse ticker called PN then every day in every way. He had been ill for weeks following his wife’s death and began to recover after receiving milk.
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J. T. Phelan
Dominion Telegraph Company
Phelan
Fort Worth Bootleggers Stage Deadly War on Rum Runners
Fort Worth bootleggers and whiskey hijackers wage a violent feud with no police protection. Vigilance committees patrol, gunfire and raids occur at night as rum runners are targeted and suspects are dragged from their homes. No fatalities confirmed yet, but violence continues.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Diamond Hill
Wichita Falls
New Orleans
Law
Inspectors Examine County Dirt Road From Grand Bay to Mississippi
Chairman Albert Towle and Commissioner A G Ward inspect the Grand Bay dirt road toward the Mississippi state line. They plan temporary improvements to the road linking Grand Bay with Pecan and the paved Mississippi highway amid heavy tourist and resident use due to the poor condition of the old Paccagoula road.
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Albert 8. Towle
A. G. Ward
Board of Revenue and Road
Grand Bay
Grand Baye
Mississi Road
Pecan
Miss
Jackson County
Grand 7
Paccagoula
Alabama Line
Absorbs Freight Charges to Stimulate Phosphate Shipments
The Mississippi Central Railroad will absorb wharfage and handling charges on phosphate rock shipped by sea to Mobile from Tampa and moved by rail to Shreveport and other points in Iowa. The arrangement, relayed by the chamber of commerce traffic office, aims to stimulate phosphate movement through Mobile Port.
Engineer charged with dumping oil into river
J. J. Garcia, 22, engineer on the tug Gildart, is charged in recorder's court with pumping oil into the river from his vessel. The case was continued at Lee's request after Garcia was called out of port on September 22.
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J. J. Garcia
Gildart
Recorder’s Court
Lee
Worthless check charge filed against Jerry Sullivan
Jerry Sullivan of Birmingham faced a charge of passing a worthless check for twenty dollars to Lig nos Bros. grocers on Government and Royal streets after paying four ninety five for groceries. The check on the closed Farmers & Mechanics Bank was made payable to J. C McKay and signed F. P. Woodard. Hearing continued to Friday.
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Jerry Sullivan
Bimingham
Lignos Bros
Government and
Royal Streets
Farmers & Mechanics Bank
J. C McKay
F. P. Woodard
Pershing Sought as National Commander by American Legion
General John J. Pershing, recently retired as army chief of staff, is being urged as national commander candidate for the American Legion convention in St Paul. Delegations plan to nominate him, with a decision expected by Friday, while addresses by John J. Tigert and John Quinn frame the session.
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ST. Paul
Mizin
International News Service
John J. Pershing
Army
American Legion
Pershing
Pershig
France
John J. Tigert
Education
John Quinn
California
Tigert
Theodore Roosevelt
United States
Washington
Lincoln
Legion
Albert D. Alcorn
United Spanish War Veterans
Chilean Parties View Military Move With Mixed Reactions
Buenos Aires dispatch notes Chilean political factions react to a military coup. Conservatives favor the movement while democratic and radical parties oppose it. Large crowds applaud President Alessandri upon leaving Santiago amid arrests and clashes with soldiers.
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Buenos Aires
Santiago
la Nacion
National Union
Alessandri
Assassinations in Bulgaria Continue Coup Fear
Sofia reports the August 31 murder of Todor Alexandroff head of the Macedonian revolutionary group. In reprisals eight more political killings followed. The death was kept secret until yesterday amid a stir. The killing is said to be ordered by a Macedon faction aligned with bolshevism and the Soviets, opposed by Alexandroff.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Todor Alexandroff
Macedonian Revolutionary Organization
Alexandroff
Florida coast storm damage remains uncertain
Panama City and Bay Franklin Calhoun counties suffer heavy disruption as trees uproot and communications cut, with ships, lumber mills, and coastal shipping plants hit. Inland gales reach Apalachicola. trains delayed up to fifteen hours after a severe washout on the Seaboard line. Train crews report the worst blow they have witnessed.
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Pensacola
Fla
International News Service
Florida
Bay County
Franklin County
Apalachicola
Panama City
Chipley
Bay, Franklin
Calhounco
Louisville
Nashville
River Junction
Seaboard
Flier's 440 Mile Omaha Hop Delayed
The 440 mile flight to Omaha, part of the around the world journey, was postponed until 11:51 a.m. CST tomorrow due to cloudy weather. In Chicago, plans to bring the aircraft to Field's Museum were announced, with honors and gifts proposed for pilots Lieutenant Lowell Smith and Lieutenant Leslie T. Arnold.
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Mail Field
Chicago
Associated Press
Omaha
Lowell Smith
Globe
Field
George B. Foster
All Chicago Committee
Mason M. Patrick
Army Air Service
Patrick
Smith
Leslie T. Arnold
Chicago Association of Commerce
Wm. E. Dever
Harry C. Hale
Sixth Corps
George Harries
Six Die in Auto Collision Near St Johns
Six people were killed when two cars collided at Donovan's Station seven miles from St Johns Newfoundland. The passengers were returning from British warships at the harbor. Among the dead were Liew Callahan and another officer from the British warship Constance.
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ST. Johns
N. F
Donovan's Station
Liew Callahan
Constance
First Man to Die in Electric Chair in Florida
Gainesville Sheriff Ramsey will escort Fortune Ferguson the first inmate to die in the new electric chair at Raiford state farm. The execution is slated for September 23 after Ferguson was convicted of assault on an eight year old Gainesville girl.
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Jacksonville
International News Service
Ramsey
Gainesville
Fortune Ferguson
Statenary Farm
Raiford
Fla
Ferguson
ASK DAVIS STAND ON PROHIBITION
Haj Faris of Clinton, prohibition party candidate for president, telegrammed and wrote to John W. Davis asking him to declare publicly whether he is wet or dry. The request accompanied Davis’s farm visit address at Dr. Arthur W. Nelson’s farm in Bunceton.
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Clinton, Mo
Haj Faris
Clinton
Prohibition Party
John W. Davis
Oil firm seeks ten million damages claim in Romania
In Bucharest on September 16 the Ro Americana, Standard Oil's Romanian subsidiary, assessed ten million dollars in damages to its office car during German occupation of Romania and seeks reimbursement from the other party involved in the operation.
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Bucharest
Rumania
Standard Oil Company
Ro Americana
Germancc
Rumania E Company
Oder
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Loeb
Tanus
Pwest
Tre
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NEW York Futures
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Mexico
Eva Platt
Tom Platt
Sonora
Mex
Omaha Field
Aufo
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