Jellicoe reports German losses at Jutland and notes German gallantry
Vice Admiral Sir John Jellicoe places German fleet losses at 21 ships and British at 14 in his Jutland report. He describes dawn engagement ranges, destroyer attacks, and night actions that inflicted heavy losses on the German fleet, with German ships retreating by daylight. The British fleet remained nearby until 11 o'clock and then resumed voyage to base.
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Better Grain Rate From River Points to Birmingham
The Alabama Public Service Commission ordered a 10 percent grain rate from Riverton and Sheffield to Birmingham for Tennessee river landings, to apply to all Alabama points. The new rate, four cents lower than the old, is hailed as a victory by Birmingham grain men. The commission denied requests on crossties and a potato rate reduction, and also refused a coal rate cut for the Montgomery Chamber of Commerce.
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Delegates Named for Nashville Nitrate Plant Meeting
W. R. Hall president of the New Decatur Board of Commerce today named delegates to attend the Nashville gathering on July 14. The meeting will launch a campaign to secure the $20,000,000 government nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals with strong representation expected from Nashville Chattanooga Memphis Birmingham and other southern cities.
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Will of Hetty Green Probated in Bellows Falls
The will of Hetty Green, famed as America’s wealthiest woman, leaves most of her estate to son Col. E. H. R. Green and daughter Mrs. Matthew Astor Wilks. A remainder is divided in small bequests to friends, with a trust for the daughter and a nonpaid trust for the son as trustee. The nine page document dated March 28, 1911, names Colonel Green and Charles W. Pierson as executors. if one cannot act, the other has full power.
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Birmingham Chattanooga Rain Affects Yesterday Results
Results yesterday included New Orleans 3 Memphis 1 with rain in Birmingham and Chattanooga. Today’s games have Birmingham at Chattanooga New Orleans at Memphis Atlanta at Nashville and Mobile at Little Rock for Saturday only. Children’s dresses sizes 16 to 14 years priced 50e at The Fashion.
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Rain records fall as 2.1 inches in 3 hours at local observatory
Rain total shatters yearly records as 2.1 inches is recorded by Mrs. A H Irons of the weather bureau at 7 am with more rain since. Crops suffer in bottom lands while creeks rise, signaling widespread local impact.
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The Decaturs Dally Wedding Invitations Feature
Calling cards and engraved invitations showcased with up to date designs. The Decatur Daily promises stylish quality and the last word in wedding stationery from The Decatur Daily.
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Saints and Sinners at the Masonic Theatre
The Famous Players Film Company premieres Henry Arthur Jones drama Saints and Sinners at the Masonic Theatre with Peggy Hyland in the lead Letty role. The photoplay promises strong stars and acclaimed stage source, aiming as a notable screen achievement.
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Battle Cry of Peace at Masonic Theatre Monday and Tuesday
Chicago critics recount a screening of The Battle Cry of Peace at the Masonic Theatre. The review portrays panic and urgency as it follows a fictional invasion of New York, urging immediate national defense and shipbuilding.
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Masonic Theatre
Dramatic wartime vision stirs call to arms in theater
A prophetic stage vision depicts Washington Lincoln and Grant as the Spirit of 76 awakening a nation to prepare for war. The crowd sees a ruined capitol and a Beast Man with a club, then millions of soldiers surge from the obscured land, ending in a rallying cry to build battleships and support the effort.
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America
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Greenwood shows to open in large tent for week
The Greenwood shows come to town in a spacious tented theater for one week starting Monday July 10. A fifty person company travels by its own train and offers two hours of musical comedy nightly for 10 cents, backed by a firm Chero-Cola advertising contract ensuring value. Attendance at Augusta remains at capacity, with people turned away nightly.
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No Calomel Eddy’s Black Pills Offered at 25 Cents
A brief notice promotes Eddy’s Black Pills as a 24 hour remedy available from druggists for 25 cents each. The ad suggests a quick relief claim without providing medical validation or ingredients.
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Dig Up Old Relics From British American Camp
Subway diggers in lower Manhattan uncover revolutionary and Indian relics from a buried camp on Washington Heights. Evidence includes regiments, ammunition, food remains, bone fragments, skulls, and Indian arrowheads found in kitchen midden debris exposed by excavations.
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New York Times
Manhattan
Washington Heights
Potash Alchemy Boosts Potato Yields in Trials
British farmers test sulphite of ammonia to lift yields. Ireland reports 15 tons of farmyard manure produced 8.5 tons of potatoes. adding a hundredweight of ammonium sulphate raised output by nearly a ton. North Wales experiments show £1 spent over four years added one ton once and 1.5 tons three times beyond farmyard manure yields, with potatoes valued at £4 per ton.
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Department of Agricultural and Technical Instruction
Ireland
University College of North Wales
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