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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Jul 10, 1916

Page

4

Deutschland Submarine Brings Cargo To Baltimore

The merchant submarine Deutschland arrived at Baltimore under its own power after a 15 day Atlantic crossing from Bremenhaven. It carried mail and 750 tons of chemicals and dyestuffs and will return with nickel and crude rubber. Capt. Koenig piloted the craft with convoy from the tug Thomas F. Timmins, while authorities tracked its approach and potential neutrality issues.

Age Atlantic Ocean Bremenhaven International Virginia Capes Thomas F. Timmins Baltimore Frederick D. Cocke Virginia Pilots’ Association Timmins Koenig Chesapeake Norman Hamilton Norfolk-Newport News Coast Guard Onondaga A. Schuacher & Co North German Lloyd Line Eastern

Deutschland Declared Merchant Vessel in Baltimore Harbor

Baltimore collectors formally gave the German submarine Deutschland the status of a merchantman. Inspectors found cargo mainly dye tuffs deemed permissible and no armament on board. The ship docked at a secured North German Lloyd wharf, with barbed wire and guards.

International News Service Baltimore Ryan Today Deutsch Treasury Department Washington Lloyd Koenig Bremen Germany United States Ryan

Roose and Captain Huse Probe Deutschland Status

Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D Roosevelt and Capt. Harry Huse of the naval war college left Washington for Baltimore to assess the German super submarine Deutschland. Huse, a construction expert, will report to the state department on whether the vessel should be treated as a merchantman or a warship.

International News Service Washington Franklin D. Roosevelt Harry Huse Naval War College Baltimore Huse State Department

Hitler’s blockade claim used to press neutral states

Baltimore July 10 The successful voyage of the submarine Deutschland.Is to be the basis for a German diplomatic push to compel neutral nations to acknowledge the illegality of the blockade of central allies ports.

International News Service Baltimore Deutschland Germany

One-Horse Spring-Tooth Cultivator Overview

Extension Service Auburn explains a one-horse spring-tooth cultivator is cheap versatile and adaptable by adjusting nuts and braces. It can act as a side or straight cultivator and even a V shape or harrow to fit rows, aiding cotton corn and cover crop cultivation while keeping soil surface smooth and weeds controlled with careful use.

Dairying as Boll Weevil Insurance for Alabama Farmers

Alabama farmers seek protection from cotton losses via boll weevil insurance, promoting dairying as a steady income. The program requires native cows a cream separator and access to a creamery, with milk fat yielding monthly cash and two weekly checks. Farmers report four to six dollars per month per cow in butter fat and seek more details from J. P. Quinerly in Auburn.

Alabama Mississippi J. P. Quinerly Auburn

Lim-Lax advertised as constipation remedy

A vintage advertisement promotes Lim-Lax from Decatur Drug Co. and Preuit Dillehay Drug Co. as a stomach remedy. It claims thousands have benefited and offers a 25 cent bottle. New Decatur and other reliable druggists carry it as an up-to-date product in The Decaturs Daily.

Lim-Lax Preuit-Dillehay Drug Co Decatu. Drug Co Decatur Drug Co Decatur Preuit Dillehay Drug Co New Decatur

Congress Asked to Help Stamp Out Infantile Paralysis

New York reports 103 new infantile paralysis cases in 24 hours bringing the city total to 1 031. Washington moves to seek federal aid to combat the outbreak and prevent future spreads with administration leaders debating possible legislative steps and cures.

Congress New York Washington

Austrian Losses Put at 150000 on Italian Front

Rome July 10. The Messaggero estimated Austro-Hungarian losses on the Italian front during May and June at 150000 men. Casualties listed: killed 20000, wounded 70000, missing 50000.

International News Service Rome Messaggero

The Battle Cry of Peace Highlighted by Chicago Mayor

Mayor William Hale Thompson praises The Battle Cry of Peace at the Olympic theatre. He lauds Commodore Blackton's photoplay as a strong patriotic appeal urging readiness and national welfare amid looming threats.

Chicago Olympic Theatre Commodore Blackton William Hale Thompson

The Battle Cry of Peace Shown in Boston Debut

The Majestic theatre presented The Battle Cry of Peace to a Boston audience as a powerful American photo-spectacle. Viewers are urged to defend homeland and strengthen national defenses, with scenes portraying a possible foreign attack and arguments from military and patriotic groups.

Majestic Theatre Boston England France Germany United States American. Eee The National Security League

Vision of Defenseless America A Vitagraph War Film

Vitagraph presents Defenseless America featuring Charles Richman as a defender of national readiness. Aimed at watchful citizens this film contrasts a peaceful New York with its invasion and shows a nation awakened and armed. Descriptive music accompanies the dramatic visuals.

J. Stuart Blackton Vitagraph Film Company Hudson Maxim America Richman Charles Richman Vitagraph Company New York

Greenwood shows bring grand tented theatre to town

A one week engagement opens Monday July 10 under a vast tent with fifty performers in two hour musical comedies. The Greenwood shows rely on a Coca Cola advertising deal to offer 10 cent admissions, drawing crowds in Columbus and Augusta where second week capacity is already reached.

Greenwood Chero-Cola Co Columbus Greenwood Company Augusta

Better Than Poverty in a Shattered Bark

A merchant, fearing the southwest wind and Icarian seas, praises retirement and rustic life in his homeland but soon abandons the effort and sails away in a shattered vessel unable to endure poverty.

Horace

Life's Never Ending Vortex Echoes in Memory

A reflective quote compares life to a ceaseless vortex from birth to death and back, suggesting cycles of endings and new beginnings. It imagines every death as a birth and every grave as a cradle, attributed to Macmillan.

Macmillan

Assets. Office Boy Life Quips About alimony He Owes

The phrase recalls a Life magazine quip about a man returning from his honeymoon asking for back alimony owed to his wife. The line frames a humorous take on financial entitlements within marriage.

Banana yields dwarf all other crops per acre

A remark notes the banana provides the highest food yield per acre, claiming it is forty times the potato and 133 times the wheat. The statement emphasizes the banana as exceptionally productive compared with other staples.

Not Likely to Be Done

The note argues that removing the Pacific Ocean water is impossible, comparing it to daily filling a tank a mile wide a mile deep and a mile long for 440 years. It presents the enormity of ocean volume and the impracticality of any plan to drain it.

Pacific Ocean

Christian Endeavor Secretary To Speak At Decatur Meeting

Field secretary of the All-South B Extension Committee will deliver an address at the First Presbyterian church Decatur tonight at 8 oclock. Mr Evans is described as a forcible speaker and State Treasurer Herman L Turner urged full representation from each Christian Endeavor Society in Decatur.

The All-South United Society of Christian Endeavor Terian Church Decatur Evans Herman L. Turner Christian Endeavor Society Decaturs

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