Four Thousand Sunday School Leaders Gather for 15th International Convention
Dean C. Palmer announces the National Sunday School convention to be held in Buffalo on June 19, drawing delegates from every Canadian province and all fifty states. The Alabama Sunday School Association will lead the U S delegation in representing about twenty million participants across America.
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Canada
Buffalo
Dean C. Palmer
Alabama Sunday School Associat International Sunday School
Ation
America
United States
Alabama
Alabama Sunday School Association
Montgomery
Ala
Leon C. Palmer
Yanks Take Cantigny in Fierce June Battle
American troops broke German defenses to seize Cantigny near Amiens in a swift assault. Reports describe fierce fighting, significant prisoner gains, bayonet work, and wounded soldiers eager to return to the front. The victory marks a major milestone on the French front.
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Cantigny
Amiens
Signal Corps
Rufus Powell Admits No Defense In Vagrancy Case
Rufus Powell owner operator of a hotel on 91 2 iycentete street received a $500 fine for vagrancy and operating an immoral house. He also got six months hard labor, and if the fine isn’t paid, 140 days more hard labor, totaling ten months and twenty days. The judge cited similarity to the Hotel Royal case and interfered with U S soldiers as aggravating factors. Four women testified.
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Rufus Powell
Iycentete Street
Powell
Hotel Royal
Norville Announces Run for Road and Venue Commissioner
Captain J. H. Norville said Saturday he will not seek the state legislature and will run for the road and venue commissioner post. He framed the decision as a bid to serve local infrastructure and governance needs.
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Norville
Revenue Board
J. H. Norville
Irvington Marine Enlists From Barbara Frietchie Roots
Herman Fritzsche of Irvington New Jersey joins the United States Marine Corps claiming to be the sole surviving male of Barbara Frietchie’s family. He recalls the famed Maryland heroine who inspired John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem Barbara Frietchie.
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Herman Fritzsche
Irvington
N. J
United States Marine Corps
Herman
Barbara Freitsche
Stonewall
Jackson
Patrick Street
Frederick
John Greenleaf Whittier
Barbara Frietchie
Lord Kitchener’s Sister Serves with Red Cross
Miss Letitia Kitchener, sister of Lord Kitchener, is serving with the American Red Cross. She recently spent a strenuous week as an international war relief worker in Paris.
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Lord Kitchener
RED Cross
International News Service
London
American Red Cross
Letitia Kitchener
Paris
Will Smith Discharged After Gas Meter Robbery Claim
Will Smith, a man described in the report as a negro, faced a robbery charge in court after a woman who had him arrested testified the meter contained 7.50 in silver quarters. The recorder discharged him Saturday after it was shown the claim was implausible since the gas meter could not have used that much gas since it was last read. she said he took all the money except 75 cents.
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Will Smith
Recorder
Regulations Tighten Mail to Soldiers
Postmaster J Blocker Thornton announced a new order requiring all mail to regular army national guard and national army personnel to specify the military unit. The rule bars ordinary insured or COD parcels not addressed to a company regiment or unit, with withholding of such items at Mobile post office.
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Regular Army
National Army
National Guard
J. Blocker Thorn
J. Blocker Thornton
Mother’s death kept from son at front in France
In Monroe Louisiana on June 1 Mrs A B Fisher 39 asked relatives at her bedside not to tell her son Leroy Fisher he was dying or that she had died He is a soldier somewhere in France and she requested he be advised of her death on his return home after the war ends
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International News Service
Monroe
A. B. Fisher
Leroy Fisher
France
Thrift Stamp Campaign Expands in Mobile County
Mobile County plans a broader Thrift Stamp drive to reach a $1 650 000 quota with $29 320 26 sold in May and $2 429 26 in Friday sales. Phelan B Dorson chairs county efforts as Dr J M Johnson aids the campaign with national guidance and Colin McRae Selph spoke on war savings benefits.
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Mobile County
Mobile Post Office
Phelan B. Dorson
Colin McRae Selph
St. Louis
J. M. Johnson
South
Cathedral School Holds Closing Exercises
Closing exercises were held Friday before a large audience at the Cathedral school. The program featured recitations and music with a patriotic tone. The Right Rev. RE. P. Allen addressed the students and three graduates were Mary Milired Byrnes Arsena Adelaide Cullinane and Fose Delphine Smith.
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Cathedral School
RE. P. Allen
Mary Milired Byrnes
Arsena Adelaide Cullinane
Fose Delphine Smith
Wrist Watch Presented to A P Imahorn
A. P. Imahorn receives a handsome wrist watch from Peoples Bank employees as he departs for Birmingham to join the quartermaster department at Fort Oglethorpe Georgia. H A Pharr delivers the presentation speech.
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Peoples Bank
Peoples’ Force
A. P. Imahorn
Birmingham
Quartermaster's Department of the Army
Fort Oglethorpe
H. A. Pharr
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