War savings certificate plan offers $1000 return in 1923
A Mobile County campaign urges purchase of war savings certificates before December 31, 1918. Buyers pay $834 now to receive $1000 in 1923, with cashing options at 3 percent interest before maturity and 4 percent compounded quarterly if held to term. A self addressed envelope is provided for pledges.
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Moile
Mobile
Fces
Mobile County Council of Na‘iig
Cawthon Hotel
Icted
Board of National Council
Railway Schedules for Louisville and Nashville and Connections
Train times listed for L and N routes including southbound and northbound services to New Orleans Pensacola Monticello Mobile and Cincinnati. Local Pensacola accommodations and daily versus Sunday services shown with arrival and departure times across multiple lines.
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Louisville and Nashville Railroad
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M.n. Y
N. O
New Orleans
Pensacola
Mont’y
NY Y
Mont'y
Chi St. L
N. Y
Mobile
Dancers aboard ship unafraid of submarines in war zone
Liner passengers on a wartime voyage keep dancing despite danger as a soldiers’ string quartet plays in the dining room. Official dances occur nightly with a captain as master of ceremonies, while a gramophone provides music for extra sessions. Nurses are barred from dancing by an official order.
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Paul Jones
Treasury plans $24 billion U S spending next year
Treasury expenditures for the next fiscal year will total $24,000,000,000. Secretary McAdoo informed Chairman Kitchin of the Ways and Means Committee that about one third should come from taxes and urged high war profits taxes and higher taxes on unearned incomes.
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International News Service
Washington
Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo
Kitchin
House
Ways and Means Committee
Germans fire on women Red Cross nurses in France
London dispatch reports German airmen not only bombed Red Cross hospitals but machine gunned fleeing women nurses in France. A wounded WAAC member described a rest camp bombing behind British lines and her severe injuries.
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Bodhes
RED Cross
International News Service
London
Red Sees
France
Evening News
Holbrook Named General Agent for Express Firms
Martin Holbrook, longtime agent of the Southern Express Company at Mobile, is named agent of the United States Express Company. The new consolidator, merging American, Southern, Weiss Fargo and Adams Express, will take over express business nationwide in Mobile on July 1.
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MR. Holbrook
Martin Holbrook
Southern Express Company
Mobile
United States Express Company
American
Southern
Weiss Fargo
Adams Express
Kaiser expert admits decision good way off on front
Berlin Vossische Zeitung reports a military correspondent saying the offensive will take time to organize and gain results. He cites the railway network at Compiegne and Villers-Cotterets aiding German resistance and warns against rushing a decision. He expects a future shift in battle operations with renewed patience.
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Kaiser
Amsterdam
Berlin Vossische Zeitung
War Savings Stamps Explained for 1918 Citizens
The article explains War Savings Stamps as loans to the Government with 4 percent compound interest, notes purchase limits of 1000 per person, permits gifting stamps to family members, and outlines refund rules with ten days' notice. It urges school districts to set quotas, emphasizes tax exemption, insurance against loss, and loyalty to support the war effort under the Alabama War Savings Director.
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United States
Secretary of the Treasury
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