Aerial mail service extends routes and plans growth
The Postoffice department reports the aerial mail system has proven satisfactory and will continue Washington to Philadelphia and New York. Plans call for New York to Boston next fall and Chicago to St Louis later. Six planes are ready for the New York Boston leg as weather studies proceed.
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Washington
Postoffice Department
Philadelphia
New York
Haveeen
Boston
Chicago
St. Louis
New England
Railway Schedules for Louisville and Nashville Lines
Train times list southbound and northbound departures and arrivals for Louisville and Nashville routes. Key services include New Orleans Local Pensacola Accom Monty to N O and Monty Local with daily or Sunday exceptions, plus Mobile Local and Mobile Bay Shore trains with specific depart and arrival times.
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Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Cin
N. O
N. Y
New Orleans
Pensacola
Monty
Mont’y Local
Chi, St. L
Pensacola Accom
Train Schedules for Several Rail Lines Listed Today
Times shown for Mobile and Ohio Railroad and Gulf Mobile and Northern trains between St Louis Cincinnati New York and Birmingham Cincinnati New York Limited services. Earlier and later departures include 9 00 am 8 10 pm 7 45 am 7 00 am and overnight 1 40 am 12 10 am with Nos 1 2 3 4.
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Mobile and Bay Shore Railroad
Mobile and Ohio Railroad
St. L.-Cin.-N. Y. Ltd
B’ham-Cin-N.y.ltd
Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad
Southern Railway System Schedule Snippet
A fragment shows train times for Southern Railway System with No. 34 and No. 23 at 4:00 pm and 11:40 am, and No. 36 and No. 35 at 10:30 pm and 5:30 am.
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Wno
Indestructible States and Home Rule in the Union
A declaration arguing for state sovereignty against federal suffrage and prohibition expansion. It cites Chief Justice Chase and John Randolph Tucker, warns that nationalizing rights erodes local self government, urges Alabama to resist federal control and preserve state franchise authority.
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United States
Justce Chase
America
District of Columbia
Calhoun
Davis
Lee
Jackson
Union
Jeremiah
Black
Buchanan
Southland
Washington
John Randolph Tucker
Alabama
The
Seymour
Congress
Mississippi
Kentucky
Virginia
South Carolina
Europe
New York Air Raid Precautions Spark International Interest
London reports the New York police commissioner issued civilian conduct instructions in case of air raids drawing wide attention. Naval men debate German air raid capabilities on New York and link current threats to prior submarine seaplane concepts tied to a raid on the British coast in 1914.
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London
New York
Germany
Cuxhaver
Detroit Shrugs Off War Strain to Deliver 19000 Air Motors
John W. Staley reports to convention that Detroit plants will produce fifty battle airplanes daily within four months and deliver 19000 air motors to the government by Sept 1 1918. He cites Lincoln, Packard, Ford and Cadillac as key makers and notes 60 acres of new factory space and full tooling to reach mass production.
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International News
New York
John W. Staley
People’s State Bank
Detroit
Association of Reserve City Bankers
Hotel Astor
Mr. Staley
Lincoln Motor Company
Packard Motor Car Company
Ford Motor Company
Cadillac Motor Company
Local Man Dies After Bicycle Auto Collision
George H. Hester 52, foreman of car inspectors for the L & N yards, died at 4 AM from injuries after an automobile struck his bicycle on Conception near Eslava. E. D. Havard, a 20-year-old chauffeur, is jailed on a reckless driving charge now likely to become manslaughter. Hester, a longtime railroad employee, resided at Canal and Franklin with his wife and one child.
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George H. Hester
Inge-Bondurant Sanitarum
Conception Street
Eslava Street
Heiter
E. D. Havard
Government Street
Haevard Hester
Hester
Hovard
Heller
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
J. J. Heiter
Charles and
William Heiter
Canal
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By Winder R. Harris
Interna
Tional News Service
Mineola
Post Office
Southern Railway System
U. S
Mobile Electric Co
Whitman & CO. Inc
Broadway
Carter
Irterste
Oine
Walter B. Jones
Montgomery Bar
Enemies of Democracy
Geo. H. Hester
Franklin Streets
France
England
Ahea
Hargrove
Fanny
Madison
Zimmern’s Coal Co
Morris Morton Drug Co
Fort Smith, Ark
Mobile, Ala
Marie E. Patterson
Cry Bank
Bell Phone
Mobile
Ala
Electro
Mobile Business Exchange
City Bank
Baldwin
Mobile Counties
Tribune
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