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Newspaper
Mobile Tribune
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1918
Page
7
A shopper notes well-tailored clothes with reliable fabrics and lasting shapes. The article highlights lightweight options such as serges, cassimeres, cooked worsteds, Palm Beach, Cool Cloth, and Mohairfat, appealing to the budget conscious businessperson evaluating fit and price.
Mobile merchants reject a 1 pm Saturday close for June to August due to business needs. They will close by 10 pm Saturdays and adopt Thursday half days at 1 pm to provide recreation for employees, excluding druggists, butchers, and growers. The move comes amid wartime economic pressures and a pledge to support national goals.
Paris reports increased aerial activity as French fighters engage German aircraft. An American unit battled twelve Albatros over Toul, four U S planes joined the fight, one American aircraft fell inside enemy lines and two German planes were driven off while others retired.
Spot cotton in New York on June 14 opened with July at 26.10 and October at 24.40. The report notes a European invention for compressing air to harden steel portions of metal. A sandpaper band label holder is proposed to distinguish poison bottles in the dark.
Alabama Travelers Association members urged by the Alabama Council of Defense to attend a war meeting in Selma starting June 15. Lloyd M. Hooper emphasizes traveling salesmen can spread government work and aid war efforts through War Savings Stamps Liberty bonds Red Cross and Y M C A.
Washington reports official dispatches from France detailing American aviators achievements in recent front operations. David Putnam of Brooklyn downed three enemy machines, reaching six total victories, earning the military cross and a promotion to sergeant aviator in the French army. Lieut Sewall scored after a long fight, while aviators Stanley and Weil each notched a victory.
London reports two British staff officers praise American troops for their performance in major offensives. They say the Americans, in their first big battle, stood beside a French elite corps and showed dauntless courage, tenacity, coolness, initiative and resource. They predict even greater achievements ahead.
Advertisement notes many products exist but promotes Swamp Chills and Fever Tonic as unique. It credits Morris Morton Drug Co. of Fort Smith Arkansas as manufacturer and urges readers to ask their druggist for the tonic.
June 14 report recounts two U S engineers who spent 36 hours behind Bowie positions near Bois de Belleau after wrong turn. They killed three German drivers on a supply train, hid in a wheat field for 17 hours, scouted machine gun nests, then reached American lines with critical intelligence.
This morning at 9 30 teachers and students gathered at the Battle House for the year’s closing exercises. The program stressed duty over frivolity with patriotic tones and a service flag listing two hundred forty five stars. Graduates included Edward C. O Dowd Louis W. O Dowd P Dewey Landry and several others earning Bachelor of Science or Doctor of Divinity degrees.
William E. Medicus known as Smiling Bill was crushed between railroad cars at the Choctaw yards of the Louisville and Nashville in Mobile around 11 15 last night. The 27 year old was married with two children and survived by his widow, parents, and four brothers and two sisters. He had worked for the salvage corps and recently began as a switchman at L N yards.
Red Bird tribe holds a Saturday 4 36 pm meeting at Dauphin Street car line club rooms inviting Lone Scout captains. Lone Scouts, world wide with 275 881 members, lead by W D Boyce with New York HQ. They aid war effort through garden work and selling Thrift Stamps and Liberty Bonds. Over two hundred Lone Scouts in the city urged to attend.
A meeting of business men is called for Mobile Relief Hall at Conti and St. Emanuel streets at 8 tonight to discuss backing three county commissioner candidates who will run government along strict business lines. No names yet, but a ticket may be launched for the city’s support.
Three white men were arrested this afternoon by the Police for going the wrong way on Dauptin street in violation of the new traffic ordinance. They were D. Dilton 24 A. W. Maples 23 and F. Graham 32. Clarence Knowles 21 was arrested for reckless driving.
Secretary W B McAtee of the Tourist Welcome Club goes to Selma to invite the Alabama Travelers Association to Mobile for the 1919 convention. He displays a large Mobile signage and distributes material on Mobile's industrial progress to association members and interested parties.
A deed filed in probate court shows Alfred L. Staples purchasing about thirty four acres from auctioneer J. E. Mc Hugh. The land sold at public outcry for fourteen thousand dollars and is described as valuable property. A job notice appears in The Tridune.
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