Heroes from France to Address Mobile in Bienville Square
A biennial wartime event gathers at Bienville Square this afternoon at 4 00 as Private Leslie D Burgess of the Princess Patricia s Canadian Light Infantry and a British Army veteran share war experiences and reunite with Canadian and American supporters A Drago band concert and community sing cap the program with speakers Yeemans and Burgess detailing war work and needs in the United States and Canada An estimated large crowd is expected for an entertaining and informative gathering
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Leslie D. Burgess
Pat
Canada
Bureau
Drago
United States
Yeemans
Burgess
Roche and Burke Undertaking Company Leads Mobile Mortuary Service
The Roche and Burke Undertaking Company expands with a modern plant near St Joseph and State. Frank L. Roche, long-time Mobile resident, heads operations while Peter Burke serves as secretary and treasurer. The firm emphasizes prompt service, up-to-date equipment, and thorough staff training to meet high outside demand.
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Roche ' ’ Burke Undertaking Company
St. Joseph
State
Roche and Burke
Frank L. Roche
Mobile
Peter Burke
Roche
Burke
Hero of the Battle on the Mississippi River
A man claiming to be Joseph Summers of Columbus Ohio and a lieutenant in the army enters a railroad car with bandaged hands. He tells a story of losing fingers to the Huns prompting passengers to offer seats and sympathy. Police reveal the hands are whole. Summers is arrested.
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Joseph Summers
America
Sam
Murphy
Columbus
Ohio
Ohio University
Public Auction of Mobile Mortgage Property
Catherine Costello executrix of Martin Costello’s estate will sell at public outcry on July 16 1918 at twelve noon in front of Mobile County Courthouse the interest of Margaret E H Ruffin Frances R Durham Mary Henry Ruffin Carolina Ruffin Ellen Ruffin Thomas H Ruffin and Thomas J Ruffin in a Mobile Alabama real property described as a lot beginning at the south side of St Francis Street and at the northeast corner of the parcel securing a mortgage filed in Mortgage Book 80.
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Margaret E. H. Ruffin
Frances R. Durham
Mary Henry Ruffin
Carolina R. Ruffin
Ellen R. Ruffin
Thomas H. Ruffin
Thomas J. Ruffin
Martin Costello
N.S
Mobile County
Alabama
Catherine Costello
Mobile
St. Francis Street
Foreclosure Notice for 67 St. Francis Street Property
Legal ad for property known as Number 67 St. Francis Street describing parcel dimensions on Francis Street and Battle House land. Executrix Catherine Costello of the Martin Costello Estate names Joseph N. McAleer as attorney and J. E. McHugh as auctioneer with sale dates June 14 21 28.
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St. Francis Street
Martin Costello
Joseph N. McAleer
J. E. McHugh
Austrian jail crowding prompts conditional releases
A Vienna dispatch says Austrian jails are so full that authorities must release condemned prisoners on condition. Robberies in Vienna are reported as unparalleled, reflecting the overcrowding in the prison system.
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International News Service
Zurich
Vienna
Concrete shipyard chosen on Sims property site
Mobile secures government operated concrete ship plant after long efforts. The eight unit facility will be built on the Sims property west of the river, adjacent to power and supply lines, with construction to start soon and be rushed to completion. The Chamber of Commerce credits W M Clemens and local business leaders for finalizing the agreement despite competition from New Orleans and other cities.
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Fred T. Lay
Sims
Mobile
Bellingrath
The
Chamber of Commerce
Washington
W. M. Clemens
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Country Club
Clemens
New Orleans
Six colored drafted men go to Tuskegee
The registration boards have received a call for six colored men to be sent to Tuskegee Alabama for special training. The men selected are Tercy A. Collins Corneliva Green Leslie Coleman William Alstock Sylvester Mundsen and Leander Hall. The first three were originally from Tuskegee.
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Tuskegee
Ala
Spe
Leslie Coleman
William Alstock
Sylvester Mundsen
Leander Hall
Italian Front Duelling Ends Reputedly Along Piave
Artillery exchanges continue on the Alpine sector of the Italian front with Austrian reports of combat along the Piave. Italian reconnoitering detachments reportedly repulsed along the lower Piave.
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International News Service
Amsterdam
Vienna
Lower
Piave
Yanks Down Two German Planes
American aviators shot down two more German airplanes, General Pershing stated in his official communiqué today from Washington on June 15.
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International News Service
Washington
General Pershing
British Take 60 Germans in Bethune Sector
The British war office reports sixty Germans captured in the Bethune sector and several prisoners with machine guns in the Villers-Bretteneux sector. A German raid on British lines at Aveluy Wood failed.
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London
Bethune
Villiers- Bretteneux
British War Office
Aveluy Wood
German Troop Reallocation Urged for Western Front
Paris dispatch reports General von Falkenhayn urges immediate release of all possible German troops from the Russian front to reinforce the Western front amid ongoing war deployments and strategic reshuffling.
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Paris
von Falkenhayn
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France
Bienville Square
R Camp
Bienville
Dche and
J.d.davis Packing Co
Southern Bell Telephone
President Lincoln
Lincoln
Percy Footy
Wallace Lind
Navigator Bullock
Edward Isaacs
George F. Wells
Leech
John Shortroff
Mississippi River
Mbual Advertising
OLD Country Club
Tribune
Castoria
E. W. Walther Merchant Tailor and Clothes Doctor New
Seeth Conception St
Cial
Tercy A. Collins
Corneliva Green
Yanks Downs
J.G. Bowen
J. G. Bowen
Toulminville
TIE Cawthon “Mobile’s
P. C. Steele
Russia
J. H. Brockamp
Bienville Coeaee
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