Mobile Bank Plea for War Savings Stamps in 1918
The First National Bank of Mobile issues a wide appeal urging residents to buy War Savings Stamps to fund World War I efforts. The letter emphasizes government needs of two billion dollars this year, urges personal sacrifice with a $20 per person target, and frames participation as honor versus dishonor in the national effort. It also notes the bank’s own support and the aim to keep interest in Uncle Sam above the bank’s profits.
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Mobile
First National Bank
Sam
Uncle Sam
United States
Amercans
Four American aces praised for air victories over Germany
Lieutenant Edward Rickenbacker of Columbus Ohio Lieutenant Allan Winslow of Chicago and Lieutenant Douglas Campbell of California along with Sergeant David Putnam are hailed as aces. Rickenbacker scored five confirmed kills on Memorial Day and rescued a downed comrade. Winslow and Campbell earned the American War Cross and Croix de Guerre for their April 14 victory. Campbell is credited with six aerial kills through May 31.
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Edward Rickenbacker
Allan S. Winslow
Douglas Campbell
David E. Putnam
Lieucenant Rickenbacker
Columbus
Ohio
Rickenbacker
James A. Meissner
Brooklyn
Chicago
Winslow
France
Angrican Army
Aviation Corps
Yale
California
Harvard
Kerrigan Receives LL D Degree from Marys College
Mobile residents celebrate Rev. W. A. Kerrigan as rector of McGill's Institute and former Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception preacher receiving an honorary LL D from St Marys College. The award is described as well deserved and noted for its regional impact.
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Mobile
W. A. Kerrigan
McGill
Institute
Father Kerrigan
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
St. Mary's College
Claude Allen Joins Army Visit Before Enlistment
Claude S. Allen brother of Chas. H. Allen publisher of the Montgomery Advertiser, was in Mobile visiting family before leaving for the army next week. He traveled through Western Alabama to Hattiesburg and back to Montgomery, with many friends wishing him speedy promotion to the engineering branch. A separate note mentions a spring roller device for tailors and a brief line about Caucasus railroads receiving locomotives using refinery waste.
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H. Allen
The
Montgomery Advertiser
Mobile
Yester
Alabama
Hattiesburg
Montgomery
Allen
Army
Mobile Lieut Tucker Returns After War Front Service
Lieut William E Tucker of Mobile visits the city after nine months in the trenches. Decorated with the French War Cross and American Military Medal, he heads to Camp Wheeler as a special instructor in the Stokes mortar. He leaves for Wheeler around the 24th.
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William 8
Tucker
Mobile
Mother Galmiche Victim of German Bomb Raid
Soldiers' Friend shell victim Mother Galmiche, a French woman who mended American doughboys socks since Toul, was killed by a bomb fragment during a German raid on the front. Three of her grandchildren played nearby. the children were unhurt.
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Newton C. Parke
International News Service
France
Galmiche
Toul
American cannions parade through Paris in flower decked reception
A thousand flower decorated American cannions sped through Paris on Saturday afternoon heading toward the front. Crowds cheered as helmeted soldiers passed in an orderly two hour procession. The troops drew unprecedented enthusiasm since Pershing's vanguard arrival.
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International News Service
Paris
Pershing
Germany Faces Worst Food Crisis as Pork Supply Halves
From Washington June 20 Germanys visible pork supply has fallen from 13 million to 5 million head in a year. Average cattle weight dropped from 426 to 299 pounds. War food strain grows with rising demand for rats and overall weight loss across cattle.
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International News Service
Washington
Germany
Alabama War Savings Director Appointed
A War Savings Director is appointed in Alabama acting under the authority of the Secretary of the United States Treasury. The move aligns state efforts with national fiscal policy and war financing programs.
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Alabama War Savings
Secretary of the United States Treasury
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Mary Harris
Exelento Pomabe
Exelento Medicine CO
Atlanta
Be Meredith, J
America
Lieut
Allan Winslow
New Queen
Queen Theatre
MR. Kerrigan
Steger
Steger Phonograph
Universal Phonograph
Victor
Edison
Columbia
Pathe
Steger Talking Machines
Steger & Sons
Piano Manufacturing Company
Steger Bldg
Northwest Corner
Wabash & Jackson
Chicago, Illinois
Claude Allen
Claude S. Allen
Chas
Day
Fam
Ily
Caucasus
Tucker Mobile Boy
Camp Wheeler
Congo
Vermont
Metal
Ernest P. Orr
Hargrove
Cahaba
Carbon Hill
Walker County
Madison
Royal Streets
Zimmern’s
National War Savings
Wilson
Secretary of the Treasury
War Savings
United Element
United Ae
Pring
Ont
Crawford Johnson
S. W. Wate Conti Streets
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