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Newspaper
Mobile Tribune
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1918
Page
4
Work begins Monday on the Mobile Church and Recreation House at Fort Morgan. Architect A H Downey says plans were completed long ago and the project should take several months. The building will host services for all denominations, include a moving picture screen, serve artillery bays, and act as a resting place. Cost tops $3 000 funded by public subscription for a Marine Fort monument.
Announcement of the steamer Pleasure Bay schedule change for Eastern Shore trips. It will depart the city every Thursday at 3 30 p m and return from Battles Wharf at 9 p m to accommodate store employees who will have a half holiday each Thursday during the summer months.
In Friday sessions of the circuit court Ben Goldberger and Gus Spear were each fined 50 dollars for violation of the prohibition laws. The verdicts were reached by juries.
Kansas City Daughters of the Revolution commission Edwin H. Blashfield to paint The Trumpets of Missouri. The mural shows a heroic Missouri figure on a bluff with Stars and Stripes, state flag and Confederate flag, supporting a sword and shield, flanked by trumpeters from France Spain and America, as soldiers march to war with stern courage.
The case against W. J. Potter was not pressed, signaling a retreat by prosecutors and a potential dismissal or pending reconsideration of charges.
The United States Shipping Board plans a nationwide Ship Launching Day on July 4 1918 to launch at least one emergency fleet vessel from major yards from Maine to Seattle and the Great Lakes Mobile Alabama Shipbuilding Co to launch a ship for the emergency fleet with aim to create the largest ship launching day in history. Concrete ships expansion adds five new yards and forty two ships including tankers of 7509 tons each and cargo vessels of 3000 to 3500 tons at costs lower than steel or wood constructions due to material and labor savings.
With a new U S engineers corps formed at Florence Alabama for the Muscle Shoals nitrate plant work, W A Carney is moved from Mobile where he has served six years in the engineer department. He will lead the clerical staff in the new Alabama department.
More than 125 000 people will march in New York on July 4. Thirty five groups representing almost every nationality in the city will participate in the parade.
Commander Evangeline Booth of the Salvation Army plans to depart America for France to inspect overseas forces work among soldiers and sailors. She will visit front line huts near shellfire to oversee doughnut and pie operations and to ensure accounting of every dollar donated to the war effort.
Paris dispatch reports the war office stating forces north of Favorelles and south of Neute Vesnes advanced and captured twenty enemy soldiers. The note adds a public push that War Savings Stamps are within reach for all who wish to save.
Washington reports a new wartime rule lowering shoe tops under Council of National Defense guidance. Eight inch maximum tops for leather and cloth shoes, six and a half inches for misses, and bans on new lasts. Color limits apply white black or tan. patent leather only black.
Temporary offices for Fred J. Lays and partner firm Fleet Cors lay Co prepare a remodeled club house near Frascati as the base for a huge shipbuilding plant. The project will occupy a Sim property used by Mobile Country Club and aims to boost war production and savings investments.
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