Mobile War Savings Stamp Drive Opens City County
Mobile launches a two day War Savings Stamp drive with a $1 650 000 quota for Mobile County and city. Campaign leaders expect strong support, with $200 000 already subscribed and pledges due by December 31. Women and Girl Scouts organize booths and parades while workers canvass from Royal to Warren and Dauphin to Government.
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Phelan B. Dorlon
Dorlon
Mobile
Woman’s Committee
War Saving Stampss
Clancy Baker
P. C. Steele
James R. Hagan
Gayfer’s
J. W. Littl, Jr
van Antwerp’s
Holcomb Quill
Battle House
Adam Glass
City Bank
Virgil Griffin
Hammes
Athmeyer
Miss Pollock
Court House
F. I. Spaulding
Cawthon Hotel
P. C Steele
City Federation
Royal
Warren
Dauphin
Hungry powder makers strike in Rhine cities
London June 27 extensive strikes erupted in Cologne and Mu nition workers in Maelheim due to bread ration cuts. About 20 000 workers quit munition plants as police and military failed to stop a 9000 strong Cologne street procession. Workers demanded more food or refuse to work. Smallpox rising among Krupp workers in Essen. Meat ration likely to be cut or Meatless weeks planned per Reichstag food committee report.
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London
Cologne
Maelheim
Rhine
Daily Mail
Hague
August Muller
Reichstag Food Committee
Copenhagen
Secretary of the Treasury
War Savings
United States Treasury
War
United States
Young White Men Turned Over to U S Authorities
Cecil A Brannan and George Beach were held for federal investigation and today delivered to United States authorities by the recorder. The men are described as young white males.
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Cecil A’ Brannan
George Beach
United States
The
Recorder
Irvin Cobb Finds Wilson a One Man World Listen To
War correspondent Irvin S. Cobb returned from the western front to Philadelphia and urged that Woodrow Wilson’s word would be heard by France England and Belgium. He said American troops are fresh optimistic and ready for battle while allies weariness grows.
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England
France
United States
Irvin Cobb
Wilson
Philadelphia
Irvin S. Cobb
America
Woodrow Wilson
Belgium
Mr. Cobb
Hom
Washington
Funeral of Ruby H Penny Held in Mobile
The funeral for Ruby H Penny wife of G O Penny was held Wednesday at 2 30 PM from her grandmother Mrs E Weidmann’s home 261 South Claiborne Street in Mobile interment followed at Magnolia Cemetery The Tribune office sent a floral design and the remains arrived in Mobile at 1 PM before services at the residence and at the cemetery
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Magnoliaemetery
Mra
Ruby H. Penny
G. O. Penny
San Antonio
Texas
E. Weidmann
South Claiborne Street
The
Tribune
Mobile
Graveside Rites Held At St John's Episcopal Church
Rev. Gardiner C. Tucker conducted the graveside service at St. John's Episcopal Church. Pallbearers named were F. C. Seabury, Thomas T. Palmer, Edward Osborne and Capt. James Reed.
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Gardiner C. Tucker
St. John's Episcopal Church
F. C. Seabury
Thomas T. Palmer
Edward Osborne
Capt
James Reed
Local mobile businessman George J. Karl dies at 52
George J Karl a longtime Mobile resident and restaurant figure died Wednesday evening at his home 701 South Jefferson Street after a brief illness. He was born in Germany aged 52 and survived by his widow and relatives in Mobile Montgomery and Pensacola. He held memberships in the Odd Fellows Woodmen of the World and Mobile Relief Association.
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George J. Karl
Mobile
South
Jefferson Street
Germany
Montgomery
Pensacola
Odd Fellows, Woodmen of the World
Mobile Relief Association
Shipbuilder Van Martin Fractures Skull at Alabama Dry Docks
Van Martin, a shipbuilder from Vinegar Bend, Ala, suffered a fractured skull and broken hip after a fall from a scaffold at the Alabama Dry Docks and Shipbuilding plant. He was taken to Inge-Bon Durant Sanitarium where doctors reported his condition improving from the previous night.
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Alabama Dry Docks and Shipbuilding Company
van Martin
Martin
Inge-Bondurant Sanitarium
Vinegar Bend
Ala
U-Socialists Now Berne Submarine Term Shift
June 27 report from Berne notes the letter U once signified submarines is now used to label Germany's Independent Social Democrats as U Socialists.
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Berne
Germany
Terrific electrical display as storm roars over Mobile
A northeast wind drove a severe electrical storm into Mobile at 7 45 pm on Wednesday. Torrential rain and vivid lightning caused power outages and telegraph and streetcar disruptions. One farmer eight miles west of town survived a lightning strike after being knocked unconscious and burned. The storm followed a heat wave, with speeds near 60 mph at the peak.
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Der
Dauphin
Claiborne
Laurence Pierce
Moffatt Road
Here
Pierce
Bolt
Dauphin Island Run Resumes Service From Cedar Point
Federal Manager R W Taylor of the Mobile and Ohio lines says service on the Cedar Point line linking to Dauphin Island will resume in a few days with a schedule. The first train departs Dauphin Island terminal at 9 15 Friday morning and on Sundays at 9 o'clock.
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R. W. Taylor
Mobile and
Ohio
Cedar Point
Dauphin Island
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Britain
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N. Royal ST
Essen
Southern Bell Telephone
Bay Shore
H. E. Jones, JR
Utes
B. F. Keith Vaudeval
Alice Degarmo Equilibrist
MR. Inquisitive
Earl Cavanaugh
Company of Seven People
GREEN
Parker
Frank Marktey Banjo Fiend
Wilson Galjs
Alabama
Tmaent
Gesinke
Alamo War Savings
Secretary of the United States
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