Enemy Aliens Put to Work in Birmingham Notice
Forty six Teutonic enemy aliens visited Birmingham in a bold display. They traveled by special car attached to an Alabama Great Southern train and departed for Lake Village Arkansas the next morning. During the war labor will replace destruction, with the group doing farm work at regular army pay while in custody. Government tests of airplane engines occur in a concrete building simulating 20 000 feet atmospheric conditions.
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Birmingham
Alabama Great Southern
Lake Village
Ark
Birmingham Age Herald
America's World Largest Fleet Soon to Sail 1920
Shipping Board head Hurley outlines a 25,000,000 dead weight ton merchant fleet. He expects 3,000,000 tons this year and 13,518,000 tons next year, with 2,101 vessels and a 14,715,000 tonnage under U S control. The program requires five billion dollars and aims to link the United States with the Americas and the Pacific to boost trade and uphold international probity.
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South Bend
Ind
America
Hurley
The
Shipping Board
Notre Dame University
United States
Pacific
Japan
Russia
China
Australia
Orient
Europe
Mr. Hurley
Schwab
Jeet Corporation
Great Britain
McAdoo
United States Shipping Board
Germany
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Tve
Ane
Suffrage Leader Here To Aid War Effort
Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst, former militant suffrage leader of England, has arrived in the country to plan a campaign urging women to aid in victory for democracy. If Germany wins the war, the women's cause will be lost, she declares.
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Emmeline Pankhurst
England
Germany
Radio Students At Main Avenue School Make Rapid Progress
Twenty six prospective soldiers are training in radio buzzer work at Main Avenue High School. Each student advances on his own pace until he can send 20 words a minute, then moves on to a special service branch or sends to other army radio schools. The class attracts draftees not yet called and those who passed physicals in Class 1. Demand for radio operators is high, with some trainees sent to army schools after reaching ten words per minute.
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Main Avenue High School
L. W. Vox
Main Avenue
Curtailment of coal for passenger car makers announced
Garfield Wastington June 11 The Fuel Administration announced a 25 percent of 1917 18 coal consumption limit for manufacturers of passenger automobiles for the year starting August 1 as part of a broad plan to curb non war industry fuel use. Officials said other industries may face similar orders with no public lists. A coordinating action by Fuel Administration Food Administration War Industries Board and Railroad Administration is expected. The plan aims to avert a winter coal shortage and may proceed without further agency action if needed.
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Wastington
D.C
The
Fuel Administration
Oan
Wilson
Fuel Administration the
Food Administration
Wat Industries Board
Railroad Administration
Stuel
War Industries Board
Conservation Note
Garfield
Yard wide voiles on sale in varied prints and widths
Colored voiles in 32 to 44 inch widths offered in plaids stripes and Jacquard figures. Regular 1 quality at 69 cents yard 40 inch varieties handsome 75 cent grade at 59 cents yard and special 59 cents options. Fast colors include satin striped effects and summer dress friendly sheer options.
Damask Table Linens Offered In Sixteen by Sixteen Size
An advertisement notes sixteen by sixteen inch cotton damask napkins neatly hemmed and attractive. Priced at 79 cents per dozen, regular value one dollar, and located on the second floor.
Demand for coal and war essentials dominates today’s brief
Dr Garfield warned that 80 million tons meet actual demands with 20 million more for war prep, and that production cannot cover the rise. He urged saving 60 million tons of coal to avert disaster, stating necessities of war must be supplied and the deficit will affect nonwar industries. The San Antonio Light notes Senator Carlos Bee’s candidacy for Democratic Congressional nomination on July 27, 1918.
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Garfield
I Laabad
San Antonio
Carlos Bee
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Patent Colt
Miases
Caskiren, Infanta
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Milwaukee Journal
Main Avenue School
Wolfson’s Golden
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Madrases
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New York City
Jack
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