Travelers Aid by Y W C A Sets Aid at Mobile Trains
Miss Adeline Peeples heads the YWCA travelers' aid in Mobile meeting every incoming train. Desks at Gulf Terminal and L and N stations offer help to distressed young women, with hundreds aided monthly. Stories include a Pensacola mother and children helped to food and shelter and later employment.
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Mobile
Young Women's Christian Association
Gulf Terminal
Louisville & Nashville
Adeline Peeples
Miss Peeples
Louisville & Nashville Road
America
Union Station
Mobile & Ohio
Salvation Army
Peeples
Dr King's New Life Pills and Simplex Sanitary Container Ad
An old advertisement touts Dr King s New Life Pills to relieve headaches indigestion and biliousness with promises of purified blood vigor and guaranteed effectiveness. Also promoted is the 3 Simplex Sanitary Container as a water closet deodorizer and disinfectant.
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Dr. King
van Ant
Erp Drug Corp
Wilson to Lecture on Fire Hazard Protection
Mr. W. K. P. Wilson will lecture on Protection of Property and Life From the Hazards of Fire under the Club for the Study of Municipal Sociology Monday night at Harte auditorium. He argues avoidable property loss and life risk cause hardship and higher insurance, preventable by intelligent care and proper building construction.
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W. K. P. Wilson
Club For
Harte
Wilson
South American steamer line a big factor in Mobile trade
The Munson South American line operating from Mobile has boosted exports to Montevideo and Buenos Aires, with 1.36 million dollars in goods since September. Ten sailings have occurred, two a month now, and New Orleans shipments dominate. The Farnham and Katherina carries rice, cotton seed oil, lumber, resin, and autos, with buyers in Argentina and Uruguay praising Mobile’s port service.
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Mobile
United States
Munson Steamship Company
New Orleans
Louisiana
Mobile Customs Office
Mobile and
Ohio
Adams Street
Katherina
Montevideo
Buenos Aires
Crescent City
Louisvile and Nashville
J. S. Taylor
E. L. Davison
Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company
Farnham
Sic
Foreign Department
Foreign Freight Department
Rosario
Taylor
Freckles Ointment Promises Clear Complexion
A newspaper advertisement touts an ethine double strength prescription to remove freckles. It claims nightly applications by Van Antwerp Drug Co. will fade or erase freckles, with a money back guarantee if ineffective.
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van Antwerp Drug Co
Weather Trends Quietly Shrink Army Enlistments
The Mobile recruiting office reports spring weather reduces enlistment numbers. In March only five applicants, two accepted, while winter brought higher activity with seven applications and two acceptances. New seven year term regulations and reserve options shape the pool of hopefuls. Corporal John H. Black notes hardships don’t alone drive enlistment and cites odd cases among applicants.
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Unitedates Army
Mobile
War Department
John Maguire
Item
Army
Maguire
Army Reserves
Army Reserve
Secretary of War
John H. Black
Corporal Black
Conditions on M. and C Remain Unchanged
Vice President and General Manager R V Taylor of the Mobile and Ohio will return to Mobile Monday night from St Louis after a ten day absence via the Iron Mountain and Frisco route to Memphis and Tupelo. He is accompanied by Superintendent of Transportation E C Rendell. Conditions on the Mobile and Ohio in the flooded section have not improved and trains run only to Union City Tennessee. Through passengers to St Louis and freight are routed around by Memphis.
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R. V. Taylor
Mobile and Ohio
Mobile
St. Louis
Iron Mountain
Frisco
Memphis
Tenn
Tupelo
E. C. Rendell
Union City
Army warns recruits not a reformatory
A corporal voices the view that the army is not a reformatory for wild or troublesome men. He cites military prisons at Fort Leavenworth and Alcatraz, noting terms of a year or more. He warns against turning convicts into soldiers and mentions posters inviting enlistments at the local office.
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Corporal Black
Army
Fort Leavenworth
Kansas
Alvatrizsland
San Francisco Bay
Fines Set in Inferior Court for Vagrancy and Assault
Joe Green and Thomas Fairney were fined one dollar or ten days hard labor for vagrancy due to gambling. Henry Smith faced a sixty one dollar fine or thirty days for assault and battery on Will Potts. Curtis Overstreet, after a Thursday fight with Gertrude McNeale, was fined one hundred one dollars or fifty days hard labor. he pleaded guilty to the charge.
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Joe Green
Thomas Fairney
Henry Smith
Will Potts
Curtis Overstreet
Gertrude McNeale
Dennis Lynch
Free Map Offer For New York City Visitors
A promotional notice invites readers planning a trip to New York City to request a free map. Send your address to Hotel Southern located at 203 West 54th Street in New York City to obtain the brochure.
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New York City
Sisters Under Arrest Over Abusive Language
Rosa Powell and Minnie Powell sisters were arrested Saturday by Deputy Hugh Gillis on the charge of abusive language after a fight at the Mobile Cotton Will. The officer said they used very foul language during the altercation.
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Rosa Powell
Minnie Powell
Hugh Gillis
Mobile
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Miss Peoples
South American Steamer Line
Lord Roberts
South America
Pensacola
Buenos Ayres
Eastlands
Tlidia
Ormley
Petginth Bbe
Hoyle Bank
Saitek
Orie Hae
Burbobank Tee
Luchasae
Smithson
Notre Dame Lady’s
Harry
Sloan
Gro, Buchanan
Welch
Okla
R. D. Burcornr
Maysville
J. Mperwoon
Warren Ave
Chicago
Ill
Earl S. Sloan
Boston, Mass
Vannes
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