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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1916
Page
9
In Verdun a young lieutenant escaped capture after his balloon was cut loose. With a jammed hydrogen control he jumped at 11 000 feet and opened a parachute, landing 300 yards from the German line. He asked his name not be published to spare his mother a shock.
Record of cotton bales by rail lines including Weil Bros 14 bales, L and N 3 bales, Bashinsky 40 transit 623 total 666, exports compressed 290, Southern Railway 153, M and C R R export 1338 compressed.
War World Wide is authorized by both German and Allied staffs and will be shown at the Columbia on Sunday. The New York Sun produced four part motion pictures from the front with up to the minute scenes of the great war. Admission is five cents.
London plans mark April 28 as the central date with services in churches nationwide and a Westminster Abbey service. May 2 features a gala Julius Caesar at Drury Lane Theater and a Shakespeare Day in schools. North of London, memorials, lectures, exhibitions, and gardens mark the national remembrance.
Dr. Bush Dupree leaves for Memphis to visit relatives including brother Will Dupree. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Watson of Georgia are visiting Mobile. Mrs. Jex Luce hosts Mrs. Walter White of Gulfport. Miss Rosalie Higgins from Montgomery visits Emily Warley en route home from New Orleans.
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