Equalizers Begin Probe of Water Front Property
Mobile county board of equalization starts a 30 day special session to reassess property from Monroe to Beauregard along Front and Royal streets. Officials plan a building to building investigation of 100 feet east to west with 3,200 complaints heard from over 16,000 assessments. Relief urged by property owners in the district.
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Mobile County
Equalization
Royal Street
Front Street
Monroe
Beaured Street
Property sales listed in late disposition cases
Numerous parcels and properties priced from 50 to 4 800 dollars are recorded as taken up or reduced in late disposition. Listings include parcels in Gordon and Convent Heights, several lots on Jefferson and Virginia streets, and multiple tracts across townships and ranges with varied values and owners such as W Brannock E F Conlon and Mrs Annette Kennedy.
Woman Given Two Days
Philadelphia woman recalls a four year struggle with chronic female trouble and crippling cramps. After seeing an advertisement for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she sent her husband to buy a bottle, noting a physician warned only two days remained to decide before an operation.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Philadelphia
Iris
Mrs. M
Aerial Activity Over Somme Front Reported
On the Somme front Allied aviators engaged in heavy action with 33 aerial encounters noted. A German aircraft was seen in flames after an attack by two Nieuport planes, and fourteen more German machines were damaged or forced to land within their lines. The report mentions capturing 100 prisoners including three officers.
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Somme Front
Nieuport
Italians Defeat Austrians in Astico Valley Engagements
Rome reports a severe Austrian defeat in Monday fighting in the Astico valley. Attacks on Italian lines at Monte Seluggio Castellatto and Monte Cimone were repulsed with extremely heavy losses for the Austrians.
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Rome
Astico Valley
War Office
Monte Seluggio
Castellatto
Monte Cimone
Berlin admits loss of trenches to French near Somme
Berlin reports French troops penetrated to our demolished trenches along the Maricourt Clery road near the Somme. The German army says a hill was captured northeast of Fort Souville near Verdun, while Russian assaults on the Stokhod sector failed. British forces push east of Pozieres in the Somme region.
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Berlin
London
Maricourt
Clery
Somme
Fort Souville
Verdun
Stokhod
Pozieres
Property Reassessments and Sales Listings for Several Parcels
The notice lists several parcels with revised bid amounts and descriptions. Reed avenue lot 167 feet north of West Hamilton, price reduced from 2000 to 1900. Carrie Martin improvements and land on Springhill avenue north side bounded by Centre street, tied to Barret and Antes properties. Light and Railroad Company, Minnie L. Reynolds, lot No. 6 in section 2 township 6 south range 1 west, price drop from 1800 to 1700, portion of lot No. 5 same section and range from 600 to 240. W. H. Reynolds, south half of lot 7 Leland tract, listed at 450.
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Fry
L. C. Fry
Bernoudy
Franklin
Eslava
Three-Mile Creek
Mobile
Ohio
Toulmin Spring
Orange Grove
Wilkinson
Georgia
Washington Avenue
R. W
Ogburn
Section
C. Lawrence Lavretta
Royal
C. M. Best
Towbede
Leah
Schimpf
Shepard
R. R. Tisdale
Lexmington Heights
Sherman White
Wolfe Heights
Louis Lowenstein
Ernest E. Crum
W. H. Reynolds
Leland
Deutschland U-boat Seen Heading Toward Newport News
U-boat Deutschland, guarded by tug Timmins and escorted by Coast Guard Wissahickon and police, was seen leaving Baltimore for Germany with Captain Paul Koenig claiming safe homeward passage. It was reported to reach Newport News around 8 to 9 am as it proceeds down the Patapsco. Annapolis radar confirmed the craft at 12 miles per hour and 30 miles south.
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Annapolis
Here
Timmins
Alabama Oyster Commission Salary Claim to Be Considered
The Alabama state claims commission will consider a four thousand dollar salary and expense claim by the former state oyster commission. The legislature appropriated the funds, but the commission questions the legality of the charges. John Craft of Mobile, president of the commission, is present.
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Montgomery
Ala
State Claims Commission
State Oyster Commission
Ie Commission
John Craft
Mobile
Deutschland Leaves Baltimore Amid Friendly Sentiment
Captain Koenig and 27 crew depart Baltimore as crowds cheer. He praises American courtesy at customs and says eight Entente warships lie beyond the three mile limit, forcing a risky passage between them to reach sea. A bouquet waits on the conning tower as the Deutschland slips away.
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Koenig
Baltimore
America
Guy Steele
Germany
Fatherland
Gas buoy to mark Mobile Bay entrance lighted every ten seconds
A new gas buoy with a white light flashing every ten seconds will be placed at the entrance of Mobile Bay by the lighthouse service before the tenth of the month. The buoy, funded mainly by Mobile bar and bay pilots, will be the first of its kind along this Gulf coast, located at latitude 30 47 00 N and longitude 88 02 48 W. Inspector B B Dorry of the eighth lighthouse district will visit Mobile to discuss channel light and buoy reconstructions with the Bar and Bay Pilots Association and will inspect Mobile River with several pilots.
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Mobile Bay
Mobile Bar and Bay
Gulf Coast
B. B. Dorry
B. B. Dorry, Eighth Lighthouse District
Mobile
Bar and Bay Pilots Association
Dorry
Mobile River
Bremen Sister Ship Bremen May Arrive At Baltimore Soon
No word has been heard from the Bremen since it left Bremerhaven. Paul G. L. Hilken of the Eastern Forward Company says the Bremen may reach Baltimore any time after tomorrow. He notes preparations at the Locust Point pier for another submarine and that cargo is stored in major Atlantic ports. The Deutsch Ozean Reederei plans a line of submarine merchantmen between Germany and America with ships named America and Baltimore.
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Bremen
Deutschland
Bremerhaven
Paul G. L. Hilken
Eastern Forward Company
Hilken
Baltimore
Locust Point
Prince in Norfolk Says He Has No Ties to Deutschland Voyage
Prince von Hatzfeld, adviser to the German embassy in Washington, arrived in Norfolk for a conference with local German government counsel on the Appam cases. He told a reporter he was not connected with the Deutschland submarine's sailing from Baltimore.
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Prince
Norfolk
Prince von Hatzfeld
Washington
Appam
Baltimore
Question Sparks Talk of Stop at Newport News
A brief exchange raises uncertainty about whether she will halt at Newport News. The reply is guarded, saying only I do not know and I see.
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Newport News
Hearing Delay In Murder Case Near Wheelerville
William McDuffy and John Mc Alarny were arraigned in the inferior criminal court on July 1 for the killing of Cornelius Johnson near Wheelerville. The hearing was postponed to August 10 due to the absence of the solicitor in another court. Sam Johnson was fined ten dollars or ten days in jail for assault and battery. Jerry Sims forfeited his bond after failing to appear for gaming. Martha and Benjamin Asperjury were reset for August 6 and Sherman Burden for August 7 for doing business without a license.
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William McDuffy
John McAlarny
Cornelius Johnson
Wheelerville
Sam Johnson
Jerry Sims
Martha
Benjamin
Sherman Burden
German claim to Appam persists after court ruling
Prince Hatzfeld stated Germany will continue to fight for the Appam possession, despite a lower court ruling against them. Lieutenant Berg and his prize crew had brought the vessel to Hampton Roads, reflecting ongoing postwar tensions.
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Prince Hatzfeld
Germany
Berg
Hampton Roads
Two Aeroplanes Fly Over Chesapeake Bay Near Newport News
Two aircraft were seen over lower Chesapeake Bay and Hampton Roads shortly after daybreak. They did not belong to the Atlantic coast aeronautical station. It is unclear if they came from the North Carolina or allied cruisers patrolling off the Virginia Capes. The planes moved over the water watching for the German merchant submarine Deutschland.
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Newport News
Chesapeake Bay
Hampton Roads
Atlantic Coast Aeronautical Station
North Carolina
Virginia Capes
Mysterious Foreign Vessel Sighted Off Virginia Capes
Newport News passengers arriving from New York report seeing a lone foreign warship near the Virginia capes. A peculiar low object with two masts lay nearby, resembling a submarine or two buoy-like structures with masts, sparking speculation about its purpose and whether it carried nets or floaters.
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Newport News
New York
Virginia Capes
Belmont Leads Campaign Fund Drive Near Half Million
A Washington report says a campaign fund over 500000 is being collected under the direction of Mrs. C H P Belmont of New York. The announcement came from headquarters here.
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Washington
C. H. P. Belmont
New York
Narrow channel with strict three mile limit
A brief note highlights a three mile limit in a very narrow channel. The restriction is emphasized as crucial for navigation and safety in this constrained waterway.
Deutschland Not Sighted At Virginia Capes In Return Voyage
Old Point Va Aug 2 Germany submarine Deutschland had not been sighted at the Virginia capes or Hampton Roads eighteen hours after leaving Baltimore on her return voyage to Germany and no word had come since 6 30 this morning when she was reported off Tangier Sound about 60 miles up Chesapeake Bay. Passengers on an incoming steamer said only one allied warship was on guard off the capes prompting speculation the Deutschland would be forced to dodge the blockade on the dash to sea.
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Old Point
Baltimore
Germany
Virginia Capes
Hampton Roads
Tangier Sound
Chesapeake Bay
Capes
Marriage licenses issued by probate court Wednesday
The probate court issued licenses on Wednesday to White George A. Davis and Maggie Smith, Joe Norton and Geraldine Pritchard.
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Probate
White
George A. Davis
Maggie Smith
Joe 8. Norton
Geraldine Pritchard
Rail workers in East favor strike on 225 railroads
Aug 2 New York 000 of 400000 ballots counted. Eastern members show strong support for a general strike across four railway brotherhoods on 225 lines. South reports highest approval with engineers 96% trainmen 98% firemen 91% conductors 94% with Southern unions closely backing the move.
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New York
Eastern Southern
Western
Suthwestern
Southern Association of Trainmen
Orders of Railway Workers of the
South
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