Pinkie Robinson Bonds For Five Days After Lawn Scheme
Pinkie Robinson, described as a dusky belle, was placed on good behavior bond for five days after court found her attempting to sell tickets at a lawn gathering. Patrolman Burch detained her following a confrontation on Davis Avenue. Rosa Lee Harrison received a $10 prize for drunken behavior. Frank Atkinson paid a $35 fine after a night joy ride with an unnamed companion and drunken driving. D. H. Pritchard’s gaming and prohibition case was continued to August 6. Other cases moved to August dates.
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Pinkie Robinson
Pinkie
Edington
Davis Avenue
Burch
Castle Crenshaw
Jedge
Nevah
Rosa Lee Harrison
Joe Brown
Rosa Leé
Frank Atkinson
Pierce
Frank
D. H. Pritchard
Ben White
Carrie James
Dave Abrams
Daisy Newbern
Willia Harris
Orleans Man Chooses Poison Over Court On Wife’s Charges
New Orleans August 4. Michael Dalmeta a tinsmith drank carbolic acid in the yard of 2504 Esplanade avenue where he worked. He died before help arrived. Dalmeta had quarrelled with his wife who had filed charges against him and he had been subpoenaed to appear in court Tuesday. The Devereaux family heard his screams and found him convulsing beside an empty bottle.
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New Orleans
Michael Dalmeto
Joseph P. Devereaux
Esplanade Avenue
Dalmeta
R. G. Holzer
Devereaux
Uncle Wiggily Saves Aunt Flippity Flop From Drowning
In this Uncle Wiggily tale from 1915, Aunt Flippity Flop, afflicted with rheumatism, balks at a salty duck pond plan to cure her. Jimmie Wibblewobble and Dr Possum devise a way to keep her eyes covered to lead her in, a wind gust uncaps her cap, she panics and nearly drowns, but Uncle Wiggily rescues her and cures the rheumatism.
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Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy
Uncle Wiggily
Jimmie
Flippity
Flippity-Fiop
Jimmie Wibblewobble
Aunt Flippity-Flop
Dr. Possum
Flippity- Flop
Flippit
Aunt Flippity- Flop
Aunt Flippity
Duck
Aunt Flipity
Buck
Aunt Pflippity- Flop
Duckpond
Whistler School Improvement Association to Meet
Whistler Alabama residents prepared for a 3:30 p m meeting at the president Mrs Julius C Wicke residence to discuss important school improvement matters. Local civic readers invited to attend the session.
Local notes in Fairhope and region update
Fairhope brief covers Western trip returns by Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Coleman and activities at Bayside Pavilion for Father Nid, with church services by Rev. Howard Walker and Rev. S. O. Ray. Local weather reports show helpful showers, thriving crops, and a social outing a Sea Cliff bacon fry. New Honduras sugar mill at Monte Cristo begins operations with about a million dollars iron capital.
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Fairhope
Ala
C. H. Coleman
California
Frazier
Marion College
Marion
the Gables
de Ward
Spring Hill College
Foley
Spring Hill
Bayside Pavilion
Father Nid
Organic
Howard Walker
The
Baptist Church
Daphne
Ray
Magnolia Beach
Sea Cliff
Minerva
Ferris Reijs
Helen Call
Catherine
Hattie Mae Johnson
Hazel Pilchér
Sadie McGehee
Irma Aes
Florence
Elsie Lowell
Marjory McGehee
Ford Patterson
Jesse Stimpson
Walter Overton
Hugh Lowell
Kelier
Joe Quint
Walter Foster
Rockwell
Joe Alexander
Horace Mallady
Harold Russell
Honduras
Corboda
Monte Cristo
Ceiba
Hond
Old Biloxian Ends Life Over Poverty and Worries
Bal thazar Alphonse Bruchez, 78, killed himself after plans to support family abroad failed. He left hospital, walked to railroad tracks, and was struck by a train in Biloxi. Coroner’s jury ruled suicide. he had sent most of his earnings to relatives in Lausanne. Also noted: Mrs. Sarah Incham, 84, died in Biloxi. 500 colored Odd Fellows hold a grand lodge in Biloxi.
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Biloxi
Miss
Balthazar Alphonse Bruchez
Laussanne
Switzerland
Brucher
Charles Roche
Army of
France
Bruchéz
Querers Avenue
Charity Hospital
Justice of the Peace
J. W. Faris
Sarah Incham
New York State
Odd Fellows
Crichton Notes and Visiting Extend Through August
Crichton Alabama report notes Mrs John A Green and two children John Jr and Mary Catherine returning from a ten day visit to her father Jerome Krebs and sister Miss Phillippa in Pascagoula Miss They were joined by niece Hilda Kre who will stay a few weeks Therald Crn guest of Judd Roberts on Month day en route from Selma carrying apples described as finest seen in Alabama Mr and Mrs C L Murphy and daughter Alma Louise visited the parents Sunday
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Whistler
Peterson's Park
J. Kelly
Gladys Kelly
Janie Smith
Mobile
Moving Pictures
Dawes
Selma
Alabama
C. L. Murphy
Alma
Louise
Lumber Mills Resume Operations Across Several States
After months of closure McClure Lumber Company restarts with strong orders mainly for export. Salco Lumber Company in Salco Alabama and Bluff Springs mill of National Timber Company in this city also run at full schedule. The Bluff Springs plant is cutting oak timbers.
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McClure Lumber Company
Salco Lumber Company
Salco
Ala
Bluff Springs
Fla
National Timber Company
Merchants oppose tax on solvent credits in revenue bill
A Mobile County Tax Reform League letter to Rep W E P Wilson urges against taxing solvent credits, arguing valuation disputes, unfair loopholes, and discrimination against Alabama merchants. The Mobile Chamber of Commerce also adopts a resolution urging the senate committee to remove solvent credits from the general revenue bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leon Schwarz
Mobile County Tax Reform League
Mobile
Alabama
Montgomery
Chamber of Commerce
Senate Committee
American Consul McConnico Visits Mobile on Return Home
Andrew J. McConnico American consul for Trinidad Grenada and Tobago passed through Mobile on a two months leave en route to Vaiden Mississippi. He reports a West Indian boom with cocoa and sugar prices up about fifty percent since before the war. The former Mississippi resident has spent seven years in consular service two in Trinidad and greatly enjoys the West Indies while looking forward to visiting home.
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Andrew J. McConnico
Trinidad
Grenada
Tobago
Mobile
Vaiden
Miss
West Indie Islands
Mr. McConnico
West Indies
Two Bankruptcies Filed in Mobile Wage-Earner Cases
Sallee Polk of Mobile filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in the U S district court showing liabilities of 121 with no assets. John Pratts, also a wage earner, filed for bankruptcy with 260 liabilities and no assets. Both petitions were adjudicated bankrupt and referred to Referee R T Ervin for hearing on August 17.
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Sallee Polk
Mobile
United States District Court
John Pratts
R. T. Ervin
Haig Prichard in Trouble Over Prohibition Violations
D Haig Prichard of Mobile faces charges of operating a gaming table and selling liquor in violation of the prohibition law. Detectives arrested him on Royal Street near Dauphin. The Southern hotel is alleged as the gambling site. Prichard posted $1500 bond and awaits arraignment. previous December raid at 6 South Conception Street led to two hung juries. Supernumerary officer J R Benson was dismissed after reportedly losing $20 from his pay. The Southern hotel raid found no liquor.
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D. Haig Prichard
Newburn and
Harris
Royal Street
Dauphin
F. W. Crenshaw
Prichard
Southern Hotel
J. R. Benson
Benson
Mobile
Birmingham
Southern
South Conception Street
Tennessee Democrats to consider primary for U S senator
The Democratic state committee in Nashville meets to decide on calling a primary to nominate a successor to Senator Luke Lea whose term ends in 1917. Predictions point to a late November vote with supervision and date as possible issues. If held, the winner becomes Tennessee’s first senator chosen since the constitutional amendment.
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Nashville
Tenn
Democratic State Committee
United States
Luke Lea
Lea
Tennessee
Franklin Personalities and Local Farm Notes
Alan Felix McConnelly of Mobile is visiting Franklin this week. Jack H. McKinley and W. L. Norwood left for Atmore Tuesday. Farmers are busy with early harvests and report good yields. Several Corn Club boys departed for Auburn on Monday.
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Franklin
Alan Felix McConnelly
Mobile
Jack H. McKinley
W. L. Norwood
Atmore
Corn Club
Auburn
Reynalds touts Alabama growth via irrigation and citrus
Reynolds cites West and California as models for Alabama development. He urges Gulf Coast farmers to apply irrigation to protect crops during rainy seasons, boosting citrus and overall prosperity. After six weeks touring the West he reports optimism and cites Rotary and the Talking Machine Association meetings in San Francisco.
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Gulf Coast Country
W. 7
Reynalds
California
Algom
Reynolds
West
South
Gulf Coast
San Francisco
Rotary
Committee Plans Funds to Maintain Bienville Square Concerts
The chamber committee led by L W. proposes about 85 to 100 dollars to resume twice weekly concerts at Bienville Square in a drive led by Ed Metzger and John. They canvass business leaders Tuesday and Thursday. Drago's Band played last night despite threatening weather.
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Bienville Square
L. W
Chamber of Dec Mn
Age
Ed Metzger
John
Drago
American says Villa ordered hit to cover fatal Mexico crash
Willam Jery testified in Chicago that General Villa directed him to arrange the accident and to execute the deed after a deadly plane crash in Mexico. He claimed Villa ordered the shooting, and that guards aided the escape as Jery returned to Texas Puso.
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Gen. Villa
Chicago
Willam Jery
Mexico
Villa
Puso
Texas
Center of Attack Shifts to Russian North Front
London dispatch notes shift in German summer offensives as news from Petrograd indicates the center of gravity on the eastern front has moved to the Dvina front. Attacks on Prussia fade while other movements stall. Warsaw’s importance diminishes amid the new northern focus.
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Russian North Front
London
In Post
Petrograd
Ehgen
Prussia
Warsaw
Sweet Dreams Drug Remedy Praised by Banker
A local drug store product, Sweet Dreams, is extolled by a prominent banker as a godsend for troublesome mosquitoes. The endorsement sways many readers, presenting Dreams as the top mosquito remedy with large bottles advertised at 16 cents.
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Tig
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