Mobile Oil Venture Forms In Mobile County
The Alabama Gulf Oil and Gas Company Inc with $20 000 capital filed incorporation papers in Mobile County probate court to bore for oil near Cottage Hill Bascombe tract and other areas. Incorporators include John W McAlpine C D Coolen W H Allen and Eva Mary Miller. An Orangeburg Highlands Company also filed papers to operate in farming cattle citrus fruits pecans walnuts and fruit preserves with $30 000 capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama Gulf Oi! and Gas Company, Inc
Cottage Hill
Bascombe Tract
Mobile County
John W. McAlpine
C. D. Coolen
W. H. Allen
Eva Mary Miller
Orangeburg Highlands Company
Hammel Sues Johns-Manville for 10000 Over Defective Roofing
The L. Hammel Dry Goods Co. filed suit in the law and equity court against H. W. Johns-Manville Co. for 10000 alleging breach of contract from a September 27, 1913 deal to supply asbestos roofing and provide ten years of maintenance and waterproofing. The complaint claims the roofing was defective and the leaks damaged stock, seeking the stated amount.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. Hammel Dry Goods Company, Inc
Law and Equity
H.W. Johns-Manville Company
Northerners Enjoy Day's Fishing and Surf Bathing
A five man party from Hoopeston Illinois and nearby states fished and surf bathed at Dauphin Island during a Mobile county farm and orchard lands inspection trip. The group included F D Moody G B Ziegler Jasper Brough Earl Householder and F D Moody.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Bruce . Hoover
Dauphin Island
Messrs
F. D. Moody
G. B. Ziegler
Jasper Brough
Hoopeston, Il
Earl Householder
Pis. Il
Canaharie
N.Y
Citizen Bluejackets of West Leave Home Sunday
Chicago dispatch reports 151 men from Chicago and the Midwest enrolled for the civilian naval training cruise on the Louisiana. Volunteers will depart by special train next Sunday over the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad to embark on the battleship at Norfolk, with all recruits aboard by noon August 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Chicago
Middle Western
Louisiana
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Norfolk
New York
Philadelphia
Militant suffragist Miss Kitty Marion found in New York
English suffragette Miss Kitty Marion, long a militant member of the Women’s Political Union, is found working as a dishwasher in a New York rooming house after coming from London at the war’s start. She endured repeated imprisonments in Holloway jail for her political actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kitty Marion
Cocae Aes
New York
Marion
London
Women’s Political Union
Holloway
England
German Appeal Filed Over Appam Prize Case
Counsel for the German government filed a petition to appeal the Appam prize case to the Supreme Court after Judge Waddill awarded the vessel to the former British owners. A supersedeas bond of 2,000,000 was posted by Lieut. Hans Berge and L. M. von Schilling, divided among five bonding firms, with a 20,000 premium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Norfolk
Appam
Waddill
United States District Court
Supreme Court
Hans Berge
American Surety Company
Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland
Maryland Casualty Company
United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company
National Security Company
Corporations Must Add Franchise to Assessment
In Alabama the assessed value of bank stock shares is determined by adding corporate franchise value to tangible property, then deducting taxable assets. Sixty percent of the resulting total is the assessed value of the stock, per an opinion to the state board of equalization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
State Board of Equalization
Lawrence E. Brown
Brown
Heat-Driven Plague Surge Hits New York City
Health department bulletin reports 63 infantile paralysis deaths and 1383 new cases in 24 hours in the greater city. Brooklyn records 89 new cases while citywide toll rises sharply amid a heat and humidity wave fueling the epidemic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Health Department
Brooklyn
Associated Press
British Forces Close on Turkish Rear Guard Near Katia
British troops pursuing the Turkish force defeated last week at Romani have caught the Turkish rear guard six miles east of Katia, about 30 miles east of the Suez Canal. Clean up of the Romani battlefield continues, with 200 enemy dead buried from the August 4 counterattack and minimal damage from a hazardous aircraft incident over Port Said and Suez.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
London
Romani
Katia
Suez Canal
Egypt
Port Said
Suez
General Danglis Removed as Greek King's Aide
General Panyotis Danglis once war minister and chief of staff during the first Balkan War is ousted from royal aide de camp by King Constantine. He previously led war ministry in Venizelos 1915 and was named head of a Venizelos loyalist league to counter anti Venizelos groups among demobilized reservists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Athens
London
Panyotis Danglis
Constantine
Danglis
Grand Circuit Opens at Brunot's Island Today
The Grand Circuit race meeting opened at Brunot's Island in the afternoon after yesterday’s rain. The William stake for 2:07 pacers topped the card, with the Matron and the Northrop stakes and the 2:03 class trot included. The track was in excellent condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Brunot’s Island
Cambridge Mathematician Reframes War Costs With Adam Thought
A Cambridge mathematician uses a vivid analogy to explain World War costs. He imagines Adam alive from creation to now and spending 590 sovereigns every hour on the ocean, noting the total would not match the nation’s current expenditure in the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
London
Ous
Cambridge
Adam
Grove's The Old Standard General Tonic Reference
An excerpt promotes Grove's The Old Standard as a reliable general tonic. The text emphasizes its value and equivalence to other medicines, suggesting broad usefulness for health and vitality.
Birmingham Street Railway seeks 25 cent freight minimum
Hugh Morrow for Birmingham Railway Light and Power Co asked the Alabama Public Service Commission to allow a 25 cent minimum on package shipments between Birmingham points to match steam railroads and express firms. Opponent J T Slatter argued a 60 percent rise is excessive. commission took the matter under advisement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Hugh Morrow
Birmingham Railway,Light and Power Company
Alabama Public Service Commission
Birmingham
Commission
Mystery U boats vanish off Maine coast
Portland Maine August 8 two vessels sighted off Machias near Cross Island believed by the coast guard to be submarines vanished with no further trace reported early today. One vessel thought to be the German merchant submarine Bremen drew wide attention and triggered a coastwide watch along Maine and Massachusetts. Speed was estimated at ten to twelve knots.
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Portland
Coast Guard
Maine
Machias
Cross Island
Bay of Fundy
New Brunswick
Nova Scotia
Massachusetts
Oystermen Hope for Cessation of Floods
Fresh water lines extend far into the Gulf of Mexico between Mobile Bay and the Mississippi mouth per old gallers. Reef owners fear prolonged floods may harm oysters despite official notices that no damage has occurred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gulf of Mexico
Gulf
Mobile Bay
Mississippi
British and Russian Cement Ties With Persia
Teheran reports a tripartite accord among Great Britain Russia and Persia creating a diplomatic entente. Notes exchanged finalize negotiations on Persia's financial and military setup with a northern Persian brigade and southern contingents to be formed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Ppetrograd
Aug. S
London
Great Britain
Russia
Persia
President signs plague fund to fight paraly sis
President Wilson signed an act providing 85 000 dollars for the public health service to prevent disease and 50 000 dollars for additional assistant surgeons. The funds are to be used immediately in the campaign against the infantile paralysis epidemic. Assistant Surgeons Hurley and Laughlin have been ordered to join the New York staff combatting the scourge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Public Health Service
Wilson
Public Health Service Today
J. R. Hurley
J. R Laughlin
New Orleans
New York
Rice carload rates rise five cents per hundred
The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled a five cent per hundred pound increase in carload rates on clean rice from Texas Louisiana Arkansas and from New Orleans Gulfport and Memphis to nearly all western and old south points is justified. Proposals for rough rice and rice products were considered but not justified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Texas
Louisiana
Arkansas
New Orleans
Gulfport
Memphis
United
Far West
Interstate Commerce Commis
Maloney Heads to Alabama Meeting with Farm Agents
Mobile county farm demonstration agent George A. Maloney left early this morning for Auburn Alabama to attend a state meeting. He said the gathering is very important and will discuss matters that aim to improve farming across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George A. Maloney
Mobile County
Auburn
Ala
Maloney
Mobile Batere
Back to cottages aids lumber country growth
The Southern Lumberman notes a shift from apartments to cottages as urban housing saturates flats. Kansas City pilots small airy cottages for workers with 4 percent return, backed by the Star, aiming to improve health by moving workers to grassy yards and gardens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Lakes
Kansas City
City Board
United States
Movement could eliminate city slums and boost lumber demand
The piece argues that a strong movement would gradually remove urban slums and improve working class living conditions, increasing efficiency. It also predicts greater lumber use as a side effect, with mills forced to raise output to meet steady demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oery Nage
Underwood Wins Support for Gulf Coast Cattle Quarantine
Senator Oscar W. Underwood told the Mobile Chamber of Commerce that the gulf coast cattle quarantine issue remains active. He secured assurances from the Texas delegation in both houses to back cooperation next December aimed at removing discrimination against cattle imports from quarantine zones. Delegations plan to extend Texas export privileges to Alabama Mississippi and Louisiana as well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Oscar W. Underwood
Gulf Coast
Texas
Congress
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Costa Rica Ratifies Four Pan American Treaties
Costa Rica has ratified four Pan American treaties on pecuniary claims patents trade marks and copyrights. Advices to Secretary Mr Adoo as president of the international high commission say the treaties were signed by delegates at the fourth Pan American conference in 1910 and were ratified by the United States and endorsed at the high commission meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Costa Rica
Adoo
International High Commission
United States
Not Fighting Labor Unions Says Shonts
Theodore P. Shonts, president of the New York rates wage board, declares there are no differences between workers and management and that they are not fighting labor unions or the principles of organization, even as a strike threat looms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore P. Shonts
New York
Cit Shonts
Fraternal Lodge Meetings Across Mobile Area
Local fraternal and service organizations list upcoming meetings in Mobile area venues including Masons Odd Fellows Knights of Columbus K of P Woodmen and more with times ranging from 7:30 to 8:00 PM and locations at halls temples and council rooms.
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O. F
Mechanics’ Lodge
Whistler, Jr
Mobile Council
Dauphin
St. Emanuel
Fa of Mobile
Kian Sisters
K. of P. Knights of Pythias
Masonic Temple
Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators
Mobile
Central Trades Council
Brotherhood of Pensheeneers
Gulf City
Temperance Air
Woodmen Circle
Y. M
Alabama Lodge
State Bar Board
A.m
Knights of Columbus
Pepe
Negr two women sentenced on petit larceny charge
Sallie Lang a negro woman received thirty days in jail for petit larceny after stealing a ring from Mrs Emily Springer. Addison Adams a white man partially blind was ordered to post a one hundred dollar bond or spend ten days in the city jail on a dangerous and suspicious charge. Eugene Striber, a repeat offender, was sentenced to sixty days on a vagrancy charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sallie Lang
Gordon
Emily Springer
Addison Adams
Adams
Eugene Striber
Two Negroes Drown After River Incident in Mobile
Police reports from Monday night detail two laborers drowning in Mobile River during the day. Joe Ivory, a longshoreman aboard the Sabine, was knocked into the water by a swinging beam and drowned. his body recovered soon after. Charles Vandike, from Selma, slipped from Barge No 11 of Gulfport Transportation at Madison Street and did not reappear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Ivory
Sabine
Mallory Ling
Charles Vandike
Selma
Gulfport Transportation Comp
Madison Street
Austro Italian naval actions battle near Durazzo report
Vienna reports ships shelled Wolfetto military works and airship sheds. Austro Hungarian vessels returned unharmed. the Magnet gunboat was torpedoed on August 2, with two killed, seven missing, crew saved. Hostile airplanes pursued by Hungarian naval planes. one aircraft downed south of Durazzo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Wi Sayville
Aspern
Bronco
Havin
Magnet
Mobilian Dr. Gould Named Chief Surgeon in Panama
Dr. Gould of Mobilia has been appointed chief surgeon of a U S hospital in Panama. His Tulane University degree and years of rapid professional ascent are noted. He plans a four week vacation with his parents before returning to Panama likely in December. The hospital has a capacity of about 1,000 patients.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Gould
Mobilian
U.S. Hospital
Panama
Min
David
Chinen
Gania Seas
Tulane Uversity
New Orleans
Oie
New York City
Ceme
London
Parle
MOBILE COUNTY PICTURES TO BE SHOWN IN CHICAGO
Pictures from Mobile County will be displayed in Chicago at the Cook County fair as part of a state exhibit. The Alabama immigration and markets cabinet in Montgomery coordinated the display after the Chamber of Commerce forwarded photographs to Mr. Jones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile County
Chicago
Alabama
Cabinet of Commerce
Met Jones
Oni
Montgomery
Chamber of Commerce
Mr. Jones
Migraines and Headache Relief Through Periodic Remedies
The passage discusses migraine symptoms and periodical treatment spanning several weeks. It mentions using specific remedies at attack onset and dosing intervals to relieve pain and reduce recurrence, with emphasis on diet and preventive measures.
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Gulf Oil and Gas Co
Orangeburg Highlands Co
Johns - Manville
Hammel
Citizen Bluejackets OF West
Waters
White Rock Springs
Miss. Kitty Marion
Gen. Danglis
Brunots Island
Birmingham St. Car Company
Underwood
Theodore P~ Shonts
Negress
Hostie
Trian
Cogeest
Carolina
Tennessee
Southern Railway
Asheville
N. C
Waynesville
Lake Junaluska
Mt. Mitchell Sta
N C
Hendersonville
Black Mountain
Brevard, N. C
Monteagle
Tenn
Tate Springs
Tenn Lake
Toxaway
North Carolina
TF Casares
Sky
Sapphir
America
Willis Wilkinson
St. Francis Street
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