Alabama Farmers Urged to Hold Cotton for Market Fix
Captain R F Kolb Alabama agriculture commissioner urges farmers to store cotton in seed and not sell until a market basis is fixed. War-driven prices soften, but help from bankers and national relief plans may aid. Cotton prospects remain good though boll weevil damage grows with rain.
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Ala
Alabama
R. F. Kolb
Commissioner of Agriculture
Kolb
South
Washington
Princess Juliana Appears as Dutch Troops March
In The Hague on August 8, Queen Wilhelmina’s daughter Princess Juliana was displayed to Dutch regiments passing the palace. The troops were marching toward German forces that have invaded the Netherlands while the queen sang the national anthem from the balcony.
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Wilhelmina
Juliana
Alabama Farmers Fight Weevil and Push Diversified Crops
The state reports persistent resistance to the boll weevil with damage estimates in some counties as low as five percent and others up to twenty five. Auburn summer school and Corn Club participation showcase progress as silo building cattle dipping vats and stock raising gain prominence. Demonstrations in canning and turning gardens into new Southern value prompt Alabama farmers to diversify beyond cotton amid national and European wartime pressures.
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Alabama
Auburn
Corn Club
South
Union
Rare Old Whiskey Found During Nashville Construction
In Nashville Indiana workers digging for a Farmers Bank foundation found a demijohn with two gallons of whiskey. A note inside dated 1833 claimed Banner C. Brummett placed the stake that began Brown County, and the tale recalls his early county role and a fatal pony accident years later.
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Ind
Farmers’ Bank
Banner C. Brummett
Brown County
Brummett
Man Arrested For Throwing Trash In Street In Prichard
James Edwards a Black driver living in Prichard Alabama was arrested by Officer F E Helton and charged with throwing trash and refuse into the street and was docketed at police headquarters to be arraigned in the recorder s court Mop-
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James Edwards
Prichard
Ala
F. E. Helton
Recorder’s Court
Good Roads Era Predicted for Alabama by Gorman
Alabama is entering a landmark good roads era, says J T Gorman. He cites state aid growth from 1904 to 1914 and urges continued funding, state supervision, and bond measures to build a statewide system with counties maintaining roads.
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England
Asia
Africa
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Mediterranean Sea
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France
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United States Department of Agriculture
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Massachusetts
Vermont
Congress
Montgomery
Posters Given Time To Remove Placards
The cases of F. J. Bingham and W. E. Wright, an employee of Liggett & Meyers Tobacco, were continued until Aug. 12 to allow the young men time to remove the advertisements after being arrested for posting signs in about 25 city locations.
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W. E. Wright
Liggett & Meyers Tobacco Company
Recorder’s Court
Motorcycle No 515 Found on Railroad Tracks
Police at headquarters hold an Indian motorcycle with license tag 515 picked up on the Mobile and Ohio railroad track just above the depot. No owner has claimed it and its rightful owner is unknown.
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Mobile & Ohio
Southern University of Music Catalog Entry
A catalog listing for Southern University of Music Inc with directors Gerard Thiers and Kurt Mueller. Location 353 Peachtree St Atlanta Ga lists programs in music, elocution, language, drama, opera, literature and European specialist certificates diplomas and dormitories. Statistics show 1 119 students and 13 affiliated teachers branch schools.
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Gerard Thiers
Kurt Mueller
Peachtree St
Atlanta
University of Alabama School of Medicine Mobile session details
The University of Alabama School of Medicine in Mobile announces the next session from September 24, 1914 to June 9, 1915. Admission requires one year of college science and foreign language study plus a four year high school program. laboratory and clinical facilities are ample. The school, rated Class A by the AMA Council on Education, is a member of the American Medical Colleges. catalog inquiries should be sent to The Dean at St. Anthony and Lawrence, Mobile, Alabama.
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Council On Education of the
American Medical Association
Association of American Medical Colleges
School of
University of Alabama
St. Anthony and Lawrence
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