Open Field for South American Trade via American Merchant Marine
The piece argues for expanding American commercial ties with Argentina, Brazil, Chile and others by leveraging a U S merchant marine and a reciprocal exchange of American manufactured goods for South American raw materials. It notes Mobile’s advantage, stresses two key points, and cites Cuba, Mexico, and Central and South American fruit countries as precedents for such exchanges.
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Argentine
Brazil
Chile
South America
Cuba
Mexico
Central
Was She a Perfect Lady Then a Supreme Court Opinion on Damn in Disorderly Conduct
North Carolina Supreme Court addressed whether a young woman who told a police officer she would drive "where she damned please" violated a local ordinance. The court freed her, noting the speech was crude but not criminal, as disorderly conduct requires disturbance of peace or a vicious tendency. The ruling emphasized the offense is minor and not a common law crime absent statute or ordinance.
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Supreme Court of North Carolina
High Court
Carranza Becomes Provisional Mexican President
From Mexico City reports Gen. V. Carranza has laid down the sword and wears state robes as provisional president. He promises to hold a fair election, though past history suggests prearranged results. The piece hopes peace returns and national strife ends.
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Mexico City
Panama Canal Opens With Ancon First Through
The Panama Canal opened today with the Ancon, a 10 000 ton steamship owned by the U S War Department and leased to the Panama Railroad, making the first passage from Cristobal. Celebrations echoed along the route as Alabama figures, notably Senator Morgan, receive praise for the project’s realization and national impact on commerce and mobile’s prospects.
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Panama Canal
Ancon
United States War Department
Panama Railroad
New York- Colon
Cristobal
America
Mobile
Morgan
Alabama
A Word to Tourists From a Proud American Land
The piece urges travelers to consider domestic wonders over overseas trips citing Niagara Yellowstone Grand Canyon Yosemite Alaska and the Golden Coast as superior and inviting readers to visit the author’s own city to see its historic charms and attractive climate. It argues war makes foreign travel costly and unnecessary.
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America
Niagara
Yellowstone Park
Grand Canyon
Yosemite Valley
Alaska
Golden Coast
Carrollton Pioneers Growth Through Unity and Investment
The Industrial Index notes Carrollton Ala a united community driving progress in Pickens County. Residents increased beyond the 444 count, funded street lighting by bonds, planned new school buildings, and bought land for a park. Live towns like Carrollton lead regional prosperity.
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Alabama
Carrollton
Pickens County
Industrial Index
Sam
Ala
Clever crow deterrent in Skowhegan apple orchard
Cyrus Dunham of Skowhegan Maine hangs a bell from an apple tree and runs a string to his bedroom window. At daybreak he pulls the string to rouse the bell and scare away crows, yielding a satisfactory result.
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Cyrus Dunham
Skowhegan
Mr. Dunham
War News Difficulties and Censorship Rife
The Birmingham News reports about extreme censorship and disrupted communications hampering U.S. newspapers in obtaining reliable war news from Europe. Cable delays, government restrictions, and limited wireless access force papers to spend heavily and press for any usable updates amid chaotic front-line reporting.
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Boards of Censors
Europe
Associated Press
Paris
London
Germany
Austria
Berlin
Birmingham News
Conference on Pellagra to Be Held in Pineville
Health officers from Kentucky counties will meet in Pineville August 18 19 and 20 to discuss pellagra prevention and treatment. The conference notes the disease is rising in eastern Kentucky and cites poor sanitation as a common background factor.
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Pineville
Kentucky
Europe
Eastern Hospital For
Lexington
Louisville Courier- Journal
Muckrakers and Reforms Face a Flabby Age
The piece argues reticence on sex matters stems from Puritan tradition and modern comforts. It blames youth skepticism toward authority on muckraking and millennial promises, warns against hastily imposed reform, and cautions that overregulation will be hard to undo.
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Wm. H. Taft
Mother's Magazine
Roosevelt Jr and Early Naturalist Interest on Long Island
A Brooklyn Times note recalls Theodore Roosevelt Jr in Oyster Bay collecting birds like fish-crow and Ipswich sparrow as a schoolboy. The piece asks if modern eastern county naturalists contribute as much to science and if such species have been seen recently.
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Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Oyster Bay
Long Island
Colonel Roosevelt
Brooklyn Times
Man from Montgomery recalls hardships of Europe
A. L. Lehman of Montgomery recounts perilous travels from Schwalbach to Paris and Havre to reach New York, detailing scarce money, blocked letters of credit, and crowding trains as war erupts. He blames Russia for mobilization and notes wife and child remaining in Schwalbach with no word since crossing the border.
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Montgomery
Europe
A. L. Lehman
Germany
Leh
Schwalbach
America
Lehman
Cologne
Mr. Lehman
Paris
New York
Havre
Southampton
England
City of New York
France
Russia
Kronprinz Wilhem Reported Seen as Phantom Liner Returns
The Kronprinz Wilhelm, long a sea phantom after leaving New York over ten days ago, was sighted by the Aztec on August 10. British cruisers had previously interrupted coaling near Bermuda, while the Bohemia arrived from Hamburg under lights and funnels painted to mimic a White Star liner, dodging patrols including near the Ambrose channel lightship.
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Associated Press
New York
Kronprinz Wiltheim
New York Harbor
Norfolk
Wilhelm
Karlsruhe
Bermuda
Bristol
Bohemia
Hamburg
Ambrose Channel
First Rails Laid On Pier At Fairhope By People's Railroad
The Fairhope public railroad began laying rails on Thursday and reported a half mile of track completed. Ninety tons of rails arrived on the Sabine last week and were towed over by the Nemesis. A push cart was used to haul rails from the pier up the track.
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Fairhope
People’s Railroad
Dd¢Y
Mallory
Sabine
Nemesis
Catholics Observe Feast of Assumption Across Churches
The feast of the Assumption was celebrated Saturday in Catholic churches including St. Matthew's Oakdale with two low masses at 5 30 a m and 7 a m and confessions. A second mass is planned Sunday at St. Peter's Fulton road at 9 a m with confession beforehand.
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St. Matthew's Church
Oakdale
St. Peter’s Church
Fulton Road
Board Fails to Meet as Quorum Is Lacking
The board of school commissioners did not hold a meeting Friday afternoon due to lack of a quorum. They planned to discuss abolishing fees in kindergarten and primary grades at a special meeting next Wednesday, or at the regular September meeting if not addressed.
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Board of School Commissioners
Passenger recounts crowded wartime voyage to America
Mr Lehman describes crowded trans Atlantic liners and scarce passages to the United States after leaving Southampton aboard the City of New York. He recalls passengers sleeping on decks and in salons as he longs for New York harbor and warns Europe’s war may be bloody, but whichever side wins will lose.
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Der
Lehman
America
Mr. Lehman
New York
Southampton
New York Harbor
Europe
Germany
Cotton Situation Warns of Looming Loss Without Bank Aid
W D Nesbitt told the Birmingham Ad Club that war disruption has collapsed cotton markets and losses could reach hundreds of millions. He urged government and banks to guarantee a value for the surplus crop, proposing low interest support to carry 5 to 6 million bales and avoid ruin for Southern farmers and merchants.
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Birmingham
Ad Club
W. D. Nesbitt
Mobile
England
Continental
Europe
South
Alabama
Treasury Department and Reserve Board
Origins of Sailors Lingo Reveals Global Roots
A London Tit-Bits piece traces how sea terms like Davy Jones Duffy Jonah's locker dog watch jury mast sheet anchor port starboard larboard admiral captain mate coxswain and cockboat derive from Welsh, Arab, Icelandic, Latin and Viking origins, with notes on medieval ship terms and language drift.
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Davy Jones
Duffy Jonah
Duffy
Jonah
Usk
Wye
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