Uncle Wiggily and the Sand Mill Beach Adventure
On a seaside day Uncle Wiggily the rabbit watches Sammie Littletall and Susie play with a toy sand mill. A sea lion sneaks in to grab the mill but is thwarted when the mill’s crank spills sand into its eyes, allowing Uncle Wiggily to save him. Susie and Sammie return as lessons unfold.
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Sammie Littletall
Sammie
Ethel Browneyes Prettygirl
Susie
Fittle Rabbit
Jimmie Wibblewobble
Nannie Wagtail
Nannie
Sammig
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Goat
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Sammie’s Mill
Sea Lion
Rabbit Gentleman
Guarantee to Advertisers Claims Superior Mobile Circulation
The Mobile Item asserts it provides advertisers more paid circulation in Mobile city and surrounding areas than any other Mobile newspaper. Auditors from the Audit Bureau of Circulation allegedly verify this claim in two consecutive six month periods.
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Audit Bureau of Circulation
Guarantee to Subscribers for Mobile Press
The Mobile item delivers daily and Sunday editions to any address in Mobile for 10 cents a week or $5 a year with no price variation. A subscriber who finds the item delivered at any other price will be compensated one year's subscription. It is better to wear out than to rust out per Bishop Cumberland.
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Mobile
Robert P. McDavid Dies. Alabama Journalist and Former Secretary of State
Robert P. McDavid, longtime journalist and former secretary of state of Alabama, died after a period of poor health. Born in Huntsville, he rose in Birmingham’s newspaper scene with the Daily News and the Age-Herald before serving as secretary of state and later succeeding in real estate. His death marks a loss to his adopted city and family.
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Alabama
Orleany
Bob McDavid
Huntsville
University of Alabama
Birmain
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Age-Herald
Birmingham
Bob” McDavid
Startling Discovery on Opium Suppression in Philadelphia
National and state efforts to stamp out illicit opium and narcotics are stressed. The piece notes drastic laws and calls for cooperation among professionals pharmacists and the public. Philadelphia is cited as revealing internal revenue inspectors uncovering quantities of drugs and questions about physicians' regard for public welfare.
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Philadelphia
Internal Revenue
Quaker City
Mobile to host premier Gulf Coast Fair this fall
The Gulf Coast Fair Association prepares Alabama's only sea port city Mobile for a major fair this fall. Extensive grounds works include a half mile track and a replaced grandstand while exhibits are planned across industrial farm livestock and other sectors.
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Dothan
Mobile
Birmingham
Jefferson County
Eagle
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Gulf Coast Fair Association
Alabama
Mobile Bay
Gulf
Navy preparedness and prohibition echoes in Jacksonville Times-Union
The Jacksonville Times-Union editorials favor support for the Allies and warn against isolation, arguing the United States could defend against no major land threatenings except Great Britain or Mexico. The piece notes English sea power as favorable but stresses mine defense, while also reporting on noxious moonshine actions in rural hills near Tuscaloosa and local enforcement efforts.
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Europe
America
Jacksonville Times-Union
United States
Florida Journal
Great Britain
Mexico
Jacksonville
The Question Box Wind and History Curiosities
The column explains why wind sounds occur indoors and outdoors, and poses trivia questions about the Panama Canal cost, origins of the French people, and the Colossus of Rhodes. It notes the Colossus stood over 105 feet high, cost $470000, and fell to an earthquake about sixty years after completion.
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European War One Year Ago Today Battles Raged Across Fronts
Reports say Allies and Germans clash along a twenty mile front from Charleroi to Namur. Germans halt French east of the Vosges as Russia presses German Austrian borders. Serbs defeat Austrians on the Drina, taking prisoners. Brussels withholds a $40 million request as troops retreat from Mulhouse.
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Namur
Vosges Mountains
Russia
Drina
Brussels
Ger
Mulhausen
Cuba sugar bloom attracts Captain Pierce in Mobile
Captain B A Pierce a retired ship captain and sugar planter near Manzanillo Cuba says Cuba’s sugar crop is very buoyant. He arrived in Mobile with Captain EB Bayliss to oversee the barge Carmela at Pinto Dry Docks. He notes one planter earned about 800000 from sugar cane.
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B. A. Pierce
Manzanillo
City
EB. P. Bayliss
Carmela
Pinto Dry Docks
Pierce
New Orleans
United Fruit
W. J. Maloney
Central Iron Works
Holt
Ala
Mobile
New York
New England
Maloney
Warrior Field
Tombigbee
Warrior
Battle House
A. C. Eisler
Montgomery
I. W. King
Evergreen
F. Guard
St. John
Porto Rico
Co. EB. Hamilton
Greenville
W. M. King
Atlanta, Ga
W. T. Posey
Montgomery, Ala
Memphis
A. J. Harkin
Fowl River
J. E. Nettles
J. H. Daughdrill
Thomasville
T. S. Knighton
York
A. T. Donnell
Selma
L. F. Birdsong
Jackson
A. E. Ingham
Cawthon
Ben L. Milton
Confessions of a Wife and the Anesthetized Aunt Mary
A woman witnesses Aunt Mary's surgery and learns the operation is inoperable. The intern explains the seriousness, promising a longer, painful but manageable time ahead, while urging the narrator to go home and return when the anesthetic wears off. The scene ends with a hopeful but somber note.
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Mary
Empire Amusement Bill Showcases Mixed One Act Shorts
Today's Empire program features a Mina comedy A Rase of Limbareer with Vic tor Patel and Ben Turpin, The Bell Hop, and an Es sanay one act set in a hotel. also shows His Bunkie a Vitagraph military drama with Darwin Carr Ned Finley and Eleanor Woodruff filmed in Texas with real troops.
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the Empire
Victor Patel
Ben Turpin
Slippery Slim
Darwin Carr
Ned Finley
Eleanor Woodruff
Texas
United States
Empire
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Inspectors Complete Vessel Checks for Alabama Merchants Excursion
Hulls and boilers of chartered boats for the Alabama Merchants Association trip to Lock 17 from Birmingham were thoroughly inspected by Captains H. O. Lueders and H. L. Bean in Tuscaloosa. Vessels Bisso ree 12 Myrtle nan and John Quill underwent exams as part of bureau of navigation orders requiring safe passage for all excursion ships.
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Alabama Merchants’ Association
Birmingham
H. O. Lueders
H. L. Bean
Tuscaloosa
Myrtle Nan
John Quill
Cees Kneesough
Buréau of Navigation
Cymric Convoyed Through War Zone on Atlantic Run
Passengers claim the White Star liner Cymric left Liverpool August 11 amid a convoy of five British warships for thirty six hours through the war zone. Submarine risk was cited, life boats prepared, and lights kept out as four destroyers escorted the ship. The voyage continued until a clear path was reported beyond the zone.
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Liverpool
Mersey
Cymric
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