These Auto Eyes and Sea Cliff Gossip
A poetic lament on watching eyes invading the night and love's woes. Then a seaside society note from Sea Cliff detailing visits by Miss Dorothy Mitchell and a string of Misses and ladies, including Miss Isabelle Pope Marion Maury Elizabeth Anderson of Pensacola, and others from Biloxi and Mobile.
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Sea Cliff
Dorothy Mitchell
Isabelle Pope
Marion Maury
Elizabeth Anderson
Pensacola
Lucille
Mary Knight Rush
Annie Will Mangum
Seacute
Ben Padgett
Sea Shore Camp Grounds
Ab. Jackson
Summer seaside visit extends to Battles Wharf cottage
Miss Georgie Banks of Montrose with her house guest Miss Banks has joined the Van Heuvels at their commodious summer cottage at Battles Wharf. Also noted is Miss Frances Currie of Meridian continuing as part of the seaside party.
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Etta
Bessie Mayers
Sarah Green
Mobile
Miss Green
Meridian
Biloxi
Louis Dantzler
White House
van Heuvel
Georgie Banks
Montrose
Miss Banks
van Heuvels
Battles Wharf
Frances Currie
Birthday Portraits Prompt Empire Theatre Party Invite
The Mobile item lists six children born on August 22 with ages from 1Q to 14 and invites them to a birthday picture party at the Empire Theatre this afternoon. Tickets have been mailed and readers under 16 are urged to send full name address and birthdate to the Children’s Editor at Mobile Tem two days before their birthday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James B.gady
Selma St
Mary H. Roe
Spring Hill
Ala
Lucille A. Woodruff
Crichton
Beatrice Clements
S. Lawrence
Thelma E. McAllister
St. Francis
Misses Cole and Grubbs Return From Gulfport Visit
Miss Mary Cole and Miss Grace Grubbs return home to Futaw Alabama after a pleasant stay with their uncle Mr. Robert Neville at 1049 Dauphin Way and a delightful visit at Battles Wharf.
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Robert Neville
Dauphin Way
Gulfport
Mary Cole
Grace Grubbs
Futaw, Ala
City Beautiful Notes On A Gulf Coast Garden Project
A Mobile area tale shows a widow and her Boy Scout sons transforming a blighted Tuttle Avenue lot into a thriving city beautification display. They whitewashed sheds, covered fences with green vines, laid a small lawn, and planted zinnias, petunias, ferns, geraniums, and heliotropes, creating a vivid example of neighborhood improvement.
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Gulf Coast
Tuttle Avenue
Boy Scout Corps
Two children rescued by young Mobilian hero
Jack Knox a five year old and Roy Goodyear a seven year old were saved from drowning off a Mobile beach by Martin Wilmer Thoss a 13 year old son of Eugene Thoss the local sporting goods dealer Thoss had already saved two other children recently prompting praise from onlookers and rescuers alike
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Jack
Rev. Goodyear
Thoss
8. D. Copeland
Graham & Rush to Face Crown in New City League Tilt
Graham & Rush, led by Manager Bill Stewart, clash with the Crown team at Dixie Park this afternoon at 3 o clock. The reorganized squad features Gaines at first Donovan at second Yost at short Stollenwerck at third and a lineup including Martin Calloway McAtee Branson Therell in the outfield with Glover catching and Morrison and both Stewarts pitching in a fast game expected.
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Graham & Rush
Bill Stewart
Stewart
Pwood
Gaines
Donovan
Yost
Stollenwerck
Martin
Calloway
McAtee
Branson
Therell
Glover
Morrison
D. Stewart
W. Stewart
Home Improvement Shines In Front of Club Weighs In
A sidewalk and the old drain ditch before the house are neatly trimmed with weeds and debris cleared. The Home Economica Club could award a prize for the finest example of home improvement in comfort and beauty here.
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Home Economica Club
City rights over streets vs private gains in planning
Discussion argues that public streets should not be narrowed by landowners to boost property values. It urges Nobile to adopt a regulation ensuring principal streets remain unobstructed from end to end, aligning with civic beauty and public comfort.
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Nobile
Japan May Hold Kiau Chau as Prize
The Hochi reports German ambassador Count A Rex will sail for Seattle on August 26. Other German officials have left for San Francisco aboard the steamer China. Eki Hioki arrives in Peking to help foster Japan China talks. Washington weighs US Far East policy amid Japan’s ultimatum to Germany and how Berlin might respond.
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Hochi
Japan
Count A. Rex
Seattle
China
San Francisco
Peking
Eki Hioki
Dimitri Vassilieff
Washington
United States
Russia
Far East
John Hay
Germany
Oriental Empire
Berlin
Kiau Chau
Tokio
Brussels
Five Die in Severe New York Electrical Storm
Five persons lost their lives in a fierce electrical storm the previous night in New York. Joseph Ballinger, 19, was struck by lightning while rowing in Flushing Bay. Louis Sen, a Chinese farmer, was killed by lightning in a field. Douglass Willoughby, 12, drowned in Jamaica Bay. Two men drowned when waves overturned scows off Sandy Hook.
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Associated Press
New York
Joseph Ballinger
Flushing Bay
Louis Sen
Douglass Willoughby
Jamaica Bay
Sandy Hook
Film Executive Saves Child on Harlem River Bridge
New York Aug 22 Driving across central bridge over the Harlem river Charles J Vitte president of the Thanhouser Film Corporation swerved to avoid a child. His car crashed against the rail plunged off breaking his jaw in fourteen places his skull fractured and he suffered internal injuries. He remained conscious when witnesses reached him and gave his name and address.
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Associated Press
New York
Central Bridge
Harlem River
Charles J.vitte
Thanhouser Film Corporation
Town Insures Troops for Twenty-First Regiment
Windsor city council approved a $7,700 appropriation to pay life insurance premiums for 500 officers and men of the Twenty-first regiment set to depart for Valcartier Canadian mobilization center. Insurance to be issued by an American company.
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Associated Press
Windsor
Twenty-first Regiment
Valcartier
Italy Prepares 10 War Mobilization in Days
A British dispatch reports Italy intends to order mobilization within days as the war expands. Other cables note Russian advances toward Austria and Germany, Austrian fleet bombardment fears at Pola, Belgian troop concentrations at Antwerp, and a prisoner melee during transfer in France.
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Italy
Rome
Paris
Giornale d'Italia
Pola
Austria
German advance in Belgium and surrounding Europe reported
Aug 22 dispatches describe German forces pushing north and west through Belgium after Brussels fall, occupying Ghent and nearing Bruges Ostend while investing Namur. Antwerp tensions rise over a 40 million war tax as Italy readies mobilization and Russia resumes offensive along the Austro German frontier with reported East Prussia clashes.
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London
Belgium
Brussels
William
Ghent
Bruges
Ostend
Namur
Meuse
Antwerp
Paris
Italy
St. Petersburg
East Prussia
Drina
Nish
Bosnia
Reuter Telegraph Company
Amsterdam
Diest
Tirlemont
St. Trond
Haelen
Geetbetz
Nerlinter
Six Mile Front
Loxbergen
Budingen
Count Durse
Aerschot
Louvain
Marines
Eleven Thousand American Refugees Return Home by Sea
News reports 11 000 American refugees headed home aboard ships of international lines. Baltic carries 2130 passengers, St Louis 1135, Dominion 640 to Philadelphia, Megantic 800 to Montreal, Minneska 254 to arrival, Adriatic 1850 from Queenstown, Merion 430, Olympic 3000 from Liverpool, Minnetonka 200, Canada 700 from Liverpool.
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Associated Press
New York
International Mercantile Marine Lines
White Star
Baltic
American Line
St. Louis
Dominion
Philadelphia
Megantic
White Star-Dominion
Montreal
Atlantic Transport
Minnewaska
Adriatic
Queenstown
Merion
Olympic
White Star Line
Liverpool
Minnetonka
White Star-Dominion Line
Canada
French Protest Over Dum Dum Bullets Reported
Paris reports that on August 19 after a battle a French army surgeon found five dum-dum bullets on the road to Munster in Alsace. The bullets were in a rifle clip and turned over to the commanding general. Other such bullets found on French dead soldiers have been sent to the minister of war.
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Associated Press
Paris
Ita
Munster
Algace
Fielder Jones Takes Charge of St. Louis Club
Fielder Jones arrived in St. Louis and assumed command of the Federal League team replacing Mordecai Brown. Jones said he would seek to persuade Brown to stay. Brown’s attorney is in Chicago handling his interests.
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Associated Press
ST. Louis
Fielder Jones
Chicago Americans
Northwestern League
Mordecai Brown
St. Luouis
Brown
Chicago
Heirs of Austrian Figure Reach Sporschal by Lake Geneva
Two children of a late Austrian figure arrived today at Sporschal in Switzerland after a delayed journey via Paris. They refuse to accept that their parents were assassinated.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Paris
Austria
Sporschal
Lake Geneva
Berlin Dispatch Denies US Citizens Ill Treatment
A seven word dispatch says the American ambassador in Berlin denies reports that Americans faced ill treatment in Germany. He states Americans enjoy security in Germany equal to in America. London confirms General Leman is prisoner at Cologne. The Rio Janeiro consul reports the British steamer Hyades sunk by Dresden.
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Berlin
Germany
America
London
Leman
Liege
Cologne
Rio Janeiro
Hyades
Dresden
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