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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1915
Page
8
New York World disclosures on German propaganda in the United States prompt White House concern. Attorney General Gregory and officials study the evidence, with Horn’s confession and schemes to recall German envoys under review.
List of vessels at various docks and terminals including Turner Terminals Gulf Dry Dock Dantzler Ama and Hieronymus Docks. Ships in port are laid up or repairing with destinations to Cuba West Indies and South America. Names include Bruce Docks Olinger Turner and Hildegard with Nor and Am flags noted.
list of ships and routes including Albert D Mills Ines Caroling C W Mills Tallapoosa Amelia Bluefields Fort Morgan Cortez Cortes and ports Progreso Baltimore New York Havana Mexico United Fruit Co Mallory Line and Van Heynigen noted with tonnages and itineraries.
Alabama Good Roads Association reports Aug 16 17 events drew extensive statewide turnout with more than 60 000 people helping roadside work across Jefferson Mobile Jackson Walker Clarke and Tuscaloosa counties marking a record participation in Good Roads Days.
The Norwegian steamship Freda arrived at the Carib bean and Southern Line port and is placed at Pinto Dry Docks to have a larger wheel fitted replacing the old one. Several other ships cleared, loaded, or prepared for sail including Ponce, Mary G. Dantzler, C.D. Pickels, Mount Hope, and the bark Frank. Local notices to mariners list light extinguishments and relightings around Mobile Bay and Southwest Pass with charts and pilot references.
A large glove factory owned by George Gitt of Hanover was destroyed by fire this evening. Several other structures caught fire due to the storm, with details still unclear.
New York faces a potential employee walkout as the International Association of Machinists demands an eight hour day and higher wages. J. J. Keppler, its vice president, says it is not a general strike and workers will relocate to other cities if demands are not met, with many local firms tied to war orders.
Judge Patterson of the Blue Ridge circuit urged a special grand jury at Marietta for August 26 to investigate the Leo M. Frank lynching. Atlanta also banned street sales of postcards showing Frank hanging.
The Mobile County School Association district meeting will be held at Union Church on August 29 starting at 10 o'clock, announced by J. W. Egan on Saturday.
Five masked bandits forced victims to lie on their stomachs in Butte Montana, kicked them, and robbed nine automobiles. They escaped with about 2500 dollars in August 21 actions.
The hold up occurred 200 yards south of the Smith road house, south of Butte, with cash and jewelry valued at about $2,000 taken.
The Belgian steamer Daghestan, sailing from Philadelphia on August 6 to Rouen, was sunk by a German submarine off Antwerp. All crew members were saved. The steel screw oil tanker weighs 2778 tons and had Antwerp as home port.
In Grand Bayou swamp a mob killed an unidentified Black man who had entered the bedroom of 17 year old Edward Adcock's daughter near Coushatta Louisiana. The suspect had been in custody of Deputy Sheriff Scott before the mob pulled him from restraint. The report notes the offender was said to be living by his wits.
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