Panama Canal Miniature Exhibit Tours Alabama
A traveling Panama Canal exhibit car, 8 by 70 feet with a scale model of the canal, will tour Alabama starting September 12 from Opelika and Auburn. Director L C Irvine plans to accompany and visit towns like Anniston Gadsden Florence Montgomery and Mobile. Proceeds fund corn and tomato clubs and transport for club members to meet President Wilson. the exhibit draws on canal engineering and aims to educate through demonstrations.
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L. C. Irvine
Alabama
Southern Commercial ‘Congress
Washington Company
Opelika
Auburn
Irvine
Anniston
Gadsden
Florence
Decaturs
Hunterville
Birmingham
Goethals
Canal Zone
Actiuing
Uo Mobile
Wilson
South
Tomato Club Girls of
Corn Club
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Don Farnsworth
Bertha Henry
Loxley Club
Josephine Nimmo
Chamber of Commerce
Loxley
Luncheon planned for Ways and Means committee
The chamber issues notices to about 250 people for a Friday luncheon at Cawthon Vineyard to welcome the new Ways and Means committee. Business Manager Farnsworth is asked to confirm attendance by Friday morning to arrange for adequate hotel provision and headcount.
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Chamber of Commerce
Busines
Ways and Means
Cawthon
Farnsworth
WM. H. Armbrecht
Business Men's Lunch Offer Promises Quick Service
Advertisement notes a Business Men's Lunch priced at 25 cents available from 18:00 to 3:30 pm. It mentions prepared lunches and catering, promising quick service.
Coal Shipments From Alabama Set Westward Trade
A large shipment of Alabama coal aboard the Seeberg Company steamer Alm is described as the start of a new era in exports to Haiti Brazil Trinidad and various West Indies and South American ports. Local dealers report significant orders and anticipate rising Alabama coal exports through Mobile with volumes expanding by year end.
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Alabama
Haiti
Brazil
Trinidad
West Indies
South American
Seebergeen Company
Mobile
West End
South America
City to Use Its Own Ballot Boxes in Commissioner Election
Mobile will vote next Monday September 1 with the city using its own ballot boxes for the first time in memory. Previously the city borrowed two sets from the county which remain sealed after last year’s contested commissioner election. Tin boxes were made by Mayor Schwarz and delivered with pens pencils tally sheets and paraphernalia for polling places.
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Mobile
Pat J. Lyons
Schwarz
Closing exercises of Mobile Colored Theological School
The colored Summer Theological School at Mobile holds closing exercises on Thursday August 28 at 8 p.m. at Mt. Zion Baptist Church. Rev J S Tait pastor and Dr S T Clanton vice president of Selma University will lead. Program includes addresses hymns and songs with refreshments served.
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Colored Summer Theological School
Mobile
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
J. S. Tait
S. T. Clanton
Selma University
Vacation beauty tip uses mercorized wax on discolored skin
Women returning from the seaside are advised to apply mercorized wax before bed and rinse in the morning to peel away scarf skin and reveal healthy skin. One ounce of mercorized wax is sufficient and safe. A widow extract notes astringent Fonte Lotion with saxolite dissolved in witch hazel to prevent wrinkles.
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Broadway Weekly
U S Urges Mexican De Facto Government on Recognition
In a diplomatic note Mr. Lind outlines U S proposals to Mexico for recognizing the de facto government. The U S President urges elections under Mexican constitutional law and specific assurances by Huerta, with potential loans to support the new regime.
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United States
Mexico
Huerta
United States of America
America
Glynn Set for Acting Governor Recognition by Legislature
Democratic leaders in Albany prepared to complete formal recognition of Lieutenant Governor Glynn as acting governor. They aimed to resolve business before the extraordinary session and forewarned of a possible fight in the senate over Glynn’s recognition amid ongoing Sulzer impeachment charges.
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Associated Press
Albany
N. Y
Glynn
Senate
Sulzer
Eighteen Birmingham Lodges Enlisted for Panama Pageant
Eighteen fraternal Birmingham lodges pledged support for features of the Southern Commercial Congress celebration. Mobile official Cahall reported warm reception and plans to include North Alabama in the Birmingham pageant as well as other fraternal events. Fraternal leaders Elkurne Sneed Schwartz oversee arrangements with a mass meeting planned and over twenty lodges contracted for floats.
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Birmingham
Florence
Southern Commercial Congress
E. L. Cahall
Mobile Joint Ternal Committee
Mobile
Chamber of Commerce
Cahall
Ensley
Bessemer
North Birmingham
Avondale
Woodlawn
North Alabama
H. A. Elkurne
T. P. Sneed
T Louis Schwartz
Texas Wonder cures kidney and bladder troubles
The Texas Wonder claims to cure kidney and bladder troubles and dissolves gravel and other ailments in men and women. It promises bladder regulation in children and offers mail delivery for a $1.00 fee.
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Texas
Alabama
E. W. Hall
Olive Street
St. Louis
Personal notices from Mobile visitors and guests
Miss Nellie Bounds of Moss Point spends Wednesday in Mobile visiting the Battle House. Charles L. Towner of Minto City and architect W C Weston of Birmingham register at Mobile hotels for business. Weston promotes Magnolia Warehouse and Compress Company improvements. Gulfport’s R C Scruggs and I C Rogers stay at Bienville Hotel. KE Rooney of New Orleans visits Mobile for L and N Railway affairs. Captain G W Ely of Southern Pacific visits for company business. E P McCollum and Mrs McCollum of Greensboro Ala guests at Hotel Windsor. F B and T B Nihart of Bay Minette register at Windsor. W P Taylor of Waynesboro pays a few days in Mobile at Windsor.
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Nellie Bounds
Moss Point
Mobile
Battle House
Charles L. Towner
Minto City
Miss
W. C. Weston
Birmingham
Cawthon Hotel
Weston
Magnolia Warehouse and Compress Company
R. C. Scruggs and
I. C. Rogers
Gulfport
Bienville Hotel
G. W. Ely
Southern Pacific Railroad
E. P. McCollum
Mrs. McCollum
Greensboro, Ala
Hotel Windsor
F. B
T. B. Nihart
Bay Minett
Windsor
W. P. Taylor
Waynesboro, Miss
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve Said to Quickly Ease Skin Injuries
Claim highlights Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as a universal pain killer for cuts bruises sprains burns and skin injuries. Clinton Maine resident E E Chamberlain endorses it saying it robs injuries of their terrors and acts as an unparalleled healing remedy. Available only at Van Antwerp Drug Corp.
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Bucklen
E. E. Chamberlain
Clinton, Me
van Antwerp Drug Corp
Adr
Southern Women Plan Big Drives for Mobile Convention
A circular from Mrs. Owen outlines the Woman's Auxiliary of the Southern Commercial Congress forming a fifty-member County Club in each county. County heads must submit lists, with literature mailed to members, and attendance urged for the Mobile convention October 27 1913 featuring a White House speaker and Mrs Woodrow Wilson as honorary president.
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Southern Commercial Congress
Woman's Auxiliary
Mobile
United States
Woodrow Wilson
Woman’s Auxiliary
Probate Court Orders Simon Children Turned Over
In a probate court session Judge Price Williams ordered Stephen Simon aged five and Elizabeth Simon aged three and a half to be turned over to the Alabama Maternity Home by Mrs. F Tremer amid a Humane Officer Ducourneau charge of ill treatment. A Tabernacle Baptist church meeting after Sunday services will discuss outstanding church indebtedness and a Wednesday night session appointed a committee to report on future plans. The committee includes Rev. W. P. Wilkes, J. B. Spurrier, T. A. Nelson, E. L. Welch, Harry Heenan, Roy Jones, and K. J. Price.
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Price Williams
Stephen
Elizabeth Simon
Alabama
F Tremer
Humane
Ducourneau
the Tabernacle Baptist Church
W. P. Wilkes
J. B. Spurriier
T. A. Nelson
E. L. Welch
Harry Heenan
Roy Jones
K. J. Price
St Vincent Academy Opens 1913 14 Term With New Faculty
The 1913 14 session will begin Tuesday September 2 according to an announcement. The faculty includes Brother Ilbert as principal and teacher of the graduating class, Brother Justinian for advanced grades, Brother Alfred for grammar, Brother Ernest for intermediate, and Brother Conrad for primary grades.
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St. Vincent's Academy
Brother Ilbert
Justinian
Alfred
Ernest
Conrad
Norwegian Sailor Found Dead in Mobile River
The body of Charles Peterson, a Norwegian sailor who had stayed two weeks at the Seaman's Bethel on Theatre street, was found floating in the Mobile river Tuesday morning and buried that evening in the potter's field at the city’s expense. No signs of violence. The Bethel staff doubt it was a suicide.
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Charles Peterson
Seaman’s Bethel
Theatre Street
Mobile River
Potter's Field
Bethel
Grove's Tasteless Malaria Remedy Ad
A vintage ad for GROVE'S TASTELESS malaria remedy claims to purify the blood, arouse the liver, and strengthen the body for adults and children, priced at 50 cents.
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Grove
Memphian Pushes Grain Trade With Mobile Friction
C B Stafford Memphis Merchants' Exchange grain and hay freight commissioner visits Mobile officials of Munson Seeberg United Fruit Orr Laubenheimer lines. He believes grain export via Mobile can rise despite rail rates and backs molasses rate talks to cut costs to Memphis and Chicago.
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C. B. Stafford
Memphis Merchants’ Exchange
Memphis
Tenn
Mobile
Stafford
Munson Steamship Co
Seeberg Steamship Co
United Fruit Co
Orr-Laubenheimer Steamship Co
R G. Cobb
Chamber of Commerce
St. Louis
Mobile and Ohio Railroad
Chicago
Thaw Lawyer Heads Off Jerome Effort in Quebec
Sherbrooke reports Louis St. Laurent hired by the Thaw family to defend Gentle Roger Thompson left for Quebec to block William Travers Jerome from securing provincial support to deport Thaw. St. Laurent carried messages from liberal politicians urging noninterference. Thaw continued letter writing.
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Sherbrooke
Quebec
Louis St. .Laurent
Thaw
Roger” Thompson
William Travers Jerome
St. Laurent
Pug Cavet Eye May Be Removed
Pitcher Pug Cavet of the Mobile Gulls faces likely baseball retirement as doctors warn his weak left eye must be removed to save the other eye. Specialists offer little hope of saving the eye, with a possible return next season using one eye, but his pitching career appears finished.
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Teller
Pug” Cavet
Mobile Gulls
Memphis
Atlanta
Cavett
Cavet
First Fatal Accident at Camp Perry Reported
Camp Perry Ohio recorded its first fatal accident on the Ohio ranges when Francisco Zegarra Ballon and fellow countryman Juan E. Zegarra were nearby as a rifle was accidentally fired.
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Camp Perry
Ohio
Ohio Ranges
Francisco Zegarra Ballon
Juan E. Zegarra
Clergyman Praises Eckmans Alterative
A plea from a Amenia New York reader details a tuberculosis recovery after taking Eckmans Alterative. The testimonial, signed by E H Cowles and Rev J J Cowles, credits the remedy with curing night sweats cough and weight regain. It claims evidence from witnesses and urges investigation.
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Amenia
N. Y
Eckman
Presbyterian Church
Braswell
Eckman Laboratory
Philadelphia
Mo bile announces candidacy of Commissioner W T Hieronymus
City commissioner candidate W T Hieronymus announces his run for the office of Commissioner in Mobile. He asks all citizens for their support at the election scheduled for the first Monday in September 1918.
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City of
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Louisville and Nashville Railroad
New Orleans
Hostetter
New York
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W. T. Hieronymus
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