Boy Scouts Post 46 Percent Membership Gain
Washington feb 10 an increase of 46 percent in membership during last year was announced at the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America annual meeting. Total membership reached 182 622 with troops in churches schools armories and community buildings and 7067 scoutmasters including clergymen physicians lawyers teachers. President Wilson welcomed the council to the White House and commended their work.
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Capitol Gossip on Neutral Trade and Woman Suffrage Debates
Washington dispatch surveys U S opposition to Britain over neutral trade and the potential embargo as retaliation. It notes amendments for woman suffrage facing mixed votes, with lawmakers voicing varied views from Biblical to political reasons.
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Washington
United States
Great Britain
England
Higgledee Piggledee Egg Heist Saves Mother Goose Tale
Uncle Wiggily helps Mother Goose and Higgledee Piggledee solve a mystery of missing eggs. Higgledee lays eggs for gentlemen while two rats plot to steal them, but the rabbit inventor and goose ally uncover the scheme and intervene.
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Uncle Wiggily
Higgledee Piggledee
Mother Goose
Grandfather Goosey
Black Hen
Jewish relief fund receipts total two thousand seven hundred thirty four
The Jewish relief committee lists new contributions since last publication, bringing total donations to date to two thousand seven hundred thirty four dollars. A list of donors includes Factors & Traders Insurance, Ben May, Joseph H Lyons, and others with small gifts. FEARING LYNCHING, NEGRO IN MISSISSIPPI ENDS LIFE is reported next. Dave Hagen, a black man, killed himself with a razor to avoid lynching after arrest for shooting town marshal Cal Smith. He died after falling from his horse, following capture by a posse.
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Jewish Relief Committee
Factors & Traders’ Insurance Company
Ben May
Joseph H. Lyons
Thomas W. Gilmer
Bay Minette
M. E. Eichberg
Thomas T.palmer
Sol Rosen
I. Jonas
William J. Zimmern
J. F. Jacobson
J. Levinsohn
B. C. Pickens
R. E. Houstis
E. Solomon
Ellen Quinn
Julius Meyer
Ben W. Padgett
Gertrude Solomon
Cash
Charest Printing Company
E. V. Brown
W. S. Broyles
H. H. Lemon
J. Renne Nelson
Mississippi
Tunica
Miss
Dave Hagen
Hagen
Cal Smith
Grand Jury Charges Teiper With First Degree Murder
Erie county grand jury returns an indictment charging John Edward Teiper with murder in the first degree for slaying his mother Agnes M. Teiper and his brother Frederick C. Teiper on the Orchard Park highway the night of January 30.
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Buffalo
John Edward Teiper
Erie County Grand
Teiper
Agnes M. Teiper
Frederick C. Teiper
Orchard Park Highway
Mobile Hoo-Hoo Plan Meeting This March
The Concatenatea Order of Hoo Hoo formed of lumbermen will hold a get-together and a Concatenation at Cawthon in March. The event, scheduled for the Saturday before Mardi Gras, should attract many lumbermen to Mobile.
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Concatenatea Order of
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Uncle Wiggily and the Rat Hole in the Coop
Uncle Wiggily exposes a rat hole used by Higgledee Piggledee to steal eggs. He chases the rats away and blocks the hole with stones. Mother Goose and Higgledee Figgled e the black hen celebrate. next tale promised with a feather bed note.
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Bo Peep
Negro Business League Plans Tuscaloosa Meet
The State Negro Business League executive committee met in Birmingham on February 7 to finalize a program for the annual sessions to be held in Tuscaloosa April 16 17 and 18. The agenda includes commercial topics and a discussion on eradicating boll weevil damage and improving health through educational cooperation.
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Cial
State Negro Business League
Birmingham
Tuscaloosa
Alabama
Fifteen year old charged with breaking and entering
Recorder Edington sentenced Charley Jones a 15 year old negro to heavy jail time after he was found near a North Warren street residence. Police said Jones admitted entering to sleep, and investigators found keys and can openers in his possession.
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Edington
Charley Jones
North Warren Street
Jones
Escaped convict captured after county camp escape
Deputy Sheriffs Soles Oberhaus and Donahue arrested Leon Dennis on the charge of escaping from the county convict camp in the northern part of the county while serving a two year sentence for day morning.
Cocoa aboard Appam May Spoil as Status Remains Unresolved
Norfolk, Va. February 10. About a thousand tons of cocoa on the captured British steamer Appam, now at Newport News, may spoil if not removed. It is valued at $450,000. other goods including palm oil total about $200,000. The state department must determine the Appam’s status before removal.
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Appam
Newport News
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Moewe
Widows and Orphans Fund
Berg
American Red Cross Fund
Civil Service Exam Set for Mobile County Rural Carrier Job
The U S Civil Service Commission announces a March 11 1916 examination in Mobile County Alabama to fill a rural carrier post at Theodore and possible vacancies on other rural routes. Open to male citizens domiciled in the county post office territory meeting Form No 1977 requirements. Form and blank applications available from local offices or the Commission in Washington DC. Apply to Washington promptly. One needn't be an iconoclast to say the old hometown is often disappointing after returning from a long absence.
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United States Civil Service Commission
Mobile
Ala
Theodore
Washington, D. C
Commission
Washington
Real estate transfers list multiple township parcels and credits
New South Land Co transfers to W K Frer ick and to Jee Weger in townships 2 north range 1 west. W Taylor and wife to V W Newburn for 174.30 in township 2 south range 4 west. L I Brannon and wife to V W Newburn for 160 in same township and range. Jack Moffett to V W Newburn for 120 in section 33 township 2 south range 4 west. Exchange Land Co to V W Newburn for 112.50 in section 32 township 2 south range 4 west. Adele G Wheat to Ellen Collins to satisfy indebtedness. Lot 1 square 1 Brown Tract Etheridge Tract. James Barnett and wife to Claude Gray for 1 and other valuable considerations. Lot 20 square 20 Fisher Tract.
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New South Land Co
W. K. Freerick
Jee Weger
W. Taylor
V. W. Newburn
L. I. Brannon
Jack Moffett
W. Newburn
Exchange Land Co
Ellen Collins
Etheridge
James Barnett
Claude Gray
Special devotions at St Matthews Church Lourdes feast
Special devotion at 7 a m for Our Lady of Lourdes at St Matthews Church with a mass on the new Lourdes altar and benediction. Confessions Thursday afternoon 8 30 and Friday morning before the mass. Parents asked to send children Thursday afternoon. The remark about cold baths appears in the text.
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St. Matthews’ Church
Our Lady of Lourdes
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