Birmingham YMCA Defeats Mobile YMCA 27 to 23
The Birmingham YMCA team beat Mobile YMCA 27 to 23 before hundreds. Captain Greenwood of Mobile was injured and left the game. Brooks starred for Mobile with strong shooting. Birmingham’s Durham, Brooks, Moore, Ester and others contributed to the victorious score.
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Mobile Y. M. C. A
Greenwood
Mobiles
Brooks
Mobile Five
Birmingham
Maiden
Baumhauer
Martin
Durham
Moore
Ester
Stapleton
Faunce
Bethea
Mobile
Cunningham
Crawford
Hinman
Ebbecke
Steber
Izard
Ollinger
State Democratic sub committee sets May 9 primary
The Montgomery meeting of the state Democratic executive committee sub group arranged tentative plans for a May 9 primary. J Kirk Jackson of Montgomery was named secretary to raise funds and print ballots. Members include Bibb Graves E C Betts J C Wood J P Hanks and B H Crum.
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Montgomery
Ala
State Democratic Executive Committee
Graves
J. Kirk Jackson
Bibb Graves
E. Cc. Betts
Huntsville
J. C. Wood
Lowndes
J. P. Hanks
Coffee
B. H.crum
Champion of Rat Slayers Seeks More Factories for Mobile
Dr. Louis Hirsh, a German-born pest expert based in New York, visits Mobile and praises the city’s port and location for manufacturing. He recounts how poverty in New York led him to rat extermination, describes his methods and warns of rats’ disease risks, urging Mobile’s Chamber of Commerce to attract multiple industries and factories.
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Louis Hirsh
Hirsh
New York
Mobile
Cawthon Hotel
Germany
Chamber of Commerce
Great Lakes
Pacific
New York City
San Francisco
Blue
Trinity and First Baptists tie for first in Sunday School league
Two games on the M C A court closed the 1915 16 season. Trinity edged the First Baptists 10 to 8 after overtime rules. Trinity and Baptists share top standings, with another decisive match planned next Saturday. Methodists forfeited against St John’s, 12 to 6, while Juniors failed to field a team.
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Trinity
First Baptists
Danielsen
Roberts
Stubbs
Jones
Jackson
Thurman
Trinity Boys
Baptists
Eddie Collins Urges Clean Living To Palmyra Sunday School
Eddie Collins the Chicago White Sox star spoke to 500 Epworth Methodist Sunday school members in Palmyra New Jersey. He urged youth to “cut out the booze” and live temperately for success in baseball business and life, praising Connie Mack and team discipline while framing temperance as essential to victory.
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John Barleycorn
Palmyra
N. J
Eddie Collins
Chicago White Sox
Epworth Methodist Sunday School
Keystone King
Billy Sunday
Anson
Chicago
Eddie
Connie Mack
Mack
Connie
Collins
Rain postpones George Washington Sweepstakes to March 6
Rain at Ascot Park delays the George Washington Sweepstakes auto race from February 23 to March 6 after brief track work. The Ascot surface is expected to produce one of the world’s fastest mile courses once settled. Middle building: Middies suffer losses at Annapolis in multiple events with Yale, New York D. C., and Washington Fencers Club among competitors. Wisconsin beats Illinois in a close indoor track dual meet in Urbana. A light aside questions if anyone would imitate Charlie Chaplin.
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Los Angeles
Cal
George Washington
Ascot Park Speedway
Ascot Track
Yale
New York D. C
Navalites
Washington
Wisconsin
Illinois
Urbana
Ills
University of Wisconsin
Controversy With American Armed Merchantmen Cited
The farter Zeitung from Frankfurt warns Germany against hasty moves in the dispute over American armed merchantmen. It says no evidence suggests a near confrontation with the United States and urges a careful review of options before any irrevocable decision. Berlin papers highlight a dispatch from Lugano claiming American naval authorities push Wilson to accept the German program.
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Amsterdam
Farter Zeitung
America
The
Zeitung
Berlin
Lugano
Switzerland
Amcan
Wilson
Japan
Dupont Powder Company Reports 1915 Profits At 55.5 Million
Dupont Powder Company announces net profits of 55.5 million dollars for 1915, up from 4.5 million in 1914, in its official statement released in New York on February 26.
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New York
Dupont Powde Company
Orpet Indictment Hinted As Grand Jury Opens
Lake county officials expect the March 6 grand jury to indict William H. Orpet University of Wisconsin student for the Marian Lambert murder. State's Attorney Ralph J. Cady said a late March trial is hoped, with Orpet entering a not guilty plea at Lake Forest and waiving preliminary examination.
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Waukegan
Lake County
William H. Orpet
University of Wisconsin
Marian Lambert
Ralph J. Cady
Orpet
Lake Forest
Deaths and Funerals: Roden Sheip Harmas
Thomas Roden 63 a Mobile painter dies at home on Lawrence Street. Henry H. Sheip 63 dies in Philadelphia. founder of Sheip Manufacturing, once visited Mobile. Jessie B. Harmas funeral held at 174 Davis Avenue and St Francis Street Methodist Church.
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Thomas Roden
Mobile
Lawrence Street
Bay Shell Road
St. Matthew's Catholic Church
Henry H. Sheip
Philadelphia
Tampa
Mr. Sheip
Jerome H. Sheip
Jami
Jessie B. Marmas
Jessie B. Harmas
J. H. Lagman
Davis Avenue
St. Francis Street Methodist Church
O. C. McGehee
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F. A. Brough
M. D
Brough
East 22d Street
Police Relief Association
Lucy Cullinane
Murray
Merchants
Ass’n
Trinity-Methodist
A. Danielson
M. Roberts
H. Hilborn
Guest
T. Danielson
Total
First Baptist
Denton
Harold Johnson
Trinity Ee
Annapolis
Charlie Chaplin
Frankfurt Paper
United States
Dupont
Beau
Rites of the Style World Group
Shepherd
Copenhagen
Beach
Ae Tomor
Crex
C. J. Gayfer
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