Gulf hurricane hits city with tracking damage and losses
A gulf hurricane struck the city Wednesday morning with winds rising from 30 to 85 miles per hour. It caused widespread roof and window damage, toppled several churches and a wooden school building, flooded the hospital and damaged downtown stores, with totals ranging from minor to substantial.
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Mobile
River Front
Uuburbs
Three Mile Creek
Monroe Park
St. Vincent’s Catholic Church
Palmetto and
Lawrence Streets
Severe Tides Stop Traffic In Mobile Destruction Report
Crowds in Mobile watch high water and gusty rains from 7 AM as river flood and backwater inundate the downtown area. Electric poles blown across Adams Street block traffic while Coca Cola and Kahn Manufacturing plants face water intrusion and minor roof and window damage nearby.
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St. Anthony and
Royal
Coca-Cola and
Kahn Manufacturing
van Antwerp One
Adams Machinery and Manufact Company
Pleasure Bay and Carneyed Down in Glow
A short item notes Pleasure Bay and Carneyed in glow along the River Front, detailing a local scene with ambient light and crowd activity. The fragment hints at a nighttime display or event drawing attention to waterfront activity and urban glow.
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Pleasure Bay
Ships Ashore After Mobile Storm Strewn Riverfront
After Wednesday's storm multiple vessels were wrecked or grounded along Mobile, including the Cessna and Apollo ashore near Choctaw Point, City of Mobile and James A. Carney down at Dauphin Street, and several docks damaged. One death reported, St Eva Jenkins, on a house boat near Turner Terminal docks. Fort Gaines and other craft suffered lighter harm while crews, including tug Mary Wittich, aided operations.
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St Eva Jenkins
Turner Terminal Docks
James A. Carney
Dauphin Street
Pleasure Bay
Mobile River
Claude and
Ethel
Mobile Towing and Wrecking Company
Elmira Street
Ate-Mile Creek
Deer
Choctaw Point
City of
Mobile
William T Twynning
Mobile and Ohio
Charles E Cessna
Louisville and Nashville
Theatre Street
Cessna
Mobilé and Ohio
Fort Gaines
Government Street
Harry T. Hartwell
Louisville & Nashville
Ohio Fruit
Mary Wittich
Harvey Isson
Bar
Fort Morgan
Hartwell
One Mile Creek
Get-Together conference plotted by Prohibition leaders in St Paul
Chicago July 6 Prohibition Party leaders and the sixty committee plan a mass conference in St Paul July 18 on a unity platform for national reform. Fifteen thousand volunteers from diverse groups invited to join talks on prohibition as a central issue and broader governance reforms.
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Prohibition Party
Chicago
Committee
Prohibition
St. Paul
Minn
National For Art
Itcal
National Promn
Progressive Legisla
P Pe
WN. Foss
Massachusetts
William
New E
York
John P. St. John
Ornor
Kansas
Charles H. Randall
California
Mner Avener
Massive Chinese Copper Exports Reach Japan Amid Shortage
In Peking a year’s span saw thirteen thousand tons of Chinese copper cash valued at 4,360,900 yen exported to Japan. Chinese dealers, especially in Shantung, hold thousands of tons, with estimates over twenty thousand tons gathered since copper prices rose. The government limits exports of square hole coins, but Japanese dealers have eased the restraining effect. The copper cash varies greatly across regions.
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Peking
Tan
Japan
Shantung
Cor
China
Prisoners Sent From Serbia Back Into Russia for Farm Work
At least a quarter million prisoners of war and refugees in Siberia have been returned to Russia to perform farm labor. An estimated 750,000 remain in Siberia with remote relocations noted. American Red Cross aids prisoners along the Amur river while Swedish Red Cross handles relief west of Harbin.
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Harbin
Siberia
Russia
Red Croms
Biberia
American Red Cross
Amur River
Swedish Red Cross
Water Floods Mobile and Ohio Terminal Station
Measured water reached 21 inches on the tile floor of the Mobile and Ohio terminal station with 31 inches noted in certain reports. About 5600 people were marooned overnight, including many company employees. By morning few officials remained at the offices as trains were uncertain and delayed.
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Mobile and Ohio Terminal Station
Charles C. Pruitt
Mobile and Ohio
Terminal Station
Mobile and Ottio
Southern
Chamber of Commerce Flooded by Rain
Flooding hits the Chamber of Commerce building after heavy rain. Nearby businesses report water damage while authorities assess structural impact and coordinate cleanup. Local officials urge caution as roads flood and access remains limited.
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Chamber OF Commerce
Leatherbury recounts hurricane damage near Coden
Mr Leatherbury says the Satsuma orange groves near Bay Shore Railroad were wiped out while the Coden area showed no property damage before the train departed. He describes a high wind and a dusk arrival at Frohsinn, with a Mobile return next morning.
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Reverr Bury
Coden
Satsuma
Bay Shore Railroad
Leatherbury
Promises Restoration of Rheims Tapestries
Paris July 6 M Geffroy director of the Gobelins says the restoration of rare tapestries damaged by shell fire at Rheims will be perfect. Sixty five wives of mobilized Gobelins employees work in the drawing dept on tapestries from Saint Remi church Rheims and other pieces from the Rheims Cathedral Louvre Lyons museums.
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Paris
M. Geffroy
National Tapestry
The
Gobelins
Rheims
Gobeling
Church of Saint Remi
Cathedral of Rheims
Louvre Museum
Museum of
Lyons
Amsterdam to Host Annual Fairs in Holland and Beyond
Plans underway to hold annual fairs in Amsterdam and other Dutch centers inspired by Leipzig London Lyons models. The International Export firm established to organize safe palaces where manufacturers and dealers meet to showcase tele products and related goods across the Netherlands East Indies and beyond.
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Amsterdam
Netherlands
Leipsic
Nishni Nemensoy
London
Lyons
Holland
Fomnen
Spirit of resilience after the storm in Mobile
A Mobile citywide reflection notes remarkable communal spirit as residents repair damaged roofs and windows, forget losses, and focus on rebuilding. Merchants report soaked stocks but many assets saved by elevating goods. Local business leaders remain hopeful, ready to help the needy and urge speed in repairs.
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Athelstan Club
Royal and
St. Michael Streets
Government and
St. ‘Emanuel Streets
Night hazard aboard dredgeboat leaves nine men adrift
Three boilermakers and six other workers were tied aboard a Pascagoula dredgeboat as a daybreak shift began. They stayed awake while the vessel drifted, cotton bales and coal cargo floated by the river. A call for help went unanswered due to no means of signaling assistance.
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Pascagoula
Err & Bruce Dry
Nanaia
Old Brick Warehouses Destroyed By Blown-Down Walls
Reports say several old brick warehouses had walls blown in by wind. Telegraph poles were down along the area near the station. heavy cables were damaged but intact.
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Joseph Wodney
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Oakdale
State and
Frankeets
Colored State Et
School of Medicine Department of
Alabama University
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
City Hospital
Sisters of Charity
Colored Department
Alabama Maternity Home
St. Anthony Street
United Sates Marine Hospital
Jackson Street
Daray Wen
Ceantery
California Women's
Prealdio
San
St. Francis Street
Mobile Eens Ton Town
Adams Street
St. Michael and Royal Streets
Brown-Morgan Coal Company
Apollo
City
Pinto Island
Gulf Dry Dock Company
Fairhope
Eelava St
Tea
Newpert
Kop
GALLS
FOF Oruesi Volonteer
National
Pat J. Lyons
G. M. van Tiew
van Liew
Sing Station
Serbia
Inge
George S. ‘Leatherbury
al Hee Cn Bay
Optinish
Jean
Mallory
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