Balkan nations move toward early action in war talks
Reports from Berlin and London describe Aegean and Balkan diplomacy as Greece Bulgaria and Roumania plan meetings in Athens while Turko Bulgarian frontier talks near completion. A Roumanian note offers neutrality terms tied to Bukowina and Danube borders, with German backing and a one month reply window amid Dardanelles concerns.
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Berlin
London
Sofia
Turkey
Bulgaria
Roumania
Austria
Acas
Times
Bucharest
Bukowina
Sereth
Brasse
Kronstadt
Pruth
Danube
Iron Gates
Austria-Hungary
Bessarabia
Germany
Umania
Transylvania
Dardanelles
Important School Board Meeting Set for Tomorrow
The Mobile school commission will hold a July meeting at Barton Academy to appoint city teachers and conduct routine business. Reappointment of country school teachers is slated for August, with the agenda limited to this matter and standard items.
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Board of School Commissioners
Barton Academy
Program of Concert in Bienville Square
Program for Tuesday night by Drago's concert band in Bienville Square lists March La Fiesta One Step Jane Fox Trot Down Home Rag Two Step Rebecca of Sunny.
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Drago
Bienville Square
Jane
Rebecca
Sunny
War news notes tangled on Polish front and sourceless talks
Reports from the Austro-Hungarian Krasnik area show contradictory claims of a German backward swing and possible retreat toward Warsaw. Field Marshal von Mackensen's silence fuels speculation of a strategic halt. Meanwhile German efforts at Souchez near Lille hint at reinforcements, with Roumania being courted by both sides for neutrality or alliance offers.
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London
Krasnik
Poland
Teutons
von Mackenzen
Warsaw
Petrograd
Marshal von Mackenzen
Souchez
Lille
France
Belgium
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Balkan States
Roumania
Bucharest
Russia
Transylvania
Bessarabia
Bukowina
Pruth
Sofia
Conaers
Nople
Police fail to locate Pearce over bomb claims on ships
New Orleans July 13 police announce failure to locate Pearce who warned in a letter of bombs aboard the British ships Baron Napier and Howth Head. Baron Napier radioed from sea that no bombs found aboard. Howth Head lacking wireless, expected to reach Norfolk for bunkering before Irish ports.
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New Orleans
Pearce
Baron Napier
Howth
Norfolk
Trade Balance Rises to 17 674 214 For Week End July 10
The Commerce Department reports a favorable trade balance of 17,674,214 for the week ending July 10. Despite only five business days, the surplus exceeds the same week in June by over 3,000,000.
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Washington
Department of Commerce
Committee extends deadline for port charge talks with pilots
A Monday meeting between the Chamber of Commerce directors Port Charges Committee and Mobile Bay Bar Pilots Association postponed the Tuesday hearing to Thursday at 7 30 PM. Directors chair J M Walsh said the committee will reconvene to obtain clearer data and report to the board. Attendees included Stewart Brooks A L Staples Captain Sid Dorgan Captain John Dorgan and Captain Joseph Norville.
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Atlers
Board of Directors
Chamber of Commercé
Mobile Bay, and
Bar Pilots’ Association
J. M. Walsh
Chamber
Walsh
Stewart Brooks
A. L. Staples
Memeotion
Port Charges Committee
Giants Aeroplanes Reported by Germans
London dispatch says the Daily Mail correspondent in Basle reports six giant aeroplanes completed by Germany of a new type. Each machine will carry twenty men and mount four machine guns. They are described as having eight motors and four propellers.
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London
Daily Mail
Basle
Switzerland
Americans Used as Shield by German Submarine
A Gulfport, Mississippi story claims the American steamer Normandy was used as a shield by a German submarine off the Irish coast to ambush and sink the Russian ship Lea. Eleven of twenty five aboard were Russians, including three stewardesses, with two Americans among the survivors. The German captain allegedly threatened to destroy the Normandy unless he complied.
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Liverpool
Aetnae Normandy
Gulfport
Mise
Normandy
Nik
Walter Emery
North Carolina
Clark
Sierra
Harry
Philadelphia
Manchester
Edison to Head Navy Inventors Board
Thomas A. Edison accepts Secretary Daniels offer to head an advisory civilian inventors board for the navy bureau of invention and development. The plan aims to improve submarines and aeroplanes and to assess widespread civilian ideas for naval use. Hutchison reported Edison regards the appointment as a duty and will aid the nation as needed.
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Washington
Thomas A. Edison
Daniels
Bureau of Invention and Development
Navy Department
Naval
Mr. Edison
Navy
Edison
Hutchison
Reese Hutchison
Ay . Edison
Hig
Ar Gg
Ald
Canvassing to regulate coal production in provinces urged
Berlin reports the bundesrat authorized central provincial authorities to form a coalition of mine owners to enforce compulsory production and sale of coal. Other items note death of Princess Marie Radziwill at 75, Canary Island shocks feared volcanic eruption, Winona Assembly assets auctioned, Pope Benedict meeting Serbian minister, Rear Admiral Stephen Rand dies at 71, Liberty Bell seen in Oregon, Grimsby trawlers sunk by submarines, 700 ton submarine contract for Spain, and Denver death of geologist A Austin Holmes.
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London
Berlin
Bundesrath
Prin Marie Radziwill
Anton
Assembly
Paris
Havas
Rome
Benedict
M. Gavrilovitch
Washington
Stephen Rand
Vermont
Pendleton
Ore
Oregon
Baker
Withycombe
North Sea
Grimsby
Quincy
Fore River Shipbuilding Corporation
Denver
J Austin Holmes
Federal Bureau of Mines
Mosquito Epidemic Forces Sailor From Perch in Gulfport
Gulfport reports its worst mosquito outbreak in years as billions swarm from Louisiana swamps. Sailors on reconnaissance in port Africa area struggled with heavy bites. one sailor lost his balance in a hammock on the Italian Olona, Corrso Giovano, and fell to the deck.
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Gulfport
Miss
Lake Borgne
Louisiana
Recce
Lort
Corso Giovano
Harbor Commission Debate Highlights State Claims Action
The recess committee heard relief requests for special state funds from a previous administration. Claims totaling more than 41 000 were paid by warrants, now in Attorney General William L. Martin’s hands for collection. Auditor C Brooks Smith and former Treasurer John Purifoy seek relief from the legislature, arguing payments were in good faith for actual services. The committee paused on the bill affecting the Mobile harbor commission, delaying action until today.
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William L. Martin
C. Brooks Smith
John Purifoy
Aed Ith
Smith
Mobile
Bulgarian King Ferdinand Escape Attempt Leads to Death Sentences
London reports two men charged with an attempted assassination of King Ferdinand of Bulgaria. The Daily Mail’s London correspondent notes the death sentences are the first news from London on the plot.
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London
Ferdinand
Bulgaria
Daily Mail
Wal
Attempt to Waylay Auto With British Ambassador
Sir Cecil Spring-Rice the British ambassador was in an automobile when six men tried to stop the Morgan car the night after Frank Holt attacked J P Morgan on July 3 James Patterson a Morgan chauffeur notified police The ambassador left the Glen Cove home as the men appeared with a car and attempted to halt the Morgan machine Patterson sped away causing the assailants to jump aside and flee in pursuit in their own car
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New York
Cecil Spring-Rice
Frank Holt
J. P. Morgan
James Patterson
Morgan
Glen’Cove
Patterson
90 000 British Workmen Enroll With Lloyd George
London July 18 after two weeks of bureau openings Lloyd George gave labor a chance to enroll as munitions operatives. A total registration reached ninety thousand men and future registration will be through the labor exchange.
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London Daily Chronicle
David Lloyd-George
Lord Kitchener
Stan’ B. von Donop
Ordnance
Lloyd-George
London
Labor Exchange
Punishment for Charging Excessive Prices Extended
Munich reports that an order setting one year imprisonment for dealers who charge excessive prices for daily consumption has been extended from the first corps district to the entire Bavarian kingdom. The directive originated in Bavaria and was circulated via London.
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Bavarian Kingdom
Munich
Bavaria
London
Kingdom of
Merritt Faces Threat as Alabama Probe Report Debated
Henry Merritt received a warning that he would be assassinated as he prepared to present the Merritt committee report on Alabama convict lease and graft. The probe urged abolishing convict leases by 1918 and creating a state prison commission with a public accounting system.
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Montgomery
Ala
Henry Merritt
Merritt
Alabama
Merritt Legislative Recess
State
State Board of
Lacy
Jo Purifoy
House
Senate
Department of Agriculture
Department of Pure Food and Drugs
Mexico City Sees First Cable Message and Train Run
American Consul Silliman reports the first telegraph message reached Mexico City and the first through train from Vera Cruz is expected today. Large work crews repair the telegraph lines and rapid communication is anticipated. railroad links await full operation tomorrow with through trains continuing via Puebla.
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Washington
Silliman
Vera Cruz
Mexico City
Puebla
British Sub Sinks Armenian Sinks Hope of Sailors
Four survivors of the mule ship Armenian, sunk by a German submarine June 28, arrived in Newport News. The negro muleteers Thomas Harding of Baltimore W B Durbin of South Boston and Tom Green and William Ross of Richmond said German sailors kicked them off the submarine while they cried out.
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Newport News
Thomas Harding
Baltimore
W. BE. Durbin
Boston
Tom Green
William Ross
Richmond
City Dispensary Records Strong June Figures
Dr. C A Mohr reported city health work for June noting regular visits to the city prison for medical care and visits to City Hospital. On June 9 one immunity dose of anti tetanic serum was ordered for a patient. Dispensary treated 1 441 patients that month with various figures listed for Alabama and other payments. Summary reflects active routine public health service and patient care.
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C. A. Mohr
City
City Hospital
Alabama
Harid
Hartwell Seeks Five Million for Mobile Harbor Terminals
In Montgomery on July 3 Special Senator Hartwell introduced Pillans harbor bills pushing a state harbor commission plan. He aims to cede sand islands to Mobile, empower terminal and rail construction, and authorize a Mobile bond issue to fund the port program. The package mirrors Inge Armbrecht 1910 ideas with a two cent harbor charge and a statewide port authority to manage Mobile Bay, river and tributaries.
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Montgomery
Ala
Hartwell
Pillans
Sand Islands
Mobile
Peaga
Sant Islands
Choctaw Point
State Commission
Alabama
Inge-Armbrecht
Chamber
Sur
S Harbor Commission
Fort Morgan
Mobile Bay
Mobile River
River Commission
Auth
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