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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1916
Page
2
Australians in the British army press the offensive toward Pozieres as guns roar day and night. The rising sun badge and slouch hat mark the South Australian troops charging German trenches in darkness, facing hard resistance and heavy shellfire.
A July report from the Overseas News Agency refutes claims that the German dreadnoughts Kaiser and Kronprinz were torpedoed and sunk at Jutland. The Kaiser was lightly hit but not sunk. Kronprinz reportedly escaped damage with no loss of life. Also noted is the death of former U.S. Senator Thomas M. Patterson in Denver at age 77.
A short phrase notes that a daily portion of a certain food provides both fuel and comfort. The text emphasizes practical nourishment and reassurance from regular consumption.
Puss Junior, in a 1916 tale by David Cory, enters the city of Babylon and seeks supper and shelter as vesper bells ring. A maid notices him and asks about the children in the house, while the cat awaits a safe, warm place.
A small boy in a nightgown races through the street crying for the children to be in bed. Puss Junior follows, confronts a maid at a house, and enters after introducing himself as Puss in Boots Junior. Wee Willie Winkle returns downstairs calling for the children.
Eight men were injured when a home-seekers' special train collided with a troop train near Bay City, Texas. Four hurt troopers are from the Second battalion of the First Minnesota artillery en route to Brownsville. Injured include Corporal Grant R. Jacobson of Minneapolis and Privates J Horgan, K Ryan of St Paul, and L Jacobson of Minneapolis with facial, arm and leg injuries.
Flood warnings extended for rivers in South Carolina and neighboring Atlantic coast states. The Weather Bureau expects continuing warnings Monday and Tuesday in parts of the Carolinas and Florida, then Monday in Georgia and Alabama, with generally fair weather on Tuesday.
A two day Alabama Press Association meeting will start in Birmingham on Thursday July 27. Speakers include General J B Stanley of Greenville Dr Erwin Craighead editor of The Mobile Register W H Hanson of the Birmingham News W T Sheehan of the Montgomery Advertiser E W Barrett of the Birmingham Age Herald and George M Cruikshank of the Birmingham Ledger. The Birmingham editors promise an elaborate program of entertainment for visiting editors.
London July 24 Sir Frederick E Smith attorney general has indicated to Casements solicitors he cannot grant his fiat to allow Casements appeal against the death sentence for high treason in connection with the Dublin rebellion to be carried to the house of lords.
Norfolk on July 24. The coroner will investigate the death of Mrs Z E Keister who was found burned to death in the attic of the couple’s home. Her husband, a wealthy real estate man, shot himself and is in a local hospital with a chance of recovery.
Napoleonic lodge and Pythian groups meet at evening hours in Napolenville through Mobile venues. I O O B I O O F unions hold sessions at local halls while boards and trade unions gather at the Court House and Central Trades Council Hall.
New York July 24 The Rev James Horace Markey a Chicago priest and Richard Ebbett a Nebraska native who moved to Ireland were ordered by British authorities to leave the country upon arrival aboard the steamer St Paul from England Ebbett a Spanish American war veteran says police seized a Malay sword at Old Castle Ireland on May 20 and he was later arrested and deported
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