Tax on munition makers proposed by Havener
Ashington July 28 Coronet Clyde Havener of Iili proposes a bill to tax private war munitions makers to reduce deficits and push toward government production. He argues private output profits distort costs and that government plants could enlarge armed forces without extra appropriations. He envisions a step toward government ownership of war supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilson Gardner
Ashington
Cornet m Clyde H. Havenner
Iili
United
Tavenner
United States
Pass Ermint
Cotton market steady as spot and futures hold gains
Liverpool cotton reports steady spot with good middling at 5.50 and futures mostly unchanged. Sales reach 14 000 with 2 000 receipts and 2 000 for speculation and export. Futures show narrow moves across July to May contracts with prices around 5.10 to 6.61 and various month spreads.
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Liverpool
Hadad Pellagra Cured Says Farmer After Treatment
A letter from Hillaboro Alabama quotes J W Turner praising a Pellagra remedy. The message claims complete recovery and urges others to consult the “resourceful” Baughn for a free Pellagra booklet describing symptoms such as red sunburned hands peeling skin sore mouth and choking mucus with gastrointestinal distress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baughn
Thaughn
Traveling Edward Again On His Way
A colorful tale follows Edward the traveler as he rides trains from New Orleans toward Birmingham with a railroad ticket in his pocket and a quart of red squash, bringing merriment to Mobile where he earns banishment from the city. Police and court scenes follow with minor delinquency cases, while a large outdoor concert in Bienville Square draws about 1,500 spectators enjoying the Infantry Band.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama
New Orleans
Edward
Birmingham
Mobile
Ed Winng
New
Lawrence
Crendaw Castle
Recorder Edington
Edwin
Dolly Hays
Darktown
Dean
Curry
Bertha Monk
Castle Crenshaw
Agnes Gale
Beatrice Mims
Lilly Smith
Lily
Pierce
Foster Cravey
Tom Shepard
Frank Carraway
William Near
Bienville Square
L. W. Savage
Chamber of Commerce
Beogee
Policemen Seize Contraband Beer Poured Into Sewers
Detectives Harris and Newbern find twenty dozen bottles of beer on North Cedar street. Chief Crenshaw and his men open and pour the liquor into the city sewers after no claimant appears, following Judge Edington's order confiscating the material.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crenshaw
Harris and Newbern
North Cedar Street
Edington
Kitchener Visits British Front in France
Field Marshal Lord Kitchener toured the British front in France, reviewing troops and trench conditions at Ypres and Pilkem. He viewed a parade of Indian cavalry, observed wrecked towns, and witnessed a trench assault that regained 250 yards of German trenches with about 80 prisoners and two machine guns.
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France
Lord Kitchener
Kitchener
Ypres
Pilken
Zinc concentrates bring to Mobile via Swedish steamer Tasmanie
The Swedish steamer Tasmanie docked with 6 001 tons of zinc concentrates from Port Pirie Australia and began unloading. After bunkering coal in Mobile she will sail to Galveston to load cotton for Sweden. The ship, 3 513 tons, travels with wireless and passenger accommodations and has circled the globe since February.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Pirie
Australia
Galveston
Texas
Sweden
Gothenburg
Cape Town
South Africa
Melbourne
Panama Canal
Carson
Mobile
United States
Ardanmhor
Natal
Munson Steamship Company
Buenos Aires
Montevideo
Storfond
Mobile Liners, Inc
Orubian
Mallory Steamship Company
Port Arthur
New York
C. W. Hempstead
Christiane
Turner Terminals
James W. Paul
Southern Steamship Company
Pinto Dry Docks
A. Montes & Co
Evening Social at Williams Home in Oakdale
The Williams home on South Broad Street hosted a social Tuesday night for Stanley Williams's friends. May Venturini played piano, Cecil Moog sang, and pink oleanders plus ferns decorated the dining room where an ice course was served. Guests included Sarah Seymour, Linda Moog, Katie Puckett, and several others with Stanley Williams, Cecil Moog, Willis Puckett, and Frank Venturan among the attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakdale
Ala
Jo B. Williams
South Broad Street
Stanley
Sarah Seymour
Linda Moog
Katie Puckett
May Venturini
Trixie Venturini
Bettie Sue Exum
Dorothy Morgan
Vivian Fulford
Aline Fulford
Sadie Bess Williams
Nadine Brewton
Lillie Belle Brewton
Stanley Wil- Cécil Moog
Willis Puckett
John Bullen
Anthony Bowab
George Bowab
Hilbert Fulford
Edwin Yutt
Marshall
Langan
Frank Venturan Chadtek
Hilli
Rain Delays Grand Circuit Races Postponed
Detroit July 28. Grand Circuit races delayed by rain with no word of completion by today. Berlin notes American envoy to the foreign office asking about the Orduna submarine attack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Berlin
Foreign Office
Orduna
Uncle Wig gily and the Hammock Cooling Adventure
Uncle Wiggily the rabbit, nursing a heat wave, seeks relief with ice cream and a hammock. Flappy Longneck fans him, a fox plots, snakes become hammock ropes, and Uncle Wiggily learns every creature has a use while keeping cool in the shade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nurse Jane
Flappy
Longneck
White Swan
Flappy Poy
Uncle Wiggily
Swan Boy
Mr. Whitewash
Rabbit
Uncle
Fox
Uncle Wigsily
Nettleboro and Chance Social Roundup and Mall Victory
Nettleboro residents host and visit kin across Chance, Fulton, Lower Peach Tree, and Pleasant Hill. A Mall game sees Scyrene and Nettleboro meet with Nettleboro triumphing 18 to 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nettleboro
Ala
Daisy Clarke
Milledgeville
AS. B. Parnell
Sarah Hawkins
Chance
A. S. Davis
W. G. Kennedy
Mattie Estelle Davis
R. L. Kennedy
Walter
Charlie Stripling
Lower Peach Tree
Grove Hill
L. Allen
Pleasant Hill
Allen
W. E. Davis
Beck Kennedy
Scyrene
Carrie Garrick
Massey Bradford
E. B. Davis
Mary Rebecca
E. B
R. G. Bouthall
Hestle
Renfroe Benson
Camp Hugh
R. K. Benson
Mattie Jackson
Fulton
A. Benson
Hollis Kennedy
Fred Bradford
BE. B. Davis
Mattie Estelle
BE. B
J. A. Stripling
Lena Larimore
Whatley
W. M. Davis
Mal Gates
Lower
Peach Tree
Manah Dozier
Strother Davis
Arrivals at City Hotels Include Notables and Officials
The Battle House and other hotels list guests from multiple states through the city. Notables include T B Turner Birmingham and Sam B Williamson Atlanta, with leaders like Representative Bart B Chamberlain visiting to discuss local courts. Railroad official J A Caviezel reports good lines to York. A Colorado postcard update from Captain E J Grove notes Denver’s parks and amusements.
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Battle House
T. B. Turner
Birmingham
Ala
Sheffield Cloak
Nashville
M. E. Madden
Selma
A. B. Gwin
New Orleans
F. R. Robertson
Columbus
Miss. Bienville
S. Griffin
Pensacola
Fla
N. Voretos
Montgomery
M. C. Griffin
JH. Heflin
Thomas W. Lyon
B. FP. Giles
Tuscaloosa
W. Jackson
E. P. Magee
Laurel
Miss
C. G. Knapp
Atlanta
J.P. Fintey
J. M. Agee
Birminghamla
D. W. Lunn
Washington
BD. C
E. J. Clark
Miss Williams
G. W. Roberson
C. R. Bryant
Stockton
M. LeBarron
Wilmer
St. Andrew
N. Owen
Gulfport
William van Size
E. 8. Hughes
H. W. Wadsworth
Tillie
Willard-Summers
York
V. McLeod
Jackson
F. T. Stimpson
Choctaw Bluff
Windsor
G. H. McKee
L. Venezella
Farnsdale
Herbert Andrews
J. A. Caviezel
Alabama, Tennessee & Northern Railroad
Caviezel
E. J. Grove
Colorado
Denver
Boy Scouts to Hold Special Exercises at Lyons Park Grounds
R E Daly Sr scout commissioner of Mobile announces a Boy Scout day at Lyons Park playgrounds with permission from Miss Austin. Nonmembers may join if they follow rules for first aid drowning rescue signaling health camping fire fighting handicraft natural history swimming and related drills. Date to be announced.
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R. E. Daly, Sr
Boy Scouts of Mobile
Lyons Park
Miss Austin
Camp Fire Girl
The Tsetse Pest and a Remedy Named Sweet Dreams
A travel tale about Africa’s tsetse fly and sleeping sickness leads to a man claiming a cure called Sweet Dreams. He markets it as a mosquito repellent in screw top bottles for one dollar, with druggists offering refunds if it fails.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Africa
Leelanaw's Men Not Complaining After Sinking
Aberdeen dispatch says Leelanaw crew survived after their ship was shelled bombed and torpedoed by a German submarine. Crewmen describe being boarded by Germans sailed sixty miles on a submarine and spent twelve hours rowing to Kirkwall then Dundee.
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Aberdeen
London
Leelanaw
Kirwall
Leelanan
Delkes
Kirkwall
Laurel Woman Identifies Negro Assailant in Lynching Threat
In Laurel Mississippi on July 28 officials guard the jail to avert a threatened lynching of Lonnie Everett a black man arrested Saturday eighteen miles southwest of town. Mrs Julian Christmas identified Everett as the assailant who attacked her on a farm, then fled.
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Laurel
Miss
Lonnie Everett
Here
Julian
Christmas
Grand Bay Cannery to Open Soon Praised by Grower
Cc H Meyers of Grand Bay said during a Mobile visit that the large Grand Bay canning factory will soon begin operations. He credited the Grand Bay Chamber of Commerce for aiding the opening and accelerating the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Bay
Cc. H. Meyers
Mobile
Two Mobile Traveling Men Report Improved Business
Two seasoned salesmen, Mr. Monaghan and Morris Gardner, describe returning from Southern tours. Gardner notes Mobile merchants are doing better and business is improving in Mobile. He traveled across Georgia Florida and Alabama reporting improved conditions in the south.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Monaghan
Morris Gardner
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
South
Mobile
Mr. Gardner
Sheriff Faces Pellagra Dilemma Over Jail Inmates
Sheriff W. H. Holcombe sought medical help from City Health Officer Charlies A. Mohr regarding two negro women with pellagra in the county jail. He fears spread to other prisoners and suggests converting the old county jail on Congress Street into a hospital for pellagra cases. One victim returned from the city hospital is now a sheriff’s charge needing special nourishment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Holcombe
Charlies A. Mohr
Weather and river outlook for shipments and region forecasts
Shippers are advised to protect against 96 degree heat for 36 hour shipments moving north east and west. The Tombigbee river and its branches and the Alabama basin show little expected change in the next two days. The barometer remains high east of the Mississippi with showers and moderate air in the upper Great Lakes, warm fair weather elsewhere. Maximums hit 96 in Atlanta and New Orleans, 92 in St Louis.
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Tombigbee River
Alabama
Mississippi River
Upper Lakes
Atlanta
New Orleans
St. Louis
North Pacific Coast
San Francisco
Rocky Mountains
Missouri Valley
Albert Ashenberger
Weather Bureau
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Harth
Alan Hale and
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Reel
Doggies
Lubin
Recorder
Beatty Co, Inc
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Dye Works
Concepticn Beil
Hore
Creation
Wee Pees
Lion Settan
Chi
Marine News
BY Howard A. Garis
Crawly-Awly
Mud Turtle
Nettleboro Personals
Boy Scouts
Jacobson
Palm Beach
Atterbury
Jacobson’s
Acorson
Dauphin Street
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