United Fruit Offers Training Leave With Pay
The United Fruit Company announced it will grant any employee who wants to attend a summer military training camp four weeks of paid vacation plus a $75 expense allowance. Over 809 corporations have similar leave. The Military Training Camps Association sent a telegram to President Wilson urging swift passage of the army bill to fund training camp recruits. The association fears Congress may delay the appropriation for six weeks as enrollment at the camp climbs toward 10,000.
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New York
United Fruit Company
Military Training Camps Association
Wilson
Congress
News Briefs From Cities Across the Nation
Indianapolis hosts the forty fourth annual assembly of the United States Grand Imperial Council of the Red Cross of Constantine. Enrollment for Fort Benjamin Harrison summer military camps reaches 1 323 ensuring at least two camps. Waukegan reports murder trial jury still incomplete with eight sworn. New York notes three Edna officers arrive aboard Vestris from Montevideo after seizure near Antofagasta. New York reports strawberry crop valued at 20 million dollars, a new high. Nashville clergy join preparedness parade led by Bishop Thomas S Byrne. Roanoke Democrats select 24 delegates and a national committeeman for the convention. Civil engineer Charles Looysmith dies at 60 in New York. he introduced the freezing process for excavation. Louisville reports the death of Woodford Clay, 43, of Paris Kentucky, from apoplexy.
Bids Opened on Harbor Report Printing
Mayor Pat J. Lyons opened bids for printing the Ford Bacon Davis harbor report in Mobile. The lowest bid came from W B Delchamps Printing Co for 100 copies with maps and drawings at 209 dollars, plus 7.50 per additional 100 copies, bound in full cloth 0.75 per copy.
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Pat J. Lyons
Ford, Bacon , Davis
Mobile Harbor
W. B. Delchamps Company
W. B. Delchamps Printing Co
Messrs. Ford, Bacon & Davis
Harbor Shrovement
Gill Printing Company
J. E. Duval & Co
Powers Printing Company
Venetian Novel Ends With Wartime Wedding Twist
In a tale from Baron Franz von Gaudy, Emidio and Eufemia Pappigalli swap identities to join the Italian army during a Tyrolean invasion. They endure siege, battle, and injury before a wedding unites a lieutenant and a private, with their father walking beside them in the procession as a proudly weary family endures the war’s upheaval.
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Tyrol
Emidio
Eufemia
Andreas Hofer
Napoleon
France
Italy
Pappigalli
Papa
Mama Pappigalli
Toma
Pappigallis
Vicenza
Cavallo Heights
Rovereto
Trient
Padua
Castell-Viscardo
Papa Pappigalli
Baron Franz von Gaudy
Venice
Julius i W. Muller
Kitchener Faces War Conduct Questions In Commons
Earl Kitchener answered queries on war conduct in a packed House of Commons committee room after a promise by Harold Tennant. About 200 members attended including aggressive critics while the public was barred and Westminster was sealed to prevent leak of any information.
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London
Earl Kitchner
House of Commons
Harold J. Tennant
War Office
Westminster Palace
Weather forecast for Alabama and Mississippi
Fore cast from Washington reports Alabama and Mississippi as partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with likely local thunder showers. cooler conditions expected Saturday.
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Washington
Alabama
Mississippi
Catholic School Graduation at Immaculate Conception
The Immaculate Conception school will hold graduation exercises in the school auditorium at 4:80 this evening. The program includes Marche Pontificale, The Heavens are Telling, children's hour, recitations, solos, dances, and an address by Rt. Rev. FE. P. Allen. Lloyd's reports three British steamers sunk, Baron Tweedmouth, Julia Park, and Lady Ninian.
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Immaculate Conception School
Gounod
John Moulton
Haydn
Carmela Brincat
Anselm Hughes
Willie Flinn
Fred Hughes
Geibel
Gerard Neeley
Hermans
FE. P. Allen
London
Lloyd’s
Baron Tweedmouth
Julia Park
Lady Ninian
Two Murderers Executed in Electric Chair at Ossining
In Ossining New York on June 2 Roy Champlain and John Supe were executed in the electric chair at the state prison. Champlain killed his uncle Henry McGee at Wellsville in June last year. Supe murdered Vincenzo Abbattier at Wesbury on June 25 1915 amid a debt dispute.
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Ossining
N. Y
Roy Champlain
John Supe
Champlain
Henry McGee
Wellsville
Supe
Vincenzo Abbattier
Wesbury
Battling Nelson Operated On for Appendicitis
Detroit report says former lightweight champion Battling Nelson underwent appendicitis surgery yesterday. Doctors announced today he was recovering.
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Detroit
Mich
Battling Nelson
Nelson
Magnolia Cotton Press Plans Big Mobile Improvements
Officials of the Magnolia Press and Warehouse Company led by W D Nesbitt said the Mobile plant will see at least fifty thousand dollars in improvements as they anticipate more cotton shipments to Mobile. They expect substantial business growth and claim the company is financially strong enough to support the expansion.
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Srey
Magnolia Com Press and Warehouse Company
W. D. Nesbitt
Mobile
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