County Moves to Reballot on School Bonds
Mobile county school commissioners vote to ask county commissioners to call an early election on the 150000 school improvement bonds to let voters decide again. The bond sale had faced legal doubts but supporters push forward amid pension and tuition fee discussions and plans for a Fourth of July Preparedness parade.
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Board of Revenue
Pad
Mobile
Tan
S. 8Surphy
National Educational Association
Washington, D. C
A. G. Quinn
E. L. Russell
Russell School
Metta Thompson
Preparedness Parade Plan At Leinkauf School
A Leinkauf School Improvement Association committee urged the commissioners to establish a physical culture course next term with free military instruction from an A N G officer Colonel F M Dox. If approved, Miss Austin would teach the course twice weekly before and after school.
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Leinkauf School Improvement Association
F. M. Dox
Austin
Jif
Montgomery School Assessment Plan Fails in City
Montgomery public schools will receive $57,500 from the city treasury next scholastic year after the city commission increased appropriations by $2,500. An effort to fund via a small per pupil assessment failed due to strong opposition from labor groups and other unions.
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Montgomery
Ala
Ontgomery
City Commission
City of Education
Tral Labor Union
Windley Funeral Notice for Joseph L. Tindley
Windley announces funeral for Joseph Lester Tindley. Service from the family residence at the end of the car line tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock, Whistler Cemetery.
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Windley
Intorest
Joseph Lester Tindley
Whistler
IS. S. Convention Tonight in Oakdale Church
The Sixth district Sunday school convention meets tonight at 7:30 in Oakdale Methodist Church. Refreshments served. Rev. S. D. Monroe leads devotional, Rev. D. Y. Reger delivers address, Mrs. G. T. Hamilton sings, L. F. Grube presides, Irma Youngs recites, A. L. Bush lists delegates, Rev. R. L. Howell gives benediction.
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Oakdale Methodist Church
S. D. Monroe
D. Y. Reger
G. T. Hamilton
Ll. F. Grube
Irma Youngs
McCormick Chosen to Direct Wilson Campaign
Vance McCormick of Pennsylvania is named by President Wilson to chair the Democratic national committee, succeeding William F. McCombs. McCormick, seen as progressive and harmonizing party elements, is expected to solidify the campaign effort.
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Pennsylvania
Democratic National Committee
Washington
Vance McCormick
Wilson
William F. McCombs
McCormick
Homer S. Cummings
National Committee
Cummings
U S Note to Carranza Ready to Be Sharp
Secretary Lansing said a completed draft note to General Carranza replying to the demand for U S troops withdrawal from Mexico is ready. President Wilson and Lansing met and expect no immediate dispatch, aiming to avoid domestic political influence in any action.
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U. S
Carranza
Washington
Lansing
Wilson
Mexico
Note on Mexico policy rejects troop withdrawal until proper border policing
Secretary Lansing states the United States will not withdraw troops from Mexico until the de facto government shows willingness and ability to police border states. The note also rebukes the Mexican communication, regarded as discourteous. Carranza questions U S good faith and hints at political considerations in Washington.
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Lansing
Mexico
Carranza
Washington
Wilson
U S Likely to Send Clarifying Statement on Mexico Policy
Carranza seeks a formal U S statement on Mexican intentions, but officials plan a frame that shows de facto Mexican ruler can see no need. The note will emphasize Wilson era consistency, friendly tone toward Mexico, and that noncooperation by troops stemmed from Mexican hostility.
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Carranza
United States
Mexico
Wilson
Mobile transfers Wilson to Memphis as assistant city passenger agent
Wilson, assistant passenger agent in Mobile for Louisville and Nashville, moves to Memphis to serve as assistant city passenger and ticket agent. Max Lavelle, formerly with Mobile and Ohio, succeeds him in Mobile. Wilson arrived in Mobile five months ago from Pensacola and is noted for his rapid promotion.
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E. 8. Wilson
Mobile
Louisville
Nashville
Memphis
Max Lavelle
Ohio
Wilson
Pensacola
Democratic platform work pushed by sub committee
St Louis, June 15. After a three hour session the Democratic convention sub committee on resolutions announced a tentative platform draft likely finished late today for full committee. A woman suffrage plank at least as strong as the Republicans is expected, with over 1000 suggestions reviewed and some set aside.
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ST. Louis
Rainey
Illinois
Chicago
Ani
Stone
R. M. Thompson
Osterhaus
P. B. Lambert
Navy League
United States
Panama Canal
Canadians Cutting Timber for the British War Effort
Canadian lumbermen in England are harvesting forests to supply timber and by products for war needs. They survey land, blaze pine and fir to mark tracts and adapt milling output to military uses, from railway ties to matches, while Britain retains millions of acres of forest lands.
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London
England
Dominion
Crown Woods
20000 Mexican Women Ready to Resist Invasion
A Sonora Women’s Rifle Association president reports Gov Adolfo de la Huerta accepts the group’s offer of 20000 members as soldiers in case of US intervention. Gen Arnulfo Gomez will appoint instructors to drill women in numerous Sonora towns as rifle clubs form among men in Mazatlan Cañanea and other towns.
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Douglas
Ariz
Desaura V. de Tovar
Aguas Prieta
Sonora
Maccazari
Cananéa
Lelevier
Gold Booty Exhibit Highlights Moewe Loot in Hamburg
The German war exhibition in Hamburg featured The Gold Booty from the Moewe. Three of the fourteen original cases holding gold taken from the British steamship Appam were shown, filled with imitation bars.
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Amsterdam
Hamburg
Appam
Teuton Assaults At Verdun Halted In Defense Battle
Paris reports continued German bombardment of French positions north of Souville key to Verdun defenses. No infantry fighting occurred on either Meuse bank last night. On the Vosges front minor German attacks failed, according to the war office statement.
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Teuton
Verdun
Paris
Souville
French War Office
Meuse
Vosges
Greece Protests Allied Blockade As Public Rallies Back Constantine
In Athens on June 16 meetings denounced the allied blockade of Greek ports and expressed loyalty to King Constantine and confidence in Premier Sko loutis policy. Resolutions attacked allied neutral policy and praised Constantine as a glorious sovereign linking him to Constantinople rulers. A Zeppelin was destroyed in a storm near Chatelineau, Belgium, reported from Amsterdam via London.
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Athens
London
Greece
Constantine
Skoloudis
Grecian
England
France
United States of America
Constantine XII
Constantinople
Amsterdam
Chatelineau
Belgium
Frontier
Austrian retreat tightens Italian frontier amid Verona capture report
Geneva dispatch notes as of June 7 Austrian forces abandon 35 to 46 square miles of Italian territory to avoid envelopment. An Austrian general governing Verona province is reported captured at Dubno by Russian forces, with his troops.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Paris
Innsbruck
Verona
Dubno
Robert Jenkins Fined for Prohibition Law Violation
Robert Jenkins paid a $50 fine and costs for violating the prohibition law to Judge Chamberlain in the inferior criminal court Tuesday. Percy Atkins pled guilty to the same offense and was sent to the county road for twenty days. Due to illness, a case against T. C. Barrett was continued until July 12. Joe Williamson’s case was continued until June 22.
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Robert Jenkins
Chamberlain
Percy Atkins
T. C. Barrett
Joe Williamson
Citrus bulletins omit Mobile and Alabama, Chamber protests
A protest against alleged discrimination by the federal agricultural department moves forward. The Mobile and Alabama omission in citrus bulletins issued by Secretary of Agriculture Houston’s office is cited by the Chamber of Commerce led action. Secretary Clemens notes the state is excluded from the bulletins.
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Mobile
Alabama
Federal Agricultural Department
Chamber of Commerce
W. M. Clemens
David F. Houston
Chamber Activists Demand Better Treatment for Mobile County
The chamber pledges to press Secretary Clemens on Tuesday to secure improved consideration for Mobile County. Local leaders say residents deserve better from state actions and will pursue a formal meeting and clear commitments.
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Clemens
Sunday School Excursion to Fairhope Chartered Bus
A Sunday school group of a church plans an excursion to Fairhope on Saturday June date. They will depart from the foot of Dauphin Street at 9 o'clock in the morning and return late in the afternoon aboard a chartered vehicle.
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Fairhope
Apollo Es
Dauphin Eer
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