Nesbitt outlines Mobile compress plan and new offices
At a directors meeting W D Nesbitt announced rules for improvements and new offices at the corner of Water streets. The plan includes two additional cotton compresses with high capacity and water and rail access to Mobile. Nesbitt says the expansion will boost cotton trade across east Mississippi Alabama and north Florida and reduce costs through compression and storage facilities.
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Héiders
Nesbitt
Hesham
Bovile
Panerons Company
W. D. Nesbitt
Atheringes
Mississippi
Alabama
Florida
Mobile
Aden Company
Nesbit
Bir
Chattanooga
Birmingham
Albert P. Bush
H. K. Milner
Messrs. Nesbitt
Milner
Birming
Y M C A Changes Athletic Schedule
The Y M C A adjusts programs with Professor A P directing classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5 to 6 o clock. Elementary and swimming lessons are offered and swimming replaces the 5:30 gym session. Most senior classes are discontinued except the 8:10 and the fall term will resume later. A Volunteer Life Corps meeting will be held in the Y M C A room at 6 PM with President Overton urging full attendance.
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Omer
Y. M. Mer
Maran
Corps of Mobile
Rheims Cathedral To Be Left As It Is
Paris dispatch reports the Rheims Cathedral will not be repaired after the war. The government and Petit Journal say it will be kept as a silent witness to German shell damage. The site will be sheltered temporarily and roofed later, but current plans are abandoned to honor the government’s wish.
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Rheims
Paris
Petit Journal
Fine Arte
Mexicans Detain Oil Official Across Tampico Harbor
W H Green general superintendent of the Huesteca Oil Company of Tampico was taken aboard the American gunboat Marietta en route from Vera Cruz to Galveston. Tampico officials reportedly forced him to surrender funds and he appealed to U S naval authorities for protection after refusing to pass over the money.
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Port Aranbas
Texas
W. H. Green
Huesteca Oil Company
Tampico
Mexico
Marietta
Vera Cruz
Galveston
Carrenga
Green
Tampico Harbor
American Outpost Attacked Near Brownsville
Two Mexicans fired on a U S military outpost near an irrigation plant two miles west of Brownsville at midnight. The Americans returned fire with about twenty shots, the attackers fled and were pursued. No American casualties were reported. it is unknown if the assailants were wounded.
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Brownsville
Texas
Trains Collide. 36 Mexicans Die Near Mexico City
A head on collision between two trains at Tlalnepantla, seven miles north of Mexico City, leaves thirty six dead and over forty seriously injured. General Cenobio Ochoa, commander of the Fourth Sonora division, is killed in another crash in Magdalena Sonora involving an automobile and a locomotive.
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Mexico City
Tlalnepantla
Cenobio Ochoa
Sonora
Magdalena
Cavalry Horses Treated Like Racers At Field HQ
Cavalry horses in Lonia Dublin Mexico receive care rivaling that of racehorses. Shade trees shelter them in heat and motor trains deliver alfalfa and supplies to optimize their condition and mobility for service.
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Coolonia
Dublan
Mex
Columbus
N. M
Georgia Mobilization Nears Completion At State Camp
In Macon Georgia on June 29 the national guard units from Georgia expected to be completed as the first regiment of infantry the second squadron of cavalry and an unattached cavalry troop plus a field hospital corps already arrived at the state camp for service.
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Macon
National Guard
Geor
Whistler Lodge Elects Officers For New Term
Mechanics Lodge No 69 I O O F elected N F Felder as noble grand W Tucker as vice guard M B Hays as secretary and W B Saxon as treasurer at a Tuesday meeting. Knights of Pythias Lodge No 127 chose Gilbert R Bridge as chancellor commander John Ormerd as vice chancellor commander and other officers. A wedding was held Tuesday at 8 15 pm at the priest's parlor uniting James T Smith and Minnie Shenesey with guests attending.
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Mechanics Lodge No
N. F. Felder
Noble Grand
W. ©. Tucker
M. B. Hays
W. B. Saxon
Isaac Greorge
New Augusta
Misas
Ellen Delaune
Bernice
Mildred Roche
T. G. Saxon
East St. Louis
Iil
Whistler Lodge No. 127
Knights of Pythias
Gilbert R. Bridge
John Ormerd
Thomas H. Seabury
James R. Fawcett
Thomas B. Altman
Jerome H. Tomlinson
Nicholas C. Tew
John Tew
Ernest A. Norwood
Father Genet
James T. Smith
Minnie Shenesey
Cure for Sick Headache Through Stomach Care
A historic health note claims sick headache is almost always caused by stomach issues. It describes relief from a disordered stomach using Chamberlain's Tablets and suggests the remedy is widely available.
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Chamberlain's
Major W Millsaps Dead at 83 in Jackson
Major W Millsaps, 83, Mississippi financier and founder of Millsaps College, died at his North State street home after a monthlong illness of dysentery. A native Mississippian and Depauw graduate, he practiced law in Pine Bluff, served in the Confederate army, and amassed an estimated fortune of $2,000,000. Funeral arrangements pending.
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Jackson
Miss
Major W. Millsaps
Mississippi
Millsaps College
North State Street
Major Millsaps
Depauw University
Law School
Pine Bluff
Ark
Hobson Backs Prohibition as National Defense Factor
Richmond P. Hobson of Alabama urged prohibition as a factor of preparedness at the Anti-Baloon League gathering in Indianapolis He argued science shows sobriety preserves a nation and called for government departments including the cabinet diplomatic service and civil service to set examples by abstaining from alcohol.
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Indianapolis
Richmond P. Hobson
Alabama
Anti-Baloon League
Diplomatic Service
Civil Service
Infants Paralysis Epidemic Strikes New York
An outbreak of infantile paralysis sweeps New York with 206 Brooklyn cases and 12 deaths in Manhattan. The health department fields a 20 expert team and orders eight week home quarantines for affected houses. Dr. Simon Flexner assists Rockefeller Institute researchers in tracing transmission.
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New York
Health Department
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Thirtty
Simon Flexner
Rockefeller Institute
American Women Plan to Give Soldiers Useful Articles
New York report shows the National Patriotic Committee under Miss Kelly aims to prevent sending useless items to troops. The group seeks cooperation with relief organizations and notes twenty six state committees are formed to assist soldier care.
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New York
National Patriotic Committee
Miss
Hogan Receives Ten Year Sentence For Robberies
Yan cey Hogan was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary after two trials in city court. He terrorized residents of Toulminville and Prichard, holding up J W Crab tree and Willis Gulley. Gulley testified Hogan seized $5.50 while brandishing a gun. The defendant showed concern only after the verdict, with the first trial for assault with a gun.
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Yancey Hogan
Hogan
Toulminville
Prichard
J. W. Crabtree
Willis Gulley
Gulley
Hon
Troops raid near Camp Montgomery confiscate liquor
Soldiers raided two alleged blind tigers near the state mobilization grounds in Alabama and seized sixty bottles of beer and a small amount of whiskey. Lynch was arrested on an alleged liquor sale charge. A signal corps unit indicated readiness to entrain, lacking animals, with possible moves to El Paso or San Antonio.
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Montgomery
Ala
Lynch
York
Meises Signal Corps
Signal Corps
el Paso
San Antonio
Chamberlain's Tablets Endorsed by Seneca Falls Man
Fred E B Hunt of Seneca Falls New York says Chamberlain's Tablets are the best medicine he ever used for stomach and liver issues. The advertisement notes obdtatinable availability nationwide.
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Chamberlain
Fred EB. Hunt
Seneca Falls
Chamberlain's
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