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The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Mar 20, 1914

Page

11

Satsuma Growth Citrus Disease Could Be Stopped

In Mobile county a blight attacking trifoliata stock on Satsuma orange trees is identified as a fungal growth. Florida experts led by E W Berger say the disease can be fought before serious damage to South Alabama and Florida citrus. Auburn entomologist E A Wolf collected samples for analysis.

Satsuma Mobile E. W. Berger Florida Berger J. A. Dew Alabama South State Experiment Station Florida University Gainesville Fla E. A. Wolf Auburn Experiment Station M Mobile Auburn

Kansas Farmers Sue U S Over Irrigation Lands

One hundred ten Kansas farmers sue the United States for 370000 seeking to clear land of government lien after a failed Deerfield irrigation plant. The suit names Secretary of the Interior as a party as Congress refused relief and the plant, guaranteed to provide two acre feet of water annually, was shut down in the third year.

Associated Press Hutchinson Kas United States Deerfield Congress Secretary of the Interior Lane

Conference fails to reach settlement with shipping firms

The conference of trans Atlantic shipping companies in Berlin ended without a settlement. British and Continental steamship representatives adjourned to meet again on May 1 in Cologne. No tangible basis for next negotiations emerged.

Associated Press Berlin Cologne

Women Tribute to Dead Heroes at University of Alabama

A granite boulder memorial honoring Confederate veterans and the Tuscaloosa cadet battalion is being installed on the University of Alabama campus near the old rotunda site. Weighing over twelve tons, the seven and a half foot monolith will bear a bronze tablet and be unveiled May 13 by the Alabama division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

Alabama Division of the United Daughters of the

Sermon Emphasizes Life's Evening by Rev Bateman

The Rev. R J Bateman of Troy Alabama preached at First Baptist on Life and its end. He urged youth cherish faith and seek God to light the candle of faith tonight and pilot the soul. Five confessions of faith reported. special children's service set for Friday afternoon with revival ending that evening.

Troy Ala First Baptist Church Bateman God

John L. Lawson Killed by Elevator Fall in Chicago

Chicago journalist John L. Lawson, hailed as a top reporter, died after stepping into a freight elevator shaft in the Chicago Press Club building. In New York, archaeologist Adolph Bandelier, 74, died in Madrid after a life shaping American archaeology with extensive research across the Southwest and Mexico.

John Bk, Lawson Associated Press Chicago John L. Lawson Chicago Press Club New York Madrid Spain Adolph Francis A. Bandelier United States Bandelier The Historical Society Archaeology Institute of America Mexico

J. J. Flynn Improves After Bank Surgery in Louisville

J. J. Flynn cashier of the First National Bank of Louisville underwent surgery for appendicitis at Providence Infirmary Tuesday night and is steadily improving. He spent a comfortable night and may be released in about three weeks. Mrs. Flynn joined him Thursday. she stays with M. J. McDermott’s family, president of the Bank of Mobile.

J. J. Flynn First National Bank of Louisville Providence Infirmary Mrs. Flynn M. J. McDermott Bank of Mobile

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