Clearing House backs youth farming with five hundred dollar fund
The Mobile Clearing House Association contributed 500 dollars to promote chicken and pig raising among Mobile county’s boys and girls. The fund will help applicants start poultry and pork projects, supporting broader aims to improve stock and diversified farming in the area. The group previously funded high bred bulls for county farmers through the Chamber of Commerce, now in service with expected strong cattle gains.
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Mobile Clearing House Association
Mobile County
Chamber of Commerce
Clearing House Association
Community debate over tubercular sanatorium for Mobile county
A reader “A Friend of the Suffering” urges using sixteenth section lands in Mobile county for a tubercular sanatorium with homes and farms to aid patients. The idea targets education funds as a potential source of revenue and emphasizes ease of access via good roads and automobiles. The Item recommends the school board investigate securing a section to build the hospital.
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Mobile
L. G. Powers
Creola
Spring Hill
Powers
Mobile County
Drs. Inge
McCall
Marshall Speech Urges Repeal of Unnecessary Laws
Vice President Marshall is quoted declaring that this country owes repeal of unnecessary, enacted, unenforced laws. He argues a nation overrun with needless laws is a poor country in that class and supports trimming legal codes.
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Marshall
Y M C A Promotes Night School and Character Building
An editorial urges support for Mobile’s Y M C A highlighting its global scope, non sectarian stance, and the night school for working boys. It appeals to citizens to sponsor a worthy local youth by buying a membership for him, enabling education and personal growth.
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Mobile
Mobilé
Plateau's Great Loss and Fire Ravage Suburb
Plateau, Mobile suburb, suffered another major fire destroying homes including the Plateau Industrial Institute. Many residents are left homeless and in need of aid as the city prepares to appeal for charitable relief to help Negro families recover and rebuild.
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Plateau
Mobile
Plateau Industrial Institute
Virginia Dog License Revenue Prompts Regional Debate
The article notes Virginia collects about 90 000 annually from dog licenses and uses it for the state school fund. It cites 150 000 dogs in North Carolina with only twenty counties licensing and mentions a possible state law similar to Virginia. It states Alabama has no such law but faces many stray dogs.
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Virginia
North Carolina
Alabama
Rotary Club of Mobile Holds Baby Day and Prize Ceremony
The Mobile Rotary Club hosted a business session led by President Harris with L. D. Dix presiding. A prize awarding a live infant to Rotarian Fowlkes as the top father in the Baby Day standings closed the meeting amid cheers for the Bromberg family.
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Mobile Rotary Club
Harris
L. D. Dix
Insurance Fame
L. D
Rotary
Board of Directors
Bush
Pillans
Acce
H. W. Taylor
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson
United States
Rotary Club of
Birmingham
Alabama
Mobile
Rotary Club
White House
Washington
Taylor
Dix
William H. Monk, Jr
H. H. Wefel Jr
John F. Carter, Jr
San Antonio
Texas
W. M. Clemens
The
Item
Birmingham News
Lyons
Register
F. G. Bromberg
Monk
LeBlanc
Bryant
Fowlkes
E. O
Kerr
Austin
Evans
Cawthon
Holbrook
Brandon
Inge
Reynolds
Armbrecht
Waddle
Mahomer
Ponder
Jack” Ponder
Frederick G. Bromberg
Weird Washington visitors crowd the capital with farfetched schemes
In a March Washington letter numerous outsiders called bugs swarm the capital offering impractical plans to end the war and impress officials with devices that lift enormous loads using air. A visitor arrives at Secretary Garrison with a device concept and blueprints, wheedling for an audience.
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Washington
Samuel
Jules Verne
Daniels
Frank Stockton
Garrison
Blankhead
Tes
German claim on dum dum bullets not substantiated
Washington March 26 The German embassy second charge that dum dum bullets are being shipped from the United States to the allies has not been substantiated by an army ordnance investigation and the state department informed Count Bernstorff the German ambassador. The ordnance experts found that the wounds in photographs could not have been caused by the submitted bullet specimens.
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Washington
United States
Army Ordnance
State Department
Count Bernstorff
Sewanee Cadets Break Bounds May Face Expulsion
A Sewanee Military Academy incident reports thirty eight students breaking bounds and going to Sewanee village. They remained until corralled by officers. Faculty decreed expulsion but the truants petitioned to stay under any condition and the faculty would decide this afternoon.
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Nashville, Tenn
Sewanee, Tenn
Sewanee Military Academy
Sewanee Village
Hidden Inventions Stir Military Minds In Green Book Scene
A man explains a revolutionary air column device with immense warfare potential to skeptical officials. He claims it could lift ships and fortifications, exhausting mathematics beyond current study, and suggests a curator directs the project to a higher authority in a roleplay setup that ends with the caller leaving for Jerusalem.
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Garrison
Daniels
From Headquarters leads Empire Theatre bill with star trio
The three reel Broadway Star feature From Headquarters stars Earle Williams and Anita Stewart as a jilted lover's daughter who stabs her employer. A law officer father contemplates arrest before headquarters orders the case dropped. Also on the bill are The Fable of the Golumptuous Girl, Postponed, The Conflict, The Battle of Frenchman's Run and Horse of Another Color in a Saturday program.
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Rose Peters
Stern
Ffrom
Earle Williams
Anita Stewart
Empire Theatre
Ruth Stonehouse
Wallie van
Nita Frazer
Essanay
Richard C. Travers
Lillian Drew
Dorothy Kelly
George Cooper
Victor Patel
Slippery Slim
Harry Todd
Ben Turpin
Laughatle
Arctic Explorers at Crown A Feature At Crown Theatre
Arctic Explorers at Crown Theatre showcases films by Harry Whitney and Lucky Scott of polar big game hunts. W. T. Swain from Perry's North Pole party lectures with the film. An Eskimo guide speaks, with sled dogs on display. Admission is five or ten cents, with ten cents after 5 o'clock. Also shown are Myptual program items and His Mysterious Neighbor.
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Crown Theatre
Harry Whitney
Lucky Scott
Eti
W. T. Swain
Perry
North Pole
King
Weather and river forecast for shipping routes
Shippers face 22 degree protection for thirty six hour northbound shipments and 34 degree westward with moderate eastern temperatures. Tombigbee and Alabama river levels show little change over the next two days while a cold air spell presses across the interior US from Rocky Mountains to Alleghenies, dropping Sheridan Wyoming to two below zero and chilling northern Texas, with warm air in a low pressure zone from Southern Texas to the Pacific coast. Albert Aschenberger, Local Forecaster.
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Alabama
United States
Rocky
Allegheny Mountains
Sheridan
Wyo
Texas
Pacific Coast
Albert Ashenberger
Railway connections tied to Meridian and Birmingham routes
Alabama Tennessee and Northern Railway details direct connections from Calvert and York stations to Meridian Tuscaloosa Birmingham and East with intermediate stops and extensions to key cities outlined.
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Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railway
Calvert
York
Meridian
Tuscaloosa
Birmingham
East
Sanders Denies Being a Lobbyist in Alabama Hearing
Dr. W. H. Sanders state health officer told a legislative investigating committee he has not lobbied for or against legislation. He said he did discuss proposed bills with medical association members and had letters printed at state expense. He acknowledged inviting lawmakers to his office and speaking with Senator Bonner and Representative Yarborough about policy.
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Montgomery
Ala
W. H. Sanders
Legislative Investigating Committee
Rapid
Thl
Sanders
Medical Association
Health Department
Bonner
Yarborough
Oates
Len G. Greer
Sloss-Sheffield
O'Neal
James G. Oakley
Villa extends moratorium across Mexico after study
El Paso March 26 General Villa announces the three months moratorium is to be observed not only in areas under his control but in all states influenced by Aguas Calientes leaders. The move covers nearly the entire republic except Vera Cruz Tlaxcala Campeche and Tabasco.
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EL Paso
Tex
Villa
Mexico
Vera Cruz
Tlaxcala
Campeche
Tabasco
War halts rise in Philippine commerce in 1914
Washington reports that foreign commerce in the Philippines shrank after the war began. The year shows a $4,724,133 drop in imports and only a $916,678 rise in exports, with total imports $48,588,653 and exports $48,689,634. About half of trade was with the United States, while Great Britain ranked second.
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Washington
Philippines
Bureau of Insular Affairs
United States
Great Britain
Islands
Nineteen Passengers to Arrive on Sabine
Mallory Line manager B F DuBois reports nineteen passengers will travel via Key West and Tampa to Mobile aboard the liner Sabine arriving Sunday morning. Names include Fred Woerner, Mrs Woerner, H M Seidensticker, R L George, Leslie McHaigard and wife, L A Lennant and wife, Charles Wimmann, T F Holman and wife, F W Herrick and wife, T H Wright, Mrs H M Conklin, G M Wilson, Mrs C B Forbes, Edgar Pope, and Miss Lydia Pope.
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B. F. DuBois
Mallory Steamship Line
Key ‘West
Tampa
Fla
Mobile
Sabine
Fred Woerner
H. M. Seidensticker
R. L. George
Leslie McHaigard
L. A. Lennant
Charles Wimmann
T. F. Holman
F. W. Herrick
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Mobile Item Co., Inc
St. Emanuel St
Mobile, Ala
Associated Press Report International News Service Member
Audit Bureau of _Circulations
Poael
Lloyds
Bromberg
Charles Herzog
New York
Herzog
Gulf City
Erdman
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Victor Elliott
Sewanee
van Antwerp
Huyler
Union Terminal Station
Greensboro
Lock
Southern University
Hamilton
CITY BANK @ TRUST CO
South Royal Street
Mobile Gas ‘Co
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