Norway reports heavy wartime losses of ships and lives
Copenhagen via London reports that ninety six Norwegian ships have been sunk by submarines or mines, with seventy seven crew members killed. Germany has paid only for four ships. Norwegian tonnage lost totals 125000 with cargo value estimated at 90000000 kroner. numerous vessels seized by prize courts. Sweden has lost forty vessels and 128 lives.
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Copenhagen
London
Germany
Norway
Sweden
Father Lauzon Installed as Pastor at Toulminville Parish
Rev. Father I. J. Lauzon was installed as pastor of St. Xavier's Church Toulminville in a crowded service. Friends from St. Mary's Mobile attended to offer congratulations. Rev. T. J. Eaton of St. Mary's Mobile delivered the sermon on Priesthood and the Holy Name Society presented a resolution of regret to Father Lauzon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I. J. Lauzon
St. Xavier's Catholic Church
Toulminville
St. Mary's Parish
Land
T. J. Eaton
St. Mary's, Mobile
Holy Name Society of
St. Mary’s Church
Father Lauzen
Governor Bilbo Vetoes Mississippi Farm Loan Bank Bill
Jackson Mississippi March 28 The farm loan bank bill to create banks with at least 300000 capital to loan for farm purchase development and improvement was vetoed by Governor Bilbo who objected to the community mortgage feature. Backers said they would try to pass it over the veto.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson, Miss
Bilbo
Ture
Nurse found strangled to death near Dallas
The body of Miss Z. M. Cramer a 24 year old nurse was found on Oak Cliff high school campus near Dallas Texas. Police believe she was attacked and strangled after returning from a case in Edom Texas. Her father resides in Maggie West Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Tex
Z. M. Cramer
Oak Cliff
Ikanet Cramer
Edom
Maggie
W. Va
Four Biloxi Austrians Stage A Miniature War
Four Austrians Sam Rokevich Mates Muskich Pete Lucevich and Kris Parich fought in Biloxi Mississippi in a dispute over the European war. The melee on Elmer and Washington streets drew the neighborhood, used pickets and rocks, led to several bruises fractures and arrests. City officials also approved bond interest for refunding bonds at 4 12 percent on 1 718 000 due 1 1916.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biloxi
Miss
Sam Rokevich
Mates Muskich
Pete Lucevich
Kris Parich
Elmer and
Washington Streets
Pat J. Lyons
Perent
American Exchange National Bank
New York
Ways & Means backs plan to become City of Flowers
The Ways and Means Committee of the Mobile Chamber of Commerce unanimously endorses turning Mobile into the City of Flowers by planting azaleas on Government Street and on other streets with each street identified by a distinct flower. A sub committee will recruit residents and coordinate with existing garden groups to raise funds and promote the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ways & Means
Mobile
City OF Flowers
Augusta
Loding
Government Street
W. M. Clements
Press of
Ways and Means Committee
The
Chamber of Commerce
City Beautiful
Home Economics Club
BE. Q. Norton
Home Gardens Associations
Deaths and Funerals in the City
Multiple funeral services held Monday for Mrs. Della Whatley Miss Jennie BE Webb Mrs. Agnes M. Peck Daniel Webster Walkley Gustave Gass and others. Services at Roche Burke Dixon McKay St Johns Magnolia Pine Crest and Whistler cemeteries with various pallbearers and floral tributes noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Della Whatley
Roche & Burke
J. E. Barnes
The
Baptist Tabernacle
Whistler Cemetery
Messrs
Kittell
David
Jones
McKinley
George Cowles
Edwards
Henry Wade DuBose
Government Street Presbyterian Church
Jennie BE. Webb
Dixon & McKay
Magnolia Cemetery
Thad Harrison
W. M. Marshall
John Tucker
Joseph Tucker
M. G. Wheeler
R. O. Harris
H. B. McMillan
Daniel Webster Walkley
Dauphin Street
St. John’s. Episcopal Church
Gardiner C. Tucker
Rescue Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Pine Crest Cemetery
D. W. Partridge
Joseph A. Hynde
J. B. Jenkins
James A. Kirkpatrick
Ollie Owen
J. H. McCormick
Gustave Gases
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Gustave Gass
Neice
J. Cain
North Cedar Street
G. Drey
M. T. Judge
German Relef Association
Y M C A Membership Meeting Called
Plans for a three day Y M C A campaign will be finalized after Friday’s meeting at the Cawthon Hotel. General Chairman John T Cochran and officers outlined the push with 25 workers to be recruited by the committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Men's Christian Association
Cawthon Hotel
John T. Cochrane
Horace Turner
Turner
Chai
Frank W. Evans
Mexico eyes seizure of clergy wealth in planned government move
Mexico City dispatch reports the government weighing takeover of all personal and real estate held by Catholic clergy across the republic. Queretaro's El Democrata cites Cabrera and Governor Siurob as saying the measure would use old Juarez laws, seizing church wealth to ease the nation’s economic woes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Republic
Queretaro
el Democrata
Cabrera
Siurob
Guanajuato
Benito Juaréz
Michoacan
Puebla
Jalisco
Mexico
Pershing Planning Quick Cavalry Rush for Closing In
El Paso reports a border raid by Mexican bandits near the Kelly ranch spurring troops with Eighth Cavalry and Texas Rangers to pursue. Barker’s account of mounted raiders yields a false alarm, while Washington signals rail shortages push Funston to rely on motor trucks and wagon trains to sustain Pershing’s punitive expedition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EL Paso
Texas
C. E. Kelly
Here
L. N. Barker
Kelly
Barker
Kelly Ranch
Fabens
Ysleta
Eighth Cavalry
Texas Rangers
G. W. Moses
Bell
San Antonio
Tex
Mexico
Washington
Department
General Funston
General Pershing
Fight on Cattle Tick Begun In Earnest
President Ward and Commissioner Bolton met with George A Maloney to discuss tick eradication. Maloney said county support is essential and urged thorough public cooperation and diligent inspectors, with oversight to ensure efficiency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ward
Bolton
Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners
George A. Maloney
Maloney
Police Dismissals and Suspensions Hit City Force
City Commission dismissed Officers H. W. Pittman for drinking and H. D. New for leaving his beat to sleep in a tool house in Washington Square. Mayor Pat J. Lyons warned any officer who deserts a post will be dismissed. Broadus and Burch received suspensions for fighting, Pennington twenty days for not reporting a partner’s sleeping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. W. Pittman
H. D. New
Washington Square
City Commission
Pat J. Lyons
Lyons
Broadus
Burch
Pennington
Shipping bill urged forward by president
President Wilson urged House Democratic Leader Kitchin to consider the shipping bill and the railway transportation investigation resolution. The railroad resolution was not included in the caucus legislative program last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wilson
Kitchin
House
House Defers Suffrage and Prohibition Bills
Washington March 28 The house judiciary committee voted 10 to 9 to postpone indefinitely consideration of all suffrage and prohibition proposals currently before it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Judiciary Committee
Torpedoed Without Warning Says London
London reports the British steamer Fenny Bridge, an armed vessel, was torpedoed without warning according to an admiralty statement issued yesterday. No other combat details are provided. Later text describes noon services beginning in Dauphin at the Royal Theatre under Y M C A auspices with Rev. Frank H. Wright speaking on The Power of Christ to Make Over Married Lives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Fenny Bridge
Admiralty
Royal Theatre
Dauphin
Royal Streets
Young Men's Christian Association
Frank H. Wright
Government Street Presbyterian Church
Hammontree
Wright
F. W. Evans
An Aid to Digestion After Meals
An advertisement advises taking one Chamberlain's after dinner to aid digestion for dullness sour stomach and belching. The product is advertised as obtainable everywhere Advy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain's
Adyv
Mobile Tourist Club to Hold Second Session
An important session of Mobile's new Tourist Club will meet at the Cawthon Hotel Wednesday afternoon as guests of Manager C B Hervey. This will be the second meeting and members are urged to attend to discuss entertaining tourists and planning for the season. The executive committee may propose renaming the group the Travelers' Club if members approve. Committee members: Dr W H Taylor president, S H Peck vice president, H C Geron, Dr W H Kemp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Tourist Club
Cawthon Hotel
Travelers’ Club
W. H. Taylor
H. Peck
H. C. Geron
W. H. Kemp
Lumber Rates Hearing Near End in Memphis
A. R. Mackiley of the Interstate Commerce Commission said testimony in Memphis on Southern lumber rate protests to northern manufacturing centers will end Wednesday and move to Montgomery Alabama. The Memphis session focused on hardwood. Pine interests will be heard at the Montgomery hearing starting Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Tenn
A. R. Mackiley
Interstate Commerce Commission
Ohio River
Montgomery
Ala
New German Submarines Reported Bigger and Faster Off Norway
Copenhagen dispatch says a German submarine appears off Ulsire with a crew of eighty and claims to have torpedoed the Norwegian steamer Lindfield on March 17. The submarine kept thirty captives aboard for four days before transferring them to the Norwegian bark Silas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Copenhagen
London
Christiania
Politiken
Ulsire
Norway
Lindfield
Silas
Governor Henderson Arrives From Cohen in Brief Stop
Gov and Mrs Charles Henderson arrived Tuesday morning from Cohen. They left shortly after noon for Montgomery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Governor Henderson
Charles Henderson
Cohen
Henderson
Montgomery
United Sons of Confederate Veterans name sponsor and maids
W N Brandon announces Edith Cornish of Little Rock as sponsor in chief for the reunion to be held May 15 18 in Birmingham Alabama. Also named are maids of honor Elizabeth Massey Rebecca Clark Mabel Simpson and Hot Springs matron of honor Mrs C M Roberts and chaperone in chief Mrs Cordela Odenheimer who is president general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Prosecuting Attorney M E Dunaway will deliver the annual address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Ark
W. N. Brardon
United Sons of Confederate Veterans
Edith Cornish
Birmingham
Ala
Elizabeth Massey
Rebecca Clark
Moultrie
Mabel Simpson
Wichita Falls
Tex
C. M. Roberts
Hot Springs
Cordela P. Odenheimer
Washington, D. C
Odenheimer
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Brandon
M. E. Dunaway
United Confederate Veterans
Local visitors and returnees midweek in Oakdale
Mrs R P Williamson visited friends in Oakdale and plans to depart soon for Grand Bay. L W Garrison returned from New Orleans. Mrs Frank Taylor came back from the carnival trip to New Orleans. Mrs Collins formerly Miss Louise Taylor visits her mother-in-law in New Orleans. John O Donnell and family return to their Marine street home from Atlanta. Grace Morrison visited friends at Crichton last Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakdale
Ala
R. P. Williamson
Grand Bay
L. W. Garrison
New Orleans
Frank Taylor
Collins
Louise Taylor
John O’donnellf
Atlanta
Marine Street
Grace Morrison
Crichton
British Steamer Manchester Engineer Sunk
The British steamer Manchester Engineer, sailing from Philadelphia on March 11 bound for Manchester, has been sunk per Lloyds. Crew members were rescued by a tug, while rumors circulate about the incident and its impact on public reaction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Manchester Engineer
Philadelphia
Manchester
Lloyd's
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Eienhagen
Saysermany
Father Lauzon
Toulminville Parish
Mississippi Farm Loan Bank
Queen Theatre
Crane Wilbur
Paar
the Devil
J. C. O'Connell
John Craft
JL. W. Savage
Bienville Square
E. Q. Norton
M. D. Kahn
L. D. Dix
S. H. Peck
Battle House
D. Whatley
A. M. Peck
Agnes M. Peck
Magnolia
G. GC. Tucker
St. John's Episcopal Church
Berenson & Sands
Emile A. Hines
Ernest Schneider
Earl Bancroft
John Kellner
D. W. Walkley
Lester
Putty
Inger
Pershing
A. W. Mathison
Beloit
Wis
U. S
Empire
U.S. A
Mobile Gas Co
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