Alabama Retail Hardware Association Meets in Mobile
Hardware dealers from across the state convene for the ninth annual Alabama Retail Hardware Association gathering in Mobile. The program at the Battle House includes addresses by J W Beasley and W P Lewis, committee reports, a steamer cruise on Wednesday, and various city excursions. Officers listed include President J W Beasley and Secretary-Treasurer J D Martin with twelve district presidents and four committees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Alabama Retail Hardware Association
Battle House
Charles E. Cessna
J. W. Beasley
Birmingham
Seertary
J. D. Martin
Clanton
Monaghan
The
Can't Come in Unless They Possess Money
May 15 report quotes officials stating unemployed Austrians cannot enter the United States unless they have money. The remark highlights migration controls tied to financial means.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolas
United States
Theodore Alabama Social News Roundup
Theodore residents report a Saturday social at Mr and Mrs John Jacksons with a large crowd and refreshments. Several locals visit nearby towns and attend church events. The Carol Plantation Company clears 75 workers 2 to 5 hundred acres planned for orange trees. Fred Ensor manages both plantations with Lester Smith as manager.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R.H. Fletcher
Ruth Sackoff
Mobile
Grace Louise Pollard
E. F. Golden
Wallace Vaughn
Pascagoula
Hugo Fincheser
Milledgville
Coden
Gordon Cain
Bayoula“Barre
L. E. Goodgame
Theodore Baptist Church
Ladies Aid Society
Baptist Church
Lillian Lowry
Irvington
Frank Godwin
John Wilkerson
Crichton
R. H. Fletcher
Jessie McGuire
Teodore
Carol Plantation Company
Fred Ensor
Mobile Plantation Company
Lester Smith
Ensor
Prestwick crowd enjoys Bassett Creek fishing picnic
A large Suggsville contingent traveled by Southern train to a Bassett Creek dam picnic in Prestwick Alabama. They cooked and ate in the open air, then returned with a fine catch. Attendees included Mrs Dr C F Dahlburg Miss Dora Dahlburg Miss Alice Deas and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prestwick
Ala
Suggsville
Southern
Bassett Creek
T. B. Sullivan G
C. F. Dahlburg
Dora Dahlburg
Alice Deas
Mattie Deas
M. A. Walker
Tom Creah
W. E. Cammack
Leo Cammack
W. D. Bumpus
Irma
Will Stoker
Bowling Timber Co
Mamie Young
Lisbon Bombarded by Rebels as Warships Fire On City
London reports Revolutionary uprisings culminated in Lisbon bombarded by Portuguese warships in rebel hands. Scores killed and many wounded as inhabitants flee. Proclamation seeks a republic while the government dissolves under rebel control aboard the Vasco da Gama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lisbon
London
Alfonso Acosta
Madrid
Manuel de Arriaga
Portugal
Revolutionary Committee
Vasco da Gama
Jace Chagas
Badajose
Adamastor
Alcantara
Republic
Republican Guard
Red Cross Beneficiary Aid Emphasis Under Boardman
Washington May 16 Mabel T Boardman asserts that aid to war victims should flow through the Red Cross to avoid waste and duplication by volunteer groups She notes the institute's accounting and wartime shipments, including 379 380 cash to Europe with designations and undedicated funds, and cites Rockefeller and Wilson funding support showing the Red Cross as the American peoples relief arm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burton K. Standish
Washington
Mabel T. Boardman
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Europe
Congress
Geneva
War Department
Wilson
The
Plaster of Paris
Serbia
Bush Terminal
Brooklyn
Cleveland Dodge
Deaths and Funerals of Mrs. Helen Cznowski and W. W. Boyd
Funeral services for Mrs. Helen Cznowski were held from Berenson and Sands parlors and St. Marys Church with Rev. Fathers Cassidy and Lauzon officiating. Interment was in Magnolia cemetery. pallbearers listed. W. W. Boyd, 68, a Montgomery County, Alabama native and shoe maker, died at his daughters residence in Whistler. Survived by two daughters and seven grandchildren. interment planned for Whistler cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Cznowski
Helen Cznowski
Berenson & Sands
St. Mary's Catholic Church
Father Cassidy
Father Lauzon
Magnolia Cemetery
Messrs
W. G. Rohmer
S. M. LeBaron
Arvine Carlin
W. W. Boyd
Montgomery County
Ala
Willie Lyons
Third Street
Whistler
Mattie Darley
Atlanta
Methodist Church
Repton News Briefs Mention Health Trip and Burials
In Repton Alabama on May 15 special report notes Mr C H Moorer took his wife to a Mississippi mineral spring for health with Miss Bessie Straughn. Mr O H Iver returned with his bride to occupy a new home in the town's southern part. Mrs Allen died near Brewton and was buried Friday at Spring Hill cemetery. Mr Nored from Ja Florida is mentioned in the fragment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Repton
Ala
C. H. Moorer
Mississippi
Bessie Straughn
O. H. Iver
Allen
Brewton
Spring Hill
Nored
Fila
White Alabamian Working Wonders for the Negroes
In Seale Russell county Alabama Colonel T M DeGraffenreid county superintendent of education leads a push to reduce illiteracy. He hosts a two session meeting with white trustees and citizens featuring educators from the state department and a Tuskegee Institute presence to promote rural education and Rosenwald Fund assistance. A colored educator and editor speak to valorize agricultural education and win broad local support for improved schools for all children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seale
Ala
Alabama
T. M. DeGraffenreid
Russell County
DeGraffenreid
South
de Graffenfeld
Joseph L. Sibley
State Department of Education
Hner
Colonel DeGraffenreid
Tuskegee Institute
Rosenwald Fund
Tuskegee School
Negro Farmer
der Faffenreild
Isaac Fisher
de Graffenreid
Fisher
Be Calm in Crisis Cardinal Advises
Cardinal Gibbons urges calm and prudence after a terrible tragedy. He says leave the nation’s destinies to the president and government, avoid hasty public sentiment, and seek divine guidance and prayer for the best solution.
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Cardinal
Baltimore
Cardinal Gibbons
London Women Guard Hospital Camps With Fences
London reports that women who worship heroes have led the government to place high fences around hospital camps where Indian soldiers are recuperating. Amsterdam says the Kaiser ordered a grand Bismarck memorial to stand on French soil now under German control. Dublin notes George Bernard Shaw was arrested by a zealous town constable in Birr after an attempted photo of the statue of the Dees at Cumberland. the officer suspected a German spy.
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London
Amsterdam
Kaiser
Bismarck
Dublin
George
Bernard
Shaw
Birr
Aeg Sm
Dees
Cumberland
Fairhope News Highlights Local Visitors and School Plans
Mrs Dupuy and her children depart for Joliet Illinois with Mrs Wilcox after months at the Anchorage. The school improvement association held its last regular meeting at Mrs A O Berglin s home with a large attendance and officer elections. Bathing is thriving as summer cottages fill and Northern families prepare to leave, while visitors from Nashville and Spanish Honduras remark on local progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairhope
Ala
Dupuy
Wilcox
Anchorage
Joliet
The
School Improvement Association
A. O. Berglin
B. ‘Gaston
Bayard
Robert
J. M. Alexander
Nashville
Tepa
BE. R. Leach
Spanish Honduras
Vaccan Bros
New Orleans
Laceipe
8. H
Clayton Baldwin
Wheeler Mercantile Company
National Soldiers
Johnson City
Tenn
Suimmer
Feast of Shabooth Observed at Mobile Jewish Temple
Beginning Tuesday evening the Feast of Shabooth will be observed by Jewish citizens of Mobile at Reformed and Orthodox temples. Dr. Alfred G. Moses will officiate Tuesday at 8 pm with a floral Sabbath school service afterward. Wednesday services are at 10 am. No confirmation services this year at Temple Shaarai Shomayim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Mount Sinai
Moses
Shaarai Shomayim
Alfred G. Moses
Moonlight Ride for European Sufferers
The National German-American Alliance central branch plans a moonlight excursion aboard the steamer Cessna on Monday night May 31 to aid the German Austrian Hungarian Red Cross. The event is run by a committee led by President Joseph Friedhoff and includes Otto Nack R Kirch ner and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National
German-American Alliance
Cessna
Red Cross
Joseph Friedhoff
B. A. Brunnier
Otto Nack
R. Kirchner
Richard
P. Kenstler
A. J. Roh
Charles Tobler
G. Mertz
B. Fischer
Richard von Zakobiel
August Konrye Cn
A. A. Lagner
Adam Eben
Funeral of W. D. Sharpe in Camden
The remains of William D. Sharpe were interred in Camden cemetery Thursday after his serious mining injuries near Birmingham three weeks earlier. He left a wife two children and a family including parents and several siblings. Sharpe was born and raised near Camden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. D. Sharpe
Camden
Ala
William. D. Sharpe
Mr. Sharpe
Birmingham
In And Out Of Town Andrew Glass Visits Mobile
Andrew Glass brother of the late Adam Glass remains in Mobile for another week. A real estate dealer from Dayton Kentucky near Cincinnati, he came for his brother’s obsequies and stays with the Glass family at 105 St. Emanuel street.
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Andrew Glass
Adam Glass
Mobile
Mr. Glass
Dayton
Cincinnati
Ohio
Glass
St. Emanuel Street
Local social notes from Lucedale and surrounding areas
Local residents attend state meetings and visit relatives in Jackson, Mobile, and Biloxi. Notables include Drs. J A Dorsett W W Eley and R F Ratliff at Hattiesburg gathering Lt Gov Bilbo passing through en route to northern counties. Mrs J N Williams and baby return from Jackson while Grace Russell sparks a surprise party hosted by Hortense Hayles and attended by Candlée Hinson.
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Lucedale
Miss
J. A. Dorsett
W. W. Eley
R. F. Ratliff
State Medical Association
Hattiesburg
Bilbo
George
Greene Counties
J. N. Willams
Baby
Jackson
Ala
Josie Russell
Russell
J. R. Banes
Miss Grace
F. J. Roberts
Escatawpa
L. C. Helms
Biloxi
Mobile
W. B. Brewton
Skinner
Tay
Mary Ruth Boye
Newton
B. Vv. McKay
Mt. Olive
Grace Russell
Hortense Hayles
Banes
Candlée Hinson
R. H. Russell
Houston
Tex
D. Hayles
John Cook
Army of Austrians Move Toward United States
The Austrian army of unemployed is advancing toward the United States. A guard accompanied by U S officers is unable to deter them. The body of more than 1,000 Austrians is expected to begin crossing into the United States late this afternoon near Otterburne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Winnipeg
Adi
U States
Otterburne
Cers
States
Orange Grove Social News Highlights
An assortment of local social items from Orange Grove includes Mrs T J Miller Miss Sadie Jones and Mr Leslie Miner joining an auto trip to Jacan last Sunday evening Frazer and Moragues Lumber Co of Mobile inspecting lumber for shipments to Europe via the Ganges W Petty of G States Shipping Co plans to visit Orange Grove to review hundreds of thousands of feet of lumber headed to Europe Delmas hosts a lively farm gathering with games ice cream and cake Other notes mention visits to Pascagoula and Lumberton, and Mr R A Roberts traveling to Anema to see ailing father Also mentioned are beans and Irish potatoes shipments by M Clarke and Mrs J H Jones Moss Point visits by Mrs Pete Cassibry and daughters Emma Cassibry and Mrs Willie Johnson
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orange Grove
Ble Ees
T. J. Miller
Sadie Jones
Leslie Miner
Jacan
Frazer
Moragues Lumber Company
Mobile
O Grove
South Ameria
W. Petty
G States Shipping Company
Europe
Ganges
Delmas
Delmas Farm
T. J
Pascagoula
John En Campbell
Coca-Cola Company of
Lumberton
Iva Dickson
R. A. Roberta
Anema
M. Clarke
J. H. Jones
Moss Point
Pete Cassibry
Emma Cassibry
Willie Johnson
A. J. Murray
Music recital postponed by rain at Camden Alabama
Camden notes delay as rain disrupts the planned musical recital. The Bible Class meets Tuesday at the Presbyterian church. Mrs M B Curtis attends a convention in Bessemer. A "Big Day" observed in grammar school with child recitations. Mothers' Day observed Sunday. Mrs Clarence Hestle of Pine Hill visits Mrs Taylor in Camden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camden
Ala
Presbyterian Church
M. B. Curtis
Bessemer
Clarence Hestle
Pine Hill
Taylor
De Miracle hair remover claim and warnings
An advertisement promotes De Miracle as a superior hair remover that devitalizes hair beneath the skin, arguing imitations are useless. It markets bottles of $1 and $2.00, offers a money back guarantee, and lists Dave Baur as a dealer with direct orders possible from the firm at a New York address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dave
Bauer
de Miracle Chemical Pet. A
Park Ave
129Th Bt
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