Mobile port features best dock facilities for gulf repair
At a Greater Pensagon Club meeting in March the Pensacola News reported Clarence Sweeny argued Mobile is the only gulf coast port with modern docking facilities. He noted two equipped Mobile docks employ over five hundred men and can service the largest ships between the gulf and South America. He urged Pensacola to build a dry dock costing 225600 to attract repairs and keep pace with Mobile.
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Greater Pensagon Club
Paes
Bile
Clarence Sweeny
Pensacola News
Sweeny
Mobile
Ollinger & Bruce
Gulf Docks
Gulf Coast
Evonre
South
Sult
Atlantic
Pacific
Norfolk
GETS-IT Corn Remedy Proposed As Quick Fix
An old public notice highlights GETS-IT as a simple corn treatment, claiming rapid relief and easy application. The text then shifts to Mobile shipyard activity, noting multiple vessels, including the Norwegian bark Aline and the steamer Kennebec, arriving or undergoing repairs at Ollinger & Bruce Dry Docks and other local docks. Docks attract vessels from Pensacola Gulfport and St Andrews for inspections and repairs, with dry docks cited as key to Mobile’s appeal.
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Qorr-Laubenheimer Steamship Company
Belize
B. H
Dictator
Mobile
United Fruit Company
New Orleans
Bluefields
Pensacola
Gulfport
St. Andrews
Fla
Mobile leader lauds Warrior Tombigbee waterway impact
J T Cochrane speaks at Tuscaloosa celebration on all year navigation linking Alabama coal and iron to Mobile. He urges Alabama, Birmingham, and Mobile to cooperate, expand port facilities, and use barges to move goods between Birmingham district and Mobile seawards.
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Mobile
Tombigbee
Warrior Rivers
Coal and Iron District
Alabama
John T. Cochrane
Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railroad
Board of School Commissioners
Mobile County
Tuscaloosa
Birmingham
Tidewater
Gulf Ports
Empire City
Congress
War Department
Cordova
Charmnel
Gulf
Free Trial Offer Promises Asthma Cure Method
An advertisement claims a new asthma cure usable by any sufferer without discomfort or time loss. It invites readers to try a free method at the company’s expense, targeting long standing and recent cases, including hopeless ones after failed inhalers and other treatments, with a request to mail a coupon today.
Development of Mobile port and Alabama river system
Alabama leaders urge state-wide support for building docks and port facilities at Mobile to handle Alabama business, improve waterways, and boost rail and water transport. The plan seeks state credit and cooperation with Mobile, Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, Montgomery, Selma to expand this single port as a regional economic asset.
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Alabama
Mobile
Alas
Ala
Mobic
Louisiana
Warrior
Tombigbee
Coosa
Tallapoosa
Tuscaloosa
Birmingham
Montgomery
Selma
United States
Commonwealth
Lookouts Open Four-Game Series at Monroe Park
Manager Harry McCormick brings the Chattanooga Lookouts to Monroe Park for a four game series with the Mobile Southern League club. The team has improved into a pennant contender after a busy rebuilding period. Key players include Jud Daley in center, Alberfeld at short, Johnston in left, Harris at first, Lusk at second, Graff at third, and pitching staff members Harding Cunningham Wagner Marshall and Clark. Catchers Kitchens and Betts bring Texas League experience to the club.
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Harry McCormick
Chattanooga
Monroe Park
Mobile
McCormick
Jud Daley
The
Billikens
Kid
Alberfeld
Lookouts
Jack Johnston
Harris
Graff
Lusk
Harding
Cunningham
Duluth
Wagner
New Orleans
Marshall
Clark
Mick
Kitchens
Betts
Houston
Beaumont
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Lawrence & Co
Chicago
New York
Callis
Tampa
Key West
Mallory Steamship Company
Manila
Alotnees
Paris
Nelson & Bailey
Royal ST
Albert S. Towle
N. W. St. Francis and
Royal Sts
South Royal Street
Abba Temple
Farrow Coal CO
Mineral District
J.T. Cochrane
Gineers
Mobile’ Office
Charles Kefler
Bis Harbor
Mississippi River
New’ Orleans
Mobilé
Coupon Frontier Asthma ,Co
Oe and Hudson Sts
Buffalo
Coast Guard
Dauphin
St Emanuel
Japan
Lin
REISS
Lén
Bay St. Louis
Eee Gulfet
Lgn
Bell 210
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