Verdun Front Violence Rages Across Meuse Sector
Paris reports continued fierce fighting on the Meuse front near Verdun. German counterattacks on Hill 304 failed as French gains were noted and gas was used in attacks east of the hill. The battle between Thiaumont and Douaumont saw heavy losses and trench movements.
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Paris
Meuse
Verdun
Hill 304
War Office
Fort Deuaumont
Ofcial
Thiaumont
Douaumont
Thiaumont Farm
French Recapture Fort Douaumont Near Verdun
Paris reports that French forces have recaptured most of Fort Douaumont from the Germans after three months. General Nivelle leveraged German attention on Dead Man's Hill to mass artillery for the Verdun sector assault.
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Paris
Fort Douaumont
Verdun
Nivelle
Dead Man's Hill
Atttack
Douaumont
French Trench Assault Opens Verdun Battle Fort Douaumont
French general offensive near Verdun begins at 4 30 pm with infantry advance singing the Marseillaise. French reach Fort Douaumont by 5 pm and report German prisoners while repelling counter strokes, though Douaumont held by Germans.
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Nivelle
Fort Douaumont
Austrians Shift Heavy Guns to Italian Front
Rome reports Austrians have moved 381 and 420 millimetre coastal and siege guns to the Italian front. The 420 mm weapons, taken from ships bottled in Pola harbor, cause massive detonations that shake Alpine peaks as day and night bombardment continues and resources are stretched.
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Rome
Paris
Pola
Weather Forecast For Alabama And Mississippi
Morally fair conditions expected tonight across Alabama and Mississippi with light winds. Wednesday outlook calls for continued mild temperatures and no significant precipitation.
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Alabama
Ride On Wagon Not Water Chariot Costs Negro Fifty Dollars
Louis Brown rode a wagon early Tuesday morning not the water wagon. His supposed free trip cost fifty dollars after his court appearance before Recorder Edington. Brown claimed innocence and said Andrew Jackson offered to drive. Jackson fled when police arrived. A wagon with liquor was in the vehicle, which Brown denied knowledge of. The judge quipped about pineapples and called the next case.
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Louis Brown
Edington
Louis
Brown
Andrew Jackson
Jackson
Will Investigate Coast as Site for a Naval Station
Representative Sparkman of Florida was told by Chairman Padgett that the naval bill to be reported will include a provision to appoint five national officers to survey potential sites on the Atlantic coast south of Cape Hatteras the Gulf coast the Caribbean sea and the Pacific coast and to recommend which navy yards or stations should be abolished if any for consideration by the next session.
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Washington
Sparkman
Florida
Padgett
House Naval Committee
House
Atlantic
Cape Hatteras
Gulf Coast
Caribbean
Pacific
Auto Club Applauds Too Soon Pillans Delays Ordinance
The Mobile city commission passed an ordinance requiring drivers to stay right and turn right. Commissioner Pillans opposed the measure saying unanimous consent is lacking and the law is not carried. The Automobile Club traffic committee applauded prematurely as Pillans suggested reconsideration next Tuesday. The mayor supported the proposal, but the ordinance is postponed.
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City Commission
Mobile
The
Automobile Club
Pillans
Clear Skies Promise For Wednesday
The forecast calls for generally fair tonight and Wednesday with gentle shifting winds. Yesterday's rain totals were heavy in parts of the country, with Pensacola recording 3.02 inches as Abilene and San Antonio led with 94 degrees.
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Pensacola
Mississippi River
Abilene
San Antonio
Bicycle Highwayman Sentenced to Eighteen Months
Mobile's amateur highwayman James Hudson admitted to snatching purses from three women in the past week. He faced Recorder on three counts of petit larceny and received six months for each count to be served at hard labor.
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Mobile
James Hudson
Senate action halts Puerto Rico suffrage amendment
The house struck from the Porto Rican bill an amendment granting women suffrage, voting 80 to 59 to remove it. The bill then passed without a roll call, effectively as introduced. The move leaves the island’s suffrage question unresolved.
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Washington
Tornado Hits Earlville and Georgetown. One Seriously Injured
A cyclone struck Earlville Ala and Georgetown Miss injuring nine people at a home of Milton Cato and Henry Grimes. Mrs. Milton Cato, aged sixty five, is seriously hurt with broken ribs and shoulder injuries. other victims include four Grimes children and Josephine Cato with a badly hurt foot. Deputy Sheriff Bran nan reported homes and nearby buildings swept by the storm.
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Charles E. Brannan
Earlville
Ala
Milton Cato
Henry Grimes
Georgetown
Tornado Strikes Earlville House Killing Eleven People
Milton Cato of Earlville reports a tornado struck his home Sunday, killing or trapping eleven relatives including Grimes family members. Survivors crawled from debris while others were aided by more fortunate guests. The cyclone toppled trees and timber across several miles before the party relocated to the Brannan home.
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Earlville
Milton Cato
Georgetown
Dog River
Mobile
Cato
Grimes
Cate
Brannan
Tornado Described by Deputy Brannan at Georgetown
Deputy Brannan recounts a Sunday afternoon tornado near Georgetown that shattered trees and buildings along the river flats. He and his wife hurried their children to safety as the funnel approached, then veered away at a hill, sparing their home. He calls the sight the worst he has seen as a law officer.
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Brannan
Page Three
French Bring Surprise For Crown Prince
Paris reports a French surprise attack northeast of Verdun penetrating Fort Douaumont. German forces were driven from most of the fort area. only a small northern angle remained. German counterattacks failed to regain the trench line from Fort Douaumont to Thiaumont farm. The Meuse fight stayed intense with no changes in ground. Meanwhile Austrians claim gains on the Lavarone plateau in the southern Tyrol. Rome omits those results.
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London
Verdun
Fort Douaumont
Nivelle
Paris
Thiaumont
Thiaumont Farm
Meuse
Tyrol
Lavarone
Astico
Rome
Four Cuban-bound schooners to receive engines in Mobile
Four three masted schooners purchased on the Great Lakes by Messrs Herndon and James Radcliffe of Mobile and Birmingham coal operators will be brought to Mobile with auxiliary engines installed. Boston reports they departed for Cuba with lumber and will return to Mobile. Over fifty thousand dollars will be spent on overhaul and engines to run coal from Mobile to Cuba via a Warrior coal fields barge line.
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Great Lakes
Messrs. Herndon
James Radcliffe
Mobile
Birmingham
Boston
Cuba
Warrior
Four schooners to join Mobile Cuban lumber trade
The four schooners J. G. Boyce Quickstep CC. H. Hackley and the Hassock will be placed in the Mobile Cuban trade with charters offered and dry docks arranged for swift dispatch. Each vessel will carry about 450000 feet of lumber and are slated to arrive within weeks.
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James Radcliffe
J. G. Boyce
Quickstep
CC. H. Hackley
Hassock
Rain Delays At Fort Oglethorpe War Exercise
Weather kept soldiers indoors delaying a hike to Ca toosa Spring rifle range at the Southern training camp. Rain and mud threaten the rifle practice program for the course of instruction and may force elimination. Soldiers spent Tuesday morning in a war game inside the big assembly tent using colored maps.
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Fort Oglethorpe
Catoosa Spring
Peace Talk Is Still Out of Place Editorial
London editors criticize President Wilson's North Carolina speech urging peacemaker role in wartime world. The Morning Post asserts such peace talk is out of place amid current tensions and calls for restraint.
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London
The
Morning Post
Wilson
North Carolina
the Post
Masts 95 Feet Long Arrive For Craft Here
Three flat cars bring eleven spars into town from Weontantan for the Whit ney Bodden firm. The ninety five foot Oregon pine masts came for the dismantled barkentine Stranger and others will be used on vessels awaiting repairs.
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Whitney+Bodden
Weontantan
Oregon
Whitney-Bodden
Bids Sought to Print Harbor Improvement Report
City Commission discussed printing options for a harbor improvement report. Mayor Lyons proposed bids for 50 or 100 copies with diagrams maps and tables. Commissioner Pillans opposed full printing if costs reached six to eight hundred dollars, passage tied to amendment.
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Pat J. Lyons
City Commission
Harry Pillans
Pillans
Schwarz
Mobile Commission Approves Manuscript Harbor Report Use
The Mobile city commission resolves that the Mesars Ford Bacon and Davis manuscript report on harbor sit uation and accompanying diagrams be placed at the disposal of the state harbor commission for examination and use. The mayor is asked to obtain cost estimates to reproduce the lengthy report in pamphlet and book form for future action.
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Mobile
Lyons Resolution Calls for Printing Harbor Report Pamphlet
The Lyons resolutions urge printing the Mobile harbor report by Ford Bacon and Davis. The city board directs the mayor to call bids to print 50 or 100 pamphlet copies for wide public distribution to state harbor commission and other bodies.
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Lyons
Ford
Bacon
Board of Commissioners
City of
Mobile
City harbor commission debates printing report with maps
Commissioner Pillans likens omitting maps to a play without scenery. The belt road map shows how Dauphin Street at Houston would be ruined. Mayor Lyons favors printing but would accept no maps if bids allow. After discussion, bids will be sought for printings with and without maps.
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Pillans
Dauphin Street
Houston
Lyons
Harbor Commission
South Side Parking Amendment Considered by Commission
Commissioner Pillans proposed an amendment at the last meeting to allow automobiles to park on the south side of the street. The note reflects ongoing discussion on street parking rules and vehicle placement.
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Pillans
Barkentine Skoda Libelled in Civil Case Set for June Fifth
The American barkentine Skoda, owned by the Whitney Bodden Company, is libelled by the New York Quebracho Extract Company for charter violations. The case is scheduled in the US district court for June 6. The vessel, bound from Rosario to Santa Fe with quebracho wood, sustained storm damage and is under temporary repairs in Mobile at Ollinger Bruce dry docks.
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Skoda
Whitney-Bodden Company
New York
Quebracho Extract Company
United States District Court
Rosario
Santa Fe
Brazil
E. L. Whitney
Mobile
Peramnent
Ollinger- Bruce
Federal revenue officers probe Girard situation
United States internal revenue officers arrived in Girard Alabama on May 23 to begin an investigation of raids last week over alleged violations of federal liquor laws. They planned to examine locations raided for moonshining and to assess seizure possibilities, noting limits on moving whiskey after sunset and the need for solid evidence to seize liquor now. Freight agents for the Central of Georgia were instructed to bar whiskey shipments to any point except Jacksonville Florida.
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Girard
Ala
United States Internal Revenue
Here
T. E. Middlebrooke
Birmingham
C. M. Nash
Chattanooga
Central of Georgia Railroad
Phoenix City
Columbus
Wright
Jacksonville
Fla
Alabama ponderes fate of seized liquor in Girard raids
Officials consider destroying the recovered liquor valued at 750000 to 1000000 dollars. A proposed disposal by pouring into the Chattahoochee river faces a boundary hurdle since the western riverbank marks Alabama Georgia limits. Georgia may object to polluting its waters.
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Georgia
Montgomery
Ala
Girard
Chattahoochee
Alabama
Annapolis Graduates Invited to Visit Mobile on Cruise
The Mobile Chamber of Commerce seeks to have the 1916 United States Naval Academy graduating class stop in Mobile during their annual cruise. Secretary W M Clemens urged Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to consider Mobile, citing Mobile Bay and the harbor's strategic role in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean.
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Chamber of Commerce
United States Naval Academy
W. M. Clemens
Navy
Josephus Daniels
Mobile
Mobile Bay
Gulf of Mexico
Caribbean Sea
Mobile Chamber OF Commerce
Star Seen in Daylight Over Eastern Sky
Mobilians report a bright star sighting around 10 30 AM visible in the eastern sky. Witnesses describe a small but clearly seen object consistent with a morning star.
Mexicans Plan to Clean Out Villa Bandits
Col Louis Morin and Victorians Police were shot to death after attempting to escape from Texas rangers. Morin faced charges of planning a Mexican uprising in southern Texas and police were implicated in a train wreck near Brownsville last October.
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Villa
Brownsville
Texas
Louis Morin
Here
Texas Rangers
Carranza government orders 30000 troops into Mexican region
The Car ranza government has ordered 30,000 troops into the region south of the border to exterminate bandits, with advances through Chihuahua and routes north via Satillo. Officials expect delays in Carranza reply to border representations after raids on Boquillas. Colonel Sibley’s expedition crossed 168 miles into Mexico on the bandits’ trail, signaling potential changes in the Carranza message.
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Washington
Carranza
State Department
Chihuahua
Satillo
Sibley
Mexico
Sibley Withdrawal Seen Beneficial for Negotiations
Officials say prompt withdrawal of the second expedition at the end of the hot trail should aid future talks with the de facto government. Today reports list 4,454 Texas national guards Mustered to federal service with 16% officers and 2,644 enlisted. more enlistments for border patrol. Mustering of Arizona and New Mexican guards is delayed until skeleton companies meet standards.
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Texas National Guards
Texas Forces
Border Patrol Service
Arizona
Funston
Skeleston
May Court Martial Texas Guardsmen Over Enrollments
Secretary Baker has not directed action on 116 Texas guardsmen who declined federal service. Judge Advocate General Crowder has advised General Scott on the army’s authority to court martial them, recommending militia officers dominate any court if held.
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Baker
Texas
Cavalry Troops Penetrate Mexico in Raid Mission
Colonel Sibley’s four cavalry units crossed into Mexico nearly two weeks ago in pursuit of Glenn Springs and Boquillas bandits. They returned to the border unharmed after traveling 186 miles through rough country. They rescued two American prisoners and took five Mexican captives. American consul Marion Letcher from Chihuahua City was en route to Washington with a detailed report on northern Mexican economic conditions for the state department. Officials indicate conditions are poor.
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Sibley
Mexico
Glenn Springs
Boquillas
Marion Letcher
Chihuahua City
Washington
State Department
New Aeroplanes for Scout Duty Arrive at Columbus
Two new 160-horsepower aeroplanes reach Columbus New Mexico as General Pershing presses for air support and aviators prepare them for field service. Eighteen cars of food and forage move toward Casas Grandes by the Mexican and Northwestern Railroad, aiding expeditionary efforts with troops dispatched to Colonia Dublan.
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N. M
General Pershing
Can
Casas Grandes
Neer
Colonia Dublan
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