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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1916
Page
2
Across the United States 670 Chalmers dealers conducted Acceleraton Day tests in rain and snow. The Six-30 touring car averaged 14 961 miles on 670 gallons of gasoline about 0.33 mpg while acceleration runs reached about 6.5 seconds to 25 mph.
London dispatch reports Yuan Shi Kai intends to resign as leader of China once a suitable successor is named. In Georgia, Rev. Dr. C. R. Jenkins is reelected president of Wesleyan Female College. Thomas R. Cox, ex Bank of Willacoochee bookkeeper, is under arrest in New York awaiting extradition papers for $30,000 embezzlement. The AAUP finds Penn's dismissal of Prof. Scott Nearing unjustified. A bid to halt David Lamar's transfer to Atlanta federal penitentiary fails.
Detroit offices report early telegrams show gasoline economy over 20 miles per gallon in the tests. Speed trials reached 5 10 15 20 miles per hour with stop watch timing. The Traffic Test required starting from rest and advancing through gears to 256 miles per hour. The Economy test tied a measured gallon to the carburetor to drain fuel under observer supervision. Weather in New York and eastern points slowed performance slightly lowering mileage below 20 miles per gallon in those areas.
Rome dispatch reports from Athens that the Greek cabinet has resigned. No confirmation available.
The Weather Bureau reports fair to fair through Sunday for Alabama and Mississippi. Gentle, shifting winds are expected with mild temperatures and no precipitation indicated.
General Joseph J Gallieni former minister of war dies at Versailles whose leadership in August 1914 earned him idol status among the French including the poor His death prompts a planned notable military and civil funeral demonstration in Paris and Versailles
A storage battery service representative explains common self starter problems. Motors may churn with little result due to high electrical power needs and insufficient current. Ensure starting switch is on, tank has fuel, ignition button pressed, wires tight, fuel mix rich enough, and coil and distributor kept dry for proper spark delivery.
Bulletin notice states the Whistler car department will suspend operations from noon Saturday until 7 am Thursday June 1. Other items note Mrs Nettie Halliwell and several residents returning home, a birthday party, and a funeral in Warren Street with interment at Elam Cemetery.
Two J. P. Morgan & Co. office boys William A. Mc Manus aged 18 and William J. Bain aged 17 were charged in New York with stealing 10500, the firm's payroll for the week, Friday. They were arrested in Philadelphia. The rail rate story notes proposed cotton seed freight increases to the south that were held up by the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Captain Krogsgard tells how a frail wife took control during a mutiny aboard the Richard in the Indian Ocean. For thirty days becalmed, the crew overpowered the master, while the captain’s wife faced threats from mutineers and kept order with steady resolve.
A former sailor recalls a brutal mutiny aboard a ship where the mutineers looted the captain’s stores, planned to run ashore, and forced the skipper, the narrator, and a woman to eat foul rations. The woman secretly bribed the cook, used a drug, killed most men, and helped bind the survivors. Two ringleaders were executed by being lashed to yardarms.
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