Memorial Day Observed By Mobile Post In City Cemetery
Memorial Day will be observed Tuesday in the city with public institutions closing and post office hours altered. The Mobile Post No. 2 Grand Army of the Republic plans a cemetery ceremony at 4:11 pm led by Commander E A Carolin with Invocations by Rev Isaac Higgs and floral tribute by Adjutant Robert T Jr of Semmes Camp U C V. Lincoln Gettysburg Address read by J B Elion. Memorial Day oration by Rev John W Phillips of First Baptist Church.
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Grand Army of Republic
Post
Army
of the Republic
E. A. Carolin
Kile Post
Isaac Higgs
Robert T. y,Jr
Semmes Camp
Mobile Post
G. A
Higgs
J. B. Elion
Peancoln
John W. Phillips
First Baptist Church
Is City
Huntsville Woman Gains 27 Pounds on Tanlac
Mrs Kes Peden of Huntsville Alabama reports a dramatic recovery after three bottles of Tanlac. Once weighing 98 pounds with stomach pain and near appendicitis fear she gained to 125 pounds, regained appetite and strength, stopped fearing surgery, and returned to daily duties with renewed energy.
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Tanlac
Kes Peden
Millet
Huntsville
Ala
Paris
Gilbert
Tanbody
Mobile Exclusively Corp. and
Isement
For Sale in Monterey Place Show Home
A Monterey Place listing advertises a residence described as a premier show place with accessible city traffic. The owner offers a favorable payment plan including a first payment and month by month balance terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monterey Place
Snap
Jet Ag
JA Real Snap
Odd Fellows and Masonic Lodges Listed in Mobile
Mixed OCR fragment lists I O O F and Odd Fellows halls in Mobile and nearby streets. Mentions Napoleonville Lodge, Pearcy Lodge, Mobile Lodge No 40 at 158 St. Cis Street, and OA Aerie 880 761-2 Dauphin Street with Masonic Temple. Also references I O O B Mobile Dam No 26 and Union Lodge No 13 Odd Fellows Hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Napoleonville Lodge
Pearcy Lodge
St. Cis Street
Mobile Lodge
Brotherhood and unions meet at Central Trades Hall
The Brotherhood of Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders Local 112 and the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners Local 89 gathered at Central Trades Hall with the Central Trades Council Hall to discuss matters likely affecting members and shop floor work.
Carnival Association at the Cawthon Hotel Theatre Tonight
At the Cawthon Hotel the Carnival Association presents multiple films and plays tonight at 7:30. Theaters showcase Crown The Flirt Bluebird with Marie Walcamp and Juan de la Cruz Saints and Sinners with Peggy Hyland Iron Hand at Crescent starring Hobart Bosworth Jane Novak Adele Farrington Selig presents Virtue Triumphant featuring Jack Pickford and Fritzi Brunette plus Vim one reel Ups and Downs Profligate two reel Mutual with Winifred Greenwood Ed Coxen Louise Lester George Field Freddie's Frigid Finish with J Yorke Keye and another Mutual. Columbia presents The Convict's Daughter with Jewell Kelley Stock Co.
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Crown
Bluebird
Marie Walcamp
Juan de la Cruz
Peggy Hyland
Crescent
Iron Hand
Red Feather
Hobart Bosworth
Jane Novak
Adele Farrington
yal—Selig
Jack Pickford
Fritzi Brunette
Winifred Greenwood
Ed Coxen
Louise Lester
George Field
Freddie
J. C. Yorke
Francis Keyesin
Columbia
Jewell Kelley Stock Co
Law and Equity Court of Mobile Daily Docket Summary
Equity side actions include State vs Harwell and others with rule dismissals and resets set for May 30. Chancery Court listings show decree pro confesso in several cases, sales submitted and confirmed, and multiple resets for June dates.
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Law and Equity Court of Mobile
Equity
Safford Berney
State
Usiness
Yetta E. Zundel
Effie G. Smith
Harry O'Connor
W. A. Kingman
Kate Kingman
Maggie Bryant
George L. Bryant
Grace L. Brown
I. W. Brown
William W. Crawford
Sibley Land Company
Max Maisel
T. P. Kelly
J. P. Cerro
Nepos Arrives With 7200 Bales of Sisal at Ohio Docks
The Norwegian steamship Nepos of the Ward Line arrived Sunday from Progresso Mexico with 7200 bales of sisal. Discharge occurred at the upper Ohio docks. Captain Nielgen reported conditions quiet in Progreso.
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Nepos Ini
SISAD
Nepos
Ward Line
Progresso
Mexico
Obne
Ohio
Nielgen
Progréso
Mallory liner Alamo arrives from New York at Fier 4
The Mallory liner Alamo arrived Sunday morning from New York by way of Tampa with general merchandise. She is discharging at Fier 4. The Alamo will load lumber naval stores and cotton for New York and will sail tomorrow morning.
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Mallory
New York
Fier
United Fruit Liner Banan Arrives With Banana Cargo
The United Fruit Company liner Banan docked at Louisville and Nashville wharf after discharging at Pier 1. She arrived Sunday evening and was shifted this morning to a new berth. The ship carried a large cargo of bananas from Central America.
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BANAN
United Fruit Company
Louisville and Nashville
Pier 1
Central America
Davenport to Take Lumber from Tampa to West Indies
The American schooner William H Davenport arrived Sunday afternoon from Tampa to load lumber for the West Indies. Captain Nat Borden, well known here, is master of the three master, having taken command some weeks ago in Tampa. She is in the stream.
Tanker Arrival Delivers Blackstrap to Cuban Molasses Co
The American tank steamship Francis Hanify arrived Sunday from Cuban ports with more than 1.5 million gallons of blackstrap. The vessel's cargo is being discharged into the Cuban Molasses Company tank.
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Francis Hanify
Hanify
Cuban Molasses Company
Paloma Sails to Cuba With Large Pineapple Cargo
The Cuban steamship Paloma of Munson Line sailed Sunday for Cuban ports carrying a large cargo of general merchandise. Earlier she delivered a big pineapple cargo here and is expected to bring another similar shipment next week.
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Paloma
Cuba
Munson
Hinckly Sailor Departs for Rosario with Lumber
The American schooner Evelyn W. Hinckly sailed from Gulfport after provisioning at Gulf Dry Docks. Captain Lane loaded supplies here to last to Rosario for the voyage, with plans to carry lumber from Gulfport.
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Hinckly
Evelyn W. Hinckly
Gulf Dry Docks
Lane
Rosario
Gulfport
Strong Bound Here Carries Lumber From Cuba
The American schooner Carrie Strong is reported bound here from Cuba to load a cargo of lumber, signaling a trade shipment arrival.
Dyewood Cargo Bound for Mobile From Haiti
The schooner Sadie C. Sumner is reported bound from Haiti with a cargo of dyewood for Mobile. The dyewood shipment complements Will Bring Dyewood references in the same dispatch.
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Sadie C. Sumner
Haiti
Mobile
Mrs Kanouse Charged in Kinder Shooting Case
Oberlin La May 29 Charges of complicity in an alleged attempt to kill Dr Henry Buck at Kinder La last Friday night were filed today against Mrs William Kanouse held in jail here in connection with the shooting affray in which her husband was killed by Dr Buck. Coroner s jury exonerated Buck witnesses testifying Kanouse fired first. Mrs Kanouse also was accused of shooting at Buck. Parish officials said she told them she and her husband motored from their Lake Charles home to Dr Buck s residence to get him to apologize for an alleged remark concerning her.
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Oberlin
Henry Buck
Kinder
William Kanouse
Buck
Kanouse
Progreso Quiet as Nepos Arrives From Yucatan
Captain Nielsen of the Norwegian steamship Nepos from Ward Line reports Progreso calm and normal. Americans in Yucatan not fearing uprising. business conditions deemed normal.
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Progreso
Mexico
Nielsen
Mhaster
Nepos
Ward Line
Yucatan
James J Hill Dead at St Paul Pioneer of River Transport
James J Hill died in St Paul after a lifetime shaping northern river and rail links. He arrived in 1856 as a stevedore and clerk, built Hill Grist Co to bring coal to St Paul, and founded regular Red River valley service. He later led a syndicate to acquire failed railroad assets and expand northern commerce.
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James J. Hill
ST. Paul
W. J. Bass & Co
Dubuque
Manitobia
Red River Valley
St. Cloud
Breckenridge
Hill
Sir Donald A. Smith
George Stephen
Norman W. Kittson
Hill Leads Manitoba Railway Toward the Pacific
The St Paul Minnesota and Manitoba Railway formed with Hill as general manager. In 1883 he became president and pushed the Dakota Minnesota line to the Pacific Ocean without government aid. He faced three southern rivals subsidized by the government, yet Manitoba advanced rail by one mile daily at $30,000 per mile, founding farms along the route.
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Hill
St. Paul
Minnesota
Manitoba Railway
Dakota
Pacific Ocean
Manitoba
Great Northern
Hill Builds Empire and Pacific Trade Network
He expanded the Great Northern system from the Northwest to the Orient, introducing livestock farming, grain exports, and cheap rail and steamship rates to Buffalo. He organized Pacific steamships for Japan and China, securing rewards for American rails, wheat, and flour, and created a vast fortune and real estate wealth along his routes. His leadership emphasized low grades and heavy power, with a focus on opportunity in the ranks and a caution against extravagance.
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Hill
Empire Builder
Puget Sound
Acre
Buffalo
Pacific Tidewater
Japan
China
England
John W. Gates
Chicago
Pittsburgh
Yokohama
Far East
Northwest
Pacific
Orient
Great Northern
Louis
Madame Comes to the Columbia in Mystery and Music
Madame the Woman of Mystery arrives in Mobile from Montgomery to appear weekly at the Columbia with the Jewell Kelley Stock Company in A Convict s Daughter She will perform vaudeville routines and deliver two lectures one for ladies after the Wednesday matinee and another for men and women Friday
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madame
Mobile
Montgomery
Plaza Theatre
Cawthon Hotel
Columbia
Jewell Kelley Stock Company
Jewell Kelly
Rose Morris
Jewell Kelly Stock Company
Plaza
the Columbia
No Action by Committee on Blakeslee Statement
Washington May 29 No action was taken today by the senate post office committee on Assistant Postmaster General Blakeslees declaration that the committee in amending the postal bill had surrendered to the rail roads Chairman Bankhead said the committee would meet tomorrow
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Washington
Senate Post Office
Blakeslee
Bankhead
Attacks on Britain Kill or Wound 2166 in War
In the British Isles attacks by sea and air during the war, 2,166 persons have been killed or wounded. The death toll stands at 550. Figures were given in the House of Commons today by Home Secretary Herbert Samuel.
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London
British Isles
House of Commons
Herbert L. Samuel
Home Secretary
Real Estate Transfers Listed for Mobile County
Real estate transfers include Eli Taylor to Albert L. Taylor for one dollar beginning northeast of Hamilton and Augusta streets. Mary McKinzie to Abraham Perkins for one hundred dollars and other considerations, lot 9 in square 10 of Fisher's tract. Grand Bay Land Company to Geo M LeHew for one dollar, section 21 township 6 south range 3 west.
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Eli Taylor
Albert L. Taylor
Hamilton and
Augusta
Mary McKinzie
Abraham Perkins
Fisher's
Mobile County
Ala
Grand Bay Land Company
Geo. M. LeHew
Death of financier James J. Hill shocks Wall Street adoring peers
The death of a dominant financial personality, James J. Hill, was mourned in New York as a deep personal loss. Hill, head of Great Northern and promoter of the Northern Securities Company, influenced major loans and banking houses. officials of his rail line and leading banks are expected to attend his funeral.
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E. H. Harriman
Hill
Northern Securities Company
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
United States Circuit Court
United States Supreme Court
Wall Street
New York
Great Northern Railway
Hill Road
J. P. Morgan & Co
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
First National Bank
Chase National Bank
City National Bank
Dr Bell's Pine Tar Honey Cough Syrup Boomed
An old advertisement touts a cough syrup named Dr Bell's Pine Tar Honey made from pine tar aconite and several herbs with sugar honey glycerine and ammonia. It promises quick relief and easy use in a ready made two ounce bottle sold by druggists with the label claiming the formula.
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Dr. Bell
Senate Passes Rivers and Harbors Bill Amid Battle
After three weeks of fighting the senate approved the rivers and harbors appropriation bill for roughly 43 million dollars by a 35 to 32 vote. Earlier a bid to send the measure back to committee failed 41 to 27, while an amendment creating a river regulation commission with cost of 500 thousand was adopted. The session also defeated several other proposals aimed at altering or delaying funding.
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Washington
Senate
Rivers and Harbors
Newlands
Secretaries of War, Interior, Agriculture and Commerce
House
Army Engineers
Clarke
Commerce Committee
Taggert
Secretary of War
Commerce
Kenyon
Waterways Commission
Brazos River
Texas
Proceedings of the G O P Meeting in Birmingham
Delegates from Alabama First District convened at the Bijou Theatre Birmingham May 20 1916 after the State Convention. P D Barker chaired the session and E T Belsaw read the call and acted as temporary secretary. Committees on credentials and officers were formed with delegates named from Clarke Choc taw Monroe Mobile Marengo and Washington counties. James T Peterson elected delegate to the national convention and E T Belsaw alternate. Jacob Tannenbaum named elector. A district executive committee was chosen and Barker named chairman with a four year term. The meeting adjourned sine die.
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Alabama
Birmingham
Ala
Republican Executive Committee
P. D. Barker
E. T. Belan
E. T. Belsaw
J. H. Tom-linson
FE. T. Belsaw
Choctaw County
Thomas Ezell
Clarke County
J. T. Peterson
J. H. Tomlinson
E. W. Gaynor
T. Belsow
Mobile County
A. R. Davidson
Monroe County
W. H. Manning
Marengo County
S. Turner
Washington County
James T. Peterson
Congress
Canadians Purchase Citrus Orchards in Calvert
Messrs Frank Gunn J F and Frank B Haljl of Port Arthur Canada arrived in Mobile and proceeded to Calvert on the Southern Railroad where they purchased citrus orchards from the Demonstration Plantation Company. Gunn will establish a first class garage at Calvert for motorists. Life Savers Meet set for Tuesday evening at 6 at the Y M C A building. Evans sails to Tuscaloosa for centennial. local merchants and visitors noted. Several residents from Montgomery Baldwin county Memphis Excel New Orleans etc visiting Mobile, with hotels named and dates. Mayor Lyons absent. Commissioner Pillans acts mayor.
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Frank Gunn
J. F
Frank B. Haljl
Port Arthur
Canada
Mobile
Calvert
Southern Railroad
Gunn
Prohibition Guilty Pleas and Miscellaneous Court Actions
Robert Thomas, Warren Foster and Albert Dowdy pleaded guilty in the inferior criminal court to violating the prohibition law and each paid a $50 fine plus costs. Other cases continued due to absent state witnesses include W. E. Flinn, R. J. Williamson, Willie Johnston and others with dates May 31 and June 1. Robert W. Anthony was sentenced to sixty days of hard labor for embezzlement involving $6.50 with Judge Chamberlain threatening to "give the limit" to such thieves. Additional docket items include Dolly Hays for abusive language, Celia Lee for $1 and costs, and Collins Woodbury for $2.50 or ten days.
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Robert Thomas
Warren Foster
Albert Dowdy
Inferior Criminal Court
W. E. Flinn
R. J. Williamson
Willie Johnston
Sidney Williamson
Harry Puckett
Richard Blalack
Andrew Singleton
Robert W. Anthony
Anthony
Florida Fish Company
Chamberlain
Dolly Hays
Celia Lee
Collins Woodbury
Deputies Find Liquor in Warren Street Dwelling
Deputies raided a dwelling at 110 North Warren street Sunday afternoon and found thirteen cases of beer, a grip with assorted whisky, and two small tubs of cold beer. No owner appeared on the scene for the liquor.
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North Warren Street
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Peden
Gains
M. Backes
Sr Francis
LABOR
Carnival Association
Marine News
Walter Mitchell
The
Jewell Kelly Stock Co
Britain
Crichton
Aznea Allen
J. W. Allen
Winnsler
Emory Swetman
Perkinston
Miss
Harrison County Agricultural Business College
Tutt
Demopolis
Price Williams
Williamson
Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railway
Healing
Cullom
Bladon Springs
Union Station
van Antwerp
Life Saving Corps of the American Red Cross
Y. M. C. A. D.duilding
Thomas N. Kearns
Warley Fruit and Produce Company
Baldwin County
L. E. Brown
Montgomery, Ala
City
Battle House
B. G. Jett and Wife
Memphis Tenn
A. J. Murphy
Excel
John W. Matthis
New Orleans
J. C. Curry
Bessemer, Ala
W. L. Pryor
Laurel, Miss
St. Andrew Hotel
S. B. Shay and
W. T. Hale
Camden, Ala
J. O. Culver
Maplesville, Ala
H. T. Inge
Mobile Baseball Association
Carribean and Southern Steamship Company
St. Louis
Pat J. Lyons
Tuscaldoosa
Harry Pillans
Robert K. Anthony
D. S. Bauer
Dauphin St
Caribbean & Southern Steamship Co., Inc
Seeberg Steassebtp Co
Windward
Leeward Islands
Central and
South America
Port-Au-Prince
Guadeloupe
Martinique
Barbados
Trinidad
Demerara
West Indies
Seeberg Steamship Co
City Bank
Resinol
Baltimore
BELL
Mobile Delivery Co
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