Postal guide at low rate coming to aid business
Postmaster J Blocker Thornton announced a Washington request to publicize a forthcoming postal guide. In July the department will issue a complete or abridged guide with monthly supplements at a very low price, covering printing and handling costs to become essential for business, schools, civic bodies and others using mail order services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Blocker Thornton
Post Office Department
Washington
Postal guide pricing and distribution plan outlined
A government bulletin explains that a business partner may help disseminate postal information by handling subscriptions and remittances. Two pricing structures are described for the postal guide, with cloth and paper-bound versions, plus an abridged form and new state list, all offered at reduced, cost-based prices starting July 1, 1916.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bulletin
Manila
Woman from North Oxford credits Pinkham's Tea for health
Mrs Peter Marco of North Oxford Massachusetts says after suffering sleeplessness indigestion weakness and nervousness she found relief after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound She reports renewed vitality and the birth of a healthy boy baby and keeps a bottle in her home for ongoing use The advertisement invites readers to write for free confidential advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Massachusetts
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Oxford
Mass
Lydia E. Pinkham
Postal guide monthly supplement offered to public
A public oriented monthly postal supplement explains post office changes current instructions to the postal service including money orders registry and postal savings. Pamphlets sold 35 cents with orders to Disbursing Clerk Post Office Department Washington and postmasters locally for distribution possibly in late July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Post Office Department
Washington, D. C
Tanker Arrives at Mobile With 1.5 Million Gallons Blackstrap
The American steamship Francis Hanify docked at Pier 6 in Mobile on Sunday carrying more than 1.5 million gallons of blackstrap molasses for the Cuban Molasses Company. Discharge begins today and the tanker will depart for Cuba once cargo is unloaded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Hanify
Mobile
Hanify
Cuban Molasses Company
Pier 6
Cuba
Junior baseball clash at Y M C A on Tuesday
The Junior Indoor Baseball League at the Y M C A schedules Tuesday games with the league leading Cubs facing the Klu Kluxs and the Gulls meeting the Fords. The Cubs and Gulls are separated by only one win for first place, fueling strong interest and expected large attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cubs
Klu Kluxs
Gulls
Fords
Day in Congress and Calhoun Burial
Senate debated rivers and harbors while a commerce subcommittee heard protests on shipping. House discussed naval legislation as Ways and Means Democrats studied a revenue measure. The body of James B. Calhoun arrived from Atlanta and will be buried Monday afternoon at Magnolia Cemetery with Mobile Masons in charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commerce _ sub
House
Ways and Means
J. B. Calhoun
James B. Calhoun
Atlanta
Berenson & Sands
Magnolia Cemetery
Mobile Lodges of
Masons
Herbert Calhoun
J. E. Calhoun
Edward Barham
Calhoun
Binnacle Lamp Club Tales Of Lightning At Sea
Members of the Binnacle Lamp Club, skippers, pilots, and ex mariners, shared sea lightning yarns at a meeting. Tales recount vessels struck by lightning, fires at sea, and a banker made rich by a shock, with Captain Bodden recounting life aboard the Olga and other ships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Binnacle
Binnacle Lamp Club
Charles Bodden
Barkentine Stranger
Bert Bodden
First National Bank
Royal Street
Bodden
First National
Jim Feore
Olga
Colon
Mobile
Isle la Grande
Fred Owens
Georgia Gilkey
Gus Alley
Bluefields
Lightning Strikes Ship During Severe Squall Endangering Bert and Gus
Bert, new to sea travel and recently in ill health, faces a dangerous squall at sea. A lightning bolt hits the mizzen-top-mast as Bert and Alley stand by the wheel, leaving both boys motionless beside the deck after the shock. Fred Owens awakens amid the commotion below.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bert
Alley
Gus Alley
Fred Owens
Lightning, Fire, and Compass Fable on Pinto Island
Sailors recount a lightning strike that set a crew instruction wheel aflame and misdirected compass readings. The crew relieved by standers, steered by stars and sun to Mobile, replacing the iron wheel with a wooden one after the event, and noting the compass behaved inconsistently on both wheels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frey
Mobile
Pinto Island
Olga
Hammel Window Showcases Pretty Summer Outfits
The L. Hammel store displays a large Bathing Suit Window titled The Bathing Suit Window. A seaside scene spans the window with sand, painted water, and models in the latest bathing attire. Children play at one end while women and men wear beachwear and accessories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. Hammel
Big Snapper Catch Made by Echo Party
A fine catch of snappers was made at the banks yesterday by a party that went down on the tug Echo. More than one thousand fish were caught by the party of forty two men. Captain Walter Steber had the trip in charge and the Echo was in command of Captain Willie Clarke. The party left Mobile at 6 o'clock Sunday morning. Another trip is planned for next Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Echo
Walter Steber
Willie Clarke
Mobile
Crowds flood Indianapolis for big auto race
Indianapolis Ind May 29 crowds poured in from every direction for the sixth annual international sweepstakes at the Indianapolis speedway to be run tomorrow. Twenty one and possibly more drivers expected to start the 300 mile contest. Workmen busy clearing the brick oval drivers making final adjustments. If conditions are calm a record performance is anticipated. Ralph De Palma’s 89 mph average set last year may be surpassed in 1916 race.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Ralph de Palma
New Auto Truck Placed in House No. 3
The city’s newly purchased automobile fire truck pump and chemical engine was unloaded Monday and put into Fire Engine House No. 3 awaiting public testing. J J Devon of American LaFrance arrived to supervise unloading and will conduct tests when held.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Commission
J. J. Devon
American la France Fire Engine Company
Mobile
Women Meet at Chicago for Suffrage Conference
Chicago May 2 Two conferences of Women are announced. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National Woman Suffrage Association, calls for a meeting of the organization on June 6 7 in a local theatre. The Woman's Party convention will be held June 6 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Carrie Chapman Catt
National Woman Suffrage Association
Woman's Party
Eight jurors chosen in Orpet murder case
Waukegan Illinois May 29 At the opening of the third week of the Orpet murder trial eight jurors had been sworn and one man tentatively accepted Since the trial began 726 men have been examined for jury duty and fifty more were summoned today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waukegan
W. H. Orpet
Marion Lambert
Sacks of Mail Taken From Steamship Kristianfjord
The Kristianfjord, arriving from Bergen to Kirkwall, reports British authorities seized 794 sacks of mail from the steamer per line officers. The incident occurred en route to Kirkwall and adds to wartime mail seizures affecting the Norwegian American line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Kristianjafjord
Bergen
Kwall
Kirkwall
Improvement Association Meets for Battles Wharf Benefit
The Battles Wharf Improvement Association begins a series of entertainments with a Monday night gathering at Battles, Alabama, hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Metzger. The association ladies have organized an engaging program and many residents from the city are expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Battles Wharf Improvement Association
Battles
Ala
Joseph Metzger
Liquor cases heard in recorder court docket
A large Monday docket in the recorder's court featured minor liquor cases. Morris Brook, white, and later Ed Taylor, a Black man, were arraigned for violating prohibition laws. Taylor paid a $50 fine. Several men found drinking at the Brooks place faced charges as dangerous and suspicious characters and were warned of possible $50 fines or 60 days on a repeat offense. Hudson Levene also paid a $50 fine for the same offense. John Barrett and William Flanagan sought continuances to obtain lawyers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Recorder’s Court
Morris Brook
Brooks
Ed Taylor
Taylor
Brooks Place
Alexander Carroll
Charlie Peterson
John Mund
Christ Christensen
John Foster
Huda
Lish Taylor
Josh Campbell
Shederick Cox
Martin Jacobson
George Tarryson
Recorder
Hudson Levene
John Barrett
William Flanagan
Avoid Spring Colds With Dr. King's New Discovery
Claiming spring colds and grippe threaten health, the ad promotes Dr. King's New Discovery as a ready laxative tar syrup to soothe coughs, curb colds, and break grippe attacks. It emphasizes easy use and 40 years of testing and urges asking a druggist for a bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. King
Tobacco Industry Taxed to the Limit, He States
Washington May 29. Jacob Wertheim of New York president of the Tobacco Merchants Exchange of the United States voiced demand for a square deal from legislators at the organization's opening session. He warned that anti tobacco legislation and smoking restrictions would harm business and protested proposed higher tobacco taxes, saying the industry is already taxed to the limit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Jacob Wertheim
New York
Tobacco Merchants’ Exchange of the
United States
Wertheim
Captain Abner Martin Dies at 96 Friend of Mark Twain
Captain Abner Martin, aged 96, longtime river pilot who taught Samuel Clemens to navigate the Mississippi, died at his East Liverpool home. He served as chief mate of the Pennsylvania when wrecked near Memphis killing 260, and later commanded troop packets on Southern rivers for the Union at the outbreak of the Civil War.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool
Ohio
Abner Martin
Samuel Clemens
Mark Twain
Martin
Pennsylvania
Memphis
Big Fire Destroys Vancouver Plant and Elevator
A blaze in Vancouver British Columbia caused widespread damage to the New England Fish Company plant and the Alberta Pacific grain elevator. Estimated loss stands at 600000 dollars with no injuries reported. Fire crews fought the flames through the morning, keeping the death toll at zero.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vacouver
B. C
New England Fish Company
Alberta- Pacific
Fire destroys vast cargo of cotton and rubber at Vladivostok
A Lloyds dispatch from Vladivostok reports a major blaze that consumed large quantities of recently landed cotton and rubber. The fire raged from 3 PM Sunday to midnight, causing extensive damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vladivostok
London
Lloyds
Keep Your Skin Clear with Dr King’s New Life Pills
An old advertisement promoting Dr King’s New Life Pills as the sole path to a clear healthy complexion. It claims the pills keep bowels active and regular, stimulate the liver, cleanse the system, and purify the blood, calling it a splendid spring medicine priced at 25 cents at druggists.
War Sparks Higher Rain Insurance Rates in New York
In New York on May 29, the European war drives rain insurance costs upward. A group planning a Sunday Polo Grounds music festival asked Lloyds London for a $10,000 rain policy, which quoted 5 percent but warned rates would rise under military stress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New York City
Polo Grounds
Lloyd's
London
Lightning Kills Boy and His Mother in Daphne
Joe Rolander aged eighteen was killed by lightning near Mobile Bay in Daphne while his mother Mrs M Rolander was severely shocked and rendered unconscious. The bolt struck into a lightning rod and traveled through the kitchen floor to the ground, killing Rolander instantly with burns to the head and back.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Rolander
Daphne
Mobile Bay
M. Rolander
Rolander
Lr Ae
Also Mentioned on This Page
Oder
France
Marseilles
Senate
Sa Y
F. L. Tapia
Dauphin ST
Brittons Shoe Store
The
Owens
Hammel
Echo Party
Tiger
A. Martin
Vancouver
Mobile Gas Co
Mobile Electric
Birmingham
van Antwerp
Mary Page
Victim
Hepsey Burke
Seven
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!