Bay Minette Company Seeks Shipping Space
New Turpentine and Rosin Company Minette operates 24 hours a day during the war year and seeks water transportation for recent orders. With 2,000 barrels of resin ready for shipment and other shipments planned, the company has struggled to secure space on any vessel from Mobile. The Chamber of Commerce offers to help after learning two lumber schooners began service here and are carrying full loads. A schooner or any vessel bound for the east coast is desired.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minette
Moile
Chamber of Commerce
Bay Minette
Chamber committee reviews constitution and play laws
Chairman J. Leslie Taylor reports progress as the Chamber of Commerce ways and means sub-committee conducts a detailed review of the organization constitution and play laws. The committee met Wednesday night. The item urges industry over motto.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Leslie Taylor
Chamber of Commerce
Ways and Means
Kellogg's Sanitone Wafers Promise Nerve Revival
An advertisement touts Kellogg's Sanitone Wafers as a quick remedy to revive tired nerves and restore youthful vigor. It claims effective tonic action for brain fatigue and offers a free 60 cent trial bottle, with sale through Mobile druggists and listed local stores.
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Cientiste
Kellogg’s
Kellogg's
Co. HH
Kentucky gubernatorial race ends with competing victor claims
In Kentucky the Stanley Morrow governor race sparked conflicting tallies. An unofficial Democratic count favored Augustus O. Stanley by about 7,762, while Republicans claimed a solid Morrow victory. Both sides awaited official results, with assembly gains showing Republicans up 11 seats and two constitutional amendments passing.
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Louisville
Kentucky
A. O. Stanley
Edwin P. Morrow
Stanley
Augustus 0. Stanley
Henderson
Somerset
Morrow
General Assembly
Women Suffragists Plan New Campaign in New York
Plans for a new vote for women campaign will be discussed at a mass meeting at Carnegie Hall under the Empire State Campaign Committee. Representatives from the Woman Suffrage Party, the National Woman Suffrage Association, the New York State Woman Suffrage Association, and the Men's League for Equal Suffrage will attend. Debate centers on strategy, with some leaders favoring a constitutional amendment and others opposing another New York state referendum. Mrs Harriet Stanton Blatch leads opposition within the Woman's Political Union.
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NEW Campaign
New York
Empire State Campaign Committee
Carnegie Hall
Woman Suffrage Party
National Woman Suffrage Association
New York State Woman Suffrage Association
Men's League For Equal Suffrage
New York State
Harriet Stanton Blatch
Woman's Political Union
FloralaYouth Defends Woman in Stone Attack
A Florala man and a Lockhart woman were riding in a buggy when a stone struck the woman in the back and bruised the man's left arm last Saturday night. The Florala News-Democrat notes the incident as a protective action by the young man.
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Florala
Lockhart
The
Ala
News-Democrat
Von Buelow Denies Peace Mission in Lucerne
Former German chancellor Prince von Buelow says he is not in Switzerland for peace talks and that Germany remains united and resolved to end the war by force. French forces recaptured trenches in Champagne recently taken by the Germans.
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von Buelow
Switzerland
Lucerne
Germany
Champagne
Mi O Na stomach tablets promise relief and strength
A vintage advertorial explains Mi O Na stomach tablets as a guaranteed remedy to strengthen a weak digestive system. It claims quick relief and long term restoration, urging readers to consult Van Antwerp's Drug Corporation and try a box with a money back guarantee.
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van Antwerp’s
Drug Corporation
New Orleans Supports Old Spanish Trail Highway
New Orleans will back the Old Spanish Trail movement and push highway links from Logstown Mississippi to New Orleans. R L Langford of 332 Baronne Street argues the Alabama route for Jackson Memorial Road benefits New Orleans more than Mississippi, calling for a Gulf Coast motorist highway.
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New Orleans
Logstown
Miss
Rigolets
United States
R. L. Langford
Baronne Street
Langford
Mobile
Alabama
Jackson Memorial Road
Mississippi
Gulf Coast
Mr. Langford
California
Pacific Coast
Florida
Mobile pastors speak at mid week service
Rev. D A Planck D D of Central Presbyterian spoke on John Knox at Government Street Presbyterian mid week prayer service. The series runs four evenings with other city pastors presenting leaders from November 3 to November 24 including Phillip Brooks John Wesley and John Bunyan.
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Government Street Presbyterian Church
D. A. Planck
D. D
Central Presbyterian Church
John Knox
Government Street
Phillip Brooks
Matthew Brewster
John Wesley
O. C. McGehee
John Bun
Today’s Bellringer and Dominion Prohibition Vote
The column recalls a humor vignette with Private Rooney and a colonel as he jokes about sticking by the officer. In St Johns Newfoundland voters consider a prohibition measure to bar liquor manufacture import sale after January 1 1917. In Peking sixteenth son born to President Yuan Shi Kai, the ruler now has thirty one children.
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Rooney
Roone
ST. Johns
N. F
Colony of
New Foundland
Peking
Yuan Shi Kai
Greek cabinet resigns as Venizelos allies gain foothold
The Paris war office reports the Zaimis cabinet expected to resign after a 147 to 114 defeat vote. Venizelos favored entering the war for Serbia and the Entente, while Greece maintains neutrality according to Athens dispatches. French forces continue landing at Saloniki to reinforce the Allied effort.
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Paris
Rome
Saloniki
Venizelos
Zaimis
Greece
Athens
Serbia
Peter
Sofia
French War Office
Serbs Hold Babuna Front as Bulgarian Push Fails
Serbian forces held the Bulgarians in check at Babuna northeast of Prilip as new Allied troops arrive daily. Berlin reports say Bulgarians cut Kalafat and took prisoners north of Nish, while British force nears Baghdad aided by gun boats. The Serbian war office cites heavy Bulgarian losses and retreat.
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Babuna Saloniki
Paris
Babuna
Prilip
Monastir
Serbia
Nish
Berlin
Kravjevo
German War Office
Kalafat
Bagdad
London
Amsterdam
Cologne Gazette
Euphrates
Gazette
Serbian War Office
Seawall Project Starts for Pascagoula Coast Protection
Jackson County moves to build a 6000 foot reinforced concrete seawall along the Pascagoula river and beach with Hancock Harbin Hancock of Mobile awarded the contract. Engineer David A Harris leads planning as the wall also shields the Jackson Highway and Old Spanish Trail. Convict road crews begin river bridge and shell road work from the Mobile county line.
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Mississippi
Hancock, Harbin & Hancock
Mobile
Pascagoula
David A. Harris
Florida
New Orleans
Jackson County
Weather and river forecasts for shipments and regions
Moderate temperatures support 86 hour shipments north east and west. Tombigbee and Alabama rivers show little change over next two days. A low barometer system over the upper Lake region brings precipitation with southerly winds and mild temps in Chicago 54 degrees. High pressure promises fair weather tonight and Friday. Albert Aschenberger, Local Forecaster. What happened to the old fashioned singer who liked the tremolo stop?
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Tombigbee River
Alabama River
Upper Lake Region
Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Chicago
Ill
Mississippi Valley
Mobile
Atlantic
Gulf States
Asheville
N. C
Atlantic States
Georgia
Albert Ashenberger
Weather Bureau
Good Morning Judge Out of Habit in Courtroom Tale
A courtroom scene portrays a habitual offender in a Shakespearean style excerpt. The lamenting figure seeks one more chance while the judge and court routine shift from morning to afternoon sessions.
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Lawdy
Edington’s
Palmeto Beach Store Nears Completion for December Move
R L Nelson reports his new Palmetto Beach store building nearly finished and all grocery and notion stock ready to move by December 1. The post office will relocate to the same room.
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Palmeto ‘Beach
Ala
R. L. Nelson
Notion
Mollie Calloway
Gene Ewing
Orange Beach
Mary E. Jones
Charles Hanson
George Champagne
Fort Morgan
Cicero Nelson
Pennington
Rev. Johnson
Fairhope
Daffin
Charlie Ewing
Dorothy
T. FB. Hanson
Frank Walker
G. .D. Walker
Bon Secour
Mr. Walker
Execution of Miss Cavell to Be Depicted in Bas Relief
Paris reports a leading newspaper states a master of contemporary art will sculpt a large bas relief showing the execution of Miss Edith Cavell to be presented to Paris. London notes the British steamer Friargate, 264 tons gross, was sunk with five survivors landed.
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Miss Cavel
Paris
Edith Cavell
London
Friargate
Doan's Kidney Pills Endorsement From Mobile Readers
Mobile residents report relief from kidney and backache using Doan's Kidney Pills. Mrs A J Leibert of 256 Palmetto Ave Mobile recommends them after family members benefited. Doan's are promoted as the trusted remedy by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY with price 50 cents.
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Dean
Doan
A. J. Leibert
Palmetto &J
Mobile
Leibert
Foster-Milburn Co., Props
Buffalo
N. Y
Adv
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