Gulfport Sees Busy Lumber Trade And School Enrollment Rise
Lumber exporting in Gulfport is strong with the G S I pressed to supply flat oars as Ingram Day Lumber Co. ships three vessels. School enrollment climbs about 27 percent over two years from 1124 to 1388 in the first month of the new term, with high school numbers up 95 percent. The city adds new departments and the traction line rebuild nears completion between Gulfport and Biloxi and toward Long Beach. Eggs noted as decoration remark concludes.
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Gulfport
Miss
Ingram-Day Lumber Company
Sor Be Miss
L 7. Gilmer
Traction Company
Biloxi
Long Beach
Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Endorsed by Woman in Danville
Mrs. Mattie Haley of Danville Virginia reports improvement after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills. She says she spent ten dollars and now suffers no bearing down pains and sleeps well. The ad urges others with female troubles to try the remedy and contact Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co for advice.
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Danville
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mattie Haley
Colquhone Street
Lydia E.pinkham
Biloxi Beach Front Work Progress Amid Repairs
Biloxi Mississippi reports rapid rebuilding of the hurricane damaged beach front. The thoroughfare near Reynoir to Point Cadet is near completion with western sections toward the lighthouse still advancing.
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Biloxi
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John Swanzy
Reynoir Street
Point Cadet
Thomas Carruth
Sumrall
United States District Court
John L. Heiss
Gulfport
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The
Seafood Company
Navy appoints McDonald as chief of staff to Atlantic Fleet
Captain J D Mc Donald, stationed at the Navy War College, will serve as chief of staff of the Atlantic fleet. He relieves Captain H McL Huse, who is detached to await orders.
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Washington
J. D. McDonald
Navy War College
Atlantic Fleet
H. McL. Huse
Planning on the budget system in appropriation talks
Washington November discussions on centralizing congressional appropriations continue with a White House conference planned within a week. President Wilson seeks a systematic budget control without endorsing a single plan while key leaders weigh options and a full committee budget proposal is debated.
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White House
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Kitchin
Hay
Virginia
Sherley
Kentucky
Representative Fitzgerald
New York
Appropriations Committee
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Former Mobilian Dead Buried at Tuscaloosa
A Louis Hinckley of Mobile died at his University of Alabama home at 26. He lived in Birmingham and Tuscaloosa as a photographer and was unmarried. Funeral held at a Tuscaloosa Catholic church with burial in the local cemetery.
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Birmingham
Tuscaloosa
Tuscaloosa Cemetery
Scott's Emulsion Tonic For Frail Women In Ad
An advertisement touts Scott's Emulsion as nourishing tonic for pale nervous women. It claims richer blood, filled cheeks, reduced nervousness, and renewed strength without drugs. Endorsed by Scott & Bowne of Bloomfield New Jersey. 15-24.
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Scott
Scott’s
Scott & Bowne
Bloomfield
N.J
Fear for American Ship Overdue at Buenos Aires
The American steamer Kankakee, sailing from Baltimore on October 2, was reported eleven days overdue at Buenos Aires. New York agents feared it had been seized by a British cruiser and noted it carried 5,000 tons of coal.
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New York
Baltimore
Buenos Aires
Rotary club discusses Old Spanish Trail plan in session
Mobile Rotary Club held a Thursday afternoon meeting in the Cawthon Hotel Rotary room. The agenda covered club matters and future policy with a discussion of the Old Spanish Trail movement aimed at promoting the historic route.
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Mobile Rotary Club
Rotary
Cawthon Hotel
Encouraging Fundraising Faces Capital Hurdles
It is usually easier to promote encouragement than to secure the required capital. The remark highlights the gap between motivation and financial support in funding efforts.
Alabama porter Batch Harris awarded Carnegie Medal and $500
John Harris known as Batch, a Cuba Alabama station porter on the Queen and Crescent Route, saved J F Robinson from a passing engine on July 4 1912. Carnegie Hero Fund awarded a gold medal and $500.
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Birmingham
Ala
John Harris
Batch
Cuba
Queen and Crescent
Carnegie Hero Fund
Baker
J. F. Robinson
Porter Harris
Mr. Robinson
Harris
Carnegie Fund
Alabama Lumbermen Lose Large Orders In France Trade
Western Alabama mills have sold about fifty million feet of lumber in the last two months for shipment to France. The wood goes from Cairo Illinois to Newport News where it is loaded onto ships bound for France. Demand has surged, making railroad car supply hard to obtain to meet the orders.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
Alabama
France
Cairo
Ills
Newport News
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