Music Lovers' Association plans membership drive and concerts
The Music Lovers' Association Board extended a season plan, setting four dollar membership dues for the remaining concerts. Three concerts are left this season, including the October 13 Zdjo event and Ossip Gabrilowitsch in January. The Lyric will host two Russian Symphony Orchestra performances in spring, with reduced pupil rates for teacher members.
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Music Lovers’ Association For Way
Wsky Txjo
Ossip Gaitsch
Sym- Orchestra
Dutch Volks University Expands Education Access
The Netherlands establishes a People's University in Amsterdam following Hague’s lead. About seven hundred students have enrolled as the open education movement grows across Europe, offering affordable higher ed to the widest possible purse.
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Netherla Gue
Netherlands
Holland
Volks
S University
Enone
Europe
Volks” University Beis
Amsterlin
Hague
Amn
Car Slides Into Ditch Injuring Three on Hall's Mill Road
A car driven by Mr. Phelps skidded on Hall's Mill road and slid into a ditch injuring three people. Mr. Perry suffered a broken arm, while Mr. Phelps, Mr. Clare, and others received minor injuries. They were taken to an infirmary for treatment after the afternoon accident five miles out on Mill road.
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Phelps
Hall's Mill Road
Mr. Phelps
Mr. Perry
Albert Clare
Rolston
Coden
Mill Road
German workers now nearly half women
Berlin reports from the municipal insurance bureau that women in industrial jobs rose to 47.5 percent of all workers, up from 24.5 percent in 1907 and well ahead of thirty years ago. Women now rival or exceed men in textiles and paper industries, while overall female labor continues to grow.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Municipal Insurance Bureau
Germans again urged to raise more foodstuffs
German papers publish a second letter from Field Marshal von Hindenburg to Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg urging coercion as necessary to solve food, war material, and labor power problems. The earlier letter prompted an economic council appeal to farmers to boost food production.
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Associated Press
Amstext AM
London
Field Marshal
von Hindenburg
von Bethmann-Hollweg
German Economic Council
German Baby Rubber Nipples Supplied Under State Control
Berlin reports the Bundesrat has ordered all rubber nipples in Germany and imports to be handed to a state run company for even distribution. Mothers may obtain two nipples per child under one year by presenting birth certificates, with a 36 pfennig ceiling on Germany made nipples and exchanges of old ones.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Navy
Germany
Bundesrat
Travelers Seek Earlier Flomaton Train For Mobile
Mobile Travelers Association plans to ask at the next meeting on the first Saturday in December for an earlier local train to Flomaton and Selma. President Louis J. Adler said the current schedule hinders city travelers and that efforts will support Mardi Gras and Mobile Carnival promotion.
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Mobile Travelers Association
Flomaton
Louis J. Adler
Selma
Eastham Wins Contract To Drill In Alabama Gulf Lands
J M Eastham of Blackwell Oklahoma was awarded a contract by the Alabama Gulf Oil and Gas Company to drill for oil on western county lands. A crew will go to Mobile to erect derricks and commence work at once, with bore depth to 3500 or 4000 feet if needed.
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Will
OLL
J. M. Eastham
Blackwell
Oklahoma
Alabama Gulf Oil and Gas Company
Mr. Eastham
Mobile
British move on food control under new regulations
London reports the Board of Trade acting swiftly under new food control rules. Two orders set to take effect November 27 cover flour milling limits and milk pricing, with January 1 a cutoff for bread production using only compliant flour and a price ceiling linked to prewar levels plus two pence a quart for milk.
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Associated Press
London
Board of Trade
California Republicans predict Wilson plurality in California
California Republicans reviewing unofficial canvass figures from fifty counties say President Wilson will hold a plurality of at least 3 416 in the state. The eight counties yet to file returns are not expected to alter the overall trend. Secretary S J McAfee cautions the figures are close estimates, not final totals.
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San Francisco
California
Wilson
Dauphin Street Fire Damages Second Floor Hole
Alarms from boxes 31 and 37 at 4:40 AM sent police and several fire companies to the northwest corner of Jackson and Dauphin streets for a small fire in a building occupied by R. E. Brightman. The blaze burned a hole in the floor of the second story and the cause was not determined. Property owned by J. M. Mc Voy. Also noted were minor damages from a defective flue at 265 South Hamilton and grass fires on Marine street and at Texas and Michigan avenues, both extinguished with no property damage. John J. Reimer’s two story frame home sustained slight damage. John Shaw’s one story frame at 155 George street had slight damage.
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Jackson and
Dauphin Streets
R. E. Brightman
J. M. McVoy
Arras
Hamilton Street
John J. Reimer
Marine Street
Miami
Shawnee
Texas
Michigan Avenue
George Street
John Shaw
Tisdale Touart
Hoppe Sets New High Average in Billiards Match
William Hoppe defeated Young Jacob Schaefer 300 line billiard match in Des Moines Iowa, breaking the world high average record. The previous mark was 135.
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Hoppe
Des Moines
William Hoppe
Young
Jacob Schaefer
Ward’s Son Wins Virginia University Scholarship
Dallas Mitchell Ward, son of Dr. A. G. Ward of Mobile, has been awarded the Alabama scholarship to the University of Virginia. A University Military School graduate, Ward had entered Virginia before the award and was backed by a unanimous alumni vote for his strong academic record. Prof. Julius Tutwiler Wright recommended him.
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Dallas Mitchell Ward
A. G. Ward
Mobile
Alabama
University of Virginia
Young Ward
University Military School
Virginia
Julius Tutwiler Wright
Sweet Potatoes Sought by Gulf Coast Market Demand
Evan B. Davis, manager of the Gulf Coast Produce Exchange, says Louisville and Cincinnati markets will buy all local dasheens. A New York firm seeks all Mobile county dasheens and a Nashville firm wants a carload daily. Davis asks Mobile farmers to help meet the demand.
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Louisville
Cincinnati
Evan B. Davis
Gulf Coast Produce Exchange
Davis
New York
Mobile County
Nashville
Creole Fire Company No 1 Elects Officers
At the annual Creole Fire Company No 1 meeting officers were reelected J A Pope as president A T Parker foreman Frank Petite secretary treasurer J P Cummins steward and Henry Reid captain. Pope served 14 years Parker 19 Petite 7 Cummins 23 Reid 10 years.
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Creole Fire Company
Creole Fire Company No. 1
J. A. Pope
A. T. Parker
Frank Petite
J. P. Cummins
Henry Reid
J. P.cummins
Yale Star Is Back in Game
Yale tackle Chub Sheldon returns to the lineup after an inflammatory rheumatism scare and may play in the Yale Harvard game. His return, among several Yale cripples, strengthens the varsity for a crucial matchup.
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Yale
Chub Sheldon
Harvard
Sheldon
Tick-Infested Steer Recovers After Dipping Gains 285 Pounds
A 30-pound steer freed from cattle ticks by dipping gained 285 pounds in two months on the same feed. The owner then fed the steer instead of the tick control method.
Kodak Grants Emergency Wage To Meet Rising Living Costs
Rochester Nov. 21 The Eastman Kodak Company announced that between December 6, 1916 and April 25, 1917 it would pay emergency wages to employees. Workers earning $20 a week or less would receive 15 percent extra. those earning between $20 and $50 a week would receive $3 more per week. The increase aims to offset the abnormal cost of living caused by the European war.
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Associated Press
Rochester
N. Y
Eastman Kodak Company
Lumbermen Plan Push for Foreign Trade Markets
Plans for cooperative effort to develop world wide markets for wood and wood products were discussed in Portland Oregon by lumbermen from the Northwest Middle West and South. Speakers noted pending Congress legislation to allow lumbermen to form combinations and agreed to press the measure at the coming session.
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Portland
Ore
Northwest
Middle West
South
Cngress
Houston Tops Nation in Spot Cotton Rally
Houston became the nation’s highest spot cotton market as middling grade jumped 2.50 per bale to 21 cents a pound. Bulls cheered on the floor of the Houston exchange as traders reacted to the dramatic rise amid an excited market.
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Houston
Associated Press
Tex
Houston Exchange
Butter Price Evasion Through Buttered Herring in Berlin
Berlin authorities uncovered a scheme to evade butter price controls by selling "buttered herring" a small herring wrapped in a pound of butter. Traders exported fish from Denmark and other sources and sold in bulk, enticing buyers in 20 50 and 100 pound lots. Many customers discarded the fish after paying high prices for butter.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Denmark
Inspection Of Roads Resumed In Mobile County
The Mobile County board of revenue and road commissioners resumed regular road inspections Tuesday morning with duties split among Commissioners Ward Whatley and McFadyen on Tuesday, Green Bolton and McFadyen on Wednesday, and Ward Whatley and Bolton on Thursday with County Engineer Harry Fisher. They took no action on Warner Bosarge’s petition for reinstatement as eradication inspector, noting the work remains suspended until spring.
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Mobile County
Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners
Ward
Whatley
McFadyen
Green
Bolton
Harry Fisher
Warner Bosarge
Bingara Trotter Sells for 5200 at New York Auction
Bingara a famed harness stallion and sire of 2:10 trotters sold at the Old Glory horse sale in New York for $5,200 to T. J. Tranter. He was part of the harness stock from the estate of the late William Russell Allen of Pittsfield Massachusetts auctioned off Monday.
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Associated Press
New York
Bingara
T. J. Tranter
William Russell Allen
Allen Farm
Pittsfield
Mass
No Change in Plans for American League Meeting
Chicago November 21 reports that the annual meeting of the American League would move to New York on December 12 due to the National League meeting. President Johnson announced there is no change in plans and the meeting will be held in Chicago.
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Associated Press
Chicago
New York
National League
Johnson
First to Go to Congress by Airplane
Representative elect O D Bleakley of Franklin Pennsylvania flew from Philadelphia to Washington in his own biplane piloted by Army Sergeant William C Ocker. Bleakley declared he was the first man to come to Congress by airplane.
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Associated Press
Washington
Bleakley
Franklin
Philadelphia
William C. Ocker
United States Army
Congress
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