Huntsville Fountain Gift Marks Civic Sentiment
The Huntsville Women's Christian temperance union has erected a drinking fountain for men in the city, described as a neat and useful adornment. The fountain is praised as a token of goodwill and a voice against liquor sales, with editorial notes urging a bridle on permissive liquor laws and citing health comparisons favoring oysters and other foods.
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Huntsville Women’s Christian Prance Union
Ted
Huntsville Times
United States Bureau of Fisher
Dean of a World James Eut Dies at Seventy-One
Hempstead Long Island mourns James Eut a superintendent of the Westminster Kennel Club for thirty years hailed as the dean of a world in canine circles. He preached love me love my dog and lived by it. Idlewild resort project includes tennis and golf facilities aimed at educated visitors. The Buckeye state notes a shift, while Spore skepticism echoes a wider political climate.
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Hempstead
L. I
James Eut
Westminster Kennel Club
States
Seted
Idlewild
Mobile Storm Safety Reveals Minimal Waterfront Damage
Mobile reports show ships anchored upriver and waterfront stocks secured as storm warnings arrived. By morning most commerce resumed with slick streets and a safe harbor. photographs risk exaggeration, while actual damage stayed small around an assessed value of about 45 million dollars.
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Mobile
Water Street
New Orleans
Gulf Coast
Venice
Louisville
Third
Fourth
Associated Press
Associated
Mobile T
Taxing Life and Death A (Perhaps) Alabama Editorial Lampoon
The piece mocks proposed taxes on birth and death related items using hyperbole about licenses for babies tombstones and embalming costs. It argues that birth is easy and death expensive while lampooning broader government control over everyday life and death provisions, including firearms and cigarettes.
Prohibition and Price Rises Doomed The Common Good
The passage laments prohibitive costs for mediums and fortune tellers while implying state wartime measures are restricted. It notes licenses blocking gun clubs, movie access, and other goods but oddly says baby items like perambulators and nursing bottles avoid taxation. The tone critiques rising living costs and societal pretensions.
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United States
YMCA basketball team to open season Friday night
The YMCA basketball squad in Mobile will begin play Friday at 6 30 PM in the YMCA gym. Twenty players reported to Coach Radcliff including Steber Doyal Midgett Baumhauer Ash Martin Cunningham Crawford and Ollinger with several new candidates. Notable signees include a former Vanderbilt varsity man a Columbus player and Holt who was Alabama's forward last year. Eight home games against strong Southern teams are listed with a road trip planned for late February.
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Radcliff
Steber
Doyal
Midgett
Baumhauer
Ash
Martin
Cunningham
Crawford
Ollinger
Mobile
Vanderbilt
Columbus
Holt
Alabama
South
General Marchand Struck While Leading Charge in Champagne
Paris Oct 1 Brigadier General Marchand was at the head of a marching column with a pipe and walking stick when a shell splinter wounded him in the Champagne district last Saturday a young colonial infantryman who was beside him said.
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Paris
Marchand
Champagne
A Pair of Sixes At Lyric Theatre
A Pair of Sixes will play at the Lyric Theatre with matinee and night shows on Saturday October 2. The NY Longacre Theatre hit for nearly a year, this farce promises original plot twists and a romance element to heighten the gaiety. S R S sign expected for opening.
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Lyric Theatre
New York
Longacre Theatre
Mobile
Empire theater shifts to two Vitagraph features
Train service delays forced cancelation of the Empire program and the Goddess chapter. Instead patrons will see two Vitagraph releases, Dorothy a photo drama starring Maurice Corsello Leah Baird and Van Brooke, and Vitagraph Jolly Stayed Single a tag line comedy, both presented as replacements.
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Empire
Vitagraph
Dorothy
Maurice Corsello
Leah Baird
van Brooke
I —S As
Illie
Hotel crowding as storms disrupt travel and visitors gather
Foreword notes a storm causing rail delays and hotel full capacity with guests from Alabama Mississippi and Louisiana. Guests include W B Compton Anti Saloon League official and Dr Ellis Whitman of St Louis visiting near the University of Alabama Medical School. Several hotel lists and guest names across Battle House St Andrew Cawthon Klosky Windsor and others appear.
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Lean Southern
Pine’ap’ola” Company
Huntington
W. Va
W. B.,compton
Montgomery
Anti-Saloon League
Ellis Whitman
St. Louis
University of Alabama School of Medicine
Battle House
George C. Kempt
Birmingham
Ala
J. H. Roe
Homewood
A. W. Guthey
A. P. Bradley
Selma
W. E
P. M. Watson
Bienville
C. M. Hooper
E. R. Childers
T. T. Thornhill
H. M. Mastin
J. P. Lord
Beatrice
H. L. Dees
Repton
M. M. Foster
Monroeville
E. P. Chapman
Grove Hill
Cawthon
M. W. Seavright
Paul M. Smith
Savannah
J. M. McKenzie
Fort Morgan
W. B. Covington
L. L. Shaw
Millsville
Fla
J. A. McCall
DeFuniak Springs
Frank Boyer
New Orleans
Windsor
S. H. Rich and Wife
Foley
M. N. Grant
Little River
C. P. Holesapple
Decatur
E. O. Camp
General Kuropatkin Appointed Chief of Russian Grenadier Corps
Petrograd dispatch reports General Alexei Kuropatkin named to lead the Russian grenadier corps marking a reversal of public opinion after his failure in Manchuria. The appointment follows his past admission of mistakes and the friction with Admiral Alexei, the viceroy in the Far East.
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Kuropatkin
Army Corps
London
Alexei Kuropatkin
Grenadier Corps
Reuter
Petrograd
Russia
Japan
Alexeix
Far East
Baptist Association Concludes Annual Session in Theodore
The Mobile Baptist Association wrapped up its two day session in Theodore amid poor weather that kept many delegates away. Despite sparse attendance, discussions on church work in the county and state were favorable and the group planned to meet next year at Oakdale Baptist Church.
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Mobile Baptist ~ Association
Theodore
Oakdale Baptist Church
Exercise Beneficial to Women and Dr Pierce Treatments
An old advertisement touts exercise and Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as remedies for female ailments. It promises free medical advice from the Invalids' Hotel Buffalo and a 1000 page hygiene book for stamps. The ad claims the tonic cures inflammation, regularizes cycles, and banishes pain without alcohol.
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Dr. Pierce
Invalids’ Hotel
Buffalo
N. Y
Pierce
Wireless News Sparked Mobile’s Storm Coverage
The Item in Mobile first reported New Orleans storm damage via wireless after wires failed. AP credited the Mobile operator for securing news from ships Exelsior and Creole via Marconi stations at Battle House. The report also notes Obregon’s telegram on Torrean’s fall and the Bene detto Brin disaster.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Marcon
Item
Excelsior
Creole
Tallapoosa
Marconi Company
Battle House
Mobile
Washington
European War Headlines Mark Key Allied Advances
One year ago the French war office claimed the left flank reached Arras while the right flank pushed Germans back across the Meuse. German sources said allies were hammered by artillery and efforts to breach the line failed. Reports also noted the Perneaus siege of Petrograd entering its fourth week and German defeats in Lodz with a Russian counteroffensive faltering. Scharnhorst and Gneisenau bombarded Papeete in Tahiti, destroying parts of the capital.
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Arras
Meuse
Petrograd
Irmans
Lodz
Berlin
Suwaiki
Scharnhorst
Gneisenau
Papeete
Tahiti
South Pacific
Two Accidents Near Spring Hill Hit By Darkness
On Thursday night, two crashes occurred at Bayou and Spring and Broad and Spring Hill due to street lights being out. Mrs. Margaret Toomey of 715 Dauphin Street was knocked down by a bicycle and taken to City Hospital with minor injuries. a Black woman nearby was also struck by a cyclist but escaped unharmed.
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Spring Hill Avenue
Bayou
Margaret Toomey
Dauphin Street
Broad and
The Question Box A Little Fish Story
The reader asks why a fish cannot live in a jar of water as in a lake. The answer explains fish need oxygen dissolved in water, absorbed by gills, just as lungs take oxygen from air. Without oxygen the fish dies. with fresh water containing oxygen the fish can thrive in a tiny ocean.
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Alex. F. G
More Liquor Shipped Into Wet Territory Claimants File
Claimants for seized liquor take advantage of the Chamberlain law to claim and ship alcohol out of the state. T H McPhillips filed a claim for eighty seven casks seized on Water street in July as the sheriff’s forces move to satisfy time limits before expiration.
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T. H. McPhillips
Water Street
Washington Panama Canal Reopens After Slides
Washington reports the Panama Canal will reopen on October 5 after an earth slide closed the waterway. Majestic delays caused by the slides prompted the temporary shutdown and repair work by canal authorities.
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Washington
Panama
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Ota State Federation of
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Wum
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Old Plain Dealer
Weland
Buckeye
Fian
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The
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Tampa
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