Mobile's schools need attention from grand jury
The grand jury reports extensive repairs and upgrades required across Mobile schools. Barton Academy, Marechael, Leinkauf, Owens and Booker T. Washington face fire safety, lighting, overcrowding, and sanitation issues. Yard work, drainage, and unsafe stairs also cited. repairs urged to improve health and learning conditions citywide.
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Barton Academy
Conti Street
Yerby
Mareschael
Augusta
Oakdale
Tucker School
Owens School
Booker T. Washington
Mobile City Birthdays And School Conditions Report
Helga Anderson and others celebrate October births with a birthday party at the Empire Theatre for five friends. A Mobile school and asylum inspection notes overcrowded classrooms and recommended reforms, including separate jail partitions, hospital heat, and improved boiler and waterproofing.
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Helga Anderson
Canal St
Joseph B. Mays
Toulminville
Claude Sibley
S. Hamilton
Aubrey Dick
Hannon
McGill the Item
Empire Theatre
Little Talks on Thrift and Earning Through College
The piece extols thrift for youths seeking opportunity, highlighting an Oklahoma student who funded college via summer work and campus jobs. It cites college employment programs earning over thirty seven thousand dollars for students and notes a Russian immigrant who built a path to law studies while saving his first hundred dollars.
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Ben King
Jane Jones
Franklin
Lincoln
Milwaukee
Deaths and Funerals Brief: Steadham and Glaeser
Mrs. Fannie A. Steadham, 77, Alabama native, died at her Whistler residence after two weeks illness. Remains sent to Deer Park, Washington county, by Dixon and McKay. Survived by two sons and other relatives. George E. Glaeser, 70, New Orleans resident, died there Friday. Capt. James Strand of Hose Company No. 3 and Mrs. Strand mourn his death. Strand attends funeral after return from New Orleans.
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Fannie A. Steadham
Alabama
Whistler
Motile County
Steadham
George E. Glaeser
George S. Glaeser
New Orleans
James Strand
Hose Company No. 3
Prize and Punishment in an Old-time Horse Stable Jest
A prosecutor recalls a court joke where a prize is nearly won by Timothy for best groomed horse and tackle. A cobweb in the mare’s stable reveals the truth, Timothy offering a brisk defense about keeping the web to catch flies as torment rises. The judge presses for what happened after a blow, and the prosecutor quips about giving a second or third blow in a courtroom gag.
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Timothy
Vessel's Log of a Terrifying hurricane at sea
The log details a 88 ton smack Harper badly mauled by a hurricane after leaving Pensacola for the Mexican banks. Captain E J Gordon reports 120 mph gusts, loss of sails and rudder, cable and oil gear used for survival, drifting toward Pensacola and Mobile, with a towage rescue and return to Mobile bar.
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Clark Russell
Robert Louis Stevenson
Harper
Mobile
E. J. Gordon
Marine History
Pensacola
Fla
Galveston
Tex
South Pass
Louisiana
Mobile Bar
Ila
Sea King
Confessions of a Wife Kitty Malram Death
An elderly woman Kitty Malram faces death with unresolved beliefs about the afterlife. Margie urges comfort and a minister. Kitty declares she will face judgment by her own actions, not creed. She dies in the night after a quiet vigil and a final whispered smile.
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Newspaper Enterprise Association
Kitty
Margie
Herbert
Kitty Malram
Kitty Maliam
Kitty Mariam
Happy husband and his two wife harem parted
Chicago October 16 police halted Joseph Mohr a North Western Railway tower man at Division and Halsted with his two wives Clara Meinel Mohr 28 and Olga Geiser Mohr 19 saying they were happy together and would like a single cell. Mohr and his wives married 1912 and July 1919 respectively.
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Chicago
Joseph Mohr
Joseph
Chicago Avenue
Mohr
Northwestern Railway
Division
Halsted Streets
Clara Meinel Mohr
Olga Geiser Mohr
Olga
Clara
Joe
Uhler
Clara Mohr
St. Joseph
Mich
Twain
St. Joe
Jasper the dog star headlines Broadway on stage
New York reports Jasper the dog as the star of the play Young Ameri ca, hailed as the most popular and best paid on Broadway. The canine actor signs a three year contract and will have a role written specifically for him. The note ends with a Punch joke about German language substitutions for sporting terms and a claim about newspapers needing to be liars to be patriotic.
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New York
Broadway
Jasper
Young America
Manhattan
Negro Joe De Berry Is Hanged for Murder
In Murphysboro Illinois on October 16 Joe De Berry a Black man was hanged for the murder of Mrs J H Martin wife of a prominent southern Illinois attorney. About two thousand people gathered inside a stockade to witness the execution. Petrograd says Russia is at war with Bulgaria after Bulgaria attacked Serbia per a foreign office statement.
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County Poor Asylum
Mobile County Poor Asylum
Ed Burgess
Tilly Smith
J. H. Bancroft
Mile A. Scheurmann
Joe de Berry
Murphysboro
Iil
J. H. Martin
Illinois
Petrogad
Russia
Bulgaria
Serbia
Foreign Office
Neither Teutons Nor Bulgars Win Ground En Serbia
Continued from page 1. Asquith questions if the British airplane squadron received a demobilization order at 6 pm last Wednesday and whether other aeroplanes were ordered to take their places. The report questions whether any planes were aloft when the Zeppelins arrived.
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Teutons
Bulgars
Serbia
Italy to Deploy 150000 Troops in Balkans
Paris reports Italy plans to send 150000 men to the Balkans, sourced to a reliable informant via the Excelsior. The government keeps troop landing sites secret, but the move is described as intended to decisively influence the Balkan campaign.
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Paris
Italy
Balkans
The
Excelsior
Bulgarian Attack on Stards Bridge Spurs Balkan Clash
Athens dispatch reports forty thousand Bulgarian troops with artillery attacking the Stards bridge near Valandovo on the Saloniki to Serbia railroad. The effort aims to sever rail links and hinder Entente troop and supply movements to Serbia. Bulgarian coastal lighthouses are out, Dedearghatch port closed to daytime pilots, and all Bulgarian ports mined.
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Athens
Paris
Stards Bridge
Valandovo
Saloniki
Serbia
Hovdovo
Dedearghatch
Bulgaria
Aegean Sea
Montenegrins Force Austro German Retire on Front
Dispatch from Cettinje reports Montenegrin resistance blocks Austro German advance and forces their retirement in the front. Bulgaria informs Greece no treaty with Germany or Austria affecting Greek interests has been concluded.
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Rome
Paris
Giornale D'Italia
Cettinje
Montenegro
Bulgaria
Greece
Germany
Austria
Germans Defeated at Dvinsk Hold Front on Eastern Front
Petrograd reports that except for Dvinsk the eastern front shows German defensiveness as Russian forces claim orders to seize Dvinsk at all costs. German assaults with heavy artillery have failed to break Russian lines, with German losses described as very heavy.
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Petrograd
London
Dvinsk
Dvink
French Hold Trenches Repulse Attacks in Lorraine
Paris Oct 16 French forces repulsed several counter attacks in the Lorraine district against trenches they occupied yesterday according to an official French war office statement.
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Paris
Lorraine
French War Office
London Evening Standard urges hard Greece policy
The London Evening Standard argues Greece should end doubts about its attitude and says Britain could enforce this with a fleet blockade presented by forceful tact.
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London
Greece
The
London Evening Standard
Geerce
Breakbone Dengue Illness Spreads in ALCO
In ALCO on October 16 physicians spar over whether the illness hitting residents is Breakbone Dengue or Duke's Disease. Among the sick are Mrs. W A Crook, Mrs Charles Hammett and son, several schoolchildren, and Mr Sam Coale.
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Alco
Ala
W. A. Crook
Charles Hammett and Son
Sam Coale
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