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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1915
Page
12
Inquests across three London courts reviewed twenty three Zeppelin raid deaths. Eight victims died of heart failure or shock. five died instantly from bombs, four in hospitals, two from injuries after shocks. Coroners ruled deaths caused by bombs from enemy airships, urging juries not to label it wilful murder by the Kaiser.
The first 25 percent payment on the 500 million dollar Anglo French loan arrived as gold began moving through banks and clearing house records hit a new high. English commissioners Lord Reading Sir Edward Holden and Sir Henry Babington Smith sailed. French members Basil Blackett Octave Homberg Ernest Mallet stayed to settle details.
The probate court issued licenses Saturday for White and for Walter Shepard to Leena Jackson of a Negro background. A brief note remarks a boy reaches an age of growing awareness about hair grooming.
In a quiet police station a Saturday night lull is broken when Lieutenant Lincoln's muttered gobbledygook sounds reveal he is dreaming of trench life. The cautious officers debate the language, while Boltz shakes the lieutenant to check for danger. The men recover and settle back to their posts as rain patters outside.
R Masemier a Mazatlan merchant arriving on the San Juan reports Carranza forces captured Guayamas without fighting. The fleet used the former British freighter Celiero with General Diegues commanding 2 500 soldiers. Merchants aboard the San Juan expect improved conditions under Carranza.
A jittery look at early baseball dynamics notes the Northwestern League began with six clubs and ended with four. The piece mocks vain challenges from Federal League magnates and hints at looming retirements and shifting reputations among Moran Carrigan Zuppke Haughton Cobb Sundays.
Beatrice Alabama reports Monroe county farmers prosper despite short cotton crops. W. L. Skinner installs a wheat mill and offers seed at cost, with swap options for those lacking cash. Farmers plan winter oats and wheat, bean mills and velvet beans, aiming to grow most needed foods locally and reduce cotton reliance.
Carlos Mathews, a well known young man of Allen, Alabama, died Saturday morning from acute stomach inflammation after a two day illness.
A story and a half residence owned and occupied by Edward Grant at 207 South Royal Street was slightly damaged by a fire that started from sparks about 1 25 o clock Saturday afternoon.
A teacher critiques a student's grammar with a playful prompt about a seaside sentence. Johnny fires back a joke about needing a sweetheart, turning the moment into lighthearted wordplay.
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