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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1915
Page
10
A vivid World War I dispatch describes French and German graves near former trenches. Wooden crosses, wreaths, and improvised markers mark fallen soldiers as both sides honor the dead near battlefield cemeteries. Officers recount German losses and the heavy artillery that shaped the 1916 battle.
An Oct 20 dispatch describes the Champaign area near Chalons after a September 25 battle. French troops breached German defenses at Tahure with a vast advance, rail lines cut, and fields littered with shells and unburied dead as crews collect war materiel.
Friday night at 7 o'clock James Harris, a Black man, reported as observing the fall of a colored woman from Pier 8 of the Mobile and Ohio docks into Mobile river. The body was recovered shortly after.
County leaders and legislators spoke at a Saturday meeting with J S Lambert H H Holmes and Mrs M L Johnson among the speakers. Miss Byrne was elected president replacing Mrs F L Brown. The gathering drew attendees from Fairhope Daphne Loxley Summerdale Sonora North River Park and Bay Minette with lunch served by Robertsdale.
Mary Boyle O Reilly recounts wartime vignettes showing humanity amid hostilities. A British general rescues a lost child on the Ypres battlefield and questions the baby. a French aviator shows chivalry by exchanging prisoner notes. Brussels eases German controls with macaroni in defiance as proxy marriages unfold.
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