Commissary Officers in Guard Camp Feed Troops Says Rations Ample
Captain Jack Mahon of Mobile Rifle Company defends National Guard rations after a Brooklyn Eagle critique. He credits trained officers and careful ration handling for three meals daily and balances in cigars, noting the issue rests with boarding house like captains who run the stores.
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Jack Mahon
Mobile Rifle Company
Brooklyn Eagle
Mobile Item
National Guard
Captain Mahon
Regular Army
Avery
United States Army
Guard
Marine Corps
Keper
No Quarantine Relaxed for Cuba Passengers
Surgeon General Blue orders removal of passenger quarantine against Cuba while cargo remains restricted. Disease said to be largely eradicated in Cuba and conditions at infected ports improving. One suspicious case reported in Porto Rico. quarantine continuity will require vessel fumigation and ongoing preventative measures at ports.
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Cuban
Blue
United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
Cuba
Porto Rico
Plateau man fined in criminal court assault case
Be L Murphy shot Sonny several days ago. A negro resident of Plateau was fined 51 dollars or 30 days for assault with a pistol in the inferior criminal court on Saturday afternoon. See used a knife in the fight, fined 10 dollars and costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BE. L. Murphy
Sonny
See
Plateau
Reception for the new pastor at Baptist Tabernacle
Thursday night a program at the Baptist Tabernacle welcomes Dr. W. P. Wilks as pastor with greetings from city pastors. Prof. J. H. Wienand will lead singing assisted by local talent. Light refreshments follow.
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The
Baptist Tabernacle
W. P. Wilks
J. H. Wienand
Congregaon
J. W
First Closing of Mobile General Delivery Window
The Mobile post office will close the general delivery window for the first time in about 50 years. No mail will be available at that window for the floating population and for those with mail in care of general delivery. Postal rules on Sunday mail under new federal law will be enforced starting today, affecting newspapers news dealers hotels and transient mail access.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Congress
Fifty Rats Caught Under City Bounty Plan Fails
The city offered a three cent bounty for every rat east of Conception street but only about fifty rats were killed before the August 14 deadline. Health officer Dr. Charles Mohr blamed lack of response from residents and noted the plan drew most payouts to African Americans. The city will continue rat control along the waterfront to prevent bubonic plague, with the rat catcher having trapped about two hundred rats that month.
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Dlay
Conception Street
City Commission
Mobile Medical Society
Charles Mohr
City Health
Mohr
Hartwell Seeks Official Guard at Polls
Peter Jackson of the Hartwell committee petitioned Sheriff’s Office for ten deputy sheriffs to guard the Monday election, offering to pay. Sheriff Campbell declined, saying Mayor Schwarz oversees the election and ample protection is expected. The list Jackson handed included ward by ward names such as Hamilton, McKeon, Crawscerld, McAuley, Donivan, Shaffer, Oberhaus, Sheridian, Williamson, and Duff.
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Peter Jackson
H. T. Hartwell
First Ward
M. L. Campbell
Hartwell
Campbell
Jackson
Schwarz
Jackon
Hamilton
McKeon
Harry Crawscerld
Jim McAuley
Tom Young
Edward Donivan
Fred Shaffer
August Oberhaus
Barney Sheridian
Ollie Williamsoon
John Duff
Burns Denies Leaving Lyons Ranks for Hartwell Forces
Tom M. Burns of the Sixth ward denies reports that he joined the Hartwell forces. He asks The Item to publish his denial and clarify his stance amid local political maneuvering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom. M. Burns
Hartwell
Tom M. Burns
Sixth Ward
Lyons
Burns
Late marriage licenses issued in probate court
Licenses were issued late yesterday afternoon in the probate court to Thorwild Loding and Annie Fulling, Paul C. Teat and Maude Jeanette Bullock, Charles 4. Summer Sell and Lodie Frank R. Bryant and Eula Morrie, Ernest L. Lindsey and Mary Afwildrew Mees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thorwild Loding
Annie Fulling
Maude Jeanette Bullock
Charles
Summersell
Lodie
Frank R. Bryant
Eula Morrie
Ernest L. Lindsey
Mary Afwildrew Mees
College Night At The Y M C A Night Of Academic Leaders
The Mobile Y M C A hosts a college night highlighting local youths advancing to higher education across numerous institutions. Attendees from Alabama and other schools will hear from alumni and leaders with a program including a college education advantages talk and a toast to student life.
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Young Men's Christian Association
Mobile
United States Naval Academy
Annlis
Orm
William Hall
William Moore
Milton Ladd
William Johnson
Fr. A. Poe
Emmet Frazer
M. A. Frazer
Martin Cleveland
Adolf Erickson
H. A. Feiberman
William Gaumhauer
Frank Coffin
A. C. Coffin
Walter Inge
Harry Smith
Hardy Smith
Cecil Bates
James Wagan
Robert Tapia
Richard Inge
Herndon Tapia
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Auburn
Sikes Tucker
Henry Lawrence
Paul van Atwerp
Vernon Mastin
University of Colorado
Heen Walker Curry
Washington and Lee University
Clarence Touart
Toney Touart
Southernniversity
Archie Haaken
Milton Roberts
Southern Presbyterian University
Walter €. Dolive
Richmond Theological Seminary
Earle Curtis
Marion Military Institute
Vivian Gaines
University of Cincinnati
Samuel Gup
Suwanee
A. Detilar
Association
T. H. Frazer
Association College
J. W. Phillips
Hon
J. ©. Rich
D. H. Eddington
Messrs
Mel Frazer
Herbert Feiberman
Vivian C. Walker
Delinquents Face Dues Refusal Case at Commercial Club
Hearing in inferior criminal court on actions by the old Commercial Club against former members who were delinquent at consolidation. Friday and Saturday sessions saw several cases disposed with judgments in some and compromises in others.
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Old Commercial Club
Inferior Criminal Court
Death by Laudanum Overdose Seals Mobile Resident
F M Cooper 63, born in New York, died at 409 St Francis street from an accidental laudanum overdose. He had moved to Mobile a year and a half ago from Pensacola where he worked as a cashier and earlier with Alger-Sullivan Lumber in Century. He took a one ounce bottle at a drugstore, slept on the porch, then died in his room. survived by wife and two children. Funeral at residence with Rev Gardiner Tucker. Interment Magnolia cemetery.
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Hirshfield
F. M. Cooper
New York
St. Francis Street
Mobile
Pensacola
Consolidated Grocery Company
Alger-Sullivan Lumber Company
Century, Fla
Cooper
Mrs. Cooper
Mr. Cooper
Robert
Harry Thorne
Chipley James
Gardiner C. Tucker
Magnolia Cemetery
Plague Scare Topic Draws New Orleans Health Officials
Dr. J. H. White of the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, based in New Orleans, visited the city Board of Health yesterday. He discussed gulf port activities during the bubonic plague scare and returned to New Orleans in the afternoon, meeting city health officer Dr. Charles A. Mohr.
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Lower Bay
J. H. White
Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
New Orleans
The
Board of Health
Charles A. Mohr
White
Gulf Ports
Labor Day Events at Monroe Park
Fireworks display at Monroe Park plus moving pictures and vend concert planned for Labor Day. Event listed with location Monroe Park and program details including fireworks and outdoor screen show.
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Monroe Park
Sale of seven Mobile county lots at auction draws loss for buyers
An 1905 Mobile sale involved seven of the fifteen lots bounded by South Carolina and nearby streets. Purchasers including P M Anderson and Callie V Smith faced loss after a New York speculator Simon Edelman vanished after securing the land from Mrs Cochran McConnell.
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South Carolina
Georgia
Warren and
Dearborn Streets
County Court House
Mobile
Simon Edelman
New York City
Cochran McConell
Edelman
Mra. McConell
P. M. Anderson
Richton
W. W. Dixon
M. F. Armor
J. L. Highnote
H. J. Harrison
W. E Green
Callie V. Smith
G. R. Hmm
Stockton
Ala
Jeff Griffis
Nont
Mias
M. Faithree
Laurel
Miss
J. Ff. Hildon
Dewainant
the? Nk
Hattiesburg
Vaa
Whelman
In Memory of General Booth Services Held Worldwide
The local Salvation Army post will honor General William Booth with a 3:30 PM service at First Presbyterian Church. A parallel world wide service opens with prayer by Rev. A F Carr, featuring hymns, readings, addresses, and a pledge of consecration led by Salvation Army ministers.
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William Booth
Salvation Army
First Presbyterian Church
A. F. Carr
Jesus
General Booth
Many New Voters at This Election in Mobile Ward Totals
Mobile county board of registrars completed a two day session at 6 o clock. Registrations over the period reached 226 with 184 transfers. Ward totals show First Ward 10 new voters and 17 transfers, Second Ward 21 and 12, Third Ward 11 and 22, Fourth Ward 29 and 19, Fifth Ward 29 and 13, Sixth Ward 34 and 19, Seventh Ward 20 and unspecified transfers.
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Board of Registrars of
Mobile County
Port of Mobile Seventy Years Statistics Review
A historical summary of Mobile ports from 1848 to 1906 notes the first steamship entry in 1848, vessel counts peaking at 659 in 1906, and fluctuations around Civil War years. It records total tonnage figures, annual entries, and shifts in harbor depth affecting shipping.
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Mobile
Orger
Vesls
Aly Eleven
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Javor
County Board OF Road and Revenue Commissioners
Merciful Hevines
Anniston
Mr. George Hathaway
Charles E. van Laer
Baptist
T View
P. Wilks
Pastor
They. Wga
Oakdale
Port OF Mobile
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