Produce Exchange Now a Certainty for Mobile
Farmers heard that Mobile will form a Gulf Coast Produce Exchange with initial 1 percent cost for marketing and operating expenses. The plan aims to reduce burdens on shippers, with 3 to 4 percent final expenses after a transition, and central office control of selling and reports.
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Mobile
Gulf Coast
Bao Wilmer and
Pearce
Aubrey Boyles
Business Men's
W. C.bromley
Maryland Exchange One
Obile
Mr. Boyles
Mr. Bromley
Dawes
Union Church
Grand Bay
Theodore
Rainy Mobile Weather and Parrot's Thunder Claps Light Up City
Sunshine and rain marked Wednesday in Mobile with 84 degrees and muggy air. A thunder shower splashed 0.39 inch as a Mobile woman’s parrot reacted dramatically to a thunderclap, crashing from its perch in fright.
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Mercury
Mobile
Ohile’s
Montgomery
Charleston
Birmingham
New Orleans
Abilene
Texas
Cowboys
Northers
Sage Brush
Calgary
Canada
Rapid City
Parrot
South America
Parrot Shocks Lady With Eruptive Expletive
A startled bird strikes the cage, flusters its feathers, and then shouts an expletive directed at the weather man, eliciting scandalized surprise from a bystander.
Outlook Bright for Banner Year at University
The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa opened with high expectations for a strong year as about 500 students enrolled in arts and sciences, engineering, and law by Tuesday evening. A new $40,000 gymnasium and athletic field nears completion, campus beautification continues, and fraternity houses receive renovations and relocations.
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Denny
Sigma Ki
Sigma Nu
Queen City Avenue
Russian Steamer Dwinsk Detained Amid Mine Sweep News
The Russian steamer Dwinsk arrived from Archangel and reports it was detained six days outside Archangel while trawlers swept German mines from the channel entrance. It passed north of Iceland and did not sight any German war vessels. GOVT EXPERT AT BILOXI. Prof. C. V. Piper, chief of forestry and cotton investigation, arrives in Biloxi with Prof. S. M. Tracy to study regional agricultural conditions and work with the Biloxi station.
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New York
Archangel
Iceland
Biloxi
Miss
C. V. Piper
Bureau of Forestry and Cotton Investigation
Washington
M. Tracy
Department of Agriculture
Lone survivor of Smack Whilden returns home to Mobile
Charles Ross, sole survivor of the John G. Whilden wrecked in a west Florida storm, reached Mobile and is home at 268 South Royal Street. He clung to wreckage a day and night, was washed ashore near Cape San Blas after being swept from the deck, and endured nearly 24 hours without food or water. Crew members hailed from Mobile, Tampa, Pensacola, and unknown origins.
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John G. Whilden
Star Fish and Oyster Company
West Florida
Charles Ross
Mobile
South Royal Street
Ross
William Menendez
Gulf
Cape San Blas
Menendez
Joe Bower
Paddy Crowley
Fred Johnson
Fred Stone
Tampa
George Olsen
Pensacola
Chicago
Prize Winners at C T C Picnic Monroe Park
Labor Day picnic prizes announced by the committee at Monroe Park. Winners include E Calcinia for 100 yard union men, E J Shaw for 100 yard union painters, W D White for 100 yard free-for-all, Jesse Milstead for 100 yard fat man, Mrs L Leavens for 50 yard women auxiliary, Berti Callaway for 60 yard women union, Mrs DeWitt and Mrs Taylor tied for 50 yard fat women, Susie Fulford for 50 yard free-for-all, Ouga Davidson for 50 yard girl under 15, Katie McMann for 60 yard girl under 10, Paul Bonner for 50 yard boy under 10, Cliff Lavenhouse for 50 yard boy under 15, Walter Searberg for 50 yard boys under 15, and Tug o War won by union men under Captain Clancy.
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E. Calcinia
E. J. Shaw
Painter
W. D. White
O. Vickers
Jesse Milstead
L. Leavens
Berti Callaway
Garment Workers
Walter Searberg
Clancy
Slaughter of Alcohol Draws Greenville Crowd
Sheriff Harrison, after a Butler county probate court ruling, destroyed 101 packages of whiskey gin and beer in front of the Greenville courthouse. Valued at about 1000 dollars the liquor drew a large crowd as onlookers watched the “sale over slaughter” and even tried to catch the flowing liquor.
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Greenville
Harrison
Butler County
Directum Aims to Break World Pacing Record At Charter Oak
Hartford Sept. 9 Directum I world champion pacer will attempt to lower the two minute flat track record set by Star Pointer in 1899 at Charter Oak track. The card also features 2 14 trot with seventeen signee and 2 21 trot with twenty five paid up entrants for a $2 000 purse.
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Hartford
Conn
Charter Oak Track
Directum I
Star Pointer
Swiss President Says Nations Injured by War
Paris dispatch reports Swiss President Giuseppe Motta telling Etienne Lamy neutrals have a right to protest war as victims. He warned passivity no longer a duty and urged neutral action with other governments, seeking equitable peace rather than glory.
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Dr. Motta
Paris
Giuseppe Motta
Switzerland
Etienne Lamy
Petit Parisien
Motta
New Orleans Police Probe Arson Trust Ties
Police charged James J. Scullen former railroad yardmaster with conspiracy to extort through an arson plot. Federal authorities charged misuse of the mails. Investigators seek links to recent fires and a possible local arson trust similar to past cases.
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New Orleans
James J. Scullen
Scullen
J. E. Brown
Schooner Curacao and Crew Lost in Storm Off Cayman Islands
A letter from Grand Cayman reports the 286 ton British schooner Curacao from Port Arthur Texas to Kingston Jamaica was wrecked off the Cayman Islands. Captain Malcolm and the nine crew members are missing. The vessel was a familiar sight in Mobile.
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Curacao
Cayman Islands
Grand Cayman
Whitney-Bodden Company
Mobile
Port Arthur
Tex
Kingston
Jam
Texas
Malcolm
Lutheran Churchmen Meet in Convention Opens in Illinois
Four hundred delegates attended the opening of the general council biennial meeting of the Lutheran Church of North America in Moline Illinois. Sessions will alternate with Rock Island. Dr T E Schmank president of the council preached condemning the departure from Christian teachings that made the present war in Europe possible. He said America has abandoned the altruistic for the material.
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Moilaine
Ill
General Council
The
Lutheran Church of North America
Moline
Rock Island
T. E. Schmank
Europe
America
Veterans to meet at Greenville for camp session
The commander of the J. B. Dunklin Camp of United Confederate Veterans announces a Greenville meeting on Friday October 1. The gathering will be at the Butler County courthouse with substantial business to conduct and delegates to the Selma reunion to be elected.
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Greenville
J. B. Dunklin Camp of
United Confederate Veterans
Butler County Court House
Selma
Widely Known Mobile Woman Dies at 79 in Mobile
Emily Boyd Cameron widow of John Douglas Cameron dies at her home 877 Dauphin Street after a lingering illness. A native of St John New Brunswick she moved from New Brunswick to Muskegon Michigan in 1858 where she married and later moved to Mobile about thirty years ago.
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Emily Boyd Cameron
John Douglas Cameron
St. John’s
New Brunswick
Dauphin Street
Muskegeon
Michigan
Mobile
Weight Gain Advice Promoted for Thin People
Advertises Sargol as a digestive aid to help thinned individuals absorb nutrients and increase body fat. Claims the product works with normal health to raise weight, with money back guarantees and testimonials. Notes Sargol tablet form and availability at Van Antwerp Drug and other chemists.
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van Antwerp
Tien
Death Notice of Mrs Cameron in Mobile
In Mobile the death of a devout Christian woman, Mrs Cameron, is announced. She belonged to Government Street Presbyterian church and was noted for charity. Survived by three daughters Mrs James W Gray Mrs L G Cameron and Miss Cora B E Cameron a Wisconsin brother a California sister four grandchildren James W George Eleanor and Emily Cameron Gray. Funeral Thursday at 4 30 pm from the family home and burial in Magnolia cemetery.
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Mobile
Cora B E. Cameron
Wisconsin
California
James W
George Eleanor
Emily Cameron Gray
Magnolia Cemetery
Mobile National Bank Statement of Condition
The document presents a bank statement from Mobile National Bank listing assets including loans and discounts and securities 261 371 22 and deposits totaling 1 715 857 82 with liabilities of 900 000 00 in capital and surplus and 63 257 94 undivided profits. It shows circulating notes 300 000 00 and net amounts due from Federal Reserve 57 378 56 and reserve agents 423 465 07 11. Net deposits include demand deposits 1 533 307 98 and certificates 99 187 23 plus certified checks 658 03 and cashier's checks 292 00. The cashier Chas D Willoughby signs the statement sworn before a notary on the 8th day of Santee.
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U.S
U. S
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Es
New York
Chicago
Tose
Glen Ate
Polite Cancatns Ees
Rahige
Nabeeks
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Alabama, Tennessee & Northern Railway
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Yorks
Weill
Meridian
Tuscaloosa
East
Bethlehem
Rubiat of A. Bug
Jonny
Merchants Bank Water and ST. Francis
Mobile, Alabama
C.T. C
Monroe Park
Directum
Arson Trust
First National Bank
Alabama
Resources
State of Alabama
County of Mobile
Ss. I
Chas. D. Willoughby
J. W. Phillips
James E.mcdonnell
Ferd. Forcheimer
Santee
Z. M. P. Inge, Notary Pub
Gabriel
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