Mobile Praised By Big Ad Agency In Booklet
A Philadelphia firm highlights Mobile as the "Spartan mother of a vigorous state" in a new booklet on Alabama, praising its history of resilience and ongoing growth. The piece lauds Birmingham, Bessemer, and Alabama’s resources while stressing advertising’s role in state expansion.
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Mobile
N. W. Ayer & Sons
Philadelphia
Asa
Sieur de Bienville
Gulf City
Alabama
Gulf
Birmingham
Bessemer
Pittsburgh
Gulf Shingy. Co
Bell J
Russians Check German Advance In War Update
London reports discuss shifts in Russian high command and the potential for an orderly retreat while fighting as long as needed. Analysts weigh the impact of German and Austrian moves and possible new offensives in the Caucasus amid a broader European crisis. Violent fighting continues on the French front with heavy German assaults in the Argonne.
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London
The
Times
Galicia
Vilna
Petrograd
the Times
Polivanoff
Holy Synod
Caucasus
Turkey
Russia
Paris
Argonne
War Office
Gms
German newspapers clash on Grand Duke Nicholas removal
Berlin papers diverge on the removal of Grand Duke Nicholas as commander in chief. Some blame military catastrophe in Poland and Galicia or political motives. others condemn him as brutal and ineffective, while others see it as a necessary leadership shift affecting Russia and the Entente.
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Berlin
Nicholas
The
Tageblatt
Poland
Galicia
Lokal Anzieger
Morgen
Vossische Zeitung
Boersen Zeitung
Russia
Tages Zeitung
Grand Ducal Party
Allies Plan Big Drive On Dardanelles Forts
Reports from Bulgaria via Berlin and wireless indicate Allied forces are concentrating large units including heavy landing artillery for a general assault on the Dardanelles. Mine sweepers at Beddul Bajr near the strait entrance foreshadow intensified activity and bombardment of outer forts.
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Dardanelles
Bofta
Bulgaria
Berlin
Tuckerton
N. J
Beddul Bajr
Strait
New Orleans Cotton Market Sees Firm Upward Move
New Orleans cotton opens with buying sentiment as October leads gains. Prices rise across active months, spot demand remains strong, and late morning quotes show solid gains, with October around 10.01 and spot cotton firm.
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Oiorey i
New Orleans
Longs
Liverpool Cotton Prices and Futures Steady
Liverpool spot cotton remains steady with Good Middling at 6.28 and Mid, 5.98. Sales total 15 000 bales with 2 500 bales for speculation and export. Receipts nil. Futures show broad stability across the curve with several month spreads quoted, including September through August-September.
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Liverpool
Cash grain and cotton seed oil markets across major exchanges
The report lists cash grain prices in St Louis and Chicago with No 2 red wheat around 1.10 and corn around 0.74 to 0.78, oats and rye varied, plus soy and hay values. It also notes cotton seed oil market easing in New York with spot 5.95 6.15 and total sales 16,600.
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Chicago
Cotton Seo Othe
Nashville Rail
ST. Louis
New York
Wall Street Ends Day With Sharp Advances In War Shares
In New York market action on Sept 9 war specialties led gains across many issues. Bethlehem Steel climbed to 802 and then 810 plus, continuing to rise after opening strength, while Crucible Steel and American Cement lines posted notable gains. Rail stocks advanced with Reading Canadian Pacific and Erie showing strength. United States Steel rose, and several big names such as General Motors and Chesapeake and Ohio traded higher. A stock broker firm Beers & Owens faced liquidation with Charles H. Dickinson named as assignee for creditors after Beers’s death, signaling dissolution of the house.
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New York
Bethlehem Steel
Abecote
Crucible Steel
Soondvancing
United States Steel
Reading
Canadian Pacific
Erie Tirst
Morris and Essex
Lackawanna
Northwestern
Rock Island
Bethelehem Steel
American Agr. Chem
American Can
Pfd
American Smelting
American Sugar
American Tel
American Tobacco
Atchison
Atlantic Coast Line
Baltimore and Ohio
Brooklyn Rap
Transit
Chesapeake and Ohio
Chicago
Mil. & St. Paul
Consolidated Gas
Erie
General Motors
Great Northern
Illinois Central
Interborough Met
Kanging City Southern
Liggett & Myers
Lorillard Co
Maxwell Motor Co
Mexican Petroleum
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
National Lead
New York Central
Norfolk & Western
Northern Pacific
Pennsylvania
Rep. Iron & Steel
Seaboard Air Line
Studebaker Corporation
Southern Pacific
Southern Railway
Tennessee Copper
Texas Co
Union Pacific
United States Rubber
Virginia-Carp. Chem
Western Union
Allis-Chalmers
Anaconda Copper
Charles H. Dickinson
Beers & Owens
Beers
New York Stock Exchange
In the Courts Chancery Actions and Notices
Chancery Court proceedings listed with cases on bill and decrees pro confesso and one dismissal. Guardian ad litem appointed for John E. Mitchell case. Friday call for several divorce and civil actions. Public notices include Denning named post office chief clerk and Cardon injury update. Marriage license issued to Eugene Stoudenmire and Eva Deason. Miscellaneous local commentary notes follow.
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Chancery Court
Smith
John McDonald
Pierre Blanchet
Mary Dohrn
Alwayn Dohrn
B. L. Hamilton
H. Bardwell
Jesse D. Jordan
Mary Burns Jordan
Nettie Byrd
Louis Byrd
Harry L
Eugene Stoudenmire
Eva Deason
House Passes Liquor Shipper Ban and Local Pension Plan
The House approved a bill barring liquor shipments within the state. An identicalMobile County pension bill for teachers aged 60 with 30 years in service passed the Senate. A Wilson bill to fund canker control in the citrus industry advanced, with the House increasing the appropriation from 5,000 to 10,000 dollars annually.
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House
Grayson
Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners
Mobile County
Senate
Hartwell
Canker
Representative Wilson
South
Alabama
Committee On Appropriations
General License Bill faces possible defeat in Alabama
Alabama politics report the general privilege tax and license bill endangered while the general revenue bill sits with the governor. Senate fights include Lusk leading delay, possible repeal of the YF clause, and a rush to finalize before the forty-fifth day. Chamberlain’s temperance bill ships contraband liquor into wet states. governor to amend the revenue measure to extend assessment time from three to September 1.
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Montgomery
Ala
Senate
Mobile Light and Railroad
Lusk
Marshall
Hill
Winkler
Lewis
Falk
Lee
Etowah
Hartwell
Mobile
Mr. Lusk
Burns
Senate Committee
Chamberlain
Senate Temperance Committee
House
Henderson
Immorality Blamed for Mental Disease by Doctor
Dr George H Kirby of New York City told the American Public Health Association that immorality spurs mental illness and feeble mindedness. He cited syphilis as responsible for one seventh of insanity and one fourth of feeble mindedness among New York state inmates, causing as many deaths as typhoid annually. He urged treating the disease as a public health issue.
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Rochester
N. Y
American Public Health Association
George H. Kirby
New York City
Manhattan State Hospital
Ward's Island
New York
May Dismiss Middies From Naval Academy
Seven midshipmen were recommended for dismissal from the Naval Academy for hazing or falsehoods linked to a hazing investigation. Secretary Daniels notified the accused, offering explanations. names were not released. Many others faced disciplinary action for other objectionable conduct.
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Washington
Weather of Poor Conditions Hurt Cotton Across Regions
Washington reports the weekly weather bulletin shows mixed effects on cotton. Eastern rains delayed picking and caused shedding and rot while the north experienced cool air slowing growth and rust. Florida suffered injury from wind and early opening. Texas and Oklahoma saw late, uneven progress with further deterioration in Arkansas.
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Florida
Texas
Distr
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Negro Conventor Police clash at Chicago convention
Disruption at the Negro National Convention in Chicago includes an injunction against Rev. E. C. Morris of Missouri restraining him from speaking. Morris and supporters leave, return to address delegates, as police struggle to quell disorder and arrest threats amid a chaotic hall scene.
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Chicago
E. C. Morris
Morris
Bepj Helena
Ark
R. H. Boyd
Boyd
Jones
M Cc. J. Boyd
Ing House
Cinnati
Eo Jones
Leutenant
Famous Tactician Given Command by Emperor William
General Friedrich A. J. von has been assigned to a field command at his own request by Emperor Kam. He has left for the front. He is noted as co author of the 1912 book Gr and the next war which forecast many features of the current campaigns. He previously led the 50th army corps consisting of home units.
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Berlin
London
Friedrich A. J. von
Kam
Biloxi Schools Face Diphtheria Health Inspection
Biloxi officials plan stricter condition checks in the city after reports of diphtheria. Mayor Edward Glennan authorized the inspection as a preventive step though only a few cases are reported locally.
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Biloxi
Mias
Edward Glennan
Shrimp Factories Run Full Blast Along Gulf Coast
Shrimp plants from Biloxi to Ocean Springs are operating at high capacity after a weeks long strike. Packers have not joined the union and run independently, supplying the current market with shrimp.
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Biloxi
Miss
Gulf
Gulf Coast
Ocean Springs
Commercial Properties For Rent In City District
Property listings include No 211 St Michael street a brick warehouse suitable space on Water street near Gov two Saw stores in good condition with cement floors and two new units north on Commerce street a three story brick building in Ferrtela tes 510 512 Dauphin street a two story brick building with large show fronts Attractive prices to desirable tenants condition noted
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Broad
Dauphin
Bell
Conti St
Davis Ave
E. of
Franklin
Bath
Joachim St
Conti Street
N. Jackson _ street
Government Street
St. Michael Street
Water Street
Gov
Commerce Street
Dauphin Street
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Mon- Ville
G. A. Lambert
F. J
J. E. Eral
Barnes
Church St
C. D
Prichard
Louise Whitting
J. L
Atp Ition
C. E
H. B
Cenera
e_ Bennet
Earle St
City
S. W
Catherine and
Luling Street
Dauphin and
Fulton Road
Pinkerson & Ward
Robinson
S. W. Dauphin and
Cedar
W. J. Koral
Shaw-Cain Electric Co
Pinkerson & Robinson
P. O. Box
Monroe Park
Fisher & Mater To
Palm Beach
Imperial Pressing Club
St. Emanuel
Dauphon Stree
St. Emanuel St
South Virginia
Selma Street
Southern Realty Company
Elmira
S. Claiborne St
Palmetto Street
Southern Realty Ganesaey
Conee
Am. S
Henry T. Scott
H. Paulsen
van Heynigen
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Pearl
Pearl River
St. Joseph St
Bell Phone
N. W. Centre
Lexington
A. J. Lentz Bell
J. D. Antoine
Dixie Lumber Co
Tennessee
Michigan Avenue
Texas Street
Jersey
Hamilton St
Madame May
Shiek el Faris
St. Charles Avenue
Davis Avenue
Madam May
Broadway
Tener
D. Laurendine
W Ko
Citronelle
Hull
Szupaika
Wheeling
C. J. Long
Norfolk Navy Yard
R. ©. Moody
Mexican
Savannah
Foreign Exchange
Anglo-French Commission of Financiers
Sterling Exchange
Werner
Baker, Lyons & Co
Clarke, Davis & Co
Planters’ Cotton Co
Bashinsky & Co
Ransit
Southern Railroad
Mobile and Ohio Railroad
Wall Street Review
William I. Denning
Georgia
Post Office Department
Cardon
Oscar Cardon
Cedar Point Road
Frank R. Sherard
George Washington
Tims
Naval Academy
Negro Conventor
William
Dumont & Croom
St. Michael St
Morrill & Lyons
ST. Francis Street
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