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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1916
Page
5
Sundown Wednesday September 27 marks Rosh Hashanah the Jewish New Year and start of the High Holidays. Orthodox observances include prayers, the shofar, and symbolic acts while Reform Jews keep one day. The year 5677 begins with the Day of Judgment and ten penitential days leading to Yom Kippur.
It is announced that a packing plant to handle the citrus crops in the vicinity is being erected at Irvington in Mobile County. The equipment will be modern and the plant of ample capacity. The season’s crop promises well and storm loss is expected to be no more than 15 percent.
One Black man was acquitted in the recorder's court of false pretenses. J H Dockery, another Black man, accused Yank of fraudulently taking a chicken valued at 70 cents. Evidence showed no criminal intent in taking the fowl.
A tired Puss in Boots Jr arrives at a quiet home and asks for a meal and lodging on the front porch and in the hall. The mother offers milk a red cushion a barn horse and a safe corner to rest while the child sleeps inside under a blessing.
The Associated Press reports the original inventor of the tanks remains unnamed. Britain reportedly declined funding unless produced in England, and the device mounts on four caterpillar tractors to cross ditches. The designer plans a potentially more effective tractor, while in the U S no steps exist to build caterpillar armored cars for the army.
Berlin reports British and French casualties in the Somme fighting totaling about 500000 men. The Overseas News Agency notes local British advances, cites village captures on day one, and cites French Belgian gains and high losses as a measure of the campaign's cost.
Addison Adams a blind Black man was sent to the county jail for twenty days by Recorder Edington Wednesday on a vagrancy charge. It was shown Adams had used a stick to strike people and made himself a nuisance to both white and colored residents.
Montgomery Ala Sept 20 Regardless of city commission action to cut pub lic school funds the board of education will collect incidental fees during the 1916 17 session to cover a deficit unless the appropriation is increased by about 10000. The board met yesterday and kept its plan for incidental charges despite possible litigation over reduced funds.
About two hundred delegates attended the Southern Labor Congress opening in Memphis Tennessee on September 20 with fourteen Southern states represented. The convention runs through Friday and will focus on uniting trade unions and railroad brotherhoods for legislative social and economic advancement through coordinated action.
The Automobile Club of Mobile will meet at 8 oclock tonight at the Tourist Welcome Club rooms in the Battle House. Several talks on highways will be presented and valuable information distributed to members.
Delegates at the convention of the American Association of Public Accountants in New York voted to rename the body the Institute of Accountants of the United States of America and to reorganize it along lines similar to national groups of engineers and architects.
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