Playground pageant delights city as 300 children perform
Over 300 children performed in a Lyons Park pageant interpreting a child’s life journey with a dance number and costumes. Commissioner Crawford praised the playgrounds season and distributed cups to Lyons Park senior and intermediate baseball teams and to the Galvez junior team for their contributions. Equipment for Mobile’s new high school arrived, including desks for installation next week per William P. Davidson. Tennis tourney date fixed with fall matches set at Lyons Park and the Country Club. committees named. Burgess Little to represent Kiwanis at the Advertise Alabama conference in Montgomery on September 3.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Healthland
Lyons Park
George Crawford
McGowin-Lyons
Walter Kell
Reiss Mercantile Company
Galvez
Julius Hammer
L. Hammel Company
Mobile
William P. Davidson
Board of School Commissioners
Burgess Little
Kiwanis Club
Montgomery
Little
D. H. Edington
R. D. Walker
Purification Health Ad Claims System Purifiers
An advertisement touts Calotabs as the greatest system purifier promising renewed vitality. It promotes a thorough cleansing course, weekly or biweekly, and offers a family pack with directions and trial package for 10 cents at drug stores.
Vendetta Purchase At Shelby County Fair Noted In Five Figures
The article states the amount paid for Vendetta alone was in five figures. Mr. Adair made the purchases from T. W. Minton and Company in Barbourville Kentucky at the Shelby County fair yesterday.
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Mr. Adair
T. W. Minton and Company
Barbourville
Shelby County
Unification Vote for Methodist Churches Moves Forward
The United Methodist and the Methodist Episcopal Church South face unification votes at their 39th annual conferences across multiple dates including August to December. Current tally shows 6,815 in favor to 383 against, with minister and layperson ballots split. results come from Dr. R J Wade. Other conferences in Chicago, Two Harbors Minnesota, Aberdeen Washington and Albuquerque New Mexico scheduled to vote. Overall church membership totals are cited.
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Cago
A.P
Methodist Episcopal
Methodist Episcopal Arch
South
Becham
Chorth
R. J. Wade
Chicago
Geneva
World Service Commission
Albuquerque
N. M
Belncopel Church
Methodist Episcopal Church
Big Payment Made in Tobacco Deal in Kentucky
Checks totaling 325000 dollars, covering the final payment on the 1924 crop to Green River members and the second payment on the stemming district crop, were mailed from the Dark Tobacco Growers' Co operative Association headquarters in Hopkinsville. The Green River payment amounted to 106748.18 dollars, and the One Sucker district second payment will be sent soon.
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Hopkinsville
A.P
Green River
Dark Tobacco Growers’ Co-operative Association
Road and civic talks push Alabama highway goals
W H Reynolds urged cooperation between civic clubs and the Chamber of Commerce with the board of revenue to finish staking and pave the Florida Mid West highway from Mobile to Hattiesburg. Hall's Mill road staking was completed by C C W Rogers. Joseph Fromherz & Co. of New Orleans will start paving with Rogers in charge. County bids for repairs to the county building heating plant and the poor asylum heating plant will open September 1.
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Mobile
Hattiesburg
W. H. Reynolds
Rotary Club
Chamber of Commerce
Board of Revenue
Cc. W. Rogers
State Highway Commission
Hall's Mill Road
Government Stoop
Theodore
Joseph Fromherz & Co
New Orleans
Rogers
County Commissioners
Aie Poor Asylum
Ter
Turner Kendall jet in three hours sets new record
Captain Roscoe Turner and Major Sam W. Kendall from Sheffield Alabama arrived in Mobile in three hours by plane marking a possible new speed record. They averaged about 100 miles per hour and will inspect local general business and industrial conditions before returning via Birmingham carrying R. S. Brown and Jack Wainwright of Birmingham. Hold tarpon trials Mobile sportsmen enter National Tarpon Fishermen's Tournament eliminations tomorrow and Sunday with the two day trial to pick a local representative for Pass Christian where the national tourney takes place September 2 and 3.
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Roscoe Turner
Sam W. Kendall
Sheffield
Ala
Mobile
Birmingham
R. 8
Brown
Jack Wainwright
T. H. Lining
Pass Christian
Murphy Recovers From Minor Operation
Superintendent of Education S. Murphy is recovering from a minor operation and will be away several days before returning to his office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murphy
Superintendent of Education
Oklahoma City Dance Hall Shooting Wounds Five
Five people were wounded when M. M. Boykin, 28, fired a shotgun from a hall window during a dance in Oklahoma City. Witnesses said dancers escaped through doors and windows as Boykin shot at them and then wandered the neighborhood. Deputies found him in a nearby cornfield and more than 100 gallons of wine at his home. He is held pending the wounded's recovery.
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Oklahoma City
M. M. Boykin
Boykin
Eighteen Dead in Japan Floods
Tokyo reports eighteen deaths from floods after heavy rain across Japan. The Home Department confirms fatalities, including twelve in Yuji village, Yamashi prefecture, near Fujiyama, with two in Tokyo and four in Canagha, and notes no official property loss estimate yet.
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Tokyo
Japan
Home Départment
Yuji
Yama
Yamashi
Fujiyama
Canagha
Rates Granted Fight Over Port of Texas Teased by I C C
New Orleans authorities report the Interstate Commerce Commission granted requests that new rates favor the port of Texas rather than New Orleans. The decision allows petitions to be filed, per a Washington representative’s telegram. The article notes confusion with a garbled line about a U.S. Justice swearing in a president.
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New Orleans
A.P
Joint Traffic Bureau of
Carl Giesson
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Texas
MacSweeney Trial in Havana Delayed
The MacSweeney trial in Havana was postponed awaiting the commission report on his sanity. The court ordered a hold until the commission completes its inquiry and files its findings.
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Havana
Harassen Pher
Ling Heateyt
Barrebee & Comneh
MacSweeney
Cotton States Merchants Association Ends Memphis Convention
Delegates from southern cotton states departed Memphis after the twelfth annual Cotton States Merchants Association convention. A final session adopted a resolution urging merchants to cooperate with cotton growers to market this year's crop and to support highway development and rail service improvements. John E. Inman was elected president.
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Memphis
Teth
A-P
Cotton States
John E. In
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Sine Sea
Aise
Eity
National Woman's Party
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Edith Hooker
Baltimore
Toote
Torian
Alabama Press Association
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Jacobson’s
Antwerp
Windsor
Stetson& Schoble
the Neckwear House OF
The
Justice ‘of the
United States
J. T. White
Dauphin and
Conception
Simon’s Shoe Store
Church, South
Palm Beach
Eclipse
L. H. Meyer & Sons
Bell
W. E. Bare
Alabama
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph
Bell System
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