Suburbanites Move to Incorporate Four Mobile Areas
Citizens of Toulminville Prichard Magazine and Jean form a movement to create a municipal corporation to gain modern improvements including water works and sewage disposal. Meeting chaired by Mark Moulyet with O J McMillan secretary plans elections for officers. Antoine Nelson named assistant physical director of the Y M C A new appointment noted.
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Toulminville
Prichard
Magazine Point
Plateau
Point
Mark Moulyet
Foulinville
Mobile
Chickasaw
Jean
Illness Delays Federal Court Session
Due to Judge R. T. Ervin’s illness no federal court session was held Friday. All cases on Friday and Saturday dockets were postponed to Monday.
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R. T. Ervin
Federal District Court
Federal Court
Local Army Station Enlists Three Ex-servicemen
The Friday enlistment brings Busey Lowery Sam Dunn of Uriah and James H. Morgan of Gainestown all ex service men. They receive $90 bonds on reenlistment under the reorganization act. Lowery and Dunn join coast artillery Morgan to cavalry and will be posted to the Mexican border.
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Busey Lowery
Sam Dunn
Uriah
Ala
James H. Morgan
Gainestown
Lowery
Dunn
Coast Artillery Branch
Morgan
Cavalry
Deaths and Funerals of Charles Oliver Rabby
Charles Oliver Rabby a 47 year old Mobilian died Friday after a long illness in Mobile. Funeral from Bayou La Batre Catholic Church will be held tomorrow with burial in Bayou La Batre Cemetery. He was born in Laurendine Mobile County and came to Mobile 25 years ago working as a steamboat clerk and later a city drummer. Survived by his mother Mrs. C E Rabby brothers J Anatole Rabby and E Rabby a sister Miss Addie T Rabby and other relatives. He was a member of the Bayou La Batre Woodmen of the World and Catholic community.
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Charles Oliver Rabby
Bayou la Batrey
Lason la Batre
Rabby
Laurenline
Mobile County
Mobile
Police Without Clue to Murder of J. B. Elwell
New York police report they have virtually no important clue in the murder of Jose B. Elwell at his home. They doubt suicide and found no weapon. Chauffeur Edward Rhodes cites women friends with keys and Mrs Helen Derby Elwell, separated wife, was questioned.
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New York
Twen
Jose B. Elwell
Elwell
Edward B. Rhodes
Hiwell
Rhodes
Helen Derby Elwell
Army Chiefs Lose Special Rank in War Department Sweep
Washington June 12 Peyton March will revert from full General to Major General under a War Department order affecting thousands of regular officers. Lieutenant Generals Liggett and Bullard also revert to Major General while March remains chief of staff. Congress may restore titles later.
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Washington
Peyton
Baker
March
Liggett
Bullard
General March
Michigan Crops Threatened by Hessian Fly and Grasshoppers
Hes sian fly grasshoppers and drought threaten Michigan crops in western counties. Farmers organize for extermination as poison shipments arrive in Grand Traverse Lebenau Antrim and Wexford counties where grasshoppers cause heavy damage. The Hessian fly appears in wheat areas and infestations are in the third joint of stalks.
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Lansing
Mich
Michigan
United States Bureau of Crop Reports
Grand Traverse
Lebenau
Antrim
Wexford
Darden to Testify in Draft Hearing in Georgia Case
Leslie Darden special agent of the department of justice will travel from Mobile to Gainesville Florida to attend hearings in the Suwanee river draft cases in federal court. Darden helped build one of the largest draft conspiracy cases of the war. He notes 48 arrests and says several defendants have become state’s evidence after prior mistrials.
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S. Leslie Darden
Department of Justice
Mobile
Gineaville
Fla
Sewanee River
Darden
Decision on mailing children by parcel post
Washington June 12 an official decision on whether children are mailable as parcel post matter is sought by Merritt O Chance postmaster here in a communication to the post office department. The matter was referred to John C Koons first assistant wire che general the applicants who wished gend children through the mails as parcel post matter.
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Washington
Merritt O. Chance
Post Office Department
John C. Koons
Alabama engineer of note Beverly Value dies
The death of Beverly R. Value a civil engineer who worked on the Croton dam is announced. Value served in New York from 1893 to 1920 and held notable positions before his passing. In a separate note the text contains ad like content about mailing a package and a cleansing cathartic, reflecting unrelated material.
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New York
Beverly R. Value
The
New
From
Co Croton
Value
Thirteen Vassar Graduates Plead Guilty in Romance Rumors
Thirteen members of the Vassar College class of 1920 confess at roll call before the final class supper about engagements. Among those who admitted romance is Miss Susan Hadsell of Washington.
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Poughkeeps IN
N.Y
Vassar
Dan Cupid
Susan
Hadsell
Washington
Explosion at Hungarian mine kills hundreds in dynamite blast
A dynamite store explosion at a Hungarian mine, owned by the Roumanian state railway, caused many deaths. Vienna dispatch reports 17 bodies recovered with at least 2 still missing. Thirty six men were seriously injured and hospitalized.
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London
United Press
Lower
Hungary
Vienna
Roumanian State Railway
Reichstag to Meet June 24 Reportedly
Konstantine Fehrenbach, president of the German national assembly, will convene the new Reichstag on June 24. Twenty-two route members will sit in the new body, with 38 from the previous national assembly expected to remain. The report comes from Kal Angeiger.
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Berlan
Konstantine Fehrenbach
German National Assembly
Reichstag
Kal Angeiger
Eta 38
Snesmbty
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