Americans Open Fire In Front Northwest Toul Sector
American heavy artillery fired for the first time in the northwest of Toul after weeks of prep. Allied lines saw German forces driven back in Flanders and near Lens. Reports note heavy artillery exchanges along the Avre and patrols repulsed near Camp Saint Aignan.
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France
Toul
Montsac
Flanders
Ofice
Lens
Somme
Ancre
Avre
Camp St.Aignan
Goode Died By Recorder Arrests Prompt Trial
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a case involving a Goode charged in recorder court. The record mentions a Wednesday appearance, a Thursday court session, and a rearrest of Recorder D. H. Edington. A James Brun was involved, with a street car incident affecting Goode’s status.
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T Goode
D. H. Edington
James Brunum
Goode
Alabama Geologist Wits Death Arraigned On Warrant
A geologist in Alabama died by his own actions and was arrested on a warrant of peace. Cries of others follow the incident as authorities investigate the circumstances.
Resume De With Russia Summary Fragment
Fragmentary note reports a resume of relations with Russia and mentions Maye A and a teamner. Details are unclear and missing context.
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Russia
Sleeper King Emerges From Danger After Surgery
Ailing monarch recovers after a health scare. Official sources confirm the king is out of danger and progressing with rest and medical oversight. No further details are released about the condition or treatment plan.
Agitation Against Hindenburg Grows in German War Staff
Reports from The Hague indicate influential former officers aligned with von Moltke are agitating against Field Marshal von Hindenburg due to unmet western front expectations. A noted rift has emerged between von Hindenburg Ludendorff on one side and Chancellor von Hertling and Foreign Secretary von Kühlmann on the other. The emperor reportedly leans toward Hertling, though hesitates.
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London
von Moltke
von Hindenburg
Hague
Daily Mail
von Ludendorff
von Hertling
von Kuehlmann
von Molke
of Staff
Yer al von
British Cabinet Crisis Draws Intense Public Interest
Associated Press reports London observers debate how a select committee motion by former Prime Minister Asquith would affect the government. Opinions vary on whether a Commons verdict would vindicate or merely delay accountability as ministers face possible ouster amid national peril.
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Associated Press
London
Major Bathe
Ig -Néewspapé
Si Serahe
of Commons
Maurice
Asquith
Maurtice
House of Commons
Desertion case ties man to 167th U S Infantry
George Michael is held as a deserter. Federal officers rearrest Daniel Barber, a Biloxian, claiming the man in custody is the wanted deserter from the 167th U S Infantry. Relatives deny identity while authorities insist proof shows the detainee is Daniel Barber.
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Miss
Michael
Duineret
Daniel Barber
167Th U. S. Infantry
New York
Department of Justice
Mobile
Alabama National Guard
Barber
France
Daniel
Subscriptions Made to Local Loan Association
Subscriptions were made in Pascagoula to a local loan association for housing and related services. The mass enrollment touched citizens who joined the association to support home loans and accommodations.
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Loan Association
Pascagoula
Baker Report Boche Premier Creates Furors May Dissolve In Congress
Secretary Baker says his forecast of 500000 plus American troops in France this year has been surpassed. He cites no troop counts for security reasons and notes no shortage of light Browning guns though heavy guns production may be rising. In Amsterdam, Hertling threatens dissolution if franchise reform fails.
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Baker Report
Boche Premier
HUN Chamber
Associated Press
Washington
Baker
France
Congress
Senate Military Committee
Senate
America
Francé
Amsterdam
Count von Hertling
Cologne
No Loafers in Mobile Assert the Sheriff
Mobile county officials report no idlers among laborers. Sheriff W. H. Holcombe orders a crackdown on vagrants, with Deputy George Wile in charge of the Plateau corses area. Laborers are urged for Chickasaw Shipbuilding Company and other industries as state and federal orders stress employment.
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Police and Sheriff's Department
Mobile County
Iadal
W. H. Holcombe
George Wile
Platéau Corse
Zinc
Chickasaw Shipbuilding Company
Blacksher Company
Sheriff Holcombe
Ing
Century Book Club to Hold Better Babies Contest
About twenty babies were registered for the Better Babies Contest to be run by the Century Book Club. Registration was led by Mrs J W McAlpine. The event takes place next week at the Scottish Rite Cathedral with judging in three age classes from birth to under three years.
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Century Book Club
J. W. McAlpine
German officers oppose Hindenburg over western front results
Reports from The Hague via Daily Mail correspondent claim influential German officers close to von Moltke oppose Field Marshal von Hindenburg due to unmet western front expectations. A separate note mentions a rift between Crown Prince and Chancellor von Hertling with Foreign Secretary von Kuehlmann amid imperial wavering on support.
Odd Fellows Convention In City Ends With Social Night
Gulf Division No. 18 Odd Fellows held its morning and afternoon sessions at the Dauphin and St Emanuel streets hall with about 25 delegates and 35 Rebekkah Lodge members in attendance. Officers will be elected by both esA as sessions proceed. A joint social event will follow with Palmer Raugette grand master of Birmingham delivering an address. Luncheon was served at the convention hall.
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Gulf Division
Odd Fellows
Dauphin
St. Emanuel
Rebekkah Lodge
Esa
Odd
Rebekkahs
Palmer Raugette
Birmingham
Cuban House Approves Aid and Aviation School Resolution
The Cuban House approved a 2.6 million dollar relief measure for allied nations, a resolution authorizing the president to establish an aviation school, and a 240 thousand dollar grant to the sanitation secretary to stamp out malaria. All three moves proceed to the Senate.
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Wavaik
Mayome i! Yast Nehit
House
Secretary of Sanitation
Irish Papers Eye Fight in Parliament Crisis
Dispatch to the Times reports Irish nationalist response to the parliamentary crisis. The Freeman's Journal notes the na tionists hope for government action on conscription and suggests ministers must clear themselves or risk a new sensational shift in British public opinion.
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London
Times
Bimin
Freeman‘s Journal
Mau
Bng
Dramatic Club Event at Crichton Delayed
The Crichton Dramatic Club postpones the planned event at Odd Fellows Hall Whistier Rae Club remains unsettled by a death in the family and the club’s serious illness. The new date will be announced as soon as possible.
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Crichton
Odd Fellows Hall
Whistier Rae Club
Cowart Granted Rehearing In Embezzlement Case
Montgomery May 9 Former state immigration commissioner Lee Cowart was granted a new trial after the Alabama Supreme Court reversed an appellate court ruling. He had been convicted of embezzling fifty dollars entrusted to him as immigration director and was sentenced to two years in Montgomery. He will be retried in the Montgomery court.
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Montgomery
Ala
Lee Cowart
State Commissioner of Immigration
Supreme Court
Cowart
Mobile
City of Mobile
Mobile Ditectric Company
Mobile Circuit
Mary E. Kimball
Cunningham Hardware Company
J. Wirgit Smith
A. Va
Thompson
News Item Drive Encourages War Bond Thrift Stamps Support
A city drive opens Friday inviting boys and girls to aid Uncle Sam in the war against the Hun by selling Liberty Bonds and Thrift Stamps. No money is collected. subscribers earn 25 cents per two new subscriptions, with top sellers receiving Liberty Bonds and Thrift Stamps at campaign close.
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Uncle Sam
Cance
Cartier
Timiing
Farm School Location Questioned by State Board Member
Mr J B Hobby of the state board of education voiced personal doubts about the proposed Mobile County agricultural fish school location at a board meeting. He criticized land quality saying it would be hard to cultivate and doubted whether the school could attract suitable high school material or justify aid.
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J. B. Hobby
State Board of Education
Board of the Commissioners
Mobile County Agricultural Fish School
Hobby
Methodists Abandon Limit of Four Years
Southern Methodists upend the four year cap on pastorates. Bishops may retain ministers beyond four years upon conference request and support from presiding elders in the bishop's cabinet at the annual conference. The minority report on revivals was adopted 156 to 134.
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P. Atlanta
South
General Conference
Southern Methodist Church
Committee On Revivals
Blue Ridge Club Plans Benefit Play
The Mabtie Y M Como group prepares a charity stage benefit titled The Blue Ridge Chub as a community event.
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Blue Ridge Club
Blue Ridge
Mabtie Y M. Como
Supreme Court rules Mobile Electric rates fixed for 30 years
The Alabama Supreme Court held that Mobile Electric Company's rates are fixed for thirty years from 1910, prohibiting changes until 1940. The ruling states a contract cannot allow rate changes at specific times and preserves the prior rate structure for the period. Chief Justice John C. Anderson authored the opinion in seven pages.
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Montgomery
Ala
Supreme ¢ Court
Mobile Electric Com
John C. Anderson
Selph to Speak at Lyric Sunday for War Stamps
Selph will discuss the Liberty and War Savings Stamps drive at the Lyric Theater on Sunday after arriving from New Orleans. A musical program by Mrs. Sadie Rowley Kling's orchestra will precede his 3:30 p.m. address following a speech in New Orleans and a brief stop in South Mississippi.
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Liberty
Selph
New Orleans
Mississippi
Lyric Theater
Sadie Rowley Kling
Harte Safe in France Again With Pershing Force
Mr A C Harte, former Mobile Y M C A secretary and later United States Army Y M C A worker, is with the Pershing force in France after a trip to America. News from L Porter Moore, publicity director of the Southeastern Y M C A, reports Harte’s return to France.
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Mrr. A
Stockman Promoted by Transit Company
Mobilian William C Stockman has been promoted within Mobile Light and Power to a new station post. He moves up from yard worker to motorman as the transit company adjusts its operations.
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Mobile Light
Stockman
Rates Under City Contract Spark Public Complaint
Citizens allege illegal charges since February and demand refunds under a long standing city contract. The Mobile Company faces restoring rates set by the supreme court and adjustments for blocks from small to large usages.
Alabama Man Among War Casualties and Wounds
A fragmented civil war era roll lists soldiers with statuses killed in action wounded severely and died of accident. Officers named include Evans Lethe Morgan and others. privates such as Robert Brewer Finley Tenn Forrest H Johnson Dearing Ga Job Henry Bristol Tenn and several more with residences in Tennessee Georgia and Alabama. The piece notes multiple casualties and injuries with scattered names and locations.
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Inyoe
Lievans Lethe Morgan
Acton
Robert — Brewer
Finley
Tenn
Forrest -H. Rnson
Dearing
Job
Henry
Bristol
Freda
Burnsville
Yancey County
Alva M. Colyer
Pelhamin
Gay
William F. Cooper
Hollow Rock
Tea
Joseph J. Cryan
Cobbie
Aniston
Alalatie Watson
Ben F
Ernest @ Pruett
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Ames
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Lloyd George
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Daily Chronicle
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the Chronicle
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George Michael
Mascone
Mites
Cate
Imperial Court
Dresden
Independent Socialist Party of Germany
Leipsic
Vorwatrts
Berlin
Carpenters
High Command
City
Says Farm
Frederich
Lyric Sunday
United States
MR. A. C. Harte
Choctaw County
Supreme: Court
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