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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1915
Page
6
A dated monologue scenes a mother urging Mary Ann to vote while a daughter questions if women should vote. The speaker notes Mary Ann’s talent and the idea that women can succeed, ending with a quip about voting twice—one for herself and one for her mother.
Verses describe a jug of wine a loaf of bread and singing in the wilderness. It contemplates paradise lost, buried Caesars, hyacinths and love. The speaker urges filling the cup today and making the most of life before dust returns.
Frances Fern in Leslie's notes how the war transforms society at the American Hospital in Paris. Painters become doorkeepers and drivers, rich society girls become nurses, and millionaires drive ambulances, exposing a sobering view of suffering that will alter future life and empathy.
Provide thorough overhauling monthly by removing all dead or yellowing fronds cutting close to earth to allow new growth. Water every other day with one glass of water at medium temperature let excess drain before returning to the pot to avoid root decay from standing water.
The author urges readers to plan canna beds and salvia borders near homes. He notes catalogs show how flowers enhance property and insists on monthly flowering plants for year round color. Constant flower exposure is linked to happiness and improvement in twentieth century civilization.
Oakdale pupils surprised their teacher Miss Crocker with a decorated Easter egg basket made by Leila and Mabel Comstock Rachael Cunningham Lillian Kenney and Walter Seabury. The town reports social events and local notes including a Miss Helen Heller sewing club gathering and a dance for the elderly on April 6.
An old advertisement touts Vicks Vaporub as a external treatment for asthma catarrh and bronchitis. It urges not to take internal medicines and describes applying the salve and inhaling vapors along the spine to ease nervous tension. Prices listed 250 500 or 1.00.
A tract of 480 acres seven miles west of Chunchula Mobile County Alabama is offered by the Mobile and Ohio Railway Lands. The land features best quality pine soil a fine stream and is suitable for general farming stock and crops including satsuma oranges and pecans. Price is 11.50 dollars per acre.
Step by step kitchen guidance covers a white cookies recipe with two cups sugar two eggs sour cream butter soda and baking powder plus flour and a tip to keep cookies from spreading. Also includes apple custard pie directions core sour apples stew add sugar eggs nutmeg and melted butter with crust moisture tips.
The Alabama Chapter National Society United Daughters of the Confederacy hosted a commemorative gathering at the News Paper Club. Regent Mrs. Robert H. Woodrow chaired as toast mistress with toasts on heritage insignia Washington flame and 1812 patriot, plus a five dollar prize for a generous donor.
The Norwegian steamer Fjell, recently shifted to Chamelecon Steamship, has chartered for New Orleans and will depart shortly to haul cargo from that port. It lay in Mobile for days awaiting a charter, then coal was supplied for the voyage to New Orleans.
A dense list of vessels with owners and destinations including Bark Ganges to Gulf States Shipping Co and S. S. Nubian to Mobile Liners. The fragment notes several ships with origins in Havana, Liverpool, Demerara, and Demerara, among others, plus a brief obituary: William Hunter of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway died.
The Birmingham Ledger notes a pupil received the best paper award for a study titled Alabama During the 1812 Period. The commendation highlights scholarly work on early state history.
The Parliamen tary Law Study Club meets at Canton Hotel at 10 oclock with Edith Heckert presiding and W N A Yuille reporting on city wealth clean up day beginning April 5. Easter egg hunts, a Benares lecture by Roderick McKenzie, and a Salmagundi party are listed with dates and locations around Dauphin Way and Trinity parish.
The Tadies' Aid Society hosts an Easter egg hunt at Government Street Presbyterian Church on Saturday April 3 at Peter Joseph Hamilton.
The older girls conference district No 6 will hold its regular monthly meeting at Trinity church on Saturday April 3 at 3 pm. All members are urged to be present.
Mr C F Evans field secretary will speak at a Burgett Memorial Government Street union meeting. The program invites attendees to hear his address and participate in the Christian Endeavor event.
The Presbyterian Church event is at 6 45 this evening. The Octagon House meets on Monday April 5 at 7 pm in the Parlor of the Battle House. Members of the Daters of 1812 chapter will attend the regular monthly gathering.
Sixteen mothers attended the Settlement Home Mothers' Club gathering. Miss Grizzard read selections from scripture including 59th chapter and Isiah 1 2 and 1 Peter 3. The topic was Prayer and Promise for Holy Week with prayers by Miss Jeter Grizzard and Louise Windham. oral hymns concluded the exercise followed by hot coffee and cake.
The Bethel Auxilliary met at noon on Thursday and re elected Miss Virginia Thomas as president Mrs D P Begter as vice president Miss Meta Huger as treasurer and Mrs T C Booth as secretary Committees were appointed for the musical tea to be held at Mrs W D Stratton's residence on April 27 from 6 to 7 p m.
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