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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1915
Page
7
A reflective poem notes Fame lacked laurel wreaths for her and a simple life spent apart from factional plots. It honours a quiet love that soothed grief and brightened memories, recounting how a gentle kiss could banish childish tears amid changing days.
A reflective excerpt quotes Phillips Brooks on growth and virtue. It contrasts changing opinions with patience and the pursuit of truth courage virtue and guidance from God as money and fame fade.
Miss Aimee Magnus of Chicago and St Louis visits Miss Mildred Wellhouse for a great ball at the Standard Club. She wears a Pierretté costume in white satin with black satin slashings and a white satin cap. hosts include Miss Wellhouse and Miss Sophie Haas in matching white and black Pierretté outfits.
Miss Nell Barclay will leave Thursday for Memphis Tennessee to spend the Easter holidays with her uncle L B Barclay superintendent of the Illinois Central Railroad for the Memphis division and her cousin Miss Vivian Barclay. She will attend the Chicasaw Club Monday night the Tennessee Club dance Tuesday night and the C K A dance Friday evening. Miss Barclay has many friends in Mobile from previous visits.
Mrs Clara Weaver Parrish, the talented artist who resides in New York, is the attractive guest of her host in Alabama.
An old style ad urges readers to spend ten cents on Cascarets to liven the liver and cleanse bowels. It promises relief from headaches biliousness bad breath coated tongue sallowness and sour stomach and claims a gentle cleansing for adults and children alike.
Miss Rose Weaver and Mrs. Parrish are noted in connection with Dayton Alabama. The article mentions Mrs. Robbins, sister to Mrs. Parrish, who long resided at Owhile her home and has been missed since moving to their plantation at Dayton.
Miss Emma and Elea travel from Florida to spend Easter in Mobile before Biloxi summer home. Mrs. A. M. Cowan and Miss Louise visited Biloxi last Thursday. Miss Myrtle Gay from Mobile visited Miss Bessie Spann for the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. W. Scheverdt and Mrs. Sarah Cantor depart Oaks for Mobile then Marion Illinois. Mrs. M. B. Walker returns to Mobile from visit to Mr. M. Beckwith. Mrs. Clara Michael and Mr. A. Klein, guests of Mr. L. Klein, return to Meridian after social favors. Mrs. Samuel Pipes returns from Brewersville to her parents.
Teachers from across Alabama gather for three day Alabama Educational Association session in Montgomery. Nearly two thousand attendees fill the Grand Theatre for opening with remarks by President H R Butler and welcomes from city and school officials. Dr H W Foght of Washington, D C. speaks on rural education and compulsory schooling features, as meetings and social events begin across venues.
The steamer Corinthic arrived in New York from Hull in ballast after a stormy voyage in which she lost her propeller and drifted helplessly. Heavy weather forced the ship to lay to until March 26 before the British steamer Ariosto towed her to port, where she reached March 16 with a new propeller fitted.
A horse pulling a city garbage department cart collided with a buggy on Friday morning at St Emanuel and Conti streets, causing slight vehicle damage. No one was injured.
The Ladies Art Society of Government Street Presbyterian plans an Easter egg hunt Saturday afternoon for children under five at the church corner of Government and Michigan Avenues. Mrs Julian J Bartee and Miss Agnes Rickardy lead the event with a fenced play plot and eggs for all.
Whistler residents hear about a Woodmen Circle meeting at Odd Fellows Hall. Easter egg hunt invites issued by Jaanita Suther for Saturday afternoon at the Suther residence. Mobile county cattlemen meet at 1 pm in the courthouse grand jury room. News of visits, jury duty, court attendance, and school closure for Good Friday. Local sports include Item boys heading to Pine Grove and a broken thumb on Newell Bowen. Mrs. Brandon returns to Culvert street residence with friends expressing happiness.
Wilkes Barre street railway workers struck shutting down trolley service in the Wyoming valley. John Moffitt the federal mediator and James Steese representing the state labor department seek to mediate to restore operation.
A Petrograd report notes war’s toll on mothers and orphans while an American audience is urged to use Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription for women’s ailments. The ad touts a temperance tonic claimed to restore health, regulate organs, ease pain, and renew vigor with natural ingredients and no narcotics.
A community event lists ladies overseeing candy and ice cream stations including Margaret Horn Ella Blacksher Julia Creary Ethel Burgess and Mrs McCreary Otts. Hosts include Mrs Percy Dunbar Mrs Ruffin A Wright Mrs George Stone and others assisting at the gate for a Fort Morgan day outing.
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