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Newspaper

The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Apr 06, 1916

Page

7

Fashion notes and Southern Writers League meeting

The item notes up-to-date fashions with silk jerseys and lace trimmed dresses plus new sleeve styles and hats. It also reports the League of Southern Writers annual meeting in New Orleans April 17 to 20 at the Grunewald Hotel with officers named and social events planned. An informal reception and editors evening are scheduled, with Grace King and Alabama writers among attendees from Montgomery and Selma.

Euting Georgette Crepe League OF Southern Writers League of Southern Writers New Orleans Grunewald Hotel Thomas M. Owen Montgomery Oscar T. Peoples Cartersville Cora Lucas Laurens D. C Rutled Grace King Alabama Presnang Authors’ Club The Scribbers Selma Atlanta Constitution

Miss Eros Advice Column and Food Freshens

Woman's World page features Dear Miss Eros letters on love worries and fidelity with a recipe section offering Lamb Kidneys With Beans Fried Cod Salad Steak and Tomatoes plus a full schedule of local social and club meetings for Thursday through Saturday and a Sweet Strawberry Shortcake recipe with steps and meringue option.

Uncle Wiggily Falls Ill in Bedside Morning scene

Nurse Jane wakes Uncle Wiggily to breakfast. The rabbit elder declares illness with spring fever. Dr. Possum prescribes sassafras and a woodland dig for root remedy, then orders him outside to recover.

Jane Fussy Wurzy Hollow Stump Mr. Longears Nurse Jane Zzy Wuazzy Possum Jane Dr. Possum

Uncle Wiggily and the Sassafras Plant Ruse

Uncle Wiggily attempts to dig sassafras roots to cure his fever and nervously plans to rest. A sly fox offers help, but the root pulls up suddenly causing the fox to topple. The bunny escapes, and Dr Possum notes the root’s effect was limited.

Uncle Wiggily Way Sassafras Dr. Possum

Home dry cleaning by brushing and gasoline method

The article explains brushing as the first step to remove soil from woolen or silk garments before dry cleaning with gasoline. It advocates outdoor use to avoid flames, with steps to wash, rinse, drip dry, hang, and air until odor fades and heat finishes drying. It notes safety and then abruptly shifts to a police report about a new Studebaker car owned by W. H.

Car Theft Sighting Near Dr Acker Residence

Kemp Motor Company car theft reported in front of Dr PF J Acker's residence at southwest Government and 1 Emanuel streets. A citywide alarm was issued and a county search made but unsuccessful.

Kemp Motor Company PF. J. Acker Emanuel

Brownatone Hair Tint Promise and Offer

An advertisement touts Brownatone hair stain as fast and harmless, claiming it tints hair in a minute and is superior to dyes. It sells in 260 and 1.00, with trial bottles and books mailed for 10 cents, and lists distributors including Bienville Pharmacy and L. Braswell.

MennAairene Gotton Pharmacal Co Resee Ken Held Mbold Guarant Bienville Pharmacy Dave L. Braswell

Praise of Chamberlain Cough Remedy Cited by Mrs Hayes

Mrs Wallace Hayes of Waterville Wa reports Chamberlain Cough Remedy as a long used household staple. She says it cured her children of croup and colds and that she has used it herself with good results, noting it is the only cough medicine they use.

Chamberlain Wallace Hayes Waterville

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Bell Seace Miss Eros Miss Bree Eros Harry Toulmin Craighead Club B'nai RP Rith Hall Ladies Aid Broad Street Presbyterian Church Clarke School Improvement Association Leinkauf School Improvement Association Southern Association of Doll Women Battle House Mobile Tabernacle Baptist Church Shakespeare Club C. J. Torrey Moose Auditorium J. B. Verghe Howard R. Garis the McClure Newspap Grandpa Googey Gander Sammie Littletail Fox Uncle Coke the Fox the Fox the Home Dry Cleaner Serge Comber Serge Argains Navy Taffeta New Spring New York Valenciennes Copenhagen King’s Ae Wisteria Onur Peider Hershey
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