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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1913
Page
8
The poem describes April weather with blooming daffodils tulips dogwood lilac and bees along with a scene of Queen Titania and her fairy court gathering in Mobile for an evening revel. The fairies arrive in gayer garb than spring flowers and perform at a German Society Editor's event announced by phone in 1972.
Queen Titania portrayed by Barbara Berenson opens a fairy court for a masquerade ball attended by children and a radiant fairy train including Esther Reynolds Nellie Berouson and the Misses McAleer. Billie Tebbetts and Waring Inge serve as pages as the festivities begin at 8 with the older group joining after 10.
The text advises avoiding commitment until clear reasons emerge and warns about born today being untruthful and selfish. It notes talents and quick learning, with success tied to instruction from youth and choosing the Right Way over the Wrong Way.
Mrs. Joseph Lyons hosted an afternoon tea from five to seven yesterday at her new Government street home. The scene showed a spring bloom of coreopsis and shasta daisies on the lower floor with a punch bowl in charge of Mrs W 8 Paterson and Mrs EF W Rucker. Guests included Miss Rosa Lyons and Mrs L L Hill of Montgomery and Mrs Hill’s husband, a renowned southern physician visiting Mobile for a medical convention. Dining room centers featured shasta daisies in a silver basket with yellow candles and a butterfly bowl as the table’s focal point.
Helen decides to shop for her mother's modest needs including a plain white dress and a small bonnet as she confronts the New York prices and old fashioned tastes. She plans to cover any excess costs to spare her mother disappointment.
The building committee of the Alabama Masonic Home awarded contracts for about 30 000 dollars of new buildings in Montgomery. Two tea room cottages for elderly residents will be built at once and a hospital is likely. The Home was dedicated last December during the Masonic Grand Lodge meeting.
The Chinese government appealed to all Christian churches to set April 27 as a day of prayer for guidance toward a wise solution to the nation’s critical problems. The move is seen as evidence of far reaching changes since the revolution.
A man claiming the name James Conner is detained in Mount Clemens as a suspect matching James S. Johnson alias Joe Denton under indictment for a $20,000 gambling swindle at Hot Springs Arkansas. Hot Springs authorities head here to verify identity.
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