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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1916
Page
6
Social notices from Mobile detail I M W U and Christ Church activities, meetings, and rehearsals. Various Gals attend opera, church gatherings, and garden parties with lists of attendees and hosts across Mobile society.
The clipping names numerous women and girls as Queen's Maids and flower girls with pages and bearers listed for a Children’s Carnival. It notes an Easter party for Elizabeth Herndon and meetings of Ladies of Charity and King's Daughters. It also lists Elks Easter Ball committees, the Opening Dance of the Mobile Yacht Club, and the club’s reception roster.
Easter services at St Pauls chapel led by Rev Griffith. Irvington beat Theodore 56 to 6 in a Saturday baseball game. Mrs J Weisel and daughter Alice visited Mr Weisel in Mobile hospital. Palmer from Michigan staying for summer. Several residents traveled to Mobile. Easter egg hunt at H B Michael place. Delicatessen sales paused for summer. Miss Grimms recovering after illness. Chester Taylor sprained ankle playing at Theodore. 8 & Goyette Brothers drilling well for R A Sleep. Aunt Polly Social raised funds for expenses. Marriage licenses issued for several couples including Vincent and Shepard and Watson and Williams.
Inquiries on love affairs addressed to Miss Eros will be printed if not too lengthy. Names will not be printed. Address your inquiries to Miss Eros. Mobile Item. Personal letters not answered, or private correspondence handled. Use ink and write on one side of paper.
A letter from Hazel Eyes asks if she should pursue a romance with a married man ten years older who plans to wed next year. The adviser warns that the engaged man will treat her as a second choice and ultimately end the friendship.
A notice invites a meeting this week at Henry Meyer's Cash Grocery. It asks readers to save the coupon and respond to the Servus Girl group, signaling a social or promotional event with local involvement.
April 24 United States cruiser Tennessee sails north with the American members of the international high commission. The Peruvian government explains why only Secretary of the Treasury William G McAdoo visited Lima amid an elaborate celebration. Lima reports say bubonic plague fears kept the rest of the party from going ashore.
The Farmers Loan and Trust Company transfers property to George Pierce for $2. Also Ruth Gatewood and husband transfer to Ellen Gatewood for $1 and other valuable considerations in Roslyn with Cedar and St. Anthony streets as reference. Mrs E E Moog, widow of A Moog, dies aged seventy two after several weeks illness. relatives include Mrs Walter Mitchell and Mrs I N Frenkel. Roche and Burke handle the body and it is sent to Montgomery for burial.
Government forecast indicates a cool week for northern plains Rocky Mountains and Great Lakes regions with frost likely later. Unsettled weather starts near the Great Lakes with a disturbance moving from the far West to the East bringing widespread precipitation and possible local snows in the Northwest.
Paris April 24 The Sorbonne professor Victor Bascher defends French gratitude toward American aid in a Petit Parisien article. He condemns claims France dislikes American charity as a monstrous calumny and says France owes a sacred debt to the United States with ties that remain strong.
An advertisement promotes Dr King’s New Life Pills as a spring medicine that cleanses the system, purifies the blood, stimulates the liver, and moves the bowels to achieve a clear complexion. Priced at 25c at the druggist.
In Manhattan near Dyckman mansion at Broadway and 203rd street, forty five huts from 1776 used by American and British Hessian troops were dug up. Artifacts include drum lines buckles belts from several regiments and weapons. some huts to be reconstructed as part of a new historic park.
Fragmentary line suggests a pledge to broaden access in schools and communities to American citizens, signaling inclusive civic aim.
New York April 24 six hundred bags of parcel post matter probably more than 50 000 separate packages mailed for distribution in Holland are to be returned to the senders in America because steamship companies will not carry this mail due to British seizures of parcel post consignments. British authorities contend the parcels might reach and benefit the central powers.
Six expeditions financed by Archer Huntington will explore aboriginal ruins and pueblos in the southwest this summer under the American Museum of Natural History. The University of Colorado will cooperate, with work spanning New Mexico and Arizona near the Grand Canyon.
An article touts nuxated iron as a life altering tonic. It describes a 50 year old man who regained vigor like a younger man after two weeks of taking two five grain tablets three times daily. The piece urges readers to test strength before and after two weeks and claims dramatic health improvements.
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