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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1915
Page
6
The fragment evokes a sorrowful speaker recalling a vanished love. Images of a green sea isle, fairy fruits, and flowers mix with then aching hope and final quiet, as life fades and dreams linger. The speaker laments the end of life and the enduring echo of a beloved gaze.
Miss Bessie Reed of Fallston Maryland reported severe eczema on her head and face with hair loss and itching. She used Cuticura Soap and Ointment for one month, which relieved the symptoms and halted hair loss. The ad promotes Cuticura as suitable for infants too and offers a 32 page Skin Book on request.
Col. Harvey E. B. Jones, commander of the Alabama Division, United Confederate Veterans, named the sponsorial staff for the homeland reunion to be held June 1 2 and 3. Madeline Maury of Spring Hill Alabama will be sponsor and Miss Leona Plosser of Birmingham named maid of honor.
Monday evening event by the Spring Maids at German Relief Hall drew high praise for its enjoyable atmosphere. Decorations and costumes impressed attendees, music pleased the crowd, and celebrations extended past midnight as the group pledged to return next year.
The Tuesday Auction Club met at 3 p m at Miss Edna Manning home on Dauphin Way. Guests included Modesta Kingham Gertrude Arnold Anna Bell Courtright Katherine Courtney Effie Soost Mattie Hickey Gabriella Barrett Alba Gower and Marie Clifton. A lively contest determined pretty prizes followed by refreshments.
Graduation season opens with Miss Alice Duck hosting a Heart party and dance for eight graduates and guests. Ray Alvarez won a candy prize and gave it to escort Miss Grace Moore. Attendees include Lois Stiles Grace Moore Lucile Partridge Maybelle Touart Bernice Stiggins Juanita Alvarez Harriet Sims Alice Duck Joe Stiggins Claurell Adams John Moulton Jr Alvarez Carl Gilbert Ernest Buck Jim Buck. An ice course and fruit punch followed. An afternoon on the water features Mr and Mrs C W Harrington hosting a yacht party aboard Illois with guests Gladys McDade Henry Horst Jr Harold Harrington and others for a meals-on-board gathering.
A workingman's wife guidance advocates using Faust Spaghetti made from durum wheat as a cost effective meat substitute. The piece stresses nutrition as the basis of economic food buying and recommends plentiful spaghetti to reduce meat consumption.
A pleasant spring outing drew a congenial crowd from the city to the Dog River Club house Monday. They enjoyed bridge morning games, a midday dinner, and scenic country views. Guests included Mrs. Neace of Philadelphia and Mrs. A. H. Bishop of Detroit.
Mrs W H Tice announces the engagement of her daughter Miss Mary Adelaide Howell to Mr James Edward Gachet of Mobile Alabama. The wedding will be at Christ Episcopal church Oak Park at 3 PM on Saturday June 19. Howell is a pianist with European training and Gachet is a respected Mobile professional.
A recent issue misstated that the Christ Child Society ran the Maternity Home. The society only assists by gifts at varying seasons and when needs are most urgent.
Mrs T H Barrett hosted a Friday reception for Miss Withers of Lexington and Miss Chichester of Edwards among Mobile society guests. The home featured pink roses and bridal wreaths as guests, including Mrs E J Bowers who introduced the honoree. Miss Chichester departs soon for Jackson Mississippi, while Miss Withers heads to Anniston then Jackson. In Tuscaloosa Mrs McCarvey hosted a Kettledrum meeting marking a social week end.
A store promotes quality in its weekly sale with reduced prices on Wednesday and Thursday without compromising stock. It emphasizes fair dealing and cash priced specials drawn from regular inventory rather than new purchases.
A local hardware advertisement promotes granulated sugar, soaps and tools with markdowns on hoses, screen doors and windows, galvanized tubs, wire, ironing boards, ice cream freezers and fly swatters. It offers a free Jap a Lac sample to the first 100 housewives who call next Wednesday morning.
A mixed list of medicines soaps and tonics with prices from a drugstore catalog includes aspirin tablets per dozen Caldwell’s syrup pepsin bottles wine of cardus borax grape juice and various tonics and beauty products. Items like Castoria Colgate toothpaste and Castile soap appear alongside household staples with prices ranging from a few cents to a dollar.
Fragments show assorted prices for crockery and glassware items. Churns 1 gallon 15 cents 2 gallons 30 cents gallon 35 cents Jardinieres 25 cents Flower pots 15 cents to 9 cents White Stop Jar 25 cents plates 10 cents cups and saucers 1 cent to 10 cents.
The Mobile Item offers a contest to name a favorite comic page character from Polly Aunt Delicia Mary Jane on Buster Brown or others. Submit a written reason under 100 words by April 30. prizes include merchant orders of 10, 5, or 1 dollars. Neatness and broad audience appeal noted.
Miss Imogen Little of Mobile Maude Allen and Julian Nuzum preside over a tea in the library as hundreds admire iris displays in the music room. Guests move to the dining room for a two course luncheon featuring chicken salad olives beaten biscuits nut bread sandwiches and purple themed desserts.
Montgomery April 27. Superintendent Feagin announces commencement dates for state schools. The University of Alabama runs May 30 to June 2, and Alabama Polytechnic Institute June 6 to 9. Alabama Girls Technical Institute Montevallo May 16 to 19. Various normal schools statewide set May 16 to June 2 with multiple district schedules and consolidations.
In the city court a special venire of jurors was drawn for the murder case of John Robinson against Andrew Barnes. The panel includes Thomas S. Bullock, Samuel St John, Frank J. Green, Rufus Byrd, Henry Harris and many others. The trial is scheduled for April 28.
The Mobile Item lists six children born in April with names addresses and birth years and invites them to a birthday picture party at the Empire Theatre this afternoon. Tickets have been mailed. April born boys and girls are urged to send full names addresses and birthdates to the Children’s Editor at the Mobile Item at least two days before their birthday.
The text notes a trip to New Orleans to visit a convalescent niece and return to the city Monday night. It mentions Miss Edna Manning returning Monday from Pensacola and departing Wednesday with Miss Mabel Hartwell and Mrs Hartwell for Norfolk, Virginia, to attend christening exercises of the United States coast survey boat.
Community events include a Penny Party and May Day fete for Government Street Presbyterian Church at 55 Devx ter avenue, a musical tea for Seamen's Bethel hosted by Mrs. W. D. Stratton, and a program of poetry and music at Christchurch chapter house. Al fresco entertainment at St Marys school grounds runs 4 to 7 o'clock.
Residence of Mrs. C. E. Vincent at 867 Dauphin Way hosts a social for the Central Presbyterian church fundraising drive on Thursday, April 29 at 4 30 PM.
Whistler Alabama April 27 local notes list Mechanics Lodge 69 I O F regular meeting 7 30 tonight Ladies Auxiliary of I A M meets Wednesday 2 30 at Odd Fellows Hall Whistler Sewing Circle meets Wednesday with Mrs Thomas B Allman Junior Sewing Club gathers at Miss Mattye Jones home Next meeting with Miss Lora Adele Hartley Tennis club organized with Blanche Kelley Juanita Alvarez Thelma Malone Katy Lou Kelley Foree Malone Sallie Johnston and others Baseball Managers to Meet Suburban League to organize at Mr Thomas B Allmans office tonight 7 30 oclock for league setup
A vintage advertisement touts D. D. D. Prescription for eczema and skin diseases. It highlights Wintergreen and Thymol oils, claims instant itch relief and tissue healing, and offers trial bottles at 25 cents with money-back guarantee. Also promotes D. D. D. Soap and free trial bottles from D. D. Laboratories Chicago department 1571.
Representatives from bile and suburbs will attend a meeting. Master L J Barbour of Crichton returns home to spend the end with his aunt Mrs Ella Nelly. Mrs Cora Hanley returns from Mobile due to illness in her daughter Mrs James Haley. Mr Frank McPhillip returns to Mobile after visiting here. Mrs S W Kelley leaves for Mississippi City to stay with her aunt before heading to New Orleans to meet Mrs G H Therrell. Mrs Frank Barry Jr is on the sick list.
Ad touts Pape's Diapepsin as quick relief for sour gassy upset stomach and dyspepsia. Claims it relieves stomach misery in five minutes and regulates weak stomachs, urging readers to buy a fifty cent case at any drug store.
Roche and Burke Undertakers operate from the northeast corner of St. Joseph and State Streets serving local funeral needs.
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