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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1915
Page
9
Miss Boulet is appointed director and temporary chairwoman for the reorganized group. Elizabeth Dumas is named president with Izabeth Dumas as temporary secretary and Tipton Dumas as secretary. Genevieve Copeland becomes treasurer and Edna Cope completes the roster.
An advertisement promotes The Automatic and The Eddy refrigerators with built in water coolers and claims unmatched freshness. It highlights Mobile customers’ long trust in Eddy models and offers a large city line of high quality boxes plus affordable divided payments and a wide purchase discount.
A committee appointed by the aate names Mary Lee Dumas and Anita Del champs to organize the chapter meetings twice in May at Genevieve and Edna Cope with a pm start. The group will support the Electra Semmes Colston scholarship fund upon its establishment, and the meeting closed with Dixie sung as Marguerite set the piano. Attendees included Elizabeth Dumas Edna and Genevieve Co Edith Anita Willie May champs Anna Mary Crum Helen Courtright mae Wheeler Tipton and Gene Dumas H M and Lilly Dale Butler and Mary Lee Turner.
Mrs Alice Bradford Wiles of Chicago was elected president of the National Society of the Daughters of 1812. The convention closes with a final session scheduled for today in New York.
Electra Semmes Colston Chapter U D C to present a Jefferson Davis picture to Toulminville school Friday at 8 pm. Hugh Rolston, president of the school improvement association, has prepared an engaging program. All U D C members are invited.
The Concordia Club of the Lutheran church will host a lawn party on May 12 on their ground at 602 St. Francis Street. Refreshments and other attractions will be provided.
A home style recipe outlines steps for tomato macaroni with butter, flour, tomato purée, and minced veal, plus a salmon and pea scalloped bake. It describes draining salmon, flaking, layering with peas and white sauce then baking with crumbs.
Miss Maggie McVay of Jackson visits home folk in Salitpa while various relatives and friends travel between Coffeeville Jackson and Winn. The community notes multiple visits, church and merchant attendance, and a Sewing Circle gathering hosted by Willow Dean McVay with desserts.
McWilliams M Williams Alabama Mrs Jim Har per and Mrs John Saunders of Beat rice hosted visitors from Camden and Nadowah while Nettles and Wood families visited relatives. An auto party including M L Maxwell J C Andrews and several ladies attended church at Indian Springs. Local residents Nettles Floyd and Sadler noted at gatherings and court in Camden Caledonia.
Mary Craight wife of Upton Sinclair filed suits in several cities against Associated Press newspapers including Mobile Item and Mobile Register. She alleges a 1914 AP dispatch about her arrest with her husband harmed her reputation and social standing, seeking 25000 dollars from each Mobile paper. Similar suits were filed in Montgomery Jackson and Columbia against other papers.
Bee City reports Max R. Marston, former inter scholastic titleholder, captured the opening round at the Spring Golf Tournament at Atlantic City Country Club. About 150 players teed off. Maurice Risley of the Home Club finished.
A cooking instruction describes sauce with repeated steps, then covering tom with buttered crumbs and baking in a hot oven until crumbs brown, then serving hot. The fragment outlines a baked dish finish with browned crumbs and hot serving.
Over 70 000 women attend colleges in the United States. In Plainfield New Jersey a female base ball team formed by Young Women’s Christian Association members. Rose A Gray of Newark has held one job with one firm for fifty years. Ann Elizabeth Magill aged 107 is Philadelphia’s oldest woman. In Birmingham England about 40 000 jewelry workers were unemployed due to the war. The Russian peasant woman has little work as beds are scarce. Mrs J Willis Martin helped lead Philadelphia home relief efforts this past winter. Mrs Walker keeper of Robbins Reef Lighthouse has run the light since her husband’s death. Nineteen of thirty graduates from Women’s Medical College Philadelphia have hospital appointments. Mrs George E Johnson, Nebraska civil engineer, left office to manage domestic affairs at home.
The article suggests women can boost earnings through embroidery and sewing related home projects. It cites a neighbor who earned by selling coal with orders via mailings, teachers tutoring students, and arranging summer tutoring for delinquent or slow learners to prepare them for next year.
Louisville reader Mrs. J M Rescu recounts relief from fainting spells bloating and left side pain after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound She urges other women to seek non surgical help and writes to the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co for confidential advice.
The weekly Mothers' Club gathering at the Settlement Home featured Dr. B. A. Danae of Government Street Methodist Church as speaker. The session included a new member Mrs Turnedge and a farewell to two deaconesses Miss Jeter and Miss Grizzard bound for Tampa and Montgomery. New replacements Miss Jackson of Kentucky and Miss Phail of Kansas City will join the home after prayers and hymns with lemonade and cake.
The Leinkauf School Improvement Association will hold a meeting tonight inviting all members, especially men, to participate in activities. A program includes talks by MiaErwin Craighead and Mrs James Hagan on grounds, marking the last meeting of the association.
The weekly parliamentary law study session met Thursday morning with Je Xe Mah as chairman and N recording secretary. Craighead spoke on a motion discussed by all members of the party.
We will buy a small upright steam boiler in good condition. Must operate at least 80 pounds pressure. Used for heat not power. Provide height and diameter, horse power, whether safety or flue type, price, age and condition.
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