Across the Bay Party Draws Mobile Pleasure Seekers
A breezy Mobile bay weekend drew hundreds of travelers aboard bay boats with many heading to Point Clear and Biloxi for summer holidays. Among the crowd were Mr. and Mrs. George Fearn Jr and Miss Irwin Fearn, Miss Elsie Hall, Ethel West, and others from Mobile, Montgomery, and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Fearn, Jr
W. F. West
aAlisses Irwin
Anne Fearn
Ethel West
Elsie Hall
Loerothy West
George Farn, Jr
Irwin Fearn
Point Clear
Gwin Brown Wedding Planned At St Patrick’s Rectory
Miss Maude Estelie Crown and Mr Sievey Lost Gwin will wed Thursday August 7 at St Patrick’s rectory at 9 o clock Father Henry will officiate Miss Marie White is maid of honor and Mr George Stunard is best man The couple will host a reception at Mrs C C Thames home on Lipscomb street after the ceremony They will depart for an East wedding journey and return to reside at 54S Franklin street Mrs K H Bolting is listed as the location for after the ceremony residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gwin-Brown
Redding
C. C. Thames
Lipscomb Street
K. H.bolting
Franklin Street
Engagement announced for Mary Antoinette Skintosh and Paul Danner
Mr Alfred G Skintosh announces the betrothal of his elder sister Mary Antoinette to Mr Paul Danner with a planned autumn ceremony and formal engagement notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred G. Skintosh
Mary Antoinette
Paul Danner
Diving Party at Point Clear Honors Birmingham Mermaid
A Point Clear diving party hosted at the Dath House springboard and pier finale awarded a handsome blonde mermaid prize to Mrs. R. F. Kracowizer of Birmingham. Participants included Effie Wagner Mary Wagner Aline Fearn Irwin Fearn Ethel West Elise Hall Nellie Beroujon Dorothy West Barbara Beroujon and Bert Clifford of Birmingham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Clear
Hotel Dath House
Palm of Daring
Birmingham
R. F. Kracowizer
Effie
Mary Wagner
Aline
Irwin Fearn
Ethel West
Elise Hall
Nellie Beroujon
Dorothy West
Barbara Beroujon
Bert Clifford
Selma and Pinehurst Hosts Share Summer Visits
A diverse round of summer guests gathers at Selma and Pinehurst as families like the Debardeleben, Norville, Gould, and Midgett households host friends and relatives. The Glee Club of Selma joins the scenes while others enjoy seaside weekends and August sojourns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Debardeleben
Selma
Glee Club of
Allie Grayson
Pinehurst
T. P. Norville
Battle's Wharf
B.f.midgett
C. S. Willis
J. W. Midgett
Vacationers on the Coast at Mobile Bay Resorts
August ushers in a season of seaside pleasure on the eastern shore with many guests at Point Clear Hotel. Names include Mrs Sykes Gilbert and daughter, Mrs Julian Waters, Master Julian Waters, Mrs BE Hughes and son Edward, Mr and Mrs James K Glennon, Mrs Co L O Neal and nieces Effie and Mary Wagner, and numerous other visitors from Birmingham Montgomery and St Louis enjoying the holiday by the Gulf.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile Bay
Point Clear
W. V. Beroujon
Neble
Barbara Beroujon
Vincent Beroujon
Messrs
W.H. Inge
D. S. Overton
T. H. Smith
Ongersoll Moffat
Alvin Ahleen
J. T. Jett
D. W. Partridge, Jr
J. P. McCann
H.C
Slit skirt tale travels from Colon to New York
A comic yarn recalls a wildly cut skirt that caused confusion aboard the Carrillo of United Fruit Company. Purser Charles Rigby brought the tale from Colon to New York after the ship docked from Caribbean ports with a fashionable but troublesome artifact aboard the pier scuffle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International News Service
New York
Colon
Charles Rigby
Carrillo
United Fruit Company
Caribbean
Paris
Artist’s Model to Wed New England Contractor
Aug. 3. Miss Hannah A. Berlinger, famed artist model, will marry Lloyd J. McKinnon of Chicopee Mass next October in a romance sparked by a Penrynk Stanlaws portrait viewed on Fifth Avenue. McKinnon, a prominent contractor, pursued the subject after meeting through a friend who knew the original.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Hannah A. Berlinger
Lloyd J.mckinnon
Chicopee
Mass
New England
McKinnon
Fifth Avenue
Penrykn Stanlaws
McKennon
Lovers End In Double Suicide After Eluding Police
Lithographer Harry G. Lilcott and Miss Ellen Sibley, both from Chicago, fled a police trap in Macombe's Dam Park. They went to Lovers' Leap where Lilcott killed Sibley then shot himself. A note stated they died together after agreeing to part no more. Mrs Elliott reported them at their boarding house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Harry G. Lilcott
Ellen Sibley
Macombe’s Dam Park
Elliott
Ellitott
Miss Sibley
Chicago
Funeral March at Vaudeville Actor Gene Green Wedding
The secret wedding of vaudeville performer Gene Green and Harriet Knessendorff took place last week at a Presbyterian church in Renssalaer Indiana. A funeral march and ragtime were played, honoring Green’s first wife who died in February, as the couple exited the church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Chicago
Gene Green
Renssalaer
Ind
Green
Harriet Knessendorff
Passenger Ripped Skirt On Gangplank Sparks Scene
A young woman wearing a white slit skirt faced a wardrobe mishap on a gangplank as a crowd watched. After two ripping sounds, the breeze exposed hosiery and she sought shelter in a baggage shed. She stayed until the Carrillo departed, with onlookers eager for the next ship from Colon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rigby
Colon
Letter from Philadelphia Sparks Family Arguments Over Alice
In a tense domestic scene Helen intercepts a special delivery letter to Alice Willard from a man in Philadelphia on his way to New York to see her. Aunt Emma distrusts him but Alice insists on meeting her fiancé, ignoring relatives’ warnings amid a planned dinner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen
Alice
Philadelphia
Emma
al Thost
Trdlen
Morgan
Metropolitan Museum
Ailes
Central
Ailee Willard
New York
Mr. Hampton
Cincinnati
Dayton
Warren
Long-Awaited Oakland Marriage Sealed After Four Years
Alton Boguardsen of San Francisco and Miss Bernice Maloney of Oakland were married July 1 by Rev. H. M. Leach at the English Lutheran church. The license dated June 7, 1909, was filed without comment. Leach said no unusual aspects attended the ceremony, noting Maloney cared for her sister who fell ill when the license was first taken.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakland
Cal
Alton Boguardsen
Laguna Street
San Francisco
Bernice Maloney
H. M. Leach
English Lutheran Church
Sixteenth Street
Leach
Willard kinship blocks Hampton visit at mansion
Warren refuses Hampton entry to Miss Willard as Alice plans a meet with the caller. Helen fears the confrontation while Alice dons her best gown and awaits the visitor, who is a swaggering Hampton. The scene ends with Warren asserting Miss Willard’s mother forbids the call.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Hampton
Coffee and Health Claims for Postum In Health Advertisement
An advertising piece warns that caffeine in coffee causes many ailments and urges quitting coffee for 10 days, promoting Postum as a safe, stimulant free hot beverage made from wheat and molasses with a Java like flavor and no caffeine or drugs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
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News of Feminine World
Horn
G. B. Shawhan
Fairhope
Julian Waters
E. J. Buck
B. F. Adams
W. H. Monk
Biloxi
Three Springs
Tenn
G. T. Allison
W. H. Dunlap
Annie Lee Dunlap
W. A. Hill
Esther Mae
Montgomery
Brewton
Mobile
Battle’s Wharf
Mrs. C.s.s$hawhan
Varina Gould
Windy City
Tom Pankey
Vincent Gorly
St. Louis
Martin Lindsey
Dauphin Street
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
Dominic Roppers
Calif
Itrore
Mas
Ropcers
KODAK
Eastman
E. O. Zadek Jewelry Co
Mobile, Alabama
Arried
Mabel Herberi
Urner
Alice Willard
Willis & Percy Jewelers and Silversmiths
Warren Takes
Hand
Maggie
Cousin Warren
Miss Willard
Marcus Aurelius
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