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The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Aug 09, 1915

Page

7

Bell Phone Home Phone 6.600

Fragmentary OCR notes mention Bell Phone and a price or code 6.600 with unclear context. No identifiable events, persons, or places are readable.

Bell Phone

Elsie Ferguson Engaged to Harriman Bank Official

Elsie Ferguson star of The Outcast becomes engaged to Thomas Benedict Clarke vice president of Harriman Bank and New York clubman Amelia Ferguson confirms the surprise engagement. Ferguson previously married Frederick Chamberlain Hoyt in 1908 and divorced in 1914, her outlook on marriage evolving with a new fiancé.

Elsie Ferguson Amelia Ferguson Elsie Thomas Benedict Clarke Harriman Bank New York Miss Ferguson Fergu Frederick Chamberlain Hoyt New Jersey

Thoughts for the Day and Arts Notices in The Artisan

A collage of devotional lines by Alice Brown and Henry Van Dyke opens The Artisan sample, followed by notices of dramatic entertainment at Grace Church Monroe Park Theatre on August 11, a St. John's storytelling group at Government Street Presbyterian Tuesday August 10, and a Metropolitan Museum fashion show featuring a doll exhibit tracing dress styles from 1690 to 1874.

Alice Brown Henry van Dyke Ramatic Entertainment Grace Church Monroe Park Theatre Mobile Graded Union St. John's Helen Krudop Government Street Presbyterian Church Metropolitan Museum OF Art Metropolitian Museum of Art Rameses Rembrandts Altman Lst Metropolitan

Blood Purification for Vitality and War Readiness

Paris August 9 Many young men fell in France due to impure blood weakening their campaigns. The ad urges Americans to cleanse blood with Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, claiming it purifies blood, aids digestion and liver function, and restores energy, vigor, and youth.

Paris France America Doctor Pierce Godden

Readers urged to order The People's Common Sense Medical Advisor

Notice offers readers a copy of The People's Common Sense Medical Advisor before stock runs out. Send a dime or stamp with the notice to Dr. Pierce at McAlid's Hotel in Buffalo New York and the copy will be mailed back with charges prepaid.

Common Sense Miss Eros Eros Navy

Exhibition Of Oriental Art At The Metropolitan Opens

The Metropolitan opens a room featuring a collection of Indian and Thibetan jewelry Indian textiles and Chinese objects A notable highlight is recently revealed Thibetan pieces and a seventeenth century doorway in the Christopher Wren style Rare artifacts offer a glimpse of historical fashion and design trends for public viewing.

Christopher Wren

Fashion Letter: Madame La Modé Crafts Summer Peasant Style

New York August 9 Madame La Modé scores with a summer trend of masquerading in peasant and princess garments. A love of bodice lobes and peasant girdles blurs class lines with laced velvet, smocks, and gardener inspired frocks readied for 1915 standards.

Margaret Mason United Press Dolly Bridget Greta New York Madame la Modé Tanner

What to Do for Itchinng Skins

Eczema ringworm and itching skin eruptions are easily aggravated by improper treatment. Resinol ointment and resinol soap, prescribed by a Baltimore doctor, stop itching instantly and often heal eruptions quickly at low cost. Free sample offer from Resinol Dept 22 R Baltimore MD.

Baltimore Resinol

How to Preserve in Glass Jars For Exhibition

An article outlines preserving fluids for fruits and vegetables to be shown at the Gulf Coast Fair. It lists numbered fluids that performed best on apples peaches grapes plums and mentions tomatoes and beans in pods for tomorrow.

Cupid's Corner and Patchwork Fashions Stir Local Readers

A society page section highlights peasant inspired outfits with lace trims and patchwork designs, noting bold stripes and dots in summer wear. Cupid's Corner offers love advice from Miss Eros with reader questions on affection and dating etiquette.

August birthday children invited to party at Empire Theatre

The MOBILE ITEM notes Frances Curlow Pauline Thompson Robert Guthbert Willie Moody Marion McCarty Claire Combel Levetta Schreiner and others born August celebrate birthdays. It invites each child to bring five friends for a birthday picture party at the Empire Theatre this afternoon. Boys and girls born in August should send full names addresses and birthdates to the Children’s Editor at MOBILE ITEM two days before their birthday.

Frances D. Curlow S. Royal Pauline E. Thompson Old Shell Rd Robert C. Guthbert Mabilé Ala Willie D. Moody Marine St Marion McCarty N. Conception Claire Combel Levetta Schreiner Joachim the Item Empire Theatre

Calendar notes and social events across Mobile and surrounding towns

Calendar items list Society meetings and social events for the week including special lectures at the Battle House Parlor C, parties at Fort Morgan and Vineyard, hearts and bridge games, parliamentary law clubs, sororities, and church missions. It notes visits by locals from Pensacola Birmingham Atlanta Memphis and Whistler with various social engagements and park gatherings in Malcom and Lyons Park.

Speciallee Mobile Art Club Battle House Fort Morgan L. D. Daniele Gery L. D. Daniel Vineyard Misses Daniels Pensacola Gordon Burgett Hearts W. K. Syson Bridge Margaret Fearn Birmingham Craighead Parliamentary Law Club Cawthon Hotel Erwin Craighead Leoma Morse Missee Bellingrath Atlanta Philvalpha Phi Sorority

Multiple Local Movements and Visits Reported

Jackson residents report Bettie Phillips leaving for Meridian to visit relatives. J S Rikard rushes to Monroeville due to the death of Mrs. Rikard. Sherry visits in Yville while Flora Warner visits friends in Rhaneas. Picnics flourish at Well area. Joe Marie arrives to stay with her sister Angie. Baptist prayer meeting draws a large in crowd. fifty members pledge to attend next week. Mary Savage goes to visit sister Mrs. Belle.

Mia Angie Mary Savage Belle

Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Endorsed by Bridgeton Woman

A Bridgeton New Jersey resident Mrs Fannie Cooper reports improved health after using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. The letter touts the remedy as a safe non narcotic treatment for female ailments and invites others to seek confidential advice from the Pinkham company in Lynn Massachusetts.

Bridgeton N.J Lydia E. Pinkham Pinkham Laboratory Lynn Mass

The Woman Who Was Kind to Her Laundress

AS GARDNER was a modern woman who advocated equal suffrage and progressive ideas for women. The tale reveals her practical, systematic washday method via her laundress Mrs Gardner, including the use of an electric washer that saved effort and electricity.

Gardner

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