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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1915
Page
7
The Mobile Equal Sa ge Association will hold its semi monthly meeting Tuesday evening at Lyons Park pavilion. Mrs Martin Holbrook will deliver an address on Womens Place. The piece also notes Julia Tutwiler celebrated her 74th birthday and discusses an article on Soup versus Crackers highlighting caloric content and nutrition.
A vintage inquiries page shows Miss Eros offering love guidance to readers, including a heartbroken widow seeking help with an engineer and a teenage pair seeking advice. The column emphasizes not pressuring suitors and suggests shifting attention to other interests.
Desperate Chances from The Diamond From the Sky headlines at the Empire with Lottie Pickford and Irving Cummings. The Limited’s Peril features Helen Holmes in a top railroad picture. Hearst-Selig News Pictorial offers scenes abroad and at home. Admission five cents. Wednesday features Frank Daniels in Crooky at ten cents, five for children. Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic is advertised.
The advice suggests Madelinde and Josie remain friends and avoid jealousy. It tells them the boy likely sees both as friends, and to treat male attention as friendship at their age, preserving their bond for years.
Tuesday schedule lists story telling at Mobile Library and club gatherings at various times in Cawthon room Lyons Park and other venues. Wednesday features Lucille Lyon hosting a 600 party for Katherine Maer and a W C T U meeting plus a reception for Gladys Sims. Carstens-Southard wedding noted. Friday covers Craighead Parliamentary Law Club meeting. Wisconsin man cites Mobile County abundance as he buys land.
Mobile Chamber receives warning from National Vigilance Committee about crooks selling salvaged merchandise from a fictitious wreck of the Sultana valued at 345000. Anonym ous handbills say G J Campbell Co of New York will sell linens woolens and silks at deep discounts through agents. No wreck record or G J Campbell Co. exists.
The bulletin warns that goods are never delivered and peddlers operate widely across many cities. They may appear anywhere at any moment. Several have already been arrested and held for fraudulently advertising and selling.
A mass meeting in Oadale to back revenge islands from the state failed to convene after a legislative bill ended the need for the gathering. Organizers planned to endorse the movement but the bill halted further action.
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