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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1916
Page
6
Mobile society pages discuss a potential shift back to sandals to replace tight boots amid leather shortages. readers warned against pointed heels and offered home foot care tips, while social events, weddings, debates, and visits across Mobile and nearby towns fill the section with portraits of local residents and family news.
Poem urges seeing angels in everyday life and tasks. It praises lightened mornings and hopeful vision, calling for reverence of homely duties, familiar faces, and domestic joys as doors to heaven.
Miss Marion Clarke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Clarke, celebrated her sixteenth birthday with a memorable dance at Lyons Park last night. A stringed orchestra provided the music for the enjoyable event.
The article urges avoiding heavy soaps and shampoos that dry the scalp and make hair brittle. It recommends ordinary refined coconut oil as a pure, greaseless cleanser. one to two teaspoons cleanses hair and scalp, rinses easily, removes dust dirt dandruff and oil, leaving hair soft bright and manageable. Coconut oil is cheap and widely available at pharmacies.
The note requests an article on dieting to thin and book recommendations for safe reduction, followed by a practical skincare tip. It discusses mailing a list of books and cautions about using heavy creams on oily skin. A reply suggests a light cleansing cream and washing with soap and hot water to remove surface oils.
British Prime Minister Asquith and France's Briand led a Calais meeting with finance ministers and Bank of France officials to finalize agreements on payments abroad and maintaining exchange. Other attendees included Ribot Fallain Homberg and McKenna Montague Woo, plus Bank of England and treasury representatives.
Miss Elizabeth Anderson of Mobile will spend the weekend in Pensacola with a bright social scene ahead. A party to Floridatown is to be chaperoned by Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Hyer including guests Boykin Wyer Dan Reilly Preston Avery of Atlanta George Owen Lamartine Lamar Horace Grant George Malone and Misses Robbie Hyer Elizabeth Bronson Judith Maxwell Grace Owen Elizabeth Anderson Jane Dunham Fannie Grant. A lavender correspondence card souvenir will be presented to the honoree. A beauty ad promotes Hagan Magnolia Balm with a free sample offer.
Miss Katherine Maer of Columbus entertains Gordon and Eleanor Burgett and stays as their guest on Old Shell road. Mrs. Hopkins Fitzpatrick visits Witheville Virginia for a month. J W Parker and Willie Suthoff of Escatawpa in Mobile this week. Col Thomas C McCorvey visits son Gessner T McCorvey and Thomas M Stevens in Mobile. Beulah Brown returns home after summer at Mobile. Mrs H K Collins travels to Berkeley Virginia to visit daughter Addie Lord and Nan Collins. Mr and Mrs G W Allday of Vinegar Bend visit. Florence Dolive of Montrose recovering from measles. Anna B Hail and Kenneth back from Mobile. Dumas family returns to Mobile from Foley. J C Maclay back from Mobile. Allen Hood of St Louis visits Cowan family. Graydon Carter of Mobile visits parents. Herbie Pendola visiting uncle Marcus Pendola in Mobile. Maude Davis of Escatawpa visits Mobile with Ferill, then returns. Denham and son return to Birmingham from Dothan. Norma Bouet visits Jennie Montgomery in Gadsden. L W Moore attends family reunion in Lockhart. Bessie Rencher and guests Mary Warren and Douglas Brown of Jackson spend day in Biloxi. L H Horn travels to Tate Springs. Patterson returns home.
Fingerprint experts at the U S Marine Corps headquarters report men with long tapering piano fingers are apt to desert after short service while those with stubby digits show stability and loyalty. Desertions are light overall but actors sign writers and waiters top the list of deserters.
Virginia goes into effect at 12 01 am with a statewide quarantine against infantile paralysis. No person under sixteen from New York New Jersey or Pennsylvania may enter Virginia unless a resident. Returning Virginians under sixteen may come home if uninfected but face two weeks quarantine. Transporters face joint liability and penalties for violations.
New York reports a continued decline in infantile paralysis with 22 deaths and 94 new cases in the 24 hours to 10 am, the lowest in a month. Health experts express growing confidence that the disease is being controlled after yesterday's 31 deaths and 109 cases.
In Jefferson City on August 25 the state public service commission granted the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company authority to issue bonds totaling 194 million dollars and preferred stock totaling 9.45 million dollars along with common stock of 48 million dollars. The filing noted road obligations outstanding as of July 2, 1917, plus other fees totaling 321 thousand 674 dollars and 86 cents.
Morning notes from Daphne show Mrs J Julian Bartee hosting a short visit. Miss Mattie Vaughan stays with Mrs Flatter in Wait Ala for a few weeks. Mort I Bixler of Mobile visits for Gulf Coast Fair business. J Priestly Orme from Atlanta stops in Mobile and stays at Battle House. F S Buffum of New York visits Mobile on business. R C Wentworth family guests of Gulfcrest relatives. Mae Seeley returns from Citronelle visit.
Mobile County Tick Eradication Association plans a three member delegation to a Saturday conference with the Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners. Cattle owners opposing enforcement will attend. The group met at the Cawthon Hotel and urged strict enforcement while arguing county funds were well spent. Speakers included R. V. Taylor Matt Mahorner Jr and George A. Maloney.
The Commercial Cable Company urged the Interstate Commerce Commission that Western Union charges full rates for delivering deferred cabl egraphs to interior points not connected by Postal Telegraph, while offering half rates to Marconi Wireless and Central and South American Telegraph. Reparation of 8088 dollars is requested. It is also charged that Western Union applies full rates to the French cable company.
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