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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1915
Page
6
The piece sketches a suffrage day scene with a vivid domestic vignette about a woman’s assumed roles to critique voting ability. It also notes a Capitol debate on suffrage with supporters from across the state expected and a social column detailing local gatherings, visits, and receptions featuring Mobile and Montgomery figures and events around Fort Morgan and Bay View.
A noted scientist blames refining and polishing for loss of minerals in present day foods. He links malnutrition and diseases like tuberculosis and indigestion to mineral starvation. Examples include blowheat and polished rice with far lower mineral content, brown sugar, and other refined staples. Vitalitas advertised as a tonic.
Personal mentions list Henry Langburger and Lawrence Sackes visiting from Biloxi en route to Pelee staying with Mr. Jessenss on Hamilton Street for winter. L H Marx family to move to 565 Church Street. Arline Griffin sails to Memphis then St Louis with Mrs Woodruff. Lawrence Stokes returns from Mobile Biloxi visit. Susie Melton back from relatives at Clear. Lucile Green back in Mobile after Gaines visit. Marguerite Nabers guest of Margaret Chenoweth at Kanauga Lake.
Whistler Alabama Mizpah Lodge No 22 Brotherhood Railway Carmen of America holds a regular meeting at 7 30 p m with local chairman George Goleman delivering the official report on grievances. Several residents travel to visit relatives and return home, while others plan trips to Birmingham Cincinnati Houston and New Orleans. A Whistler baseball club meeting is planned at President Clarence Tates residence and local residents are noted returning from Fairhope and Birmingham with a resignation in the car department to move to Laurel.
A columnist reflects on the pros and cons of beauty from a correspondence. He considers the burdens and attentions tied to being pretty, the imagined longing of plainness, and whether he would choose to be plain if given the chance. The piece ends with a question about personal preference.
On Sunday next, W L Hinson president of the third district of the Mobile County Sunday School Association and M B Holmes district temperance superintendent will visit Bethany Sunday school in Whistler. Frank A Lyle returns to Prichard from Whistler and Frank Johnston returns home to Pensacola after visiting Prichard. Jesse Gilpin of Houston returns home after staying with relatives here. Mrs Chester Chandler and daughter Blanche and son Herman spend the day with Mrs Bryars in Plateau.
Miss Ethel Martin enjoyed a pleasant day with Miss Eunice Yost. Miss Ethel Seabury visits relatives in Whistler. Mrs. A. L. Rush stayed with Mrs. George McCoy. Miss Rachel Cunningham returned from Fairhope visit with Miss Irma Rosse. Mrs. Jim Vann visited Mrs. Crawford Crichton. Miss Bessie Cunningham travels to Biloxi then Collins. Mrs. B. S. Vaughn visited Miss Susie Winters. Claudie Marie Betrix and grandmother with Miss Susie and Tom Winters. Mrs. Morrison and Grace hosted by Mrs. Oliver Hume. Johnnie Winters returns to Fairhope after summer visit.
The Interstate Casualty Company sues the Serio Turpen Time Cup Company in the law and equity court for 173.57 due by promissory note. Attorney F. J. Inge represents the plaintiff. The Strauss Pritz Company, by attorney F. J. Inge, sues Peter F. Martin for 159 alleged due by account.
Selma Alabama moves report on Thomas M Campbell district agent and assistants conducting movable school under Smith Lever bill with J F Duggar Auburn director. Meetings held Dallas county at Central Mills and Shepherdsville with large crowds including Forkland and Cedarville. Officials note strong interest in soils nutrition sanitation and home economics.
The Mobile Item congratulates Natalia Rasmus Crichton born August 26 1904 aged 11 and invites them to host a birthday picture party at the Empire Theatre this afternoon. Tickets mailed. August born boys and girls should send full names addresses and birthdates to the Children's Editor Mobile Item at least two days before their birthday.
H J Clark formerly district superintendent of the Pullman Palace Car Company with HQ in New Orleans is promoted to division superintendent for Mobile and New Orleans territory with headquarters in Houston Texas. While in town on Tuesday he received a silver mounted fountain pen from the negro employees in the Mobile yards as a token of appreciation for his kindness and courtesies. Presentation was made by N Cockrell, yard force foreman.
A series of property transfers include Minnie B Mobley to Realty Investment Company Lot 12 Satsuma Park. Dandridge Howell to Dandridge Howell Jr Lot 2 Smith Overall subdivision. Henry Kohm to Realty Investment Co Lot 12 Satsuma Park. H M Friend to Robert Higgins Lot 5 Block C Neely Place. Gulf Coast Fruit Farmers Corp to Andrew Mueller Lot 8 Block 112 and Block 49 Sub 6 Township 2S R1W. Andrew Zimlich et al to J D Palmer Lots 4 5 Block 1 Zimlich Strauss Subdivision Mobile. Sam Pouncey to J L Young Lots 3 4 6 Block 9 Crary AL. Avie Farnell to Mary C Farnell Lands Blocks 29 30 31 Township 4S Range 1W 39 acres.
On Sunday August 29 the winter mass schedule resumes at St Matthew's Church with masses at 7:00 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. Weekday masses are at 7:00 a.m. Confessions begin Saturday at 4:00 p.m. and occur every morning before masses.
Emma Dolittle, declared insane by a jury and refused admission to Mt. Vernon’s state asylum, is back at the county jail after pellagra treatment and delirium at the city hospital. Judge Edington ordered a ten day jail commitment to provide a place for her care.
Vice President and General Manager E H Chapman of the Southern Railway, based in Washington, led an annual inspection trip to Mobile with officials E H Shaw of Atlanta J H Stanfield of Birmingham and B Seeee of Washington visiting yards docks and terminals.
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