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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1915
Page
7
Excerpt shows a City Editor Anna Boulet column and a fictional exchange about how men stereotype women. The dialogue discusses women as mothers sisters sweethearts wives and playthings and the idea that a woman can be all of them. The text ends with an unfinished note about continued dialogue.
Eleanor Burch of the Camp Girls won the national championship for baseball throwing, achieving 244 feet 1 inch. Proceeds from new juvenile books by Len Smith Woodruff support The Birmingham Children's Hospital and related charities. Jane Addams referenced in Lake Upanguan banquet honors noted by Tuscaloosa News.
In a hospital scene Mollie and Margie confront Aunt Mary’s death as Jim Edie shows emotion. Margie debates love and duty with Jim while Dick’s reverence for the dead haunts her, and she privately admits a desire for unthinking irresponsibility.
A humorous pastiche argues marriage is not a lottery but an investment in love. The piece notes husbands invest deeply, losing freedom yet gaining partnership, while acknowledging risks and tales of wives applying the Nelson touch and staying awake regardless of timing.
President Bestor of Chautauqua presided at a dinner where Tom Garner presented Miss Addams and she gave a brief, inspiring talk. Bishop Vincent attended, offered grace and benediction, as officers of the class were named and portraits were shown.
A reader begs guidance about a long distance romance. She letters a young man who professed love, but she has not heard back for five weeks despite multiple attempts. The column closes with a blunt rejection that there is nothing she can do.
The article criticizes fad weight-gaining methods and promotes Sargol tablets as a reliable digestive aid. It claims the small non injurious pills assist digestion during meals, aiding conversion of food into flesh and filling out the cheeks and neck.
Sewing Circle with Mrs. Adolph Brown honors Clara Henley of Philadelphia at 4 p m. Elizabeth Dumas hosts a lingerie shower for Lotta ilar he. Louise McGuire plans a Fort Morgan trip for Gladys Sims. Alpha Phi Sorority meets at 4. Craighead Parliamentary Law Club at 5. Camp Fire Girls hold third Lyons Park meeting.
Riots near nightly due to the longshoremen strike in Biloxi Mississippi. A mob of about 200 headed for the Foster Fountain plant was dispersed by fifteen non union members wielding Winchester shotguns and other weapons. One arrest reported. Foster Fountain sent schooners to Louisiana marshes with non union crews.
Secretary Mort L. Bixler said the George county exhibit at the Gulf Coast Fair in Lucedale features corn and forage crops. He visited G. Luce's Mobile farm and noted the county fair will be held October 19 20 and 21 with strong displays from the area.
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