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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1913
Page
5
Society notes detail the Feminine World Mothers Club meeting led by Miss Nannie Baker on the Browning text “Unconscious Influence” from Pippa’s. Fifteen listeners heard the talk while three visitors attended, with music by Miss Jeter and sandwiches served afterward.
The column lists Mrs Fried Mobile’s gifted violinists and the departure of her orchestra, upcoming and past visits by Misses Lillie Garrett Harriet Fitts Lucille Lyons Leona Morse, and local gatherings in Mobile including a Whinon honor party with music and games at Miss Gladys Monaghan’s home.
Mrs. Verna Wilkes of Plattsburg Mississippi reports ill health and nervous trouble improved by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound leading to a healthy baby and a happier home. The ad claims the product can restore motherhood by balancing feminine health and offers confidential guidance from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co in Lynn Massachusetts.
Cable reports to the American Bible Society and the Methodist Foreign Mission Board say the Rev Karl Hansen was killed in Chile by a workman. No further details are provided in the messages.
Rev. Father Christopher Schiesi a veteran Passionist missionary in the Congregational Church of Passionists drowned while bathing in Lake Erie near Dunkirk New York yesterday. He was born in Buffalo sixty five years ago and was widely known across the United States.
J. J. Manning of the C. J. Gayfer Co. has returned from a business trip to New York. Bernard Baum of the Baum Clothing Company has returned from a two week visit to Montgomery, his former home.
Frank Riggley Brown son of Maryland’s former governor denies plans to remarry his ex wife who divorced him in 1909. Brown wed Miss Mabel Michael in New York on October 26 1996, but the marriage ended in three years by court action.
The Annex Home Company a real estate concern run largely by women faced involuntary bankruptcy in federal court with creditors claiming 775000 liabilities and 25000 assets. Judge Holt appointed Eugene L Paroda as receiver as the firm’s female led offices confront new masculine management.
George Kleine's famous photo play Quo Vadis ends a successful week at the Lyric with matinee for ladies and children and a night performance. Matinee and night seats range from twenty-five cents to fifty cents, with all seats reserved and on sale.
Smithy Brothers and Company Limited of New Orleans was declared bankrupt by a federal court jury with a deficit exceeding one million dollars. Receivers have been appointed and a large English creditor holds claims.
Galveston Texas reports the drowning of W. Wright a retired capitalist formerly of Varna KL while he was bathing in the surf yesterday.
Helen, sobbing and hungry, endures Warren's silent treatment after their move to the Paris Hotel Ronceray. He returns furious, accuses her of taking control, and orders food late at night as their tension rises in the unfamiliar rooms.
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