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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1914
Page
5
A romantic excerpt with imagery of a garden, roses, thrush song, lavender dusk, dawn, and longing. The speaker waits at a garlanded gate for a promised return, declaring repeated love and deep emotion. The language evokes timeless affection and poetic devotion.
A Mobile reporter challenges a claim that 100000 daily crosssings occur at Royal and Dauphin streets. Using streetcar data from Mobile Light and Railway, a statistician estimates tens of thousands pass Conti and St Emanuel daily, suggesting far fewer crossers than claimed.
A reflective passage contrasts love’s sudden, lasting imprint with hopeful future days. The speaker recalls heart’s golden memory transforming streets and avenues into places of beauty and possibility as happiness returns through loving acts.
Miss Dorothy Vaughan and Miss Lillian Vaughan hosted a luncheon at the Vineyard at 1 o'clock Monday in honor of Miss Betty Hagan. Pink Killarney roses decorated the oval table and two tall vases, with pink rose place cards marking seventeen places. A sweet souvenir completed the elegant affair for the younger set.
The luncheon featured seven color themed courses and a corsage bouquet of Kil larney roses for the honoree. Guests included Mises Margaret Blacksher, Mabel Hartwell, Marie Herman, Elise Beaven, Mary Knight Rush, Anna Belle Courtright, May Leatherbury, Eleanor Gray, Edna Manning, Edna Finch, Marguerite Finch, Pensacola residents Lorraine Cunningham, Brookie Poets, and Mrs Walter Higgins.
The Arch Club of the university held its first annual German dance in Clark Hall with many Tuscaloosa and Mobile society members in attendance. Leaders included Ben Walker Curry and Miss Marguerite Dickson of Mobile. guests and escorts listed among Mobilians and Mobile locals.
Cotton consumed in November totaled 420 663 bales, down from 456 356 last year, with four month total at 1 671 878 bales versus 1 843 064 previous year. On hand in factories 1 060 765 bales, independent warehouses 6 008 374. exports 760 929 versus 1 501 259 last year. Linters used 25 739 bales. spindles active 30 441 315. Names appearing include Miss Mamie Pake and Miss Inez Preston among others.
The Shakespeare Club held its regular weekly meeting Saturday morning at Mrs. C. J. Torrey's home. President Mrs. Harvey led, and Miss Alice Frazer, ill, was replaced by Mrs. T. W. Sims as recording secretary. Visitor Mrs. E. H. Flemming of New York attended. the planned paper on Every Woman was postponed to the next meeting.
The text poses questions on the structure and content of medieval morality plays, asking what most MORALITIES reflect, what The Vice represents, and the dramatic function of allegory, plus a note on a familiar 1678 reminder of morality plays and their presentation style.
Mrs C B Moody returns from Mobile where she stays with her mother Mrs R G Gaines and plans months with her daughter Mrs C V Austin. Mrs Sam Esihold of Mobile arrives to spend a few days with her daughter Mrs Leo J Drum. Mrs Cedric Broach of Beatrice Miss visiting Miss Carrie Broach. Mrs Walter Shepard and her son James return from Mobile after a few days with her mother Mrs Crenshaw. Mrs James Money Vardaman of Jackson accompanies her son to Mobile honeymoon en route to resorts.
Mrs Winston Jones hosts the Women’s Music Club at her home at eight o’clock. The Mobile Chapter D A R holds a business meeting at 3 30 in the Colonial room of the Cawthorn Hotel.
In Chicago on December 14, old fashioned love matches won over eugenics as Illinois women closed their first legislative congress. Mrs Lydia Avery Coonley Ward urged lovers to marry as in her youth, swaying delegates away from health certificate proposals for daughters while some supported grooms’ health checks.
A Chanukah program arranged by Dr. A. G. Moses for the temple’s Sabbath school drew a full B’rith Hall audience. The children performed the play Chanukah Evening with songs prayers and recitations led by Theodore Stein Mendel Cohen Fauline and Bertha Klein. Refreshments from temple ladies followed in the lower hall.
Baton Rouge, Dec. 14. F. Miller of Tensas parish sought to know if a unopposed Democratic nominee for the ward school board is elected when no votes are cast for or against him. He received several votes but none on the ballot. no one could give an authoritative answer.
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