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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1912
Page
5
Birthday predictions say you will make many friends and gain tactful success. Those born today will attract personalities and be well liked. Many people will be willing to make sacrifices for you. Your value and fortune are described as generally favorable.
Society items announce two weddings at Trinity and 352 State Street with receptions and subsequent social events. The big ceremony pairs Miss Annie Eloise Stanton and Mr. Frederick Ashton Burch at high noon, with extended family and New Orleans plans for a honeymoon. Engagements include Sadie Ellen Morse to John Brean Paul Morse with a December 28 wedding planned.
Margaret Hubbard Ayer discusses beauty in business and motherhood. Harriet E. Gifford argues that a woman's beauty peaks when she succeeds in business and again in motherhood, likening maternal beauty to classical depictions of the Madonna and noting public perceptions of working women.
The engagement of Miss Loris Pincus, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Pincus, to Mr. Rube Levy of Philadelphia, is announced to the Jewish society. The surprise greets the community as a notable union within social circles.
Mr. Minor Friend and Mr. Marion Robbins hosted a bachelor apartment gathering in the Colonial building Whilkinsburg with six couples enjoying college fudge and chafing dish delicacies. Mrs. Albert Thayer hosted an afternoon tea for Miss Nina Baer of Baltimore with a dozen guests. A wedding followed at Trinity church as Sumter Wilson married Iradell L. Dwyer with a single attendant and a reception at the Owens home.
The marriage of Wade Frank Jernigan and Frances Hodges Bowen took place quietly yesterday at the J. Strand home due to a bereavement in the groom’s family. Rev. Wyatt Brown officiated as the bride wore brown whip cord with a matching Tam O’Sheanter and a pink and white floral decor framed the scene. Mrs. Strand attended as the bridesmaid, in Kings blue, carrying pink bouquets, with Mr. Strand as best man and an informal reception following.
In Paris on December 18, Frederick Frieske Oscar Miller and Charles Hawthorne lost valuable artworks valued at about 40 000 in a blaze that gutted their Boulevard Saint Jacques studios. The fire followed a gas engine explosion in a soda water factory on the building’s ground floor.
In Indianapolis 40 defendants in the dynamite conspiracy trial await jury deliberation as the defense and prosecution prepare four days of argument plus final instructions from Judge Anderson. The trial has seen about 750 witnesses testify.
Georgia mill employers may not require more than ten hours of work daily except to make up lost time. A child under twelve cannot be employed unless the child has a widowed mother, disabled father, or is an orphan. no child under ten may be employed.
Francis A. Groff, twenty five, magazine writer and journalist, may have fatally fallen or jumped from a seventh story window in Los Angeles. She landed on a one story roof, suffering multiple fractures and a fractured skull. Her father, Lewis A Groff, a lawyer, says she had no reason to attempt suicide.
Judge Anderson overruled all motions to instruct acquittals after 22 000 pages of testimony. He said only a shadow of doubt remained for James Cooney of Chicago and Frank J Murphy of Detroit and possibly others, leaving verdicts to the jury.
Arthur See, convicted of abducting Mildred Bridges, was released on a $5,000 bond yesterday pending appeal to the supreme court. Bridges and Mona Rees, fellow member of See s absolute life cult, met him as he left jail where he had been held over a year.
In Reno on Tuesday Mrs Julia Griffen testified to extreme cruelty and obtained a divorce from Benjamin Griffen a wealthy New York glass manufacturer. The case moved quickly from filing to trial behind closed doors. Griffen was once married to Miss Julia Ely niece of former New York City mayor Smith Ely and to Major Charles A Smilie before Griffen.
Boys along the Los Angeles river bed discovered 200 sticks of dynamite about 75 feet from the east river police station. Police investigation shows the explosive was 75 percent nitro-gelatin and was untouched by the public.
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