The Christmas Card and Holiday Preparations Feature
A column mix of seasonal sayings on gifts and Santa, then a history of Christmas cards from London and their evolution. Includes recipes for cakes and pastries such as Lemon Delights and Hermits, plus hat fashions with fur and steel trims and a note on baby sizing. Also notes on steel ornaments and new glove styles. A brief item reports the United States liner released from Clyde, and a closing quip on hobble skirts ending.
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Santa Claus
London
Jabot effect drapery shapes modern skirts
The jabot effect dominates skirt drapery with back volants and an odd loose coat over mulberry silk gowns. Straight lines fade except in simpler tailor suits, while under blouses chiffon or Georgette crepes a silver or gold corset cover with lace trim rises as a new trend.
Turkey Shoot Planned by Mobile Gun Club Members
The Mobile Gun Club will hold a turkey shoot Wednesday at 1:30 PM on Carlin Avenue grounds. Secretary Bob Neville Jr has provided twelve turkeys. Participants shoot from scratch with no handicaps. The eleven high guns win a fine bird each. the lowest score wins the twelfth bird as a booby prize. Entrance is fifty cents. targets cost one cent each. The event spans two twenty-five bird rounds.
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Mobile Gun Club
Carlin Avenue
Bob Neville, Jr
Cabbage Planting Expands in Mobile Area
W C Bromley reports that Mobile and adjacent counties are planting more cabbage. Sweet potatoes and yams are being held for a better market. In Baldwin county one town has stored over four thousand bushels for spring sale. Both crops will be marketed through the Gulf Coast Exchange.
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Mobile
W. C. Bromley
Gulf Coast Produce Exchange
Baldwin County
Gulf Coast Exchange
Total British losses in Serbia stated at 1278
London reports total British casualties from the Saloniki expedition into Serbia were 1278 with one officer and 85 other ranks killed. Harold Tennant told the House of Commons that losses were narrowly distributed among ranks.
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London
Serbia
House of Commons
Harold Tennant
K C C Turkey Festival in Mobile Monday Night
The annual Turkey Festival of Mobile Council 666 Knights of Columbus will be held at the council hall Monday night at 7 30. Members and friends are invited and refreshments will be served after the turkeys are raffled.
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Mobile Council 666
Knights of Columbus
Council Hall
Freckles at Lyric Mobile Theater Promises Moving Song Play
The Lyric Mobile's Quality Theatre hosts the Broadway Amusement Company production of Freckles next Thursday with a matinee at 3 and a night show at 8 15. The adaptation brings Gene Stratton Porter’s tale to life with a strong cast, singing, and a focus on doing right against temptation. Seat sales are active at the Lyric Theatre box office.
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Gene Stratton
Broadway Amusement Company
Lyric Theatre
Joseph Sheehan
Lyric
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Alliance of
Fur and
Young Popjoy
Smith
New York
United States
Christianiana
Clyde
Bell
Greenwick
Goldstein
Cadillac
Lozier
Thomas
Oldsmobile
Stoddard Dayton
Great Western
Cadillac Motor Co
Motor Mart
Chautauqua Circle
Cawthon Hotel
GUN Club
THE
Lyric Mobile
Quality Theatre
Gene Stratton Porter
Lyric Box Office
Cash
Coats
L. Hammel Dry Goods Company
Van’s
Huyler’s
Mary Garden
Norris
CPOE
Hammel
Hammel’s
Lola Dixon
Dixon
Hill Avenue
Highland
Crichton
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