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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1913
Page
5
Social calendar lists Berney Hartel bridal party rehearsals at 3 p m and a Settlement Home Christmas tree event at 8, followed by a Mysteries dance at German Relief Hall. S C S plans a grand Christmas tableau December 25 at Battle House with masked pageantry and a near closing of cars at 9.
The Barton class of 1912 plans a reunion at 3 30 PM on Saturday December 7 in the same venue as past gatherings. Organizers invite all alumni to attend and reconnect with former classmates.
The Cowan family hosts a double birthday gathering on Tuesday December 23 at 4 30 pm in Dauphin Way to mark Isabel Cowan and Pat Cowan. Jordon Burgett names January 2 for a holiday time dance. Debutantes Misses Annetta and Lelia McMillan are honored at a function on January 6.
An upcoming debutante event is announced for January ninth with details and participant names to be provided later.
Mrs. Sydney Robbins will host a holiday week gathering at the suburban home Rosemere inviting guests to attend The event aims to showcase charitable or social activities during the season at the Robbins residence Rosemere in the suburbs.
Three railway workers narrowly escaped death when a span of a railway bridge collapsed into the Savannah River in Augusta Georgia. Two locomotives and four freight cars plunged into the water as engines and cars collided in darkness. all three men were rescued and none seriously injured.
A Carolina game warden intended to arrest Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt and Mrs. Francis Madoo, as indicated by the report above.
Corning, N Y December 22 Santa Claus will arrive by aeroplane with gifts for city children. The Corning Business Men's Association hired a Bath aviator to pilot the flight and distribute presents as he flies over the streets.
Mrs Hannah Gordon Watson, widow of a former American consul in China, was charged at Bow Street with obtaining hotel credit under false pretenses. The $40 case involved four children and two valises. She asked embassy aid and was remanded on bail of 250 dollars. she hails from New Hampshire.
Mentions Mr. Minor Friend and Mr. John Randolph Bolling at home for the holidays. The first, a Westinghouse man, will depart soon for Bloomfield New Jersey for a new post, while the latter, a University of Alabama alumnus, returns to Tuscaloosa after the holidays.
Tomorrow at twelve o'clock a charming and beloved young couple will be married in this city. The engagement has been a sweet open secret among friends and a romantic surprise to their large circle of acquaintances. Mr. Marvin Gould has arrived from New Orleans to spend holidays with his parents in Mobile. Miss Theodocia Dobbs, formerly at Agnes Scott College, is among the prettiest holiday home-comers.
Miss Mabelle Biggart a New York born lecturer and writer travels from Denmark to advocate Grundtvidism and a cross and crown movement aimed at uplifting America. She urges wealthy women to fund teaching missions aid mountain communities supply books clothes and home furnishings and improve childbearing conditions.
The annual report shows United States church gifts totaling $20,000,000, about $20 per member. The small clergy increase mainly comes from other Christian bodies, while candidate numbers actually fall.
London observer reports English aviator Robert Bertram Sie a well known figure was killed in an automobile accident in London and St Albans yesterday. The accident shocked the aviation community and authorities began inquiries into the crash.
Sara Memphis and Stuart Wheeler join Frances Willard in Mobile as she gathers data for her volume In and Out of Beaten Paths. The eighties bright coterie member and world traveler remains active in ethnology archaeology sociology and literature. Willard plans further research across the inter mountain region and noted travel sketches and regional studies in her work.
In Hermosillo Sonora on December 22, the Tenth Battalion of the Federal Garrison at Guayamas was executed at sunrise after officers and sergeants plotted to desert to the insurgents. They were disarmed days earlier by General Ojeda, the federal commandant, and shot in a judicial proceeding described as extensive.
Helen agonizes as a hurried dinner for Warren and Fred’s sister Carrie spirals from planned 7 to 6 30, leaving Nora flustered and the table mishandled. Clam broth scorches, spoons misused, and napkins forgotten as the train looms and tensions rise.
A linotype operator rewrites a line about a civil engineer and an engine, hinting at deeper knowledge. The speaker urges backing up and choosing a different path, claiming life would be meaningful if this choice is heeded.
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