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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1912
Page
5
Horoscope notes forties and blessings on pathways for those born today. Ambitions high with material advancement possible aided by relatives yet hindered by others. Mood swings may occur and require encouragement from someone supportive.
Society notes describe a wedding Reynolds Hoearin at the home of Col and Mrs Dnh Burgess at 11 o clock with nearby social events. Other items include a Shakespeare Club gathering with Mrs Torrey at 11 am and a luncheon for Miss Cunningham at 1 30 pm at Miss Leatherburys home.
Morrison Tennessee resident John Finger describes a year long battle with severe acne and eczema. He reports relief after using Cuticura Soap and Ointment, with progressive clearing after about a month. The testimonial notes availability worldwide and free samples via Cuticura Dept T Boston.
Little Esther Reynolds plans a Little Boy Blue birthday dinner for Jean Rutherford Bowden at the Vineyard at 1 oclock. An informal Christmas party at 7 to 10 p m honors Josephine Harris home from the Convent of the Visitation with her parents Dr and Mrs Seale Harris. Guests include Mrs S A Dorgan Progressive Club hostess and others, with a yuletide tree and gifts for all.
The Mobile Elks began rehearsals for a charity minstrel show to be staged January 7 and 8. About forty performers attended, with another rehearsal planned tomorrow afternoon at 3 oclock at the club rooms, when all parts are signed and the full company is expected.
Henry Richard Luscher appears in the Elks Minstrels with eight end men six soloists and a forty piece phacua plus a big orchestra. Dancing acts main feature this year include a plantation routine with twenty four dancers and singers and special scenery costumes and lighting. The cast praises the music as the best line of songs yet in the production.
John Williams, head of the Tuscarosa Indians at Lockport New York, was fatally injured and his 16 year old son killed when, in a drunken frenzy, he fired a shotgun at a dynamite box inside his Tuscarosa reservation home. The explosion wrecked the house and injured two other Indians.
Philip Deringer and Oscar Merrill escaped serious harm when their auto delivery truck was struck by a Gulfport and Mississippi Coast Traction Company car on Christmas morning near the Northern feed store on West Howard avenue Biloxi Mississippi.
The passage credits Messrs Tompkins Overby Mighell R L Douglass W H Monk Jr and Dr Henry Goldthwaite with efforts. It notes P W Tompkins J T Overby and Joseph Mighell as the main illumination organizers. Ned the sexton receives noted praise for his general role.
Attendees at the Alabema Maternity and Infants Home reception praised the program and staff. Mayor Laz Scholarn and Commissioners Pat Lyons Harry Pillans were present as the home is hailed as a leading U S maternity care institution. The event featured student performances and musical recitations. A brief note mentions the founder and long-time superintendent, St Vitolenlonu, with a transition to post as leader. Reformulated obituary note reports Very Rev Louis Estevenon S S S, Superior General of the Fathers of the Blessed Sacrament, died in Rome after a private cable notice.
A buggy carrying red Bowers daughter of a contractor and Leon Glover of Omaha was struck by a freight train yesterday at a crossing, both likely fatally injured.
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