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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1913
Page
14
Mobile awakens to a world of carnival echoing New Orleans with glowing lights and mystic queens. Processions, pageantry, and magical scenes transform the city into fairyland as crowds revel before Lent.
If this is your birthday in material things you will prosper but some illness or disappointment will occur among those dear to you. Those born today will be successful in their undertakings but may neglect friends leading to loneliness and domestic unhappiness.
A clipped social calendar from February detailing coronation events at Riverside Presence Chamber and related balls luncheons and receptions. Includes Infant Mystics German Relief parade observations and gatherings at Battle House Colonial Dames Athelstan Club KO R events and Felix Ill homage with multiple hostesses and locations.
Social set crowds Mobile’s Battle House for Felix III's French carnival ball honoring queen Wefel. Guests in formal attire attend bridge and hearts, with prizes for top games and a later lavish supper in the Rathskeller.
Miss Annie Louise BE Raefield hosted a Saturday informal card afternoon. Luncheon featured a violet and daffodil table arrangement with four debutantes and the hostess seated at the center. The maids left after lunch for a court rehearsal, and Hobart and Taylor won corsage bouquets as consolation for missing.
Second in a series in The Mobile Item outlines auction bridge terms. It details scores for grand slam and little slam, game thresholds, honor scoring, revokes penalties, and procedures for revokes, prompts for correcting renounces, and rules about dummy and declarer plays.
Notices describe a meeting for Society Almanac participants at German Relief Hall with Miss Rosa Coates and discussion of important business. It also chronicles Mrs. Bly hosting a sister’s compliment to Mrs. Peck of Louisville with a rosy luncheon, prizes, and gifts.
The tale recounted the carnival’s beginnings in ancient Rome with Mrs. D. B. Dobbs guiding the narration. Miss Louise Heustis contributed a version about the carnival at Nice, enriching the program with vivid historical context.
Dr. James Glenn Gilchrist and Miss Louise Ellen Daly wed at 9 p.m. on a Saturday anniversary of the bride’s parents in Mobile. The ceremony in Lafay ette street and Lexington avenue featured pink and white décor, Arch ie Huggins singing, and Clyde Gilchrist as best man. The couple plans a Brantley and Holt honeymoon before settling in Holt, Ala. Mr. Daly Sr. serves as adjutant of Raphael Semmes Camp UCV in Mobile.
Friday’s highlight was a heart party given by Miss Christina Lewis at 3:30 p m for her cousin Miss Helen Harris Chute of Kokomo Indiana. Rooms were decorated with entwined hearts in green and red roses gathered around the dining table under red tapers. Guests arrived for the event as the article notes continuation on Page Three.
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