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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1916
Page
3
Carrie Chapman Catt says more than 50,000 women will march to the Republican national convention hall in Chicago next June to press for a suffrage plank. She also plans a suffrage demonstration at the Democratic convention in St Louis next spring with a different form.
An advertisement claims ordinary mercorized wax applied like cold cream will remove rough skin blotches and freckles by shedding the outer layer. It promotes washing with a saxolite witch hazel solution and asserts the result is softer blemish free skin with a youthful glow.
A New Yorker with wide experience writes that the tobacco habit can be banished in three days with delightful benefit. Paiward J Woods offers a free mailed book detailing health gains after nicotine leaves the system. Calmness sleep appetite digestion vigor and memory improve as nervous tension eases.
A severe earthquake was logged on Georgetown University seismographs lasting over an hour. The heaviest shocks occurred between 7 01 and 7 03, about 4500 to 4600 miles from Washington, with movement east and west. Director Tondorf warned such a large event, if land based, would be heard.
Major Leonard Wood told Harvard College battalion that sentiment in the South supports federalizing the state militia. He cited unanimous approval from his trip. President A. Lawrence Lowell urged undergraduates to enroll in summer training camps. A woman’s remark hints at a forthcoming racier statement.
A short adv note promotes silmerine to make straight hair look naturally curly. It claims the product is harmless and non greasy, applied with a toothbrush before bed, and leaves hair soft glossy and wavy by morning.
Uncle Wiggily Longears helps Mother Goose by fetching water for Simple Simon's whale and carries secret Valentines from Jack and Jill. The old rabbit meets Jack hiding a verse on birch bark and Jill gifting a heart leaf, with both romance and playful mischief unfolding in a friendly woodland scene.
A nostalgic kids story scene where Jack and Jill tumble and Uncle Wiggily watches. Simple Simon gets water, and Mother Goose hosts a Valentine party for Sammie and Susie Littletail, Nannie and Billie Wagtail, goats, and animal friends. The tale promises more adventures with Uncle Wiggily and the crumpled-horn cow.
Ten miners are dead and a dozen others missing after a blaze broke out in the Pennsyl vania mine of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company in Butte Montana late last night. Rescue efforts claim two victims William Mitchell assistant foreman and Neil Brennan asphyxiated while attempting rescues on the six hundred foot level. Cause of the fire is not yet determined.
State Auditor M C Allgood sent a letter to Alabama tax collectors urging final settlements before July 1 or face a ten dollar per day penalty after July 1 for each day the taxpayer refuses to complete the cardina.
Law and Equity Court notes on Tuesday proceedings dismissing I Stringfel low versus Bidwell for want of prosecution. Calls for Wednesday include Richards v Richards, Warren Savings Bank v Johnson, and others. Equity side shows verdict for plaintiff in Bixler v Travis and trials in Bohlin v McGowin. Equity Tuesday includes Dunn v Dunn with testimony ordered published.
The fifth annual session of the Woman's Missionary Society of the Alabama Conference begins at Government Street Methodist Church tonight with devotional services, vocal numbers, an address of welcome, and a social hour. The program continues February 16 with morning sessions, executive meetings, and various reports and institute work.
A Mobile Item notice lists children born in February with names and ages inviting them to a birthday picture party at the dent. Tickets mailed. Community events follow including Chautauqua Circle and Grace Bestor Bible Class meetings this afternoon at 4.00. The Woman's Musical Club holds rehearsal ahead of a Clara Schumann concert on the 22nd.
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