2 it For Swim
A brief entry notes a swim event titled 2 it For Swim and references related program details. The fragment presents an athletics context with possible sponsor or organization marks but lacks complete data for full itemization.
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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1916
Page
5
A brief entry notes a swim event titled 2 it For Swim and references related program details. The fragment presents an athletics context with possible sponsor or organization marks but lacks complete data for full itemization.
A garbled fragment mentions a tree involved in a safety event and a plunge into an unspecified place. Names, dates, and clear details are unreadable, but the core note references a tree incident and a safety concern.
Three obituaries appear: Mrs. Sarah J. Slack aged 80 died at her daughter’s home on Pine Street. Sidney Pugh Lee, 12, died at his Cottage Hill home after two weeks illness. Thomas Edward Eanes, 19, died after a long illness and was a St. Vincent’s parish member. burials set for Pleasant Valley and Magnolia cemeteries respectively.
Mrs Anna Gambrel of Whistler Mobile county died Wednesday afternoon at 4 30 o clock after a long illness. She is survived by numerous relatives in Whistler and Mobile. The remains were taken by Roche Burke to York Alabama Thursday for interment.
Mrs Erice Ann All man's funeral was held Wednesday at 3 pm from the family home in Crichton with many attendees. The Baptist arch Mr Vaughan led the service and burial followed at Pine Crest cemetery with pallbearers W D Hamilton W A Copeland Harry Keener G Copeland John Carter and Jacob All man.
Miss Eveline Cave and Ebenezer Mann were wed in Cadhill Maryland in a simple ceremony. The couple celebrated with family and friends as neighbors noted the union in this local society note.
Robert Gardner of Chicago, last summer's national amateur golf champion, to wed Miss Katherine Keep of Chicago. The couple met at a golf club during a tournament and began their romance. Gardner also set a pole vault world record at Yale, praised as having Greek God features by a woman author.
Shipping entries show vessels in port with owners and operators including Vease 1 POR EMD Livietta G Northwestern CARLY Crisp line and others. Names such as Florence Créadick Carrie Strong Thalassa and Josephine appear with tonnage routes to Mallory and Munson lines.
The Edgar W Murdock will depart for Pensacola while Leopold II sails to Queenstown with Belgian relief cargo. Fort Gaines heads to Belize. Annetta set to return to Santa Marta. Carrie Strong and Margaret B Rouss load lumber and slumber exports, City of Mobile unloads resin cotton and staves with passengers, Widwad loads lumber for export. Fog bell repair noted and Rotary Club meeting rescheduled for 7 30 pm at Cawthon Vineyard chaired by Mrs Palmer Pillans.
New York reports that wartime changes spark a corset market expansion. Daniel Kops, president of the Corset Manufacturers Association, says American corset makers now sell large quantities abroad where worn, citing admiration for American women and foreign visits.
City of Mobile adopts a new tariff for wharfage rates on goods using municipal wharves. The ordinance fixes rates per hundred pounds across items from agricultural implements to livestock and machinery, with a five cent minimum and prepayment requirement.
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