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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1914
Page
9
The Order of Myths unveils a new insect and flower theme for its Mardi Gras parade, featuring seven floats with botanical and entomological motifs. Artists prepared elaborate diagrams, with the emblem float Folly and Death leading to a butterfly float and a red gold float with grand decorations and masked figures.
The parade route begins at State and St Joseph streets Tuesday night then moves south to Dauphin, west to Conception, north to St Francis, east to Royal, south to Government, west to Wilkinson, countermarch on Government to Dauphin, north to St Louis and St Joseph then north to St Louis Street. After the parade the Order of Myths holds its annual ball at Battle House Auditorium with reception committees listed. Floats include a colorfully illuminated Garden of Flowers scene with grasshoppers and roses, a Dragon Fly mechanical float, Sunflower float, and a Bee float with a lush flower garden and queen bee amid a beehive and bees.
The Comic Cow Boys parade, to be staged Tuesday afternoon behind the Knights of Revelry parade, features eight humorous floats. Boss Cow Boy Levin says the event cost thousands but promises public fun with a deep historical theme. Parade spectators are asked to relax, watch the mules, and ignore the parade while precinct committees hand out nursing bottles to children using a coded phrase.
Paris February 21 A new novelty at the Palais de Justice will offer telephone subscribers a small fee access to hear all debates at home. Plates are placed before the bar to encourage judges to be more just and intelligent. Other bands will parade with floats and marshals in mask and on horses.
A band gives itself thirty more days to serve after chickens disappear in Crichton. The event echoes the Knights of Revelry with a gathering at 1 PM. The route includes St. Joseph and St. Louis streets on Tuesday February 24 at high noon.
Consular offices plan to display the flags of their nations Monday and Tuesday in honor of Mardi Gras. Sixty five consular officials from about 27 nations will participate, reflecting good will among Mobile's foreign representatives amid carnival events. The German flag is shown at Nelson DuMont's office on St Michael Street.
Dr Charles M Coburn to tell at Atlant Bible Conference how his team found the world’s oldest shoes buried in sands of the Aras bilan desert near ancient Babylon. He will present a 48 inch necklace and other artifacts from the same civilization and discuss inscriptions dating to biblical times.
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