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Newspaper

The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Feb 25, 1916

Page

9

Program Planned for Baby Week Observance

Welfare committee met at Mrs. Hagan's home to plan Baby Week March 4 to 11 with a Mardi Gras focus. Three doctors and three nurses will staff a daily 8:30 to 5:30 baby test examining up to fifty infants each day. birth certificates required.

James R. Hagan Julius Goldstein Charlies Mohr D. T. McCall Mohr Hagan J. L. Ramsey J. O. Smith C. S. Shuford James O. Smith Truman Smith R. P. Pope Armistead Christian

Woman's World Meeting Tied to Hoo-Hoo Dinner Event

A Bell Phone home dinner and concatenation of the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo is set for Saturday night March 4 at the Cawthon Hotel. Organizers led by Mark H Lyons expect a large attendance and aim to break records. The arrangements committee includes Lyons Taylor Ray and Hervey. officers for the concatenation feature Marty Gaines Ray Lyons Taylor Adams Beardsley Jones.

Order of

Robbers Hold Up Northern Pacific Train East of Seattle

Deputies, Seattle and Tacoma police, and Northern Pacific agents search for two men who stopped the eastbound Northern Pacific train 25 miles east of Seattle last night. They rifled four pockets of registered mail bound for New York, failed to dynamite the safe, and escaped. The train was halted at 8:20 p.m. and remained stalled for hours.

Northern Pacific Seattle New York

Pennsylvania Girl Is Washington Visitor

A Pennsylvania girl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Skinner of Philadelphia, visits Washington and obtains certificates with no examination fee. The page also lists recipes for sandwiches and prune whip, fashion notes on spring styles, and a features on women’s activities including tax data and women professionals.

C. H. Skinner Philadelphia

Kilmer Swamp Root Praised In Medical Testimonials

A Mississippi style ad features medical testimonials for Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root claiming relief from kidney and stomach troubles. Included are notarized statements from E C Mendenhall of McNeil Arkansas and J H McCormack of Johnson City Tennessee dated 1914 1915. The notice urges sending ten cents for a sample and mentions available fifty cent and one dollar bottles at drug stores.

J. W. Rhea Jerome H. McCormack Ivy Street Johnson City Tenn Sam T. Millard Dr. Kilmer & Co Binghamton, N. Y

Cupid's Corner Conducted by Miss Eros

Inquiries on love affairs addressed to Miss Eros will be printed if not too lengthy. Names will not be printed. Address your inquiries to Miss Eros Mobile Item. Personal letters not answered. Use ink on one side of paper.

Eros Miss Eros

Dear Miss Eros Advice Column Excerpt

A reader asks how to resume friendship after a quarrel with a girl and who should make the first move. Another asks how teenagers can tell if boys their age like them. The column counsels teens to focus on learning and self improvement to become more charming and popular as they grow older.

Miss Eros L. B

Club Calendar and Souvenir Notices Field Report

Friday activities include Craighead Club at YWCA 3:30 p.m. Health Day programs in public schools 2 p.m. and a Home Economics Club 11 a.m. Virginia Continental Line event 4 p.m. Clark School Health Day address 2:30 p.m. Government Street Church parlor 11 a.m. Saturday events feature Chopin Club 3 p.m. Shakespeare Club 11 a.m. Moose Auditorium gym class 10:30 a.m. League of Hard of Hearing meeting 3 p.m. Their Representative mentions a U S senator planning to visit Oklahoma and time tables.

Craighead Woman’s Exchange Department Woman's Missionary Society Government Street Methodist Church George Leftwich C. J. Torrey Moose Auditorium League of Hard of Hearing Ellis Chatham Street

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