Fanny Faces Work Dignity and Dog Walking in Service
In a domestic service setting Fanny objects to walking Mrs. Irwin’s dog on a leash and faces pressure from Delia and friends who insist the maid must blend with living-out workers. Mrs. Irwin offers to alternate dog duty, while Fanny grapples with class tensions and loyalty to her position.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wruminginia Terhune van DE
Fanny
Mrs. Irwin
Miss Irwin
Della
Delia
Rome
Only one genuinely humorous race on Earth debate ends
The piece argues against Kipling declaring any single nation the only genuinely humorous race. It praises English humor’s legacy via Thackeray and Dickens, notes distinct national styles, and asserts humor is universal, rooted in shared human resilience rather than national monopoly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earth
Kipling
John Lane
England
Thackeray
Dickens
J. Kipling
America
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Charles Lamp
Cochin
China
de Hegrier
Prayer Week Programs Mapped by Local Women Clubs
Broad schedule of church and civic group meetings listed for late February to March. Events include Baptist Union week of prayer in Bush Auditorium February 28 and March 4. Sunbeam Band program. Mobile Graduate Nurses meeting March 8. Red Cross Seal Committee at Mobile Public Library. Mothers' Club gatherings at Settlement Home and Bay Shore crossing. Ladies of Charity meet at Conti Street Asylum. Leinkauf School Improvement Association Friday. Ladies and Children's Spring Shop opening March 4 at Central Presbyterian Church with sale proceeds to Ladies' Aid Fund. address and musical program at Govern ment Street Presbyterian Church March 4. Oyster Supper March 5 at Baptist Tabernacle for debt fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baptist Woman's Missionary Union
Bush
First Baptist Church
Baptist Tabernacle
First
Mobile Graduate Nurses’ Association
Mobile Medical Society
Red Cross Seal Committee
Mobile Public Library
Mothers’ Club
Settlement Home
Mobile Cotton Mills
Bay Shore Crossing
Ladies of Charity
Conti Street Asylum
Leinkauf School Improvement Association
Dies’ Aid Society
Central Presbyterian Church
Ladies’ Aid Fund
Green
H. B. McMillan
Ladies’ Aid Society
Government Street Presbyterian
Aid Society
Ladies of the Baptist Tabernacle
Claiborne
Church Streets
Goodyear Raincoat Company Announces 40 Percent Sale
On account of going out of business the Goodyear Raincoat Company in Mobile promotes a liquidation of its entire stock. The sale offers coats capes overcoats and related items at 40 cents on the dollar. The stock includes girls rain capes gaberdines slip ons cravanettes cassimers and poplins and is not for resale to retailers. Sale begins at 8 o clock Monday March 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goodyear Raincoat Company
Mobile
Society Notes and Poetry Fragments From a Past Issue
The page blends verse by Miss Anna Boulet and a poetic exchange about Lent with spring motifs. It also reports Miss Marie Webb hosting the No Trump Club, two-table play, and Miss Emily Gray winning a gold hatpin after luncheon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Marie Webb
No Trump Club
Marie Webb
Emily Gray
McGregor
Hereford
W. O. Lott
U D C Presses Support for Works Bill Aid to Confederate Veterans
Elizabeth Bashinsky of the Alabama Division United Daughters of the Confederacy urges Alabama Congressmen and senators to back the Works Bill. The measure seeks national veteran homes funding, transport for indigent veterans and dependents, and consolidation of underfilled homes to reduce costs, arguing Southern pension duties justify aid now.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Estopinal
Louisiana
Senate Works
Estopinal
United States Army
Johnson City
Tennessee
Togue
Maine
Hampton
Dayton
Ohio
Southern Aoe Society
Nannie Randolph Heth
South
Alabama
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Elizabeth B. Bashinsky
Birthday of Mrs. K. G. Jackson Celebrates 83 Years
Mrs. K G Jackson marked her eighty third birthday February twenty fifth with friends and relatives visiting her Motile home. An Irish born widow of Capt John Swire Jackson she is renowned for memory and poetry, and the Eliza Battle rescue story linked to a silver goblet presented by Gaston Lodge to her late husband.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
K. G. Jackson
John Swire Jackson
Gaston Lodge No
Jackson
Euterpean Fraternity to Meet at YMCA Auditorium
The Euterpean Fraternity schedules a Tuesday meeting at the YMCA Auditorium at 8 pm. The program features Corot Keats and Schubert with multiple readings, songs, violin and piano pieces performed by McKenzie Speigel Tam and others. Attendance urged as two remaining meetings complete the course.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Euterpean
Corot
Keats
Schubert
Roderick McKenzie
S. P. Speigel
S. Tam
McGehee
John Collier Willis
Hark
Lark
F. P. Davis
P. Speigel
Gabriella Barret
Carot
Mabel Heus
Shakespeare Club Meeting Plans District Federation Event
Saturday gathering drew many despite poor weather. Mrs. Harryer presided. Miss Bessie Mayer filled in for absent secretary Miss Alice Frazer. Mrs. James Hagan outlined Reciprocity Day program and planned next Saturday meeting at her home with a city wide collaboration featuring multiple club acts and a parliamentary law study segment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shakespeare Club
Harryer
Alice Frazer
Bessie Mayer
Torrey
Hagan
Federated Work
District Federation
Weber Hellar
Edith Camrell
Clara Schumann Club
Mobile
Martin Holbrook
Home Economics Club
Peterson and
Krudop
Ryta Lambert
Southern Association of College Women
Chateau of Chantilly
Cata Hagan
Ax Tee
Feagin
Shakespearean Drama Studies and Local Social Highlights
The article surveys Shakespearean drama analysis with questions on plot structure characterization and stage technique. It then shifts to local school events detailing the Raphael Semmes School Improvement Association sale entertainment, chairmen, performers, and funds, followed by Barton Academy seniors’ social gathering and student officers, with notes on refreshments and attendants.
Patriotic Divine Services at Government Street Church
Sunday 11 a.m. service at Government Street Presbyterian Church with Rev du Bose delivering the sermon and special patriotic music arranged by organist Edwin Lyles Taylor. Y W C A notes report a Southern conference of association workers in Laurel Mississippi February 26 28 with delegates from Mobile Birmingham Montgomery New Orleans and Laurel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Government Street Presbyterian Church
du Bose
Edwin Lyles Taylor
Charlotte Davis
South Central Field
St. Louis
Allies Clash Over Overture to Capital
Bucharest dispatch notes diplomats fear the Dardanelles push will trigger friction among the Allies over Constantinople. Officials privately say England and France aim to keep Stamboul from Russia, to block czar influence in the far east. Balkan tensions loom as Bulgaria and Romania resist Slav domination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bucharest
Dardanelles
Constantinople
England
France
Stamboul
Russia
Carroll’s Mother Desperately Ill as Fund Hunted
Washington reports Harriet Carroll, mother of the late Dr. James Carroll, a yellow fever martyr, is destitute and gravely ill. Friends started a fund in memory of the hero who gave his life helping the country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Harriet Carroll
James Carroll
Yellow
Ars
Carroll
Germany’s Newspapers Deny Seeking War With United States
Berlin reports quote German press rejecting claims that Germany seeks war with the United States. Papers call the statements insidious nonsense and say Britain and others push such notions. They affirm Germany’s firm friendship with America and its satisfactory military position.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Germany
United States
Lord Charles Beresford
America
Mission Closes At St Matthew's Church
The Catholic mission led by Rev Father McCreary at St Matthew's Church will conclude Sunday night with rosary sermon and benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament. A 10 o'clock high mass features a sermon on Final Perseverence and 3 o'clock blessing of the infants. Tonight's sermon is The Mother of the Savior and baptismal vows renewal. Bishop Edward P Allen will administer the papal blessing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Father McCreary
St. Matthew’s Church
Revy Missioner
Edward P. Allen
Mobile
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Bile Dancing Society
German Relief Hall
Harvey New
G Galloway
Society
Anna Boulet
Lent
Durance
U.D. C
Mrs. Jackson
St. Agnes
Wanderer
T. H. Halliwell
J. W. Cox
Win Schock
McKenzie
Missey Planck
Shakespeare
Raphael Semmes School
Raphael Semmes School Improvement Association
Burton
Lorene Cane
Thelma Albright
Louise Goldsby
Kielland
Nelson
Alice Fowler
Martha Gusman
Mac Foreman
Flo Gardiner
Agnes Dias
Iliss Agnes Sherman
Curtis Bush
Holcombe Quill
Cb. P. Bestor
A. P. Bush
Jamie Hearin
Louis Parker
Laurie McNeill
Alfred Staples
Jean Traise
Chicago
Freda Donald
Helen Rich
John Waterman
Robin Aldridge
St. John Wilson
Barton
Barton Academy
Denby Garrison
Robin Sweatt
Fannie Vaiden
Grant Sossaman
Rith Weil
Gladys Brown
Irene Orrell
Miss Harmsen
Atlanta
Lillie Noble Harmsen
W. D. Bellingrath
Ann St
Henriette Tacon
Ann Street
Presbyterian Church
Miss Ethel Burgess
Allen
Ethel Burgess
Virginia
Robert M. Allen
Lexington
A. W. Brooks
P. J. M. Acker
Ethel Siegler
Martha Jaine Cunningham
Fendley Glass
DR. Carroll
Rhea Reid
Etoile de France
Maran Cochet
Paul Neyron
American Beauty
Helen Gould
Marechal Niel
Killarney
Kaiserin Augusta Victoria
Marian Crochet
Marie 25 van Houtte
Clothilde Soupert
Golden Gate
Reine Marie Henriette
Maryland
L. Hammel Dry Goods CO
ST. Matthew's
United Daughters OF Confederacy
WANT
Confederate Memorial Museum
Richmond
Daughters of Alabama
Ala
Navy
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