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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1913
Page
5
If this is your birthday you will receive presents and advancement at work. Do not risk valuable items as luck is against you. Those born today have intelligence and energy and will push hard to reach goals. They tend toward extremes and should seek companions with balanced judgment.
The Societys Fidelia Club hosted a New Year ball for over a hundred guests. Guests received ivory and gold program booklets with pencils for partner recordings. The venue featured ivory and gold decor, palms, exotic greenery, and a full orchestra providing music for the evening.
Scalp treatments hair dyeing bleaching facial massage electrolysis manicuring and chiropody. Switches made from combings.
Fidelia Club hosts open house with a parade of guests in lace gowns and American Beauty roses. Notable attendees include Miss Lucile Zelnicker, Miss Marie Richard, and Miss Augusta Pincus, while Mrs. G. M. Luce and Mrs. Perrin Bestor showcase ornate bouquets. Strikers gala features lavish corsages of orchids, roses, and carnations amid Parisian flourishes.
Hartwell family Mr. and Mrs. Harry T Hartwell and daughters Mabel and Irma returned home from Asheville North Carolina on Wednesday night and are now at their home on West Government Street. Mr Hartwell spent Christmas with his family.
In Mobile during a brief stay with Miss Glen McKenzie, Meridian girl Miss Annie Gulley attended a luncheon at Mrs Cary Hall’s, a theatre party at the Mobile Theatre, and a Strikers ball. Miss Gulley’s visit included a matinee at Lyric, a bridge party hosted by Miss McKenzie, and a wrap of social events before returning to Columbus Mississippi for studies at I. I. and C. of Columbus.
Mrs Frank Milhous of Selma is charmingly entertained in Mobile where she is remembered as Mary Hybart a graceful Gulf City girl. Tomorrow morning Mrs J C Hybart hosts an informal morning event for Mrs Milhous and Saturday another pleasant spend the morning gathering at the Hybart home.
Owing to a recent bereavement the marriage was solemnized at 916 Pelmetto Street yesterday at 6 pm. Rev. Wyatt Brown officiated. Miss Allen wore white and carried white flowers. The couple, both popular in the youthful set, have family ties to the late Charles Allen and Henry Barnewall.
An old advert claims a pint size cough syrup recipe trades for a small price and promises fast throat and lung relief. It touts a concentrated Norwegian pine extract remedy with pleasant taste and mild laxative effect, suitable for family use across the United States and Canada.
Advertisement touts Old Standard GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC as a remedy for malaria and a health booster for both adults and children. claims to drive out illness and strengthen the system.
The Cornell Glee Club gave a splendid concert at the Athenaeum in New Orleans and Mobile social leaders and patrons filled boxes for the event. The evening featured patronesses and a cotillon, marking a standout society gala.
New York leads with 5.16 million spent on anti tuberculosis efforts in 1912, a 29 percent rise from 1911. Federal and public funds account for 65.6 percent of the total, with Massachusetts and Pennsylvania also contributing sizable sums. Illinois ranks fifth with 930 thousand.
A cablegram to Judge John A. Elmore from Manila reports the birth of a son to Captain and Mrs. Vincent Elmore in the Philippine islands. The infant, likely named after Captain Elmore, follows Major Vincent Elmore, famed Confederate officer, in Alabama lore. Mrs. Elmore is formerly Miss Winnona Buck of Mobile.
In Utica New York on New Year’s Day four Kahler children ages 7 to 16 were coasting on Beaver River ice when it broke sending them into the water. Eight more youths Milo Williams 14 Homer Williams 12 Raymond Fath 11 were swept to drowning while trying to save the younger Kahler brothers. Charles Fitch survived.
The British steamer Alcazar bound from Port Au? Haiti to Philadelphia ran ashore near Cape Lookout at Wilmington North Carolina early today. The revenue cutter Seminole rushed to the scene after repeated trouble with the vessel, which had been aided by the Seminole a week earlier and towed to safety.
Four year old Nan Liger Kinsey suffered serious burns after an incident at the Isle of Hope near Savannah. Five year old Frank Mattell was with her when the accident occurred, and both children were in a play area at the time.
A man believed to be Jacob Levikow, wanted in Kansas City, Chattanooga and other cities on a bank swindling charge, was arrested last night in St Paul Minnesota. He is held on a vagrant charge pending further investigation.
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