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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1916
Page
7
The article notes Child Labor Day observed and urges action for the Keating Owen bill. Owen R Lovejoy warns of cotton mill opposition and calls for broad public support to secure enactment. A second section lists a recipe for Drop Donuts using pastry flour milk sugar and egg.
A cheeky note suggests a handsome youth might be chosen by a beautiful 1916 heiress for marriage. The gag reflects social matchmaking humor of the era and casual romantic expectations.
A 1915 spotlight on rich heiresses marrying modest men. Marie Busch weds Drummond Jones of St Louis after he joined the Busch engine plant. Catherine Barker, 19, marries Howard Spaulding Jr. of Chicago with her $30 million in fortune. Eugenia Kelly, heiress to a million, elopes with dancer Al Davis.
A physicianless health fad urges drinking a glass of real hot water with limestone phosphate each morning to flush the stomach liver kidneys and bowels. Proponents claim it prevents toxins from entering the blood and improves overall health, likening it to an internal sanitation habit.
The excerpt describes frying batter by teaspoonfuls into hot fat for light brown fritters and outlines a white mayonnaise style dressing. It provides steps to test oil temperature with bread, simmer a butter flour milk sauce, then whisk in salad oil and vinegar, plus a note on cooling and tempering before use. It ends with a brief Apple Pudding preparation.
A historic advertisement touts Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound as a simple at home solution to fade gray hair. It promises natural darkening with a dampened brush or sponge and claims to restore thickness and gloss after one or two applications.
England amid rationing shares a recipe by Lady Brassey for a cake using no eggs milk or butter. The instruction lists ingredients such as rasins sugar lard water spices and baking powder, boiled then baked in a shallow pan for about 30 minutes.
A colonial style recipe excerpt describes simmering apples with sugar brandy and nutmeg until tender, then serving with macaroon crumbs. It also outlines a custard like pudding with milk eggs sugar flour and vanilla baked in a water bath, served with chocolate sauce or cream. A sweet potato pone completes the passage.
Instant relief no waiting. Clogged nostrils open up air passages clear and breathing returns. No more hawking or headache. Get a small bottle from your druggist and apply a little in each nostril. Fragrant antiseptic cream penetrates inflamed mucous membranes for immediate relief.
The northbound train from Mobile will depart Terminal Station at 6 15 A M arriving York Ala at 1 53 P M with connections from Meridian Tuscaloosa Birmingham and East Return from York leaves at 7 35 A M after arrival of inbound trains and reaches Mobile by 3 20 P M The morning departure from Mobile will precede the Southern Railway to Calvert and affects passengers traveling beyond Calvert to A T N stations
Recipe notes grated raw sweet potato with two large tablespoons creamed butter and three tablespoons brown sugar, add nutmeg or allspice, fold in four well-beaten yolks and stiff whites, mix and bake in a well-buttered dish. Sent in by Swipsey.
Various organizations schedule Wednesday events including Music Study Club at 10 30 Mrs Tom Moore Ladies Hebrew Association B nai B rith Hall 3 p m Graduate Nurses Meeting Medical Society Hall 3 p m Polymnia Circle 11 a m Century Book Club 11 a m St Clair Sewing Circle Contr Street Asylum 3 30 p m Woman's Auxiliary All Saints Church 1658 Georgia Avenue 3 p m Christ Child Society McGill Institute 11 a m Y M C A Religious Work Committee 10 30 a m Semmes Parliamentary Law Club 3 p m Woman's Missionary Society Study Class Toulminville 10 30 a m First Baptist Church 3 30 p m New Chautauqua Circle 10 30 a m Division Special Instruction Craighead Club Battle House 10 30 a m Mothers' Club Settlement Home 3 p m Arras Club Battle House 7 30 p m Lévy Kauf School Improvement Association 2 30 p m Craighead Club Governing Board 3 p m main division 3 30 p m Assembly Room Cawthon Hotel 3 p m Craighead Club Assembly Room Cawthon Hotel 3 p m Main Division Craighead Club Assembly Room Cawthon Hotel 3 30 p m E L Marechal School Improvement Association 8 p m Shakespeare Club 11 a m Mobile League for Hard of Hearing 3 p m 118 Georgia Avenue
Exports through Detroit port for the week ending December 25 1916 rose to 4 080 278 ranking second in value only to New York. The surge reflects unprecedented commodity shipments including a large horses for Europe and compares with December 1914 totals of 7 531 968. GRAY NOT AT CAPITAL. Washington report notes Congressman Oscar L Gray remains ill and cannot return to duties in the House.
The Queen presents The Pitch o Chance two part Feature with Hellen Rosson Lizette Thorne Frank Barzage and Jack Richardson a tale of a gaming table with a girl prize Making a Man of Johnny a one act Beauty comedy and Hearts and Clubs a one act Calf comedy feature John Steppling John Sheehan and George Ovey Admission five cents Chaplin depicted by Ross Allis in The Mixup at the Columbia starting Thursday night An excursion to New Orleans January 16 on L N line fare two fifty round trip details at City Ticket Office
A married couple’s fragile mood after Mollie’s wedding unfolds with dialogue on pride and trust. Margie battles heartbreak and loneliness while Mollie and friends celebrate, hinting at deeper trouble and a looming decision for Margie as the scene shifts to an ad for half price suits at Hammel’s.
Miss Eros conducts Cupid's Corner inviting inquiries while withholding names. A letter from two 19 year old girls is quoted. Chaplin imitator Ross Aiills stars in The Mixup at the Columbia starting Thursday matinee. Also an L N excursion to New Orleans Sunday January 16 round trip 2.50.
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