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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1913
Page
5
If this is Your Birthday you are warned to be careful of fire or accident and to keep a steady watch on your affairs. Those born today will be prone to temper but with self control they can conquer difficulties and attain great heights.
The Ladies Hebrew Benevolent Society holds their annual meeting at B'nai B'rith Hall at 3 p.m.
Mrs E D P Flynn hosted a bridge party in honor of Mrs Albert Akers of Atlanta Ga. Guests included Mrs Russell Ladd Mrs F T Parker Mrs Horace Upton and many others. Mrs Jackson won the bridge and a wicker jardiniere. consolation went to Mrs Stephenson. Afternoon tea followed in rose pink decor.
Polhymnia Circle met yesterday with Mrs. James Wade Cox to discuss modern pieces inspired by classics. The group considered William Mason and Gottschalk offerings and promised a full program to be announced later.
The fragment notes a moment of retirement or passage as they entrust a being or era to silence and memory. The text hints at a ceremonial transfer or final guardianship within a historical or literary frame.
Careful Concientious Optical Service highlights KREPTOR LENSES and SHARON MOUNTINGS as a specialty offering precision eyewear components and mounting solutions for optical labs and practitioners.
The text laments the death of Herman Stra chauér and a unnamed gifted musician whose harmonies brought joy to many listeners. It evokes sorrowful hearts and tears as friends whisper a prayer for rest, praising the departed for the music that touched lives.
Mrs. Clinhton Macartney hosted a January bridge luncheon at the Macartneys on Government Street in honor of Miss Mar gharita Ligon and Miss Ella Wheeler. About fifty guests attended at eleven small tables with cyclamen decorations and luncheon before games. prizes included lingerie for first, an embroidered shirtwaist for consolation, and black silk hose for the honorees.
Community groups discussed school conditions at Raphael Semmes School with about twenty members. They urged a new building and updated equipment, better light ventilation and sanitary practices, and planned talks by physicians at a January 17 meeting. A tree plan and site set up were assigned to Hoagland. Mrs Mahler thanked as president, Mrs Maloney elected vice president.
Mrs. Minto hosted the Newman Circle with Mrs. Norville presiding and Mrs. Hazel Minto Belsher assisting. Members presented papers on Alabama history, La Salle and other explorers, New Year thoughts, organic schools, and New Year customs, followed by discussions and refreshments.
Mrs W G Ward presided over a Century Book Club meeting in Mobile with a program on music led by Mrs M E Truitt The topics included Wagner Patti and The Schumanns The club discussed Modern Operas and Composers Attendance was strong The next meeting is set for January 9 when Education Day will be celebrated and a committee was appointed to plan the program Tea was served by the hostess
Representatives of the Building Trades Council of California plan to file bonds totaling 240000 for Olaf Treitmoe and Eugene Clancy, two San Franciscans convicted at Indianapolis. P H McCarty, council president, awaits bondsmen's acceptance by the district court in Sacramento.
A short note mentions waters set aside for an informal social gathering following the end of work. The phrasing implies a casual event among colleagues with no formal agenda or themes.
A famed Mobile theatre is destroyed by a fierce blaze at dawn. Smoke veils the building as memories of Keene Booth Abbott Modjeska O Neil and other stage greats linger, while new and grander venues will rise in its place.
Chicago January 9 Starry B Munger president of the Chicago Mills Works Supply Company and Foster Munger Company testified for the government in a Sherman act suit to dissolve a lumber dealers cartel He recalled a 1909 Chicago meeting where dealers warned his firms against direct selling to consumers after a Retail Dealers Association inquiry resulted in a whitewash for his firms.
Los Angeles reports the death of D. D. Comber who died from asphyxiation after a gas filled air tight box labeled Patent applied for was activated by an alarm clock. The device released gas and drew neighbors, but rescue arrived too late.
Chicago, Jan. 9. Frank Farrell, owner of the New York American baseball club, talks with manager Frank L. Cha before Bermuda trip. Chance pledges a pennant and says he has full authority, planning to manage from the bench and not commit final lineup until spring training begins.
The executive board of the National Congress of Mothers asked the U S Senate to reopen the Smoot investigation. The move follows decades of effort by the Congress of Mothers and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union to press the issue.
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