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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1916
Page
3
A Reuters correspondent reports the Gallipoli withdrawal complete with Christmas awareness of leaving the peninsula. The French prepared to winter while the British assumed the sector and supplies, with Turkish reconnaissance and intensified bombardment during evacuation.
Whistler Lodge No. 127 Knights of Pythias will assemble at Odd Fellows Hall Monday at 7 PM. The Whistler Methodist Church officials hold a quarterly conference Monday at 7 PM. Annie Mary infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Fred Seabury was buried in Whistler cemetery after services led by Rev Haywood Vaughan. Percy Barrett returns to Quitman after visiting his brother Joseph E Barrett. Mrs John Allen and children from Mobile visit mother Mrs J D Gurganus.
The passage states that a sufficiently determined woman can prompt a feminine proposal without relying on a leap year. It emphasizes agency and timing independent of calendar quirks. The line contrasts conventional leap year timing with personal resolve as a driver of proposal action.
A historical reflection contrasts democratic duty with England's unequal sacrifices. The speaker argues that without democratic equality, true civic duty cannot be fulfilled, noting England’s contrasting spectacle and urging adherence to democratic principles.
The Mobile Item congratulates Alice Inge Stroecker Frank Scarpace Jr and Seifert J Hamilton on their January birthdays invites each to entertain five friends at a birthday picture party at the Empire Theatre this afternoon Tickets have been mailed January births are requested to send full names addresses and birthdates to Children’s Editor Mobile Item two days before their birthday.
Seattle workers under Great Northern Railroad officials continued digging through a 60 foot snow pile to recover bodies from Saturday s avalanche that wrecked two cars of the Westbound Cascade Limited. Missing are Mrs Fern Wallace and her baby of Lyons Washington Ralph Catterman of Wehawken Washington and an unidentified passenger. Eight people died in the crash and crews fought to clear slides blocking the trans continental line.
Charleston January 24 Clemson College released its baseball schedule with games against West Virginia Wesleyan College March 27 at Clemson University Georgetown University March 31 and V P S with two games April 13 UGA at Athens April 21 22 V M I at Lexington Va April 29 V P I at Blacksburg Va May 1 and Auburn College May 5 6.
The National Security League urged compulsory military service and a larger armed force aligning with navy and army general board plans. It favored universal training under national authority, a four division mobile regular army, and a national defense council to draft military legislation, opposing militia and volunteer systems.
Sulpher Springs Texas January 24 seven Texas brewery firms face trial in a state anti trust suit charging conspiracy to fix beer prices allot trade territory and other legal violations in the case set for today in district court.
Wm B Ruggles, an American engineering adviser to the Russian government, died of pneumonia at his Bergen Point New Jersey home aged fifty five. He led the Ruggles Coles Engineering Co and designed wheat storage plans for Petrograd provinces. Born Bath New York and Cornell graduate he also invented an iron ore dryer used on the Mesaba range.
In Oakdale Alabama Jan 24 special reports Prof J J Lowe opened a new week long series at Oakdale Baptist church following a successful prior campaign at First Baptist. A six piece orchestra performed and two people joined the church. Local social notices include Charley Hamilton’s river trip and neighbors visiting, with illness and party reminders.
Advertisement extols Dr King’s New Life Pills as a remedy for a sluggish liver causing dizziness headaches constipation and biliousness. Claims boost to the whole system aid digestion purify blood improve complexion and lists price 25 cents at the druggist.
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