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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1916
Page
7
Recipe notes describe making eight fruit rolls with a tart jelly filling and a butter sugar sauce. Dough uses flour salt sugar baking powder butter milk water, rolled into eight portions and baked. Cranberry pudding combines butter milk sugar flour baking powder cranberries and egg for a simple baked dessert.
A column offering recipes for desserts and fun party treats with buttered molds and colored icings, plus a short anecdote about Scott and a description of a new sailer hat fashion feature. The piece blends domestic guidance with light literary gossip and current style notes from London Graphic.
An advertisement urges those over fifty to use cod liver oil Scott's Emulsion to renew blood and strengthen organs. It claims glycerine soothes the respiratory tract and hypophosphites calm nerves, noting the product is a scientific oil food with no alcohol or harmful drugs and that one bottle will prove its worth.
A noted socialist beauty from the bridge club leaves the game to take up cross country riding and travel duties. The move ends her participation in local bridge events and marks a shift to equestrian pursuits.
A new sport hat for the South features a crown of fine flexible green straw and a matching green silk brim. A wide green silk band encircles the crown just above the brim, stitched like the brim.
Inquiries about love and social life are printed for Miss Eros to answer. A young woman asks for friendship in Mobile while a 21 year old man seeks guidance after meeting a girl who is seeing another. Answers emphasize being sociable and considerate, with no letters printed.
Marian Cole Fisher a Chautauqua lecturer and Saint Paul Housewives League chair explains many housewives remain uninformed about baking powder. She criticizes cream of tartar brands and cheap powders, endorsing Calumet as a reliable mid priced option and urging informed choices for pure wholesome baking results.
Wednesday through Saturday schedule lists Craighead Club at Y W C A and Quorum and Veritas chapters in meetings at Cawthon Hotel and Masonic Temple. Also notes Shakespeare Club, Y W C A classes, and a Baby Quinine ad labeling FEBRI with a 25 cent price, plus line about discipline.
Washington report states the administration bill to raise annual Annapolis midshipman appointments to three per senator representative and delegate passed the house military committee 15 to 4. The change would add about 600 appointments yearly and cost $180,000 more each year.
Medical formula promotions claim a home cure for rheumatism using Toris compound and syrup of Sarsaparilla with whisky. Another recipe offers a quick cough remedy with Globe Pine Compound glycerine and whiskey. Frost bite and foot care advice promotes Calocid with warm foot baths for instant relief.
Mobile will be represented at the Older Boys Conference January 28 to 30 in Selma by Andrew A Coffin Leslie Richards of Government Street Presbyterian church Wallace Wake ford and G D Walker of St Francis Street Methodist church Clarence Wienand of Broad Street Presbyterian Church and M W Coffin of Crichton Baptist church. Delegates depart Friday morning for the first state sponsored conference of its kind. An Older Boys organization was formed in Mobile last winter by John Alexander and Rev G R Hurlbutt. An athletic meet is slated Sunday from 2 to 4 p m with Mobile delegates participating.
Roger Bird of Brookline high school, a 230 pound swimmer, set a national scholastic record with a 78 foot dive during a dual meet against Harvard freshmen. He eclipsed Arthur Wales of Brookline who previously held 71 feet 4 inches at Princeton interscholastic meet last winter.
In a Van Antwerp Drug Corp. ad Hay's Liver Health replaces dangerous calomel praised as a safe vegetable remedy. A large bottle costs 50 cents with money back if it fails to replace calomel. marketed as harmless for children and adults with promised morning relief and no salivation. Out-of-town orders available by parcel post.
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