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Newspaper

The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Jul 03, 1916

Page

6

Parliament of flags and marching bands in a July celebration

A vivid parade scene unfolds with drumbeats and brass as flags wave and bands in blue coats march past. Veterans, dignitaries, and bright curtained girls accompany auto cars and gleaming wagons while the crowd salutes the declaration of a nation in July.

Jes Lida Keck Wiggins

Oriental negligees and cretonne fashions spark shopper zeal

The column touts affordable hand embroidered kimonos and cretonne fabrics with many color options, noting prices from $1.50 to $2 for kimonos and under $5 for coordinated outfits. It mulls over a Pierette dress idea and offers tips on chewing gum habits and marcel wave irons with practical household advice.

Parade Officers Urged to Wear Sashes in City Demonstration

Notice to Captains and Aides of Parade lists participating women’s organizations and their appointed captains and aides for a large patriotic parade. It directs wearing red white and blue sashes and reporting to marshals on Tuesday morning at Wilkinson and Government.

Soldier Boys Mobile Mabel Goode Amelia Ross Abbott Henry Hall Greenwood Ligon Electra Semmes Colston Lewis Sewall Robert Padgett W.S. Pugh B. F. Adams Harry T. Smith W. K. Syson Marion Wilmer Jones Chapter Children of Confederacy John L. Moulton Elizabeth Dumas Corinne Little Leinkauf School Improvement Association Armistead Christian Joseph H. Lyons Jesse O. Acre Will West W. W. Middleton Meta Thompson Claudia Marechal Adelia Williams Vigor Webb Brewton Nannie Owen John T. Cochrane Horace Turner Russell School Improvement Association A. E. Reynolds Gayfer's Staub’s Wilkinson Rhett Goode J. K. Giernon James Hagin Government Scott Streets United Confederate Veterans Sharp Northeast Bayou

National Education Association Opens Convention Today

Several thousand educators from across the United States arrive for the National Education Association convention in New York. Public men university presidents and leading teachers will address sessions during the week long event which runs through next Saturday.

New York United States National Education Association

Agiro’s Grocery Store Burglarized In Early Morning Break-In

Burglars entered through a rear window at A. Agiro’s grocery at Ann and Spring Hill Avenue after midnight. They stole three boxes of cigars and 60 to 70 cents in copper from the cash register, breaking the register and cutting a door to access the shop. Police were notified at headquarters.

A. Agiro Ann and Spring Hill Avenue

Bishop Boulden Reports Building Progress in Mobile

Bishop P. A. Boulden of Philadelphia visits Mobile and says the building of the Industrial school he is founding in Mobile County is in progress. Friends in the North and South show strong interest in the work.

P. A. Boulden Philadelphia Mobile Mobile County

Simmons Move and Rose Address in Mobile Visit

Mr. and Mrs. Simmons will reside in Mr. Thaddeus Luther Rose who formerly lived in Mobile and now resides in Georgiana Alabama. Rose is spending several days in the city and is registered at the Battle House. Rose came to Mobile to address the Knights of Pythias. Miss Ruth Thomas will leave this week to visit her mother Mrs. I R Davis of Birmingham.

Henry Bryan Fairford Ala Alice Burton Fort Morgan Bryan Frank Boykin Thomas Lanaux Mobile Mrs. Rich Frank Simmons Longbeach Thaddeus Luther Rose Georgiana, Ala Battle House Rose Knights of Pythias Ruth Thomas Birmingham

Magnolia Balm advertised by Lyon Mfg Co

An advertisement touts Magnolia Balm with the claim beauty on the skin is easy to achieve. It promotes the product for 75 cents at druggists or by mail from Lyon Manufacturing Company at 42 South Fifth Street, Brooklyn, NY.

Lyon Manuf’g Co South Fifth Street Brooklyn N.Y

Fourth of July Plans at George Lyle’s Whistler

The Whistler committee completed arrangements for the old-time Fourth of July celebration on George Lyle’s grounds. A large dancing platform will host all-day music. Mobile youths Jennie Beatrice Maples and Jack Wheeler will perform a dance exhibition. Jerre B. Davison attended district No. 10 meeting at Dauphin Island. Mr and Mrs Thomas A Hartley and children returned from Fairhope after a two week visit. The A D Davis Whistler team beat Haas 4 to 2 on the Whistler diamond Sunday.

George Lyle Whistler Jennie Beatrice Maples Jack Wheeler Mobile Jerre Davison Mobile County Sunday School Association Dauphin Island Thomas A. Hartley Lora Adelle Clyde Vernon Fairhope A. D. Davis Haas

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