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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1915
Page
14
Poem fragment recalls a homeowner Mazie V in Caruthers mourning a long empty house. The speaker recalls a past match of heart and home and now faces a cheerless hearth with only memories returning as a ghostly greeting.
Personal mentions include Mr N A Yuille pending return to Daphne with niece Anatolize Smee. Guests visit Daphne and Bayou la Batre homes. Rosson family moves to new Bayou la Batre residence. many travelers head to Pass Christian Tallahassee and Montgomery for visits and music. Lipids of Mobile society among ships Peerless and Mallory lines.
An advertisement urges readers not to whip children or scold the elderly for bedwetting, calling it a disease. It promotes a free package from Zemeto Co. Dept. 2301 Milwaukee Wisconsin, asking recipients to write today and share results after relief.
Land sale notice from Alabama Land and Development Company offering 480 acres seven miles west of Chunchula Mobile County with river frontage and fertile soil for farming and stock raising. Also available 40 to 10,000 acre tracts priced from 4.00 to 11.50 per acre. Contact 408 N Royal St Mobile Alabama Bell 957 J.
A group of prominent New York women met at the Biltmore to demand clemency for Madeline Ferola, the Italian woman sentenced to death in Sing Sing for the December 28, 1913 stabbing at 149th street and Park Avenue. They claim a miscarriage of justice, noting her limited English and the questioning method used. The committee includes Mrs. Alice Carpenter and several other notable figures.
Miss Marie Stoll arrived from the Stolls summer home at Battles to meet Miss Etoile White of Birmingham. Several ladies plan trips to Battles and Point Clear with visits to relatives and friends, including travels to St Louis and across to New York, with multiple gatherings and hotel stays noted.
TOULMINVILLE events include Rev D Y Register preaching at 11 00 A M at the M E church A prayer meeting Thursday night at 8 led by the pastor Sunday school at 10 Rev A G Richard of Mobile to preach at St Mark's Chapel Sunday at 4 30 Master Bauer Tuite visiting his aunt Mrs Tom Finch will return to Mobile Sunday Other notes include Francis Dodge leaving Wednesday for Fairhope to join sister Dorothy visiting grandmother Mrs H S Lumsden A children's day program planned by Miss Amy Cole at the M E church Sunday July 11 and a baseball double header the Little Mobile and Little A D Davis teams postponed last Friday now set for Saturday July 10 at 9 30 Kling's diamond Charles Green Jr visited friends at Whistler past week
Mrs. Pauline Kruger Hamilton a San Francisco woman now in New York seeks aid for Austrian war babies. She heads Vienna based efforts with Countess Berchtold as lead and Dr. Dumba backing the campaign in Washington. Hamilton, widow of a San Francisco newspaperman and granddaughter of a former Vienna minister, spent seven years in Vienna as court photographer with ties to archduchesses.
The Flomaton B Y P U met Friday evening hosted by Rev. R. M. Hunter and wife. A large crowd enjoyed prayers, songs, recitations, talks on B Y P U work, a telephone conversation, a love party, and a poem. Visitors included Mrs Clarence Huggins in Montgomery and Mr and Mrs R Durro with locals W J Vaughn and Ethel Gordon.
Monday events include Mobile Bay Chapter children of the Confederacy meeting at 5 30 p m at Monroe Park and Ladies of Charity gathering at Conti street Asylum. Tuesday features Mobile Equal Suffrage Association at 4 p m with a heart party and linen shower for Miss Anna Drahan and the marriage of Ruth Agnes McPhillips to Guy C Sherman at 8 a m. Wednesday Madeline Johnson hosts a hosiery shower for Frances Campbell. Thursday Mothers Club at Settle ment Home 3 30 p m. Friday Craighead Parliamentary Law Club meets at 5 p m at Cawthen Assembly Room. Saturday Addie Fitzgerald hosts a hosiery shower for Miss Anna Druhan at 4 p m.
Harry Smith of Pensacola visited Flomaton on Sunday. Mr Staling returned from a trip to his Andalusia home. Mrs FE McCur dy and her sons Harry and John are on the sick list this week.
Mrs. S. A. Cotter of Ringgold asserts she is fully recovered from pellagra and urges others to try Baughn’s remedy. The notice describes symptoms and promotes a free book from American Compounding Co. Box 2049 Jasper Alabama with a money back guarantee.
Range Alabama last Saturday hosted a picnic on Brushy Creek with twenty four youths participating. Visitors included Miss Mittie Noll Atmore Miss Stella Jernigan Pollard Miss Janie Kimberl Canoe H T Kimberl Canoe and others from Walnut Hill Florida Birmingham and Repton. A tacky party hosted by R L Locke followed the day.
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