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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1916
Page
5
An elderly woman recalls the May and June Memorial Day parades from her youth, noting the blue line of veterans shrinking as time passes. She describes past crowds, flowers, flags, and a growing distance between generations and memories of Civil War soldiers.
UMOR reports a rise in women studying landscape gardening and floriculture, with female practitioners elbowing men aside. The piece highlights their sensitivity to color, preferences against red, and careful plant choices like delphiniums, lilies, and pinks to create refined garden tones.
A vintage fashion brief describes changes in smart silhouettes including V necks edged with blue satin, new peplum blouses, and taller back collars. It notes summer furs—white fox less in vogue than fur combinations—and introduces the animal head scarf as a current fad. Capes of varied materials are highlighted as a striking addition to women’s outerwear.
A child’s fashion note describes pinafores with front cover and criss crossed straps, cross stitched ornamentation featuring elephants and cats, easy for mothers to sew. A sweater with sleeves and a white peplum trim in green is noted among novelties.
A fashionable homemaker favors light summer suppers replacing heavy dinners. She serves beefsteak with egg salad using a sweet sour boiled dressing, broiled chicken with Sally Lunn, and mint iced tea. Other notes include iced coffee and chocolate, and a cherry almond salad on lettuce with mayonnaise dressing.
Miss Mary Hamilton seeks publication for a Memorial Day piece at the Sunday office. Editor Ball rejects clichéd war memories and pushes for fresh, human interest stories from veterans.
A humorous reminiscence about an office regular who invents endless Memorial Day tales and boasts of past failures to entertain, often at others’ expense. The piece ends with a moral to honor the dead by remembering achievements on May 30 rather than personal misadventures.
The Sunday Editor reveals a Confederate officer befriended a Union officer, who died after being nursed at Colonel Jordan’s home. The editor claims the sword belonged to his grandfather and that War Department records failed to identify the Confederate savior, prompting a local revelation.
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