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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1916
Page
6
The town reels from recent storms as wet weather postpones the Officers Ball and a Kiddies concert in Bienville. Restocking relief funds and shelter plans are discussed while residents navigate flooding and a damaged Protestant Orphan Asylum.
A columnist endorses bed making as a path to toned arms and shoulders. It describes a four part exercise sequence with lunges and circular arm motions, breathing guidance, and notes a total routine time of about fifteen to twenty minutes plus a bath and massage.
A vintage beauty ad promotes Magnolia Balm as a simple solution for improving the skin. It offers the product for 75 cents at druggists or by mail, with sample free, from Lyon Manufacturing Co. in Brooklyn.
An advertisement asserts Chamberlain's Cough Remedy contains no opium or narcotics and is safe for children as well as adults. It promotes it as excellent for coughs and colds and notes availability everywhere.
Mr. 8S. H. Peck and Miss Daisy Peck return from the Eastern Shore while Mrs. Peck and her son stay at Point Clear with Mrs. Fred Taylor. Ray Cosminsky injures his wrist at home. Mrs. G. Russell Ladd and family travel to town after cottage damage at Point Clear. Several visitors arrive in town from Houston Ocean Springs Camden and Mobile for visits and health.
London July 11 Sir James Roberts of Saltaire has donated 10 000 pounds to the University of Leeds to establish and sustain a professorship in Russian language and literature He heads a firm that helped introduce coarse Russian wool into English worsted manufacture. Tallapoosa hunts Magnolia Washington July 11 The coast guard cutter Tallapoosa is sent to search for the barge Magnolia which broke from the steamer Northwestern July 4 during the gulf storm It was last seen west of Tampa.
The administration's omnibus revenue bill passed the House 240 to 140, with amendments reducing tariff and allowances for the tariff commission and raising surtaxes on incomes. The measure adds taxes on inheritances war munitions profits and cigarette production and targets estates over 50 000 dollars. The bill now goes to the Senate and is expected to yield about 197 million dollars annually.
Advice for summer skin care recommends mercurized wax applied at night to create a fresh complexion by morning. Avoid greasy creams and powders as sun wind and dust worsen wrinkles. A wash using saxolite and hazel is suggested to remove lines and improve skin appearance.
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