Prize Winning Essays in The Item's Contest On Week End Resorts
Bayou La Batre trip described by Miss Alice Newell with a Mobile start at 7:30 a.m. aboard the M and O Baby Shore line. The writer details a sea bath at coast water, sailing to Coden, lunch at The Villa Alba, a dance, return sail, another swim, and a three plate luncheon at Smith's Inn before boarding the Baby Shore train home.
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Mobile
M. and O
Bayou la Batre
Coden
Villa Alba
Smith’s Inn
Mobile Bay
M. A. Bowen
When You Were A Boy
A reminiscence by Jack Callahan about a day well spent as people returned to their homes after an outing.
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Jack Callahan
Resorts Near Mobile Offer Quiet Healthful Vacations
The piece extols Mobile area resorts Fairhope Battles Coden and Dauphin Island as ideal getaways for workers seeking rest and salt water baths. It highlights Fairhope’s public bath house Colonial Inn and Murray Hotel, the Bay Shore Railroad trip, family enjoyment with grandchildren, peaceful sleeps, and wholesome seaside activities by Mobile Bay.
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Mobile
Atlantic City
Fairhope
Battles
Coden
Dauphin Island
United States
Colonial Inn
Murray Hotel
Astor House
Mobile Bay
Bay Shore
Vacation route to Dauphin Island and Mobile resorts
The text describes traveling from the Mobile and Ohio station to Coden by boat to reach Dauphin Island with its wind swept sands and historic forts like Fort Gaines and Morgan. It highlights Rolston's as a summer resort famed for tarpon fishing and trout, plus inexpensive meals such as a five dollar Astor House dinner for 60 cents and generous tipping.
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Mobile & Ohio
Coden
Dauphin Island
Morgan
Fort Gaines
Rolston’s
Tarpon
Mobile
Astor House
Atlanta rink roof collapses killing three
Three men died and four men and a woman were injured when the roof of a downtown skating rink collapsed in Atlanta as heavy rain accumulated water on the roof and likely caused the failure.
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Atlanta
Free Day Outing Offer Encourages Mobile Essays
The Mobile Item runs a weekly contest inviting readers to submit 400 word essays about their best day or weekend. Three winners each Saturday receive a free day trip within 40 miles of Mobile, with rail or boat transport, a Dutch lunch and dinner at a chosen resort hotel.
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Old Mobile
Mobile
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Alice Newell
Lancheon
Smith's Inn
Kodaks
Taylor-Reynolds Optical Company
Dauphin Street
Bay St. Louis
Gulf Coast
Birmingham
Biram
Birmingham, Southern Railway
B. Erwin, Jr
James Freeman
Resorts Near
Alfred L. Edgar
Zundeils
Mary I. Malone
Zundels
Bay
Mobile Dry Goods Salesmen Association
Cessna
Deago
Foot Dauphin
Apollo
Magnolia Beach
Sea Cliff
New Orleans
GeNeek
Vuese
Battles Wharf
W. B. Curran
Prop
Beautiful
Birdsall
Coden, Ala
da Eures
Nicholas Pure Food and Grocery Store
Dauphin
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