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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1916
Page
6
A social note echoes affection and admiration for a steadfast companion. The speaker values faults and honesty over perfection and seeks to stay beside the beloved through life’s storms, cherishing their voice, smile, and eyes as a source of strength.
A Mobile wedding of wide interest joined Mrs. Jennie Dahlheimer and Mr. Alex Strouse in a private ceremony at the bride’s home. The double ring Jewish rite was conducted by Dr. Alfred G. Moses with the groom’s father Simon Strouse and his nephew Lee Strouse as attendants.
The piece catalogs dainty cosmetic accessories from sachets and puff jars to violet ammonia and sea salt baths. It offers advice on refreshing facial care with absorbent cotton and toilet water, and notes Miss Forbes answers health and beauty questions by mail.
Miss Mamie Windham and Mr. P Walter Walsh wed in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception with limited family attendance due to bereavement. The bride wore pearl gray taffeta with georgette lace and carried a bouquet of roses and valley lilies. Afterward the couple sailed for New Orleans and Galveston and will live with the groom’s parents on Conception Street.
Mrs E Gunn of Andalusia recently underwent a successful operation and is recovering well. Mrs Carl Holzborn visits her parents in Birmingham and plans to return to Mobile with her mother for a month. May Curtis leaves Spring Hill for New York and Boston to study dances with her brother in Boston. Mrs L A Eakins returns from Pensacola after the death of W W Wolfe. Mr and Mrs C P Pate, recently married in Pensacola, spend part of their wedding trip in Mobile and will visit New Orleans before returning.
Social calendar notes a Thursday lawn party by the Children of Confederacy at residence of Mrs. O. D. Dumas 1263 Dauphin Street at 5 p.m.
General Wood expressed disappointment as New York National Guard movements halted to allow water supply work at Camp Whitman Beekman. Two regiments are there with eleven more awaiting orders, while Wood notes only two cavalry troops and two infantry regiments mobilized in the department. He says regiments are short about 1,000 men and a full reserve force is needed to reach war strength.
General Wood criticized readiness for rapid defense and warned business leaders to expect abrupt mobilization. Major General O'Ryan said firms building motor vehicles offered to delay contracts and, if needed, supply trucks ambulances and cars to support U S wartime efforts with European belligerents.
The Mexi can crisis led to enlistment applications rising from 150 per month to 150 per day. National guard mobilization doubled Plattsburg training requests to over 175 daily. New York Life to issue policies up to 10000 for national guardsmen with a 5 percent extra premium for service abroad. Existing policyholders remain unaffected.
Instructions for life saving tests for Volunteer Life Saving Corps of Mobile to join. Examinations start at 5 o'clock at the Y M C A pool, conducted by Prof A E Marriott and John C Metzger. A large number of applications received. Corps meeting will allow the 6 30 o'clock examinations.
Jacob Huey a Whistler resident and former railroad master car builder died after a short illness. Born in Switzerland on October 16 1829 he lived in Whistler since 1861 and was known as Grandpa Huey. He served as postmaster and later justice of the peace and is survived by two sons a daughter and other relatives. Funeral is Thursday at 5 PM from the family residence with burial in Whistler Cemetery.
The article notes a fashion shift in medicine from harsh cathartics to mild laxatives like Chamberlain's Tablets. It claims these tablets provide natural relief, strengthen the stomach, and aid digestion, with broad availability.
A German submarine arrived at Copenhagen today and its officers departed for Madrid with a confidential letter for King Alfonso. The voyage began from Pola as favorable press praising German naval exploits circulates.
The German submarine U-35 arrived at Carta-gena and anchored beside the Darish cruiser Catalina. The German embassy secretary in Madrid left for Carta-gena to receive an autograph letter from the German emperor to King Alfonso, reportedly thanking him for hosting interned Kamerun Germans.
The firm of John H. McAndrew & Co. local brokers has been reorganized due to the death of senior member J. H. McAndrew. John Co. McAndrew represents the heirs and the new member is F. J. Watson.
Jesse Lewis is held at the county jail awaiting trial in the inferior criminal court on a charge of highway robbery. He will have a Monday morning hearing before Judge Henry Chamberlain. Frances Bussel and her daughter Estelle are named as compaining witnesses.
The probate court issued licenses on Monday to White Robert T. Black and Myrtle M. Jackson and to Son Baker and Beulah Dorbing, respecting both White and Colored couples.
Lawmakers met at noon and again at 11 a.m. approving the fortifications appropriation of 34 297 050 in indirect allocations and authorizations. The naval and army bills and revenue measures were under review as Ways and Means Democrats studied tax legislation. An advertisement for Hagan's Magnolia Balm promotes skin beautification with a sample offer from Lyon Manufacturing in Brooklyn.
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