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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1913
Page
5
Discourse on weddings and entertaining blends with a long social calendar. Mrs. Joseph McPhillips hosts a four o clock reception while Mrs. H M Friend and Gertrude Smith’s bridal party receive after rehearsal. House Honey Suckle poem and Countess of Blessington highlight leisure and family.
The second day featured the ladies and mens singles with victors including Little Houston Wheeler Tucker and Fitzpatrick over Ellis Wallford Jernigan Boyles and Ross. Imogen Little defeated Luke Lesesne and E A Maxon beat Fearn. Singles finish today.
A Detroit woman states two years of suffering with bearing down pains and insomnia improved after Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. A Philadelphia resident reports backaches and side pains eased after two bottles, with no recurrence of former troubles.
The Mobile Chapter D A R program committee will meet Thursday afternoon with chair Mrs Henry Goldthwaite to finalize plans for next season s year book and events.
Yesterday at the bride’s home in Cedar Rapids Iowa Miss Nock and John S Arnold of Mobile were married in a romance he loved for some time. The groom is the younger brother of C T Arnold with whom he is in business and the trip to Chicago was a summer vacation. The couple will reside in Mobile after their honeymoon.
A brief note describes a social gathering at Sea Cliff ending after an outing over the bay. The account highlights the pleasant atmosphere and the house as a key feature of the gathering.
A seaside party at Seacliff features Miss Mary Emma Nettles and guests from Georgiana and Ohio, with launch Chiriqui in use and Helen Zeigler remaining to visit Miss Nettles. In city, Mrs E R Laurendine hosts a June heart party and linen shower for Miss Leah Claire Rosen with a large turnout and a two-course luncheon.
The 500 party hosted by Mr and Mrs John Grey in Louisville marks a sequence of fetes for Walter Higgins and Mary Hagan on their wedding journey. The pair, guests of Mr and Mrs W H Higgins, are feted across city and region by relatives and friends from Mobile to New Orleans during a summer visit.
In a fragment from a domestic tale, Helen and Maggie wash Pussy Purrmen with Fuller's Earth and blue hair rinse, then argue with Warren at dinner about aging and hair color, revealing tensions over appearances and control in marriage. The scene ends with Helen deflecting a deeper quarrel.
Chicago coeds protest a university ban on chewing gum, seeing it as an infringement of personal rights. Rumors claim gum production sites by dormitories amid an order restricting gum in the university book store articles.
In Yonkers New York on June 24 Rev Dr Byron Holley rector of St George s Episcopal Church New Orleans won back the woman he wooed and lost forty years ago at a public school No 12 commencement Mrs Elizabeth Sanborn Knapp widow and long time teacher retires on pension after 25 years in the classroom The couple were sweethearts in Rochester two decades past a misunderstanding halted their marriage and the pair plan nuptials soon at the Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York
The 31st bundesturnfester Olympiad of the North American Gymnastic Union opens in Denver with twelve guns signaling the arrival of President Theodore Stempfel and his party from Indianapolis. The week features athletic contests a flag drill with 8000 children and prize singing contests as German newspapers from across the United States send representatives.
London June 24 Mrs Beatrice H Saunders the financial secretary of the Women's Social and Political Union freed on license due to ill health from a hunger strike. She and five other officials were sentenced to 16 months for conspiring to damage property and four others had been released the previous Saturday.
J F Wallich of Bartlett Nebraska suffered backache and dizziness from kidney trouble. He took Foley Kidney Pills and was cured of kidney trouble. His 93 year old father in law also benefited, gaining years of life. Van Antwerp Drug Corporation. adj.
President Wilson walked bare headed to the gate to bid farewell to Bermuda colonial secretary A Popham Lobb. The two had met in Bermuda and Lobb had been hosted at the capitol for luncheon, with Wilson strolling through the grounds to meet his departing guest.
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