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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1916
Page
6
A patriotic verse recalling the flag as a symbol of freedom and national unity. It frames the nation as blessed by light and enduring through ages, with references to soldiers, trumpets, and sacred meanings under the banner.
Historic Bienville Square hosts patriotic demonstrations as Mobile volunteers mobilize for the Red Cross. A sequence of flag presentations honors local groups including the Octagon Chapter A S D 1812 and Mobile Cadets Company A, with silk flags and engravings marking each gift.
A reader letter discusses false hair questions and suggestions. Advice notes that false switches harm little if not heated to the scalp and should resemble real hair, ideally made from combings. Proper care includes cleaning, brushing, and cautious oiling, with experts divided on cold cream affecting hair growth.
The note asks for a good diet plan for an invalid with rundown nerves who stays in bed most of the time and has a poor appetite. It seeks practical, comforting nutrition guidance suitable for a weakened elderly relative.
Mobile society marks flag ceremonies and weddings before troops mobilize. Flags presented to Company E and the machine gun unit. Rev. DuBose delivers patriotic sermon as Captain MacMahon’s mother attends. A betrothal and a sixteenth anniversary party contrast with wartime arrangements and social gatherings across Mobile and neighboring towns.
Mrs Ralph Larkin of Brewton visits son Guy Larkin while Mrs Z T Windham travels to Northport to see daughter. Miss Eugenia Rosson heads to Birmingham as guest of Miss Nettie Beall. Mrs Carl Kox and children return from West Point. Miss Maurine Cottrell leaves for Virginia. Miss Grace Harris en route to Chicago for Moody Bible Institute. Washburn W Paul returns to Anniston from visit with his mother. Mr and Mrs Joseph Meyers visit from New Orleans. Mrs Windham Lyons spends weekend with family at Magnolia. Mrs M B Davis visits daughter in Montgomery. Mrs Marion Inge Goodloe of Greensboro visits relatives. Mrs Claude Plowman arrives from Philadelphia to see Hon F S Moody. Mrs Louise Overton and daughter Antoinette of Beaumont Texas visit.
I Baerman was fined $50 or 50 days for violating the arcade by Recorder Edington. He paid the fine. Tom Osterich and Eugene Jemmerson, fined a like amount, refused to pay and appealed to the city court. They were released on bonds and later re ar rested on charges of having more than the legal amount of liquor in their possession. George W. Pearson and Francis Zieman had their prosecutions continued to June 28 and 29. Joe Brooks and John Cross faced prohibitions charges after liquor seizures. their bonds were posted by M. Gup and W. EB. Flinn respectively. Frank Evans pleaded guilty to violating the prohibition law and paid $50 and costs.
Monday events include Missionary Circle of Kings Daughters Burgett Memorial five p.m. Called Meeting and Ladies of Charity at Bishop Allen's residence five p.m. Also Mobile Public News Association at library and Mobile Graduate Nurses Association at Medical Association rooms three thirty p.m. Tuesday lists Red Cross Nursing Service class home economics rooms eleven a.m. Silver Tea at Mrs Adams 201 North Hamilton four to six p.m. Discards with Miss Rosa Lyons five p.m. Neighborhood Sewing Circle with Mrs Harold Bean three p.m. and Mobile Suffrage Association at Battle House parlor C ten thirty a.m. Four Mobile Graded Union at Burgett Memorial five p.m. Mothers Club entertain at Settlement Home seven thirty p.m. Recital by Dr Frederick Dunster Battle House eight fifteen p.m. S S S C with Miss Winifred Ewton eight p.m. Recital Miss Marian Brown at Mrs Crosby Reed Avenue seventy Reed Avenue eight fifteen p.m. Presbyterian Neighborhood Circle with Mrs C A Mohr five p.m. Craighead Parliamentary Law Club at six p.m. assembly room Cawthon Hotel.
In Ton, Texas, Mrs Edna Russo of New Orleans and Mrs John Russo of Houston Texas have two daughters and eight grandchildren. The funeral is set for Tuesday afternoon at the family residence or local chapel per the provided fragment.
Many are expected to join the Volunteer Life Saving Corps of Mobile with examinations at the YMCA swimming pool on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons at 5 o clock. Board of examiners note several applications and anticipate a large turnout for the tests. Demonstrations by corps members at the Battles station were led by Director A E Marriott and examiner John C Metzger with another show planned at the Battles pier next Sunday.
John A Steele of Fruitdale Alabama died after a weeks illness at a local infirmary at age 62. He was a Decatur Indiana native and former St Louis real estate man. Mrs Sarah L Blalack widow of Richard F Blalack died at 71 in New Orleans after a long illness, native of Bayou la Batre Alabama and longtime Mobile resident.
An advertisement touts Dr Bell's Pine Tar Honey as a cold remedy. It highlights honey pine tar and glycerine in a pleasant syrup that stops coughing and soothes the throat for all ages. The box lists the formula and price at 25 cents in drugstores.
Charles Chaplin's baroque style comedy on "Carmen" heads the Columbia program today tomorrow and Wednesday. The feature dominates the bill and is tied to a $200000 damage lawsuit, drawing public interest.
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