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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1915
Page
6
A mosaic of whimsical items and social events in Mobile includes playful garden gate imagery, yacht outings to Point Clear, linen showers for Ida Mai Gurganus, a party honoring Revolutionary era figures, and numerous society notices featuring weddings, showers, receptions, and local gatherings with names, places, and dates.
The notice extols Anita Stewart as a natural actress, praising her simple, untheatrical charm and free spirit seen in films like The Wood Violet. It promises a fresh screen experience with her delicate youth and vivid stage presence.
Tuesday events include a children's story hour infirmary from 4 to 5 pm a linen shower for Miss Burganus at 4 30 pm a yacht club dance at 8 pm and meetings of the Mobile Art Club and Raphael Semmes Parliamentary Law Club. Wednesday features two weddings and various social gatherings. Thursday through Saturday list club meetings and a Broad Street Tennis Club house party on the Eastern Shore plus social events at Magnolia Beach.
Whistler Alabama residents are listed with visits and travel. Mr and Mrs William Fawcett of Selma arrive to visit Mr and Mrs Horace Cross on Fourth street. Mrs Samuel Kelley hosts the Wednesday Afternoon Sewing Circle on Engine street. Suburban League officials Tew and Tate met Mobile planners for a July 6 field day. Willie Williams of Gilmer visits his parents Mr and Mrs James Williams. Miss Maggie Bullard of Waynesboro visits her brother L L Bullard. Lula A Peterson leaves for Birmingham to join a tourist party for an extended West trip. Mrs John Promey and son Charles Henry return to Century Florida after a ten day visit with her parents Mr and Mrs Charles H Kohl. Ground Keeper James Tate directs grounds work for the Suburban League.
John M. Sellers files for divorce from Wallie O. Sellers on adulterous conduct grounds. custody of two children Lucy six and Anderson four sought. Willie M. Gause seeks divorce from William C. Gause for voluntary abandonment. married in New Orleans June 25 1910. separation alleged June 25 1911.
A vintage appeal urging women to use Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to restore health after enduring excessive homemaking duties. It claims many women suffer in silence and promotes the product as a long standing solution.
Grand Junction Colorado June 29 The High Line canal seventy miles long to irrigate more than fifty thousand acres of government lands was opened today. John J Fitzgerald chairman of the house appropriations committee started the machinery that opened the head gates from Grand river. The canal was constructed in four years at a cost of about three million dollars.
Missouri's high court sustains the Chicago and Alton Railroad demurrer in a suit by the state to recover about $2 million in alleged excess fares collected during the period when the 2 cent rate and maximum freight laws were being litigated.
New York June 29 David Essac son head of Kalas Manufacturing Company Boston and this city was sentenced to a year and a day in the federal prison at Atlanta and to pay a 200 dollar fine for using the mails to defraud. He is believed to have obtained more than 500000 by swindling advertisers seeking light at home work for artists.
In 1914 JAMA notes calcium loss in tuberculosis and pretuberculous stages and suggests Eckman’s Alterative may aid recovery due to its assimilable lime salt content. The ad claims it avoids opiates or habit forming drugs and is sold at Braswell's Drug Store, Eckman Laboratory Philadelphia.
Edward Turner a white man was arrested Tuesday morning by Deputy Sheriff Mose Bernstein on a warrant sworn out in the inferior criminal court by Mrs Annie Clausen charging a serious offense.
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