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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1916
Page
9
Practical notes on stain removal using solvents like gasoline and ether, plus tips for pastry browning with beaten egg and water. Includes a recipe for Water Sponge Cake with sugar, eggs, baking powder, and flour and a brief line on home made breakfast food.
An old advertisement argues nine out of ten illnesses stem from minor liver or bowel issues. It touts Granger Liver Regulator as a safe, vegetable remedy free of chemicals. The product is marketed in small tin boxes for five cents, described as refreshing and effective.
Advertises Ely's Cream Balm as a remedy for head colds and catarrh. Claims it opens nostrils and relieves stuffed head by soothing inflamed mucous membranes with a small topical application. Ends with testimonial tone praising immediate relief and freedom from hawking and headaches.
A new spring bag labeled as a prosperity note features a dull black lizard skin body with plain hammered silver mountings. The design emphasizes ample space to hold items like bank rolls and other essentials.
A recipe notes roasting grain for breakfast and using rye bread with caraway seeds for flavor. It suggests storing in a coffee tin to stay crisp. Also advises reviving bottled olives by draining brine, adding olive oil, shaking and resting to restore ripe flavor.
On next Sunday March 5 at 7 30 p m Rt Rev Edward P Allen will bless the stations of the cross at St Catharine of Sienna church Crichton located at Spring Hill and Stem avenues Rev Thomas J Eaton will preach Rev Edward J Hackett will be master of ceremonies All Mobile priests attend in the sanctuary Cathedral choir will direct music Public invited Cars stop at the church.
Mrs W C Brown of Cleveland Ohio recounts four weeks in hospital with severe lower body pain and fainting. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with rapid improvement and urges others to obtain a bottle from a local drug store. She invites readers to write for free advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. confidential Lyda.
Inquiries to Miss Eros about love affairs are printed. names hidden. Louise asks if a girl should seek or accept a friendship link. Miss Eros says let the boy offer it. Louise worries about a long-ago lover who dates others while she loves him. Miss Eros urges patience and viewing him as a friend.
Main Division Craighead Club at 3 30 p m at the Y W GA Governing board meets at 3 p m Officers and chairmen urged to report Annual meeting U S C 1812 10 30 a m at Battle House Leinkauf School Improvement Association at the school 3 p m Woman s Missionary Society Government Street Methodist Church 11 a m Old Shell Road School Improvement Association at the school 3 p m Mobile Branch 8 A C W Parlor C Battle House 3 30 p m Saturday Gymnasium Class of Y W C A 10 30 a m Moose auditorium with Miss Margaret Austill Shakespeare Club 11 a m with Mrs C J Torrey A B L 8 in club rooms of Yerby building
Curtis Smith headed to Des Moines for summer. Mrs. Marietta Johnson and Mrs. E Swift travel to New York for lectures at Carnegie Hall. Mr. and Mrs. Tuttle visit from Marlboro. Local residents report moves to Boston and Ohio. Tourists and Illinois visitors plan a Mobile outing to view orange orchards. An art exhibit is planned for the Gulf Coast Fair in Mobile. Fairhope avenue and Ingleside drive planned improvements. Fort Morgan excursion drew 150 travelers. Pythian entertainment eyed as winter highlight. New high school building under rapid construction on the organic school grounds. H L James arrives in town as Christian Endeavor field secretary.
Prichard Camp of Modern Woodmen of America held a February 29 meeting at Myle's Hall initiating five candidates and electing six for next initiation. Rev. J W Jones was ordained at Prichard Baptist church in a service led by ministers including Rev. J D Person and Rev. D W Bosdell.
Reports from the bureau of fisheries show Alaska's 1915 cod catch at 15,192,284 pounds more than 1914 and 1913. New England totals drop to 60,074,530 pounds, while Alaska remains largely untapped. Unga island serves as the main shore station with operations extending to Unimak and Sannak islands. The Alaska governor reports continued expansion.
Eighteen large schooners and five smaller vessels fish for cod with fishermen mostly Scandinavians. Dr E Lester Jones notes they appear prosperous and happy in his deputy commissioner report. Road grants raise railroad wages for 6000 trackmen in Scranton Pa. to 1.75 a day, foreman up 5 a month.
D. P. Carley transfers to Annie Crane for 50 dollars in section 10 township 7 south range 2 west. P. Powers transfers to Christina A. Bullock for 1900 dollars the southwest corner of Palmetto and Lawrence Streets. D. R. Burgess and wife transfer to P. Billie for 1000 dollars a 72 foot parcel from the northwest corner of St. Francis and Hamilton Streets.
The super dreadnaught Nevada was delivered to the navy department at the navy yard by Fore River Shipbuilding of Quincy. She will be further equipped before commissioning about April 1.
Governor Henderson appointed Richard V. Evans of Birmingham to the Alabama Court of Appeals to fill the unexpired term of Judge E Perry Thomas. Evans begins April 1 and serves until next January. The Jefferson county executive committee barred Charlies RE Rice from qualifying for Congress, prompting expectation the decision will be overruled. Adjutant General Hubt Major Locke inspect Birmingham field artillery batteries led by Major L S Rance.
A whimsical verse recounts a writer who issued a bad check and faced arrest after the paper returned it. A deputy devil figure jokes about lime chloride and assigns blame to rhyming authors.
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