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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1915
Page
5
A lyrical exchange frames nature as the audience for song and joy. The speaker asks whom the bloom and the lyre serve and answers that both bloom and song aim at eyes and ears that can see and hear, celebrating play and life.
A promotional notice claims ordinary mer corized wax removes the faded outer skin layer to reveal fresher skin within ten days to two weeks. It advises applying at bedtime and washing off in the morning, with a second wash lotion using saxolite and hazel to erase wrinkles and firm the skin.
The E A Powell Chapter U D C hosted a Tuscaloosa tea at Academy Hill by Mrs. E C Hagler. The program featured readings by Mrs Hagler and Miss Susie Brown Anders and Mrs J B Maxwell discussing The First Flag of the Confederacy, amid spring flowers and refreshments.
Mrs C B Percy and others from Nashville Mobile and Birmingham attended a luncheon hosted by Mr and Mrs J Ly Edmondson of the Newspaper Club. Mrs Wilson tours lectures on domestic science with cooking demonstrations in Birmingham under the Ledger auspices.
The Beta Delta Club held its inaugural meeting in Dothan with Miss Maud Crawford hosting. Vases of Killarney roses adorned the parlor where two bridge tables offered a hand-made handkerchief as top prize won by Miss Helen Smith. A salad course with hot tea followed late in the afternoon. Miss Elsie Mae Roland, a Dothan girl formerly educated in Mobile, is listed as a member.
An advertisement touts Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a cure for nervousness and womanly disorders. It targets girls and mothers, claiming the remedy regulates the female system and restores strength, offering free confidential advice from the Invalids' Hotel in Buffalo and a 136 page book on women's diseases.
Mrs G Wire Tyler, wife of a former president’s son and psychologist, defends society's idle members against President Wilson's critique. She says society folk have little time even to sleep and deserve pity not censure, adding that only paupers fail to put on airs.
Miss Lillian Alston of Starkville visits relatives in Mobile before returning home. Miss Lelia Smith of Birmingham enjoys New Orleans hospitality with cousin Mrs. M. G. Ledyard and friend Mrs. Seale Harris. Debutante Amelie Hill is ill with grippe at home on South Perry Street. Mrs. Clais O Ferrall and Zoe Elizabeth host visitors from Knoxville. Mr. O Ferrall buys Mr. Wilson’s Fourth Avenue home and the Wilsons rent the O Ferrall suburban house. both families prepare moves. Sam Hobbs of Selma returns from Mobile with family. Dr. Monroe Maas of Mobile visits his mother in Selma. Mrs. C. M. Baker returns from visits in Mobile and Meridian. Mrs. R. M. Allen of Lexington, Kentucky, with daughter, leaves after carnival visits. Mrs. C. A. Newton returns from Evergreen, accompanied by Mr. Carter. Mr. and Mrs. Albert P. Bush host Mrs. W. D. Nesbitt of Birmingham for an extended visit.
Miss Henrietta Tacon hosts an informal dance for Miss Lilly Harrison of Atlanta on Ann street at 8 p m. The Friday Bridge Club meets with Miss Gabriella Barret at 3 p m. No Trump Club with Miss Rebecca Herndon at 1 p m. Friday Afternoon Social Club with Mrs. Charles W Short at 3 p m. Dr and Mrs H P Cole host visiting parents from Fergus Falls Minn and Canton NY. Manhattan Dye Works ad promotes ticket sales.
The Plateau Institute will demonstrate thirty two methods for cooking cowpeas Saturday from 12 to 3 p.m. Lydia Davis will lead the demonstration at the Home Products Show and serve pea coffee to tasters. Principal Isaiah J. Whitley says the cowpea is a valuable soil builder and a top food when prepared properly.
A salmagundi party at Miss Norma Suttons home on Ann Street honored Miss Lilly Noble Harmsen of Atlanta. Guests enjoyed a light luncheon after bridge, hearts, and 600 with prizes including bronze silk hose and a lilac crepe handkerchief.
Inclement weather postpones the Daphne civic improvement club meeting to March 11 at 7 30 p m. Citizens are urged to attend. The Daphne telephone system project continues with pole distribution and is expected to provide good service in two months. A Baptist Sunday school social is planned for March 6 with an engaging program.
Mobile Lodge Loyal Order of Moose nominates officers for the year at a Thursday meeting. Elections set for next Thursday. Nominations include White as dictator and Gordon as treasurer. A lodge smoker and membership drive occur at Government street with a thirty day reduced initiation fee. Vaudeville planned at the smoker. dry cleaning and pressing offered by Manhattan Dye Works.
Information filed with the Louisville and Nashville office states that the Missouri Pacific will inaugurate on April 21 a solid steel train de luxe named Scenic Limited. The daily 2 p.m. departure from St Louis will connect with Louisville and Nashville passenger train No. 4 to provide through service for exposition tourists from this region.
Nationally known prohibition workers arrive in Mobile for six meetings over Sunday Monday and Tuesday. Ex Governor J Frank Hanly of Indiana will keynote the Bienville Square mass meeting. Overflow expected at First Baptist Church with events for colored ministers at Warren Street Methodist. Poling and Dr Sheldon slated as speakers for March 7 program at First Baptist.
The Better Baby Show committee announces a ten day wait for winner names after 350 entrants. Dr. A W Metcalf notes a Sunday reveal and extra time for measurements. Lectures by Dr L L Duggar and Dr Metcalf are scheduled Friday and Saturday. Despite rain, 960 visitors attended Alba building Thursday.
H Reuter, a contractor from 816 Savannah street, brought a pound of dirty butter to The Item. He bought it at a Dauphin street store and showed it to health authorities and city commissioners who said no statute bars selling impure food. The city officials want such a law.
A vintage advertisement touts Knowlton's Danderine as stopping dandruff and hair loss. It claims immediate results with smoother, fuller hair and urges readers to buy a 25 cent bottle from drug stores or toilet counters for proof of improved hair health.
Through Friday noon eleven thousand four hundred forty visitors attended the Home Products Show of the Chamber of Commerce in the Alba building. Admissions numbered 986 at the Better Baby Show opening day. Daily totals rose to 2,694 on Tuesday and 2,921 on Wednesday with rain hindering Thursday attendance. A large Saturday is anticipated with many features planned.
Residents along the Arkansas river face flood danger from rapid rises caused by heavy valley rains. The weather bureau says flood stages 28 feet at Little Rock and 26 feet at Pine Bluff could be reached before Sunday with no fatalities reported. He bought a book of tickets from Manhattan Dye Works.
Effective during the week of April 1 the Louisville and Nashville Railroad changes arrival time of passenger train No 4 to St Louis from 2 59 p m to 1 26 p m The train carries a Pensacola St Louis sleeper and through sleepers Mobile Chicago and Mobile Cincinnati The revised arrival enables connections with limited westbound trains of the Missouri Pacific Burlington Route and Wabash system for San Francisco.
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas J. Lewis, in charge of the recruiting service for the territory, visited Mobile on Thursday noon and paid an official call at the Mobile recruiting office. There were no candidates to be examined on this trip. the sole applicant at present was detained for violating a city ordinance.
Ad promotes TIZ for sore tired feet and relief from corns bunions and swelling. Claims provide foot comfort with a money back guarantee and available in 25 cent boxes at druggists and department stores.
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