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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1915
Page
3
A meditation on joy and sorrow, urging resilience as crowds laugh and celebrate while personal pain remains shared by none. The speaker notes that pleasure fills halls and success may seem final, yet every life ends in pain and isolation.
National Suffrage Association distributes a bulletin arguing women are citizens with civic duties. It cites working women, housekeepers, mothers, teachers, businesswomen, and tax paying women needing the ballot to secure fair wages, regulate conditions, and ensure better governance. The piece urges mutual support between men and women to achieve suffrage.
The Pensacola Equal Suffrage League changes Dr Shaw's Pensacola talk to Saturday March 20 after originally planned Friday March 19. She lectures in Jacksonville on March 18 and arrives Pensacola the night of March 19, speaking Saturday evening under the League. The Journal quotes The Item editorials on her address.
Miss Mary Penny Thompson is chosen to succeed Mrs Ida Clyde Clarke as president of the Business Women's Equal Suffrage League in Nashville. The group plans an entertainment fundraiser with Stagecrafters and will bring Miss Jane Thompson of Chicago as suffrage speaker and organizer to town. Dr Anna Howard Shaw, president of the National Equal Suffrage Association, has lectured in Florida and the South and will speak in Miami on March 17 and Pensacola on March 20.
An advertisement touts Sloan's Liniment for rheumatism and aches. Apply to the surface without rubbing, claims quick relief as it penetrates to the seat of trouble. Priced at 25 cents a bottle with a money back guarantee if not satisfied.
Mme Emma Calve the famed French opera star aids the French Red Cross Society in New York by packing canvas bags for French soldiers at the front. She says the soldiers need comforts after her visits to France. Other prominent women assisting include Miss Molly Pearson Mme Fermstad Miss Geraldine Farrar Mrs Herbert L Satterlee and Mrs Henry Frick.
The Shakespeare Club hosts Reci procity Day with Mrs. James Hogan. The A and IL S meets Saturday March 6 at 10 30 a m at Barton Academy Room 114.
Irvin gton Ala March 6 new bookcases received for the library room and 150 more books arriving soon. Mr Blayney returns to Minneapolis. St Pauls Guild meets with Mrs W A Coole. next with Mrs Frank Matlock. Delicatessen sales Saturdays. Agricultural meeting held at Irvington high school with strong turnout. Baptism at St Pauls chapel for Montgomery Westover and Mrs J J Montgomery. Kenneth Haney improving. Dr Nye visiting daughter Mrs R A Sleep. Warren Eddy and family visiting from Rockford Ill. Homeseekers A Brooks and Blake from Huntington W Va.
The Exposition Girl will be immortalized in statues, murals, and the 1915 silver dollar. Her likeness graces major NYC buildings including Civic Pride, and she has posed for the Titanic Memorial and other works. Audrey Munson, living near Riverside Drive with her mother, became a fixture among leading American artists.
The Item lists visitors staying at various hotels in Mobile and nearby towns. Names include C. M. Jackson of Montgomery and L. H. White of Birmingham at Bienville Hotel, S. B. Northrop of Eliska and R. E. Adams at St Andrew, and many others from Alabama and beyond lodging at Windsor Klosky Battle House Cawthon and other hotels. General Agent J. D. McInnis of Mobile & Ohio also seen in Mobile on business.
A severe March rainstorm flooded Pascagoula delaying gardening for days. The steam tug Tuscaloosa brought the dredgeboat Pascagoula into port with heavy river work ahead, joined by the Gulfport snagboat Tombighbee and dredgeboat crews. About 100 men are employed along the Pascagoula river and local leaders celebrate continued river projects led by F H Lewis and backed by Congressmen Harrison Humphreys and Senator Vardan.
James Smith a 31 year old planter from Bude Mississippi died in Natchez after 108 hours of artificial respiration performed by volunteers who raised and lowered his arms. Doctors hoped for a surgical fix but pulmotor attempts failed. Post mortem showed swollen muscles and ligaments with strained shoulders and arms. he remained conscious throughout.
A man from New Orleans visits Mobile with friends Cc. O. Graham and wife and H. V. Graham of Lily Orchard Mississippi staying several days at the Cawthentel. T J Brooks of Brewton Alabama and Calus Frisp of Silverhill Baldwin County spent Friday in Mobile as guests of the Windsor.
The Item introduces a new department "Women's World and Work" to publish news from women's groups. Churches, philanthropic and fraternal bodies, musical and literary clubs, and patriotic organizations are urged to send meeting notices and stories. Submissions due by 1 pm Saturdays or noon other days.
The February Woman's Home Companion presents a molasses candy recipe by Fannie Merritt Farmer with butter sugar molasses water and finishing steps. Farm and Fireside discusses nut crops and peanut history including production data and value. Additional home tips cover herrings prep cornmeal cakes grate cleaning hats and pantry fixes.
Friends of Jason J. Davis report he is expected to leave St. Margaret's Hospital soon after injuries from the Montgomery auto crash that killed Isaac Benyaker and wounded six, including Barkoot Carnival owner K. G. Barkoot. H. G. Miller remains seriously hurt with a second amputation risk. others are rapidly recovering and to rejoin the Barkoot shows in Birmingham.
The American schooner Horatio L Baker sank off the Bahama Islands on March 1 after a hatch tore loose and the vessel leaked. The British steamer Russian Prince, arriving at Port Arthur, Texas, rescued all fourteen crew members.
The Cambria Steel Company of Johnstown Pennsylvania received an order for 46 500 tons of steel from the Russian government. The deal is worth about 2 000 000 dollars and the material is intended for making shrapnel.
Argument in the $3,000,000 damage suit brought by owners of the Empress of Ireland against Canadian Pacific Railway over the St Lawrence River disaster ended yesterday in Montreal. Judgment reserved after the collision with the Storstad last May.
Miss Mary Mallon of Cincinnati was awarded Friday the William Borden fund which provides 1600 dollars annually to a member of the graduating class of Vassar College elected by the class. The fund enables the student to spend a year abroad in travel and study.
The Shakespeare Club explains that due to a new city federation and a state federation convention May 11-12 in Mobile, the reciprocity day program will be confined to federation members and made purely social, prompting non members to be excluded from Saturday’s celebration.
An old advertisement urges mothers to switch from harsh calomel and castor oil to California Syrup of Figs as a safe cleansing remedy for infants and children, claiming it soothes the stomach and bowels. It warns against counterfeits and directs buying the genuine product from the California Fig Syrup Company.
Directory style list of local firms including Henry R. Hawes Candy Co at 659 Dauphin Street and Home 1229, Evans Furniture Co at 412-414 Deuphis Street, McKenzie Barrett Carriage Co on State Street, Nack Carriage & Wagon Works at 274 N Bell, Opilusso Mobile Optical Co. at 17 N Conception St, F C Horton Van Antwerp Building, Gulf City Dye Works at 55 S Conception Street, Troy Steam Laundry at 56 St Emanuel Street, Ommerenting Company and White Eckert Co, Duggan Taylor Realty, Verona Lumber Co, with multiple Bell and phone references.
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