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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1916
Page
7
A collection of Dear Miss Eros letters shows teen readers seeking romance guidance. The responses advise on manners, hat etiquette, and handling multiple admirers, including two girls named Rose and Pansy and a trio of girls from Alabama.
In a gentle woodland tale Nurse Jane seeks cleaning supplies. Uncle Wiggily helps Mary wash a soot stained lamb until its fleece turns white, enabling the child to take the lamb to school. The rabbit returns home with soap and brush, ready for the next adventure.
A poem and quotation argue for compulsory schooling to lift children from mill work and poverty. Kate Ford Covington in Macon Telegraph laments stunted futures and urges action, citing a national plan to build manhood and educate every child. Woodrow Wilson quote on friendship and loyalty concludes.
An old time remedy Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound promises to restore natural hair color, darken gray, and improve scalp health. Advertisers tout ease of use with a dampened comb and a bottle costing about 50 cents, claiming results by morning and lasting after repeat applications.
Registration of babies under the Better Baby Week moves forward with ongoing talks at the Settlement Home and Kahn Co. factory events. Medical lectures, exams, and nurse and clubwoman volunteers accompany the program as parents register and seek guidance on infant care amid promises of prizes being secondary to infant development.
Creole Tea Health and Beauty Brew claims to eliminate poisons from the system and target the liver kidneys and complexion for all ages. It is sold worldwide and at Van Antwerp Drug Co Mobile, offered at 10 cents per box enough for a week.
For your child's cough if your child has a cold nose runs or coughs much get a small bottle Dr Bell's Pine Tar Honey. It's a pleasant Pine Tar Honey syrup children like and the medics soothe the cough and help sleep. After taking children stop fret sleep well and are soon entirely well. Insist on Dr Bell's Pine Tar Honey 25e at your Druggist.
The article promotes morning hot water with limestone phosphate as an internal bath to flush the stomach liver kidneys and bowels claiming it prevents toxins and diseases. It urges readers to buy limestone phosphate and touts health benefits and personal reform.
A vivid peacock themed hat appears in spring fashion with a black satin crown, emerald green tulle, and a gold-green tulle frill. A smart organdie collar frames the neck, enhancing the fan like silhouette.
Inquiries on love affairs addressed to Miss Eros will be printed if not too lengthy. Names, however, will not be printed. Address your inquiries to Miss Eros Mobile Item. Personal letters not answered, or private correspondence handled. Use ink, write only on one side of paper.
Wednesday features the Woman's Christian Temperance Union at Burgett Memorial 2 p m and the Catholic Knights and Ladies of America with Mrs Henry Ruffin at 404 Church Street 4 p m. Thursday lists Y W C A events at 10 36 and 3 45 p m plus Spring Shop and Ladies' Aid activities. Friday includes Octagon Chapter meeting at Parlor C Battle House 7 20 p m and Cathedral Sanctuary Society at McGill Institute 10 30 a m. Saturday runs Ralf Teen Age Girls of Sunday Schools at Government Street Presbyterian Church 11 a m.
Miss Liza Belle Hibben has been appointed deputy district attorney, the second woman in California to receive such an appointment after Miss Annette A. Adams. Hibben, who graduated at the top of a 54 student law class in 1913, now prosecutes cases in county courts, amid remarks about contradictions from fellow boarders.
A testimonial praises Dr Kilmer Swamp Root for relief from gravel stones and kidney trouble. Note sworn statement by A D Yates in 1915 Texas notarization. Ad promotes sample bottle and booklet, with sale details for regular sizes at drug stores.
A novelty method to serve steak with parsley onion butter, broiled thick cuts browned and topped with parsley and onion, baked five minutes in a hot oven. Includes baked beef roll made from chopped roast beef bread crumbs eggs butter onion juice parsley nutmeg and pepper served hot with sauce.
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