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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1915
Page
5
Verses compare choices among fame wealth and beauty with a woman choosing beauty. The poem reflects on fate and longing, pairing Lucy Eleanor Johnston and Sir Edwin Arnold lines about pursuit and union. The verses contrast seductive options and a hopeful path toward a final, brighter day.
The engagement of Miss Helen Norville to Mr Allen M Grayson of Selma was announced Sunday and drew wide statewide interest. Norville is a popular Mobile social figure and Grayson a successful Selma cotton firm executive with many friends sending congratulations.
An executive committee session of the Interdenominational Missionary Union is set for 11 o'clock at the residence of Mrs. J. J. Bartee with a full attendance urged. The event underscores the union’s ongoing outreach and planning.
On March 1 a new federal enactment requires retail medicines containing opium cocaine or derivatives to register with the internal revenue department showing exact quantities and regulates sale dispensing and giving away. Vitalitas a non alcohol etc remedy is exempt and marketed as a pure mineral tonic claimed to aid stomach liver kidneys and blood with cures after other treatments fail. Investigate Vitalitas at Sutton's Drug Store.
Mrs. J. Rose entertained the Tuesday Sewing Club at her home at 2 30 in the afternoon with spring needle work and chat. The setting featured hyacinths ferns and a prettily appointed dining table with coffee cake chocolate and salad following refreshments. Twelve members and one guest Miss Fannie Crawford attended.
News notes several Mobile social visits and family movements. Elaine Eichold returns to Mobile after visiting. Mrs. Peter Vredenburgh travels from Vredenburgh. families and individuals relocate between Mobile Chicago New Orleans Montgomery Atmore and Birmingham with spouses and guests accompanying or awaiting trips. Ensign Lloyd Abbott resigns from navy arriving with Mrs. Abbott in Mobile.
Mechanics Lodge No 69 I O O F meets Tuesday at 7 p.m. on Carr street with E D Nichols presiding. Whistler Lodge No 127 K of P met last night at the I O O F hall and conducted routine business led by C C Gilbert R Bridge. Kodaking party gathered at Eugene and Maud McRee home on Whistler road with several youths and adults attending. Local residents report visitors and returns from Mobile New Orleans and Kent Ohio with updates on families and health.
Irene Weston surveys wedding superstition in a playful guide to marriage dates and days. It lists lucky and unlucky months and days, from May to December, highlighting June 4 and October 9 as favored, and warns against changing a chosen date.
The Auction Club gathers with Missoraine Cunningham. The Tuesday Sewing Club meets with Mrs. J. Rose at 2 30 p m.
A public novena will begin tomorrow morning at St Matthews Catholic Church in Oakdale with the 7:30 mass. Devotions follow the mass and continue until March 19 St Joseph Day under the leadership of Rev J W Dunne the pastor.
At the Mississippi Valley Suffrage Conference in Indianapolis on March 9, Mrs. William S. Thomas of Illinois and Mrs. Glendower Evans of Massachusetts led talks on advancing suffrage and ending the European war. Also speaking were Mrs. Antoinette Funk and Mrs. Grace Wilbur. The notes mention stars Francis X. Bushman Ruth Stone house and Lillian Drew in The Battle of Love at the Empire tomorrow.
A refined frock described as suitable for graduation ceremonies and winter dances. The design blends formal elegance with versatile styling, highlighting fabric, silhouette, and finishing touches for multi season wear.
The article details an Empire style dress with a narrow foundation and high waist, showing fabric options like flowered silk crepe and embroideries. It lists yardage for different views and sizes 16 and 18, and notes mailing the pattern from the Fashion Department for ten cents.
Captain J T Newberry improves at Providence infirmary after pneumonia. Captain Ladriier recovering after operation at Inge Bondurant Sanitarium. Mallory Liner Sabine sails with cotton and freight for New York via Key West and Tampa. William Ware and Joe Chatman jailed for alleged malicious mischief against Kk T Bixler's house. Oscar Smith charged with 10 cents theft. Curtis Franklin jailed for assault on Fred Wilby. P J Kelly dairyman cited for selling substandard milk. H B Warren files complaint. Detectives arrest Dave Crawford and George Eager for corn theft from Leo Eldridge’s barn. sacks recovered. Hose Company fights chimney fire on Kilmarnock Street. E H Shaw visits on Southern Railway business. James W Hunter tours Wig Island for fruit-farm work. David Michel leaves Lichtbach Bros for New Orleans business venture.
University of Mississippi lawyers urge the Supreme Court to uphold the Mississippi anti fraternity law. The case involves J P Waugh of Kappa Sigma seeking to bar enforcement, arguing states may govern their institutions and prohibit fraternities at state colleges. The oral argument will occur in weeks, with focus on the law’s constitutionality.
Reading an affidavit from Griffith Indiana praises Eckman’s Alterative for curing catarrhal pneumonia and tuberculosis. The testimonial notes dramatic personal recovery, weight gain, and renewed health after using the medicine, with claims of upbuilding the system and no habit forming drugs.
The Flying Squadron of America arrives in Mobile with Ex Governor J Frank Hanly of Indiana and Oliver W Stewart of Chicago among dozen officials and performers. They plan to speak in Montgomery and emphasize anti liquor arguments in several lectures and meetings.
A quote praising women who gather roots and herbs for family cures. It notes Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a dependable remedy originating from pioneer mothers and widely used across towns and hamlets in America.
A preacher denounces liquor sales as a vice and urges Christians to unite for law and order and temperance. He warns politicians and liquor dealers will use foul methods to obstruct wholesome legislation and calls citizens to steadfastly resist and support virtuous governance.
J O Haves, a white man, was fined five hundred dollars and costs of 140 days with an additional three months. He was arrested with Maud Rogers, who was discharged in the case.
The Patriot ic Octagon House Chapter of Mobile held a second monthly meeting in Parlor C at Battle House. Mrs. Richard Clarke of New York and Mrs. Winston Garth of Huntsville were unanimously elected associate members, with Garth serving as Huntsville organizing regent and Clarke as charter member for Mobile.
After grippe left her weak and restless Mrs Geo Findley says Vinci restored health strength and appetite. The ad claims Vinci cod liver and iron tonic sharpens appetite aids digestion enriches blood and builds energy. Distributed by Van Antwerp's Drug Corp Inc and sold at leading drug stores.
Weather bulletin reports frosts reaching the South Atlantic to central regions and snow in Texas with cold, clear conditions prevailing in the northern states. Temperatures drop to 4 degrees below zero at Huron South Dakota and 2 degrees below zero at North Platte Nebraska. Shippers should expect 22 degree protection for 36 hour shipments and 34 degrees for east and west routes. River forecasts show the Black Warrior and upper Tombigbee fall while lower Tombigbee rises. Alabama likely to fall due to dam at No. 12.
The Gabriel Jewelry Company buys the H S Lilius jewelry stock valued around 10000 to liquidate his business. They reject auctions and plan a half price public sale starting next Saturday, advertising to Mobile shoppers to attract new customers with reliable goods at half price.
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