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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1915
Page
3
Poem tribute to a mother by Cook Allen describing a deep Valentine love. The speaker reflects on music and divine love, urging mother to hear their heart as it honors the Great Unsung and reverent silence.
A coronation celebration described as a brilliant social event unfolds Monday at 9 p.m. The Sowers committee with L. Marty as general chairman leads reception and society groups with blue and red badge decor. Guests are admitted by ticket only with specific entry points and masked attire rules described.
A Mobile led legislative party tours the Mobile carnival grounds with Senators Hartwell Key Holmes Jones Weathers Bell Denson Higgins etc and Representatives Grayson Chamberlain Wilson Shapiro and others. Correspondents from major papers attend as Miss Mabel Hartwell Mobile's carnival queen is featured in the Sunday Advertiser photograph.
Miss Hartwell, crowned queen, led a pageant at the Manassas gallery with a Berlin crepe gown and gold accents. Emperor Felix III visited Mobile, received keys from Mayor Pillans, and toured the city with a royal entourage amid carnival splendor and court of debutantes.
The funeral was held Sunday at 3:30 p.m. from the family home with Rev. F. M. Hutchison of Whistler Methodist Church presiding at the house and cemetery. Pallbearers included James Tucker James W Little J Henry Thomas and Henry A Hartley among others.
A vintage ad pressures parents to avoid medicines and let nature work to cure a child’s cold. It promotes a “Cold King” remedy as the ideal choice and urges readers to buy a bottle at once.
On Monday the queen of the carnival is publicly recognized by Emperor Felix III at the Manassas Club at 1 30 p m with open house and dancing to 4 p m The coronation follows the I M parade at the wharf auditorium The Infant Mystics annual ball is at the Battle House at 9 p m Colonial Dames meet with Mrs J G Thomas at 11 a m Wise hosts a pre lunch for carnival guests at 8 p m Elks ball honors the king queen and court with festivities tentatively listed at Sirm-
Mr and Mrs Gre of Montgomery are described as spending the carnival season in the local society notes, with no further details on events or dates provided.
A Monday afternoon ceremony marked the formal opening of the Livestock Show held opposite the Gulf Coast Home Products Show on Michael Street. A. J. Parsons, former Mobile Chamber of Commerce president, presided and introduced Alabama Agriculture Commissioner Wade and family guests from Pensacola and Marble.
In Birmingham on February 15 the government rests its case against the Standard Home Company and three officials charged with mail fraud and promoting a lottery. Final prosecution witness Louis N. Reese, an expert accountant, testified on the company’s books as contracts promising loans of six to fourteen months were mailed. The defense plans to take a week or more.
Shippers advised on cold 22 degree 36 hour routes and rising Tombigbee levels while Alabama weather shifts from high Nebraska area. Mobile fair weather to continue with lower temperatures tonight. The Mobile Chamber shows Shorthorn and Angus stock displays with exhibitors from Grand Bay to Crosby area and railroad exhibit support.
German and British papers react to the United States note defending neutral rights. The Kreuse Zeitung blames Britain for flag misuse and shipping danger, while the Morgen Post and Tages Zeitung urge stronger protest and adherence to the London Declaration to curb contraband and protect neutrals.
The Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company calls its annual stockholders meeting for February 17 1916 at noon in the Gulf Terminal Station Bas on to elect directors for the ensuing year and transact listed business. A. W. Mackintosh signs the notice dated January 11.
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