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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1915
Page
2
A romantic verse describes red roses and a brown thrush singing as a lover promises return. Imagery blends musk, lavender, and mist while a true heart vows undying affection despite potential illness or separation. The speaker pleads for reciprocal devotion.
A collection of aphorisms on the arts of living friendship and enduring love. Chesterfield notes that pleasing is a practical art, Hur suggests steady friendship proves strength, while a general reflection declares love as life’s key and world moving influence.
Mrs B Altmeyer and Mrs B Schlesinger of New York visit Mobile with hosts from the Pollock Altmeyer circle. A knitting party and a luncheon mark the week. Birthday celebrations for John Edward Jones II feature St Patrick motifs, green decorations, and family guests. Miss Mary E Hale linked to Cumberland hospital events with a $400 nurses’ aid gift and plans for a new Western Maryland Hospital.
The Ancient Order of Hibernians No. 1 celebrated Ireland and home rule with a banquet at the Battle House in Mobile attended by over 300 guests including clergymen and city officials. Bishop Edward P. Allen and Major E. P. Newsom spoke on Irish history, patriotism, and the hoped for Dublin parliament as musicians from Fort Barancas performed.
Mr. W. F. Tebbetts visits New York and travels with Mrs. Tebbetts to New Orleans. The Gages and the Bushes, Sr., depart for California, while Louis Forcheimer heads to New York and will join Leopold at Fort Deposit for Easter. Mrs. Nesbitt leaves for Aniston after pleasant Mobile social events. Dr. Rutherford and wife stay at the Southern Infirmary for another operation. Alma Philyan returns to Evergreen. John and Mrs. Weakley plan a trip to Mobile and Birmingham.
Broadway star Richard Carle appears at the Empire in The Dancing Beetles a comedy sure to provoke laughter. Also on bill Snatched From a Burning Death a Vitagraph feature with Helen Gardner and Lubin entries Winning Winsome Win and A Siren of Corsica with Jack Standing and Lillie Leslie.
John Thomas of Magazine Point was convicted in the inferior criminal court Thursday for stealing one bag of onions from John Hendryx Jr. of Prichard and was sentenced to thirty days in the county jail. Flynn was fined ten dollars and costs for unlawful riding of trains.
The Mobile Item notes several children born in March with names and addresses, inviting them to a birthday picture party this afternoon. Tickets have been mailed and readers are urged to send full birth details to the Chil dren’s Editor at Mobile Item two days before their birthday.
Lieutenant De Deuch hosted a 7 pm dinner on the US cutter Winona. Guests included Misses Loraine Cunningham Dorothy Talcott Virginia Woolf Marguerite Festorazzi and Lt Bagger Crozier Dr E S Sledge Lt and Mrs Louis Bennett. The event marks the Winona's nearing retirement.
Frances Blackledge known as Fannie Washington was found guilty of burglary in city court and remanded to county trials for sentence. She allegedly robbed Lem Underwood’s residence months ago, taking two pairs of pants and two razors.
Quick relief for sore feet using two tablespoonfuls of Calocide in a warm foot bath. The remedy claims to peel corns and callouses and reduce bunions by acting through the pores. Large box priced at twenty five cents from drug or general stores. Prepared at Medical Formula Laboratories Dayton Ohio.
The fire department report for February shows 69 alarms responded. Total fire losses reached 189150 dollars with insured loss 63444 and total loss 4253.61 dollars borne by insured and uninsured. Three fires spread to adjoining buildings and causes included sparks 46 cases and defective flues 5 among others.
A poem containing a sarcastic remark about Emperor Willie leads to the sentencing of First Lieutenant Alfred Humbert of the Thirty-first Regiment of French rifles as a war prisoner at Strassburg to six months confinement.
Twenty couples gathered at Miss Jessie Schnell’s Marine Street home to honor Mr Charles Warnecke of Bristol England. The party featured green and white decor, music from a Schnell family orchestra, progressive peanuts with winners Othenar Nelson and Ella Harbula, booby prizes to Edmund Doody and Ethel Seabury, and dancing before early morning departures.
An ad claims mer colized wax removes the surface skin gradually to reveal a healthy glow and girlish beauty. It says the wax dissolves wrinkles and offers a cheaper alternative to cosmetics, to be used like cold cream and washed off each morning.
Lillians Sanders, a black woman, was arrested in the northern city area by Deputies Lynch and Soles for assaulting and attempting to kill Imer Degrue alias M alissa Harris with a knife. The attack at 608 North Conception Street left a seven inch neck gash and the victim taken to the city hospital. No bond was set for the accused by Sheriff W. H. Holcombe.
A health ad urges fat gain for underdeveloped men and women and promotes Sargel as a gentle, inexpensive remedy. It claims six strength giving elements boost digestion and nerve power, providing concentrated fats to the blood within a month, with Van Antwerp Drug Co and other druggists noting demand.
A Birmingham and Mobile study estimates a seven passenger jitney at 600 dollars cost with 27 000 miles in three years. Life projected at five years 45 000 miles leaves 18 000 miles for jitney service. Daily mileage and expenses computed yield 1 909 50 total for 75 days and a loss of 1 459 50 to 1 200 0.
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