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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1916
Page
7
Recipes outline rising doughs for cloverleaf buns oatmeal muffins and dinner rolls. Ingredients include yeast sugar milk water flour butter eggs salt and lemon extract with steps for scalding boiling mixing kneading and rising times. Directions emphasize warm places and specific rise durations before baking in moderate heat.
Vick's Vap-O Rub advertised as relief for colds with hot wet towels over the throat. Rub Vick's in after warming the body to aid absorption through the air passages. Sold in 250 500 and 1.00 dollar sizes.
December report from O. J. Metcalf of Mo describes a severe cold that improved after buying two bottles of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. He praises the medicine as one of the best and says he will use it again if another cold occurs. Obtainable everywhere.
Advertisement proclaims a free 50c bottle of The Williams Treatment to prove it can conquer kidney and bladder diseases. Readers must mail the notice with 10c and address to The Dr. D A Williams Company, Dept 1652 E, General P O Block Hampton Conn, limit one bottle per family.
An advertisement claims meat irritates kidneys causing back pain rheumatic symptoms and urinary issues. It recommends four ounces of Jad Salts daily in water before breakfast to flush and stimulate kidneys, neutralize urine acids and aid bladder health, touting safe lithia-based effervescent drink.
An actress, not a preacher, appears in the motion picture play Destiny, or the Soul of a Woman. The Church of the Most Holy Redeemer in New York uses the play and prayer as the text for a sermon.
Instructions describe making a rich bread dough with warm milk flour egg white lard and salt then rising and shaping into walnut sized rolls. A second section touts dressmaking tricks like two buttons per coat and silk cord fastenings to save on buttonholes and tailoring costs while praising laughter as healthful.
Inquiries on love affairs to Miss Eros are printed if not lengthy. Letters reveal a 16 year old young man unsure of a girl who teases him and a 16 year old girl hosting a male visitor with advice to focus on education and conversation rather by suggesting intellectual pursuits for engaging companionship.
Thursday events include the Craighead Club at Y W C A 10 30 a m and Burgett Memorial talk for girls by Mrs E L Russell. Friday features Main Division at Y W C A 3 30 p m. Saturday lists Shakespeare Club at 11 a m and a Y W C A gym class at Moose Auditorium 10 30 a m and the Mobile League for Hard of Hearing at 72 Dauphin Street 3 p m.
The probate court Wednesday issued marriage licenses to White Joseph S Schnadelbach and Mamie M Huffman J Milton Britt and Fannie Rowell Moses W Rosenfeld and Helen S Rosenbaum William F Gottschalk and Capitola T Wimberly Negroes Edward J Lewis and Florence Janie Stephens Willie Walker and Louise Battiste Louis English and Minnie E Little.
Uncle Wiggily and Nurse Jane receive an invitation from Jol He and Jillie Longtail the mice to attend a party. He plans to go and buys a dress for Nurse Jane while practicing a new ice cream cone dance. They set off to the mice children’s hollow stump home for the festivities.
Uncle Wiggily meets a distressful figure from Mother Goose, the fat man of Bombay, whose pipe was stolen by a snipe. After freeing a splinter from the bunny uncle’s paw, the snipe returns the pipe and the two help the fat man resume his dance.
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