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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1914
Page
7
The article profiles the wedding of the Wilson daughters with details of attendees wives of federal secretaries and their outfits. It notes Mrs. Bryan Mrs. Houston Mrs. Lane and others as guests and describes gowns hats and colors. The future Mrs McAdoo is introduced as the brunette Wilson daughter with a striking face and blue eyes.
The report details Eleanor Randolph Wilson and Secretary William G. McAdoo as marriage partners. It traces Miss Wilson's background from Middletown Connecticut to the White House social circle and notes McAdoo's Georgia birth and career, including his Hudson river tunnel project leadership and cabinet ties.
Mrs. Ella Phillips Crandall of the National Association of Public Nursing spoke at the chamber of commerce on Wednesday night urging Mobile be divided into two sectors. She proposed supervising hygiene by local visiting nurse Zena Burkholter and Red Cross Seal nurses until public health nursing is adopted citywide.
Marie Gans of the Industrial Workers of the World was jailed for sixty days in the Blackwell's Island workhouse after threatening J. D. Rockefeller over his stance on the Colorado coal strike. The report also notes cotton bale weight figures from New Orleans for shipments to manufacturers outside the belt.
A tradition steeped in family ritual unfolds as cabinet members and their wives send intimate tokens to Miss Wilson and Secretary McAdoo. Gifts include opal jewelry, diamond pieces, and linen, lace, and embroidery for home use. The Senate and House committees helped select a gold bracelet and a silver tea service respectively.
The advertisement describes Irwin Deitz suffering severe facial boils and red blotches for years, relieved by Cuticura Soap and Ointment after two weeks and complete cure in four months. It touts skin health benefits, offers samples and a mail address for Cuticura, Boston, and notes benefits for skin and scalp.
Readers submit symptoms from dullness goitre stomach biliousness and poor appetite. Answers promote various patent medicines with sealed tubes pills and tonics claiming to purge the blood improve digestion relieve nerves coughs or rheumatism and restore weight color and strength.
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