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Newspaper

The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

May 12, 1914

Page

6

Mothers Day Verse Guests and Local Club Activities

Poems and prayers set the tone for Mother’s Day as churches and clubs list events. Mrs Greenwood Ligon hosts a bridge party for Mrs Will Porter of Key West at 3 30 p m. A series of bridge meetings, D A R chapter, and church auxiliary gatherings occur through the evening and into May.

Greenwood Ligon Will Porter Key West Varina Gould R. T. Ward Charles Kellar M. R. Mayson Dalton Bridge Club Virginia Cavalier Alec Wilmer St. Louis Street Euterpean Society Dauphin Way Baptist Church H. L. Libby M. White Newman Circle Grafon All Saints’ Guild W.S. Pugh Cherokee Palmes Streets Immaculate Conception Sodality St. Joseph's Lawn Government Street Presbyterian Church D. B. Cobbs Thomas McMillan Government and Marine Streets Anna B. Palmer Battle House

Charming Directoire Style Afternoon Wear Vestment

A description of a shot taf feta recreation in green and black fabric. The piece reflects a quaint eighteenth century directoire silhouette with changeable taffeta options for maid or plain wear.

Directoire

Airman Helps Troops Beat Moors at Teza

A French military aviator directed artillery fire from the air and dropped bombs on Moors at Teza near Fez, aiding French troops who routed the Moors and gained control of eastern approaches to Fez. The engagement left many Moors dead.

Associated Press Fez Morocco Teza

Senate actions and debates on commerce, tariffs, and elections

The Senate met at noon to review the interstate commerce anti trust bill and debate Panama canal tolls exemption. It took up an agricultural appropriation and a bill proposing temporary popular vote methods for electing U S senators. Rules considered a special rule for embassies in Chile and Argentina.

Interstate Commerce Committee Senate United States Chile Argentine Republic

Invitations to a Dance and Summer Visits Shine Across Mobile

Youthful society pages note invitations for a Thursday May 14 1914 dance with Irma Potter attending. Mentions of Sunshine at Belle Fontaine season plans for the Winslow Partridges and visits from Edison associate Reese Hutchison, plus mobile social rounds of Edna Manning Amelie Hill Ellen Pratt and Gen J W Whiting family engagements as summer plans unfold.

Terpsichoreans Sunshine Winslow Partridges Sea Shore Belle Fontaine Harry Inge Margaret Dones Phares Colemans Birmingham Mobile Coast Margaret Edna Manning Mobile Amelie Hill Montgomery Ellen Pratt Prattville E. W. Rucker J. W. Whiting Iadega Perrin Bestor

Patriotism and social events mingle in Mobile notice

After the program ice cream and cake were served amid smaller attendance due to sickness. The C A R Society discussed new membership names such as Thunderbolt Morgan and Swamp Fox Marion as engaging colonial era themes aimed at instilling patriotism in American children. Also reported are a Mobile family's sorrow and improving health, a six month European tour by Southern women, and a Jewish Women’s Council subscription party at Fidelia Club.

A. R Mobile Virginia Dare Virginia Swamp Fox Marion Boston Tea Party J. W Council of Jewish Women Fidelia Club Council

Week in the City Residence Noted at Roe Street Home

Readable text places a family or individual dwelling at Monroe Street within a city context, stating they reside at the home of Mrs Mayer's aunt and uncle, Mr and Mrs Rosen on Monroe Street. The snippet references a domestic arrangement without additional events or names.

City

Virginia Continental Line Holds Third Annual Meeting

The Virginia Continental Line Children of the American Revolution held its third annual meeting with president Miss Thurber and a pleasant program. Frances Vaughan Young entertained by reading from the C A R Magazine a story about patriotism shown by a boy and a girl during the Revolution.

Virginia Continental Line

Vitalitas display promotes health at Sutton's Drug Store

The Vitalitas promotion invites customers at Sutton's Drug Store to sample a teaspoonful in water. The pitch claims benefits for stomach, liver, kidney, and blood ailments, touts the product as a unique earth based extract from Houston laboratories, and urges readers to request a booklet with testimonials and history.

Vitalitas Sutton Houston Vitalitas Man Sutton’s St. Francis and Royal Streets

Beauty hinges on liver health says famed actress

A renowned American stage actress promotes liver care as essential to beauty and youth. She warns against calomel and endorses Dodson's Liver Tone as a gentle, reliable alternative claimed to relieve constipation and biliousness, with a money back guarantee if not effective.

Dodson United States

Elegant Society Event Planned With Prizes and Flowers

Various firms provided prizes while the Smith Piano Company supplied a Columbia Grafonola for the afternoon. Refreshments came from members, flowers and palms created a sylvan setting, and fair attendees in stylish dress helped make the occasion a radiant success. The arrangement committee led by Miss Flossie Herzfeld organized decorations, prizes, and the event planning.

Smith Piano Company Columbia Flossie Herzfeld

Combination tool for soldiers with three parts serves twenty uses

A compact three part tool designed for military use expands into twenty different applications. The device offers versatility for field tasks and functions as a multipurpose implement.

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