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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1916
Page
6
A lyrical fragment explores youth and love as enduring balm against aging. Vivid imagery of morning light, meadow scenes, and music evokes desire, memory, and hopeful dreams. The speaker envisions love as constant, guiding winds and dreams.
Invitations note the marriage of Stella Wheeler Burgett to Charlin Camp on Tuesday evening at 9 at the family residence Montauk Avenue Mobile Alabama. Miss Harris serves as bridesmaid and an afternoon tea precedes the event. The Barker Cotton Mill Progressive Association plans a miscellaneous shower for Miss Burgett.
Mrs. A. L. Luckie of East Rochester New York credits Chamberlain's Tablets with curing her sick headache by correcting a disordered stomach. She began taking the tablets three years ago and soon regained her former health. Obtainable everywhere.
Club calendar lists meetings and demonstrations for multiple groups including Music Study Club Chautauqua Circle and Home Economics Club with venues and times from Wednesday to Saturday. A legal notice On the property transfer records shows Richard Tipp and wife selling to William G Reneke for 69750 dollars, property described as northwest quarter of section 18, township 6 south, range 1 west near Cedar Point Road.
Mrs. Joseph Fry wife of the Jonathan Circuit pastor of the Western North Carolina Conference M E Church South recounts severe typhoid fever and relapse about 1899. She credits Cardus with reducing nervousness sleep disruption and restored health enabling her to return to church work school and piano lessons at Trinity College.
Mrs W K Linscott returns home improved from Cooper's Wells while Dorothy Wefel will resume studies at Judson. Robert Farnell convalesces after a serious operation at Providence. Rosa and Anna Glass spend weeks in Asheville. Alba Gower guest of the Cosby and Bradshaw party in Birmingham arrives with Mrs J S Morrow on Haghland avenue. Imogene Little visits Greensboro Alabama with Dr and Mrs R H Cobbs.
The Marques de Muela, which sailed May 1 from Newport Wales to Bilbao, is believed sunk after no word since departure. Bilbao deputies report frequent German submarine attacks on Spanish ships unsettling Cantabrian coast owners and urge steps like the U S to ensure neutral flags are respected.
Thaddeus Luther Rose, formerly with the Louisville and Nashville railroad for forty years, a prominent Pythian and noted author and platform orator, is in the city. He has long engaged in educational and sociological work in the South and Middle West.
In Orlando on May 23 the Southern Presbyterian assembly postponed early action on deaconesses and the million dollar ministerial relief endowment. Dr. MacFarland noted the council should not violate constitutional principles, and the assembly will revisit the issues after the foreign correspondence committee reports.
The Danish steamer Carla a 316 ton vessel was sunk by a mine outside Sandhammar Point on Sweden's southern coast. The crew were saved in the incident reported from Stockholm via London on May 23.
In New York the thirteenth biennial convention of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs gathers as rival presidential candidates wage campaigns. Mrs Samuel B Sneath of Tiffin Ohio and Mrs Josiah Evans Cowles of Los Angeles vie for votes with May 31 election date. Both sides claim wide regional support and labor to build alliances.
A marriage license was issued Tuesday morning to Samuel Ross Morgan and Tinsie Willie Vendrick.
The ad declares health as wealth and promotes Eckmans Alterative for asthma and pulmonary trouble. It claims decades of satisfaction and notes rest, pure food, and fresh air as foundations, with the remedy as a safe, non habit forming option sold by R. L. Braswell and druggists, Eckman Laboratory Philadelphia.
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