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Newspaper

The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

May 25, 1914

Page

3

Today’s Reception Schedule For Graduates And Parties

For Today several events are listed including a reception for K H 8S graduates at Relief Hall from 8 to 10 p m. The Women's Musical Club hosts Mrs Winston Jones at 8 p m. Hamilton Whist Club meets with Miss Woodend at 3 30 p m. A luncheon for Miss Ethel Hopkins occurs at the Cawthon at 2 p m. Miss Amelie Douglass holds a 500 party at the Cawthon’s colonial room at 4 30 p m. Miss Elinor Madison’s birthday party is at home at 8 p m. Miss Laubenheimer’s 500 party at 4 p m.

K. H. 8S Women's Musical Club Winston Jones Hamilton Whist Club Miss Woodend Amelie Douglass Cawthon’s Colonial Room Elinor Madison Ruth Simpson Old Barton H. O. Shelley Simpson Government and Claiborne Streets

Seaside Visitors Gather at Battles Hotel and Related Spots

Birmingham residents Mrs. R. C. Lewis and Mr. Lewis spend weeks at Battles with others from Tuscaloosa Los Angeles and local areas. Families and guests including Miss Newbold Miss Goodall Mrs. Rush and Mrs. Mechem visit Battles Wharf Sea Cliff Daphne Fairhope and Daphne area seeking summer quarters and coastal leisure.

Mobile Business Women's Club to celebrate second anniversary

The Mobile Business Women's Club marks its second anniversary on May 31 at the club house in Fairhope. Members will depart Mobile on the steamer Apollo Saturday at 3 p.m. for a weekend celebration with dances and music, returning Sunday evening.

Mollie Parker Business Women's Club Fairhope Mobile Business Women’s Club Mobile Apollo Business ‘Women's Club

Miss Simpson a Pretty Honoree at week’s bright fetes

The close of the week featured numerous bright social events honoring Miss Simpson. Attendees noted her charm and poise at each fete, reflecting a season of festive gatherings and community recognition.

Miss Simpson

Family party at Montrose prior to vacation season

Hon Harry Pillans and family spent Sunday at Montrose enjoying one of the coast’s pleasant summer homes. The Pillans plan to move there for the vacation season with Mrs Pillans Miss Laura Pillans and Mr and Mrs George Gaines and little Miss Gaines in attendance.

Sidney Robbins Forrest Harsh Battles Battles Hotel Harry Pillans Pillans Laura Pillans George Gaines Miss Gaines Montrose

Fowlkes Party Returns From Point Clear Weekend

Mrs. E. O. Fowlkes Miss Agnes Fowlkes Miss Tremlet Holzborn and Mrs. Pettus Lee spent the weekend at the Point Clear cottage of the Ed Harrisons and returned to the city this morning.

E. O. Fowlkes Agnes Fowlkes Tremlet Holzborn Pettus Lee Point Clear Ed Harrisons

Picnic at Point Clear Shows Prominent Local Guests

Mrs J K Glennon Mr James Hope Glennon and Mr and Mrs Ponder with their children enjoyed a basket picnic at Point Clear yesterday. The Point Clear Hotel is due to open mid June turning them into regular visitors. Martha Syson, recently ill at Providence Infirmary, is now fully out of danger and may return home on Dauphin street in about ten days.

J. K. Glennon James Hope Glennon Ponder Point Clear Martha Syson Providence Infirmary Dauphin Street

Former Ma billan Conductor Harry Hutton Visits City

Harry Hutton long residing in Los Angeles and formerly with the Southern Pacific as a conductor is back in town visiting sister Mrs. Milton Hulm at 912 Conti Street and will greet friends.

Harry Hutton Mabillan Los Angeles Cal Southern Pacific Railway Milton Hulm Conti Stréet

Informal Dance Honoring Miss Mildred Brady

Miss Mildred Brady hosts an informal May dance at the Brady home from 8 to 12 with pink and white decor and a music program. Punch and confections were served as guests including Ella Moody Lucile Lott Edna Gager May belle Janie Eleanor Cashin Carrie Fritz Gertrude Zenilich Emily Gager and a list of gentlemen.

Ella Moody Lucile Lott Edna Gager Maybelle Janie Eleanor Cashin Carrie Fritz Gertrude’ Zenilich Emily ‘Gager Messrs Gerald Wilson Wilmer Miller Eugene Bressingham Norman Stuards B. Walsh A. Austin A. Eberlein Frank

Excur sion by New Orleans bankers ends with a Mobile day

Three hours and sixteen minutes was the record time as New Orleans Hibernia Bank employees arrived in Mobile Sunday morning at 10 45 from 6 30 departure with nine coaches. They toured Battle House Monroe Park and Spring Hill Jesuit College witnessed a bank club baseball game and returned at 10 18 p m.

New Orleans Mobile Crescent City Hibernia Bank Irwin Bourgeois City Battle House Silver Leaf Band Monroe Park Spring Hill John J. Monashan Misses Palmer McMillan

Patents Granted to Citizens of Mobile and State

Washington report lists Alabama recipients of new patents including Maxey Cooper Selma fountain polishing brush Lawrence Mooney Montgomery cross-tie railways Walter Toney Princeton rail fastener Oscar Uphaus Mobile fountain rule Gerard Schumacher Anniston lighting standard design William Darden Anniston track laying car John Gunter G P Hardt Montgomery reversable fertilizer distributor Eugene Ledlow McKenzie wind shield cleaner Edgar Cayce Selma playing cards Horetti Harrah Marble Syracayga rough quarry blocks slabs and marble trade mark Trade mark for Van Antwerps Drug Corporation Mobile liquid face powder rouge nail powder denti frice etc

Washington Messrs. Davis & Davis Washington, D. C Alabama Maxey C. Cooper Selma Lawrence C. Mooney Montgomery Walter C. Toney Princeton Oscar J. Uphaus Mobile Gerard Schumacher Anniston William A. Darden John W. Gunter G. P. Hardt Eugene M. Ledlow McKenzie Edgar Cayce Horetti-Harrah Marble Company Syracayga van Antwerp’s Drug Corporation, Inc

Restriction Put on Chain Letters

A letter from Assistant Attorney General W. H. Lamar transmits guidance to Postmaster J. B. Thornton that postal cards bearing chain letter prayers are unmailable if threats appear, but prayers sent in properly prepaid envelopes remain allowed. Chain letters have long been a nuisance and have caused mail delays in some offices.

J. B. Thornton W. H. Lamar Washington, D. C

Prohibitionist recounts kidnapping tale after vanishing

Rev. Lewis M. Patmont, prohibition advocate, says he was abducted from Westville Illinois on March 31. He describes being carried in a red Danville owned car across fifty days, kept in dark cellars, gagged and bound, and hearing plans to burn the house near Columbia. He travels to Danville for Vermillion county grand jury inquiry with Rev. John L. Brandt assisting and reports his first substantial meal since the ordeal.

Associated Press ST. Louis Lewis M. Patmont Westville Danville Ill Vermillion County Patment Columbia John L. Brandt First Christian Church

Mobile YMCA camp opens June 9 year 1914

The Mobile YMCA announces the Bivouac Five Waters camp on the lagoon near Bay John opening June 9 to June 16. About 75 boys in two ten day divisions with an advance party June 5 to prepare. Principal speaker will be A C Harte with talks by business leaders. Registration June 1 at 9 am. Camp staff listed.

Mobile Y. M. C. A Bay John Bon Secour A. C. Harte Europe Messrs J. H. Wright Guy Hurlbutt W. H. Rowe Citronelle John Barr A. E. Marriott F. W. Evans

Body of Senator Bradley Goes to Frankfort Today

Arrangements nearly complete for the burial of Kentucky senator W. Brad ley. The body will be carried on a special train from Washington to Frankfort with an escort from both houses of Congress and Bradley family members. Interment is set for Tuesday with honorary pallbearers including Taft Fairbanks and Governor McCreary.

Associated Press Washington W. ©. Bradley Kentucky Frankfort Congress Bradley Taft Fairbanks McCreary

Mrs Welch and Children Hurt As Horse Reacts to Train

Mrs F E Welch of Orchard and three of her children suffered painful injuries Sunday afternoon when the horse she was driving on Old Shell road ran away after being startled by a Bay Shore train. A three month old baby escaped injury. Passengers on the train witnessed the incident and the train was stopped to aid the party, who were taken to Dr J D Atkins in Crichton for treatment. The buggy was demolished.

F. E. Welch Orchard Old Shell Road Bay Shore

Chamberlains Liniment Promotes Relief for Ailments

This preparation targets rheumatism lame back sprains and similar ailments. It is praised by Mrs Charles Tanner of Wabash Indiana who calls it the best for lame back and sprains. She notes twenty years of use by her family and describes it as a barrier against pain and soreness. 26 and 50 cent bottles for sale by all dealers.

Charles Tanner Wabash, Ind Chamberlain

Mobile Templars to Attend Meet in Talladega

Mobile will be represented at the annual Grand Commandery Knights Templars of Alabama conclave in Talladega on Wednesday May 27 by J W Phillips J W Falck Philip B Meyer and J R Little More than 260 delegates and members from Alabama commanderies attend the gathering Mobile Commandery held Ascension Day services at All Saints Episcopal Church in evening dress uniform on Government Street Rev T A Johnston rector delivered the sermon

Mobile Grand Commandery Knights Templars of Alabama Talladega J. W. Phillips J. W. Falck Philip 8. Meyer J. R. Little All Saints’ Episcopal Church Government Street T. A. Johnston

Tailoring shop owner clears police mix up on North Joachim

Johnny Crawford, who runs a shop on North Joachim street, tells friends he is not the Johnny Crawford involved in recent police affairs. He notes they are not related.

Johnny Crawford Joachim Street

Ministers' sons list misprint shocks Syracuse readers

A Syracuse New York paper printed a list titled ministers' sons but a typographical error leads readers to expect material about ministers' sons. The page confusion highlights a publication glitch in the church or civic notes columns.

Syracuse N. Y

Southern orders massive railroad rolling stock

Washington May 25. Orders for new rolling stock costing about 36 million dollars have been placed with car builders by the Southern Railway and its affiliated lines for a heavy fall crop movement. Mobile and Ohio ordered 1000 30 ton ventilated box cars forty 60 foot combination baggage and mail cars four 70 foot express cars eight 69 foot passenger coaches and seven consolidation locomotives. Southern will receive 3876 freight cars and fifty passenger cars and add ninety seven locomotives to its motive power.

Washington, D. C Southern Railway Mobile and Ohio Southern

Women and health before suffrage in 19th century era

The piece argues that women must have good health before enjoying suffrage and promotes Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a remedy for pains backache headaches irritability and nervous depression. It presents the product as restoring normal health and appeals to American women.

Lydia EH Pinkham Paige

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Ethel Hopkins Cawthon Laubenheimer W. H. Nicol Fred Nicol Mrs. Monnish Tuscaloosa E. G. Fisher Baldwin County Miss Newbold Miss Goodall Battles Wharf Coral Burns Daphne the Costellos Leo Johnson Meridian Mrs. Rush Maiden Cammack Sea Cliff Mary Knight ‘Rush House Peters Famous Players Film Co Royal Theatre Lucile Horn Amelie Douglas Constance Stoddard Mildred Simpson Marguerites Dorothy Cothran Cawthon Hotel Miriam Delchamps Knott High School Clemmie Carmelich Crane High School Gabriella Cooke Frances Bhaumhauer Maudie Woolf Elizabeth McAlpine Elizabeth Touart Mell Hubbard Bailey Westbrook Lucile Tisdale Myrtice Brannan Josephine Harris Eleanor L Burgett Dorothy Wefel W. P. Cothran Harry Hargraves and Son Charles Debardeleben Anchorage Orleanians Hibernia Bank Boys van Antwerp Uphaus ST. Mary's Bishop Allen Dinena St. Mary’s School Edward P. Allen The Mobile Chcese Misses A. McGraw Jane Reod Dolly L. Duggan A. Reinhart M. A. Touart M. Morgan Bernard Mahomer E. McGlynn L. Rood M. M. McGraw Mary Augusta Doody Valarie Brown Jack Turpen Sholar Donald Sherwood H. M A. McGraw Gavotte Billy Postoffice Department Patmont Grand Jury Ym.c. A Senator Bradley Semple Land Denier Philo Bar Spec, Co Newark van Antwerp Drug Corp Yers Paul Jones U. S. Patent Office U. Naval Academy He's the Man Woman's Suffrage Motor Company Motor Mart
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