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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1912
Page
4
Do not offend those in power and choose speech carefully when disagreeing. In employment, beware of new friendships influencing you. Those born today tend to be fortunate and capable early, but a hasty temper may bring trouble.
In Catholic cities like New Orleans and Paris Tous Saints is a grand floral festival where cemeteries become avenues of bloom and mourners decorate graves. A mother mourns beside a wreath on a marble shaft dated twenty years past while others sweep paths and trim shrubbery as candles burn. An old man in a secluded corner gazes at silent graves with quiet dignity.
Sikeston Missouri resident Mrs Dema Bethune says seven years of monthly debility, backache, and nervous weakness ended after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports restored strength, ability to work, and renewed health, urging others to try the remedy.
Mme de Tastevin of New York's French colony urges a substantial dowry or independent earnings as core to the ideal marriage proposal. She argues that a woman's financial stake guarantees a secure future and cites dowry and trade skills as protections against poverty, contrasting with critiques of the dowry system.
A fragment hints at lingering loneliness and mortality as mossy marbles rest in bloom. It recalls names loved by a speaker and carved on a tomb, suggesting a reflection on memory and loss across time.
The Shakespeare Club met at 11 this morning with Mrs. C. J. Torrey for an engaging session focused on Act IV of As You Like It. Discussion included how Shakespeare mocks foreign travel, illustrating English insularism as not a new trait. Mr. and Mrs. George O Gilmer host in New York. Miss Carline Hall ill in Hattiesburg. Hermann and Mrs Berlin visiting Mrs I Jones in Pensacola.
The Dalton Auction Club met yesterday at 3 pm with Mrs. A. M. Bright on North Conception Street. The session planned a first regular meeting for next Friday at 10 30 am with Mrs. M. Landrey, fixing morning hours for play.
Miss Carter's illustrated social note describes a busy week of festivities ending with a decorative shower. The item notes a lively social scene and mentions glamour and anticipation surrounding Miss Overall's upcoming event.
Marie E Patterson at 57 St Joseph St offers chiropody treatments using advanced methods. Services include scalp treatments electrolysis bleaching and facial massage with appointments available.
A long account covers a series of bridal teas and hosiery showers hosted by the Carters for Miss Overall and Miss Fadcliffe, with many guests named. It also notesMiss Catherine Kearns visiting from Louisville and a discussion on European dowry practices and financial equality in marriage led by Mme de Tastevin, contrasting American and French attitudes on dowries and household money.
At Crown Theatre today an onstage sequence presents events linked to the assassination of Colonel Roosevelt with related images in the Gamont Weekly. An advertisement runs alongside.
An ad copy from The Clubwomen promotes mercorized wax as a daily facial treatment to remove weathering skin film and wrinkles. It claims a week or two to reveal a new youthful complexion and advises nightly application with morning cleansing.
The steel gasoline schooner Osprey and six crewmen perished after crashing into the Marshfield jetty in heavy seas. Captain Jacobson tried to enter over the bar as waves rose, but the vessel was driven onto the jetty. Aviator Christofferson and a reporter attempted two rescue flights by plane but found no survivors.
Government action to dissolve the International Harvester Company moves forward as testimony in Chicago on November 1 outlines the government's case. The trial centers on antitrust claims and competitive practices affecting the company's market position and operations.
Four railroad companies facing federal indictments for rate concessions in alfalfa feed shipments from China to nearby states. Missouri Pacific Chicago Great Western Illinois Central and Purdue? Illinois Central and P., Chicago B and Q, Wabash alleged to have cut rates by four to five cents.
Richardson and Backstrum, two escapees from Wyoming penitentiary on October 18, were killed by a posse near Powder Springs on the Colorado Wyoming border last night.
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