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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1914
Page
3
Prayer lines express gratitude for courage kindness and hopeful guidance. The verses invoke strong aims to greet others with cheer and live humbly under mercy as Emerson adds thanks for both old and new friends.
A grand Thanksgiving eve wedding joined Miss Margherita Ligon and Mr George Robinson Swift at the Barret home. The ceremony featured a priedieu setting, gowns of duchess satin and georgette crepe, and a reception with marguerites as the motif. The couple plan to spend Christmas with Mrs Ligon before returning to Mississippi.
Thanksgiving dawned clear in Mobile as residents paused to count blessings. Wealthy and poor alike shared meals from county facilities to jail inmates, with a generous donation from merchants funding dinners for the destitute and for Christmas. Football, excursions, and church services filled the day.
The item offers to mail five copies of the Satsuma Edition free to five friends in distant areas. Send names and addresses by December 5 to receive the copies.
An old classifieds fragment notes Vadco Cascara Bitters as relief for chronic constipation and the rent, advertised for sale at Van Antwerp's store.
A Thanksgiving week luncheon at the Vineyard honored debutante Miss Mabel Hartwell with Mr Charles Hervey hosting. The event featured fourteen matched guests and a floral centerpiece of white chrysanthemums as guests gathered around a prettily appointed table.
The British battleship Bulwark was blown up off Sheerness with 700 to 800 on board. only twelve saved. The admiralty says the blast likely started in the ship's magazine. Also included is a separate note on Miss Beulah Edmondson, daughter of an Indian princess, as a bride-to-be of Richard W. Croker.
Mrs BE A Pincus arrives with daughters Mrs M Bacharac of Philadelphia and Miss Loris Pincus of Mobile in Montgomery and will stay several days at the Exchange hotel. They will be among the attractive visitors at the opening hall of the tanderdeink on Wednesday evening.
They will leave for Philadelphia on Friday. Mr John Lawrence Lavretta, the popular cashier of James K Glennon & Co, has gone to Natchez Miss to spend the Thanksgiving holidays with friends. Among the university boys returning home for the Thanksgiving holidays are Messrs Stanhope Chamberlain and Len Walker Curry.
A quiet wedding occurred Wednesday at St Francis Street Methodist Church as Miss Ruth Farnell wed Mr. Lee R. Kreutter Farnell and Kreutter are named in local wedding notices with only partial details available.
An effort aims to ship three thousand horses from Mobile to Bordeaux for Allied armies. Backers consider chartering the British steamer Crathens for three trips. The Wolf, under repairs at Ollinger Bruce Dry Docks, left for New Orleans to load war horses for England.
Detective William Murphy of the Mobile police department spent several days in Washington county on business and returned to the city Thursday morning. He said he had the time of his life in the country and praised the hospitality of the Washington county residents.
The advertisement claims Vitalitas from Sutton's drug store is a pure drink and potent tonic equal to European Carlsbad waters and Hot Springs cures. It promises relief for stomach, kidney, liver, and blood ailments, claims to dissolve toxins, and offers demonstrations and information by mail.
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