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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1913
Page
7
A Mobile district hums with Harvest Home celebrations and social events. Ethel Schwarz hosts Miss Sadie Schwerz and Miss Claudia Friendenthal, while Miss Leatherbury weds Mr. Radcliff at St Francis Church with a full retinue, amid flowers, music, and festive details.
A Mobile resident from 507 Eslava St reports severe kidney trouble with swollen joints and pain. After using Dean's Kidney Pills from Van Antwerp's store, health improved quickly and continued to benefit from Ocean's Kidney Pills, with Foster Milburn Co. as the Buffalo York agents and a 65 cent price.
In Washington at the White House on Tuesday Miss Jessie Wilson and Francis B. Sayre wed as two joyful guests Miss Lucy Hoke Smith daughter of Senator Hoke Smith and Ensign Alston R. Simpson U S N smiled widely. The December wedding is billed as a major social event following the Sayre Wilson ceremony.
A handsome Leathbury home hosted a wedding reception with white and green decor, a heart shaped cake, and bridal lilies. The bride Miss Leathbury and groom, a Mobile businessman, were seen with guests from New York to St. Stephens and Georgia Avenue. Also covered are the Afternoon Tea Club, The Discards card group, and the Elks Thanksgiving Ball with hundreds of attendees and a lavish display on Government Street.
A fragment describes mixing Brnater minutes with sugar, stirring for two units, and claiming quick cough relief for various ailments. It touts laxative effects and pine extracts, noting a price of $2.50 and claiming improved pain relief and tone.
Mr and Mrs A F Wicks of Pensacola Fla are visiting and stay at Cawthon hotel August J Butte and wife of Hutchinson Kansas are among Thanksgiving tourists in Mobile M F Hoffman and wife of Atlanta Ga are visiting friends for several days staying at Bienville hotel Willard Socor and wife of Forest City Iowa are in Mobile Lucien Lyons prominent New Orleans resident is in Mobile at the Battle House.
The Fidella Club held a Thanksgiving eye ball in the Battle House auditorium with tropical decor and an orchestra performing pieces from The National Emblem to Down in Dear Old New Orleans. Rita Pake and Maurice Hess opened the program as committees led by James H. Zeinicker arranged reception floor and entertainment. The event featured turkey gobbler and rosette badges, blue and gold programs, and a 10:30 hot supper in the decorated dining room. Mr. and Mrs. James Rogers Burgett have moved to 103 South Georgia Avenue and invite friends.
An advertisement extols Grape-Nuts as perfectly balanced and beneficial for brain and body at every life stage. A user recounts using it with milk or cream for breakfast and notes steady hunger, improved memory, and sustained energy for meals, urging others to try it.
River and harbor report shows no arrivals or sailings on Thursday. Several vessels are due soon including steamers Otto and Domera from Gulfport and Mercator from Puerto Cortez with cocoa nuts and bananas. The British steamer Yorelotte completes pitch pine cargo and is set for Rosario, Argentina. Lampasas of Maine is due from New York with passengers and merchandise.
Mrs Hes announced plans to turn home as a Louisiane cypress pound engine is installed. Le McLain began a new boat after a strike halted the first hull, traveling to Louisiana to complete a second vessel.
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