School days and social scenes fill Mobile pages
The excerpt recalls bygone school days with memories of Joe and Nellie, calico outfits, dances, and parlor games. It also notes a heart party for Miss Shaffer, a moving picture birthday party for Wooten Acree, and multiple community notices including a charity truck ride postponement, a singing by Mrs. Shuford, and upcoming Trinity workers event and Mobile Federation meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe
Nellie
Grandma
Calico
William Kirtland
Miss Ha
Woman Recovers After Using Pinkham Vegetable Compound
A South Dakota woman describes months of distress with bearing down pains backache headaches and poor appetite. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she reports relief within a month and return to work, prompting promotion of the remedy for female ills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorence
Dakota
Local Social Roundup Returns from Summer Trips
Mrs Adam Glass and daughter Miss Lillie return from Galbraith Tennessee. Mr and Mrs Edwin Clapp of Mobile and Mrs C Barrington of Selma plan a Selma–Mobile boat trip this week. Miss Mary Knight Rush home from Selma and Brewton. Mr and Mrs Charles DP Willoughby to return from Cooper Wells Sunday. Miss Dorothy Wefel leaves for Judson to enroll. Mr Myron Sprague heads to New Orleans for the week end. Mrs Clyde Hunter reports improvement. August Kling family back from Zundele. Mrs Julian Bartee hosts Miss Carolyn Acree of Selma. McAleer family moves from Bellefontaine. Winthrop Hallett and son of Mobile visit Selma. Dr P J M Acker back from Las Vegas, Mexico. Mrs Aubrey Boyles and children home from Tuscaloosa and Philadelphia. Mr and Mrs Aaron Lowenstein delayed to Yazoo City for a death. a Chicago visit planned. Rev T H Johnston and family back from Canada and Cambridge. Mrs E J Randle and baby Dorothy visiting in Selma. Mrs Alexander Marks of Natchez visiting Mrs David Holt. Macartney family moving from Montrose to the city Sunday. Mr W T Kelly left for Greensboro NC. family to join later. A hay ride from Edna Lehay and Louise Calloway guests to Dog River with May Marshall, Josephine Calloway, Ida Mae Harris, Inez Slacher, Alma Cannon, Eloise Myers, Dorman Brown, Bearing Tillman, Foster Touart, Elmer Wheeler, Carl Norris, Alfred Marshall. The Eight Weeks Literary Club held its last meeting at Miss Eleanor Madison’s home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adam Glass
Lillie
Galbraith
Tenn
Selmaournal
Edwin Clapp
Mobile
C. Barrington
Selma
Puscatoona
Mary Knight * Rush
Brewton
Charles DP. Willoughby
Cooper Wells
Dorothy Wefel
Judson
Myron T. “Sprague
New Orleans
Sap
Selma Times
Winthrop Hallett
P J. M. Acker
Las Vegas
Mexico
Aubrey Boyles
Tuscaloosa
Judge Moody
Philadelphia
Aaron Lowenstein
New York
Yazoo City
Miss
W. T. Kelly
Greensboro
N. C
Edna Lehay
Louise Calloway
Dog River
May Marshall
Josephine Calloway
Ida Mae Harris
Inez Slacher
Alma Cannon
Eloise Myers
Dorman Brown
Bearing Tillman
Foster Touart
Elmer Wheeler
Carl Norris
Alfred Marshall
Literary Club
Eleanor Madison
South Broad Street
Uncle Wiggily and the Rolling Pin Rescue
Uncle Wiggily the rabbit helps Nurse Jane with a rolling pin for pie crust then foils a fox’s capture. He later irons Lulu Wibblewobble’s wet dress and ribbon, saving a doll party look before returning home to his hollow stump bungalow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lulu
Uncle Wiggily
Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy
Rabbit Gentleman
Hollow Stump
Rabbit
Nurse Jane
Orange Mountains
Fox
Mr. Longears
Lulu Wibblewobble
Arabella Chick
Uncle
Alice Wibblewobble
Grace Morrison celebrated fourteenth birthday at Seneca Street home
Oakdale Ala October 1 One of the season's most enjoyable evenings was spent at Mrs Morrison's home on Seneca Street for Grace Morrison's fourteenth birthday. A lively program of games and an ice course followed. Decorations included golden red yellow daisies and ferns. Attendees included O Morrison Lydia Anna Scheverman Clara Smith Glenna Gatewood Lucile Church Gladys Rose Mayme Talley Nadine and een Sam Belle Brewik Morrison Evelyn Monroe and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakdale
Ala
Morrison
Seneca Street
Grace
Misses O ' Morrison
Lydia Anna Scheverman
Clara Smith
Glenna Gatewood
Lucile Church
Gladys Rose
Mayme Talley
Nadine
Ae Een
Sam Belle Brewik
Evelyn Monroe
Wr Sao Sen Aryin
Southard
Homer
Calcium salt praised as alterative in consumption claims
Dr. Roberts Bartholow of Jefferson Medical College notes in 1895 that a calcium salt appears to act as an alterative, aiding elimination and showing striking curative powers in consumption. Eckman's Alterative is advertised as safe, non narcotic, and easily absorbed, sold by Braswell's Drug Store in Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roberts Bartholow
Jefferon Medical College
Philadelphia
Materia Medica
Eckman
Braswell
Lady Eckman Laboratory
Baldwin County Men to Attend Good Roads Session
J Hampton Ewing of Bay Minette reports that ten Baldwin county members of the Mobile Baldwin bridge and highway committee will attend a 10:30 AM Saturday meeting. S A Le Blanc will chair as the committee plans to interview county officials about a delta bridge and connecting highways. A Good Roads meeting is set for Tuesday October 2 in Thomasville Clarke county per Captain John Craft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Hampton Ewing
Bay Minette
Baldwin County
Mobile-Baldwin County Bridge and Highway Committee
A. le Blanc
Mobile County
Ten Baldwin
Thomasville
Clarke County
John Craft
Sinking of Helen Beyen and Other Global Briefs
The Helen Beyen sank with crew saved. Cholera cases total about three hundred in Galicia. Rumors of negro uprisings in Havana debunked by government. Elizabeth of Bergen sank near Havre. crew safe. MP Harold T Cowley killed in Dardanelles fighting, third in Commons. Charlotte post office and courthouse contract awarded to Ankefer & Co. for 192 692.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amsterdam
Galicia
Telegraaf
Home Office
Havana
Havre
France
Elizabeth
Bergen
Seine
London
Harold T. Cowley
Heywood
Lancashire
Dardanelles
Washington
Charlotte
N. C
Court House
Treasury Department
John G. Ankefer & Co
Minerva
Ohio
Governor Names Men to Push Mussel Shoals Project
Governor Henderson names twelve Alabama citizens to visit Washington in the opening days of Congress to urge approval of the Mussel Shoals project as recommended by government engineers. A joint legislative committee will accompany them, with five members from both the house and senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Montgomery
Ala
House
Senate
Henderson
Alabama
Washington
Hender
Also Mentioned on This Page
Gar
Beau
Pins
Ning Glover
Marie Shaffer
Georgia Sage
Lula Kirtland
Harriet Black
Maud Kirtland
Nicholas Vickers
Ry Wright
Ernest Ladd
Alfred Staples
Agnes Belle Goldsby
Marian Shaffer
Nina Glover
Alice Shaffer
Wadsworth
Nina Spencer
San Francisco
Montana
Mary Bagby Stafford
Gladys Boone
Bart Stafford
Mildred Herndon
Wooten Acree
J. O. Acree
Van's
Ervin Little
Hall Boyles
Francis Costello
Dauphin Way Baptist Church
Charles Chaplin
The
Empire
Eulalie Fowler
Burke's
Ekulalie ‘Fowler
Rose McPhillips
Mariam Greenwood
Mildred Stake
Lucille Costello
Catherine Greenwood
Caroline Acree
Shuford
C. 8. Shuford
First Baptist Church
Trinity Workers
G. A. Duck
Mary O'Rourke
D. O. Smith
William Baumhauer
Mamie Rowan
Lillian Toulmin
Louise Perry
Lois Stiles
Bessie Peckenpaugh
F. N. Frenkel
M. DeWitt Hitchin
Vera Ross
Eunice Yost
Mobile Federation of Women's Clubs
J. O. Smith
St. Anthony Street
C. S. B. Shuford
Lydia E. Pinkham
Earth
Pinkham
Foia EB
Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Mass
Munyon
Professor Munyon
Unyon
Nyon
Ibierville Pharmacy
Clyde Hunter
August Kling
Zundele
Julian Bartee
Daphne
Carolyn Acree
McAleer
Bellefontaine
Woot Dee
Willis Jewelry CO
Good Roads
G. W. Taylor
Demopolis
Frank P. Glass
Birmingham
John Gamble
Troy
C. G. Abercrombie
Co. W. Ashcraft
Sheffield
C.pp. Ford
McFall
Irwin
Dauphin ST
Meccowan’s
Helen Beyen
Rm Neas Rae
apAson Ret
Pina Mann EO
Bell
Louisiana
McIlhenny
Mrae S&s
Conti Street
H. C.,vaughan Lumber CO
ST. Joseph ST
Western Electric Co
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