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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1913
Page
8
A lyrical excerpt from Alice B. Allen in Scribner's Magazine evokes a rural morning scene with a green still forest, a brook under a bridge, and a distant bird chorus. The piece contemplates happiness found in simple travel and skies of gold.
The Peace Rebekah Lodge No. 4 entertainment raised funds to send their degree team to the general Rebekah assembly in Birmingham next May. Prizes were awarded for popularity, and a diverse program featured music, vocal solos, piano duets, a stump speech, and readings with Miss May Barnes and Miss Margarite Ponds among the prizewinners.
A brief note reports Mrs. Clapton as a guest of Mrs. Clifford Lanier and noting her likely answer to antis on the suffrage question. The item appears in the Montgomery area coverage with a reference to regional social events.
Yesterday's monthly Mothers' Club gathering drew twenty mothers and ten children. Officers were elected with Mrs. B R Reed as president and Miss Louise Windham re elected secretary.
Panama October 3 Associated Press reports Colonel George W. Goethals says no damage to the canal from last night's quake after Gatun locks endured two major tests. Panamanian officials including President Porras inspected works and noted no harm. Lossantos province suffered $256000 damage, total provincial damage about $100000 with 26 tremors in Lossantos City. No deaths except one from fright. experts cite the Flat Arch as resistant to earthquakes.
The Council of One Hundred issues a call to unify all temperance groups into a single national body with a constitutional prohibition campaign. Signers include Senator Morris Sheppard Governor Lee Cruce former Governors R. B. Glenn E. W. Hoch Judge Ben B. Lindsay Congressman Edwin Webb and Richmond P. Hobson. Estimated 20 000 attendees from every state expected at the Columbus meeting November 14.
Prince Louis Philippe Duke of Orléans and royalist claimant arrives incognito in Lima Peru under the alias de Villieres. Rumors persist of his wife Archduchess Marie Dorthea Amelia seeking divorce with alimony of 316000 annually and return of 35000 she spent on the duke.
Pensacola reports the death of Nick Apostle a renowned Greek figure longtime Gulf Coast resident and noted wealthier man He had suffered a major stroke last year and passed away yesterday in Beersippi Mississippi leaving a notable local business and social legacy
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