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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1913
Page
5
In a Society News sketch a mother and daughters are readied for church as the night quiets. The piece notes washing the little faces, fixing worn stockings, and mending with careful hands. It emphasizes a mother's nightly task of making their clothes presentable for church.
A Mobile society page lists a wedding invitation for Ta to wed John Bradford Riley at Tilden Alabama on a Wednesday afternoon. It also reports Episcopal church figures traveling, visitors returning from trips to Dublin Lake George and Montrose, and social events in Creona, Georgiana, and Camden with families like the May and Benson households noted.
Zanesville Ohio and Danville Virginia residents share experiences with Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills. they report relief from cramps back pain irregularity headaches bearing down pain and improved sleep after treatment. both women commend the remedies and endorse others trying them.
Free $50,000 has been subscribed for a new Episcopal Church Home in Mobile and work will start soon after the contract is let. The fund committee met over three hours to choose a site, with final location to be decided within sixty days. Over $16,000 has been collected and placed in bank, subscriptions payable in two years.
James Montgomery's satirical farce Ready Money plays to a full house in Mobile. The production blends comedy with melodrama and a detective plot, praised for its witty stage business and Belasco like polish, delivering laughs and thrills from curtain rise to finale.
Cumberland Gap Tenn Mrs Sarah I Owens credits Cardus the woman's tonic with relief from years of womanly troubles smothering spells chills heart flutter and weakness after six bottles she reports very good health praise from readers supports Cardui success claim Manufactured from vegetal ingredients Cardui is promoted by Chattanooga Medicine Co with advice to write to the Ladies Advisory Dept for further instructions
London dispatch reports the Servian forces pushing Albanians back along the line. Struga fell after fierce fighting near Ochrida, Albanians suffered heavy damage, and Belgrade voiced confidence that the rebellion is over as Albanian attacks near Pris Rend were repulsed at close range.
The steamer Ventura sailed from Honolulu with fourteen Amaranth crew members aboard. Survivors include the barkentine captain's wife and baby. They earlier rode out a thirteen day voyage to Pago Pago after wrecking Aug. 30 at Jarvis Island, where graves and a no trespassing sign were found.
Boston October reports show the Massachusetts Democratic convention debating federal patronage. Some resolutions urged the president to consult state party leaders on appointments and oppose non endorsed candidates, amid talk of a Wilson nomination for Boston port collector. Hall's Lecture at Monroe Park is advertised for Sunday night.
Washington October 4 Rear Admiral Aaron Ward who has been supervisor of the port of New York was detached from duty today and ordered home preliminary to retirement on account of age October 10 1910.
Princeton and Fordham played a football game in calm conditions in Princeton. They had not met since 1909 when Princeton won 3 to 0.
The review praises the play Ready Money for its energetic plot about a benevolent counterfeiter funding a young business failure. John M. Kline as Steve Baird and Frederick West as Captain West deliver strong performances, with Merely by money power driving the sales of stock to boost Corbett Morris as Steve Baird.
At the Orpheum two performances mark the end of the first week for J. H. Huntley stock company. They presented The Lion and the Mouse to strong notices and announce Hello, Bill for next week. Matt and Jeff in Panama tops the Lyric matinee and night with a sixty foot car load of properties and brisk laughs.
Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg greeted retiring American ambassador John G. A. Leishman with a farewell audience. A farewell dinner was hosted by Foreign Minister von Jagow attended by Italian and Turkish representatives and other foreign office officials. Leishman leaves Berlin for London on Sunday. James W. Gerard will present Leishman’s letters of recall on his arrival.
Harlan Page Lloyd, longtime law partner of William H. Taft in Cincinnati, died at his daughter’s home in Glen Ridge New Jersey at age 75. He served in the Civil War, was wounded near Winchester in 1862, and became judge advocate of the Army of the Republic for the department of Ohio and in 1884 was elected commander. His father Ransom Lloyd served as judge of the court of common pleas in Alleghany County New York.
Paris reports the National Aerial League has organized two aero plane tours. The first runs from Paris to Cairo Egypt about 3 000 miles via Vienna Belgrade Konieh Aleppo Jerusalem Port Said and Heliopolis. Gasoline and oil shipments were sent to Constantinople for the control stations about 200 miles apart.
Nashville Tenn Oct 4 Vanderbilt meets Maryville College on Dudley Field to begin the football season. Changes on the Vanderbilt lineup include Sikes moving from fullback to halfback and Turner from end to fullback as the Commodores employ a straight football attack against a heavy Maryville squad expected to challenge them.
An advertisement touts Papes Diapepsin as a fast cure for indigestion gas and stomach misery. It claims relief within five minutes and promotes a fifty cent case as a quick, harmless remedy to regulate weak stomachs and let meals be enjoyed as favorite foods.
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