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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1912
Page
5
The Shakespeare Club holds its first meeting of the season at 11 oclock this morning at the home of Mrs. J. Torrey on Coacation street. Members note several travelers have returned from visits to Tuscaloosa St Louis Beatrice Montrose and mobile society circles.
An advice column urging women to prepare for motherhood and avoid health shocks, praising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a tonic and invigoration for the female organism. It promises confidential, women-only responses from Lydia Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn, Massachusetts.
The Birmingham Amaranth Club plans a girls study club as the Pathfinders dissolve. A rich program is proposed covering art architecture education and modern culture with topics from Roman sculpture to the Reformation. First meeting set for Friday October 11 with Mrs Will Manly hosting. Officers include Mrs W L Murdoch president and calendar committee members.
A proposal outlines forming a Mobile club of girls to study art literature and history in winter among European cities on a planned itinerary. Editors offer help arranging a travel program and emphasize the idea of exchanging gifts or mementos from travels.
Joy Tomlinson, eldest daughter of the late John W. Tomlinson, eminent attorney of Birmingham, is introduced as a Birmingham debutante this winter. The Lookout notes her as one of the loveliest maids who attended Miss Elizabeth Morris at her marriage to Jelks Cabaness last spring and predicts a successful first season based on her social grace.
The item notes the late John W. Tomlinson of Birmingham and Tate Springs, mentioning elder daughter Miss Tomlinson and her late father. It reports Mrs. Tomlinson among Mobile’s social leaders and describes a Story Hour for Children led by Mrs. Inez Levy at Harte Auditorium U S C A from 4 to 5 pm for ages 4 to 14, praising the program as a revival with lasting benefit. It also mentions Miss Kilborn leaving for Citronelle to teach, lodging with Mrs. W F Brown.
Personal S ea Draper and wife of Atlanta are in Mobile on a short visit staying at the Battle House. Jack Doyle and wife of Panama City stay at the St. Andrew Hotel. Sig Sass, a well known traveling man, visits Mobile for several days. H R Todd General Southern Agent Burlington Route, based in Birmingham, is in Mobile on business. J C Evans and sister of Davenport spend the winter at the Battle House. F M Blount of Pensacola visits the city. J G McGowin spent Thursday in Pensacola on business. Mamie O Rourke, recently home from Nebraska, leaves today to visit Mrs Rivers in Atlanta for a month.
In El Paso on October 4 a rebel soldier was executed by order of Colonel Enrique Portillo after negotiations with Mormon church officials. Mrs Miles Romney identified her assailant at the rebel camp, and Portillo ordered the execution. Romney’s ten year old daughter leaped from a second story window to summon help, breaking her right arm.
Amusements note three shows in Mobile Theatre listings The Rose Maid on Ostend hotel scene offers lavish period entertainment The Rosary presents three love stories with a strong cast Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Far East tour features Gru Ber's acts and a grand arena with novelty acts commented as a major attraction Seats are on sale for both productions and the touring show highlights spectacular effects.
The fourth district Sunday school meeting, with strong attendance, was held Thursday night at Broad Street Presbyterian Church. Miss Myra Batchelder and State President R O Harris spoke, Rev J E Wallace led discussions, and senior girls served refreshments after an hour of music and program. This caps the district’s series of meetings.
In Davenport Judge Smith McPherson imposed $100 fines and jail terms on six Muscatine bootleggers after criticizing sympathy pleas from an earlier term. He recalled letting a man go free previously when eight children accompanied him, only to learn six were borrowed from neighbors for the occasion.
Three white men, Claude Adams O R Shields and Berry Goins, are under arrest after a joy ride near Montgomery caused a crash. A negro rider on a Houston place wagon was seriously hurt a mule broke a leg and the car burned after a high speed impact. Doher ty Ellison a woman witness was summoned. Adams and Goins face reckless driving charges Shields public drunkenness.
The Mobile and Tropical Fair Association directors meet weekly at 11 am to approve bills and handle fair matters. President A G Quinn formed a fundraising committee led by George W Three foot with members Backes Flower Vickers Bartee Weliacker and Bestor Robertson. The test canvass raised 350 and a flying squadron is expected to secure the remaining amount within a week. Exhibitors contracted for 500 to 600 in exhibition space.
Dr Helen Putnam of Providence spoke at the American Association for Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality on better parenthood as a path to lower infant mortality. She argued the United States lags European peers yet leads in wealth and stressed sanitation health and education as keys. next meeting is Kansas City.
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