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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1915
Page
6
A reflective piece contrasts rough life with flowing streams and sand beds where joys emerge. It ponders cultivating fine souls through help from others, noting no one is self made or self taught without support from others.
The Item congratulates Beatrice Rasmussen Marguerite Marques Francis Johnston Elma Hester and Bernice Hoffman on their October birthdays. It invites each to host a birthday picture party for five friends at the Empire Theatre this afternoon with tickets mailed.
Mrs N A Carroll announces the engagement of Juliet Carroll to Henry Buckner Carter with a wedding set for October 20 at 6 30 p m at Dauphin Way Baptist church. A surprise party for Miss Alsace Harold on Bayou Street drew a small group. Miss Constance Conolly arrives from Ireland for a Mobile stay.
The ceremony will be held tomorrow at 8 am at St Johns Episcopal church with Miss Inez Chaudron as maid of honor and Henry Goodlow Peterson as best man. An informal reception for the bridal party and close relatives will follow at the bride’s parents home on Lafayette Street.
London reports total British casualties since October 1 exceed 21 000 with a weekend list of 200 officers and 4 300 men. The cumulative London tally reaches 981 officers and 20 951 men. Arthur H. Page dies suddenly in Chicago hotel.
Local society column lists Mrs Ed Robinson and daughter Bes sie returning from New York. Several families travel or relocate for winter, including Dr and Mrs Leland Chapman now in Washington en route to New York, Miss Mary Van Aller teaching French at Knott High, and multiple families moving to or visiting Mobile, Bay Minette, Prichard, and nearby towns.
Chairman T. W. Sims of the State Board of Equalization announced in Mobile that automobile licenses will be delinquent after November 1 but tags will not be available until about mid December. The delay stems from late revenue bills. those paying early may do so at the probate judge’s office.
The body of W Stacey Douglas was laid to rest Sunday afternoon in Union cemetery in Alco Brewton Alabama. He was the eldest son of Mr and Mrs A T Douglas.
A comical court record recounts James Thomas, nicknamed James, whose enormous feet could not fit any shoes. A shoe dealer trims toes with a knife while James argues over payment, afterward being discharged. The piece also notes several petty arrests and fines in separate incidents.
A whimsical column burlesques Bowie the weather wizard altering climates from Mobile to the Gulf Coast. It envisions Bowie shifting winds and temperatures to favor sunny days and mild nights, then veers into a comic tale about a Mobile realty man seeking a magnetic axle for his sputtering car before noting fair and warmer weather tonight and Tuesday.
Secretary Lansing formally informed President Wilson that the Pan American conference has decided to recognize the Carranza party as Mexico’s de facto government. The timing and form of recognition await final details. Bolivia Uruguay and Guatemala were to respond to the action. Argentina Brazil and Chile had already approved the conference’s work. An arms embargo would follow recognition. Villa allies vow to continue fighting despite the embargo.
The schooner Elizabeth H. Raabe of New Orleans, missing since the September 29 hurricane, was found bottom up in Lake Pontchartrain. Captain Jacob Kahler's body floated ashore and was buried near Slidell, while three negro deckhands were not found.
Rudyard Kipling reports his son John Kipling of the Irish Guards was wounded and missing in the north of France. He states John is believed captured rather than killed, and asks American readers to note the correction.
In Scranton Pennsylvania R M Orr aged 37 a carpenter’s foreman killed his two children and himself after beating his wife with a blackjack and knocking unconscious his father in law Henry Rawson. Police say a sudden loss of mind amid marital family troubles.
Abigail Scott Duniway died in Portland early today at age 81. A leading figure in the fight for suffrage in Oregon Washington and Idaho, she earned the title mother of woman suffrage in the region.
August I. Conrad of Janssen Restaurant urges boosters to try Vitalitas for a troubled stomach. He credits the tonic with improved digestion, weight gain, and better appetite, claiming it helps indigestion rheumatism nervous debility and chronic internal disorders. Sutton's Drug Store and other druggists sell it.
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