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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1915
Page
2
The Gulf Coast Fair showcases how farm life and children's roles transformed by farm demonstrations. County and club exhibits highlight new living conditions, reasons youths stay on the farm, and the shift toward at home ideas promoted by girls on Mobile area farms.
A promotional note claims catarrh is caused by airborne germs and offers inhaled medicated air with eucalyptus blends as a cure. It touts quick relief within minutes and complete banishment with regular use, urging purchase from druggists with a guaranteed results promise.
An excerpt discusses the difficulty of escaping tuberculosis through masks, diet, and resistance, citing Ira Van Giesen of the New York Medical Record May 11. It notes lime assimilation and cautions about safe alternatives like Hekman’s Alterative, sold at a Philadelphia laboratory and local drug store.
Friends and guests attended a social party at Mr. and Mrs. O Walker in North Mobile from 7 30 to 11 o clock with noted attendees including Zama Link Ethel Darity Aline Link Mattie Walker Annie Lee Walker Mrs R O Wagner and more Music and refreshments followed games. Messages of visits and local happenings include returns from Toulminville St Louis and New Orleans and upcoming Whistler School Improvement Association meeting.
An advertisement touts Sargol as a safe flesh builder that aids weight gain by aiding digestion. It promises a positive money back guarantee if weight increase is not obtained and notes availability through Van Antwerp Drug Co. and other authorized druggists.
Howard O. Busch of Hammondaville Indiana travels to Mobile and, after savoring Southern cuisine including Bon Secour oysters and Cawthon hotel meals, purchases 160 acres along the Southern railway north of Mobile to obtain the famed razor back pork he craved. The pork was prepared by the Cawthon chef from Chicago‑sourced meat for the Southern market.
Bay Leaf Lodge No 268 announces sport shirt entertainment on October 14 at Warren and St Francis streets. Contest awards the prize for the daintiest, prettiest and most coquettish male in a sport shirt despite a prior abortive event caused by cold winds.
Citizens are invited to a school improvement meeting this Tuesday at 7 16 PM in the Whistler School kindergarten room. The event aims to discuss local improvements and gather public input.
Beach Paint Company of Mobile has entered Central American trade via an export agent. Markets target Cuba and the West Indies, Panama City, Colon, and Guatemala City for a big November exposition buying market. Sales manager Robert O. Rubel says demand for American paints is strong and opportunities exist for other Mobile goods.
Fairhope residents express widespread dismay at a law shifting school matters from elected trustees to the county board of education. The town also notes a new bakery motor delivery car, a new baby boy for Rolland Curtis, an oyster supper and Knights of Pythias Castle Hall dance on Oct 15, and Civic League notices for the October 19 20 Community Fair.
In Birmingham Alabama on October 12 Arlie Barber 3041 votes Co P Beddow 780 A O Lane 1539 Scudder Ryall 757 Barber and Lane advance to a runoff. Voters approve a five member board of commissioners by a 500 vote majority changing from the current three.
There is one simple safe method to dissolve blackheads using two ounces of plain powdered neroxin sprinkled on a hot wet sponge and rubbed over the skin. The powder and water dissolve the dirt in pores leaving a clean natural condition. Before bed wash face arms and neck with soap and warm water then apply a cream lotion made by dissolving one ounce of powdered zintone in a pint of hot water for a soft complexion.
Juan Llorca Marti, president of Moragues Lumber, returned from Buenos Aires urging expansion of trade with South American nations beyond Central America. He notes strong Argentine Brazilian and Uruguayan export activity, growing American farm machinery influence, and impressive Atlantic port docks. He suggests Mobile can gain access as South American harvests rise.
The Mobile Jackson highway committee and county commissioners will meet at the courthouse Thursday at 11 to form a steering committee for the pathfinders. Chairman W M Clemens will preside and the group will visit Mobile for a night but no entertainment will be arranged to keep reports unbiased. John E Wetzel John C O Connell and Paul S Hedrick were named to work with the Jackson highways committee on selecting historical points for the pathfinders visit.
Johns Hopkins University President Frank J. Goodnow said he supports military training in universities. Returning to Baltimore after months in the Orient he noted Hopkins students are eager for training and he generally approves it.
A beauty tip recommends avoiding heated curling irons as they harm hair. Instead use plain liquid silmerine applied with a clean toothbrush from root to tip to create lasting soft waves. Pure silmerine in liquid form is available at drug stores and lasts long.
A fictional court sketch tracks James O Bannon as he testifies in Recorder Edington court about malaria remedies and past lapses. Raymond Coleman faces a kidnapping incident tied to a cook, with the judge wavering on suspension as the tale unfolds.
President Wilson urged Americans to divide themselves between those loyal to America first and those aligned with other nations. He spoke at the Daughters of the American Revolution anniversary, arguing peace depends on international law and duties to humanity, not neutrality alone. He pressed naturalized citizens to prove their loyalty and pledged that every action should reinforce Americanism.
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