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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1916
Page
6
A collage of fashion chat and club news from Mobile. Edna Kent Forbes covers Winter fashion trends, nail care and jewelry, plus social reports from the Mobile Public Library party and various women's clubs with appointments, dinners, and upcoming events.
A string of short notes records visitors and travels. Mr C B Tindall and Miss Ethel Maynard visit or return from Mobile or Orange Beach while Mr Cecil C Moore returns to Montgomery after a five day stay. Others include Mrs J A Slayton with companions in Mobile, Miss Emmie Bush receiving eye treatment there, and families from Mobile Miller Milwaukee and Loxley visiting Monroeville.
The notes recommend affordable beauty basics including chalk for nail polish and face powder, with buys costing cents and home-made options. For those with long faces, avoid pendant earrings, favor small round drops and multiple rings on small fingers, while avoiding ordinary looking pieces.
A home remedy using Pinex mixed with sugar syrup costs about 54 cents for a pint and claims to quickly relieve coughs bronchitis and throat irritation. The text then presents a children's tale about Puss in Boots Jr with kittens learning to wear mittens and booted paws amid snowy misadventure.
A compact pamphlet style note urges giving good advice by setting examples. It cites how quickly a cold improves when using Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and suggests others imitate the remedy’s apparent effectiveness.
The advertisement promotes Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as a trusted medicine for sudden colic and diarrhoea. It highlights prompt relief, urges quick treatment before a physician arrives, and claims the remedy’s strong reputation and wide availability.
The Mobile Baptist Association ended its meeting on Wednesday night at Oakdale Baptist church. Grand Bay will host the 1917 gathering, with services to be held at Union Baptist church there. Rev. John W. Phillips preached the introductory sermon. Rev. J. E. Barnes was alternate. The Wednesday program was led by the Baptist Young People's Union with speakers Prof. T. J. York, Dr. A. G. Moseley, and Rev. W. F. Yarborough.
Mr W K Linscott temporary chairman calls the Kansas Society to convene Friday night at the Cawthon Hotel. The group, formed earlier, has become disorganized and plans to reorganize and put the society on a permanent basis at the meeting.
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