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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1915
Page
14
Mme Marguerite designed three trophy winning gowns shown by YMNIA Muscial Circle. The pieces include The Inspiration evening dress and The Storm Cloud daytime frock, praised for smartness and adaptability after winning the Gossard trophy in Chicago.
The first meeting of the Old Shell Road Improvement Association notes stronger interest despite lower attendance. The yard committee completes plans and begins grading and landscaping this week with plants and trees to beautify the grounds. Miss Maria Minge joins the new members to contribute artistic input. The school board will finish summer improvements including a kindergarten building, a concrete walk, and a long sidewalk. The school opened January 1, 1915, with 359 pupils, up 94 from last year, and the addition of a seventh grade. The Craighead Club invites General and Mrs. Roberts as guests.
The prominent corn remover GETS-IT is advertised as the world’s wonder. It promises quick loosening and painless removal of corns without cutting or tools. Sold by druggists nationwide at 25 cents a bottle, or direct from E. Lawrence & Co., Chicago.
A schedule of weekly club and class gatherings includes Bible and training classes at the Y M C A with times from 6:15 to 9:30 p.m. plus junior bands, parliamentary law and public speaking groups, sewing circles, and mothers clubs at multiple venues such as the Cawthon hotel, Settlement Home, and Dumas Institutional Church. Several events specify host families and attendees.
In Mobile the retired brigadier general Roberts is welcomed with a courtesy visit after Southwest duties and plans for rebuilding the Galveston causeway. He is accompanied by Mrs. Roberts. The club presents his autograph edition of Roberts Rules of Order with photo, noting its charts aid in orderly meetings.
Residents are invited to a mass meeting at Willis G Clark school on Conception Street October 18 at 3 30 pm to organize a child welfare group. The Mobile Graded Union schedules meetings at Burgett Memorial church with Bible study and officer elections at the Cawthon Hotel.
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