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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1913
Page
5
A traditional poem asks for inner steel to endure life’s strife and to fight valiantly. It seeks courage to face enemies, resilience after wounds, and eventual victory even at the cost of life. The piece reflects a martial, stoic ethos amid personal peril.
Miss Minnie Foster visited Birmingham last spring as guest of the Misses Vincent. Mr J Fowler Foster and Mr J Foster travel to Selma for the quiet wedding of Mr Foster to Miss Elizabeth Irene Lambert at 2 30 PM today. They return tonight and will be at 820 South Thirtieth Street afterward.
The Polyhymnia Circle met with Mrs. J. W. Cox on Wednesday October 15 with a good attendance. The president read the address of welcome to all attendees.
The Birmingham Age Herald reports the marriage of Miss Mary Ratliff to Mr. John Cox on a Wednesday evening. Attendants include former Mobilian Wesley Overton. The couple honeymooned in Mobile. Emmett Buckley, long absent from Gulf City, greeted friends. Mrs. Higley returns from Montgomery visit. Shelton McKinstry vacationing in Nebraska with Aunt Mrs. King and cousin Miss Sue King.
This afternoon at 4 p m the regular story telling hour will be observed in the Harte Auditorium. It is hoped a large attendance will be present as a fine program has been prepared.
The Huntley Stock Company presents Hearts and Flowers in two final showings at the Orpheum this afternoon and tonight. The production is praised as the company’s best in Mobile and has drawn strong patronage. Beginning Monday two shows weekly. Rip Van Winkle features Mr. Huntley as Rip with Rogers Barker in support and the full Huntley cast. Popular prices prevail for all performances. The average woman is proud of nervous prostration.
Longmont Colorado October 18 George Hesier once a Russian refugee now invents a beet digger topper weighing two pounds. The device is carried like a planter and lets a single worker do 50 percent more work by topping and uprooting beets in one pass.
More than three thousand people visited L Hammels Friday and Saturday for a Parisian gown and hat exhibition with living models from New York City. An orchestra played unseen behind palms as aisles filled with attendees and the show continued until 3 pm Saturday.
A London dispatch notes a Blue Bonnet jubilee at Stewarton Scotland marking the start of blue bonnet manufacture in 1590. It recalls their sale at Glasgow markets, a 1728 fine for selling, 1756 indigo dye laws, and the shift from hand knitting to Saxony wool machine methods. The bonnets remain tied to Highland regiments and Scottish youth, with a closing quip about department store indoctrination.
A tired but joyful mother recalls a six week country holiday with seven children spent largely alone. She frames daily care as memory making, believing beauty learned in childhood will linger to guide their lives and future generations.
Classified notice seeks a colored girl or woman for general work at Park Cafe located at 102 St Francis Street. Apply in person with details.
Mary Danforth recovers from a fainting spell and continues to pursue library research while guarding her feelings for Gordon Craig. Her father plans to check his record, but Mary remains focused on books and romance, agreeing to meet Craig at the opera next Wednesday for Aida.
Mrs Inez Lewis of Baring Maine recalls her four month old's face breaking out with eczema spreading to the body and hands. After using Hood's Sarsaparilla for months the child recovered fully and grew healthy. The ad promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as a blood medicine available in liquid or Sarsatabs.
The ad extols Dr King s New Discovery as essential in every home for colds coughs throat and lung troubles. A Mason Michigan reader claims it cured pneumonia and praises its universal family benefit with 60 cent and 1.00 bottles. Sold by all druggists H B Bucklen Co Philadelphia or St Louis.
Friday marked the start of a sale of Panama buttons, souvenir of the Southern Commercial Congress and Panama Canal Celebration. School improvement associations run sales at various schools, private and other pupils may buy from Mrs. Delehamps or Mrs. W. K. Linscott. The sale runs until October 24 with commissions on hundred units sold and a prize for sales over 600.
A hyperbolic ad claims Pape’s DiapPep sin quickly relieves dyspepsia indigestion gas heartburn and sourness in five minutes. It promises vast value with a money back guarantee and urges households to keep it on hand for sick upset stomachs at any time.
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