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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1914
Page
14
Poem excerpt exploring happiness in aging and memory. Reflections contrast little joys of youth with deeper feelings gained over time. The speaker laments how tiny moments once felt grand and notes the shift from bright youth to seasoned adulthood.
Oakdale Baptist church at Bay avenue and O Donnell street plans a box party on October 27. The Yoke Bearers group will sell boxes for 25 cents to raise funds for the church. Attendees are promised good value and the chance to support a worthy cause.
Mrs. Bessie O’Brien Hundley, Alabama suffrage leader, addresses a mixed audience at the fair grounds forum in Montgomery. She advocates a state vote on women’s suffrage, cites census figures, and says the fight centers on state action rather than federal amendment.
Fruitdale residents greet guests from Mobile Irvington and Illinois. Visitors include Miss Eddie Blake Mrs. Morris and families. Teachers honor Viola Welch with a state diploma. Farmers report upland rice crop and new farm purchases. tax officials visit on business. Park Hotel registers noted among arrivals.
Messrs Buck Curran Aaron Moog and Willie Schermer secured salary settlement talks in Bay Minette keeping pay as before. Elsa Barron visited Miss Nellie Curran and joined a bridge party hosted by Misses Widney Irene and Eva Case.
Healing Springs Alabama reports full dormitories at Healing Springs High School for the first time in years. The Franklin Literary Society plans a meeting Friday October 23. Rev H A Mason moved from Isney to occupy Hamberlin residence hall. Mrs M McDowell oversees the boys dormitory. Edward L Warrick of Yellow Pine launched The Century Bachelors Club with Guy Smith as president. Ada Causey, our lady mayor, has returned from Birmingham. The Baptist Young People's Union reorganized with Robert L Lewis as president. Maggie Lee Causey returns home after Birmingham and Tuscaloosa trip. Jessie Loper of Loper visits Mrs James Bland.
Rabbi Isadore Isaacson of Selma will occupy the pulpit at Temple Shaarai Shemayim Friday evening Oct. 30. The Mobile born rabbi was prepared by Dr. A G Moses of the Government Street Temple.
This piece argues that wives should confide all domestic worries to husbands, big or small, to share burdens and find solutions. It asserts that two heads solve problems better, praises husbands’ grasp of domestic affairs, and warns against secrecy creating unhappiness or distrust in marriage.
Residents visit kin in Mobile Shady Grove and Pascagoula while local church organizers form Trinity Baptist with eighteen members. Public school opens with 26 pupils taught by Miss Sullivan. Community members: Hicks Gomillton, Mary Sullivan, Addie McDuffy, Lavonia Pierce, Queenie Nelson, Robbie Easly, Grace and Ruby Bollen, Bessie Kemp, Essie and Edna Williams, Campbell and Stewart Roberts, Richard and John Tanner, Tommie Ratliff, Killough, Herman Williams, Earl Dykes.
A columnist argues that wives should fully inform husbands about household troubles. The piece contends that shared candor strengthens marriage, warns against separate spheres, and urges avoiding outside judgment by seeking the spouse’s counsel and support.
Mayor Harry Pillans announced improvements on Charleston street from Conception to Washington Square. The south side will be paved with a macadam surface laid on a slag foundation starting Monday.
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