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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1916
Page
3
The column touts vaseline as the simplest lash and brow growth aid, warns against pricey patent preparations, and offers steps for applying grease to lashes. It also includes reader letters about baldness and knee treatments and notes local club meetings and charity efforts.
A fragment from The Item's social section features a dated verse by Mary Johnson Blackburn. The text imitates a poem with lines about love care prayer and renewal, repeating phone line strings and a reflective mood.
A long list of local gatherings and entertainments described including a Protestant asylum tea, a Maple Camp 123rd Regiment entertainment at the Moose, and a dance and concerts. Highlights include a Dixie Twins performance, a Sadie Simmons sixteenth birthday, a bridge party hosted by Elmer Reed, a M T C Halloween dance, and multiple club meetings and social notices in Mobile communities.
An advertisement promotes DeMiracle liquid depilatory as the cure for excessive hair caused by improper pastes and preparations. It claims devitalization removes growth, notes use for face neck arms and legs, and offers a money back guarantee with sizes 50c 1.00 and 2.00. Sold byrace Chemical Co and Van Antwerp Drug Co New York.
London Oct 21 Field Marshal von Mackensen’s forces push along the Danube to the Black Sea front in Dobrudja with minor gains on the coast. Austrian German operations across the Gyimes and Oltuz passes seem limited to early stages as Transylvania defenses hold.
Mobile figures from railroads and religion appear in the paper. H C Geron D W Lang Clarke Dunne S H Burke J O Gaither chart moves from New Orleans to Mobile. Rev A G Richards attends Episcopal Diocesan Council in St Louis. John F Rawls Jr visits Battle House while Sam W Westbrook stays in Mobile. Max Ambois and wife arrive at Battle House for a several day stay.
The Whistler School Improvement Association meeting was postponed due to a Bethany Baptist church benefit entertainment. Paymaster William Demieny and assistant were at the Whistler shops paying off September work.
Vice President Marshall, in Atlantic City, urged support for the president over critics who attack his handling of European war problems and railway strike avoidance. He said neutrality critics damage national unity and warned partisan behavior harms the nation in danger.
The record shows a fragmented passage where speakers allege influence by groups and political pressure on Congress and republic administrations. They claim domestic conditions are not dependent on Europe and refer to October campaigns, suggesting ideological clashes over labor and governance.
Willie Love, a Black man, charged as dangerous, ordered to good behavior bond or face ten days in the police station. He was found with a brand new blue suit when arrested. Police say they believe he was involved in a disturbance.
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