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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1912
Page
5
A troubled year looms. health rules matter and Mars governs birthdays with strength and courage. Those born today gain energy and potential to dominate, yet when guided by good sense a worthy character and likely success emerge.
Madame de Riviere stays in Wilcox County with Miss Ann Tait visiting Mobile guests. Mrs. Bolling attends bedside vigil in Spring Hill for Mrs. John Holmes as D A R prepares a 1912 1913 program of music dances tableaux and pageantry with hostesses Perrin Bester Robinson Cochrane Bondurant Syson and others. An initial business meeting and tea with the regent are set at Scottish Rite cathedral with three oclock business hour and 430 pm tea.
Mrs. John B. Harvey told the story of Sir Galahad to 225 children Saturday afternoon. Watt's poetic picture of a youthful armored figure beside a snow white steed, bathed in halo light, inspires noble ideals.
Eighteen guests celebrate nine year old Lillie Belle Kimbrough’s birthday with nine lit candles in a Halloween themed cake. The event features fun games, a Halloween cat tail contest, and gifts for the birthday girl. Local notices report Octobers travels and family greetings.
Mme. Minna Kaufmann, a teacher and singer, argues that modern romance treats love and marriage as lighthearted. She notes ragtime love songs and stage works popularize proposals as jokes, while classical pieces show deeper emotion and imagination.
Women across the United States and Canada testify to relief from female complaints including inflammation ulcers displacements irregularities periodic pains and backache after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Letters are kept with consent in Lynn Massachusetts laboratory records.
Boston dispatch reports that 40 to 50 American missionaries remain in the Balkans and Macedonia as war unfolds. Families are urged to move women and children to safety while men face risk, with several missionaries stationed at Monastir Saloniki and in Samokov Bulgaria aiding the front.
El Paso Texas October 27 A condition bordering on martial law exists today here and along the Mexican frontier General F Z Steever from Fort Bliss directs American troops with stricter orders from Washington than in the recent Mexican revolutions Arrests may now be made by the military for offenses formerly handled by the secret service and tried in federal courts Any move to arm rebel filibustering expeditions on American soil could trigger martial law along the line between Los Angeles and San Antonio.
Paris reports the death of Dr Paul Segond a noted surgeon who succumbed to syncope following uremia. He was a professor of surgery at the university faculty of medicine and surgeon in chief at Salpetriere hospital.
A home nutrition appeal promotes macaroni as a daily staple, claiming it equals potatoes in value and is easier to digest. Faust Macaron, made from American durum wheat, is praised for purity and flavor and is sold in sealed packages with a free recipe book offer.
The Crown Theatre opens Monday at 10 30 a m for The Woman in White. Come early to avoid the rush. Admission is five cents.
In Irvington Alabama women formed a welfare group led by Mrs L Haney to press the board of education to shade windows mow the lawn and fix a needed door and other improvements for the public school. A teacher had already added green cambric to dim light but organizers plan proper shades and a mower to clear obstacles with another meeting set for late November to establish a permanent group.
William Zirnheld 26 shot and killed Fred Bauer 23 in Louisville after a dispute about a litter of puppies. Zirnheld surrendered and said Bauer had threatened him and approached with a shotgun. Zirnheld fired from a window with his shotgun.
In Stuttgart on Oct 27 the American balloon Kansas City IL exploded while being filled an hour before the Gordon Bennett cup race. Pilot John Watts was uninjured. The cause is unknown.
Brigadier General Charles Morris United States Army retired died at his Portland home tonight aged 69 years.
Thomas C. Bingham of Montgomery died of pneumonia in Birmingham at the state Republican headquarters. He was secretary and treasurer of the Alabama Republican campaign committee and had long been a prominent figure in Alabama politics.
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