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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1914
Page
6
A meditation blends Henry Vaughan’s religious verse with autumn scenes of a mocking bird. The piece links nature’s praise to Providence and emphasizes gratitude for seasonal beauty and upcoming gifts from God.
After a month-long summer pause the Mothers' Club of the Settlement Home reopens on Thursdays. Yesterday about thirty attendees gathered at 3:30 with Miss Louise Windham hosting Mrs Hobby and Miss Laura Hobby of Beaumont as visitors. Mr Barnes spoke on The Personality of the Holy Spirit while a Vic trola provided music and Miss Grizzard funded the instrument. A business meeting and light refreshments closed the session. Next week the Vickers family departs for New York and several Mobile residents plan study trips there.
Rosa Marion Coates earns praise as Mobile’s fame travels far. Friends extend congratulations and regrets over Mr. and Mrs. Ross Dodson leaving for Louisville. Numerous arrivals and returns fill social pages with visits from Murphy, Jones, Manning, Higgins, Fitts, Sitts, Shields, Sharman, Bibb, and Schley family gatherings and travels to Meridian, Birmingham, and Orangevale.
War disrupts chemical supplies and prices for photo engraving and portrait work. New York Engravers’ Supply Company reports price hikes and shortages, while the International Photo-Engravers’ Union seeks relief and a federal probe into profiteering.
Friday night opened the fall tournament with Purity Spring Water defeating MacGregor Spring Water after a seesaw score. Purity captured victory late as the final banner rose, with the score alternately changing hands throughout the match.
Cure claims include restoring bile flow and clearing stomach and bowels of waste. Depicts the tonic as beneficial for stomach and liver, with the first dose promised to lift spirits and end ailments. Sold by druggists for 25 cents.
Tuesday and Friday nights feature dancing from 8:30 to 11 with music by the Rowley Orchestra at Top o' the Town. The venue touts ample ventilation and fans for comfort during the event.
Bankers from twenty major cities meet with the federal reserve board in Washington to discuss the date of launching the national banking system. The board believes a launch is near with minimal disruption, while some bankers oppose the timing. The conference also tackles American merchants foreign indebtedness and potential gold payments to Europe. Clearing house groups gather data on amounts involved.
Assistant Secretary Breckinridge of the war department in charge of relief work in Europe was in Geneva yesterday. He says 1,500 Americans have been sent out of Switzerland on special trains and many others have left by their own means, about 1,000 wish to remain. Ambassador Herrick advised against further transfers through France. Breckinridge plans to leave Geneva via Paris for Cherbourg where the cruiser Tennessee awaits.
J. B. Bethea a white truck driver for Columbia Ice Cream Company was arraigned in the recorder's court Friday morning after being arrested by Officer Macon for driving past a car discharging passengers and fined five dollars or ten days in jail.
The Turkish embassy in Washington received a Constantinople cablegram stating that military authorities will safeguard merchant ships of belligerents in Turkish ports. The ambassador calls this the strongest indication Turkey will stay neutral, though other diplomats see it differently.
The mass Sunday at St Margaret's Church Cedar Point Road will begin promptly at 8 30 p m. Sunday school follows the mass using the winter order.
At Cleveland the game was postponed due to cold weather with two games scheduled for tomorrow.
Tickets priced at 50 cents for a round trip on Sunday. Information available at City Ticket Office, 235 Royal Street, with office hours 9 10 3 4 5 6 7.
The Kalem star and Alice Joyce ally in The Brand at the Empire Theatre on Saturday. The Attorney's Decision, Lubin's two reel drama, headlines with Joseph Kaufman Rosemary Theby and Harry Meyers. The plot centers on Alice West who marries broker Norris Dacre, later becomes unhappy wife as district attorney John Travers uncovers Dacre’s crimes amid intrigue at a cafe and a tavern.
A Ghent dispatch says residents panic at the expected German approach with aeroplanes and scouts seen nearby. German forces are believed near Ter Monde, sixteen miles east of Ghent, as Belgians flood Malines district to hinder German artillery.
Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore and Cardinal O Connell of Boston reached Rome seeking time to join the conclave that elected Cardinal Della Chiesa as pope. Friends greeted them, but only a few hours denied their participation.
Dacre visits Mimi at the cafe and clashes with her violinist lover who suspects Europe plans. In a rage the violinist shoots the rival. John hides the evidence, and Alice accepts an old lover’s return as a new bill unfolds with Edison drama and Biograph features at the Empire tomorrow.
Mrs. Osie Rish of Wabash Indiana reports Chamberlains Tablets best for stomach trouble and urges trial noting the medicine strengthens the stomach and restores natural function. Sold by all dealers.
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