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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1916
Page
6
Local society pages report on personal departures and home life, including a wife’s absence and longing for home. The section covers entertaining events, birthday celebrations at 766 Dauphin Street, a New Orleans visitor's dance in honor of Elaine Heideman, and social plans in Mobile with names of guests and hosts.
Mrs. John R. Drexel funds a sight-seeing auto to take 90 children weekly from the Volunteer Hospital district to Pelham Park for air and play. The program, supported by other society women, aims to prevent infantile paralysis and toil of summer illness.
Mrs. Alexander Foreman and family returned home after a long eastern trip stopping in Atlanta and Birmingham. Other guests include Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Jones with Virginia, Helen Worthington visiting Miss Maybelle Touart, and Miss Cecil Bean from New Orleans.
Wilmer Meyers leaves Eight-Mile for Meridian to resume duty as locomotive fireman on the Mobile and Ohio railroad. Numerous residents, including Linda and Marie Moog, Helen Waldrop, Lula Adelle Peterson, and families, visit relatives and travel. The Whistler Social Club announces a grand ball at Odd Fellows hall on Wednesday September 20 with Joe White as chair of the entertainment committee and Ward Williams Glenn Bur as members.
A reader asks if a film actor who has invited her to the studio and a motor trip is a gentleman. The column weighs his character beyond looks, noting the profession is honorable but emphasizes personal conduct and parental consent in the relationship.
Miss Cecile Staub the eldest daughter of Professor A. J. Staub married Mr. Charles A. Hayes formerly of Louisville and now residing here. They left for a trip to St. Louis and northern cities then planned visits in Tuscaloosa and Meridian before settling in a Spring Hill home after September fifteenth. Mrs. Staub returned from New York and Boston to attend the ceremony as guests joined a boat trip on the Menge with numerous friends from Perdue Hill Selma Camden and Mobile segments.
Edna Kent Forbes laments endless quack remedies and urges simple living with food, water, exercise, and baths. Local notes report travels and visits of residents, including moves between Mobile, Quincey, Bat Cave, and Meridian with family news and returns.
Advice notes long term hair care and scalp soothing with tar soap to ease dryness. Recommends olive oil or vaseline on the scalp. Suggests visiting an electric needle specialist for wart and freckles to reduce sun exposure as she grows up.
All but her skin and nobody has ever told her how easy it is to put beauty on the skin. Beauty on the skin is MAGNOLIA BALM. Just try it today. 75 cents at Druggists or by mail. Sample Free. Lyon Manufacturing Co. 42 South Fifth Street Brooklyn NY.
The Bienville square hosts a children's concert tonight with a program including Hesitation Blues Fox Trot One Step Memphis the March Frisco Waltz Loves Hesitation March Love’s Hesitation and other dances. Featured pieces include America I Love You Home Sweet Home Good bye Girls and a finale under director Drago.
A Webster City Iowa man writes of recurring liver trouble and abdominal pain. He tried Chamberlain's Tablets and, after half a bottle, claims he felt fine with no signs of a test. The product is advertised as obtainable everywhere.
In Montgomery Alabama the public service commission announced that diversified farm products rates approved weeks ago by the commission and major railroads are now filed. New tariffs take effect September 9 on Central of Georgia and Southern Railway September 11 on Atlantic Coast Line and Seaboard Air Line and September 10 on Western Railway of Alabama.
Governor Theo G Bilbo arrived in Bilbo Mississippi after visits in Washington and New York with plans for government exhibits at the Mississippi Centennial Exposition in Gulfport. He predicts Wilson's November victory and notes Labor Day quietude in Jackson with many offices closed and plans for a future celebration. The state election board will name county commissioners within sixty days of the next presidential election.
Anxious Alabama Brigade troops await orders as war department contemplates moving fifteen thousand guardsmen to the border. State mobilization camp notes a pending order within days after prior cancellation due to a threatened strike. Artillery batteries and the signal company likely to depart first for training and instruction.
More than 2,000 delegates attend the Southern Appalachian Good Roads Association convention in Lexington for a four day session. Governors and civic leaders deliver welcomes and Joseph Hyde Pratt responds as president. Committee reports are read and new committees appointed.
Berne reports Berlin Tageblatt dispatches say Swiss and German delegates reached an exchange of commodities agreement on Monday. The arrangement is described as satisfactory to both parties and aims to ease trade tensions between the two nations.
An ad touts mercolized wax as a remedy to remove freckles tan pimples and blotchy skin. It claims no facial hair growth risks and promises a clear smooth complexion after nightly use with soap and water.
Charles E. Hughes leaves Nashville for Lexington to deliver an address and plans a brief Louisville stop before continuing toward Maine. The Republican nominee faces a hostile, enthusiastic crowd as he defends arbitration of industrial disputes and a protective tariff.
Voters in the first and third judicial districts participate in a runoff for Democratic nominees to Mississippi Supreme Court. In district one incumbent Clayton D. Potter faces George Ethridge, while district three incumbent E. O. Sykes runs against R. H. Knox. Ethridge led Potter by about 1,800 in the August primary. Sykes led Knox by several hundred.
Stewart Lawrence of Lane Mississippi faced a recorder on a dangerous and suspicious charge tied to an alleged attempt to beat a board bill. Complainant Mrs M Streiffer claims Lawrence owes $20 and planned to flee the city when Officer Alex McCarron arrested him. Relatives of the young man were said to intend to settle the board bill.
Somerville boy Toundas P Brindley writes of severe headaches and vomiting, saying four doses of Granger Liver Regulator cured him. His mother notes the bitter castor oil and other remedies failed, while Liver Regulator, a safe vegetable product, helped.
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