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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1912
Page
5
A society page of The Mountaineer presents a poetic excerpt reflecting elevated themes and nocturnal imagery. The snippet features lines about light, dusk, and the divine presence, attributed to 4A. B. within the publication.
Admirers of Point Clear note the big comfortable hotel will open for the fair replacing the wet hall. Salt water fishing thrives with abundant fish and low rates for weekend parties invite tired city folk to visit the Point. Mr Adam Glass Sr returns from Germany and rests in Katzenbach his birthplace, hoping for a full recovery.
Talented young pianist Miss Mattie Belle Kirkbride, after studying at Lake Chautauqua, spends weeks in Port Washington and Brighton Beach with friends Josie and Anita Taylor Eleanor Kiilduff Lucile Overall Luke Lesesne, two Mobile girls. She plans to visit New York with Anita Taylor then head home via Washington to see cousin Mrs Milton Kilduff. Miss Katherine Sands, a New York debutante, may appear this season in Mobile. she is granddaughter of Mrs Robert Sands of Dauphinway and visits with Mrs Harry Randall.
Mr and Mrs George Kilborn conclude an extended western tour visiting Denver Colorado Springs Manitou and Salt Lake City Next week Miss Kilborn and the Masters Kilborn depart for Healing Springs to spend the remainder of the vacation season.
Mr. L. W. Morgan of New Orleans is in the city for a brief visit staying at a local hostelry and sharing time with residents.
Mrs Wodward Bailey and her children returned home after visiting Jacksonville and Atlantic Beach with relatives. Guests enjoyed launch parties automobile tours and other pleasures of the summer. Miss Nettie Chandler severely ill since returning from Chicago with fever. speedy recovery wished for the gifted writer.
Mrs Lucy Leatherbury came back yesterday to Cohen after a several days stay in Mobile as the guest of Miss Marie Antoinette McIntosh on Government street. She was accompanied by Miss McIntosh who will be a guest at the Leatherbury home for a week.
Rev and Mrs F M Devall of Montgomery return from a mid summer stay at Week's Bay where they occupied the Howard Walker cottage.
Edna Wooley warns mothers to guard children from strangers and to teach early safety. She urges home addresses, police as friends, and loud screaming if danger arises. A southern maid anecdote about gum behind the ear ends in a humorous caution.
The article explains why salt is essential for digestion and details its production from rock, brine, and springs. It recounts historical salt works at Ostia and Venice, notes Indian use of substitutes, and describes modern refining, impurities, and the need to choose pure salt.
Readers seek hair remedies, social boundaries, and dating guidance. Questions cover scalp care, chaperones on trips, weekly calls, dances, and appropriate house visits for young suitors. Answers advise doctor input, sensible behavior, and modest self care with practical tips.
A readable fragment highlights a summer residence on the coast noted for exceptional comfort and appeal. The brief mentions its coastal setting and inviting design, suggesting it stands out among regional seafront homes for easy living and relaxed ambiance.
Mrs Montague Whiting who has been ill with fever for several weeks has recovered enough to travel Saturday to the Whiting plantation home near Talladega. Her children will accompany her and a cordial welcome awaits from family already at the estate.
Mrs J Leslie Taylor and Miss Margaret Taylor, noted Mobile musicians, left this week for a visit to Evanston Illinois.
Miss Marina Harvey spending summer at Punta Gorda Florida with her father K B Harvey has become a belle of the younger set. She will remain through winter and enter the third class high school. Next session she aims to graduate at Old Barton in Mobile. Mrs Harris Vaughn and family.
A woman returns from her mother's country home at Berlin near Selma Alabama. In Selma she and her party stayed as guests of Mrs Vaughn's sister Mrs Houston I Shelley during frequent auto trips along a splendid road. Dr Albert Metcalf visited relatives at his old Greenville Alabama home.
Mrs. Millard Kirkbride returns from a summer trip through Washington Atlantic City New York and other points. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Cumnock return to Mobile from Evanston Illinois. Invitations announce the marriage of Moselle Hill to Dr. William Wallace McGehee at Church Street Methodist Selma. Miss Julia Yonge visits Fairhope guest of Mrs Kenneth Winter.
Advertisement for Nadinola DREAM beauty cream by National Toilet Company. Claims to remove tan freckles pimples and improve complexion. Offered 50c to 1.00 by toilet counters or mail.
Des Moines Iowa September 5 twelve men named in Clinton county grand jury indictments charging conspiracy to defraud extortion and neglect of duty George K Wilson Jr of the Clinton Bridge Company is cited with seven charges for bridges he built in 1910 and bills invoiced up to 100 over contracts court action seeks civil suits to recover funds and indictments cover irregularities said to span many years
A crowded society column describes seasonal sojourns and visits. Chester Spear returns to New York after a Sweet Water Branch visit with his aunt Miss Kate Spear, while Eloise Adams and Etta Lord travel between Battle's Wharf Moss Point and Moss Point Mississippi. Mrs Lovie McKinstry spent summer in Evergreen and works with Miss McCord, then tours Key West before Alabama. Frank Milhous hosts a house party in Selma with Miss Marke Webb and Miss Sue Planck among Mobile guests. Bess Hybart, Milhous’ sister, visits relatives in Greenville Alabama.
Mabel McGrath from Oakdale visits her uncle M J McGrath and family in Hattiesburg Mississippi. Mr and Mrs Vance Flower and Sam Seeekeeeee visit Biloxi sites.
Tomorrow's program features Whittier’s Maud Muller in two reels and Florence Lawrence in The Winning Punch. Admission is five cents.
Nyack New York September 6 Benjamin Bryant was arraigned for carrying excess liquid baggage and had been before the court with suspended sentence. The magistrate commented on being charged with drunkenness and Bryant argued the same case cannot be tried twice, leading to his discharge.
Whitman’s immortal poem presented in a two reel production at the Crescent Theatre on Saturday. Added attraction Florence Lawrence stars in The Winning Punch. Two features for 6 cents.
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