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Newspaper

The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Sep 07, 1916

Page

6

Social Notes From Mobile and Nearby

The Mobile social column records wedding invitations and engagements including Julia Duke and Charles Duke at First Baptist Atalla on September 19 1916, Frances Durett Hawkins and Gaines Lassabe Cooke of Mobile, a double wedding of Needler and Hawkinson with Mobile brides, a theatre party for Mrs Rudolph Benz, and a newborn boy for the A Smith family.

Attalla Arthur Leigh Dukre Julia Charles Duke First Baptist Mr. Jones Bijou Clark Jones Rudolph Benz Mobile Louis Benz Florence Annex BE. B. Durnham Rhoda May Elliott James Birmingham M. E. Hurlbert LaSalle Avenue Tillfred Elmo Needler Helen Ruetz Arthur William Hawkinson Margaret Stokes Moncreiffe Needler Hawkinson Chicago Ill Healing Springs Healing Springs Hotel Charles A. Fuller Bessie Gleason

Wedding Match Highlights Malone Family Ties

Malone played the wedding match while Misses Clyde Malone and Bettie Havens served refreshments. The page lists social events around Mobile including Mrs. James O Dickens returning home after National Federation work and a lively Ladies' Aid Society election and society parties with prizes and refreshments.

Tone Malone Clyde Malone Bettie Havens James O. Dickens Boston National Federation Mobile Dickens

Social notes highlight visits in Mobile and nearby towns

Miss Helen Warren, a former Mobile resident now in Kentucky, arrives to visit friends in Frankford and Montgomery. Mobile social season features Misses Council, Harman, Locke, Baumhauer, Searcy, Van de Graaf, and others visiting from Fairhope, Tuscaloosa, Meridian, and Birmingham.

Helen Warren Frankford Kentucky Miss Warren Misses Council Dauphin St Frances Baumhauer Tennessee Knoxville Jefferson City Emma Brady Mobile Tuscaloosa Mississippi

Anthrax Outbreak Hits Culpepper County Farms

An anthrax outbreak has been found in Culpepper County Virginia. Two farms are affected and 113 horses have died. State authorities placed the farms under quarantine and implemented measures to prevent further spread.

Virginia Richmond Culpepper County

Dysentery Relief Ad Promises Life Saving Cure

A Carbou Hill Alabama resident William H Stribling reports his four year old son survived a severe dysentery attack after using Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. The advertisement claims the product is obtainable everywhere.

Alabama Chamberlain Wm. H. Stribling Carbou Hill Ala Adv

Chisholm Elected Commander in Chief of Spanish War Vets

Col. Daniel W Chisholm of Washington D C was unanimously elected commander in chief of the United Spanish War Veterans at the Chicago reunion. The next gathering will be in Cleveland. Officers elected include Oscar Kilstrom Junior vice commander in chief L A Warrick surgeon general and Rev James Gleason chaplain in chief. Chisholm faced Rent Gov Barrett O Hara of Illinois and H Saunders in the race.

Associated Press Chicago Daniel Wisholm Washington D. C United Spanish War Veterans Cleveland Oscar Kilstrom Wisconsin L. A. Warrick Indiana James Gleason California Chisholm Barrett O'Hara Illinois H. Saunders New Hampshire

Street Car Strike Spreads Across New York City

Interborough workers strike over pay and two year no-advance clause as union surge grows. Police guard cars and subway stations with 5000 officers on duty while the city tests service reliability on subway and elevated lines amid reported vandalism.

Interborough Carmen O New York Railway Co Borou Manhattan Bronx Brooklyn Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company Inborough Mer Amalgamated Association Interborough Company Grand Central Railway Station Twenty-third Street Cross Town Public Service Commission Inter- Borough

Burial services for Rev John R Newell held near Wheelerville

Rev J M Kalin assisted by Rev J D Wilkes conducted the funeral at the family home near Wheelerville. Burial was in Wheelerville cemetery with pallbearers Nell Livingston James McKenzie Luther Lane Theodore Adams George New and R L Creel. James W Lucas died at 30 after a several week illness. he worked in green grocery at Southern Market with M L Comstock and was sent to Selma for burial. He is survived by his mother and several siblings in Wilcox county.

M. C. Slaton Mobile Annie Sibley J. B. Thornton Miss Sibley S. Sibley New York Washington Niagara Falls Wahington White House Capitol Baltimore Savannah John R. Newell J. M. Kalin J. D. Wilkes Crichton Baptist Church Wheelerville Messrs Nell Livingston James McKenzie Luther Lane Theodore Adams George New R. L. Creel James W. Lucas Alabama

Harvard Eleven Out For Work On Soldiers Field

Harvard University football opens practice on Soldiers Field with Leo Leary directing as field coach in Coach Percy Haughton’s absence due to baseball duties. The team begins preliminary work in Cambridge Massachusetts.

Harvard Associated Press Cambridge Mass Harvard University Soldiers’ Field Percy D. Haughton Leo Leary

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BELL the Dreamers Emwiu Theodosia Garrison Harper's Magazine Hugh Black George MacDonald Smith J. W. Hunter By T. E. Powers Ladies’ Aid Society The First Christian Church C. (. Adams W. J. Armstrong W. A. Timbes P. H. Gill Aid Society Margaret Johnson J. A. Holifield Government-Street Methodist Church Margart Johnson Helen Spaulding Myrtle Harris Nadine Parker Marie Murphy Miss Johnson Jlisses Marie Murphy Alex Hancock N. R. Clarke Diddie Leigh Carleton William Killion Frederick Hyde Yuckers Bernard Carlin All Saints’ Church James F. Plummer Reno One Fawr Edna Kent Forbes Henry Wright F. P. Davis Corinne Boone Thomas Moore Cassidy Phoebe Lawrence Hhe Mary Lott Lucille Price Lillie Butt Harriet Fimms Anna Bridgeman Miss Gordon St. Francis Street Epworth League Society Pitroff Mary Pitroff Trafffic Phillip Pitroff South Bayou Street Hagan Lyon Manufacting Co South Fifth Street N. Y M. H. Harman H. W. Ollinger Fairhope Anna Locke B. B. Gantt Herbert Solberg Marvin Upham Bay St. Louis St. Stanislaus Callave virvDaYy George Eugene Taft Spring Hill College Stella Searcy John T. Cochrane Cherokee van de Graaf Tusecaloosa Marion McDuffie River Ridge H. Roscoe Bailey Meridian, Miss Mary Clare Ryan Kate Moslander Mrs. Coleman W. W. Quinn Eugene Butler Burton Butler Meridian H. R. Shorter Eufaula, Ala Battle House J. D. Grimes Myrtle Grimes Waynesboro Miss Cawthon Hotel Aea J. F. Ruffin New Augusta George Diermayer Pullman Texas Walter Mitchell Stock Dauphin Street A. A. Richards, Auctioneer Dan Chisholm N. Y. Carme Harold Bell Wright
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