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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1915
Page
3
The taffeta frocks feature wide side panels and iridescent bead embroidery. Wing like drapery is held by pale blue bead rope and the gowns are designed for dancing with a very short hem, sweeping ten inches above the floor.
Thomas B. Allman of Whistler was elected president of the Sixteenth District of the Pythian Grand Lodge of Alabama at the twentieth semi annual convention in Whistler. Officers were chosen for the new term and the group approved the Pythian Peace Tablet. The convention also decided to continue omni-animal conventions.
The professor arrives with a relic of note. she recalls meeting a woman for tea yesterday and discusses the significance of the object.
In a domestic exchange Agnes refuses to help with dinner saying she must learn the table of food values while Frost-Agnes tries to persuade her, highlighting family dynamics and educational responsibilities.
The Mobile Electric Company plant at St. Louis and Royal streets runs with obsolete gear, yet yields low lighting rates. Visitors from the Chamber of Commerce saw a 4500 horsepower turbine and modern controls, while workers monitor emergency readiness.
The Mobile weather prognosticator forecasts partly cloudy skies and east winds. A humorous Mobile home tale follows a poker night where a guest walks away with a mere sixty three cents after a large chip stack wager.
Whistler Whistler Alabama September 16 details revival services at the Baptist church led by Rev Heywood T Vaughan and Rev D W Bossell with growing attendance and one new member application. Also funeral for Sarah E Sullivan aged 81 to be at Philip McKenna residence with Whistler Cemetery burial. Local items include autos, visits, birthday, lodge and club notices and a humorous exchange about electricity.
A dense roster lists vessels in port and mobile bound ships with origins and destinations. Entries include cargo steamships, schooners, barks, and barkentines with nations such as Norway, Am, Br, and Bel, and routes to Havre, Liverpool, Havana, New Orleans, and Puerto Cortez. The compilation notes owners, masters, and loading yards across Gulf Dry Docks and Pinto Dry Docks.
The Mobile Item notes birthdays of Olmer Roberts Rosa Worcester Fred Richardson Roy Anderson Ornella Murrill and others born September 16 across 1900 1913. It invites them to a birthday picture party at the Empire Theatre this afternoon with five friends each and asks September born children to send full names addresses and birthdates to the Children’s Editor at the Mobile Item at least two days before their birthday.
Senator Smith of South Carolina plans to push a bill establishing a non cotton growing zone in front of infested cotton lands as boll weevil advances north and east. The article also notes real estate transfers including J M Hopwood to John J Gallagher and Sumene Keith to Herman with small sums and property descriptions.
Farmers in Mobile County consider a jitney service proposed by Char Henderson and Axis Creola residents. They envision city-to-farm rides using empty country cars stopping for passengers with signs like Passenger for Calvert. Henderson cites an Axis case with four passengers needing Mobile transport and argues auto owners could profit from shared rides boosting road upkeep and city farm ties.
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