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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1912
Page
5
The article notes a population shift as equinox storms drive vacation families from the Gulf Riviera to towns inland. Quaint seashore cottages gain winter occupancy as city folks settle in for the season while summer crowds depart, with Point Clear among popular winter retreats.
Major and Mrs James K Glennon hosted guests near the Grand Hotel as Point Clear enjoyed a breezy season. Dan Sims Sydney Robbins Rosamond and families stayed on with Captain Jack Clancy providing music and dancing nightly. Misses Marie Olive Elsie Richard and others dazzled a beach crowd of mermaid watchers. Miles McSweeny, rescued by Miss Biste, plans to settle in Mobile as Lyric secretary a future winter home. Annie Lou Runfield and the Blackshers were among seasonal visitors.
Two of The New York American s big hits for women readers Widow Hunting a Husband by Virginia Terhune van de Water and Married Life the First Year by Mabel Herbert Urner join The Item s features on the editorial page alongside a daily New York fashion picture Both pieces promise fidelity to real life and target both women and men readers. Point Clear hosts highlight social summer absences and notable arrivals including Mr and Mrs W O Lott and their modern Mission style home over Mobile Bay plus the Glennon family and others returning to the city after summering at the Point.
Two reels adaptation of Caleb West Master Diver presents dramatic diving scenes both above and below water. The production from F Hopkinson Smith story includes marine views and a romance strand with no price increase. Admission five cents. 9:21-21.
A friend says Mrs Russell Sage, heir to a vast fortune, endures daily tears and hardship from the burden of managing $65,000,000. The article portrays her as a pitiable figure overwhelmed by wealth.
Laura Mirriam daughter of Minnesota’s former governor says her engagement to Missouri Congressman Theron Catlin ended by mutual consent. She refuses to reveal the real reason, noting Catlin’s unseating over campaign fund violations had no bearing on her decision.
Mrs. Sage, an 80 year old New England widow, is overwhelmed by requests for her fortune after her husband’s death. Her mail volume rose from 40–50 letters daily to about 900, with 7,600 letters carried away unread in two months. She reads none now, seeing only trusted friends, and remains a plain village woman devoted to work rather than society.
A widow once married to a clerk reflects on wealth and fear. She compares poverty studies to her own life, describing how she lives as a "Prisoner of Wealth" behind a protective wall while fearing intrusion and torment.
Kinson Smith presents a well known book adaptation with rine views and strong dramatic tension at the Crown Theatre for a Sunday only performance. Local residents urged to attend as previews hint at intense scenes and notable cast members.
Washington reports no department verification that contempt of court proceedings will be started against Standard Oil. Attorney General Wickersham has monitored Waters-Pierce evidence to uncover any violations of the Supreme Court dissolution ruling.
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