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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1915
Page
7
A brief note from Bell Phone on home phone services references women at work in urban and rural settings. The fragment hints at a feature on domestic and professional roles and technology's impact on daily life.
A University of Chicago professor argues education should cultivate public spirit, compassion for the weak, honest friendships, self-respect, and moral conduct. He asks whether schooling fosters kindness to children, loyalty to friends, and humane treatment of animals, urging deeper moral development.
The article notes English women care for the wounded and fundraise to aid troops, with suffragists credited for calming government resistance as wartime service boosts momentum for women's vote after the war. It also advertises Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and Pellets as remedies for female ailments with claims of broad cure and health benefits.
An Exchange passage challenges readers to weigh daily drudgeries against intellectual pursuits. It asks whether practical work and simple joy can coexist with high thinking and whether true education depends on formal schooling or inner vision.
Monday features an informal morning at Gunbo Supper Broad Street Methodist chair in honor of Miss Marie Shaffer and multiple afternoon gatherings at Infant Home Semmes ParLiamentary Law Club and Mobile Art Club among others. Household Helps includes cucumber ketchup and mushroom ketchup recipes with step by step prep and spiced mixtures.
Inquiries on love affairs addressed to Miss Eros will be printed if not too lengthy. Ad dress your inquiries to Miss Eros Mobile Item. Personal letters not answered, or private correspondence handled. Dear Miss Eros I am a girl eighteen years of age and have a boyfriend of twenty three. He says he likes me best of all the girls he knows but shortens dates sometimes. I worry he may tire of me. Please advise. Happy suggests jealousy and cross words cause unhappiness. Do not monopolize time unless engaged. You are young and may meet more boys.
A windy evening leads to a cold frost that will harden the ground and open nuts for stored provisions. Uncle Wiggily Longears the rabbit, Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuazy, and Johnny Rushtail the squirrel discuss winter plans while preparing for a cold night.
Johnnie Bushytail the squirrel heads into frost to gather chestnuts. Uncle Wiggily guides him back to school as a fox traps, but the bag of burrs spills on the fox trapping him. The nuts reach Johnnie’s home and the rabbit remains safe. See event ad for Toulminville School show September 28.
Kay Laurell a 1915 beauty from Ziegfeld's Follies promotes daily exercise to improve blood, health, beauty and grace. The illustrated routine involves lying face down, lifting hips on toes and elbows, then lowering for ten counts with deep breathing.
From young English walnuts two pounds of anchovies one pound of Sallots one ounce of powdered cloves one ounce of mace and one ounce of garlic. Boil the juice for about ten minutes and then skim it. Add the anchovies shallots spices and the garlic sliced. Let simmer in a covered vessel for about fifteen minutes strain and when cold pour into bottles adding to each bottle a little fresh spice and salt according to taste.
The letter writer describes a jealous boyfriend who accuses her of seeing other boys, notes three years of knowing each other, and cites a father’s objections. The response urges patience, says the man should win the father’s approval, and argues the suitor’s selfishness and lack of gentlemanly conduct.
Mr Julian Sturtevant left for New Orleans to fetch his wife returning from a West tour via Omaha Denver San Francisco and Los Angeles. J P Lathrop and A H Sturtevant visit Mobile. A H Sturtevant adds a power cane mill to his farm equipment and C B Harwell reports strong Spanish peanut yields.
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