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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1915
Page
7
A passage extols Greek reverence for women and condemns medieval subjugation. It argues emancipation fuels humanity’s progress, cites gender equality as essential to civilization, and ends with a quip about a man’s view of his wife.
A persuasive ad claiming to cure chronic catarrh by eradicating the germs with Hyomei. It promotes breathing the eucalyptus based air to heal nasal and throat membranes and destroy the disease at its source. The Van Antwerp Drug Corporation and many druggists back a money back guarantee and include a pocket inhaler with treatments.
The piece describes Kay Laurell performing a back leg and arm stretch to calm nerves. It also notes a daily nap and bath as a simple tonic, plus practical tips on economical cooking and preserving vegetable juices. It mentions education gains for girls in India and reflects on personal boundaries and the 1916 YWCA anniversary.
A cluttered ad lists kitchenware and tools with prices including 2-qt coated pans, 3-qt double boilers, coffee pots, tea kettles, white enamel pans, stove pipes, bread boxes, cedar mops, wire clothes line, paint, saws, lids, ironing boards, scyth blades, handles, axes, rakes, and cords. Items show varied values, with several cents to dollars.
An itemized list of drugs perfumery syringes soaps tonics and remedies with prices. Notable entries include Palm Olive Soap 2 cakes for 10c Phillips Milk of Magnesia 50c Listerine 50c and Colgate toothpaste 20c. Also includes Beefs iron and wine 75c and Quinine Hair Tonic 50c bottle 39c.
Fruit jars pints and quarts with value prices. soup bowls and white china items including bowls pitchers tea pots flower pots and percolator tops. Japanese cup and saucers marked three for a set. syrup pitchers butter dish and a fancy glassware lot.
Inquiries on love affairs addressed to Miss Eros will be printed if not too lengthy. Names, however, will not be printed. Address your inquiries to Miss Eros Mobile Item. Personal letters not answered, or private correspondence handled. Use ink, write only on one side of paper.
A series of questions to Dear Miss Eros covers teen romance age gaps and trust. A seventeen year old writes about a twenty year old admirer who may have ignored letters. Other letters discuss love triangles, marriage, and indecisive husbands with cautious guidance.
A long list of community gatherings in Semmes and Mobile includes parliamentary law clubs, dinner parties, art and sewing societies, youth groups, charity events, and church fundraisers. Entries note organizers Miss Mabel Hartwell, Miss Agnes Belle Goldsby, Mrs. Lingle, and Mrs. D. 8. Nathan, with times from early afternoon to evening across venues like Semmes School, Battle House parlor, and Lyons Park.
A New York dispatch notes the season bans girdles and belts as essential waist fixtures, shifting to shirring cords and smocking. It describes sleeve trends including Boston and leg of mutton styles with fur edging, and notes the era's waistline ambiguity. Margaret Mason offers a humorous quip on shopping with a wife.
A lighthearted note on the monk s hood influencing autumn fashion as black velvet caps trimmed with white rosettes trend among demure faces. The piece also records local social chatter with visits to Mobile, church services, and a fish fry in Crichton involving Ed Long Clarence Yockey and several Misses including Carrie Effie Dawson and Gettie Deakie.
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