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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1915
Page
6
The prose portrait recalls a gray shawl wearing lady in a twilight garden. Poetic reflections weave memory of girlhood with moonlit hills, soft silhouettes, and a distant lyric mood. The piece then shifts to local civic notes about organizing the Navy League and social events.
An advertisement touts a home remedy using melted wax applied as night cream to shed old skin and reveal a fresh underlayer. It also promotes a Saxolite and witch hazel lotion claimed to smooth lines and improve facial contour with a brief daily rinse.
Miss Ellinor Madison will entertain the Eight Weeks Literary Club on Thursday at 6 PM. The Infant Home garden party on Broad St and Spring Hill Ave is on Wednesday Oct 6 to aid fifty babies. Gates open 3 PM with free admission and refreshments, fancy goods, and a baby show at 4 PM.
A string of residents and visitors from Battles Alabama return from travels and visits. Mrs Aubrey Boyles and children Mary and Aubrey visit Professor Moody in Tuscaloosa while Mary joins a Philadelphia trip. Sydney Prince heads to St Louis to bring family home. The Goode and St John parties travel from Daphne and Point Clear.
The Prichard baseball squad led by Woodie Brantley and joined by Ed Lovett Gus Dixon J C Campbell Marvin Cramer Fred Sanders Sam Ross Charlie Burton Virgie Berry and Walter Blackman visited Chunchula for a day of two games and a dinner hosted by the local team. Local officials circulated about league matters with L M Read of Deer Park in town on postmasters business.
Whistler Alabama notices report a Mechanics Lodge meeting on Carr Street at 7 30 PM. Residents including Mr and Mrs John O Roarke and Patrice W Kelly are noted as visiting Mobile and Semmes. Emile Tacon sustains scald injuries at the shops with transport home.
E P Fuller manager of the Cudahy ranch at Santo Domingo, forty miles south of El Paso, was kidnapped by bandits and held for ransom. After the demanded money was sent he was released and arrived back in El Paso planning an immediate return to the ranch.
The Mobile Home Gardens Association seeks homes for an orphan pig, preferably a girl pig, to raise as future sows. Secretary E Q Norton explains surplus garden produce supports infant pigs and could fund a home for a piglet, with plans for 400 families to receive fall gardens.
Walter M. Higgins Southern representative of the Louisville Varnish Company leaves Mobile aboard the Mallory line steamer Sabine for Tampa Fla to spend about four weeks. Higgins recently earned best salesman honors for his house and has made Mobile his home with his wife and small son for seven years.
Utah Governor Spry announced Joseph Hillstrom would be executed by shooting on October 1. A Swedish minister's telegram urged delay arguing for a fair trial, but Spry stated the trial was fair and Hillstrom had the chance to prove innocence. Hillstrom was convicted of killing grocer J. C. Morrison and his 18-year-old son.
The American Can Company files an answer in federal court in Baltimore stating it adhered to published prices while competitors cut rates and that it aided rivals during emergencies. The government suit will be heard starting October 6.
The Caldwell Lager Beer Tank Company asks the Prohibition Council to approve a five hundred barrel porcelain lined tank on Caldwell mountain and to lay underground pipes to supply homes with beer. It also seeks permission to place beer fountains in parks and streets with nickel slots, including a fountain in the council chamber for officials. The council referred the petition to the poor committee for action.
An advertisement claims liquid argon dissolves dandruff after nightly applications. It promises quick, total removal by morning with multiple uses and asserts relief from itching, leaving hair fluffy and glossy. Availability noted at drug stores.
Authority to place the town on the water wagon will be sought today in the Court of Common Pleas at Newark.
The thirty fifth annual session of the Farmers' National Congress opened in Omaha Nebraska for four days with nearly 1600 delegates. Major topics include foreign relations as affected by the European war and rural credits. The congress represents about three million farmers.
Mrs. A. L. Snell of Clio Alabama recounts a severe illness in which rain exposure led to abdominal and back pains and weight loss. After using Cardui she recovered, returned to work, and regained color and strength, recommending Cardui as the best tonic. For sale at all druggists.
Local Bienville Pharmacy advertises Professor Munyon’s Paw-Paw Laxative Pills with money-back guarantee if unsatisfied. The ad claims cures for indigestion biliousness and sluggish bowels, warns against old cathartics, and promotes Witch Hazel Soap at 10 cents per cake.
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