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Newspaper
The Mobile News Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1925
Page
8
Mrs. Bryan's secretary notes approval and suggests locating the national memorial for Jennings Bryan in Washington D C. The family expects to be represented by close friends at the ceremony and events in Miami Florida and Washington.
Mrs Clarence Jordan of Mobile hosted guests including Mrs MacIntosh with perfume gifts and handmade handkerchiefs. Yellow decor featured bathing girl tally cards, marigolds, and zinnias, with chicken salad and iced tea ending the reception. Mr and Mrs Robert Bromberg hosted a Birmingham visit for bridge with four tables and prizes. Neighborhood Sewing Circle met with Mrs Helen P Woods, guests, a guess contest, and a salad course.
Mrs. Walter H. Royer and her children George and Augustine returned from a ten days trip up the sound and in Pensacola. Mrs. Vaughan, summered at Monteagle, Tenn., visits her sister in Birmingham. Mrs. Waring Harrison visits Talladega mother then Anniston for a few days with Mrs. George Cater. Katherine Yonge of Mobile visits Pensacola at her uncle and aunt's Bayou Texar home. Horace Turner and wife register at the Manor in Asheville, N C. Mrs. Harry T. Hartwell underwent an operation at City Hospital. Lucile Arnold visits cousin Mrs. Bolling Powell in Birmingham. Mrs. J. E. Hill returns to Jacksonville after visiting Mobile relatives.
News briefs report Lewis ordering coal miners to quit work next Monday after arbitration efforts fail. Also notes a missing registered air mail between Chicago and San Francisco with multiple postal workers questioned. Other items include aviation project led by Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., two aviators killed in Maywood Field crash, Bowdoin rescue at sea, and various international notes.
In Hot Springs Arkansas county officers found the body of William Hartgraves sixty a widower and an unidentified man in a well in Unison township after neighbors reported a lingering odor near Hartgraves home. Hartgraves had earlier mentioned seeking help on his place and a stranger had been seen nearby.
A.P. report says two children aged five and seven died in a early morning blaze at a Winnipeg home. Their mother is in serious condition from suffocation and shock, and her 14 year old niece is in hospital with multiple cuts. The fire occurred at the home of M. Kolylick.
An auxiliary schooner named Fan and her ten crew members were seized by the Coast Guard cutter 399 off the Florida Keys at noon yesterday. The vessel had cleared from Walter under the local naval station and likely will be turned over to customs.
Mrs Grace Taylor Daviess stranded in Bowling Green with her two sons seeks financial aid as her husband remains missing after discharge from a New Orleans firm. She asserts foul play may be involved and no clues have emerged despite efforts to find him. The note mentions a large ice and grain area, as context from the era.
London, Aug. 3. Grave tears were reportedly shed by King George in 1933 over a possible appointment of William Jennings Bryan as ambassador to the Bryan St. James court, as per Sir Almeric Fitsroy’s memoirs. The king feared the new U.S. president might appoint Bryan and Bryce was to hint such a move would be unacceptable.
Police questioned several men after the woman's trunk yielded correspondence showing they knew her and had given advice and financial aid. Both doctors hired attorneys and declined to speak as the probe expanded with hotel staff identifying a visitor to Mrs Loren during a three day stay and other items found.
Gowdy will become manager of the Columbus club in the Association next season as scouted by Goody scouting for new players. The veteran catcher notes an overrun of retrogressed players and promises new talent will be lavished with attention.
A cryptic report notes infant clothing and a five wash of men's underwear alongside fragments identified as parts of Mrs. Loren's head. The text alludes to investigative difficulty and a shift towards white-hypnotic themes amid fragmented evidence.
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