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Newspaper
The Mobile News Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1925
Page
8
The piece describes a weekly arm massage routine for skin care. It details cleansing with warm water and soap, drying, massaging olive or almond oil from wrists to shoulders, wiping off excess oil, then cooling with ice in a Turkish towel to close pores and firm the flesh. Regular practice aims to maintain a best appearance in sleeveless gowns.
Mr and Mrs G W Shaw hosted a pink and white birthday party for their daughter Mary Cecil. Attendees included Clara Duffie Irene Turner Doris Steiner and many others. The event featured a donkey tail game gifts and cake ice cream and candy. Mary Cecil received numerous presents.
Miss Evelyn McGrath of Pensacola visits Mobile at 963 Selma Street with Mrs. E. C. Dailey. Miss Mary Louise Bartee returns from Montgomery via visit to Miss Sara Crist. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bradley visit from Nashville accompanying by Miss Edith Marechal for two weeks. Catherine Greenwood visits relatives in Asheville. Mrs. J. T. Mackey and Jessica Jane return to Pensacola after a visit. Mrs. Kate Staples visits Ocean Springs. Mrs. Paul Boyle and two sons stay with relatives in Mobile. Mildred Shaffer and Porter Pope return from a two week New York trip.
Patrick W Needham federal prohibition agent is suspended on bond after being charged with intoxicated driving causing injury to two men and leaving the scene. He was arrested after his car wrecked a wagon, injuring two, then fled in a taxicab.
At Vassar College in Poughkeepsie New York the annual class day daisy chain honored 24 contestants for beauty with Kath Brentingham Mary Chickering Constance Coleman Eleanor Farwell Barbara Hewitt Alice Park India Pickert Balineta Rawlin among the listed. A single bobbed hair entrant stood out in the group.
New York reports a heat wave left about a million people sleeping in Central Park bunkers. The Arsenal station fed a record 19 sleepers as a family of twins arrived with the father thanking Lt. O'Brien for the missing twentieth member who worked nights. Police woke sleepers at dawn, but barking squirrels served as alarms.
Maurice Easterling of Sixth Street visits grandparents in Blodgett Mississippi. Dauphin Way Baptist Sunday School members enjoy an annual Chickasaw picnic. Catherine Homer King of Mobile spent Sunday with relatives. Miss Leon Cotty of First Street Chickasaw marries Jessie Snyder of Mobile in a noted local wedding.
Vernon Hartley of Detroit visits his parents Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Hartley with Carl Young as his guest. Mrs. Edna Bullard Dunham returns to Birmingham after visiting Mobile and New Orleans friends. Mrs. J. J. Mahler of New Orleans stays with daughter Mrs. Denny Hinchey. Mrs. Charles Luther recovers from surgery at Providence Infirmary as prayers rise. Rev. Ernest Mays to lead Wednesday prayer with Sunday school council meeting afterward.
At a Prichard Epworth League meeting officers for the unexpired term were chosen: Miss Jewell Johnson president Pearley Moore vice president Elizabeth Richardson recording secretary era McNeill corresponding secretary Mameta Emert treasurer Elizabeth Allen Eran representative Announcement: Epworth League will meet at Mameta Emert home Tuesday night. Mr and Mrs Frank Kruse of Livingston Alabama and Mr and Mrs J B Ross of York Alabama were weekend guests of Mr and Mrs J F Allan. The community mourns E H Tague s illness returning home. Roseis and Ruth Dial Campbell celebrated birthdays at grandfather J A Porther s home. Do Williams of Meridian Mississippi visits his daughter Mrs C O McLaughin.
Six privately owned coastal and river steamers walked out last night and other lines reported difficulties with their men. Dock work has been almost suspended by the dockers strike. A small quantity of cargo moves slowly as Chinese banks and firms financing the car go have closed. Pennsylvania coal mining operations use locally half of the pac a tad. A total production of permissible explosives.
President Coolidge and Mrs. Coolidge rested after a day in Minnesota. They attended the Norse American centennial celebration in St. Paul and joined a luncheon with the Norse-American Center directors in Minneapolis, praising Scandinavian immigrants. Final reunions ended a busy visit with address remarks and a state fair program at the University of Minnesota.
From Paris June 9 A.P. Le Journal reports rising Riffian attacks on French positions in the Moroccan protectorate with Ouetzan left wing under heavy assault and Yebala tribes joining the offensive while Abd el Krim struggles to keep troops in the field as harvests tempt desertion and retreat.
A. F. Steele, freed from a thirty day sentence for stealing a watermelon, returned to Oklahoma City after a complete pardon. He had escaped eleven days into the sentence begun fifteen years ago in a city stockade and claimed reform. Police could find no record of the original sentence.
In New Orleans Mrs. Coretta Shambra 30 was found slain at home with a hatchet wound. Coroner's jury says murder. grand jury decision pending. Tenant Benjamin Joseph and his wife testified to prior abuse and alibi. Bertillon tests failed to clarify doorknob and door evidence.
A train derailed while crossing Taveston Creek bridge near Gympie Queensland. Nine people were killed and forty injured as a car toppled into the creek. The dispatch from Sydney to Central News notes the accident occurred on the Brisbane line in Australia.
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