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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1918
Page
13
Belk-Williams Co announces an April sale to clear about 100 suits due to slow deliveries. Prices range from 10.50 to 39.50 with many mid to high end options, highlighting hand tailored and top fashion models to move before warm weather.
Millinery merchants announce a new lot of Gage Hats in black white and color. The season's best bet for smart tailoring with prices from 5.95 to 12.50. See them early tomorrow at New Gage.
A local store promotes its season’s fashion with the premiere display of bath suits arriving now. Ladies and Misses suits are shown on the second floor Ready-to-Wear while Mens and Boys suits occupy the first floor Clothing Department.
A historical column opens with a wartime poem about child suffering and moral call to mothers. The page continues with a long list of social notices: visits, travel, and short remarks about residents returning home or traveling to nearby towns, including Laurinburg Wilmington Chadbourn Whiteville Florence Norfolk and others. The Willing Workers church festival is announced with ice cream and cake, and brief travel notes accompany the notices.
News from Wilmington reports the engagement of Lieut. Col. Van Rensselaer C. King USA in France to Mrs. Jewett Minturn and of his sister Miss Jeanne King to Lieut. Charles De Rham Jr. The King family links to Wilmington are detailed along with war relief and Liberty Loan activities, a YWCA Patriotic League meeting, and local social notices.
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