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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1918
Page
2
Advertisement for Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic promotes malaria prevention and iron supplementation. It notes the formula on the label showing Quinine and Iron in a tasteless form and lists the price as 60 cents.
The demand today is for men and women who are strong in every sense. Nerves, will power, and vitality must be nourished to endure hardships. Bitro phosphate tablets, sold by Bellamy Jean Jarman Futrelle, are recommended to revitalize and strengthen exhausted nerves when taken with meals.
Anuric is urged as a remedy for rheumatism kidney trouble and related symptoms. The ad claims warnings like dizziness backache and irregular urine signal trouble and offers a trial package for 10 cents with testimonials including Mrs Sarah A Shearin of Warraxers North Carolina.
Raleigh notes that Secretary McAdoo will allow newspapers with advertising contracts to fulfill them, making a summer press convention more likely in July. The piece also covers Governor Bickett’s stance on equal suffrage, platform battles, a state prison wheat forecast of 25,000 bushels, a pardon for Milton Rhodes after 15 years, and a tobacco leaf sales report surpassing last year’s March totals.
Be Kind to Animals Week marks its fourth annual observance with nearly 600 anti cruelty societies and all Red Star branches nationwide joining in. The week will end on Red Star and Humane Sunday with sermons on kindness to animals from thousands of pulpits across the land.
Baltimore April 15 Everything is in readiness for the opening tomorrow of the spring race meeting of the Harford Agricultural and Breeders Association at Havre de Grace. Eight stakes will be renewed during the meet which continues through April. Hundreds of fast horses are quartered at the track with entries from major Eastern stables.
One hundred women physicians including tuberculosis and pediatrics specialists will soon depart for France under the auspices of the Amerigue Women's Hospitals.
The school remains ahead in county thrift stamp sales as Mrs. Brock's and Miss Miller's rooms each exceed one thousand dollars. The thrift list features officers including Frederick Dick Elizabeth Hart Dorothy McNair Jack LeGrand Julia Harriss Edna North Robert Platt Lucile Page Captain Elizabeth Silvermann Colonel Everett Huggins with Mrs Cardwell's eighth grade contributing four officers. Hemenway garden is supervised by Cardwell's section. Morning exercises feature new spring songs and an April song. Bird Day included songs lectures recitations and drawing studies.
A large attendance of pupils defies bad weather as Union School hosts a Bird Day program. Students perform poems and songs about birds, present bird biographies, charts naming 26 birds, and wear bird buttons while editors are Lucy Gaylord, Pembroke Appleberry, and Tom Wright.
In Little Rock Arkansas the United States Good Roads Association opened a major convention with half a dozen governors among the prominent participants. Governors Hobbs Texas Williams Oklahoma Hunt Arizona Henderson Alabama Bilbo Mississippi and Lowdon Illinois are invited to address the gathering. Senator John H Bankhead of Alabama is president and will preside as sessions run through most of the week.
Philadelphia lightweight Lew Tendler will challenge Johnny Dundee in Boston this month. The bout headlines a main event as Tendler seeks a title chance and Dundee defends his reputation in the arena.
A liquid laxative with pepsin described as pleasant to take. Features a 50 cent bottle offering relief from indigestion or constipation.
Public auction scheduled for April 29 1918 at twelve o clock M. to sell mortgaged property in Wilmington North Carolina. Property lies on Nixon Street and Eighth Street in the city and is described as beginning on Nixon Street and runs north west and east along Nixon and Eighth Streets. Attornies John D Bellamy & Son sign the notice with a nine month grace period noted.
The 1918 special tax election order sets a ten cent property tax and thirty cent per poll to fund the county school fund. Polling places and appointed registrars and judges are listed for Cape Fear and Harnett townships with designated stores as voting sites.
The document lists election officials and registrars for multiple Masonboro and Wilmington precincts including Harn I Smith Jones and J Park. It sets registration times from April 4 to April 27 1918, and outlines registrar duties at polling places across wards.
The Board of Commissioners of New Hanover County calls a special election for May 8 1918 to decide if bonds up to 250 000 should fund public school improvements. Voters will cast For public school bonds or Against public school bonds with new registration and designated polling places across townships and wards.
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