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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1918
Page
7
The April 19 1918 Wilmington newspaper column reflects on wartime sentiments noting that useless labor is as bad as no labor and that the fate of Bolo Pasha should serve as a caution. Other items comment on public figures, the Kaiser, George Creel, and civ il engineers as bridges in society.
A terse report notes that efforts to suppress supposed traitors in Russia are hindered by a lack of ammunition. The statement implies ongoing conflict and resource shortages affecting operations.
A newspaper note discusses Hooverizing as a fashion matter not about reducing clothing. It contrasts viewpoints of some women who oppose the idea with a broader wartime or domestic context.
President Wilson declares the war will endure until the Kaiser is defeated and notes Liberty Bond purchases accelerate the end, bringing the soldiers home sooner.
A wartime directive urges reporting disloyal remarks about the government to United States Intelligence officers rather than neighbors. It notes tank corps recruitment should improve, particularly in the South where fewer opportunities to serve on a tank exist.
The Farmers Union Council including Dr. Alexander renews loyalty to the government and buys Liberty Bonds, though no report of the Doctor’s personal purchases. The Greensboro News quotes clergy debating salvation for unconverted soldiers who do their duty and are killed, with a bold counterview on soldiers and pitying saints.
Just after tending your war garden and back lot cleanup you should buy a Liberty Bond for you and your wife and a Thrift Stamp for each child then visit the sheriff’s office to pay your poll tax so you can vote in the next election.
The selection of Charles Schwab as director signals the government's push to enlist top business talent in war work. Schwab pledges cooperation and attributes potential success to ship workers rather than Washington officials.
The piece urges purchase of Liberty Bonds and argues for higher future value while projecting a postwar rise in bond prices. It notes a Georgia survey from Athens showing many workers in domestic service and low-value roles could shift to productive farm labor, proposing storewide weekly closes to boost food production and release labor.
A Raleigh Rotary Committee urges strict vagrancy enforcement to boost wartime labor. It recommends city police censuses classifying workers as at least 90 days in current jobs or idle transients, monthly reports, and penalties for those failing to secure work. It also calls closing poolrooms by day and replacing able bodied men with women in certain jobs.
The Editors note Durham county plans to import over 600 pigs this spring to boost livestock and food self sufficiency. With average pig weights from 50 to about 200 pounds at butcher, the county could gain more than 90000 pounds of pork this year. The piece argues pork farming is cheaper for families and may prove lucrative for local farmers.
War Department plans to restrict Wilmington visits by Fort Caswell soldiers due to illegal liquor sales and excessive vice in the city. The move targets weekend traffic and aims to curb disorder linked to servicemen.
Greensboro News notes talk of reform urging Mr Doody and Sum ter C Brawley an equal suffragist and Kitchin ally to head the Democratic executive committee replacing Tom Warren. Printers Ink highlights Southern newspapers as prime ad field with eleven NC papers listed.
Durham citizens subscribed or applied for 766000 worth of third Liberty bonds as officials urged a 738000 target in the district. Mayor Newsom announced government agencies asked Durham to buy 738000 more, following James Hamilton Lewis speech at the Academy of Music. A fatal timbering accident near Wadesboro killed George Taylor when a felled tree crushed him.
J. C. Mayer & Co. of Cincinnati the high bidder for $303,000 in Buncombe county six per cent bridge bonds at 104.56 with par and accrued interest and a $138,186.80 premium. Bond buyers call the sale unusually good despite war conditions, held by the County Commissioners.
Frank A. Vanderlip prominent New York financier scheduled to address the National Foreign Trade Convention banquet in Cincinnati. His rise from rural Illinois youth to editor and financier includes roles as private secretary to Lyman J. Gage and assistant secretary of the treasury, culminating in the presidency of the National City Bank of New York by 1901.
A compact history page notes events from 1818 to 1893. It marks veterans of the Revalriation at Ayexington, Austria’s Ferdinand I anniversary, the death of Bishop Cicero S. Hawks in St. Louis, and Samuel Pasco’s 1893 Florida Senate re-election.
On April 19 1917 France announced the capture of four villages along the Soissons to Rheims front as U S steamer Mongolia engaged a German submarine near the British coast in a widening wartime action marked as one year ago today.
Our Daily notes commemorate anniversaries of prominent figures born today. Admiral Henry H Rousseau born Troy New York 48 years ago. James Ayles Hogge born Edinburgh 45 years ago. Dr John O Hibben born Peoria Illinois 57 years ago. Prince Henry consort of Queen Wilhelmina born Mecklenburg Schwerin 42 years ago. William A Ayres born Elizabethtown Kansas 51 years ago. Owen Bush Detroit baseball shortstop now in Indianapolis 30 years ago.
Albany reports that prohibition carried in a bare majority of 89 cities, while large cities like Syracuse and Schenectady voted wet. Prohibitionists held 20 licenses to 19 for retention, with Binghamton going dry and the overall vote boosted by increased female participation. Sale of intoxicants ends October 1 in dry cities.
Washington April 19. The House rejected the Senate amendment to raise the government guaranteed price of wheat to 2.50. The vote was 157 to 98 against the change.
Lady Askwith wife of Sir George Askwith Great Britain's Chief Industrial Commissioner speaks out in alarm over plans to force women into war work. She warns conscription would alter traditional roles and strain families while the nation mobilizes for total war.
An advertisement urges readers to buy Rheuma from R R Bellamy a druggist. It claims guaranteed results with a full money back offer and promises quick relief of uric acid and joint pain in a week, touting it as a safe doctor approved remedy not typical of other tonics.
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