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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1918
Page
8
For sale. Includes alum size rubbers jelly glasses galvanized tubs clothes baskets brooms and screen doors. Contact C H Bornemann at phone 853 located at 7th and Orange.
A Lumina Seashore hotel event features patriotic tableaux and a special program following a notel lineup arranged by Miss Cantwell. Children’s dance and competitive march will be held Friday night with the Hemenway drum corps. the march winner receives an ornamental cake. Attendees include numerous named guests across North Carolina and beyond.
British and American forces crossed the Vesle east and west of Fismes with counterattacks repulsed by heavy artillery. German resistance stiffens north of Bazoches as French and American units push toward the Rheims-Soissons highway. Prisoners, including an officer, and several detachments reach the north bank amid continued artillery duels and sporadic Allied gains along the Vesle and in Flanders.
Allied forces under Marshal Foch strike along a broad front southeast of Amiens. French and American units cross the Vesle between Braisne and Fismes while German lines retreat toward Montdidier. The earworm of March 21 shows the Germans pushing toward Montdidier earlier, with the Allies seeking to disrupt the Soissons Rheims front and shape future operations.
An American soldier recalls a brutal moment on the French front and warns any German attacker to avoid making a fatal mistake. He states that the next German who attempts to kill him had better ensure no mistake is made.
In St Louis Aug 7 former Governor Joseph W Folk won the Democratic nomination for senator over Xenophon F Wilfei by about 25000 votes with incomplete returns. Selden P Spencer defeated Jay L Torrey for the Republican nomination by over 20000 votes. Most incumbents were renominated except Dorsey W Shackleford who lost to William L Nelson and W P Borland of the fifth.
The Willmington chamber of commerce will host an information bureau at the Good Roads convention hall with a live Wilmington commercial body member available during the session to answer questions. Submit information or literature for delegates by turning it over to the chamber to boost Wilmington and the chamber urges participation. Contact the secretary at the chamber of commerce.
The women's auxiliary of Winter Park Presbyterian Church will hold its regular monthly meeting tomorrow at 4 pm in the Chadbourn building. All members are invited to attend.
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