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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1917
Page
2
Ladies hats trimmed from 2.00 to 5.00 prices at 0.89 to 0.490. Straw hats 1.00 to 1.50 at 0.19. Children and baby items on sale 5c to 15c. Ribbon and corsets advertised. Toiletries priced including Woodbury powder Colgate soap. Umbrellas stockings and hosiery offered. Miscellaneous sewing and sewing notions on display.
Sales listing shows children's dresses ages 1 to 6 years at low prices and middy blouses sport skirts priced around 3.95 dollars with some items at 1.50. Ladies bathings suits and voile gingham dresses close out at 3.95 with blue and pink linen coat-suits also noted for closeout.
New York remembers the centennial birth of temperance orator John B. Gough. Born in England, he spent most of life in the United States touring the nation and Britain lecturing against alcohol. He delivered thousands of talks, influencing pledge signers and audiences across multiple countries.
A bank clerk saved a dossier marked Kerensky from a burning archive as mobs torched police stations. Detectives urged the crowd to preserve the Kerensky record while the revolution raged in Petrograd on July 16.
Ottawa reports Canada faces a pivotal fall election as Premier Borden seeks a mandate on war policies and conscription. Laurier leads the Liberals amid French Canadian opposition, with desertions from both sides shaping a tense campaign and fears of military reserves dwindling. Eighty thousand Missouri women register for national service to aid food conservation.
Classified ad lists third floor straw suit cases 10x16 inches at 69 cents straw grips 7x14 and 7x16 inches at 59 and 69 cents Jap matting rugs 27x54 inches 19 cents 3x6 feet 6x9 feet prices noted Jap matting bugs 9x12 feet 9 cents to 3.65 dollars with scattered garbled text.
Footwear price list shows men’s White Palm Beach Oxfords at 3.00 and women’s Long Beach pumps at 2.18. Ladies sport Oxfords and Long Beach plain pumps priced around 2.29. The fragment indicates a promotional page for shoe sales with multiple styles and prices.
Treasury figures show August daily war outlays averaging 24.463 million dollars. About two thirds fund Allied loans and aid, with 140 days of war total reaching 2.39 billion dollars in disbursements, and 1.63 billion advanced to Entente governments.
Fans packed Doherty Oval Clifton for Wagner Day as Honus Wagner was to appear in an exhibition between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Doherty Silk Sox. Wagner began his career in Paterson in the old Passaic County League led two decades ago by Ed Barrow, then president of the International League.
The notice lists a range of fabrics including voiles and fancy dress materials with varied prices. Items such as shades and 9 to 27 inch widths are mentioned with small cents values for per yard or piece. The fragment hints at a busy sale display in a local store.
A local ad lists prices for blue grass Cambric sheets at 36 per inch and 81 by 90 inches. Wear Well sheets and pillow cases priced to move with a large bed spread at 1.19 dollars.
Cincinnati visits Philadelphia and Chicago plays New York while St. Louis meets Brooklyn and Pittsburgh travels to Boston under clear or cloudy skies.
In the American League schedule the New York at Cleveland and Philadelphia at Detroit games are listed as cloudy conditions while Washington at Chicago and Boston at St Louis are noted as clear with no outcomes reported.
All clear. Southern League games listed include Mobile at Little Rock New Orleans at Memphis Chattanooga at Birmingham Nashville at Atlanta. This brief notes scheduled pairings without results or further details.
In New York and Philadelphia fixtures listed showed mixed results with Cincinnati narrowly trailing and Boston shutting out Pittsburgh while Brooklyn faced rain in a Brooklyn St Louis matchup. The abbreviated results reflect limited play and weather disruptions across several venues.
The scoreboard shows Detroit 4 and Philadelphia 8 with no other games on the schedule yesterday.
Baseball scores show Minneapolis 1 over Toledo 0 Milwaukee 3 over Indianapolis 10 St Paul 5 over Columbus 4 Kansas City 5 over Louisville 2. The brief results reflect a day of action across multiple venues.
In Little Rock Mobile defeated 7 to 1, Memphis beat New Orleans 2 to 6, Birmingham fell to Chattanooga 0 to 2 in 11 innings, and Atlanta won against Nashville 4 to 3.
In the International League results Rochester beat Baltimore 8 to 1 while Toronto defeated Providence 4 to 1. Montreal hosted Newark with rain leading to no play as only three games were scheduled.
Richmond reports William F. Mayne alias William F. Nain, jailed in Henrico county on suspicion of German spying, probably to undergo a lunacy examination after developments. He allegedly confessed soon after arrest that he worked for the German government and was one of fourteen men paid to gather U.S. information.
Star athletes gathered in New York for the Metropolitan A A U outdoor championships at Celtic Park. Winners receive medals and transportation to St Louis to represent the East in the national championships at month end.
After several attempts Renny Kauff has started his bats properly as he races toward the National League batting title with strong early season form and notable at bats for the Giants.
Special correspondent describes a blue uniform messenger on Sixth Avenue burdened with cases. A rival mocks him while tales of Mr. Kane Wells and Ohio teeth unfold at hotels, with talk of grand central and a dramatic dental spectacle amid city life.
A collage of urban images features a nap sleeping sales worker near upper Broadway a woman with a dog racing a man in a pink shirt and silk tobacco scented notes a limousine with a chauffeur a former athlete a cabaret performer and a sailor resembling a cartoonist in a sailor role Greenwich Village and a Greek boy scout mingled with Fashion and a rising zine titled The Wall whose editor resists purchases by distant publishers
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