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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1917
Page
2
Mrs. Lucille Palmer describes long illness with stomach trouble and nervous symptoms. She credits Pentac with restoring appetite, sleep, and strength and urges others to try the medicine sold at Wilmington drugstores and nearby towns.
A mortgage sale notice lists Delia B. as trustor with Merrick to North Carolina Home Building Association for property in Wilmington. The deed from 1915 is recorded in City County books, with sale by public auction on December 1, 1917, at Court House in Wilmington, describing a block along Sixth Street and Marlboro Street with specified lot lines, and the sale conducted by Jellupin Seldamy & Son Attorneys.
The Norfolk Southern Railway urges the public to mail or express Christmas packages at least ten days to two weeks before Christmas to ensure on time delivery amid war and heavy seasonal shipments. J. F. Dalton signs as G. A. representative.
The brilliant farce Marys Ankle by May Tully comes to emy of Music tomorrow night under A H Woods direction from Bijou Theatre. Alan Dale praised it for amusement fresh situations and droll dialogue in The New York American. The show features Lilian Claire Bert Leigh May Wallace and others with prices 50 cents to 1 50 plus war tax. Tickets go on sale this morning at Elvingtons.
The Beauty Shop a tuneful musical comedy by Pollocks will be at the Academy of Music on Wednesday December 19. Rennold Wolf and Charles J Gebert contributed book and lyrics with a 60 member company and a chorus of many pretty girls. The show travels from Fifth avenue to the Island of Corsica with lavish costuming promised.
A Star Cast. The Jrvon Ring, Brady-Made, opens tomorrow at the Grand Theatre. Arthur Ashby Gerda Holmes and Edward Langford head a strong lineup in a New York suburb tale of married life and intertwined neighbors. The drama ends happily.
Frank Newman and His Merry Casino Girls stage a second big bill this week at the Royal promising musical comedy and lively performance today and tomorrow.
A lively vaudeville lineup features Pearl, the Australian soubrette, Billy Lightelle in an eccentric act, The Levans in a new sketch, Guy West, and a new team The Casino Rio delivering harmony singing and dances. Pearl Derby and Billy Lightelle perform a singing and dancing act with lavish satin costumes and new scenery. The latest chapter of The Girl Reporters appears.
The text lists notable 1918 milestones and anniversaries: shoe-pegs, velocipede, patent leather, macadamized roads, Illinois statehood, steam heating, St. Louis drama, Keats Endymion, USA flag adoption, steamship on Lake Erie, and the founding of New York State. It reads as a survey of technological and national milestones tied to 1918.
Victor Murdock will oversee a Federal Trade Commission investigation into food shortages and rising prices. Charges by Administrator Hoover accuse wholesale and retail merchants and food brokers of criminal responsibility. The inquiry aims to expose speculative orders and rejections that disrupt supply, delaying shipments and hurting markets.
The list includes the Albany library birth, first infant schools in London, the Order of St Michael and St George, Table Rock's fall at Niagara, Sir John Ross Northwest Passage expedition, Capitol construction at Washington, India peace after the Mahratta conflict, Pensacola capture by General Jackson, the Shelley novel Frankenstein, and a local ad for rubbers at Boylan and Hanesek with a promotional note.
Dr Ferdinand King of New York urges physicians to prescribe organic iron for women with anemia and fatigue. He warns iron deficiency dulls skin, muscles, and memory and claims Nuxated Iron can restore strength in 10 to 14 days. He cites improved stamina in patients and promotes iron as a vital, safe remedy when used as directed.
The Food Administration authorized a 10 cent per hundred pound wholesale rise in beet sugar to align with Cuba cane sugar. Officials say retail prices should not rise as a result of the move. Washington reports the action aimed to equalize pricing.
Captain J Wash Bizzell, U S Army, testified before the House Military Committee in Washington on December 12. He outlined military needs and described the department's requirements as the West division’s leading expert on military information. The report notes a new price of 7.05 at sugar centers in New York San Francisco and New Orleans with possible rate adjustments next week.
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