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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1918
Page
6
Many residents depart for Washington on business while others return from trips to New York Raleigh and overseas areas. Local gatherings include a Ming’s Daughters oyster roast a St Paul’s Lutheran social and a W C A annual meeting. Influenza illness spreads within the Hurt family and soup donations are requested.
The Epworth Leaguers of Grace Methodist Church present an eight o clock program featuring a fifteen minute song service conducted by Silas Sheetz and Margaret George. Scripture lesson prayer a quartet Messrs Hall James Tucker Applebury a talk on Needs of Africa by Miss Josie Foy a violin solo by William Powell and Hymn 422 True Hearted Whole Hearted. An organization of the mission study class and league benediction follow with a social hour. all Leaguers and the public invited.
A reader reports using Freezone to lift corns right off the toes with no pain. The quick method claims to soften skin allowing removal by fingers, offering relief without cutting or medication.
An advertisement touts Freezone as a painless cure for hard and soft corns and calluses with a tiny bottle sold by druggists. It claims instant relief without pain and credits the product as a Cincinnati genius discovery.
The writing suggests addressing your friend in a congratulatory letter since the husband is unknown. It advises wishing her happiness and expressing delight at her marriage, while noting you may meet the husband later. It also covers napkin etiquette in restaurants and observing the hostess when visiting.
A college student, 18, writes about an engagement to a soldier abroad and a competing suitor. She wonders if she should break the engagement, while considering her future with Dick and the soldier’s character. Advice urges patience until the soldier returns and stresses evaluating character over feeling alone.
The island of St Kilda in the Hebrides is described as one of the healthiest areas in Britain. It was attacked by a German submarine last May but remains largely well, with illness only arising when the supply ship visits two or three times in summer, causing a four day cold outbreak among the population.
A physician endorses Rheuma as a rapid and lasting rheumatism cure sold by druggists. The ad claims quick relief, controls joint and muscle pain, and offers money back if not satisfied. R. R. Bellamy supplies Rheuma to buyers.
Aimed at fashionable women, the article praises blouses with abundant frills to soften the stern lines of tailored coat suits. It highlights sheer batiste and extraordinary ruffles as the cure for severe dress, presenting a chic blouse option for comfort and style.
Captain Eddie Rickenbacher, ace of 26 enemy planes, will be toasted by the car industry as the Adriatic预计 returns next Sunday. Whistles at plants nationwide will honor him for 15 minutes, with a banquet planned in his honor on February 3 with War Secretary Baker among speakers.
London newspapers react to a proposed conference between an allied commission and Russian governments with mixed views. The Post mocks the plan as meek while The Telegraph calls it politically hazardous and ethically wrong. The Times hopes it may work and notes allied positions would be strengthened by failure.
An advisory urges vigilance against influenza with warnings that colder weather may bring new cases. It promotes Hyomei as a preventive inhaler and recommends buying the oil and inhaler from local drug stores, citing past success in Wilmington and endorsements by a known authority. R. R. Bellamy and other first class drug stores are listed as sellers.
A Canadian battlefield reunion unfolds when an English doctor and his estranged son, long silent after quarrels and emigration, cross paths at a casualty clearing station during the late stages of the war. The wounded man is treated by the father who had cared for him unknowingly.
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