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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1916
Page
5
Service notes indicate Sunday trolley runs do not extend past Station No 3 on Beach and depart from Station No 3 on Beach. The fragment confirms route limitation and origin point for weekend service.
Miss Valeria Thomas daughter of Mr and Mrs L E Thomas of 411 North Second street married E H Whitaker at 3 pm yesterday. Rev John Jeter Hurt officiated. The traveling suit bride wore midnight blue with matching accessories and carried roses and lilies of the valley. They left by 3:45 pm train for Jacksonville Florida and will visit Palm Beach before returning home. Only out of town guest was Miss Clara Petty of Durham North Carolina. Whitaker works in Coast Line offices. W L Carter of Greensboro visited his brother J E Carter of 509 South Front street.
Miss Viola Hilburn and Mr. John S Carroll united in marriage at the Hilburn home in Currie in a 3:30 p m ceremony. Rev E L Weston officiated before a large gathering. The bride wore navy blue traveling suit and white carnation bouquet. They plan a Florida honeymoon and will reside in Currie after the new year.
Militant suffragists plan a preinaugural parade and mass meeting as a climax to the rights campaign. The Congressional Union promotes the event amid opposition from the NAWSA which fears renewed riotous scenes. A suffrage convention is slated for the week before inauguration to unite national leaders.
New York December 23. Dr. J. F. Horn testifies that 72 pins had been removed from Miss Teresa Jenson by Friday in a suit under the employers' liability act against F. W. Woolworth & Co. Two pins still lie in her body in dangerous locations. The pins were swallowed two years ago while she trimmed a window in the Dover store.
Berlin police president refuses appeals to extend closing hours past 10 30 p m on New Year s Eve. The standard cutoff upholds a tradition of celebrating into the morning, affecting shoppers and revelers across cafes, clubs, hotels, and restaurants in Berlin.
El Paso Texas December 23 Twenty or more non commissioned officers of the Highth Ohio National Guard regiment who signed a protest petition over camp and food conditions have been asked to resign and return to ranks as privates. Regular army inspectors found the charges false and General Bell announced that more than 500 privates who signed the paper will not be punished due to ignorance. The case of Private Richard Dixon, alleged author of the protest, will be considered further.
London reports that women aged seventeen to thirty five are eligible for army cook roles. A training school for military cookery has opened at Dartford, with about 1,200 women already sent to the front from this program.
Benefit claim states Hall's Catarrh Cure cures estarrh a disease of the mucous surfaces via internal action and blood circulation. Advertises $100 reward for any failing case and lists testimonials from Toledo Ohio makers F J Cheney & Co. available through druggists at 75 cents.
Qualified as executor of Martha Sanks of New Hanover County North Carolina. Creditors must present claims by December 1, 1977 or be barred from recovery. December 10, 1976. Robert L. Wiggins, executor.
Notice is hereby given that on or after January 4 1917 an application will be made to the Governor of North Careling for the pardon of M Thimphries or William Robas who were sentenced at November term 1916 of New Hanover Superior Court to twelve months in the penitentiary for larceny. Protests against clemency may be filed with the Governor. December 20 1916. John Humphries.
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