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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1918
Page
4
Readers discuss wartime rations and the fate of bread policies. The piece notes concerns over war bread versus victory bread, and mentions national figures like Colonel Roosevelt and Secretary McAdoo, plus a shift in editorial stance as WWI coverage evolves. It also references training camps, college presidents, and public debates on war preparations.
War time readers are urged to secure full $10,000 government life and disability insurance within days. Highlights include monthly benefits of $5.75 per $1,000 for 240 months, conversion to permanent cover after the war, low premiums from 65 to 82 cents monthly per $1,000, and broad beneficiary options for spouses, children, and kin.
The University of North Carolina News Letter warns a nationwide epidemic of public school teachers resigning, driven by wartime prices and insufficient salaries. It cites emptying corps, school closures, and crippling effects on education, urging higher pay to attract competent men and women.
The piece cites President Wilson and urges farmers to plant food stuffs to live at home and create a surplus for local sale, reducing reliance on Western farms and easing railroad freight congestion during the war. It frames planting time as a material form of national support and wartime solidarity.
An exchange notes weeks to spring chicken time but the one time common article remains costly. The very high price keeps citizens of ordinary means from thinking of tender broilers and from longing for them.
The Official News Bulletin forecasts smoked shark may soon appear on markets while noting skepticism about public adoption. It doubts the Department of Commerce can persuade people to accept shark meat as a substitute for other foods.
The Asheville Times argues the Food Administration should promote oat products as a wheat flour substitute. It cites easier availability, higher water absorption, lower cost, and superior nutritive value of oatmeal loaves over corn meal, barley flour, and even straight wheat loaves.
A North Carolina man traveled from Baltimore to his eastern town with three suitcases of liquor. He secured a police badge and handcuffs, and accompanied by two restrained men, displayed them during the trip. Officers later found contraband liquor at his home.
The Columbia Record quotes a figure living in hopes that the world will soon return to the solar system of heating. By next July the publication expects to deny ever making the remark.
The text ridicules von Hindenburg's claim of securing April food supplies from Paris and notes that if proven true he would enter Paris as a prisoner of war under guard.
Capt. R. P. Hobson famed as the Merrimac hero and leading prohibition advocate is booked for an address at Centenary M. E. Church in this city on Sunday night February 24. A capacity audience is expected as reported by The New Bernian.
Mr. C. F. Maynard arrived home in a plaster cast from Petersburg Virginia after a Tuesday slip on ice while carrying a box caused a dislocated vertebra in his spinal column. The Maxton Scottish Chief reports the incident.
The New Bern Sun-Journal urges vigilance against Germans and pro-Germans in the United States. It calls on patriotic citizens to report any act or word detrimental to national interests and notes the Secret Service cannot be everywhere and relies on the public to help expose suspected adversaries.
David H Fuller, son of C M Fuller of Lumberton, has been commissioned a captain in the U S Army after completing the officers training at Fort Oglethorpe and serving as first lieutenant. He is directing the insurance campaign at Camp Jackson.
The Durham Sun notes Mr. Hertling states Germany will accept nothing less than the strongest U.S. effort and victory, asserting America must deliver its best possible blow in the looming conflict.
Mrs. Abner Nash received a letter Friday informing her son S. K. Nash, now in the aviation service, has been transferred from France where he had served since last October to Italy. Nash, former assistant cashier at the National Bank of Lumberton, enlisted for the officers' training camp last summer and joined the aviation corps after Fort Oglethorpe, graduating from an aviation school before going to France.
Durham Sun calls Americans to support the war effort by buying Thrift stamps with every spare quarter. The piece argues that any embarrassment of Uncle Sam in money-raising aids the Kaiser and stresses the goal of winning the war quickly with minimal loss of life and treasure.
John Sprunt Hill and George W. Watts announce the ambulance donated from Durham has a driver cited for bravery under fire while in French service. The vehicle has operated three months at the front. Charlotte Observer report datelined Durham February 4.
The Rocky Mount tobacco market will close on February 22 prompting farmers with tobacco in packhouses to move product soon. Prices have stayed high for months and bad roads plus near freezing weather hinder transportation, delaying remaining sales.
The Charlotte Observer notes a second consecutive churchless Sunday as many residents held family services due to a meningitis quarantine. Expecting the quarantine to lift this week, locals hope yesterday ends the churchless period after coal shortages caused cancellations in prior Sundays across multiple churches.
The article warns that federal agents may raid residences for contraband food just as they raid places with illegal liquor. It equates having two barrels of flour at home with having a jug of liquor, signaling stricter enforcement under the food conservation campaign.
A daily history column lists events dated a century ago noting William M. Evarts born in Boston and died in New York City in 1901. Also includes Frederic Myers birth in England and death in Rome, a Langham hotel horse-flesh dinner in London, and a 1893 Argentine wheat tax revolt in Santa Fe.
The second day ended with a court disposal of William Harris seeking an absolute divorce from Evangeline Harris. The jury returned findings deemed absolutely satisfactory.
The Wilmington Dispatch installs a 20 page Hoe rotary press to enhance service for its patrons. The Journal notes former staffer W. E. Lawson helped build the Dispatch and remains a familiar city editor figure.
An advertisement urges readers to guard their blood supply with Swift Specific Co. product. It claims the vegetable blood medicine revitalizes blood, boosts vitality, and wards off disease. Readers are directed to drug stores and can write for free medical advice to the Medics Director in Atlanta.
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